metro join us as we unplug TO recharge I I E • partners shabbaton Join the entire Partners familg for a Shabbat experience LIKE YOU'VE NEVER HAD BEFORE! MARCH 27-28, 2015 EAGLE CREST MARRIOTT - YPSILANTI, MI COST: $299/Room + 649/each additional child over the age of 6 - Scholarships Available ► unique program with thought provoking classes! - ► gourmet shlrbat meals! ► word renowned speakers! ► fun programs geared toAards children and teens! I for more information contact us at 248-JUDAISM or info@partnersdetroitor APPLY HERE: shabbaton.partnersdetroitop?or scan QR code to apply • Beth Ahm To Show Sacred Journeys Series Congregation Beth Ahm in West Bloomfield welcomes lifelong learn- ers to enjoy a six-part series on DVD, Sacred Journeys, featuring author Bruce Feiler at 1 p.m. Wednesday afternoons starting March 11. The series premiered on PBS last December and describes six historic religious pilgrimages around the world, traveling with American pil- grims on their journeys of faith to India, Japan, France, Nigeria, Israel and Saudi Arabia. Bruce Feiler is the author of six consecutive New York Times best- sellers, including Walking the Bible and Abraham. He is also the writer/ presenter of the PBS series Walking the Bible, which Beth Ahm plans to screen for its DVD learning group later this year. The series is free and open to the community. No reservations are required and walk-ins are welcome. Sacred Journeys is designed to complement a 24-part course on DVD recently screened at Beth Ahm, Cultural Literacy for Religion: Everything the Well-Educated Person Should Know Beth Ahm's weekly drop-in lifelong learning series "Drop In & Learn on DVD" is now in its seventh year. New students are welcome. The group watches DVDs on Jewish history, theology, philosophy and culture as well as religion in general and con- temporary events relating to Israel and Judaism. All are welcome. For details, contact the group's facilitator, Nancy Kaplan, at (248) 737-1931 or by email, nancyellen879@att.net . Jews, Chaldeans To Share Holiday Recipes And Demo Jews and Chaldeans will come together to socialize and for a potluck and cooking demonstration of tasty, healthy foods for Passover and Easter from 5-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital. In honor of Read Across America Month, participants are asked to bring new or gently used books for needy students. Participants also are asked to bring a dish to pass for the potluck from 5-6:15 p.m. Guest speakers include Ellen Maiseloff, director of the Jewish Federation's Opening the Doors program, and Melody Arabo, 2014 Michigan Teacher of the Year. Co-chairs of the event are Gail Katz and Rula Yono, Building Community Initiative social action co-chairs. Building Community was started by the IN and the Chaldean News, co-sponsors of the event with Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital. To RSVP, contact Katz at (248) 978- 6664 or gailkatz@comcast.net or call, or Yono at rula@chaldeanfederation. org or (248) 872-7013. Expert To Focus On Kabbalah At EMU Lecture DESTINATION4DADS ST. PERINI% - MOSCOW & ISRAEL! APRIL 19- MON. APRIL 27, 2015 SUN. PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION BY MARCH 2, 2015 TO APPLY VISIT WWW.D4D-RUSSIA-ISRAEL.COM (INCLUDES PLANE AND BULLET TRAIN FARE), ALL OTHER EXPENSES COVERED BY PARTNERS DETROIT FOR MORE INFORMATION, O 248 JUDAISM (583 2476) TRIPS@PARTNERSDETROIT.ORG CHAIRMEN: PHIL ARBIT CRAIG MENUCK Kabbalah — it's a word often heard in the the trainees' efforts to experience God on news, uttered by celebrities who say they an intimate basis. embrace the movement, but exactly what Prophetic Kabbalah, experts say, often is it? leads to ecstatic or out-of-body Kabbalah is the most com- experiences, and it contains monly used term for the mysti- detailed instructions for meditative cal teaching of Judaism. Its fol- practices, as well as philosophical lowers believe that by studying explanations of what is going on Judaism's laws and understand- when those practices work. ing the hidden meanings of the Rechnitzer will explore how Hebrew bible they can achieve the trainees of the Kabbalah try a union with God. to reach a supreme spiritual level, Rabbi Ha im Rabbi Haim 0. Rechnitzer, comparable to that of a prophet or Rechnitz er an associate professor of mod- supra-philosopher, and by reach- ern Jewish thought at Hebrew Union ing that level, they will experience God on College-Jewish Institute of Religion in a more intimate basis. Cincinnati, will look at Kabbalah when Prior to joining HUC-JIR, Rechnitzer he presents, "Prophecy, Ecstasy and the was on the faculty at Franklin and Kabbalah:' Tuesday, March 10, at 7 p.m. Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. He also in the Tower Room of McKenny Hall, on served on the faculties of Kedem Teachers Eastern Michigan University's campus in College, Sapir College and Hebrew Ypsilanti. University, all in Israel, in the fields of The event, sponsored by Eastern modern Jewish and Israeli thought and Michigan's Jewish Studies program, is free political theology. He earned his doctorate and open to the public. from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and A renowned scholar and teacher with his rabbinical ordination from HUC-JIR an expertise in political theology and in Jerusalem, both in 2003. modern Jewish and Israeli thought, For more information, contact Jewish. Rechnitzer will talk about the trainees of studies®emich.edu. the Prophetic/Ecstatic Kabbalah School, which started in 13th-century Spain, and ❑ 16 March 5 • 2015