Lifelong Learning Programs at the Jewish Community Center, Sonoma County
Community Yom Hashoah 2010
Annual Yom Hashoah Commemoration
Sunday, April 11, 2010 from 2-4 p.m.
Friedman Center, 4676 Mayette Ave., Santa Rosa
Registration Form for the Memorial Book of the SHOAH
Liberation: Telling the Stories is the theme for the annual Sonoma County Yom Hashoah Commemoration.
Traditional candle-lighting ceremony by Holocaust survivors escorted by local teens and college students, this year’s program will feature a Dramatic Reading based on the liberation reminiscences of five Holocaust survivors from our own community written by Susanne Batzdorff and directed by Kathy Pither. This reading will be framed by musical selections. The winner of the annual Susy Raful Essay Contest will read the winning essay and several Sonoma County rabbis will open and close the event with remarks and prayers. Fredi Bloom, Cantorial Soloist at B’nai Israel in Petaluma will sing solemn liturgical pieces.
Yellow candles will be available for audience members to take home and light in memory of their loved ones who perished in the Shoah.
The event is co-sponsored by Sonoma County synagogues, the Jewish Community Center, Sonoma County, Sonoma State University Alliance for the Study of the Holocaust, Remember Us: The Holocaust Bnai Mitzvah Project, the Jewish Community Relations Council/North Bay Region and the Jewish Community Federation, Sonoma County Region
Feast of Jewish Learning
The Third Annual Sonoma County BJE Feast of Jewish Learning was held on
Sunday, March 2nd at the
Finley Community Center in Santa Rosa.
Lectures:
Pomegranate Roads: A Soviet Botanist's Exile from Eden with Barbara Baer
Making Room for the New When You’re a Jew with Rachel Brodie & Toby Rubin
Purim Redux: The Thoroughly Modern Megillah with Rabbi Jerry Danzig
The Transcendent Teachings of A. J. Heschel with Rabbi Ted Feldman
The History and Rescue of the Jews of Ethiopia with Rabbi Jack Gabriel
The Intersection of Reggae Music & Judaism with Rabbi George Gittleman
Moving G-d, Being Moved: An Exploration of Radical Hasidic Texts with Rabbi Chai Levy
From Idolatry to Monotheism: Golden Calf to Shema with Rabbi George Schlesinger
Moving Toward the Heart: What the Sages Teach Us with Rabbi Paul Shleffar
Science, Religion, and Ethics: A Cross-Cultural Perspective with Dr. Henry Shreibman
“How” Does a Jew do? The Evolving Jewish Cultures and Landscapes with Dr. Henry Shreibman
How Can We Know What G-d Wants? with Rabbi Mendel Wolvovsky
Universal Dances of Peace with Tui Wulchinsky