Tuesday Evening, October 27, 2009 at 7:15 p.m.
"Between Jihad and Reconciliation:
Can the Jewish State Live with Islam?"
Yossi Klein Halevi is a Senior Fellow in the Shalem Center's Institute for Zionist History and Thought and the Israel correspondent of the New Republic.
Halevi is the author of Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist (1995)
and At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land (2001).
He has been a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, a regular contributor on Israeli affairs to the Los Angeles Times, and a frequent guest on CNN and other national and international broadcast media. The 1983 documentary film, "Kaddish", directed by Steve Brand, focuses on Halevi's relationship with his father, a Holocaust survivor, and was named by the New York based Village Voice as one of the ten best films of the year. Halevi is currently writing a book about the Israeli paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem in 1967.
Temple Members: free
Non Members: $18.00
Peri Smilow, nationally recognized contemporary Jewish singer/song writer, will share her electrifying music and her passion for using the arts as a tool for social change. With participation of our Adult and Junior Choirs, this service is a unique worship experience that brings together all the generations of the synagogue.
Co-Sponsored by Renaissance, Religious School and other donors.
THE ANNUAL BRUNCH WITH RABBI GOLDSTEIN
Sunday morning, March 7, 2010 at 10:15 a.m.
Reflecting on all options - from mergers, to independent affiliation, to maintaining the status quo - Rabbi Goldstein will offer his vision of our synagogue's future.
Co-Sponsored by Brotherhood, Sisterhood, Renaissance and Youth Group.