A concise intro to Judaism, especially appropriate for unaffiliated and intermarried Jews but of interest to all, offered Sunday mornings from 10—11:30 AM, August 9, 16 and 23. Light refreshments served and babysitting available.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
- What does God want of us?
- Why does Judaism have so much ritual?
- Is there an authority outside the self?
- Gadol ham'tzuveh v'oseh mishe-eino m'tzuveh v'oseh
- Where was God during the Holocaust? Micro and Macro: Survival in Auschwitz: Lorenzo.
- Choices we make in faith: it's a choice to live in a world in which there is a God or a world in which there is not, and each choice comes with implications.
- Public and private prayer
- Touch my love!
- We don't talk so much about belief as we do "relationship" and "covenant".
- Qabalah?
WHO WE ARE
- Ethnicity: the closeness of the Jewish people; many are ethnic Jews before 'religious' Jews
- Israel
- Anti-Semitism
- Holocaust and its scar: we will never again be defenseless
- Jewish Diversity: what's all the bickering about?
HOW WE LIVE
- Tiqun Olam: it's not just about us. (God is God of Jewish People and God of all creation; particularity and universality.)
- Tzedakah: creating justice in the world
- Shabbat and Kashruth: the dignity of all life
- Guard your tongue: the sins of Yom Kippur
- Marriage and Child-rearing
- Awareness of other: How does one dance before the bride: truth-telling and empathy