BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1643@tign.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T163000 DTSTAMP:20260212T161515Z URL:https://www.tign.org/events/jewish-community-scholars-program-178/ 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\nThurs day\, February 12th from 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (PT) and 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (ET) live on Zoom from NYC\n"Derfner Judaica Museum: The Best Little Museum You Never Knew Existed" led by Dr. Sharon Keller\nThe Derfner Judai ca Museum is a true hidden gem—an intimate “jewel box” of a museum o verlooking the Hudson River on the campus of The Hebrew Home at Riverdale in the Bronx. In this session\, we’ll take a vivid journey through its r emarkable permanent collection—nearly 1\,000 works that tell the Jewish story through art\, ritual\, and everyday creativity. Centered on beautifu lly crafted objects made for synagogue and home—metalwork\, textiles\, c eremonial implements\, and more—the collection reveals how Jewish commun ities across time and place transformed tradition into visual form\, blend ing sacred purpose with local style\, personal artistry\, and bold imagina tion. From historic ritual masterpieces to striking modern interpretations \, the Derfner reminds us that Judaica isn’t static—it’s a living\, evolving language of meaning. Come discover the objects\, the artisans\, a nd the unexpected stories that make this museum such a powerful celebratio n of Jewish material culture. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.\n\n \;\n\nSunday s\, February 1st\, 8th\, 15th and Tuesday\, February 24th from 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (PT) and 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (ET) live on Zoom from Barcelo na\, Spain\n"Soviet Jews: From Revolutionaries to Refuseniks" led Evgenia Kempinski.\nThe story of Soviet Jews is not a story of a single identity o r a single role. It is a story of builders and critics\, of loyal citizens and disillusioned dissidents\, of idealists who believed in the Soviet dr eam and victims crushed by the very system they helped create. Across seve n decades\, Jews stood on every side of the Soviet project — as passiona te revolutionaries\, administrators\, cultural leaders\, soldiers\, skepti cs\, silent conformists\, targets of repression\, and ultimately as the me n and women who helped bring Jewish life back to the world stage.\nPART 1: “Between Revolution and Tradition: Jewish Political Life in 1917”\nPA RT 2: “Builders of a New Society: Jews in the Early Soviet State”\nPAR T 3: “Under Stalin: Terror\, War\, and the Destruction of Jewish Public Life”\nPART 4: “The Thaw\, the Struggle\, the Exodus: Soviet Jews from the 1950s to the 1990s”\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER.\n\n \;\n\nTuesda y\, February 17th from 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (PT) and 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p .m. (ET) live on Zoom from Berlin\, Germany\n"God\, Nature\, and the Lens: How Spinoza Really Saw the World" led Rana Werbin\nMost people hear one l ine about Spinoza— “God is Nature”—and assume they’ve gotten the point. In this session\, we’ll see why that shortcut misses what’s mo st daring (and most useful) about Spinoza\, and why he remains one of the most surprisingly modern thinkers in Jewish and Western intellectual histo ry. Viewing him through the lens of his day job as an optician—someone w ho literally shaped how people saw—we’ll explore how his philosophy is less a slogan about pantheism and more a radical account of reality: a si ngle infinite substance that can be understood in countless ways depending on the “lenses” we bring to it. The result is an eye-opening invitati on to rethink perception\, freedom\, and the limits of what we think we kn ow—Spinoza not as a dusty heretic\, but as a guide to seeing the world d ifferently. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.\n\n \;\n\nCLICK HERE FOR UPCOMING SESSIONS IN FEBRUARY 2026\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:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR