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February 2022

Jews in America: Insiders and Outsiders with Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Avraham

February 3 2022, 9:30 am - 11:00 am
North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, 1175 Sheridan Rd.
Highland Park, IL 60035 United States
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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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OMG, Can You Believe?! with Rabbi Alex Freedman

February 4 2022, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, 1175 Sheridan Rd.
Highland Park, IL 60035 United States
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NSS Beth El is proud to partner with Moriah Congregation to offer this course from the Florence Melton School of Jewish Learning. Fridays, January 14 - February 18, 2022. In this six-week exploratory course, we'll dive into the BIG questions around God and God's relationship to Humankind. We'll examine the many different understandings of God, free will, and mitzvot expressed by Jewish philosophers, rabbis, leaders past and present -- and you. We'll explore the divine, the prophetic, and even the…

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Exploring a Forgotten World: A Social History of Medieval Jewry as Revealed in the Cairo Genizah with Rabbi Ben Kramer

February 8 2022, 8:30 am - 10:00 am
North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, 1175 Sheridan Rd.
Highland Park, IL 60035 United States
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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…

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Jews in America: Insiders and Outsiders with Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Avraham

February 10 2022, 9:30 am - 11:00 am
North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, 1175 Sheridan Rd.
Highland Park, IL 60035 United States
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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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OMG, Can You Believe?! with Rabbi Alex Freedman

February 11 2022, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, 1175 Sheridan Rd.
Highland Park, IL 60035 United States
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NSS Beth El is proud to partner with Moriah Congregation to offer this course from the Florence Melton School of Jewish Learning. Fridays, January 14 - February 18, 2022. In this six-week exploratory course, we'll dive into the BIG questions around God and God's relationship to Humankind. We'll examine the many different understandings of God, free will, and mitzvot expressed by Jewish philosophers, rabbis, leaders past and present -- and you. We'll explore the divine, the prophetic, and even the…

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Exploring a Forgotten World: A Social History of Medieval Jewry as Revealed in the Cairo Genizah with Rabbi Ben Kramer

February 15 2022, 8:30 am - 10:00 am
North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, 1175 Sheridan Rd.
Highland Park, IL 60035 United States
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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…

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Jews in America: Insiders and Outsiders with Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Avraham

February 17 2022, 9:30 am - 11:00 am
North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, 1175 Sheridan Rd.
Highland Park, IL 60035 United States
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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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OMG, Can You Believe?! with Rabbi Alex Freedman

February 18 2022, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, 1175 Sheridan Rd.
Highland Park, IL 60035 United States
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NSS Beth El is proud to partner with Moriah Congregation to offer this course from the Florence Melton School of Jewish Learning. Fridays, January 14 - February 18, 2022. In this six-week exploratory course, we'll dive into the BIG questions around God and God's relationship to Humankind. We'll examine the many different understandings of God, free will, and mitzvot expressed by Jewish philosophers, rabbis, leaders past and present -- and you. We'll explore the divine, the prophetic, and even the…

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Exploring a Forgotten World: A Social History of Medieval Jewry as Revealed in the Cairo Genizah with Rabbi Ben Kramer

February 22 2022, 8:30 am - 10:00 am
North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, 1175 Sheridan Rd.
Highland Park, IL 60035 United States
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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…

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Jews in America: Insiders and Outsiders with Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Avraham

February 24 2022, 9:30 am - 11:00 am
North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, 1175 Sheridan Rd.
Highland Park, IL 60035 United States
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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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