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WINTER 2012 EVENTS
Peter Kussell will lead a reading and discussion of "Gilgul," Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi's posthumous short story that appeared in the New Yorker on Aug 15th 2011.
For a link to or copy of "Gilgul," send a request to peter@worshipandstudy.org.
This dairy-parve pot luck lunch event will start at 11:45am, following Shabbat services, Smith Hall. Your contribution of a food item to share is appreciated. ...back
In place of our usual weekly Dvar Torah, Paul Kosmin, Lecturer at the
Harvard Classics Department, will lead a study session at Shabbat services
about the history of Purim and the Book of Esther. In December, Paul
delighted the minyan with his account of the Maccabean Revolt and we're
pleased that he is returning with the inside story on Purim.
Services begin at 9:30am and the talk will start around 11:00am. ...back
Join us for the Megillah, liquid and solid refreshments, a Hamentoshen Bake Off, an minyan-produced original entertainment! Bring hamentoshen or other snack items.
At Hillel's Smith Hall, 7pm. Note: Bring Bake Off entries by 6:45 to ready them for anonymous judging. ...back
A Yiddish Literature Salon and Potluck Supper with Kathyrn Hellerstein. To recover from our celebration of Purim, we will gather, shmooze, and read
several Yiddish poems (with translations) that invoke Esther in unexpected
ways.
Kathryn Hellerstein is a professor of Yiddish at U Penn and a visiting
research fellow at Harvard's Center for Jewish Studies. Her books include
"In New York: A Selection From Moyshe-Leyb Halpern", "Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky", "Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology", and to be published, "A Question of Tradition Women Poets in Yiddish."
Come to Smith Hall at 6:45 for a potluck dairy/pareve supper. Please bring a food item to share. We will begin reading the poems at 7:30. ...back
The Washington Haggadah, a 15th century illustrated Haggadah from Germany, now in the Library of Congress, is the greatest Haggadah in America. Its scribe and illustrator Joel ben Simeon, was one of the greatest of all medieval Jewish scribes and artists.
With colorful slide illustrations, David Stern, Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting scholar at Harvard, presents the fascinating story of how this haggadah came into existence and then traveled from Germany to America.
Hillel's Smith Hal at 7:30pm. Presentation includes refreshments. ...back
Rabbi Julia Watts Belser, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies
and Jewish Ethics at the Harvard Divinity School and faculty at Missouri
State University, will introduce us to responses from the Mishnah and Talmud
to the limits on priestly bodies in Leviticus 21:16-23 (that week's Torah
portion). We will see how these sources deal with conceptions of disability
and bodily difference.
This dairy-parve pot luck lunch event will start at 11:45am, following the 9:30am
Shabbat services, Smith Hall. Your contribution of a food item to share is appreciated. ...back
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