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We invite you to experience Judaism on a new level. You can take a year-long course or a single class, come to a three-session series or attend a once-a-month discussion group. Classes, lectures, concerts, and tours are all opportunities to deepen your connection to Judaism. We offer classes at all levels of learning. You are welcome to participate in any course or event whatevver your prior Jewish educational background. Our clergy, teachers, and guest speakers are dedicated to helping you develop and strengthen your relationship to Judaism.
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Beginning Conversational Hebrew - LEVEL 2
Instructor: Orly
Tuesdays, Feb 25, March 4, 11, 18, 25,, April 1, 8 (no class April 15 and April 22) April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 27
6:30- 7:30 pm in Person
Some previous knowledge of Hebrew is required as this is Level 2 of Beginners Hebrew. Our Israeli method of teaching is for all Hebrew language skills: speaking, comprehension, reading, and writing.
Cost: $360 Members, $400 Non-Members
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Murder, Mayhem, and More Murder: King David and His Family
Instructor: Dr. Sharon Keller
Mondays, 7:00 pm | March, 24, 31, April 7 on ZOOM
You know King David as the young boy who slew Goliath, you know him as the savvy king who built a kingdom that remains the idealized Jewish empire through to today, and of course we remember him as the poet who crafted many of our beloved Psalms. There is also the King David who orchestrated the death of his romantic rival and lapsed into a severe depression upon the death of his infant son. The lives of his children are no less interesting, rape, murder, incest are just a few of their not so minor peccadillos.
Join us as we look at some of the biblical stories depicting this royal family of Ancient Israel.
Dr. Sharon Keller earned her PhD at NYU in the Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. Currently she is on faculty at Hofstra teaching in the Honors College as well as in 3 other departments: History, Religion, & Comparative Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics. Her training is in the Bible and the Ancient Near East, and she teasingly feels that the modern era starts at the year zero. Sharon recognizes that many people would find this odd, but her area of academic interests begins at around 2500 B.C.E. in Old Kingdom Egypt
and Early Dynastic Mesopotamia and goes through to Classical Greece.
She works on the languages, literature, art, and archaeology of the Bible and the Ancient Near East and Egypt, and most of her scholarly endeavors deal with the interplay between biblical Israel and Egypt. In case you were wondering… The answer is.… Yes, Sharon really does read all those strange ancient scripts and languages!
Suggested Donation $54
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Songs of the Heart: An Introduction to the Book of Psalms CONTINUED
Instructor: Rabbi Alder
Mondays, 7:00 pm | April 21, 28, May 5, 12
In Person at Brotherhood
The biblical Book of Psalms are poems of faith that portray the inner spiritual struggles of people as they grapple with adversity, bare their souls, display their anxieties, admit their doubts, rail against injustice, revel in joy and proclaim their thankfulness. We will study a representative sample of psalms that typify these different genres and also find their way into our prayer books. Prior attendance in the Rabbi’s Fall class is not required.
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Harmoni-AH! – The Brotherhood Synagogue Congregational Choir
with Cantor Isaac Yager and Meredeth Kelly
Tuesdays, 6:00-7:30pm in Person Beginning September 3
Jewish music offers a rich selection of choral music that can greatly enhance our spiritual experience. After strengthening our group sound through listening and vocal exercises, the choir will begin to tap into some of this music in a manner that is accessible for participants with advanced or no musical background. The choir will also have opportunities to perform this music for the community throughout the year, performance dates TBD. Our congregational choir is open to everyone at all levels of experience.
Please email Cantor Yager directly if you are interested in newly participating. You can also sign up here.
Lunch & Learn with Cantor Isaac Yager
Thursdays ongoing, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm in Person and on Zoom Starting September 12
Join us for lunch on Thursdays as we discuss, learn, and engage in Jewish textual study, specifically the Parashat Hashavuah (weekly Torah reading). Following in the footsteps of the generations that preceded us, we will continue the long legacy of commenting and intellectually dissecting Jewish texts from the Torah, the book of Prophets, and other holy texts. Questions will be encouraged and debate is inevitable. This will be an inclusive, non judgmental learning environment where everyone's voice will have equal value. No prior text study is required. All are welcome to attend and participate.
Conversion Class with Cantor Isaac Yager
Wednesdays ongoing, 6:30 - 7:30 pm in Person Starting September 4
“For wherever you go, I will go; wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God.”
Book of Ruth, Chapter 1
In the spirit in which Ruth was welcomed into the Jewish community, Brotherhood Synagogue offers conversion classes to those interested in joining the Jewish faith. Classes run from October through June and meet on Wednesdays from 6:30-7:30 in person at the synagogue. Our first class date will be TBD. Admission to the class is accepted on a rolling basis based on the individual, all experience levels with Judaism are welcome to inquire. Conversion classes are provided at no cost, though participants are requested to make a donation to Brotherhood Synagogue in an amount of their choosing at the end of the conversion process. Please contact Cantor Yager or Rabbi Alder if you are interested in the program.