Archive: April 2021

AES Presents: JBC Miller Class with Special Feature, “The Jewish Wife”

Posted on April 5, 2021

April 5, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – In commemoration of Yom HaShoah, join our Jews by Choice class for a special performance of “The Jewish Wife” (excerpted from Fear and Misery in the Third Reich by Bertolt Brecht, Bentley translation), featuring Tamar Brooks and John Wilson. In Nazi Germany, a Jewish woman prepares to leave her non-Jewish husband in order to save […]

HaZaK

Posted on April 12, 2021

April 12, 2021 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm – HOKHMAH (WISDOM) ZIKNAH (MATURITY) KADIMAH (LOOKING AHEAD) HaZaK is an Anshe Emet daytime program for mature adults with active minds. Co-taught by our clergy and other community educators, this year HaZaK is focusing on Jewish Ethics with the Melton curriculum “Ethics of Jewish Living.” Generously funded by Beatrice Mayer, z”l.

A Conversation with Sigal Samuel, Author of Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World’s First Female Rabbi

Posted on April 13, 2021

April 13, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – Join AES for a discussion with author Sigal Samuel Sigal Samuel and Vali Mintzi’s warm and respectful picture book Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World’s First Female Rabbi reveals the training and influence of a 17th-century woman who defied convention. At a time when women were expected to tend only to domestic […]

The Modern Tribes of Israel: An Inside Look at the Issues that Define 21st Century Israeli Society with Amir Tibon

Posted on April 18, 2021

April 18, 2021 – May 16, 2021 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am – Israel is going through a period of turmoil, with four election cycles in two years and an unprecedented sense of political instability. In a series of lectures about the ‘modern tribes’ that define Israeli society, award-winning Israeli journalist Amir Tibon will describe how Israel’s multi-cultural society is handling the challenges created by this reality. The […]

HaZaK

Posted on April 19, 2021

April 19, 2021 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm – HOKHMAH (WISDOM) ZIKNAH (MATURITY) KADIMAH (LOOKING AHEAD) HaZaK is an Anshe Emet daytime program for mature adults with active minds. Co-taught by our clergy and other community educators, this year HaZaK is focusing on Jewish Ethics with the Melton curriculum “Ethics of Jewish Living.” Generously funded by Beatrice Mayer, z”l.

HaZaK

Posted on April 26, 2021

April 26, 2021 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm – HOKHMAH (WISDOM) ZIKNAH (MATURITY) KADIMAH (LOOKING AHEAD) HaZaK is an Anshe Emet daytime program for mature adults with active minds. Co-taught by our clergy and other community educators, this year HaZaK is focusing on Jewish Ethics with the Melton curriculum “Ethics of Jewish Living.” Generously funded by Beatrice Mayer, z”l.

HaZaK

Posted on May 3, 2021

May 3, 2021 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm – HOKHMAH (WISDOM) ZIKNAH (MATURITY) KADIMAH (LOOKING AHEAD) HaZaK is an Anshe Emet daytime program for mature adults with active minds. Co-taught by our clergy and other community educators, this year HaZaK is focusing on Jewish Ethics with the Melton curriculum “Ethics of Jewish Living.” Generously funded by Beatrice Mayer, z”l.

HaZaK

Posted on May 10, 2021

May 10, 2021 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm – HOKHMAH (WISDOM) ZIKNAH (MATURITY) KADIMAH (LOOKING AHEAD) HaZaK is an Anshe Emet daytime program for mature adults with active minds. Co-taught by our clergy and other community educators, this year HaZaK is focusing on Jewish Ethics with the Melton curriculum “Ethics of Jewish Living.” Generously funded by Beatrice Mayer, z”l.

Sisterhood Presents: A Journalist’s Perspective: The First 112 Days of the Biden Administration with Lynn Sweet

Posted on May 11, 2021

May 11, 2021 @ 7:30 pm – The Anshe Emet Sisterhood is proud to welcome, Lynn Sweet, the Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun-Times. She appears frequently on CNN and other outlets as an analyst. Sweet has a master’s from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and an undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She also attended the University […]

Welcome Artist, Berit Engen

Posted on May 13, 2021

May 13, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – As we approach the festival of Shavuot and read the Megillah Ruth, we are thrilled to host a program that ties the beauty of tapestry with the biblical story of the season.  Join fine art weaver,  Berit Engen for an evening examining her linen yarn tapestry series, Inspired by M’gillat Rut: The Beauty of Biblical […]