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Starting in June we present a new Zoom class: Deep Diving into our Prayers with Cantor Levine.
We will delve into the Saturday morning service, exploring the structure, the history, and the theology reflected by the prayers with the intent of understanding Jewish values and Jewish struggles over the centuries and today. Paraphrasing the words of Abraham Joshua Heschel – prayer is not meant to make us comfortable with our world, but to make us uncomfortable – to challenge us, to get out of our self-serving mindset, and to emerge ready to partner with God in the reparation of the world. Together we will address many topics confronted by the service including a Jewish lens on evil, chosenness, life after death, Jewish identity, why Kaddish and much more.
We will begin on Sunday, June 7, at 10:00 am via zoom and continue weekly throughout the summer.
Open to the entire congregation and friends/family. No registration is necessary.
With the exception of the final four High Holiday presentations, this is the same material presented during the Friday Zoom at Noons which began after Passover – for those who have not been available on a weekday or those who would like to dive with us a second time.
Although each session is independent and ongoing participation is not required, the are some elements which build upon previous learning which will make regular participation beneficial.
The final four weeks, as we approach the High Holidays, we will focus on the liturgy of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
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“A History of Jews In Russia” is a ten-week class that will be live-streamed at 5 PM beginning on May 10. The class will begin with begin with the partitions of Poland and the creation of the Pale of Settlement. We will move through the beginning of modernity, the Bolshevik Revolution, World War II and the Holocaust, the Cold War, and the fall of Communism. We will explore enduring themes that have come to define Russian Jewry. Presenter Aaron Howard is a staff writer with the Jewish Herald-Voice. He has presented a number of Jewish History courses at the Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning at the ERJCC.
Session by session:
1. Life In the Tsarist Empire-how the partitions of Poland brought 1.2 million Jews under Russian rule; creation of the Pale of Settlement, how conditions in Russia at the end of the 18th century would create enduring themes in Russian Jewish life
2. Jewish Life in Russia-what the Russian Jewish world looked like socially, culturally and economically before modernization; the Hassidic-rabbinical cleavages
3. To Reform the Jews-how the statist empire attempted to change the Jews into "useful citizens” during the period 1750-1881
4. The Beginning of Modernity (1881)-Turning point in Russian Jewish history; beginning of modernity, emigration, emergence of new secular ideologies such as nationalism and revolution
5. World War I and its Aftermath-includes the Bolshevik Revolution and the civil wars fought for control in Eastern Europe
6. Communist Mobilization of Russian Jews-includes the creation and destruction of the Evsektsiia and the Biro-Bidzhan project
7. World War II
8. The Cold War and Stalin’s Anti-Jewish Paranoia-includes the Slansky trial and the Doctor’s Plot
9. Leaving Mother Russia-developments from 1967-1980
10. Since the End of Communism
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