Adult Education

Coffee Chat - Discussion on readings Sunday, October 6 and Sunday, December 15, 2019; Sunday, February 2 and Sunday, May 10, 2020 10:00am Grab a cup of coffee at the Nosh and join the discussions!  Discussion topics and readings will be distributed ahead of time online and available in the office.  

Enjoy this new program for a taste of learning through your day on the third Wednesday of each month!  More details to follow soon.

How Jewish Mysticism Revolutionized Being Jewish Taught by Guest Lecturer Professor Barry Wimpfheimer Monday Evenings 6:00pm Supper (optional); 6:45pm Lecture Throughout history the central goals of Jewish life have changed with the times. One of the strong intellectual influences on the framing narratives of Jewishness is mysticism. This four-part series will trace the changes that Jewish mysticism has wrought on Judaism from the bible to today. Mondays: Nov 4, 18, 25, Dec 2.  Class meets 6:45-8:15pm preceded by an optional…

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel - Dinner and Discussion 6:00pm Tuesday, November 5, 2019 In 1958 New York, Midge Maisel's life is on track- husband, kids, and elegant Yom Kippur dinners in their Upper West Side apartment. But when her life takes a surprise turn, she has to quickly decide what else she's good at - and going from housewife to stand-up comic is a wild choice to everyone but her. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is written and directed by Amy…

ISRAEL FILM FESTIVAL 5:00pm early supper in the Glen and 6:30pm Film Thursday, November 14, 2019 Save the date to enjoy an early supper, good company and fun, light-hearted cinema. Supper will be in the Glen and Back to the Fatherland (77 minute run time) will be shown in conjunction with the ArcLight Theater and Israel Film Festival.  Watch the trailer online at the TBI website.  RSVP by calling the Temple Office or by CLICKING HERE. Back to the Fatherland…

How Jewish Mysticism Revolutionized Being Jewish Taught by Guest Lecturer Professor Barry Wimpfheimer Monday Evenings 6:00pm Supper (optional); 6:45pm Lecture Throughout history the central goals of Jewish life have changed with the times. One of the strong intellectual influences on the framing narratives of Jewishness is mysticism. This four-part series will trace the changes that Jewish mysticism has wrought on Judaism from the bible to today. Mondays: Nov 4, 18, 25, Dec 2.  Class meets 6:45-8:15pm preceded by an optional…

Enjoy this new program for a taste of learning through your day on the third Wednesday of each month!  More details to follow soon.

Sunday Morning Seminar featuring author Rachel DeWoskin 10:00am Presentation Sunday, November 24, 2019 Speakers:  Rachel DeWoskin Some Day We Will Fly - Rachel DeWoskin is the author of Two Menus: Poems (The University of Chicago Press, 2020); Banshee (Dottir Press, 2019); Someday We Will Fly (Penguin, 2019); Blind (Penguin, 2014); Big Girl Small (FSG, 2011); Repeat After Me (The Overlook Press, 2009); and Foreign Babes in Beijing (WW Norton, 2005). She is on the core fiction faculty at the University of Chicago and is an affiliated faculty member of the Centers for East Asian…

How Jewish Mysticism Revolutionized Being Jewish Taught by Guest Lecturer Professor Barry Wimpfheimer Monday Evenings 6:00pm Supper (optional); 6:45pm Lecture Throughout history the central goals of Jewish life have changed with the times. One of the strong intellectual influences on the framing narratives of Jewishness is mysticism. This four-part series will trace the changes that Jewish mysticism has wrought on Judaism from the bible to today. Mondays: Nov 4, 18, 25, Dec 2.  Class meets 6:45-8:15pm preceded by an optional…

How Jewish Mysticism Revolutionized Being Jewish Taught by Guest Lecturer Professor Barry Wimpfheimer Monday Evenings 6:00pm Supper (optional); 6:45pm Lecture Throughout history the central goals of Jewish life have changed with the times. One of the strong intellectual influences on the framing narratives of Jewishness is mysticism. This four-part series will trace the changes that Jewish mysticism has wrought on Judaism from the bible to today. Mondays: Nov 4, 18, 25, Dec 2.  Class meets 6:45-8:15pm preceded by an optional…

Coffee Chat - Discussion on readings Sunday, October 6 and Sunday, December 15, 2019; Sunday, February 2 and Sunday, May 10, 2020 10:00am Grab a cup of coffee at the Nosh and join the discussions!  Discussion topics and readings will be distributed ahead of time online and available in the office.  

December 16, 2019 Souper Study featuring author Ed Elhaderi Ed Elhaderi -             Nomadic Soul tells the remarkable story of how the author dis­cov­ered mean­ing depth and com­mu­ni­ty in Judaism. He was born in a tiny vil­lage in the Libyan Sahara into a Sun­ni Mus­lim fam­i­ly with­out elec­tric­i­ty or run­ning water and was lucky to sur­vive his poor Bedouin child­hood. TBI welcomes Ed Elhaderi. Ed obtained his B.Sc. from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tripoli, and received a Ph.D. in Chem­i­cal Engi­neer­ing…

Enjoy this new program for a taste of learning through your day on the third Wednesday of each month!  More details to follow soon.

Enjoy this new program for a taste of learning through your day on the third Wednesday of each month!  More details to follow soon.

Souper Study featuring author Skokie Village Mayor George Van Dusen Mayor George Van Dusen – “Clear it with Sid!” The Jew­ish son of a Lithuan­ian black­smith, Sid­ney R. Yates rose to the pin­na­cle of Wash­ing­ton pow­er and influ­ence. As chair of a House Appro­pri­a­tions Sub­com­mit­tee, and dean of the Jew­ish Cau­cus, Yates was a pre­em­i­nent nation­al fig­ure involved in issues rang­ing from the envi­ron­ment to Israel, and sup­port for the arts. Speak­er Tip O’Neill relied on the savvy Chicagoan in the trench­es and advised any­one with…

SUNDAY MORNING SEMINAR FEATURING AUTHOR MARY MORRIS 10:00am Presentation Sunday, January 26, 2020 Speakers:  Mary Morris With more and more ease, peo­ple today are dis­cov­er­ing their Jew­ish roots — some find­ing they are the descen­dants of con­ver­sos, Jews who con­vert­ed dur­ing the Inqui­si­tion. Mary Mor­ris touch­es on this phe­nom­e­non in the his­tor­i­cal note at the begin­ning of her nov­el, Gate­way to the Moon. The chap­ters in the book alter­nate between 15th- and 16th-cen­tu­ry Spain and Por­tu­gal dur­ing the har­row­ing time of the Inqui­si­tion, and…

Coffee Chat - Discussion on readings Sunday, October 6 and Sunday, December 15, 2019; Sunday, February 2 and Sunday, May 10, 2020 10:00am Grab a cup of coffee at the Nosh and join the discussions!  Discussion topics and readings will be distributed ahead of time online and available in the office.  

Enjoy this new program for a taste of learning through your day on the third Wednesday of each month!  More details to follow soon.

Nationalism and Judaism: a burden or an opportunity? Monday Evenings 6:00pm Supper (optional); 6:45pm Lecture In this five-session series we will explore the stories that we Jews tell, from biblical times to the present, about our dual commitments to Jewish particularism and Jewish universalism. Together we will mine the Jewish tradition for orientations and values that we want to be the dominant, guiding lens through which we approach the idea of nationalism – all the while, deeply cognizant of the…

Nationalism and Judaism: a burden or an opportunity? Monday Evenings 6:00pm Supper (optional); 6:45pm Lecture In this five-session series we will explore the stories that we Jews tell, from biblical times to the present, about our dual commitments to Jewish particularism and Jewish universalism. Together we will mine the Jewish tradition for orientations and values that we want to be the dominant, guiding lens through which we approach the idea of nationalism – all the while, deeply cognizant of the…

Nationalism and Judaism: a burden or an opportunity? Monday Evenings 6:00pm Supper (optional); 6:45pm Lecture In this five-session series we will explore the stories that we Jews tell, from biblical times to the present, about our dual commitments to Jewish particularism and Jewish universalism. Together we will mine the Jewish tradition for orientations and values that we want to be the dominant, guiding lens through which we approach the idea of nationalism – all the while, deeply cognizant of the…

Enjoy this new program for a taste of learning through your day on the third Wednesday of each month!  More details to follow soon.

Nationalism and Judaism: a burden or an opportunity? Monday Evenings 6:00pm Supper (optional); 6:45pm Lecture In this five-session series we will explore the stories that we Jews tell, from biblical times to the present, about our dual commitments to Jewish particularism and Jewish universalism. Together we will mine the Jewish tradition for orientations and values that we want to be the dominant, guiding lens through which we approach the idea of nationalism – all the while, deeply cognizant of the…

Nationalism and Judaism: a burden or an opportunity? Monday Evenings 6:00pm Supper (optional); 6:45pm Lecture In this five-session series we will explore the stories that we Jews tell, from biblical times to the present, about our dual commitments to Jewish particularism and Jewish universalism. Together we will mine the Jewish tradition for orientations and values that we want to be the dominant, guiding lens through which we approach the idea of nationalism – all the while, deeply cognizant of the…

SUNDAY MORNING SEMINAR FEATURING AUTHOR ALEXANDRA SILBER 10:00am Presentation Sunday, April 19, 2020 Speakers:  Alexandra Silber The world knows well the tale of Tevye, the beloved Jewish dairyman from the shtetl Anatevka of Tsarist Russia. In stories originally written by Sholem Aleichem and then made world-famous in the celebrated musical Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye, his wife Golde, and their five daughters dealt with the outside influences that were encroaching upon their humble lives. But what happened to those remarkable…

Coffee Chat - Discussion on readings Sunday, October 6 and Sunday, December 15, 2019; Sunday, February 2 and Sunday, May 10, 2020 10:00am Grab a cup of coffee at the Nosh and join the discussions!  Discussion topics and readings will be distributed ahead of time online and available in the office.