****PLEASE NOTE FRIDAY NOV. 29 AND TORAH STUDY AND SERVICES ON SATURDAY NOV. 30 WILL BE ZOOM ONLY****
Please check your e-newsletter or contact the office for the Zoom link. (admin [at] westendsynagogue.org (Office Email))
This longstanding Adult Education group meets on Zoom two Tuesdays a month at 7:30pm to study the Torah in English translation, in depth, considering it from the perspectives of literature, sacred text, religious mythology, family lore, psychology, drama, history, pop culture, and more. Please contact the office for Zoom link.
This longstanding Adult Education group meets on Zoom two Tuesdays a month at 7:30pm to study the Torah in English translation, in depth, considering it from the perspectives of literature, sacred text, religious mythology, family lore, psychology, drama, history, pop culture, and more. Please contact the office for Zoom link.
During an interview by Dan Van Doren, author Nancy Ludmerer will read from and discuss her stories and recent novel, Sarra Copia: A Locked-in Life.
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Legendary double-bassist, and WES congregant, Leon (Boots) Maleson will discuss "Jewish Influences on Jazz."
Discussion and text study of West End’s Middah (ethical value/character trait) of the month.
Our Middah study group meets on the third Monday of each month, led by Susan Schorr. All WES members are invited to join our study of a selected Middah of the month. Discussions are text-based using materials from both ours and other spiritual traditions, as well as insights from modern authors, pop culture and more. Texts may range from Talmud to Psychology Today, from Maimonides to Leonard Cohen, from modern-day rabbis to classic Broadway.
Rabbi Dennis Sasso will present his personal 50-year Retrospective of the Reconstructionist Movement and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Rabbi Sasso is a native of Panama and a descendant of Spanish Jews who settled in the Caribbean in the early 16th and 17th centuries.
