Hazak

HAZAK provides programming and activities for TBS members who are 55+. Meetings are usually the third Thursday of each month at 1 pm with occasional Sunday morning or evening programs to enable those who are working or otherwise scheduled to participate.

HAZAK aims to complement TBS' Adult Education Programs with additional social, educational, and spiritual activities. HAZAK also reaches out to other congregations in our region for joint activities and programming. Our mature adults continue to learn and to be a vital part of the TBS and South Jersey communities.

For more information contact HAZAK President, Charles Goldstein.

July 16, 12:30 pm - Herb Kaufman The Spy Next Door

August 20, 7 pm - Jonathan Goldstein – Biblical Israel through The Met – Explore the stories of Genesis in the Ancient Near Eastern Art Gallery to see examples of the idols Abraham destroyed; Egyptian gallery and connections to Exodus through a Temple that could have been constructed by Hebrew slaves; Greek & Roman art gallery to see the armor that Antiochus’ soldiers would have worn fighting the Maccabees; revisit Greek mythology connected to Jaffa; the Dead Sea Scrolls and more.

September 10, 1 pm - Zalman Newfield wrote a book “Degrees of Separation - Identity Formation while leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism.” He interviews 74 Lubavitch and Satmar ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jews who left their communities. Their motivations for leaving, their processes of exiting, their attitudes and opinions regarding their upbringing, what they lost and retained are discussed.

October 15 and 22, 3 pm - Nancy Hegeman – Henrietta Lacks: Women in Science whose discoveries were taken over by others - 2 part program

November 19, 1 pm - Pam Jenoff

December 17, 1 pm - Myra Gutin -  Non-verbal communication

January 14, 1 pm - Bob Benedon JNF

February 11, 7 pm - Joint Event with Sisterhood - Michal Raucher presents Reproduction and Ethics Among Haredi Women in Jerusalem

February 18, 1 pm - Rabbi Joel Seltzer, Executive Director of Camp Ramah in the Poconos

March 18, 1 pm - New York's Original Penn Station: The Rise and Tragic Fall of an American Landmark with author Paul Kaplan

April 22, 1 pm - Itzhak Brook, MD – author of “In the Sands of Sinai, A Physicians Account of The Yom Kippur War” -The war that changed Israel. The historical perspective and personal experiences of a battalion physician. Discusses challenges of preserving one’s humanity and ethical values during war caring for wounded enemies; anxiety and PTSD; religious effects of coping with war and experiencing the painful cost of war.

May 10, 1 pm - Phil Bruschi

May 20, 1 pm - Matt Screnci