A Shavuot Celebration Sponsored by Days of Learning
On Shavuot, Thursday, May 21, when it is traditional to study into the wee hours, we will do it RS style, with a three-part program.
6:00 to 6:40 PM
Jewish Wine and Cheese-Making: What Does the Inquisition Have to Do with It?
Learn about the history and tradition of Jewish wine and cheese-making, while sampling curated wines and cheeses for your pleasure with Bill Uffner, Rabbi Bill Kuhn, Yoav Perry, and Helene Jawhara Piner.
6:40 to 7:30 PM
A Stroll through Jewish Musical Genres over the Decades
While you are noshing on delicious wine and cheese, enjoy the music of Cantor Brad Hyman, Jon Broder, Louis Bernstein, Melissa Broder, and Barbara Lewandowski, as they take us through a Jewish musical revue.
7:30 to 8:30 PM
Book Talk “Promised Lands,” Zionism in Interwar Palestine and America with Sharon Musher
In 1922, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, first initiated the Bat Mitzvah as a rite-of-passage for Jewish girls. Characterized as a lifelong supporter of women’s rights, Kaplan’s family, including his wife and four daughters, played a role in shaping his ideas about women, culture, and Zionism. This was especially of his second daughter, Hadassah Kaplan, who joined a small but influential cohort of American Jewish women who studied, worked and volunteered in British Mandate Palestine. Promised Lands draws on a rich personal archive of diary entries, photographs, and letters, to follow Hadassah’s journey to Palestine and illustrate how travel shaped a cohort of American Jewish women who went on to shape American Jewry.
