Brunch and Learn
one Sunday a month 10:30 am		Lifelong Learning at a glance Faculty Dine & Learn (Tues nights) Overview Fall Minimester Winter Minimester Spring Minimester Rise & Learn (Sunday morning) Brunch & Learn (Sunday morning) Adas Reads Kick off with Tom Friedman (11/15) Scholar Vanessa Ochs Moment Magazine Group Scholars in Residence Prof. Vanessa Ochs Prof. David Kraemer One Day Seminar on "Judaism and Food" with Scholar David Kraemer Lectures Kay Lecture Cohen Lecture Conversion Year-Round Study Washington Jewish Healing Network Melton Mini-School Keruv (Outreach) The Hesed Project World Wide Wrap Yad B'Yad
November 15 Adas Reads Kick-off  (light brunch at 10:00 am) Brunch and Learn and Adas Reads will kick off with Tom Friedman, three-time Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the New York Times, interviewing our own Laura Blumenfeld, national reporter for The Washington Post and author of the NYT best-seller, Revenge: A Story of Hope. Friedman and Blumenfeld will discuss the influence of revenge on international affairs. Revenge is this year’s book selection for Adas Reads. Revenge is the story of a terrorist attack on the author’s father and her search for the perfect revenge. Traveling to Iran, Albania, Sicily and other revenge capitals, Blumenfeld soaks up the stories and wisdom from avengers the world over, as she plots to infiltrate the shooter’s life. Described as a "passionate gripping . . . work of ambition and humanity" by the Washington Post, Revenge was excerpted by the New Yorker, featured in People magazine, translated into eight languages, and named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times. Among the many positive reviews of the book were one from the Los Angeles Times: "Perhaps one prescription right now for peace in the Middle East would be to mobilize 30,000 Laura Blumenfelds," and another from the New York Times: "A vitally important story . . . Revenge is written with such forcefulness and immediacy that by the end of her story Blumenfeld has carried the reader through an intellectual transformation akin to her own." A national correspondent for the Washington Post, Blumenfeld has also written for the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times. She has appeared on Charlie Rose, Oprah, The Today Show, and the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. She lives in Washington with her husband, Baruch Weiss, and their three children. Event Flyer
November 22 Scholar Weekend Prof. Vanessa Ochs, Scholar-in-Residence, on “Raising Your Children, Grandchildren and Students to be Mensches.” Jewish families, whether religious or secular, believe in certain ethical perspectives that govern how we interact with each other. Professor Ochs calls these the “Jewish Sensibilities.” By raising awareness of our codes of behavior and giving them names, we can better transmit Jewish values to our young people. Vanessa L. Ochs is the author of Inventing Jewish Ritual winner of a 2007 National Jewish Book Award. Her other books include Sarah Laughed, The Jewish Dream Book (with Elizabeth Ochs), The Book of Jewish Sacred Practices (edited with Irwin Kula), Words on Fire: One Woman’s Journey into the Sacred, and Safe and Sound: Protecting Your Child In An Unpredictable World. Prof. Ochs is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies Program at the University of Virginia where her courses include Judaism and medicine, Jewish feminism, and studies in Jewish ritual. In the fall of 2009, she will be a research fellow at the Frankel Institute at the University of Michigan. Learn more about the scholar weekend with Prof. Ochs.
December 6 10:30 am–12:30 pm KICK-OFF Adas Israel--Moment Magazine Study Group Join Adas Israel in the inaugural year of a unique partnership with Moment Magazine, the largest independent Jewish magazine (www.momentmag.com). The study group will meet several Sunday mornings to discuss topics and articles from past and current Moment issues. At the Kick-off event, Rabbi Steinlauf will lead a discussion about blacks and Jews in America based on the Moment essay “100 Years of Black Jewish Relations, 1909-2009” from the January- February 2009 issue and the story “Post-Racial Rabbis: Alyssa Stanton and Other Black Rabbis Enter the American Jewish Mainstream” from July-August 2009 issue. At this first session, we will also discuss possible future topics for the group, which will re-convene in the winter.
Brunch and Learn programs for the winter and spring of 2010 will be announced later this fall.

 

Copyright © 2007 All rights reserved.

Web Design: Internet Design & Development