November 2022 | Heshvan 5783
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We’re delighted to share with you the Fall edition of Hebrew College’s Teen Learning programs newsletter. All of us here at Hebrew College are eager for you to hear brief updates and to see our teens engaged in rich Jewish learning!
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Hebrew College Prozdor Teen Open Circle
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From 1923 to today, Prozdor teens create thriving community through Jewish learning. Students choose and engage in courses taught by master Hebrew College educators and in the community. In addition to choosing to learn modern Hebrew, students can elect to take courses ranging from history to Israel, arts to halacha, social justice to Tanakh, and much more.
Learn more...
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Hebrew College’s Jewish Teen Foundation of Greater Boston (JTFGB)
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JTFGB is an innovative teen leadership initiative for Jewish high school students throughout the Greater Boston area. Integrating Jewish values, social justice work, and leadership training, this program offers teens the opportunity to learn the skills necessary for the grant-making process. Moreover, they determine the focal issues for their support, they raise money, and, applying their Jewish values, allocate grants to specific organizations working in their chosen areas. JTFGB held its kick-off event recently and the teens are ramping up to start selecting their focus areas for the year.
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Teen Beit Midrash of Hebrew College
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Teens who love to learn come together to explore the big questions of today through Talmud in our Teen Beit Midrash. TBM launched two cohorts this year: one in-person in our campus beit midrash and the other online. We are delighted that this program continues to grow, as students in Boston and from around North America enthusiastically dive deeply into the study of traditional Jewish texts. Our semester has begun with our students focusing on the themes of justice and judging, and how being created in the image of God informs that conversation. Students are continuing to build their skills in reading texts closely and are further strengthening their close-knit and strong community.
Check out this video with students telling you exactly what they love about Teen Beit Midrash of Hebrew College!
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Dignity Project “Open Mic Night”: Sikh Sacred Worship Offering
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By Shelton Oakley Hersey, Dignity Project Program Director
During our opening retreat in late August, the new Dignity Project fellows stepped out of their “comfort zones” at the annual “Open Mic Night” to share their talents and passions with the burgeoning community. Through their offerings of music, storytelling, poetry, dance, etc., the youth witnessed different facets of one another while experiencing firsthand the layers of diversity each person carries within themselves and across the group.
Attached is a brief video of two Sikh youth—Riya Patel and Danveer Nijjar—playing (the dilruba and the tabla) and singing (in Urdu) Sikh worship music at our annual “Open Mic” event. Due to the sacred nature of their worship music, they requested no applause or cheering at the end of their musical offering; the appreciation the group held quietly for this soulful sharing was palpable.
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Special invitations from Hebrew College
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We invite all teens and parents to visit the Hebrew College gallery, where now through November 30, a powerful display of paintings by Israeli artists is on exhibit from the College’s permanent collection. Read more here, and join us at your convenience!
Writing the Other Half of the Jewish Bookshelf: Celebrating the Publication of Dirshuni—Contemporary Women’s Midrash
An Evening With Tamar Biala, Rabbi Avi Killip, and Rabbi Avi Strausberg
November 30, 7:30-9 p.m.
Hebrew College
Sponsored by Diane Troderman, member of the Hebrew College Board of Trustees
Co-sponsors: Brandeis University Press, Hadar, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Israeli American Council, Kerem Shalom, Kehillath Israel, Lehrhaus, Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, Temple Reyim, and Temple Beth Zion
Learn more & RSVP
Annual Lecture: Jonathan Sarna—Re-evaluating the Role of American Jewry During the Shoah
The Heidi Urich Annual Lecture on Jewish Genealogy
December 4, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Online via Zoom
Sponsored by Hebrew College and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston (JGSGB)
Learn more & RSVP
The Rhythm of Israel Concert
Live choral and solo works by Israeli composers performed by Hebrew College rabbinical and cantorial students
December 12, 1:15-2:15 p.m.
Hebrew College Ted Cutler Atrium
Free
Learn more & RSVP
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Hebrew College Teen Learning Programs
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SUPPORT LEARNING & LEADERSHIP IN OUR DIVERSE AND INTERCONNECTED WORLD
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Please help open the doors of Jewish learning to teens of all backgrounds—and join Hebrew College in making our lives more meaningful, our communities more vibrant, and our world more whole. Your gift of any amount will make a real difference. Make a gift. Thank you!
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