Learning

LEARNING WITH RABBI UHRBACH!
Thursdays at 11:00 am at Rabbi Uhrbach’s home
Drop in any Thursday at 11 am for a close study of the Book of Bereshit (Genesis).
No charge.

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FINDING OUR WAY TO THE HIGH HOLY DAYS:
A Day of Learning about Our Tradition and Ourselves in Preparation for the Yamim Noraim

with Rabbi Edward Feld and author Merle Feld
Sunday August 8 – Monday August 9

Click here for full information.

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Prof. Tzvi Gitelman

Scholar-in-Residence
PROFESSOR TZVI GITELMAN RETURNS TO CSH

Friday, August 13 -  Kabbalat Shabbat Service, Dinner and Talk:
The Litvak-Galitsianer Wars
6:30 pm, at the home of Rabbi Jan Uhrbach; reservations required

Saturday, August 14 – Shabbat Service and Talk:
Israel’s Russian Revolution: How the largest aliyah in history — one out of five Israelis is now from Russia –has influenced the nature of Israeli society, culture, politics (including the strength of the right wing), and the question of “Who is a Jew”?
9:30 am, Old Whaler’s Church, Kiddush following services

Zvi Gitelman is Professor of Political Science and Preston Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, where he was also the Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies. A specialist on the Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe, he is the author or editor of fourteen books and over 100 articles. A second edition of his book A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union since 1881 was recently published in Russian and Japanese.    His most recent book is Ethnicity or Religion? The Evolution of Jewish Identities (2009) and he is now completing a book on the meanings of Jewishness in post-Soviet Russia and the Ukraine.