LimmudBoston at Center Makor Fall Event
October 18 @ 10:30 am - 5:45 pm
LimmudBoston at Center Makor – Jewish learning for everyone!
Join us for a day of engaging speakers, workshops, music, and activities, celebrating Jewish learning and culture.
October 18th, 10:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
384 Harvard St.
Brookline, MA 02446
Prices: 10:30-2:50 activities – $18 adult; $10 child up to 14 yo;
Full day activities – $25;
Mini-Limmud 3:00 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. – $10 (The program is targeting adult audiences; separate ticket is required – see below.)
Schedule
All day in Social Hall:
- Learn about Community organizations, small businesses, sponsors.
- Support Ukraine and buy Ukrainian products. Support Israel and buy Israeli products.
- Learn more about volunteer opportunities at LimmudBoston at Center Makor.
- Exhibition: Inna Zhukovsky-Zilber.
10:30–11:00 a.m.
- Registration and Welcome table
11:00 – 11:50 a.m.
- Room M8B: Rabbi Dan Rodkin: Chasidism in the USA and the world. Myths and facts.
- Social Hall: Esther Golyak: Wake up and shine. Theatrical exercises, self-training.
- Panel. Panelist: Robert Leikind, Regional Director, AJC New England. Role of AJC in Jewish community leadership.
12:00 – 12-50 p.m.
- Room M8A: Martin Bodek, the author of fourteen books, which include seven parody haggadahs. He will discuss the pre-history of the haggadah, its development, and where the industry stands in the present day.He will also provide the origin stories of each of his seven haggadot, with a primary focus on his most popular version, The Emoji Haggadah.
- Room M8B: Marina Aptekman, associate teaching professor, Tufts University. Remarkable Mizrahi journey through history, theater, literature, cinema, and music and their unique place in Israeli culture. How did a culture once pushed to the margins become the heartbeat of Israel? Beginning with the mass immigration of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa and their difficult struggle for recognition in the new state, this talk follows the remarkable Mizrahi journey through history, theater, literature, cinema, and music and discusses their unique place in Israeli culture that is often overshadowed by the achievements of Ashkenazi Eastern European Jews.
- Social Hall: Liliana Glick. Anthology of the Yiddish songs and melodies. Sing along with Liliana.
- Dispute Club. Judaism, Conservatism, Cons and Pros.
1:00 – 1:50 p.m.
Social Hall: Community hour and lunch
- Enjoy a tasty kosher lunch.
- Social Hall: Tasting amazing salads by Coral Charter. Discover creative ideas and simple techniques for making beautiful salads that will decorate your Shabbat and holiday table.
2:00 – 2:50 p.m.
- Room M8A: 🍞 Hands-On Challah Bake Workshop. Rebbetzin Sarah Rodkin: High Holidays bread or Rosh Havit of the Jewish household.
Join us for a hands-on challah baking experience! Learn a variety of beautiful braiding techniques while discovering the special meaning and significance behind each ingredient. Knead, braid, bake, and take home your very own delicious challah! - Social Hall: Steven Elfant: Animals and structures from air balloons.
Mini Limmud
2:45 – 3:00 p.m.
- Welcome table, registration.
3:00 – 5:45 p.m.
- Presentations by Rabbi Barbara Penzner and Reb Moshe Waldoks. See below for more information.
Participation: in person or via ZOOM. When purchasing tickets, please indicate your preference. Everyone will receive a ZOOM link, but we need to have an approximate number of people who will join us in person.
Light refreshments will be served. The program is subject to change.
Mini Limmud Program Details
Barbara Penzner
Hiding in Plain Sight: Finding Wisdom in Unexpected Places
The most unlikely people can be our teachers and guides. Certain individuals who are only mentioned briefly in Torah have a great deal to teach. They remind us to pay attention to the wisdom that can be found among people we might otherwise dismiss. We will begin with the story of Serach, the daughter of Asher, who is mentioned twice in Torah, but has a richly developed folk tradition in midrash and other Jewish lore.
Biography:
Rabbi Barbara Penzner served Temple Hillel B’nai Torah from 1995 until 2023, when she became Rabbi Emerita. She is currently the Interim Executive Director of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association (RRA).
After graduation from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1987, Rabbi Barbara and her husband Brian Rosman made their home in Newton and Boston. She is among the founders of Mayyim Hayyim, co-chaired the New England Jewish Labor Committee, and served as president of the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis and President of the RRA.
Moshe Waldoks
What’s Kabbalah?
What are the myths and truths about Kabbalah? I’ll present a short history of Kabbalah and its impact on Jewish life.
We’ll be introduced to the “Tree of Life”; to the Kabbalistic “Big Bang Theory; to the major Kabbalistic teachers and their descendants, and more. There will be time for questions and comments.
Biography:
Reb Moshe is the Rabbi emeritus of TBZ, Temple Beth Zion, an independent congregation in Brookline, MA. He earned his doctorate in Jewish intellectual history at Brandeis University,
He was ordained as a non-denominational rabbi by Rabbis Zalman Schachter and Everett Gendler, of blessed memory. and Rabbi Arthur Green, may he be enriched for a long life.
Reb Moshe was one of founders of the Tibetan-Jewish dialogue., The Jew in the Lotus describes our meeting with the Dalai Lama. He is also the co-editor of THE BIG BOOK OF JEWISH HUMOR.
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