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01 / 19
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01 / 20
10:30 am
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Please join us for an introduction into how we can create a lasting endowment that benefits all of the congregants of Bnai Keshet. Barry Nove, the Director of Development at JRF will advise us on how we can make our synagogue a financially healthy institution. As our synagogue continues to grow, we will need an established endowment at Bnai Keshet, which will help off-set the many costs associated with the great programming that is offered to adults, teens and our children. The bagels, danish, coffee, and juice are on us. RSVP to the BK office. Check out JRF's new Planned Giving website at http://www.jrfplannedgiving.org/. 7:00 pm
Rabbi Goldsmith is Professor of Yiddish and Jewish Studies at Queens College and Rabbi of M'vakshe Derech, the Reconstructionist shul in Scarsdale. He was a long time student of both Mordechai Kaplan and Joshua Heschel, and wrote an introduction to Dynamic Judaism, a collection of writings by Kaplan. His views on liturgy, services, prayer, and Reconstructionism are eye-opening and refreshing. All interested congregants are welcome to attend. You can meet Manny electronically at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jkO1Ys0rtU. | ||
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01 / 26
12:30 pm
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Larry Bush has been a creative force in the American Jewish community as an author, essayist, visual artist and magazine editor for nearly three decades. He edits Jewish Currents, was a speechwriter for a dozen years for Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, the late leader of Reform Judaism in America, and also served for thirteen years as the founding editor of the JRF magazine, Reconstructionism Today. He was the editor and commentator on the millennium edition of Leo Rosten's classic The Joys of Yiddish. Bush's newest book explores the generational factors that led baby-boomers down the path of spirituality. Join us for a stimulating morning | ||
01 / 27
10:30 am
Please RSVP to Julie Raskin if you plan to attend. "The title of this moving, well-crafted book refers to a tree in the backyard of a home in Ramala. The home is currently owned by Dalia, a Jewish woman whose family of Holocaust survivors emigrated from Bulgaria. But before Israel gained its independence in 1948, the house was owned by the Palestinian family of Bashir, who meets Dalia when he returns to see his family home after the Six-Day War of 1967. | ||
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02 / 1
7:30 am
Prayers and camaraderie to prepare for Shabbat every Friday at 7:30 am | ||
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02 / 3
2:30 pm
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 This is a free workshop open to any congregation in the greater Montclair area. It will help houses of worship develop a more efficient and sustainable energy plan. Please tell your friends from other congregations. This workshop is sponsored by the BK Greening Synagogue Project. For more information about GreenFaith, visit their website at www.greenfaith.org. | ||
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02 / 7
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02 / 8
7:30 am
Prayers and camaraderie to prepare for Shabbat every Friday at 7:30 AM | ||
02 / 9
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02 / 10
10:30 am
For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful, and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. For sixty years they have been left alone, neglected and half-forgotten in a backwater of history. Now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end: once again the tides of history threaten to sweep them up and carry them off into the unknown. | ||
02 / 11
8:00 pm
 "It's the 21st century. Do you know where your children are?" We'll explore the makeup of American Jews by denomination, age, affiliation, income, occupation, etc., and a comparison of American Jews to each other and to the American population as a whole will be discussed. We will use several non-denominational surveys for the data and attempt to determine directions and trends in contemporary Jewish life. We'll also look into some of the alternative Jewish activities of young Jews who wish to retain Jewish identity without any specific religious or organizational affiliation. All are welcome. For more info or to be added to our email list contact the BK office. | ||
02 / 12
8:00 pm
 Birthright has now taken 160,000 young people from 52 nations on a ten day trip to Israel. Just to give some perspective on this statistic --More people go on Birthright each year than have a Bar or Bat Mitzvah. Six months ago Rabbi Brenner took on the job of Vice President of Education at the Birthright Israel Foundation. Now his task is to develop educational programming for the 110,000 plus U.S. based participants. It has raised a ton of questions: What should the relationship of young people in the U.S. be to Israel? What relationship should they have to Jewish life in the Diaspora? Are those two things in tension with one another? What does Reconstructionism have to say about all of this? | ||
02 / 13
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02 / 15
7:30 am
Prayers and camaraderie to prepare for Shabbat every Friday at 7:30 AM 6:15 pm
 Rich Kuperman will be our guest this month. He is the Coordinator of Volunteer Services for the Jewish Family Service of MetroWest New Jersey. Rich comes to JFS with an extensive and diverse résumé of volunteer leadership roles within both the Jewish and secular communities. He will cover for us the importance of volunteering and receiving volunteer services, Friend Advocate program, Friendly Visiting program, Telephone Reassurance program, Care Link program, and a Q and A game about intergenerational relationships. Rich assures us we will not be bored! All interested adults are warmly invited. Prior RSVP required for dinner. | ||
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02 / 18
7:30 pm
 Lydia Aizenberg has been giving tours of the "green line," "the fence," and what she calls "limboland" for Givat Haviva, Jewish - Arab Center for Peace in the Galilee, for the past decade. She will speak about the ongoing evolution of the Galilee as evidenced by Barta'a, a city split in half by the green line, closed off by Jordan in 1948, and then reopened in 1967. It now finds itself half in Palestinian Territory and half in Israel, where one can find Jewish Settlers and Palestinians living side by side. Come with your curiosity for a veteran Israeli activist and freelance journalist. | ||
