BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.0.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1516@tign.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T140000 DTSTAMP:20251027T234446Z URL:https://www.tign.org/events/jewish-community-scholars-program-149/ SUMMARY:Jewish Community Scholars Program DESCRIPTION:The Jewish Community Scholars Program began in 2001 in Orange C ounty California to provide high level adult Jewish education. Technology has given CSP a global reach with partner synagogues in Israel\, Europe an d all of North America. As a partner synagogue\, Temple Israel members hav e access to CJP's vast array of live presentations from top notch scholars . CSP also has an extensive archive of past programs on You Tube.\n\n  \;\n\nTuesday\, October 28th\, November 25th &\; December 30 from 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (PT) and 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (ET) live on Zoom from N ew York (members only series)\n"Survival and Renewal: The Modern Jewish St ory of Rome" led by Dr. Samuel Gruber\nFollowing our recent three-part exp loration of the Jews of Rome from antiquity through the era of the Ghetto\ , Dr. Gruber returns to guide us into the next\, equally dramatic chapter of this community’s story. In our new three-part series\, we will trace the journey of Roman Jewry from the 19th century to the present\, a period marked by seismic change and reinvention. From the fall of the Ghetto wal ls in 1870 and the opportunities and challenges of emancipation\, through the rise of Fascism and the devastating impact of the Holocaust\, to the d ifficult but determined postwar efforts at renewal\, remembrance\, and cul tural preservation\, we will explore how one of the world’s oldest Jewis h communities adapted\, endured\, and reshaped its identity in the face of modern upheaval. Along the way\, we will encounter voices of resilience\, creativity\, and leadership that illuminate not only the history of Rome ’s Jews\, but also broader questions of Jewish belonging\, survival\, an d continuity in the modern world.  \; CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.\n\n  \;\n\nThursday\, October 9th\, 23rd\, &\; 30th from 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p .m. (PT) and 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (ET) live on Zoom from London\n"Ben Sir a\, Enoch\, and Jubilees: Jewish Texts at the Edge of the Canon" led by wi th Rabba Dr. Lindsey Taylor - Guthartz\nIn this three-part series\, we’l l explore three ancient Jewish works that stood just outside the biblical canon yet shaped Jewish imagination for centuries.\nPart 1 - Ben Sira: A 1 \,900-year-old book that almost\, but didn't quite\, make it into the Bibl e\, the Book of Ben Sira (also known as Ecclesiasticus) is full of moral a dvice\, beautiful psalm-like passages\, and some unfashionable views about women. We will look at its fascinating history and sample some of the tex t.\nPart 2 - Enoch: Enoch only has a tiny part in the book of Bereshit\, b ut his apparent failure to die inspired later Jews to fill in the rest of his story. We're going to take a look at the First Book of Enoch\, from th e 3rd century BCE\, which includes a tour of heaven\, a universe bristling with angels\, a solar calendar\, and lots of apocalyptic stuff.\nPart 3 - Jubilees: Back in the second century BCE\, an adventurous Jew decided to rewrite the Bible ... and produced the Book of Jubilees\, a fascinating re ad with all sorts of secret information on the calendar\, the early life o f Abraham\, and God's plan for the Jewish people. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.\ n\n \;\n\nSundays\, November 2nd\, 9th\, 16th\, 23rd &\; 30th \ ;from 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (PT) and 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (ET) live on Zoom from Poughkeepsie\, NY\n"Judaism: The Big Questions" led by Professor Marc Michael Epstein\n\nProf. Marc Michael Epstein returns for a five-par t\, exclusive CSP series that tackles Judaism’s most urgent\, perennial questions—rooted in deep tradition\, framed for today’s seekers. Acros s five Sunday sessions\, we’ll probe: Nov 2nd – The Monotheism Questio n (are Jews really monotheistic\, and what does “real” monotheism mean ?)\; Nov 9th – The Prophecy Question (who speaks for God—and who decid es?)\; Nov 16th – The Land Question (why the Promised Land is both ancho r and flashpoint)\; Nov 23rd – The Rationalism Question (how far reason can stretch when it meets mysticism)\; and Nov 30th – The Gender &\; Sex Question (reconciling ancient texts with contemporary understandings). Come to wrestle\, question\, and discover—together. CLICK HERE TO REGIS TER.\n\n \;\n\nTuesday\, November 4th from 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (PT ) and 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (ET) live on Zoom from Los Angeles\, CA\n"Betw een Documentation\, Loss and Memory: Israeli Photography After Rabin's Ass assination" led by Dr. Rotem Rozental\nThe mid-1990s in Israel were tumult uous. The rapid pace of events\, from suicide bombings to the Oslo accords \, meant a tectonic shift was underway. Photojournalists and visual artist s were capturing and recording the events\, processing them and the change s they meant for Israeli society in real time. On November 4\, 1995\, afte r months of protests\, civil unrest\, and public rituals yearning for his death\, a domestic terrorist assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Th is lecture observes how that moment and its national aftermath were portra yed by photographers\, documentarians and the media\, observing how they t ried to process the unthinkable and understand its meanings for Israeli so ciety. We will also discuss the relationship between Israel’s photograph ic histories and how documentary perspectives were and are vital for Israe l's national imaginary. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.\n\nThursday\, November 6th from 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (PT) and 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (ET) live on Zoom from London\, UK\n"The Extraordinary Story of 'Hester Street'" led by Dr. Julia Wagner\nMarking the 50th anniversary of Joan Micklin Silver’s groundbreaking 1975 debut\, \;Hester Street\, this session with Dr. J ulia Wagner explores how the film transformed Jewish American cinema and c arved out a new space for women in the industry. A trailblazing Yiddish\, feminist work that defied expectations and became an international hit\,&n bsp\;Hester Street \;vividly captures the immigrant experience through Gitl (Carol Kane\, in an Academy Award–nominated performance) as she ar rives from Eastern Europe to New York’s Lower East Side in 1896\, confro nting the challenges of assimilation and identity. Dr. Wagner will uncover the film’s rich layers of Yiddish culture\, offering fresh insights int o an under-appreciated classic\, drawing from her \; book \;Hester Street (BFI Film Classics/Bloomsbury\, 2025)\, the first to focus exclusi vely on Micklin Silver’s work. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.\n\n \;\n\nCLI CK HERE FOR MORE UPCOMING SESSIONS IN NOVEMBER\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.tign.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ Jewish-Community-Scholars-Program-2024_25_hero-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR