What would you like to study? If you have an idea for a conversation, a minicourse, and ongoing class, or would like to study one-on-one please contact me! Here are some ideas that I'm ready to teach about in any forum or format at the drop of a hat.
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Torah Cantillation Institute
Meets Saturday mornings Jan. 9 and 16, Feb. 6 and 13 from 9-9:30 in the chapel with Noreen Leibson. We are enlarging our cadre of Torah readers! Learn a skill you can use as early as this spring to read short or long aliyot in our services. Contact Noreen if you are interested in participating.
Here are the "tapes" from the first session -- click to listen, or right-click from many browsers to download and save.
Thursday Morning Torah Study with Noreen Leibson
Meets at the Temple Beth Abraham Religious School building weekly, 10:30-12:00
Workplace Ethics Lunch Hour
Participation is open to all. Next meeting is Thursday, February 11 in the conference room at Peters Honda, 280 Amherst St., from 12-1. Our topic will be preferential treatment in buying and selling, and we will discuss any cases that people have experienced recently. Contact Rabbi Jon if you plan to come.
Torah to Go
Fifteen minutes right before pickup at the Religious
School every Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Children of Abraham: Interfaith Discussion Group on the Bible -- Led by Noreen Leibson and Dr. William Manseau (Emmaus Institute) -- Next meeting Thursday, Feb. 11, 7-8:30PM at Christ the King Lutheran Church, Broad St. and Lutheran Dr. in Nashua.
Tu Bishevat Seder
Saturday, January 31 for
lunch after services
Forum: Justice and Religion in Delivering
Health Care
Sunday, January 31 at
2:00 PM
An interdisciplinary,
interfaith look at the moral dimension of our national debate. Featuring a talk
by Ken Dolkart, MD FACP, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth Medical
School, with responses by Rabbi Jon and local clergy.
Author Evening:
Monday, February 8 at
7:00 PM
Lunch and Learn:
Saturday, February 13
after services
Rabbi Rieser, the spiritual
leader of Etz Hayim Congregation in Derry, will talk and teach about his newly
published book, The Hillel Narratives:
What the Tales of the First Rabbi Can Teach Us About Our Judaism.
Bible Raps: Concert for the Community
Thursday, April 15 at
7:00 PM
Come and experience the
creativity of Matt Bar and Ori Salzberg, who cap a week of working with our
religious school with a presentation of new Jewish music keyed to biblical
texts and Jewish themes.
Yiddish Discussion Group led by Lou Yelgin -- Next meeting to be scheduled.
Monthly Discussion Group for the Helping Professions
I am interested in starting a monthly group open to anyone in a "helping" or "caring" profession, working currently or not, to read some Jewish texts and essays on themes of chesed. If you are interested or would be willing to host such a group please be in touch.
If you are interested in an Introduction to Judaism series, out of general interest or because you or a family member is considering becoming Jewish, I am trying to schedule a class so contact me.
If you are interested in a one-shot, low-commitment opportunity to study a week's Torah reading, I am looking for two things -- pairs of people to talk with me on the phone early in a week about my Dvar Torah for Shabbat, and individuals willing to write and record a 3-minute Dvar Torah to be posted on the web! I'll be approaching many people but if you are interested let me know.
