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Understanding and Enjoying the Passover Holiday & Seder

Passover is the most observed holiday by Jews worldwide. This Adult Education session is being presented in response to requests made during last year’s Interfaith discussion. It will be of special interest to interfaith families and those newer to or returning to Judaism. This session will be led by the Adult Ed Committee and veteran participants and hosts of Passover seders.

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Read Hebrew America - Crash Course - B'inah Reishit (First Level)

Sunday mornings January - February, 2010, 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Over the period of approx. 6 Sunday mornings beginning early January, we will complete the first level of the National Jewish Outreach Program’s Read Hebrew America program. This class will not only get you from Aleph to Zayin, but you will build syllables and words, learn vocabulary, and even be able to read some of the more common prayers for pronunciation and meaning.

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Interfaith LIFE – How to turn the December Dilemma into the December Delight!

Led by Rabbi Susan Falk and facilitated by participating interfaith families and individuals

Last year, interfaith couples and single adults gathered together to share their stories and grapple with questions regarding living in an interfaith household. How do we raise our children? Do we have a Christmas tree? How do we interact with extended family on holidays?

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Discovering Buried Treasures and Hidden Meanings in the Torah Text

Rabbi James S. Diamond, Ph.D, Faculty, and former Executive Director, Center for Jewish Life/Hillel, Princeton University

Like the "National Treasure" series, our own Torah contains much more than it seems. While we will exclude filming chase scenes with villains and Nicolas Cage, we will discover techniques in approaching a text. One may first try to understand the plain meaning, or the “p’shat” of the text. With Rabbi Diamond to guide us, we will approach text in both a religious and literary context, and also look at some of the more subtle, hidden meanings of Torah.

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Learner's Minyan

Have you ever wondered why we recite the prayers we do every Shabbat? Do you feel a little at a loss when your fellow congregants are bending and bowing and saying “Amen”?

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