Adult Study
Taste of Judaism Program
The Taste of Judaism Lecture Series will be offered October 4, 18 and 25, 2010.
7:15 – 8:45 pm at Temple Israel.
Topics covered will be Jewish Ethics, Spirituality and Community. Flyer with more information.
To register please send an email to outreach@templeisraelottawa.ca. This lecture series is offered at no cost.
Jewish Information Class
The Jewish Information Course will run Sundays for approximately 26 weeks starting October 17, from 12:45 to 3 pm. There will be 1 hour of lecture/discussion followed by 1 hour of Hebrew instruction. The course fee of $600 includes all books and materials, any other fees for persons wishing to pursue conversion to Judaism and Hebrew instruction. If a course registrant is in a relationship with a Jewish partner, we encourage both partners to participate in the course. There is no additional cost for the Jewish partner to attend. To register please contact Annie Garmaise at Temple Israel, 613-224-1802.
We strongly recommend that if you are interested in conversion to Judaism, you attend the Taste of Judaism lectures as well.
For more information or to register for the class, please contact outreach@templeisraelottawa.ca
How does your working life fit into your Jewishness?
How does your Jewishness fit into your working life?
How did it lead you to your working life, or maybe out of one career and into another?
Over the coming year, the Temple Israel Adult Education Committee will be presenting a series of conversations entitled “Jews at Work”, revolving around that very big part of our lives that isn’t the typical focus of Judaism (home, family and life events).
Each evening will focus on a different community of practice, such as working in the health and helping professions, education, the legal profession, public service, defense and public security, the arts, business and finance, etc., and provide an opportunity to explore the interface between our spiritual and working lives. Hopefully in ways we hadn’t considered before, or may have been doing but never realized.
We hope to have some high-profile individuals from the local community in each of these fields to start the conversation going, and engage all varieties of Jewish experience and observance.
If you are interested in participating in one or more of these evenings, or if you have suggestions for local guests of note who you feel would be of interest, please contact the chair of the Temple Israel Adult Education Committee Mark Hammer for more information.
Introduction to Hebrew
The Introduction to Hebrew course is open will begin October 17 from 2 – 3 pm and also run approximately 26 weeks, and is open to anyone who wishes to attend. The course fee of $300 includes the required text.
Scholar in Residence: Dr. Adolpho Roitman
Curator of the Shrine of the Book
at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem
Saturday September 25 following Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkot Morning Services (10:15 am) at Temple Israel
“The Sukkot Festival, the Temple of Jerusalem and the Wilderness: Sacred Time and Sacred Place in Jewish Faith” (an oral presentation based on written sources)
Saturday evening September 25 at the SJCC at 8:00 pm
“Esther and Judith:
Two Models of Women in Ancient Israel”
Adolfo Roitman is Lizbeth and George Krupp Curator of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Director of the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, one of the world's leading archaeological museums in the world. An ordained conservative Rabbi, Dr. Roitman earned his Ph.D. in Ancient Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1993. His field of research is ancient Jewish literature and religion. He is the author of numerous articles and books including: "A Day at Qumran: The Dead Sea Sect and Its Scrolls" (Jerusalem, 1997); "The Sectarians from Qumran: Daily Life of the Essenes (Barcelona, 2000, in Spanish); "Envisioning the Temple. Scrolls, Stones and Symbols" (Jerusalem, 2003); and recently, "Bible, Exegesis and Religion. A Critical-Historical Reading of Judaism" (Navarra, 2010, in Spanish).
