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Affirmation
Adult Confirmation
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FIRST HOUR CLASSES - 7:30-8:20 p.m.
MONDAY: October 26,
November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30,
December 7, 14
SECOND HOUR CLASSES - 8:30-9:20 p.m.
MONDAY: October 26,
November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30,
December 7, 14
The ACADEMY encourages adult
members of Temple Israel to continue
their Jewish education by participating in
the Adult Affirmation program.
What are the requirements?
A commitment to continuing adult Jewish
Education and 36 credits of approved
study.
What constitutes approved study?
A student can choose from the following
options.
OPTION A
Earn all 36 credits by taking 12 ACADEMY
courses, each one of which is 3 credits.
OPTION B
The Reverend James R. Lyons
CHRISTIANITY ANTI-SEMMSM
Dr. Nancy Gad-Harf, Ph.D
MOSES AND HIS MISHPOCHA
will explore the foundations of anti-
Semitism. The 1800-year history of
separation between early Christians
and their Jewish roots provided the
background for what became racial
policy at the end of the 19th century.
The class will ask the following
questions. How did this come to pass?
What have the results been? What are
contemporary Christians doing to
reverse these false doctrines?
Moses, the great spiritual and
political leader who brought the
Jewish people out of Egyptian
bondage and transmitted to them the
laws of God, is portrayed in Torah as
both towering giant and a very
human person. In this class, we will
study Torah and other textual
material to understand the story of
Moses' life and works, the family
influences that shaped his existence,
and the role his mother Jochebed,
brother Aaron and sister Miriam
played in helping him save the
Jewish people.
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The Reverend James R. Lyons is the
Executive Director of the Ecumenical
Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies.
Become an Adult Bar or Bat Mitzvah and
begin the Affirmation program with 12
credits. Earn the remaining 24 credits by
taking 8 ACADEMY courses or a
minimum of 7 ACADEMY courses and
participating in a combination of the
following:
• A Temple Israel Adult Retreat,
1 credit;
• A Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion Zimmerman
Institute, 1 credit;
• A Union of American Hebrew
Congregations Summer Kallah,
1 credit; or
• Regular attendance at Temple Israel's
Rebbe's tisch, 1 credit.
OPTION C
will be taught with special reference to
King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, and
Macbeth. The course will focus on the
following themes: King Lear and the
tragedy of parents and children; Romeo
and Juliet and the tragedy of young
love, Macbeth and the tragedy of
Rabbi Harold S. Loss
ADULT BAR/BAT MITZVAH CLASS:
THE VOCABULARY AND PURPOSE
OF JEWISH LIVING
Offered only to Adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah
students, the course will explore
functional Jewish terminology, essential
Jewish beliefs, and ideas as developed
in the Bible and other sacred texts.
excessive ambition.
Dr. Gad-Harf is Temple Israel's
Program Director.
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Rabbi Paul M. Yedwab
PRAYING, SWAYING AND
LAYING TEPHILLIN
Dr. Joseph Guttman
JEWS IN THE HISTORY OF ART
Helen Gilbert
BEGINNING HEBREW
will provide an in-depth survey of Jews
in the arts from Antiquity through the
Middle Ages. Topics covered will
include the Temple of Solomon, Dura-
Europos-Synagogue, early synagogue
art, and Medieval illuminated
manuscripts.
will introduce the student to the
Hebrew alphabet so that the novice
reader will be able to participate in
Shabbat and holiday services. This is
not for Adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah students.
Dr. Guttman is the Chautauqua Visiting
Scholar at the University of Windsor
and a retired professor of Art History
at Wayne State University.
Helen Gilbert has taught Hebrew for
thirty-five years at Temple Israel and
edited Temple's Sidrah and Haftorah
Book used for Shabbat worship.
Earn 33 credits by taking 11 ACADEMY
courses and the remaining 3 credits by
participating in a combination of the
opportunities listed in Option B.
Jewish prayer is dynamic. It is designed
to move us spiritually from one place
to another. In order to fully appreciate
the potential power of prayer, however,
it is helpful to understand its structure,
its history, and its choreography. In the
process you will learn more about
yourself, as the prayerbook is, in
essence, the diary of the Jewish people.
If you have ever wondered why we
bow on certain words, or why certain
customs here at Temple differ from
those of your childhood, this is the
class for you.
Rita Abramson
ADULT BAR/BAT MITZVAH HEBREW
Spring 1993.
Bar/Bat Mitzvah
Program
Tel.: (313) 661-5700
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This course will prepare the participant
to chant the weekly Haftarah portion.
With more of our Bar/Bat Mitzvah
students chanting the weekly Haftarah
portion, we hope to enable parents to
learn to help their children in this
spiritual endeavor.
will be studied and discussed. The
course will bring to life the history of
the Jewish people and provide present
day applications of lessons from
ancient times. The student will also
learn how to use reference materials in
order to be able to study Torah once
the semester has ended.
Rita Abramson is Temple Israel's
Elementary School Principal and has
supervised the Adult Bar 1 Bat Mitzvah
program since its inception.
Adult
Cantor Harold Orbach
LEARNING TO CHANT HAFTARAH
Dr. Nancy Gad-Harf, Ph.D.
THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTION
is offered to participants in the 1992-94
Adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah class. The
student will study Hebrew for four
semesters in preparation for the Bar/Bat
Mitzvah ceremony. Each student will be
prepared to read his/her Torah portion
and participate in the ceremony.
When will the first class be confirmed:
The Adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah
program, open only to Temple
Israel members, will run from
Fall, 1992 through Spring, 1994,
and consists of two semesters of
a core Judaic course and two
years of Hebrew. The first year
of Hebrew is an introduction to
the language itself using liturgy
as a basis. The focus of the
second year Hebrew class will be
preparation for the Bar/Bat
Mitzvah service including the
skill of Torah reading.
Rabbi M. Robert Syme
SHAKESPEARE AND THE BIBLE
Fax: (313) 661-1302
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FEES: ONE - HOUR MONDAY EVENING CLASSES: $40.00 per Temple member — $50.00 per non member
❑ Please enroll me in the Adult Affirmation Program.
Please mail registration to: THE ACADEMY, Temple Israel, 5725 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48323
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1992