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Saturday evening, March 1st
7:30 pm - Havdalah and Niggunim (singing for all!) 8:15 pm - Study Sessions 9:00 pm - Dessert Reception Venue: The Meeting House, Temple Emanu-el, Taft Avenue, Providence |
If you think you might join us, please rsvp. Everyone is welcome to come without an rsvp . . . but we want to make sure we have enough dessert for everyone!
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Rabbi Elan Babchuck
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Rabbi Barry Dolinger
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 Rabbi Sarah Mack
Prayer for Pragmatists:- An interactive session taught by the rabbis of (401)j.
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 Rabbi Michelle Dardashti
Purim: A Serious Holiday - Often mistaken for merely a "children's holiday," Purim is in truth a complex, mystical holiday with profound undertones and implications, both macabre and hopeful, but anything but simply happy and light. Join me for an exploration of dark and deep dimensions of this little-understood topsy-turvy day.
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 Rabbi Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus
Eating and Reading: Eating and reading at the table (Passover and Tu Bishvat Haggadot, bentschers, "words of Torah over the table") are ways we Jews encourage the old to inform the new, and the new to inform the old, creating a fruitful interaction between theory and practice, to produce new, vital Torah that is grounded both in tradition and our current experience.
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 Rabbi Alan Flam
Renewing Jewish Prayer: Are new prayer books the answer to reviving synagogue life in our communities or do we need new approaches to the practice of prayer? This session will try out some new expressions of Jewish prayer and consider the challenges of liturgical innovation.
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 Rabbi Wayne Franklin
Mitzvah Banks, Miracle Making and Rabbinic Economics: Rabbinic Biographies and Value Education in Tractate Ta'anit
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 Rabbi Andrea Gouze
Nu, You Want to Hear a Joke? Jews have used humor throughout the centuries as ways of coping, critiquing and honing the skill of laughing. In this session, I will explore the relationship between Jews and humor through jokes and historical context.
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 Cantor/Rabbi Anne Heath
Magen David in Text, Art and Craft – A Hands-On Workshop. Discover the richness of the Star/Shield of David: text references from Jewish tradition, artistic representations from public and private art, craft and architecture and contemporary needlework. Develop your own interpretation with colored pencils and graph paper. Project ideas for quilters will be emphasized (Rabbi Heath is a quilter).
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 Rabbi Andrew Klein
Many Ways to God: There are limitless ways that Jews experience and express the presence of God in their daily lives … through prayer, Torah study, the beauty of nature, song, silence, doing good deeds in the world, and so many more. Sometimes we’re not sure what we believe about God, but we are the People Yisrael, the people who struggle with God. Join together with other Jews as we study texts, wrestle, and discover more about our own personal relationship with God.
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 Rabbi Amy Levin
A Page of Talmud: An introduction to the Talmud as a representation of a discussion ranging over several centuries and several locales around the Jewish world. And most of all, what’s to love about rabbinic free association and creative contemplation of Jewish law and lore.
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 Rabbi Marc Mandel
Esther As Strategic Planner: Just in time for Purim, we will explore how Esther utilized strategic planning to help save the Jewish community of her time. What lessons in planning can our communities learn from Esther?
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 Rabbi Richard Perlman
Moshe Kibel Torah MiSinai and then came the “Telephone Game”.
Today, we study online, in synagogues, and classrooms all over the world while the Torah is interpreted by all of us. When Moshe received the Torah at Sinai, after generations of playing the “telephone game” if Moshe was at the end of the circle listening to the repetition of the original message, how would he react? |
 Rabbi James Rosenberg
The Sefirot: The Inner Life Of God, An introductory look at the core of Kabbalah:
the mystical symbol system that points to the interrelationship of God's inner life and our own inner lives. |
 Rabbi Peter Stein
Living with Memory: A Report on Today’s German Jewish Community. In November 2013, Rabbi Stein traveled as part of a rabbinic delegation to participate in the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht and to engage in dialogue with the Jewish community of Berlin and various leadership groups in the general population. He will offer a description and analysis of his experience, and will include a number of photographs and written materials collected during the trip.
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 Rabbi Elyse Wechterman
Sci-Fi and the Jewish mind: Artificial Intelligence, Cyborgs, and more. What Jewish tradition has to teach us (warn us?) about the coming Robot Revolution! Using film clips, stories from the Kabbalah and more we will explore the Golem myth and its impact on contemporary culture. We will also discuss the ethical and moral implications of human-created artificial life.
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