Upcoming Events
Continuing Study
The following courses are offered weekly, or periodically throughout the year, and offer adults the opportunity to continue their education thru a wide range of topics and speakers. All are welcome and no registration is required.
SATURDAY MORNING TORAH STUDY
Every Saturday, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m., Beit Ti'Fillah
The capstone of life-long learning at CBJ is this lively and sometimes intense weekly journey deep into the Torah landscape. Here, a growing group of Torah-explorers comes together every Saturday to travel the twists and turns verse by verse, guided by Rabbi Ezray and Bill Futornick. You’ll never look at Torah quite the same way again. Speaking is encouraged but not required!
MONDAYS WITH MEANING
Every Monday, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m., Rabbi's Office
Every Monday a hardy group gathers to explore our traditions, sacred text, literature, and philosophy with Rabbi Ezray and Bill Futornick. This weekly tradition has become a “morning must” for the faithful group who spark debate or listen loudly every Monday morning.
Monday, January 30th at 10:30 a.m.
Special Guest: Rabbi Gail Diamond for a discussion on Women’s Voices – From Torah to Contemporary Israel
Study religious issues that have been creating contention in Israeli society regarding the role of women. Rabbi Diamond will share texts and reflect on contemporary issues.
Rabbi Gail Diamond,a gifted teacher, serves as Associate Director of the Conservative Yeshiva in Israel received her Rabbinic Ordination from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and served for seven years as a congregational rabbi before making aliyah in 2001.
SECOND FRIDAY SPEAKER SERIES
On the second Friday evening of each month from September through June, a guest speaker follows the 7:30 p.m. Kabbalat Shabbat service, in the Chapel.
- January 13, 2012: Mark Mancall, Stanford professor,” Zionism , Israel and the Bible”
- Mark Mancall, professor emeritus at Stanford University, will talk about how Zionism began as a revolution against Judaism as a religion, against the Rabbinate as the ruling body in the traditional Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, and against Capitalism, and how Zionism was part of a European-wide, particularly East European–wide, intellectual and political movement.
- February 10, 2012 @ 7:30 p.m.: Maya Arad, Distinguished Israeli Novelist
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Maya Arad’s debut novel in verse from 2003, “Another Place, a Foreign City” was a finalist for the Sapir prize (the Israeli Booker) and was recently chosen by Yedioth Achronot as one of the Ten Books of the Decade 2000-2010. Ma’ariv, however, chose Arad’s third novel, “Seven Moral Failings”, for its own list of Twenty Books of the Decade 2000-2010.
Trained as a linguist (PhD from UCL, 1998), Maya Arad taught at several universities including Harvard, Geneva and Stanford, and is now a writer in residence at the Taube Center for Jewish Studies.
- March 9, 2012: Martin Brounstein, author, “Two Among the Righteous Few”
- Details to come
- April 13, 2012: Speaker TBD
- May 11, 2012: Speaker TBD
Maya Arad’s debut novel in verse from 2003, “Another Place, a Foreign City” was a finalist for the Sapir prize (the Israeli Booker) and was recently chosen by Yedioth Achronot as one of the Ten Books of the Decade 2000-2010. Ma’ariv, however, chose Arad’s third novel, “Seven Moral Failings”, for its own list of Twenty Books of the Decade 2000-2010.
Trained as a linguist (PhD from UCL, 1998), Maya Arad taught at several universities including Harvard, Geneva and Stanford, and is now a writer in residence at the Taube Center for Jewish Studies.
