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SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE PDF Print E-mail

Temple Beth Shalom’s

Scholar-in-Residence Presentation

Designed for Men and Women!
 
"Rashi's Daughters
 
Three Women and a Talmud"

Sunday, October 17, 2010
 
MAGGIE ANTON
 
               Author of the Rashi’s Daughters Trilogy
Maggie “became intrigued with the idea that Rashi, one of the greatest Jewish scholars ever, had no sons, only three daughters. Slowly but surely, she began to research the family and the time in which they lived. Much was written about Rashi, but almost nothing of the daughters, except their names and the names of their husbands. Legend has it that Rashi's daughters were learned in a time when women were traditionally forbidden to study the sacred texts. These forgotten women seemed ripe for rediscovery, and the idea of a book about them was born.”
 
PLATINUM SPONSOR: $200
4 VIP reserved seating, Meet and Greet with Author
Set of 3 autographed books
 
GOLD SPONSOR: $150
2 VIP reserved seating, Meet and Greet with Author
Set of 3 autographed books
 
SILVER SPONSOR: $25
1 VIP reserved seating, Meet and Greet with Author
 
GENERAL ADMISSION: $10
Presentation and Book Sale
 
4:00-5:00 PM Meet and Greet the Author-Platinum, Gold and Silver Sponsors
Including Wine & Cheese in the Temple Beth Shalom’s Social Hall
355 43rd Avenue
 
5:00-6:30 PM Rashi’s Daughters Presentation and Book Sale
Sponsors & General Admission
in Temple Beth Shalom’s Sanctuary Building
365 43rd Avenue
 
Call the Temple office at 772-569-4700 for reservations. Your name will be held at the door. No ticket required.
 
 
 
 
 
Rabbi Birnholz to Attend Jewish Women’s Archive Institute for Educators PDF Print E-mail

The Jewish Women’s Archive has selected Vero Beach resident Rabbi Michael Birnholz as one of the 26 participants to attend its Institute for Educators in Newton, Mass., from July 25-29. Birnholz was chosen out of a competitive pool of 95 applicants from across the country. The 2010 Institute for Educators is the third funded by a grant to JWA from the Dorot Foundation.

Focused on the role of Jews in the Civil Rights movement in America, the intensive professional development program will prepare educators to use JWA’s new Living the Legacy social justice curriculum and to integrate women’s stories and primary sources into their teaching.

Participants will study with scholars and master teachers as they investigate themes in Jewish women’s history and the history of social movements in the United States; examine primary source documents and oral histories; explore multimedia resources, including JWA’s new Living the Legacy social justice curriculum; and develop strategies for using the material with students.

Presenters include Joyce Antler, professor of American Jewish History and Culture at Brandeis University; Rabbi Jill Jacobs, rabbi-in-residence at Jewish Funds for Justice; Barbara Rosenblit, Humanities and Judaics teacher at the Weber Jewish High School in Atlanta; Debra Schultz, author of “Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement”; Deborah Cunningham and Susan Zeiger of Primary Source; independent oral historian Jayne Guberman; and Judith Rosenbaum, director of Public History at the Jewish Women’s Archive. In addition to a range of seminars and guided work time, the 2010 Institute will feature a special screening of the film “Freedom Riders,” produced by WGBH Boston, a conversation between Guberman and “Freedom Rider” Judith Frieze Wright, and a performance and workshop by educator and artist Yavilah McCoy.

For more information, visit www.jwa.org.
 
Sisterhood Upcoming Events PDF Print E-mail

 

UPCOMING EVENTS:
There will be no planned Sisterhood programs in July or August.
See you in the Fall!
 
Finding light PDF Print E-mail

 Last month I participated in the National Day of Prayer.  While in some areas and venues this is a very Christian event, Chaplain Mindy Serafin from Indian River Medical Center goes out of her way to invite me and make it a moment of interfaith cooperation.  This year the prayer focused on these words from Nachum:

"The LORD is good, a refuge in times of trouble.(Tzarah)  He cares for those who trust in Him" Nahum 1:7

This quote was accompanied by a prayer by Franklin Graham

President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that our nation should set apart a day for national prayer to confess our sins and transgressions in sorrow, “yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon… announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”

“We have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our own hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own… we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God who made us!  It behooves us then… to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.”

Help us to pray earnestly for our president and leaders who govern, that they will humble themselves and seek Your guidance so that everything we do will shine the light of Your glory in a darkened world.

As I heard these words and the tone of Nachum I was troubled.  As a nation and a world we certainly face many difficulties/challenges/Turis.  But why on the National Day of Prayer focus on our sins and despair.  There are times when we need to act with humility and self reflection but it felt very dark at a time when we could have been called together as a nation of many faiths and peoples all working through our connection to something greater than ourselves.  I was reminded of this Chasidic story from Day by Day:

A general received a message telling him that his main line of defense had been broken by the enemy. HE was greatly distressed and the expression on his face showed it.  His wife, hearing the message, came to him and said: “You have received bad news, I know, but I have just received worse.”  “And what is that,”  he asked.  “I have just read the discouragement on your face,” she replied. “Loss of courage is the worst of news.”

If you are only meeting as an interfaith group for 20 minutes, on a National Day of Prayer, is this tone that will lead us spiritually, religiously and physically to the place we need to go as a nation?  What is the right tone, values, theme that we should express in these moments and venues?

There are plenty of shadows.  The Chasidic Story reminds us getting too focused on the dangers and darkness around.  We have to be careful about wallowing in that valley of the shadow of death…

As we interact with each other and those of other faiths, let us approach these moments and this world with one of our core values – to be an Or Lagoyim – a Light to the Nations.