Peter Gingiss presents our current series in the Shabbat Study program. This series began October 18th and concludes February 20th.

Peter is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Houston, specializing in sociolinguistics and the former president of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest.

The series will be an overview of languages either spoken exclusively by Jews, or languages in which Jews have produced important works in the Jewish literary canon. 

The first session was an outline of what linguists know about languages, kind of the linguists’ equivalent of Maimonides 13 articles of faith.

The five planned sessions are:
1. Overview
2. Hebrew, Aramaic
3. The case for Greek and Arabic
4. Yiddish and Ladino
5. Other possibilities and Conclusion

In March, we will begin our next four-part series.  Entitled Treasury in the Trash: the Story of the Cairo Geniza, the series will be led by Sara Norris.  

The Cairo Geniza (CG) is the most diverse collection of manuscripts ever discovered. It contained writings that span a 1000 years and included materials related to sacred and religious life as well as secular writing. Its contents give us insight into life in medieval North Africa and the Eastern Meditteranean.

Shabbat Adult Education Programs Returning to Shabbat
Inspired Book Club - Second Shabbat of the month at 1:00 PM
Shabbat Study Group - Third Shabbat of the month at 1:00 PM

Starting in December our traditional Shabbat adult educations programs will be returning to Shabbat. The next Inspired Book Club will therefore take place on December 12 and the continuation of Peter Gingiss’s Shabbat Study series with be on December 19.  Sessions will begin at 1 pm.  Zoom will be available at 12:45 pm

The phone number for assistance is (713) 899-3843.

Please do not wait until the start-time to sign into the Zoom link. The zoom link will open at 12:45 pm. This will give everyone time to adjust volumes, pictures, etc. When the sessions begin, please MUTE your voice, but turn up the volume to hear the speaker. We will give everyone time to be heard and answer questions.

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