NSS Beth El is proud to partner with Moriah Congregation to offer this course from the Florence Melton School of Jewish Learning. Enjoy a front-row seat to the drama, gossip, legal transactions, and other daily intrigues of Jewish life in the Middle Ages. This 10-session course brings to life an exotic era in Jewish history, reveling the inner thoughts of real-life characters through the Cairo Genizah, a collection of 400,000 worn-out scraps, text fragments, and documents buried for centuries. Interpreting…
Find out more »NSS Beth El is proud to partner with Moriah Congregation to offer this course from the Florence Melton School of Jewish Learning. Our version of a Jewish-American "Stuff You Missed in History Class"! In 10 engaging sessions, learners will discuss seminal developments in American life, such as Jewish contributions to American cultural, American literature, and the Civil Rights Movement, through the lens of Jews straddling their status as both insiders and outsiders. The course will also examine antisemitism and the…
Find out more »NSS Beth El is proud to partner with Moriah Congregation to offer this course from the Florence Melton School of Jewish Learning. Enjoy a front-row seat to the drama, gossip, legal transactions, and other daily intrigues of Jewish life in the Middle Ages. This 10-session course brings to life an exotic era in Jewish history, reveling the inner thoughts of real-life characters through the Cairo Genizah, a collection of 400,000 worn-out scraps, text fragments, and documents buried for centuries. Interpreting…
Find out more »NSS Beth El is proud to partner with Moriah Congregation to offer this course from the Florence Melton School of Jewish Learning. Our version of a Jewish-American "Stuff You Missed in History Class"! In 10 engaging sessions, learners will discuss seminal developments in American life, such as Jewish contributions to American cultural, American literature, and the Civil Rights Movement, through the lens of Jews straddling their status as both insiders and outsiders. The course will also examine antisemitism and the…
Find out more »NSS Beth El is proud to partner with Moriah Congregation to offer this course from the Florence Melton School of Jewish Learning. Enjoy a front-row seat to the drama, gossip, legal transactions, and other daily intrigues of Jewish life in the Middle Ages. This 10-session course brings to life an exotic era in Jewish history, reveling the inner thoughts of real-life characters through the Cairo Genizah, a collection of 400,000 worn-out scraps, text fragments, and documents buried for centuries. Interpreting…
Find out more »NSS Beth El is proud to partner with Moriah Congregation to offer this course from the Florence Melton School of Jewish Learning. Our version of a Jewish-American "Stuff You Missed in History Class"! In 10 engaging sessions, learners will discuss seminal developments in American life, such as Jewish contributions to American cultural, American literature, and the Civil Rights Movement, through the lens of Jews straddling their status as both insiders and outsiders. The course will also examine antisemitism and the…
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With Ana Igornov Thursdays, 8:00-9:00 pm, July 14, 21 & 28, 2022 (3 sessions) Jewish inscriptions inform us about a number of aspects of Jewish life in antiquity: mobility, professions and occupations that Jews were engaged in, cultural interactions and many others. One of the areas of research that benefits enormously from Jewish epigraphy is that of Onomastics or the study of names. What kind of names were popular among Jews of the Diaspora? Did they use nicknames? What can…
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With Ana Igornov Thursdays, 8:00-9:00 pm, July 14, 21 & 28, 2022 (3 sessions) Jewish inscriptions inform us about a number of aspects of Jewish life in antiquity: mobility, professions and occupations that Jews were engaged in, cultural interactions and many others. One of the areas of research that benefits enormously from Jewish epigraphy is that of Onomastics or the study of names. What kind of names were popular among Jews of the Diaspora? Did they use nicknames? What can…
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With Ana Igornov Thursdays, 8:00-9:00 pm, July 14, 21 & 28, 2022 (3 sessions) Jewish inscriptions inform us about a number of aspects of Jewish life in antiquity: mobility, professions and occupations that Jews were engaged in, cultural interactions and many others. One of the areas of research that benefits enormously from Jewish epigraphy is that of Onomastics or the study of names. What kind of names were popular among Jews of the Diaspora? Did they use nicknames? What can…
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In honor of this Jewish holiday of love, we’ll discuss the various tropes found in romance novels and the latest Jewish romance reads with Amy Pine...
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