Lifelong Learning Programs at the Jewish Community Center, Sonoma County
Feast of Jewish Learning
The Third Annual Sonoma County BJE Feast of Jewish Learning was held on
Sunday, March 2nd at the
Finley Community Center in Santa Rosa.
Lectures:
Pomegranate Roads: A Soviet Botanist's Exile from Eden with Barbara Baer
Making Room for the New When You’re a Jew with Rachel Brodie & Toby Rubin
Purim Redux: The Thoroughly Modern Megillah with Rabbi Jerry Danzig
The Transcendent Teachings of A. J. Heschel with Rabbi Ted Feldman
The History and Rescue of the Jews of Ethiopia with Rabbi Jack Gabriel
The Intersection of Reggae Music & Judaism with Rabbi George Gittleman
Moving G-d, Being Moved: An Exploration of Radical Hasidic Texts with Rabbi Chai Levy
From Idolatry to Monotheism: Golden Calf to Shema with Rabbi George Schlesinger
Moving Toward the Heart: What the Sages Teach Us with Rabbi Paul Shleffar
Science, Religion, and Ethics: A Cross-Cultural Perspective with Dr. Henry Shreibman
“How” Does a Jew do? The Evolving Jewish Cultures and Landscapes with Dr. Henry Shreibman
How Can We Know What G-d Wants? with Rabbi Mendel Wolvovsky
Universal Dances of Peace with Tui Wulchinsky
Community Yom Hashoah
ANNUAL YOM HASHOAH COMMEMORATION
Dor L'Dor", Passing the Flame of Memory to the Next Generation
Sunday, May 4, 2 pm at the Friedman Event Center in Santa Rosa.
Guest speaker: Dr. Debbie Findling, noted Holocaust and teen educator. Led March of the Living groups for ten years. Co-author of "Teaching the Holocaust."
Featured speaker: Miriam Susan Dregey, who survived as a hidden child.
The year's event, which celebrates the lives of Holocaust survivors and honors those who were lost, is an intergenerational event.
"This is an opportunity not only for honoring the survivors, but also for our young people to be honored themselves for accepting the legacy of Holocaust remembrance. For this reason we urge the entire community to participate, as an expression of intergenerational continuity," said Gesher Calmenson, event chairperson and Jewish family educator.
Activities will include a candle lighting ceremony by local survivors, a remembrance pledge by local youth, and music provided by the area's liturgical soloists Leira Satlof and Fredi Bloom. Musician Gale Kissin will provide interludes of Yiddish music in honor of the culture decimated by the Holocaust.