Mid-Winter Ta Sh’ma A Program for Prospective Rabbinical Students
Hebrew College February 7−8, 2010 Registration deadline: February 1, 2010 Register now » “And Israel encamped there . . .” (Exodus 19:2) Rashi: “Like one person with one heart.”
Please join the students and faculty of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College for a program of study, prayer, community and celebration. Explore theology, text and ritual with our outstanding faculty, including Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, Dean of the Rabbinical School, and Dr. Arthur Green, Rector of the Rabbinical School and one of the nation's leading scholars of Jewish spirituality. Find out more about the Rabbinical School and spend two days in our unique pluralistic Jewish community, where you will have the opportunity to meet and learn with a group of passionate Jewish seekers and future leaders.
The program begins at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, as we welcome you to our community for study, exploration of the Jewish arts and dinner. On Monday, you'll have the opportunity to participate in prayer, classes and Bet Midrash study, which is the unique center of the program. Throughout your visit, you'll meet and mingle with students and faculty, in classes and over meals. The program concludes on Monday at 5:00 p.m. We look forward to meeting you.
9-week course Foundations of Jewish Genealogical Research
Taught by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston
9 Monday evenings, 7:00–9:00 p.m. February 8,22; March 1, 8, 15, 22; April 12, 26; May 3, 2010 Enrollment: limited to 24 students Tuition: $250, payable to Hebrew College Register now »
“Only a genealogist regards a step backward as progress”
This award-winning course, which received the Outstanding
Program Award for 2009 from the International Association of Jewish
Genealogical Societies, will provide serious adult
students with a strong foundation in Jewish genealogy to enable them to
research their family origins. The
course will include introductions to relevant world history, geography,
methodology and world-wide resources. Students must
have basic computer skills.
Questions? Contact
the JGSGB at
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and 617-796-8522.
Course Contents
Methodology: Basic Principles, Strategies and Skills
Technical Tools and Online Resources for Genealogy
History of Jewish Migration, the Diaspora, and Changing
National Borders
Identifying Your Immigrant Ancestors: Methods and Resources
for Researching Family Members in the U.S.
Finding Your Ancestors in European Records and Learning
about Their Lives
Identifying Holocaust Victims and Survivors
Finding Family Members Living in Israel
DNA Research: The Next Frontier in Genealogy
Using your Research and Publishing Your Findings
Individual Help Time.
Website: A course
website will carry lecture materials (audio and PowerPoint) for those who miss
a class.
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston (JGSGB)
is
dedicated to helping people research their Jewish family history. The
Society offers monthly educational programs, an extensive collection of
research materials and publishes a journal, Mass-Pocha.
Israeli Teen/Israeli Soldier: The Story Behind Beaufort
An evening with Israeli author Ron Leshem
Lecture will be in English.
Cosponsored by the Consulate General of Israel to New England
Sunday, February 21, 2010 7:00–9:00 p.m. Berenson Hall Hebrew College $10 in advance At the door: $15 general admission, $12 for seniors, $10
for students with valid ID Register now »
For more information, contact Renée Tepper, 617-559-8622;
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Beaufort, an Israeli outpost next to a beautiful and
deadly crusader fortress in southern Lebanon, is a world of its own, an enclave
in the heart of enemy territory where Israeli soldier-boys create a state with
its own rules and its own unique, outrageous, brutal language.
With a critical eye and an empathetic heart, author Ron
Leshem creates a wholly human story that takes place in conditions that are
anything but. Fast-paced and brutally honest, unflinching, uproarious and
profoundly moving, Beaufort has been hailed—not only by critics but by the
generation of soldiers who served in Lebanon during Israeli occupation—as the
true voice of that sobering period.
In a talk illustrated by clips from the
Academy-Award-nominated film that was inspired by the book, Leshem will share
the back-story of interviews with soldiers that led to his writing Beaufort,
and Israeli society’s reaction to the novel.
Ron Leshem, born in 1976, is a native of Ramat Gan, near
Tel Aviv. Beaufort, his first novel, won the Sapir Prize—Israel’s top literary
award—for 2006, as well as the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for military literature. The
book has sold over 100,000 copies and been translated into 10 languages. Along
with film director Joseph Cedar (Time of Favor, Campfire), Leshem co-wrote the
screenplay for Beaufort. Cedar received the Silver Bear for his direction of
Beaufort at the Berlin Film Festival 2007, and the film was a nominee for best
foreign film at the 2007 Academy Awards.
From 1998 to 2002, Leshem served on the editorial board of
Yediot Ahronot newspaper, where he wrote a series of articles from the field
about the Intifada that gained widespread public attention. In 2002 he became
deputy editor of Ma’ariv and in 2006 joined the Channel Two television station
as deputy director in charge of programming and special projects.
“It is rare to find a book that not only strikes your
conscience and your soul, shakes you up and brings you to tears, but also
sticks with you every time you put it down. Beaufort is that kind of book.” —Amnon Dankner, editor-in-chief, Ma’ariv
"Evocative, heartbreaking and haunting ...
[Israel's] Red Badge of Courage . . . Beaufort is that rare thing, a novel of
deep moral concern in which sympathetically drawn and beautifully realized
characters are allowed to speak for themselves."—Los Angeles Times
Hebrew College School of Jewish Music presents
A Jewish Music Medley
Sunday, March 21, 2010 Wellesley
College, Houghton
Memorial Chapel 106 Central Street Wellesley, Mass.
Cosponsored by the Office of Spiritual and Religious Life at
Wellesley College Free parking for all events in the Founders Lot on the Wellesley campus; see
wellesley.edu/CampusMaps for directions.
For more information: Barbara Cassidy, 617-559-8643;
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Your Turn to Learn An Afternoon of Hands-on Workshops with School of Jewish Music faculty
2:30-4:45 p.m Free admission; Registration required Register now »
2:30-3:30 p.m.
A Cappella from Alef to Tav Learn or refine your ability to develop a repertoire for your a cappella group, to create special arrangements, and more. Or just come and listen! Workshop presented by members
of Honorable Menschen, Boston’s
premiere Jewish a cappella group.
Sing Along with Jeff Klepper Meet the composer of new synagogue classics such as Shalom Rav and other popular modern liturgical compositions.
3:45-4:45 p.m.
Unlocking the Cantillation Code Learn the how’s and why’s of cantillation trope from Dr.
Joshua Jacobson, author of the definitive work, Chanting the Hebrew Bible: The Art of Cantillation (JPS, 2002)
Open Wide the Tent: Pedagogy of B’nai Mitzvah for Special Needs Students Gain an overview of teaching strategies to enable special needs students to achieve this
Jewish milestone, with Cantor Scott Sokol, PhD, and Cantor Louise Treitman.
Hebrew College Jewish Choral Festival
7:30 p.m. Tickets: $10 in advance; $15 at the door, $5 for children 17 and under
Purchase tickets now»
featuring
Zamir Chorale of Boston
Shir Tzion, the Hebrew College Cantorial
Choir
Koleinu, Boston’s
Jewish Community Chorus
Prozdor’s Kol Rinah, the Jewish Youth Chorus of Greater
Boston
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