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Introduction to the Jewish Experience Part II: Torah, Memory and History

This course is no longer offered.

As the Jews travel through history, we have recorded our experiences in various texts: Bible, Midrash, Mishnah, Talmud, Codes, Responsa literature, and the Prayerbook, which Jacob Petuchowski, a scholar of Jewish liturgy, has described as “the diary of the Jewish people.” This course will begin with an overview of Jewish history, followed by an examination of how those texts illuminate Jewish life in the past, as well as in the present day. The class will culminate in a study of the Haggadah, the “script” of the seder, and a model seder.

Please visit jexperience.wordpress.comfor more on this class.

Cosponsors Building Jewish Bridges, Temple Sinai, Congregation Beth El

Category Introduction to Judaism

Part of series Introduction to the Jewish Experience

Schedule

# Sessions
8
Date & time

Wednesdays, January 19 - March 9
7:30 - 9:00 pm

Location
Congregation Beth El
Tuition
$95 for the public
$80 for members
Session Time Days Location Instructors
Jan 19 7:30 PM–9:00 PM Wed Beth El Rabbi Ruth Adar
Jan 26 7:30 PM–9:00 PM Wed Beth El Rabbi Ruth Adar
Feb 02 7:30 PM–9:00 PM Wed Beth El Rabbi Ruth Adar
Feb 09 7:30 PM–9:00 PM Wed Beth El Rabbi Ruth Adar
Feb 16 7:30 PM–9:00 PM Wed Beth El Rabbi Ruth Adar
Feb 23 7:30 PM–9:00 PM Wed Beth El Rabbi Ruth Adar
Mar 02 7:30 PM–9:00 PM Wed Beth El Rabbi Ruth Adar
Mar 09 7:30 PM–9:00 PM Wed Beth El Rabbi Ruth Adar

Location

Congregation Beth El

1301 Oxford Street

Berkeley, CA 94709

510-848-3988

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Instructors

Rabbi Ruth Adar

Rabbi Ruth Adar loves teaching "Intro," partly because she was once an Intro student herself. Currently Rabbi Adar is the "Coffee Shop Rabbi" teaching unaffiliated Jews in informal spaces all over the East Bay. Rabbi Adar attended Hebrew Union College, receiving ordination in May, 2008. She holds an M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Tennessee. She recently published an article in Reform Jewish Quarterly, "Ethical Priorities in Giving Tzedakah."