News and Events at Congregation Beth Sholom: 2010
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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 (first session is free)
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. Completed details on flyer.
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.
Guest speaker: Dr. Steven Foreman, talking about his book:
Breaking the Spell: Understanding Why Kids Do the Very Thing That Drives You Crazy
Sunday, March 14, 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Main Meeting Room
Dr. Steven Foreman will give a talk for parents and other interested parties called “Breaking the Spell: Understanding Why Kids Do the Very Thing That Drives You Crazy.”
Kids always provoke parents by doing the very thing that irritates and infuriates them. Sometimes, it’s as if a spell gets cast and parents start to think their kids are out to get them while kids come to believe their parents hate them.
Dr. Foreman’s recent book, Breaking the Spell presents a radical new view of children not as profit seeking, power hungry opportunists, but as poor scientists who actively poke and prod parents to find out how responsible they are for what’s making their parents miserable. Based on his book, Dr. Foreman will suggest how parents can step out of the cycle of misery and discipline more positively, effectively and comfortably.
Dr. Foreman is a Child and Adult Psychiatrist who has been helping kids and parents in San Francisco solve this problem for over twenty-five years. He is currently president of the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group and has conducted research on psychotherapy with adults and children. He has published numerous clinical and research papers and has lectured internationally on the subject of psychotherapy and child psychology. Breaking the Spell is his first book.
Bureau of Jewish Education exhibit Who's Who: The Jew and The Mask
On display: February 28 - July 31
SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 1 p.m., is artists' reception and curator talk.
Elayne is curator of the show, and Lisa Berkelhammer, and Juliette Hirt have pieces in the show.
Click here for all the details: Who's Who: The Jew and the Mask
Congregation Beth Sholom Community Shabbat Dinner
In memory of Sarah Horowitz and in conjunction with AJWS’ Global Hunger Shabbat
Friday, March 19, Koret Hall, No charge.
Shabbat Service: 5:20 p.m. (note time change), Shabbat Dinner: 6:30 p.m.
Join us for a community Shabbat dinner focused on global hunger and inspired by the life of former congregant Sarah Horowitz (z"l), the program, in conjunction with AJWS, will include a full evening of meditation, prayer, food for the mind heart and soul.
Poteach et Adecha, umasbia lechol hai ratzon, open your hand so that all can be full.
Schedule:
4:40 p.m.: meditation
5:20 p.m.: candle-lighting and kabbalat shabbat
6:30 p.m.: Shabbat dinner and program
Reservations required by March 12. R.S.V.P. to Beth Jones at 415.221.873, ext. 105 or Dinner.
Tenderlion Outreach Project
Friday, March 12, 12:45 p.m.
Curry Senior Center, 333 Turk Street, San Francisco
Since 1985, the Tenderloin Outreach Project, a program of Jewish Family and Children’s Services, has provided our isolated seniors who live in and around the Tenderloin area the opportunity to experience their very important connection to the Jewish community by coming together with synagogues and other Jewish agencies.
A short program will be presented to the seniors; it will include singing several Shabbat songs, lighting the Shabbat candles, and reciting the prayers over the wine (grape juice) and challah. Lunch is then served by volunteers. There is also time for the volunteers to sit and talk with our guests.
Congregation Beth Sholom is cosponsoring this event.
As a cosponsor, CBS needs to provide six to eight volunteers to help set up for the luncheon, serve the meal, interact with our guests, and assist with cleanup after the lunch. We request that volunteers arrive by 12:45 pm to the Curry Senior Center. We are usually finished by 3 p.m.
Please contact Debbi Goodman, Tenderloin Outreach Project Coordinator, or office to volunteer at 415.449.3832 or DebbiG@jfcs.org.
Congregation Beth Sholom Film Series-2010
Sundays, 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 film series presented without charge on Sunday evenings at 7 p.m., with a short introduction before and lively discussions after each film.
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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