March 14th, 2021 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – You can watch the recoding of this class at https://youtu.be/7WcKggpMnDA Continuing its exploration of Jewish communities in Latin America, the Study Center turns to Argentina — home of the region’s largest Jewish community and the site of two horrendous anti-Semitic bombings in the 1990’s. With a rabbinical seminary, cherished legacy of writers on Jewish life in […]
March 17th, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – A recoding of this class can be viewed at https://youtu.be/uGt_blwAOFs . Jews have found their way to the area that is now Mexico from Spain and Portugal, from Europe and from the lands of the Ottoman Empire. The Sephardi and Ashkenazi traditions have made notable imprimaturs on Mexican Jewish life. While Mexico is often in […]
May 2nd, 2021 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – The recording of the Survivors’ Talmud class is at https://youtu.be/Qz_bAL4nKag . Extra material supplied by Jackie Ben-Efraim is at 21S1 Survivors’ Talmud – Google Drive The Survivors’ Talmud, sometimes called the U.S. Army Talmud, is the amazing saga of how a set of Talmud came to be printed for the Jews in Displaced Persons (DP) […]
May 12th, 2021 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm – The recording of the Jewish Study Center class (21S2) “Can Robots be Jewish?” can be viewed at https://youtu.be/RFR8tRl0L20 . A conversation with Amy E. Schwartz about her new book, Can Robots Be Jewish? And Other Pressing Questions of Modern Life. It’s a collection of questions and answers drawn from Moment Magazine’s popular “Ask the Rabbis” feature, […]
May 23rd, 2021 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – The recording of this class is at https://youtu.be/AklJ2eKierM. For an evening of history, art, culture and curiosity, join us on a virtual trip to Quito, Ecuador to learn about the amazing Trude Sojka House Museum, its Holocaust Memorial, and the small Ecuadorian Jewish Community. This museum combines inspiring works of art created by the Holocaust […]
May 26th, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm – A recording of this class is at https://youtu.be/igD5aaUGuag . The Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL): The Leading Authority on Judaic Librarianship is a vibrant volunteer-run, international, non-profit organization. Our membership includes libraries in synagogues, Jewish Community Centers, day schools, yeshivot, universities, Holocaust and other museums, archives, national libraries, and public libraries. Not all of our […]
October 6th, 2021 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm – The recording of this event is at https://youtu.be/ypicrBppdIg. Growing up Orthodox Reflections on growing up in the Orthodox Jewish world — both historically and through personal experience. Topics include how mothers influence the Jewish experience of their sons and the role of Lubavitch summer camps in the life of orthodox and non-orthodox Jewish kids. With […]
October 27th, 2021 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm – The Recording of Part 1 of this class is at https://youtu.be/n5wOvlIvbEk The Recording of Part 2 of this class is at https://youtu.be/1VU1aLLRE0E Klezmer American Music. Klezmer, which literally means “tool of song” in Yiddish, is the secular folk music of the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. In the first decades of the 1900s, this […]
December 8th, 2021 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm – The recording of this class is at https://youtu.be/6D3cYKXvKPE Using an often humorous power point presentation, Philosopher Susan Pashman takes you through her new book, Journey to a Temple In Time: A Philosopher’s Quest For The Sabbath. Dr. Pashman, raised in an atheist family, always loved the Sabbath lights and the notion of a day separated […]
December 15th, 2021 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm – The recording of Danny’s class is at https://youtu.be/TObS17L5YvA. Stan Lee, a Marvelous Life and Danny’s other books about the comics are listed and reviewed at http://dannyfingeroth.com/writing/books/about-comics/. Danny Fingeroth, the author of the definitive book on Jews and comics, Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero, […]
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