~ ADULT EDUCATION ~

Once again it is time to sign up for Montebello Jewish Center's Adult Ed Program. Please review this schedule and select one or more courses and special events. Learning is central to Judaism, so broaden your Jewish horizons by coming to MJC's educational programs!

The price of Adult Ed is still a bargain. There is no registration fee, just pay for whatever you take. Each price is for the entire course or event. Please pre-register, so we know how many people to plan for. The registration form is attached.

CLICK HERE FOR PRINTABLE COURSE LISTING & REGISTRATION FORM

Many thanks to the Adult Ed committee. Karen Stein, Joe Schachner, Richard Weinberger, Richard Allinson, Karen Lefkowitz, and Marilyn Klein have helped to put this program together. Also, much appreciation to the members who have volunteered to teach a class. Please come and fill the classrooms!


ADULT ED COURSES 2011-2012:
 

1) “I am not Orthodox, I am not Reform. Does that mean I am a Conservative Jew?” - Finding our personal place within Conservative Judaism. Teacher: Rabbi Morris Zimbalist. Meets Wednesday, November 2 at 7:30 PM; November 16 at 7:00PM; December 7 at 7:00PM and Sunday December 11 for breakfast at 10:00AM. Price for entire course: $5

2) Lunch and Learn - Facilitator: Rabbi Zimbalist. Topic: Current events in Israel. Meets most Mondays starting October 30th, 11:30AM to 1:00PM. Price, including lunch: $12

3) Talmud Class - Teacher: Rabbi Zimbalist. Meets Friday November 4, November 18, December 2, December 9; all at 9:00AM. Dates after that to be arranged. Price: $5

4) Book Club – Modern Israeli Literature, a Sampling. Facilitator: Bruce Levine. We will read and discuss AB Yehoshua's “The Lover” (1977) The Lover is a dreamlike story of a husband’s obsessive search for his wife’s lover amid the turbulence of the Yom Kippur War; Aharon Megged “Foiglman” (1987) In Foiglman, Megged portrays the fate of a Yiddish poet who hopes to find a new home and a sympathetic readership in Israel and encounters instead a total lack of interest in Yiddish as well as in the Diaspora past; David Grossman “See Under: Love” (1989) Internationally acclaimed as a superb author, David Grossman expresses the courage, pain and occasionally brutal truth of Israeli reality with a strength and honesty rarely equaled; and Savyon Liebrecht “A Man and a Woman and a Man” (1998) Informed by feminism, Liebrecht often describes women struggling against their marginalized status in patriarchal Israeli society… Liebrecht's novel, Ish, Ishah ve-Ish (A Man and a Woman and a Man) is the story of Hamutal, a married woman, who has a brief love affair with a stranger she meets at the geriatric ward where her sick mother and his dying father are both hospitalized.

Meets: Thursday, November 10 and December 8 at 7:30PM; future dates to be arranged. Also, Richard Allinson will do a session on Jewish short stories in the spring. Price: $5

5) The Dead Sea Scrolls - Teacher: Alan Plumer. One of the most significant finds of our time, the Dead Sea Scrolls shed new light and give us new understanding of our history. We will discuss the impact they have now and will have on generations to come. Meets: Monday, March 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th, at 7:30PM. Price $5

6) The Origins of Ashkenazy Last Names - Teacher: Bennett Muraskin. Meets: Thursday, January 19 at 7:30PM. Price: $5

7) Haftarah and/or Torah Trop - Teacher: Susan Ecker. Learn how to sing a Haftarah or Torah portion with the correct cantilation. Times will be arranged to meet the needs of the students. Price: $5
 

ADULT ED MOVIE NIGHTS 2011-2012:

Come see a Jewish – relevant movie on a Saturday night, and have a little coffee and cake and discussion after the movie!

“The Jazz Singer” – Saturday, January 14 at 7:30PM.
2nd movie to be decided, will be on Saturday February 25. Price which includes refreshments: $6

 

ADULT ED SPECIAL EVENTS 2011-2012:

1) The Jewish Museum – On September 18th Montebello Jewish Center took a trip to the Jewish Museum in NYC. We saw a fabulous exhibit entitled Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore . In this exhibit, we got up close and personal with paintings and sketches of Matisse, Picasso, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gaugain and Renoir. All this art work was collected by the Cone Sisters in the early 1900's, before the artists were well known. Another exhibit, entitled Mack Zack: Living Room gave us a chance to wear cool 3-D Glasses and see one man's memory of his apartment in Berlin in the 1930's. Our group, consisting of Barbara and Martin Kleinberg, Ray and Michelle Verhoeff, Elinor and Hy Goodman, Pearl and Joe Schachner, Larry Cohen and Sandy Folb, Joyce Payne and Karen Stein also enjoyed a delicious lunch in the museum restaurant. Come join us for our future trips! Pearl Schachner

2) The Gomez Mill House Museum and Kedem Winery – Sunday May 6.

 More trips will be planned during the year.


This will be event-filled, fun year! You can help make that happen by signing up and attending Adult Ed programs! Classes start soon, so please sign up quickly!

Questions? Call Pearl Schachner at (845) 368-2863, or email to PearlSch@verizon.net