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| Upcoming Tastes of Me'ah |
Sample a mini-Me'ah class. Sign up for a complimentary Taste of Me'ah. |
| Location & Time |
Reserve a space |
| Please check back often for a "Taste" near you. |
| Baltimore |
- Baltimore Hebrew University
- The Jewish Museum of Maryland
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| Chevy Chase |
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| Columbia |
- Columbia Jewish Congregation
- Beth Shalom Congregation
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| Fulton |
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| Olney |
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| Owings Mills |
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| Rockville |
- Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning
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| Washington, DC |
- Tifereth Israel Congregation
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Dr. Adele Berlin is the Robert H. Smith Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Maryland. She has taught at Maryland since 1979 in the Jewish studies program, the Hebrew program, and the English department. Her main interests are biblical narrative and poetry, and the interpretation of the Bible. She has received numerous awards and honors and has written several books; the latest project, which she coedited with Marc Brettler, is The Jewish Study Bible (Oxford University Press, 2004). She is about to embark on a new project as part of a team writing a commentary on the book of Psalms. Dr. Berlin earned her BA and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. George L. Berlin is professor emeritus at Baltimore Hebrew University. He taught at BHU for 36 years before his retirement in 2006. Dr. Berlin earned his BA at Harvard College and holds graduate degrees from Columbia University, Jewish Theological Seminary and St. Mary’s Seminary and University. Dr. Berlin's field is Jewish history with a specialty in American Jewish history. He is the author of Defending the Faith: Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Writings on Jesus and Christianity (SUNY Press, 1989), as well as a number of scholarly articles on American Jewish history. He has taught in the Me'ah program for the last five years.
Dr. Erica Brown is the Director for Adult Education at the Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning and the Scholar-in-Residence for the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. She is also an adjunct professor at American University and George Washington University, was a Jerusalem Fellow and is a faculty member of the Wexner Foundation. She lectures widely on subjects of Jewish interest and leadership, in addition to extensive writing in journals of education and Jewish studies. She writes a weekly internet essay on topics of Jewish interest and is the author of the book, Inspired Leadership: A Jewish Perspective and Jewish Boredom (forthcoming) and co-author of The Case for Jewish Peoplehood (forthcoming).
Rabbi Dr. Barry Freundel is the rabbi at Kesher Israel, the Georgetown Synagogue, a modern Orthodox synagogue in the heart of the nation's capital. He is an assistant professor at Baltimore Hebrew University and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School, the University of Maryland at College Park and George Washington University. He has taught seminars on government ethics on Capitol Hill and on medical ethics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and served on the Theological Commission of the Human Genome Project. He is author of Contemporary Orthodox Judaism's Response to Modernity (KTAV Pub., 2004), as well as many scholarly articles and other publications.
Dr. Barry M. Gittlen is Professor of Biblical and Archaeological Studies at Baltimore Hebrew University. He received his PhD from the Department of Oriental Studies of the University of Pennsylvania and has authored many scholarly articles, as well as the recently published Sacred Time, Sacred Place: Archaeology and the Religion of Israel (Eisenbrauns, 2002). Dr. Gittlen has spent the better part of his life in the pursuit of the past. As Field Archaeologist and Archaeological Coordinator for the Tel Miqne/Ekron Excavations in Israel (1982–1996), he helped recover the fascinating history of this Philistine industrial city.
Dr. Sonat Birnecker Hart recently returned to her post as Associate Professor of European Jewish History at Baltimore Hebrew University after holding the two-year Walter Benjamin Chair of German Jewish Cultural History at Humboldt University in Berlin. Dr. Hart earned an MPhil and PhD in German cultural history from the University of London. She also holds an MSt in Jewish studies from Oxford University and a certificate in German literature from the University of Vienna. In addition to coediting The Rutledge Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture (Rutledge/Taylor and Francis, 2004), Dr. Birnecker Hart has also cowritten an educational volume regarding contemporary German and Austrian Jewish literature entitled Literary Heimat: German and Austrian Jewish Writings after the Shoah (Focus/R. Pullins, 2005).
Dr. Arthur M. Lesley has taught Hebrew language and literature at Baltimore Hebrew University since 1985. His scholarly research is focused on Hebrew writing in fifteenth-century Italy. His recent teaching has compared Israeli with American Jewish culture and has considered Israeli Arabs and Israeli Jews in Hebrew literature.
Dr. Jonathan Ray is the Samuel Eig Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies in the theology department and the Jewish civilization program at Georgetown University. He holds a BA from Tufts University in history and religion, and a PhD in Jewish history from the Jewish Theological Seminary. Dr. Ray has taught at UCLA, Drew University and Yale University, and has lectured on a range of topics in Jewish studies at the Jewish Museum in New York, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Foreign Service Institute of the Department of State. He is the author of The Sephardic Frontier, The Reconquista and the Jewish community in Medieval Iberia (Cornell U. Press, 2006).
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