Welcome to Temple Beth Sholom’s Adult Education offerings for 2007–2008 (5768).
The year will be filled with interesting, educational, and thought-provoking programs that will promote a desire for lifelong learning and a deeper understanding and love of Judaism.

We invite you to participate in as many of our wide-ranging offerings as you choose.  From lectures, to classes, to Judaic study on a variety of levels, you are bound to find something that suits your needs, interests and schedule.  All of our programs are open to the community.

We look forward to learning with you in the year ahead.

Margery Dannenbaum and Dana Fallick, Adult Eduation Co-Chairs

For more information, contact the TBS office.

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Scholars-in-Residence:
Thursday, April 10 at 7:30 pm:        A Night to Remember with Noam Zion
Sunday, February 24 at 7 pm:         Media Commentary with David Bianculli
Tuesday, January 15 at 7:30 pm:    Spiritual Traditions with Alan Morinis

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Learning with the Rabbis
Sunday mornings ~ 9:15-10:45

Snapshots of Our Sages: Seeing Ourselves in Rabbis of the Talmud - Does God really hear our prayers?  How long should we fight a losing battle?  What are the limits of leadership?  Join the TBS rabbis as we study stories of how the rabbis of the Talmud confronted these, and many other contemporary questions.

January 6 ~ Paying Your Dues:  Hillel's Exclusion from the Beit Midrash
January 13 ~ Say a Little Prayer For Me:  Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa the Miracle-Worker
January 27 ~ Confessions of the Heretic:  Rabbi Elisha ben Abuya
February 10 ~ Should I Stay or Should I Go?:  Rabbi Yahanan ben Zakkai's Difficult Decisions
February 24 ~ The Problem with Paradise:  Rabbi Eleazar ben Arach's Amnesia
March 2 ~ Shuttle Diplomacy:  Rabbi Joshua, Ambassador of the Jewish People
March 9 ~ Mutiny in the Beit Midrash:  The Deposing of Rabbi Gamliel
March 16 ~ Where Do I Fit In?:  Writing Our Own Aggadot

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Library Book Club
Join us monthly to discuss a popular book with Jewish interest.  Let’s read together, talk together and learn together.

First Wednesday of each month in the TBS Library from 1:30–3 pm

For more information, please contact Sherrie Cohen at 751-1046.

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Tuesday Night Talmud
Beginning October 9 ~  8:15-9:45 pm
Led by Rabbi Steven Lindemann

Begin or continue your study of Talmud with Masechet Brachot, the Talmud's Tractate on Blessings

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Morning Minyan - Maimonides' Mishne Torah
7:00am, following morning Minyan

Tuesdays - led by Rabbi Micah Peltz
Wednesdays - led by Rabbi Steven Lindemann
Thursdays - led by Rabbi Joel Levenson

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Lunch and Learn Siddur
Or Hadash – A Conservative Commentary on Prayer

Mondays from 12:30 – 1:30 pm

September 17; October 1, 15, 29; November 12, 26; December 3, 17; January 14, 28; February 11, 25; March 10, 24; April 7, 28; May 2

Led by Rabbis Lindemann, Levenson and Peltz.
Bring your own bag lunch

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Bimah Protocol
Wednesday nights in the main sanctuary following evening minyan, ~ 8:15 pm
September 5, November 7, January 2, March 5, May 7

Hagbah workshop
October 22

Tefillin workshop
October 29

Shabbat Morning Service
November 14

Mechanics of Prayer
November 28, December 12

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BEGINNER/REFRESHER HEBREW I| HEBREW II | INTERMEDIATE HEBREW CLASS | ADVANCED HEBREW CLASS |

Beginner/Refresher Hebrew I
This class is for those who would like to learn how to read Hebrew. This class is taught by Sarah Lewis.
Wednesdays from 9:30 am-11:00 am

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Intermediate Hebrew Class
Hebrew for people who read Hebrew and have previously studied Hebrew
Led by Dina Eliezer
Wednesdays from 12:30–2 pm
Beginning September and ending the last week of May 2008

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Advanced Hebrew Class
Hebrew for people who read Hebrew and have previously studied Hebrew.
The class is conducted in Hebrew and is led by Dina Eliezer
Mondays from 7:30–9 pm
Beginning September and ending the last week of May 2008

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