News and Events at Congregation Beth Sholom: 2010
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Everything Is God with Jay Michaelson
Thursday, February 11, 2010
7-9 p.m.
Koret Hall
Cost: $4 members; $5 advance; $8 door
Event Registration here
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A unique evening of learning, connection celebration in honor of two new books Forward 50 honorees Jay Michaelson, Everything Is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism, and Rabbi Jill Jacobs There Shall Be No Needy.
• Learn about new forms of Jewish spirituality and social justice activism with Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Dr. Jo Ellen Green Kaiser (Zeek) and Jay Michaelson. BuJus, Queer Jews, CuJus, EcoJews — what do these have in common? What's new, and what's not so new? Are spirituality and activism enemies . . . or allies?
• Connect at a “county fair” of Jewish innovators, including Bay Area Learning Initiative, Chochmat HaLev, East Bay Minyan, G-dcast, Makom Sholom, Nehirim, Netivot Shalom, NITA, Progressive Jewish Alliance, Wilderness Torah, Zeek, and more.
• Celebrate at a reception and book-signing with plenty of time to meet the people responsible for this new flowering of Jewish creativity!
Presented by Zeek, Congregation Beth Sholom, and two dozen cosponsoring organizations.
Expect to be Inspired
Six Memorable Weeks with Rabbi David White
To help you find a better, more satisfying, more fulfilling life
Wednesdays, Beginning February 17, 8 a.m.
Board
Room
Cost: $125 for 6 sessions
Complete details on flyer: Six Memorable Weeks with Rabbi David White
Let Rabbi White be your facilitator and host for 6 weeks of conversation and discussion, on what matters to you. Join this group that will meet at Congregation Beth Sholom very other Wednesday morning, beginning February 17th. It’s about how you connect with life… with your passion, your spirit, and through each other’s stories… learning from each other’s strengths and challenges.
Welcome to a setting where you can explore, in secular context, spiritual values, and varieties of life affirming principles, expressed in your idiom of daily life…generating questions and conversations about your quality of life…helping you use your energy, your talents and your caring …to connect you in surprising new ways…through and with people around you, noticing more of the positives in your life and helping fortify you in handling what goes wrong while accentuating what goes right.
David White can help you see life in a clearer light and provide you with a fresh perspective on who and what you appreciate in your life such as: resources and relationships you may be underutilizing or overlooking in the rush and overwhelm of daily life.
Your cost for this inspiring program is $125 for 6 sessions. The first session is free; so, you can opt out if you don’t think you will benefit. Your morning session includes lox, bagels, cream cheese, juice, and coffee/tea. Attend your first free introductory session. Then, make yourself at home with Rabbi White for a total of 6 group sessions, meeting every other week.
Please forward this invitation to everyone you know that could benefit from this special program and encourage them to forward it as well.
Faith-Based Principles for Everyday Life
6 Memorable Weeks
With your facilitator and host, Rabbi David White
Five Trails, David White’s unique translation of Judaic values into secular application, taps into your strengths:
•Your life Attitude
•How you use Time
•Growing your Powerby empowering others
•Turning your daily Routineinto dynamic meaning and fulfillment
•Here’s an opportunity to share each other’s stories, looking at how you connect, or not, with Peopleand possibilities in your life
Wednesdays, after the morning minyan with bagels, lox, cream cheese, coffee, tea and juice
WOMEN and MEN TOGETHER …February 17, March 3, 17, April 7, 21 and May 5.
Your cost: $125…includes food, as described, and a complimentary hour consultation with Rabbi White.
Congregation Beth Sholom Film Series-2010
Sundays, February 21, March 28, April 11, and 25,
7-10 p.m.
Koret Hall
Free
This years Beth Sholom Film Series with our host and programmer Richard Adler has a theme of "redemption". We hope you will join us for this four film series presented without charge on Sunday evenings at 7 p.m., with a short introduction before and lively discussions after each film.
Sunday, February 21: The Rapture (1991) Directed by Michael Tolkin
The Rapture explores the entire spectrum of faith, from soul-crushing emptiness to unqualified devotion. Jewish writer-director Michael Tolkin–best known for his novel-turned-screenplay Hollywood satire, The Player–takes viewers along for this wild existential ride, a dramatization of the appeal and beliefs of fundamentalist Protestant evangelicalism, blended with New Age elements. Critic Roger Ebert pronounced the movie “one of the most radical, infuriating, engrossing, challenging movies I’ve ever seen.”
Sunday, March 28: Promised Land (1974) Directed by Andrezej Wajda (Polish)
"I have nothing, you have nothing, and he has nothing; that means together we have enough to start a factory," says an impoverished Polish nobleman-turned-industrialist to his Jewish and German partners. The Promised Land based on the important novel by Nobel laureate Stanislaw Reymont and nominated for Best Foreign Film, is a lusciously photographed epic of the rapid growth of capitalist Lodz, a textile Eldorado (and a worker's battleground) at the end of the 19th century.
Sunday, April 11 (Yom HaShoah): The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) Directed by Arthur Hiller
Maximillian Schell as, Arthur Goldman, a Jewish businessman living in 1965 Manhattan, is kidnapped by a group of Israeli underground agents, who put him on trial as a Nazi war criminal. Adapted from a highly controversial Broadway play by Robert Shaw, Schell's brilliant performance won an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. Goldman at first protests the misunderstanding and claims he was actually a Holocaust victim. This powerful film surprises at every turn raising questions of redemption and dementia; Germans and Jews.
Sunday, April 25: The Burmese Harp (1956) Directed by Kon Ichikawa (Japanese)
One of the very greatest anti-war films ever made. Filmed in beautiful black and white, this moving tale about the end of World War II in Burma confronts the aftermath of conflict and the responsibilities of society and religion through the life and work of one soldier. With direct relevance for today this wise film is a personal favorite of Richard’s.
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