Rabbi Zimbalist's Monday morning Lunch and Learn/Movie:
11:30-12:30 starting November 10, 2008.  Once a month, there will be a new or old movie with a Jewish connection.  The classes will focus on Judaic themes of the monthly movie along with a look at current events relevant to the movie and beyond.  The group will meet on most Mondays, the first movie will be on November 24, starting at 11:30 and will end when the movie is done.  Future movies are scheduled for December 8, Jan 26, Feb 23, March 16, May 18.
 

Rabbi Zimbalist's Wednesday evening class:
This course will meet from 7:00 to 8:00PM, starting November 5th. The course will include a variety of subjects including:
    (1) Heksher Tzedek: the ethical treatment of workers and an examination of  Jewish texts and traditions in the wake of the events in Postville, Iowa.
    (2) The Greening Initiative: how Jewish law instructs us to take care of the environment and what we can do in our homes and shul to help.
    (3) Hilchot tzitzit: the laws, customs and traditions of the tallit and tzitzit.
    (4) Talmud study of the Tractate Megillah.
 

Beginning Hebrew Reading - Teacher: Joe Schachner
This course, offered by the National Jewish Outreach Program, is meant for beginning or very rusty readers. It focuses on learning the Hebrew letters and how they sound, and pronouncing Hebrew words. This course will meet on Wednesdays from 8:00 to 9:00 PM starting on November 5th for six to eight sessions.
 

Advanced Beginner Hebrew Reading – Teacher: Susan Orlando
This class will review basic reading and is aimed at students who can read Hebrew slowly. It will include some vocabulary found in well known prayers to assist in understanding the Siddur. It will cover roots of words, prefixes and suffixes. This course will meet on Wednesdays from 8:00 to 9:00 PM starting on November 5th for six to eight sessions.
 

Haftarah Reading – Teacher: Harriet Spevack
Learn the note symbols, called “trop”, so you can learn to chant Haftarah (also called Haftorah). Participants will be able to chant a full or partial Haftarah reading after this course. This course will meet on Wednesdays from 8:00 to 9:00 PM starting on November 5th for six to eight sessions.
 

Torah Reading – Teacher: Susan Ecker
Learn the note symbols, called “trop”, for Torah and learn to be a Torah reader at services. This course will meet on Wednesdays from 8:00 to 9:00 PM starting on November 5th for six to eight sessions.
 

How to Lead the Torah Service – Teacher: Lester Goldstein
Learn all the prayers and instructions for what to do to lead the Torah service. This course will meet on Wednesdays from 8:00-9:00 PM starting on January 21.
 

Megillah Reading - Teacher: Joe Schachner
Learn the trop for megillah reading. This course will meet on Wednesdays from 8:00-9:00PM starting January 21.
 

Adult B'nai Mitzvah Class: 
This in depth course will lead to a group Bat Mitzvah for women who were never given the opportunity as teenagers.  Rabbi Zimbalist will lead this class, to start in January.  Contact Rabbi Zimbalist or Eva Brunwasser for more information.
 

Vegetarian and Healthy Cooking Class:
Come and learn to prepare healthy Veggie recipes for your family! We have four “guest chefs” so far; if you have a veggie and/or healthy pareve or dairy recipe to share you could be a guest chef! Chefs so far include: Karen Lefkowitz, Alison Zimbalist, Harriet Dank, and Pearl Schachner. There will be a small extra fee to cover the cost of ingredients. This class will meet on Tuesday December 9th 2008 and Tuesday January 6th 2009, at 7:30 PM.
 

Crochet your own Yarmulke (Kippah) – Teacher: Marilyn Klein
Learn how to crochet a yarmulke with a pretty pattern in two classes! When you sign up we'll tell you what yarn and what size crochet hook to bring. This class will meet Tuesday November 11th and November 18th at 7:30 to 8:30 PM.
 

Make a Tallit – Teacher: Michele Verhoeff
Make your own Tallit with simple directions. Small extra fee for materials. More details to follow. This class will meet on Sunday, January 11 at 12Noon.
 

Jewish Holiday Refresher Course: Teacher: Rabbi Gary Karlin
Our new Hebrew School Principal will enlighten our young parents about the holidays, so they will know at least as much as their kids will know from Hebrew School! There will be about 4 sessions over the year. First Session: Gimme Shelter: Everything you forgot about the other fall Holidays (Sukkot, Shemini Atzeres, Simchas Torah) but were afraid to ask. Sunday, October 19, 11:30-12:15.

“Saved by Deportation: An Unknown Odyssey of Polish Jews”  Sponsored by Sisterhood: Saturday January 17th 2009, 7:30PM.
Synopsis: In 1940, a year before the Nazis started deporting Jews to death camps, Joseph Stalin ordered the deportation of approximately 200,000 Polish Jews from Russian-occupied Eastern Poland to forced labor settlements in the Soviet interior. As cruel as Stalin's deportations were, ultimately they largely saved Jewish lives, for the deportees constituted the overwhelming majority of Polish Jews who escaped the Nazi Holocaust. "Saved by Deportation" not only tells this story, but it re-traces the path Asher and Shyfra Scharf traveled more than 60 years ago from Poland to Siberia to the former Soviet states of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia. It is in those largely Muslim societies, in the cities of Kuhjand, Jeezax and Samarkand, that the film demonstrates a remarkable spirit as the Scharfs are welcomed by the locals who recall fondly the sojourn of Polish refugees in their midst. This little-known story of survival is both a harrowing adventure and an affirmation of human goodness during a time of great darkness.
 

“The Band's Visit” -  A Cannes film festival award winner!
Sponsored by Sisterhood: February 7th 2009, 7:30 PM.
Synopsis: Once, not long ago, a small Egyptian Police band arrived in Israel. They came to play at an initiation ceremony but, due to bureaucracy, bad luck, or for whatever reason, they were left stranded at the airport. They tried to manage on their own, only to find themselves in a desolate, almost forgotten, small Israeli town, somewhere in the heart of the desert. A lost band in a lost town. Not many people remember this ... it wasn't that important...