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Coming Soon!
The 2010 - 2011 Seminar Series
Hosted by Hershl Hartman
co-sponsored by ARBETERRING/WORKMEN’S CIRCLE, SO. CAL. DISTRICT
THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SECULAR HUMANISTIC JUDAISM
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Missed our 2009 - 2010 Seminar Series?
A Peoples’ History of the Jews:
Current Issues in Light of the Past
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Sunday, October 25, 2009 • 10:15 AM — Whose “Promised Land?”
What the Bible does—and doesn't—say. Ancient Hebrews: wandering tribes or offshoot
of Canaanites? Egyptian bondage and exodus: fiction or fact? Biblical priests,
prophets, and today’s hasidim, haredim and religious freedom in Israel.
Plus—what’s kosher? what’s treyf? Who says so?
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Sunday, December 6, 2009 • 10:15 AM - Peoplehood Under Cross and Crescent
“Everyone knows” that the Middle Ages were an unbroken era of anti-Jewish
persecution and oppression: the ghettos…the Inquisition…forced conversions…
expulsions…pervasive anti-Semitism. Really? Was that all there was? Do facts
challenge what’s been called “the lachrymose concept” of Jewish history?
Plus—how Judaism totally changed as Jewish peoplehood changed.
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Sunday, January 31, 2010 • 10:15 AM — Discovering the “Yiddish Empire”
The thousand-year saga of Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe and the culture
created there. Theories about the origins of “the people of Ashkenaz.”
Is there only one Jewish People? Culture…genetics…politics…and more.
Plus—the roles of Yiddish and Hebrew in today’s Secular Jewish Movements.
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Sunday, March 14, 2010 • 10:15 AM — Behind the “Sea Washed, Sunset Gates”
Fairly common beliefs: Jews in the U.S. have always been on the side of social
justice…Jewish immigrants’ children became middle class in one generation…U.S.
Zionist support played a major role in creating the State of Israel. All true…or?
Plus—is intercultural marriage the major factor in “Jewish decline?”
Click Here for the 3/14/10 Advance Readings
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Sunday, April 11, 2010 • 10:15 AM — The Momentous 20th Century…and Beyond
The unbelievable roller-coaster ride: highest hopes…deepest despair…near euphoria.
“Forgotten history” of revolution/rebirth…the “Holocaust industry”…birth of Israel.
The decline of religious membership and observance. What does the future hold?
Plus—Zionism/Israel/Palestine: myths that block the road to peace. |
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View the 2009 - 2010 Seminar Flyer
Hershl Hartman is a Certified Secular Jewish vegvayzer who officiates at weddings and other life-cycle events. Hershl's Yiddish education resulted in degrees in Jewish Education and in Yiddish Journalism, which he practiced as the first native-born Yiddish newspaper reporter. He served as principal of the Center Island (NY) Jewish School and, for some 20 years, at Sholem.
His wide-ranging activity in the Secular Jewish movement includes the Executive Board of the Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations (Sholem is an affiliate), the SoCal and Natl. Exec. Boards of the Arbeter Ring/Workmen's Circle (with which Sholem collaborates), and the faculty of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism (co-sponsor of Sholem's adult Seminar Series).
In addition, he conducts intensive classes in higher Jewish learning for those willing to make the commitment, as well as for those interested in becoming Recognized vegvayzer/madrikhot (im)/Leaders. |
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