Friday, March 12, 2010 | 26th of Adar, 5770

Adult Education at Temple Sholom of Chicago

Upcoming Events

Details... Hide Details... Warm Up America Sunday, Mar 14, 9:30 a.m. Join the knitting group to make squares which will be sown together to create blankets. Meets Sundays when there is adult education.

Details... Hide Details... Adult Education Classes Sunday, Mar 14, 10:00 a.m. Adult Education Classes

Details... Hide Details... Temple Sholom’s Annual JUF Event & Bagel Brunch Sunday, Mar 14, 12:30 p.m. Join event co-chairs Diane Saltoun and Bruce Braun, Jo Ann and Steven Potashnick, Kathy and Ken Tallering, along with Temple Sholom’s clergy for our Annual JUF Event on behalf of the 2010 Jewish United Fund. Guest Speaker: Aaron B. Cohen, executive editor of JUF News, Chicago’s largest circulation Jewish community newsmagazine. Cohen writes a monthly JUF News column, “The Heart of the Matter.” He also has written commentaries about Israel and the Middle East for the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, and Daily Southtown newspapers, and for National Public Radio and Monitor Radio. Please RSVP to Jody Horowitz, Jewish United Fund at 312-444-2838 or JodyHorowitz@juf.org.

Details... Hide Details... Adult Education Classes Monday, Mar 15, 7:00 p.m. Monday Night Adult Education Classes, including Film Class and "Israel Beyond the Headlines."

Details... Hide Details... Study Group Wednesday, Mar 17, 10:00 a.m. Explore a variety topics that affect and influence all aspects of Jewish life.

Details... Hide Details... Mercaz New Yorker Discussion Group Wednesday, Mar 17, 1:00 p.m. (Temple Sholom) On the third Wednesday of each month, we will meet at Temple Sholom to discuss one article from a recent issue of The New Yorker. The group will be led by a volunteer participant facilitator. Discussion group members are eligible for subscriptions at the discounted rate of $25 a year. For more information contact 773-508-1006 or lakeshoremercaz@cje.net.

Details... Hide Details... Warm Up America Sunday, Mar 21, 9:30 a.m. Join the knitting group to make squares which will be sown together to create blankets. Meets Sundays when there is adult education.

Details... Hide Details... Adult Education Classes Sunday, Mar 21, 10:00 a.m. Sunday Adult Education Classes

Details... Hide Details... Adult Education Classes Monday, Mar 22, 7:00 p.m. Monday Night Adult Education Classes, including Film Class and "Israel Beyond the Headlines."

Details... Hide Details... Study Group Wednesday, Mar 24, 10:00 a.m. Explore a variety topics that affect and influence all aspects of Jewish life.

Details... Hide Details... NO Crown Family High School Wednesday, Mar 24, 1:00 p.m. These Classes are canceled today.

Details... Hide Details... Temple Sholom Sisterhood presents the Evening Book Club--"Days of Awe" by Achy Obejas (Open to all Temple Members) Wednesday, Mar 24, 6:30 p.m. (Temple Sholom) Obejas's second novel may be the first in the subgenre of both Jewish American and Cuban American fiction: the Jewish-Cuban-American novel. In this well-considered and heartfelt examination of exile and return, two-year-old Alejandra San Jos has left Cuba in 1959 with her parents. Her father is Jewish, though he hides it, even breaking a window in anger when his daughter and her friends spy him praying in his basement office in Chicago. Her mother is both Catholic and a sometime believer in the Santeria gods. Ale's visits to Cuba in 1987 and 1997 lead her to extraordinary discoveries about herself, her cultures, and her family, as she slowly learns of her great-grandfather's and father's clinging to a religion whose Cuban adherents have become scarce over time. Her own sexual experiences, more vivid in Cuba than in the United States, help her recognize that Cuba, Judaism, and tropical eroticism make up a complex personality, which Ale bears on her back like a Bedouin. With intelligent, intense writing, Obejas approaches, in ambition, the heady climes of Cuban American stalwarts Oscar Hijuelos and Cristina Garcia. Contact Debra Magad at debramagad@gmail.com for more information.

Details... Hide Details... NO Warm Up America Sunday, Mar 28, 9:30 a.m. The knitting group will resume at its normal time next week.

Details... Hide Details... NO Adult Education Classes Sunday, Mar 28, 10:00 a.m. Classes are canceled because of preparations for Passover.

Details... Hide Details... NO Film Class - Adult Education Monday, Mar 29, 7:00 p.m. No Film Class today

Details... Hide Details... Adult Education Classes Monday, Mar 29, 7:00 p.m. Monday Night Adult Education Class "Israel Beyond the Headlines." NO Film Class

Details... Hide Details... Temple Offices Closed Tuesday, Mar 30, 8:00 a.m. The Temple offices are closed today in celebration of the Passover holiday.

Details... Hide Details... Annual 2nd Night Temple Sholom Congregational Seder led by Rabbi Taron Tachman Tuesday, Mar 30, 6:30 p.m. Gather around the Passover table with members of the Temple Sholom family and friends. The cost is $36 for adult members, $45 for adult non-members, $20 for all children 12 and under. Seder will be kosher style with vegetarian options available by request. Register by March 22 with Lauren Mielziner at 773- 435-1559 or Lauren@sholomchicago.org.

Details... Hide Details... Study Group Wednesday, Mar 31, 10:00 a.m. Explore a variety topics that affect and influence all aspects of Jewish life.

Details... Hide Details... Temple Sholom Sisterhood presents the Morning Book Club featuring "Catcher In the Rye" by J.D. Salinger - Open to all congregants Thursday, Apr 1, 11:00 a.m. Since his debut in 1951 in "The Catcher in the Rye," Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with the "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins, "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them." His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. For information about this month and future Book Club meetings, contact Debra Magad at debramagad@gmail.com.

Details... Hide Details... NO Adult Education Classes Sunday, Apr 4, 10:00 a.m. classes canceled today.

Details... Hide Details... Temple Offices - Closed Monday, Apr 5, 7:00 a.m. Temple Offices are closed in observance of the Passover holiday.

Details... Hide Details... Last Morning of Passover Festival Service Monday, Apr 5, 10:30 a.m. (at Temple Emanuel, 5959 N. Sheridan Rd) Once again this year, we will celebrate the Spring Festival Services (including Yizkor) with Emanuel Congregation.

Details... Hide Details... NO Adult Education Classes Monday, Apr 5, 7:00 p.m. Classes Canceled this evening.

Details... Hide Details... Downtown Study Group Tuesday, Apr 6, 12:00 p.m. (Out of the Building) Meet downtown with one of our Clergy or layleaders to explore a variety topics that affect and influence all aspects of Jewish life.

Details... Hide Details... Study Group Wednesday, Apr 7, 10:00 a.m. Explore a variety topics that affect and influence all aspects of Jewish life.

Details... Hide Details... Adult Education Classes Sunday, Apr 11, 10:00 a.m. Adult Education classes

Details... Hide Details... Adult Education Classes Monday, Apr 12, 7:00 p.m. Monday Night Adult Education Classes, including Film Class and "Israel Beyond the Headlines."

Details... Hide Details... Study Group Wednesday, Apr 14, 10:00 a.m. Explore a variety topics that affect and influence all aspects of Jewish life.

Details... Hide Details... Adult Education Classes Sunday, Apr 18, 10:00 a.m. Adult Education Classes

Details... Hide Details... Adult Education Classes Monday, Apr 19, 7:00 p.m. Monday Night Adult Education Classes, including Film Class and "Israel Beyond the Headlines."

Details... Hide Details... Study Group Wednesday, Apr 21, 10:00 a.m. Explore a variety topics that affect and influence all aspects of Jewish life.

Details... Hide Details... Adult Education Classes Sunday, Apr 25, 10:00 a.m. Adult Education classes

Details... Hide Details... Adult Education Classes Monday, Apr 26, 7:00 p.m. Monday Night Adult Education Classes, including Film Class and "Israel Beyond the Headlines."

Details... Hide Details... Study Group Wednesday, Apr 28, 10:00 a.m. Explore a variety topics that affect and influence all aspects of Jewish life.

Details... Hide Details... Israel Solidarity Day Pre-Walk with Israel Rally & Pizza Party Wednesday, Apr 28, 5:30 p.m. Attention Families with Children and Teens! Do you love Israel and pizza? on Wednesday, April 28, 5:30 p.m. in Bettie Port Hall we will have a "pre-walk" rally for Israel. Kids will be paired with a Temple Sholom little/big brother or sister with whom they will personalize their walk t-shirt. Those in attendance will have a chance to sign the Temple Sholom banner and, while eating pizza and having fun, we will make our plan to meet up at the Walk on May 2.

Details... Hide Details... Israel Solidarity Day with Walk With Israel Sunday, May 2, 9:30 a.m. Our Temple Sholom community will participate in the annual city Walk With Israel.

More... Less... Adult Education Classes begin the week of October 4, 2009.

Our congregation values Torah and comprehensive Jewish learning. The Adult Education program allows members, whether a young adult, young couple, parent, mature adult or senior, to learn something new.

Discover the joy and excitement of Jewish study by enrolling in Adult Education classes that cover a gamut of topics, including basic Judaism, Hebrew, philosophy, Jewish responses to contemporary challenges, the study of Bible and other texts and Jewish and Israeli history. Our Adult Education classes are on Sunday mornings and Monday evenings at Temple Sholom of Chicago, with additional special opportunities with visiting Guest Speakers, Monday evening "mini-semester" courses, and Saturday and Tuesday morning study groups.

Join us! Download a current class schedule and registration form.

Please note the corrected times for Sunday classes:

• First Period: 10:00 – 10:45
• Second Period: 10:50 – 11:30
• Third Period: 11:35 – 12:15

For more information about Adult Education, the learning opportunities at Temple Sholom, and the Guest Speakers, please contact Kevin Gladish at 773-435-1536, or email kevin@sholomchicago.org.

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