ADULT EDUCATION CLASSES AT TEMPLE ISRAEL

Temple Israel of Ridgewood’s ongoing adult education program features several new classes.  All classes are free and everyone in the community is invited.

GOOGLING FOR GHOSTS- A Presentation by Dr. Sylvia Flescher of Her Moving Memoir-in-Progress

Temple Israel, Sunday, April 18th, 10:30 am

Temple Israel of Ridgewood’s Adult Education Committee will sponsor a reading from “Googling for Ghosts,” a memoir-in-progress by psychoanalyst and Temple member Sylvia Flescher, MD, on Sunday, April 18th, at 10:30 a.m., following the morning prayer service.

In this fragment of memoir, Dr. Flescher describes her decades-long struggle with writer’s block and how her voice was over-shadowed by her analyst father, a writer and a Holocaust survivor. Themes of survivor guilt, incomplete mourning and the transmission of trauma to the second generation are illustrated. When her mother Anna was honored at Yad Vashem as a “Righteous Among the Nations,” Dr. Flescher found the experience to be unexpectedly healing, allowing her to begin to write.

Admission is free and the entire community is invited.

TUESDAY EVENING TALMUD: Every Tuesday evening at 8:00 p.m., after minyan, Rabbi David J. Fine guides participants in discovering the fascinating world of the rabbinic sages.  No previous experience or Hebrew comprehension is required, as we are learning from the Steinsaltz edition in English. The class began on Oct. 13, but new students are always welcome to join the class.

SUNDAY MORNING SPECIALS: All Special Classes at 10:30-11:30 a.m., taught by Rabbi David J. Fine.
January 30: How the Conservative movement makes halakhic (Jewish legal) decisions II: The question of gay and lesbian Jews.
March 7: What are the Differences between Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist and Orthodox Judaism?
March 21: How did the different Jewish movements come about?
April 25: Why be a Conservative Jew today?

WEDNESDAY EVENING TORAH READING CLINIC WITH CANTOR CAITLIN BROMBERG – 7:00-8:00 pm. Working on a Torah reading? Need a little coaching? Never read Torah before and want to learn? Bring a Torah reading you are working on, ask for an assignment or get help learning trope. The Cantor is “in” and ready to offer personal attention.