Education News
The evening winter adult education course led by Rabbi Gladstone, in cooperation with National Jewish Outreach, will be a weekly one hour adult course in Jewish History. In five units, the course will cover 4,000 years of Jewish History from Abraham to today, as follows:
Unit 1 Biblical Times the Patriarchs; into Egypt; the Exodus; the Wilderness; Canaan; First Jewish Commonwealth
Unit 2 From the United Kingdom to Diaspora Israel and Judea; Babylonian Exile; the Second Temple; Rome; the Gaonic Period
Unit 3 The Westward Movement the Rishonim ; the Golden Age in Spain; the Spanish Inquisition; Expulsion from Spain; the Protestant Revolution; the Rise of Chasidim ; the New World
Unit 4 The Enlightenment to World War I Haskalah; Emancipation; the Turn of the Century (19th to 20th); World War I
Unit 5 1933 to Present Jewish life in America; World War II; the Holocaust; Rebirth; Medinat Yisrael
The class will begin on Monday evening, January 25th, at 7:30pm. Call the Temple Office to register or just come to the first session.
Religious School classes resumed on 1/3/10.
Adult Education classes resumed on 1/5/10.
The Tuesday afternoon Omnibus sessions resumed on January 5, 2010 at 1:30pm in the Zeik Auditorium. The sessions are open to all interested Jewish adults in our community. Registration is not required and all are welcome to attend on a drop-in basis. Please share this information with your friends from other synagogues.
There have been a few inquiries about having an adult intermediate-level Hebrew class on a weekday evening. If you are interested, please contact the Temple office.