March 20th, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Recording: https://youtu.be/3Pp5ffgH5Gw Our MOST POPULAR and MOST FUN event is back. The in-person event at Adas Israel Congregation will have delicious Latkes and Hamantaschen to enjoy and compare. The live event has an admission charge due to the food expense, but the Zoom mode is free. It will be conducted at Adas Israel Congregation, 2850 […]
April 23rd, 2024 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – Recording: https://youtu.be/TbEL0EGwFfE Making your Passover Seder plans? Don’t want an extensive trek to someone’s Seder? Don’t leave your home. Go online to join a traditional Passover second Seder with Kabbalistic interpretations. It’ll be an enjoyable as well as a learning experience. […]
June 26th, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm – This class was not recorded. In many Jewish Arab traditions, a Henna ceremony is celebrated with the bride before her wedding, as a rite of passage to married life. In this talk, Avia Halev, an Israeli of Yemenite descent, will share her family’s immigration story within the context of the Jewish Yemenite community in Israel. […]
July 11th, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm – No recording is available for this class. Jeffrey Metzger’s ‘paternal ancestors had been one of the most prominent families in Nuremberg since 1850 when Josef and Anton Kohn became the first Jews in 350 years to be accepted as Nuremberg citizens. In 1878, Jeff’s great-great-great-grandfather started what became one of the largest savings banks in […]
September 11th, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm – Recording Session #1: https://youtu.be/ULbFMjCpUGg Recording Session #2: https://youtu.be/xwIUBpKq2nE The 1940s output of Aaron Copland is some of the most “American-sounding” work in the entirety of the classical oeuvre. Is this because Copland, the son of Jewish immigrants, was able to capture the energy of the American republic in his work, or was it just that […]
October 9th, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – The recording of the class is at https://youtu.be/Uj17TU1hJuk. To better understand Kabbalah and his class discussion, Jay McCrensky, the instructor, recommends you examine the “Tree of Life Handout” and the “CKI Kabbalistic Symbolism Glossary.” They can be downloaded from https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1NdxreyktDExUX4nLe0Lt2kv7IJnlYlJN This one session class will introduce the kabbalistic understanding of sin and repentance as […]
October 13th, 2024 @ 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm – The recording of the class is at https://youtu.be/YHyDp2kuBTk Except for a half-dozen Jewish and Yiddish shout-outs in their films, there’s not a lot of overt Jewish content in the known oeuvre of the Marx Brothers. Still, one would be hard-pressed to come up with a comedy team with more Jewish subtext than the ensemble comprised […]
November 20th, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm – The recoding of the class session is at https://youtu.be/k6T-jIrgMb4 The www.HenrySapoznik.com website has loads of interesting materials on Yiddish, especially for music and films. In particular if you enter “Larue” in the search box, you’ll find recordings of two of Cantor Thomas Larue’s songs with very good sound quality in the OKeh 14079: The 1923 […]
January 8th, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm – The recording of this class is at https://youtu.be/1VSa7HOzJYY Related materials are at https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1ZcsReqQGY-X70nZvUi4hy-IK7tP60Uik More information about Rabbi Shlachter is on his website www.PhysicsRabbi.com and you can email him at PhysicsRabbi@gmail.com In June 1954, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) revoked the security clearance of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific leader of the Manhattan Project that developed […]
January 15th, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm – The recording for this class is at: https://youtu.be/aW1DhSG0ALg. Further information about Darius Milhaud is at https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1-_cICR2WFXB_3U7yke040EtOxZfuiu-H “I am a Frenchman from Provence, and, by religion, a Jew.” Thus begins, “Notes Without Music,” the 1942 memoir by composer Darius Milhaud, written on a transatlantic sea journey to America after the author was forced by the Nazis […]
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