LAST CALL to RSVP!! Community Dinner with Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Shai Secunda
02/07/2017 11:52:00 AM
This Shabbat, Parashat Beshalach/Tu B'Shevat, February 10-11, we welcome our next Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Shai Secunda, Jacob Neusner Associate Professor of Judaism at Bard College and author of 'The Iranian Talmud'.
Please join us on Friday night for a delicious and social Community Shabbat Dinner. You'll enjoy a delicious dinner, time spent with friends old and new, and an opportunity to sample delicious, high-quality wines.
And join us as well over Shabbat for a fascinating series of talks and discussions on both Tu B'Shevat in it's historical context, and contemporary Modern Orthodoxy (see schedule below).
Reservations for the dinner should be made by today, Tuesday, February 7th!
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
This Shabbaton includes:
- Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 5:05 PM
- Friday night dinner in shul at 6:30 PM (RSVP and payment required),
- Lecture at 8:00 PM (free – all are welcome),
- Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
- Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 5:15 PM
Speaking Schedule & Topics
Friday Night, 8:00 PM:
Talking Trees? Rabbis, Manichaeans, and Other Strange Birds
Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
כי האדם עץ השדה - Each Person a Tree: A Short History of a Tall Metaphor
Seuda Shelishit, 5:15 PM:
Eastern Orthodox: A Discussion of 21st Century Modern Orthodoxy in Israel and North America
Dr. Shai Secunda
Shai Secunda is Jacob Neusner Associate Professor of Judaism at Bard College, where he teaches in the Department of Religion. He earned his PhD at Yeshiva University, and then held posts at Yale and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on classical Judaism and its interactions with other traditions and on the Talmud's Iranian context, (his book The Iranian Talmud, has recently been released in paperback). He writes regularly on Jewish scholarship and popular culture for the Jewish Review of Books.
CholentFest Resuts
02/06/2017 08:41:49 PM
Congratulations to the winners of CholentFest IV!
Eydel Ladle Trophy:
Texas Hold 'Em Cholent by Ellen Neuborne and Leslie Landis
Prize: $50 kitchen supplies gift card
People’s Choice Award:
Crocky IV by Choni Bellino
Prize: $50 kitchen supplies gift card
Runner Up People’s Choice Award:
Honey, Spice, and Everything Fleish by David Neuhaus
Best Decoration:
Seven Species by Fern Penn
Prize: $50 kitchen supplies gift card
Best Innovative Cholent:
Apple Bottom Crock; Boots with Da Fur by Cori "Cho Rida" Robinson & Keshet "Shawty" Bellino
We are grateful to everyone who made the event possible!
- Rabbi Gavriel Bellino for his creativity and love of labor in producing the event.
- Eli Szus for sponsoring prizes and supplies, producing the event and bedazzling the new trophy.
- All the chefs who shared their delicious and innovative cholents with us and decorated their tables.
Crocky IV by Choni Bellino
Sausage Party by Gavriel Bellino and Starring NY Brat Factory
Canadian Bacon Chulent by Aliyah & Michael Gluckstadt
North African Cholent by Maurice Goldstein & Marc Zegen
Mexican Vegetarian Chili by Phyllis Liberman
Ex-Tremé by Harris Marks
Texas Hold 'Em Cholent by Ellen Neuborne & Leslie Landis
Honey, Spice, and Everything Fleish by David Neuhaus
Seven Species by Fern Penn
Apple Bottom Crock; Boots wit da Fur by Cori "Cho Rida" Robinson
& Ke$het “Sho’ty” Bellino
Gluten Free Surprise by Chaim Shechtman
Chimney by Eli Szus
Experimental Cholent IV by David Waxman - Our tasting judges: Joseph Bedros, Avi Beluca, Dr. Laura Van Metre Baum
- Our artistic judges: Meredith Spector and Ariel Matityahu
- Tali Zilberman and Henry Frank for handing out tickets.
- Dr. Leora Walter for engraving the new trophy.
- Sarah Kamaras for helping with the setup.
- The more than 150 cholent tasters/afficionados.
To see photos from before this event, click here.
THIS SHABBAT!! Community Dinner with Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Shai Secunda
02/05/2017 08:05:51 PM
This Shabbat, Parashat Beshalach/Tu B'Shevat, February 10-11, we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Dr. Shai Secunda, Jacob Neusner Associate Professor of Judaism at Bard College and author of 'The Iranian Talmud'.
Please join us on Friday night for a delicious and social Community Shabbat Dinner. And join us as well over Shabbat for a fascinating series of talks and discussions on both Tu B'Shevat in it's historical context, and contemporary Modern Orthodoxy (see schedule below).
Reservations for the dinner should be made by Tuesday, February 7th.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
This Shabbaton includes:
- Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 5:05 PM
- Friday night dinner in shul at 6:30 PM (RSVP and payment required),
- Lecture at 8:00 PM (free – all are welcome),
- Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
- Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 5:15 PM
Speaking Schedule & Topics
Friday Night, 8:00 PM:
Talking Trees? Rabbis, Manichaeans, and Other Strange Birds
Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
כי האדם עץ השדה - Each Person a Tree: A Short History of a Tall Metaphor
Seuda Shelishit, 5:15 PM:
Eastern Orthodox: A Discussion of 21st Century Modern Orthodoxy in Israel and North America
Dr. Shai Secunda
Shai Secunda is Jacob Neusner Associate Professor of Judaism at Bard College, where he teaches in the Department of Religion. He earned his PhD at Yeshiva University, and then held posts at Yale and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on classical Judaism and its interactions with other traditions and on the Talmud's Iranian context, (his book The Iranian Talmud, has recently been released in paperback). He writes regularly on Jewish scholarship and popular culture for the Jewish Review of Books.
Weekly Update: Shabbat Bo 5777
02/02/2017 10:28:52 PM
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2017 Annual Dinner
02/02/2017 02:45:33 PM
Dear Friends,
The Sixth Street Community Synagogue continues to flourish. Together, we have enjoyed meaningful and efficient services, serious and thoughtful learning (at all levels), fascinating speakers, well attended shabbatons, delicious kiddushes, and festive celebrations. We are indeed a center of downtown religious life.
Our Annual Dinner will be held on March 6th, 2017. This year we will honor our Rabbi, Gavriel Bellino, and celebrate his ten years of service. Rabbi Bellino, along with his wife Cori Robinson, has sustained and revitalized our synagogue as well as the Downtown Jewish Community. He and his family are among our most valuable assets and it is with great pleasure that we will recognize the efforts they have made and the successes we have all shared on their account.
Will you be able to celebrate our accomplishments and help us secure our future? Your support would be directly applied to the strengthening of a rebuilding community and the reinforcement and beautification of its 170 year old building. We remind you that any amount helps our efforts and lifts our spirits.
Please RSVP here. (To see photos from last year's Dinner, click here.
If you cannot attend, we ask that you please join us in this fundraising initiative.
As always, you may mail in payment or pay on the website.
We look forward to celebrating with you!
2017 Dinner Committee
Kristina & Daniel Gerschel, Vivian Klaus, Joan Nachmani, Alan Schwartz
NEXT SHABBAT! Community Dinner with Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Shai Secunda
02/01/2017 03:29:33 PM
In only one week, on Shabbat Beshalach/Tu B'Shevat, February 10-11, we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Dr. Shai Secunda, Jacob Neusner Associate Professor of Judaism at Bard College and author of 'The Iranian Talmud'.
Please join us on Friday night for a delicious and social Community Shabbat Dinner. And join us as well over Shabbat for a fascinating series of talks and discussions on both Tu B'Shevat in it's historical context, and contemporary Modern Orthodoxy (see schedule below).
Reservations for the dinner should be made by Tuesday, February 7th.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
This Shabbaton includes:
- Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 5:05 PM
- Friday night dinner in shul at 6:30 PM (RSVP and payment required),
- Lecture at 8:00 PM (free – all are welcome),
- Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
- Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 5:15 PM
Speaking Schedule & Topics
Friday Night, 8:00 PM:
Talking Trees? Rabbis, Manichaeans, and Other Strange Birds
Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
כי האדם עץ השדה - Each Person a Tree: A Short History of a Tall Metaphor
Seuda Shelishit, 5:15 PM:
Eastern Orthodox: A Discussion of 21st Century Modern Orthodoxy in Israel and North America
Dr. Shai Secunda
Shai Secunda is Jacob Neusner Associate Professor of Judaism at Bard College, where he teaches in the Department of Religion. He earned his PhD at Yeshiva University, and then held posts at Yale and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on classical Judaism and its interactions with other traditions and on the Talmud's Iranian context, (his book The Iranian Talmud, has recently been released in paperback). He writes regularly on Jewish scholarship and popular culture for the Jewish Review of Books.
Classes Tonight!
02/01/2017 01:01:27 PM
Foundations of Hebrew, Foundations of Shabbat, and the class on Sufi Jews, will all meet tonight, Wednesday, February 1.
6:30 PM - Foundations of Hebrew Reading
7:00 PM - Foundations of Shabbat
8:00 PM - Sufi Jews: Judaism's Encounter with Islamic Mysticism
Source material for the Foundations classes can be found here.
For the class on Sufi Jews, please click here.
Weekly Update: Shabbat Vaera 5777
01/26/2017 09:25:06 PM
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IN 2 WEEKS! Shabbat/Tu B'Shevat Scholar-in-Residence - Dr. Shai Secunda
01/26/2017 12:03:31 PM
In only two weeks, on Shabbat Beshalach/Tu B'Shevat, February 10-11, we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Dr. Shai Secunda, Jacob Neusner Associate Professor of Judaism at Bard College.
Please join us over Shabbat for a fascinating series of talks and discussions on both Tu B'Shevat in it's historical context, and contemporary Modern Orthodoxy (see schedule below). And please join us as well on Friday night for a delicious and social Community Shabbat Dinner.
Reservations for the dinner should be made by Tuesday, February 7th.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
This Shabbaton includes:
- Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 5:05 PM
- Friday night dinner in shul at 6:30 PM (RSVP and payment required),
- Lecture at 8:00 PM (free – all are welcome),
- Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
- Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 5:15 PM
Speaking Schedule & Topics
Friday Night, 8:00 PM:
Talking Trees? Rabbis, Manichaeans, and Other Strange Birds
Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
כי האדם עץ השדה - Each Person a Tree: A Short History of a Tall Metaphor
Seuda Shelishit, 5:15 PM:
Eastern Orthodox: A Discussion of 21st Century Modern Orthodoxy in Israel and North America
Dr. Shai Secunda
Shai Secunda is Jacob Neusner Associate Professor of Judaism at Bard College, where he teaches in the Department of Religion. He earned his PhD at Yeshiva University, and then held posts at Yale and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on classical Judaism and its interactions with other traditions and on the Talmud's Iranian context, (his book The Iranian Talmud, has recently been released in paperback). He writes regularly on Jewish scholarship and popular culture for the Jewish Review of Books.
IN 3 WEEKS: Shabbat Scholar-in-Residence - Dr. Shai Secunda
01/20/2017 11:55:24 AM
In three weeks, on Shabbat Beshalach/Tu B'Shevat, February 10-11, we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Dr. Shai Secunda, Jacob Neusner Associate Professor of Judaism at Bard College.
Please join us over Shabbat for a fascinating series of talks and discussions on both Tu B'Shevat in it's historical context, and contemporary Modern Orthodoxy (see schedule below). And please join us as well on Friday night for a delicious and social Community Shabbat Dinner.
Reservations for the dinner should be made by Tuesday, February 7th.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
This Shabbaton includes:
- Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 5:05 PM
- Friday night dinner in shul at 6:30 PM (RSVP and payment required),
- Lecture at 8:00 PM (free – all are welcome),
- Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
- Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 5:15 PM
Speaking Schedule & Topics
Friday Night, 8:00 PM:
Talking Trees? Rabbis, Manichaeans, and Other Strange Birds
Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
כי האדם עץ השדה - Each Person a Tree: A Short History of a Tall Metaphor
Seuda Shelishit, 5:15 PM:
Eastern Orthodox: A Discussion of 21st Century Modern Orthodoxy in Israel and North America
Dr. Shai Secunda
Shai Secunda is Jacob Neusner Associate Professor of Judaism at Bard College, where he teaches in the Religion Department. He earned his PhD at Yeshiva University, and then held posts at Yale and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on classical Judaism and its interactions with other traditions and on the Talmud's Iranian context, (his book The Iranian Talmud, has recently been released in paperback). He writes regularly on Jewish scholarship and popular culture for the Jewish Review of Books.
Weekly Update: Shabbat Shemot 5777
01/19/2017 09:47:50 PM
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TOMORROW NIGHT: An Evening with Rav David Bigman
01/18/2017 02:26:32 PM
An Evening with
Rav David Bigman
Thursday, January 19, 2017
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Please join us tomorrow night, Thursday, January 19, at 7:30 PM, for an evening of learning with Rav David Bigman, Rosh HaYeshiva at Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilboa.
Rav Bigman will be discussing "Are Doors and Locks Always Legitimate: A Halachik-Conceptual Analysis".
Pizza and Beer will be served.
The event is free but please register on the event page if you plan to attend.
About Rav Bigman
Rav Bigman was born in 1954 and studied in the Beit Midrash in Skokie, Illinois, with Rabbi Aryeh Bakst in Detroit and in Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh. He received his B.A. in Economics with honors from Wayne State University. In 1976 he made aliyah and moved to Kibbutz Maale Gilboa, where he is a member to this day. In Israel, Rabbi Bigman has served in the army, studied in Yeshivat Merkaz Harav and in Yeshivat Netzech Yisrael (with Rabbi Yisroel Zev Gustman) and received smicha at Mechon Ariel in Haifa.
From 1983 until 1988, Rabbi Bigman served as the Rabbi of Kibbutz Maale Gilboa and from 1987 until 1992 he served as Rosh Yeshiva in Yeshivat haKibbutz HaDati Ein Tzurim. He was one of the founders of Yeshivat HaKibbutz HaDati laBanot (which later became Midreshet haBanot b'Ein Hanatz"iv). He is active in issues pertaining to society and halacha, including Mesuravei Get, the organization Maaglei Tzedek, and dialogue between secular and religious Israelis.
Classes Tonight!
01/18/2017 01:09:33 PM
Foundations of Hebrew, Foundations of Theology, and the class on Sufi Jews, will all meet tonight, Wednesday, January 18.
6:30 PM - Foundations of Hebrew Reading
7:00 PM - Foundations of Shabbat
8:00 PM - Sufi Jews: Judaism's Encounter with Islamic Mysticism
Source material for the Foundations classes can be found here.
For the class on Sufi Jews, please click here.
Weekly Update: Shabbat Vayechi 5777
01/12/2017 11:56:48 PM
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NEXT WEEK - Book Talk: How the Wise Men Got to Chelm
01/11/2017 04:16:21 PM
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm:
Book Talk with Dr. Ruth von Bernuth
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Stories of the limitlessly foolish Wise Men of Chelm are a staple of European and American Jewish literature. Dr. Ruth von Bernuth's new book How the Wise Men Got to Chelm provides a comprehensive survey of this Chelm literature and its Yiddish—and German—antecedents from the late Middle Ages through the Enlightenment and 19th-century nationalism. Please join us on Tuesday, January 17 at 7 PM as Dr. von Bernuth will discuss how literary Chelm has enabled writers both to entertain and highlight a variety of societal problems, a function that it continues to fulfill to this day.
Pizza and Beer will be served.
The event is free but please register on the event page if you plan to attend.
About Dr. Ruth von Bernuth
Since 2008, Dr. Ruth von Bernuth has taught Medieval and early modern German and Yiddish literature and culture in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is also the director of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. For a research project on Yiddish literature she was awarded a visiting fellowship in Jewish Studies from Yad Hanadiv and Beracha Foundation in Israel in 2011/12. In 2013 she was a Junior Fellow at Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald. Her second book, How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition, examines the multiple ways in which the Jewish story tradition of the “Wise Men of Chelm” came into being.
Classes Tonight!
01/11/2017 12:09:16 PM
Foundations of Hebrew, Foundations of Theology, and the class on Sufi Jews, will all meet tonight, Wednesday, January 11.
6:30 PM - Foundations of Hebrew Reading
7:00 PM - Foundations of Shabbat
8:00 PM - Sufi Jews: Judaism's Encounter with Islamic Mysticism
Source material for the Foundations classes can be found here.
For the class on Sufi Jews, please click here.
LAST CALL to RSVP!! Community Shabbat Dinner with Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman
01/10/2017 09:23:19 AM
This Shabbat, Parashat Vayechi, January 13-14, we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute.
Dr. Fishman joins us in conjunction with the JOFA Conference 2017, which will be held on January 14-15, at Columbia University. See the JOFA website for more details.
Please join us over Shabbat for a stimulating series of talks and discussions on the state of contemporary American Judaism (see schedule below). And please join us as well on Friday night for a delicious and social Community Shabbat Dinner.
Registrations for the dinner should be made by today, Tuesday, January 10th!
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
Following dinner, at 7:30 PM, Dr. Fishman will talk with us about:
"Diverse Faces of Contemporary Jewish Families"
This Shabbaton includes:
- Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 4:35 PM
- Friday night dinner in shul at 6:00 PM (RSVP and payment required),
- Lecture at 7:30 PM (free – all are welcome),
- Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
- Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 4:40 PM
Speaking Schedule & Topics
Friday Night, 7:30 PM:
"Diverse Faces of Contemporary Jewish Families"
Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
"Gather Yourselves Together: Is Jewishness Still "Tribal"?"
Seuda Shelishit, 4:40 PM:
"Being Jewish and Orthodox Today: Q & A with Dr. Fishman"
Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman
Sylvia Barack Fishman is the Joseph & Esther Foster Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute. She is the author of eight books, including "Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution", and numerous articles on Jewish life, education and culture.
Professor Fishman received The Marshall Sklare Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, 2014; she received the Danforth Graduate Fellowship at Washington University, where she earned her Ph.D., and received the Samuel Belkin Memorial Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement from Yeshiva University, her undergraduate alma mater.
TOMORROW NIGHT! Bereishit and Creativity with Richard Borah & Richard McBee
01/09/2017 04:45:20 PM
Bereishit and Creativity
Tuesday, January 10, 2017 • 12 Tevet 5777
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Please join us tomorrow night, Tuesday, January 10, as we welcome Rabbi Richard Borah, who will help us explore the central role of creativity in the Book of Genesis, in Torah law and practice, and in the decisions and actions of the Patriarchs.
Richard McBee, a contemporary painter of Jewish art, will provide an analysis of his Biblical paintings on Genesis, with guidance on how to look at a painting and how to encounter art in an enjoyable and impactful manner.
The program will draw from discussions, poems and paintings found in Rabbi Borah's new book “Creativity and the Jewish Soul”, which draws on ideas from scholars such as the Rambam, Rashi and Rabbi Soloveitchik, poetry from a broad spectrum including Yehuda HaLevi to Robert Frost and Rilke, and features contemporary paintings and annotations by Richard McBee, all contributing to a unique exploration of creativity and art from a Torah perspective.
Pizza and Beer will be served.
The event is free, but please register on the event page if you plan to attend.
About Richard Borah
Rabbi Richard Borah received smicha in 1991 from Rabbi Yisrael Chait, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Bnei Torah, located in Far Rockaway, New York. Rabbi Borah was the principal of the Torah Academy of Suffolk County in Commack, Long Island for ten years and has taught Torah subjects at various education institutions in the New York area. He is the founder and president of the Observant Artist Community Circle, a non-profit organization focused on developing the nexus between Jewish artists and Jewish scholars. Rabbi Borah recently published 3 books:
- “Yad on the Yad: 14 Essays on Maimonides Laws of Repentance”
- “Understanding the Lonely Man of Faith”- a Guide to Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s Essay”
- “The Rambam and the Rav on the 54 Portions of the Torah”.
All three texts are available through Amazon.com.
Rabbi Borah’s most recent effort is “Creativity and the Jewish Soul - An Analysis of the 12 Torah Portions of Genesis”. In this text, Rabbi Borah collaborates with Richard McBee, a contemporary artist whose paintings are featured in each of the book’s 12 essays on the weekly Genesis Torah portion. This book explores the central place of creativity within Judaism and Jewish thought.
About Richard McBee
Richard McBee is a painter of Biblical subject matter and writer on Jewish Art. From 2000 until 2014 he wrote about the Jewish Arts for the Jewish Press and continues to exhibit paintings, lecture and curate Jewish art exhibitions. He is a founding member of the Jewish Art Salon. His website, richardmcbee.com, exhibits over 300 of his artworks and 250 of his Jewish Art reviews.
2 Days Left to RSVP! Community Shabbat Dinner with Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman
01/08/2017 09:56:19 PM
This Shabbat, Parashat Vayechi, January 13-14, we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute.
Dr. Fishman joins us in conjunction with the JOFA Conference 2017, which will be held on January 14-15, at Columbia University. See the JOFA website for more details.
Please join us over Shabbat for a stimulating series of talks and discussions on the state of contemporary American Judaism (see schedule below). And please join us as well on Friday night for a delicious and social Community Shabbat Dinner.
Registrations for the dinner should be made by Tuesday, January 10th.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
Following dinner, at 7:30 PM, Dr. Fishman will talk with us about:
"Diverse Faces of Contemporary Jewish Families"
This Shabbaton includes:
- Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 4:35 PM
- Friday night dinner in shul at 6:00 PM (RSVP and payment required),
- Lecture at 7:30 PM (free – all are welcome),
- Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
- Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 4:40 PM
Speaking Schedule & Topics
Friday Night, 7:30 PM:
"Diverse Faces of Contemporary Jewish Families"
Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
"Gather Yourselves Together: Is Jewishness Still "Tribal"?"
Seuda Shelishit, 4:40 PM:
"Being Jewish and Orthodox Today: Q & A with Dr. Fishman"
Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman
Sylvia Barack Fishman is the Joseph & Esther Foster Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute. She is the author of eight books, including Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution, and numerous articles on Jewish life, education and culture.
Professor Fishman received The Marshall Sklare Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, 2014; she received the Danforth Graduate Fellowship at Washington University, where she earned her Ph.D., and received the Samuel Belkin Memorial Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement from Yeshiva University, her undergraduate alma mater.
Weekly Update: Shabbat Vayigash 5777
01/05/2017 10:33:45 PM
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Upcoming Children's Events
01/04/2017 05:54:03 PM
UPCOMING CHILDREN'S EVENTS
Children's Shabbat Program
We're happy to announce that the next Children's Shabbat Program will be held this week, Shabbat Vayigash, January 7th, 2017. The program will once again be led by the dynamic Sara Fliegelman.
The Children's Shabbat Program is geared toward children 2-5 years of age. Children younger than 2 are welcome to join but must be accompanied by a parent. The group will start at 10:15 AM and go until the end of services.
For more information, please contact sixthstreetparents@gmail.com.
Interfaith Play Date
Children in Kindergarten through 5th grade are invited to an Interfaith Play Date this Sunday, January 8th, 2017. The play date is a chance to play, do art and eat together with kids from a wide range of religious congregations in the area, including Orthodox & Conservative, Catholic & Protestant, and Muslim.
The program takes place at the Medina Masjid, located at 401 East 11th Street (corner of 1st Avenue and E. 11th Street), and runs from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
For more information, please contact the synagogue: info@sixthstreetsynagogue.org
Request for Children's Books
If anyone has children's books they no longer need (either religious or secular), please consider donating them to the synagogue.
Please contact the synagogue office to arrange the donation.
Classes Tonight!
01/04/2017 12:48:14 PM
Foundations of Hebrew, Foundations of Theology, and the class on Sufi Jews, will all meet tonight, Wednesday, January 4.
6:30 PM - Foundations of Hebrew Reading
7:00 PM - Foundations of Shabbat
8:00 PM - Sufi Jews: Judaism's Encounter with Islamic Mysticism
Source material for the Foundations classes can be found here.
For the class on Sufi Jews, please click here.
IN ONE WEEK! Our Next Shabbat Scholar (January 13-14): Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman
01/03/2017 01:18:21 PM
Please join us next week, on Shabbat Vayechi, January 13-14, 2017, as we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute.
Dr. Fishman joins us in conjunction with the JOFA Conference 2017, which will be held on January 14-15, at Columbia University. Please visit the JOFA website for more details.
This Shabbaton includes:
- Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 4:35 PM
- Friday night dinner in shul at 6:00 PM (RSVP and payment required),
- Lecture at 7:30 PM (free – all are welcome),
- Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
- Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 4:40 PM
RSVP for the dinner by Tuesday, January 10.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
Speaking Schedule & Topics
Friday Night, 7:30 PM:
"Diverse Faces of Contemporary Jewish Families"
Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
"Gather Yourselves Together: Is Jewishness Still "Tribal"?"
Seuda Shelishit, 4:40 PM:
"Being Jewish and Orthodox Today: Q & A with Dr. Fishman"
Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman
Sylvia Barack Fishman is the Joseph & Esther Foster Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute. She is the author of eight books, including Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution, and numerous articles on Jewish life, education and culture.
Professor Fishman received The Marshall Sklare Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, 2014; she received the Danforth Graduate Fellowship at Washington University, where she earned her Ph.D., and received the Samuel Belkin Memorial Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement from Yeshiva University, her undergraduate alma mater.
Weekly Update: Shabbat Miketz 5777
12/30/2016 12:23:06 PM
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IN TWO WEEKS: Our Next Shabbat Scholar (January 13-14): Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman
12/28/2016 12:01:22 PM
Please join us in two weeks, on Shabbat Vayechi, January 13-14, 2017, as we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute.
Dr. Fishman joins us in conjunction with the JOFA Conference 2017, which will be held on January 14-15, at Columbia University. Please visit the JOFA website for more details.
This Shabbaton includes:
- Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 4:35 PM
- Friday night dinner in shul at 6:00 PM (RSVP and payment required),
- Lecture at 7:30 PM (free – all are welcome),
- Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
- Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 4:40 PM
RSVP for the dinner by Tuesday, January 10.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
Speaking Schedule & Topics
Friday Night, 7:30 PM:
"Diverse Faces of Contemporary Jewish Families"
Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
"Gather Yourselves Together: Is Jewishness Still "Tribal"?"
Seuda Shelishit, 4:40 PM:
"Being Jewish and Orthodox Today: Q & A with Dr. Fishman"
Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman
Sylvia Barack Fishman is the Joseph & Esther Foster Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute. She is the author of eight books, including Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution, and numerous articles on Jewish life, education and culture.
Professor Fishman received The Marshall Sklare Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, 2014; she received the Danforth Graduate Fellowship at Washington University, where she earned her Ph.D., and received the Samuel Belkin Memorial Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement from Yeshiva University, her undergraduate alma mater.
Weekly Update: Shabbat Vayeshev 5777
12/22/2016 10:56:53 PM
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Our Next Shabbat Scholar (January 13-14): Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman
12/21/2016 05:47:19 PM
Please join us on Shabbat Vayechi, January 13-14, 2017, as we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute.
Dr. Fishman joins us in conjunction with the JOFA Conference 2017, which will be held on January 14-15, at Columbia University. Please visit the JOFA website for more details.
This Shabbaton includes:
- Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 4:35 PM
- Friday night dinner in shul at 6:00 PM (RSVP and payment required),
- Lecture at 7:30 PM (free – all are welcome),
- Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
- Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 4:40 PM
RSVP for the dinner by Tuesday, January 10.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
Speaking Schedule & Topics
Friday Night, 7:30 PM:
"Diverse Faces of Contemporary Jewish Families"
Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
"Gather Yourselves Together: Is Jewishness Still "Tribal"?"
Seuda Shelishit, 4:40 PM:
"Being Jewish and Orthodox Today: Q & A with Dr. Fishman"
Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman
Sylvia Barack Fishman is the Joseph & Esther Foster Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute. She is the author of eight books, including Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution, and numerous articles on Jewish life, education and culture.
Professor Fishman received The Marshall Sklare Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, 2014; she received the Danforth Graduate Fellowship at Washington University, where she earned her Ph.D., and received the Samuel Belkin Memorial Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement from Yeshiva University, her undergraduate alma mater.
Classes Tonight!
12/21/2016 12:44:17 PM
Foundations of Hebrew, Foundations of Theology, and the class on Sufi Jews, will meet tonight, Wednesday, December 21.
6:30 PM - Foundations of Hebrew Reading
7:00 PM - Foundations of Chanukah
8:00 PM - Sufi Jews: Judaism's Encounter with Islamic Mysticism
Source material for the Foundations classes can be found here.
For the class on Sufi Jews, please click here.
Please note that the classes will not meet next week, Wednesday, December 28.
Classes will resume on Wednesday, January 4.
Weekly Update: Shabbat Vayishlach 5777
12/15/2016 09:15:57 PM
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Classes Tonight!
12/14/2016 12:17:21 PM
Foundations of Hebrew, Foundations of Theology, and the class on Sufi Jews, will meet tonight, Wednesday, December 14.
6:30 PM - Foundations of Hebrew Reading
7:00 PM - Foundations of Theology
8:00 PM - Sufi Jews: Judaism's Encounter with Islamic Mysticism
Source material for the Foundations classes can be found here.
For the class on Sufi Jews, please click here.
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