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March 2019
Premature birth
Miriam Ramos-Altomonte will be the featured speaker at 7:45 p.m. Shabbat services at Temple Shalom, Aberdeen. Ramos-Altomonte, community director of the March of Dimes, will speak about issues related to premature birth and the challenges of care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Contact Ed Miller at speshuled1215@optonline.net.
Find out more »Boss and the Bible
Rutgers University Jewish studies professor Azzan Yadin-Israel will present “The Boss and the Bible,” the Marlene Pomper z”l Memorial Lecture at Highland Park Conservative Temple-Congregation Anshe Emeth on Sunday, March 24, at 10 a.m. Yadin-Israel is author of “The Grace of God and the Grace of Man: The Theologies of Bruce Springsteen.” A light breakfast will be served. The cost is $10 for non-members. Call 732-545-6482.
Find out more »The U.N. Social Service Agency That Became A Terrorist Incubator
JCC of Central NJ, Scotch Plains, 3 p.m. Sponsored by Israel Support Committee of Central NJ and presented by experts from the Center for Near East Policy Research. Cost is $10 in advance (mail to Israel Support, 18 Shalom Way, Scotch Plains, N.J. 07076), $12 at the door. Contact Conrad Nadell at conradwho@gmail.com or 908-531-8228.
Find out more »Rowan University Professor Joshua Gedacht.
Drew University’s Dorothy Young Center for the Arts, Madison, 4 p.m. Part of a Center for Holocaust/Genocide Study series examining human rights, colonialism, genocide, and survival with guest speaker Gedacht, who examines the refugee crisis created by the persecution of Rohingya people in Myanmar. Contact ctrholst@drew.edu or 973-408-3600.
Find out more »Yes, It Happens in the Jewish Community, Too
This is the third workshop of a three part series titled “Yes, It Happens in the Jewish Community, Too.” This Workshop will be on “Coping with ADHD and Learning Disabilities.” It will be led by Dr. Audrey Mars, a neurodevelopmental pediatrician.
Find out more »Jewish journaling
“Our Stories, Ourselves — Jewish Journaling and More,” facilitated by Michele Bernstein Klausner, director of The Journal Center, is held at the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth Country, Freehold, Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m.-noon. It is based on the museum’s exhibit “Three Centuries of Growth and Change: A History of Jews in Monmouth County.” The fee is $5 per session. Call 732-252-6990 or visit jhmomc.org.
Find out more »Israel’s modern history
Congregation Beth Mordecai in Perth Amboy will continue a class on the modern history of Israel on Tuesdays, Feb. 26, March 12 and 26, April 9 and 30, and May 14, at 7 p.m. “Israel’s Milestones and Their Meanings,” taught by Rabbi Sara Metz and Mark Fertik, explores the pivotal events of 1917, 1947, and 1967. Each class costs $10. RSVP to Rabbi.SaraMetz@gmail.com for location.
Find out more »The Talmud: A Biography
The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spirituality The Babylonian Talmud is an unlikely bestseller. Originally written in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic and available in myriad translations, it has remained in print for centuries and is more popular today than ever. Barry Scott Wimpfheimer’s new book The Talmud: A Biography tells the remarkable story of this ancient Jewish book and explains why it has endured for almost two millennia. He explains why reading the Talmud…
Find out more »On the Chocolate Trail with Rabbi Deborah Prinz
The Sisterhoods of Congregation B'nai TIkvah of North/South Brunswick and East Brunswick Jewish Center invite you to join us for dessert, wine and chocolate as Rabbi Deborah Prinz, author of ON THE CHOCOLATE TRAIL takes us along on this delicious adventure connecting, Jews, History, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao. This event is open to the community (over 21 years old)! Sisterhood members of CBT & EBJC $10, everyone else $15. RSVP by March 22, 2019 to Lynn Biderman…
Find out more »“Love, Lust and Power: David, The Biblical Character”
Temple B’nai Abraham, Livingston, 11:30 a.m. Lunch & Learn with Rabbi Faith Joy Dantowitz. Bring a dairy lunch; beverages will be served. RSVP to 973-994-2290 or visit tbanj.org.
Find out more »Professor David N. Myers; A Historian Reflects on Israel’s Past & Futrue
On Thursday, March 28, 2019, 7:30 PM at Temple B'nai Abrham, David N. Myers, Ph.D, Professor of Jewish History, UCLA and Board President, New Israel Fund will reflect on Israel's Past and Future. Free and open to the community. Israel was founded 70 years ago, but its future is as unknowable today as it was in 1948. Israel’s army is the most powerful in the region. Recent governments have sought new strategic alliances, making friends with former enemies and alienating…
Find out more »Professor David N. Myers: A Historian Reflects on Israel’s Past and Future
Temple B’nai Abraham, Livingston, 7:30 p.m. Register at tbanj.org or call 973-994-2290.
Find out more »Lunch ‘n’ Learn: Civil Rights in Israel
Temple Har Zion to host Lunch 'n' Learn on Civil Rights in Israel Rabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom, the first Ethiopian rabbi in Israel, will be the guest speaker March 29 at a Lunch 'n' Learn event hosted by Temple Har Zion. Rabbi Shalom will speak about his personal journey to Israel and his experiences living there. South Jersey, along with New Orleans and Charleston, is part of a pilot program with the Ministry of Diaspora and Ohr Torah Stone in…
Find out more »Scholar in Residence
B’nai Shalom, West Orange. Dr. Joshua Kulp, author of “The Schechter Haggadah,” speaks at 7 p.m. after Shabbat dinner on “Rabbits and Lettuce: The History of the Haggadah in Art and Text.” Cost for dinner is $20; register online at bnaishalom.net/events.php#. On March 30, he will discuss “The Haggadah’s Development in a Nutshell Full of Horseradish” at 11 a.m., and at 1 p.m., “Starving at the Seder: What’s Up with the Parsley?” Call 973-731-0160.
Find out more »Temple Sha’arey Shalom Hosts Author Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
On Friday evening, March 29 following services at 8:00 pm, Temple Sha'arey Shalom, will host New Jersey native and former Kansas Poet Laureate Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, who will read from and discuss her new novel, Miriam's Well: A Modern Day Exodus, about finding our purpose, place, and people. The novel speaks to the role of Midrash in our lives, telling the story of a modern-day Miriam who, while seeking her own promised land, discovers how to turn the chaos and despair…
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