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Kulanu: An Adult Jewish Learning Collaborative
Kulanu is an initiative for adult Jewish learning developed in cooperation with Jewish organizations across Houston. Kulanu, which means "all of us," is designed to offer learning opportunities for adults of all backgrounds and interests. The following mini-courses will be offered.
Does Judaism Believe in Karma?
The Jerusalem Talmud presents many extensive texts on the idea of Karma: that the energy we send out is the energy that returns to us. This class will examine the many stories and teachings about Jewish Karma and how it works. No Talmud study background or Hebrew is needed for this class.
NEW! Conversational Hebrew
This course will teach basic, every day spoken Hebrew. You will learn to build simple sentences and have a basic conversation. No prior knowledge of Hebrew necessary, just a willingness to learn.
Beginning Hebrew Level 1
This introductory course is a program of letter recognition, reading proficiency, building vocabulary, and learning basic phrases using the Hebrew textbook series Aleph Isn’t Tough.
Beginning Hebrew Level 3
In this course we will continue to practice reading skills and vocabulary building with a focus on reading Torah.
Israeli Society in the Making
This course is for fluent Hebrew speakers. See below in Hebrew:
לבטיה של חברה מתהווה
מנחה: ורד גדות
שישה שבועות החל מיום שלישי ה-5 באוקטובר
(לא יהיה שיעור ב-2 וב-9 בנובמבר)
משעה 19:30 – 21:00
$60p/$45m
במסגרת קורס זה נעקוב אחר בניית החברה הישראלית והתגבשות דפוסים פוליטיים בה.
נבדוק את השפעות העליות השונות על החברה בינקותה. בנוסף ניגע בנושאים כגון:
שנות העשרים – תקוות ואכזבות, המרד הערבי, הישוב ומדיניות בריטניה ועמדות ביישוב בשאלה הערבית.
אמצעי הלימוד יכללו בין היתר מקורות ספרותיים, סרטים ובולים.
Women's Beit Midrash
Join a group of women for the study of Biblical and Rabbinic texts each Monday night at our newly established Women’s Beit Midrash. The Women’s Beit Midrash is a new initiative to encourage the study of texts. A basic knowledge of Hebrew is helpful.
Lectures
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Rice University/JCC Lecture Series: Envisioning Jerusalem in the Pre-Modern World
The Earthly Jerusalem: Judean, Roman, and Byzantine Remains of the Holy City
Heavenly Jerusalem in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature
Imagining Jerusalem in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art
Complete details and registration
Exploring Jewish Music: The Golden Age of American Musical Theater and the Legacy of Jewish Immigration
Jewish Americans, many of them children of Eastern European immigrants, played an unusually prominent role in the what many regard as the golden age of American opera and musical theater. This broad survey of musicals and operas from Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat (1927) to Bock and Harnick's Fiddler on the Roof (1964), including also works by Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin, Weill, Copland, Blitzstein and Bernstein considers ways in which themes of migration, departure, arrival, assimilation, and utopia inform this repertoire.
An Evening with Author David Grossman
From one of Israel’s most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life - the greatest human drama - and the cost of war. In To the End of the Land, Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother on the verge of her son’s release from army service, sets out for a hike in the Galilee leaving no forwarding information for the soldiers who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Never have we seen so clearly a presentation of the reality and surreal of daily life in Israel and the burdens that fall on each generation anew.
An Evening with Marc Tyler Nobleman
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Siegel and Shuster! The Two Jewish Teens Who Created Superman.
Over a feverishly hot 24 hours in 1934, geeky writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster dreamed up a character who was everything they were not - and who launched both the superhero genre and the comic book industry. Did Hitler personally ban Superman comics? Does Superman have a Hebrew name? Why couldn't Joe draw on Thursday nights? In this lively talk, Nobleman shares secrets and rare, unpublished photos about the creation of the world's first comic book superhero.
Jewish Conversations at the JCC - Tzedakah, Teshuvah & Tefillah: Why These Three?
Do you want Yom Kippur to mean more than just fasting? Join us for a three-part discussion as community rabbis discuss the importance and relevance of each of these fundamental Yom Kippur themes and the role they play in our personal development.
Travel
Exploring Jewish Texas: A Visit to the Baytown and Beaumont Jewish Communities
Join us as we visit the only two congregations east of Houston and still in Texas. Congregation Knesseth Israel in Baytown is the third oldest building still in operation as a Jewish House of Worship in Texas. Temple Emanuel in Beaumont has some of the finest Jewish-themed stained glass windows in the US. It is the second oldest temple building in use as a temple in Texas. We will also visit the cemeteries of these communities.
Jewish Travel
Join the Jewish Community Center in exploring the Jewish world.
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For more information please contact Naomi Barancik at 713-729-3200 ext. 3288.