**Torah Line By Line: The Journey Continues** Join us for the second half of the Book of Exodus as we continue to work our way, line by line, through the Torah. We resume as the Israelites arrive at Mount Sinai to receive the Torah and to build their very first temple, the Mishkan, while briefly […]
Grandparents…join us and enjoy the **Temple Beth El sukkah** to meet other grandparents, _congratulate new grandparents_ , and visit with the JFamily/JGrand staff. We will enjoy coffee and conversations all about grand- parenting! Do you have a new grandchild age newborn to one year old? You can pick up our **Grand Bag **a gift to […]
**Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)** is a two-day interactive workshop that teaches how to recognize when someone may be at risk of suicide and how to work with them to keep them safe. **You’ll learn to:** • Understand how personal and societal attitudes affect views on suicide and interventions • Provide guidance to a […]
**Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)** is a two-day interactive workshop that teaches how to recognize when someone may be at risk of suicide and how to work with them to keep them safe. **You’ll learn to:** • Understand how personal and societal attitudes affect views on suicide and interventions • Provide guidance to a […]
**Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)** is a two-day interactive workshop that teaches how to recognize when someone may be at risk of suicide and how to work with them to keep them safe. **You’ll learn to:** • Understand how personal and societal attitudes affect views on suicide and interventions • Provide guidance to a […]
**Ethical Wills: My Present And Future Jewish Story** As Jews, what is our legacy? How has your Judaism affected your life experiences and what values would you like passed on to the next generations of those you love? And mostly, how do you create a meaningful document that best defines these things? Join us to […]
**Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)** is a two-day interactive workshop that teaches how to recognize when someone may be at risk of suicide and how to work with them to keep them safe. **You’ll learn to:** • Understand how personal and societal attitudes affect views on suicide and interventions • Provide guidance to a […]
**Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)** is a two-day interactive workshop that teaches how to recognize when someone may be at risk of suicide and how to work with them to keep them safe. **You’ll learn to:** • Understand how personal and societal attitudes affect views on suicide and interventions • Provide guidance to a […]
** Wisdom Wednesdays – The Moral Voice Of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks ** Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (1948-2020) was a global religious leader, philosopher, author of more than 25 books and a moral voice for our time. His thinking and writings have influenced and will continue to influence the mindset of world Jewry for generations to […]
**From Exile To A New Home: The “Other” Jerusalem Of The Balkans** Exiled from the Iberian Peninsula, the thousands of Sephardic Jews found shelter on the Eastern Mediterranean and gradually established a dominant cultural and religious ethnic group. Welcomed by the Muslim Ottoman Empire, they have found a rather tolerant environment. In the Greek territories, […]
**Contemporary Halachic Debates: More Questions, Fewer Answers ** Join Rabbi Faudem for a lively weekly discussion and debate on current, relevant topics. How does Halacha (Jewish Law) impact our everyday opinions and decisions? Participate in this round table discussion as Rabbi Faudem asks you to answer the question: “What are your questions, comments and concerns?” […]
Join Gesher Human Services for a FREE Resume Writing Workshop by Certified Professional Resume Writers. Gain valuable tips and tools to write a dynamic resume. There will be an opportunity to sign up for free 1-on-1 resume assistance at the conclusion of the workshop. Organized by: Gesher Human Services View event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/5154
**Simple Instructions For A Complicated Life** Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers) is a rich treasure trove of short, moral and ethical teachings that serve as guides for Jewish living. Join in the exploration of these inspiring materials as Rabbi Faudem presents these morsels of advice and insights of the leading rabbinic scholars of different […]
**An Angel On Your Back** Do you ever get the feeling that a departed loved one is watching over you? Perhaps you have a strange feeling that someone is trying to communicate with you? Angels are supernatural beings that appear widely throughout Jewish literature. The Hebrew word for angel, mal’ach, means messenger, and the angels […]
Beth Ahm welcomes the nationally touring Bible Players for our Simchat Torah celebration. Join for Minha/Maariv at 7:00pm followed by Hakafot (singing and dancing with the Torahs) at 7:45pm. Unkosher Comedy begins at 9:00pm – stand- up comedy and improv games for adults with a Jewish twist. Free and open to the community. Advanced registration […]
**Jewish Values And The Israeli- Palestinian Conflict: A Shalom Hartman Curriculum** Utilizing curriculum from the Shalom Hartman Institute, join us to engage with the ideas and values that form the many different attitudes toward the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Using objectivity to discuss, and perhaps even alter and shape the way we think about this deeply […]
**Jews And Judaism: The Essentials – Part 3: The Challenges Of Modernity** In this series we explore the new opportunities and challenges that Jews encountered in the modern world, during the last three centuries; and how a new compartmentalized Jewish identity superseded an older all-encompassing Jewish identity. We focus on new attitudes toward Jews, especially […]
**Salon Series Continues: A Talmudic Exploration Of Rabbi Akiva’s Teachings On Ethics And Kindness** The genius of the Talmud, and the methodology of distilling its principles toward application for Jewish ethical life, has been the hallmark of Jewish scholarship throughout the ages. In this series, we analyze many of Rabbi Akiva’s teachings in the Talmud […]
Join Gesher Human Services for a FREE Resume Writing Workshop by Certified Professional Resume Writers. Gain valuable tips and tools to write a dynamic resume. There will be an opportunity to sign up for free 1-on-1 resume assistance at the conclusion of the workshop. Organized by: Gesher Human Services View event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/5155
Our exciting CSZ Travelogues are back! Join us once again to journey to a far away place on a cozy, fall afternoon with our CSZ family! CSZ’s own **Fanny Sherman** , congregant and Religious School teacher, will present her Jewish family history, growing up in Barranquilla, Colombia. **No charge for this event – but please […]
** Great Jewish Thinkers Of A Radical Kind** Join JLearn for a journey through the radical writings and theologies of Philo (1st C), Maimonides (12th C), Spinoza (17th C) and Mordecai Kaplan (20th C). Each of these Jewish figures challenged established rabbinic leadership in how they understood Torah and Revelation and what it then meant […]
**A World War II Survival Story and Musical Legacy** A Secret wartime diary… A long-lost orchestral masterpiece… A remarkable tale of survival… **The Rhapsody** 2:15 pm Pre-talk with Professor Amy Simon, _William and Audrey Farber Endowed Chair in Holocaust Studies and European Jewish History, MSU’s Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern […]
**All Books @The J** Library Book Club Join us on **Wednesday, October 18** at **11 AM** to **discuss** the Book Fair Book Club Night selection in anticipation of the 72nd Annual Detroit Jewish Book Fair: _The Majority: A Novel_ by Elizabeth L. Silver. Love to read? Want to spend time with other readers? Join Lauren […]
Annual benefit luncheon to support programs and services of NCJW|MI. PAID ENTRY ONLY. Different levels of tickets are available for purchase at (https://ncjwmi.org/women-of- vision-2023/?fbclid=IwAR1ZCxjwsVaXeKQINWdKLXxqvTlT5lZaXaQJzMjtPEQCE7nM7TGZfo9CABQ) **KEYNOTE SPEAKER:** John Quiñones. ABC News Veteran, Creator & Host, “What Would You Do?” **AWARDS:** _Woman of Vision Award -_ Rachel Stewart – President, Gardner White. _Josephine S. Weiner Community Service […]
**LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE!** **Become a safeTALK-trained helper and reduce the number of suicides in our community.** Most people with thoughts of suicide don’t truly want to die but are struggling with pain in their lives. Through their words and actions, they invite help to stay alive. Those trained in safeTALK can recognize these invitations and […]
**Coffee With The Rabbis: The Bonds That Bind Us – A Study Of Life Relationships** Join us for a deep dive into some of the most interesting and complex relationships in the Hebrew Bible and throughout Jewish literature. These sessions will explore the intriguing, challenging, wonderful and sometimes confusing connection between siblings, parents, children, spouses […]
** Biblical Verses Top 20: Context, Content And The Stories They Tell ** From the Isaiah Wall to Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, biblical verses are woven into the fabric of our contemporary lives. Each week, we will learn a different Biblical phrase memorialized in structure, in idiom or in song. We will study the text, context […]
Join the **Detroit Jewish Book Fair** at the Detroit Institute of Arts for, Author **Noah Charney** who will discuss his new book, **_Brushed Aside: The Untold Story of Women in Art_** _,_ with Judith F. Dolkart, Deputy Director, Art, Education & Programs, DIA, Curator/Moderator. Following the presentation, please join a free DIA docent-lead tour of […]
Temple Israel and JGrand (a program of JFamily at The J) are pleased to present Grandparents Circle: a **five-session** course that inspires and teaches participants how to nurture the Jewish identities of their grandchildren while respecting the choices of their intermarried adult children. In a supportive environment, participants will learn techniques for listening to and […]
**Hebrew Classes – Beginner to Advanced with Dorit Warfman** We offer few classes for any level: * LEARN TO READ HEBREW IN 10 WEEKS * HEBREW 2 * HEBREW 4 * HEBREW 6 * HEBREW 8 For more information please call our office248-205-2557 ** _Supported by the Harold Wade Hebrew Literacy Fund._** **Instructors** : Dorit […]
**Jewish Values And The Israeli- Palestinian Conflict: A Shalom Hartman Curriculum** Utilizing curriculum from the Shalom Hartman Institute, join us to engage with the ideas and values that form the many different attitudes toward the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Using objectivity to discuss, and perhaps even alter and shape the way we think about this deeply […]
Join Temple Israel’s People of the Book Club, in conjunction with our Anti- Racism Task Force, for a book discussion with Dr. Tara Hayes, the Book Club Professor, for a thought-provoking conversation of Charmaine Wilkerson’s novel _ Black Cake_. _We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become?_ In this moving […]
**From Sukkot To Thanksgiving – Appreciating The Relationship Between Jews, Food, And The World We Live In ** For Jews, the fall season is bookended by two holidays focused on gratitude and food: ** _Sukkot and Thanksgiving_**. This fall we will increase our understanding and appreciation of how Jewish life and contemporary American life intersect […]
**_REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED _** **THE STATE OF ISRAEL, _A special pop-up event from JLearn:_** **Part 1 – Thursday, October 19, 7 – 8:30 PM on _ZOOM_** ** _ _** You will receive an email with a ZOOM LINK on Wednesday, and also ONE HOUR before class start__** **Part 2 – Wednesday, October 25, 7 […]
Efrat Lachter is an investigative reporter for Israel’s Channel 12 News and the weekly newsmagazine, “Friday Studio.” A recipient of the 2022 Shimon Peres Center for Peace Award, she has directed and produced more than 200 documentary segments on topics including human trafficking in Sudan and Israel, modern-day slavery in Malawi, orphans in Ukraine, and […]
** Checking Off The List Of Israeli Art At 75!** To celebrate 75 years of Israeli statehood, **_Wendy Evans_** __will unpack the Center for Israel Education’s list of 75 artworks, formulated in celebration of this important event. Going chronologically from an 1896 sculpture by **_Boris Schatz_** __, the father of Israeli art as well as […]
Join the “TBE Book Club” on **October 26th at noon** as we dive into the captivating world of _Fire Island_ through Jane L. Rosen’s enchanting novel. Lifelong friends convene on this enchanting island, where hidden secrets surface, and newfound romances blossom. With Rosen’s evocative storytelling and relatable characters, “Fire Island” is the ideal choice for […]
” **An Update on the War from Israel”** **with Professor David Mendelsson** _presented by Temple Emanu-El’s Adult Education Committee_ **Sunday, October 29th, 2023** **2:00-3:00PM on ZOOM** The Temple Emanu-El Adult Education Committee presents ‘An Update on the War from Israel’ with Professor David Mendelsson on Zoom. Professor Mendelsson will be joining us to discuss the […]
Temple Israel and JGrand (a program of JFamily at The J) are pleased to present Grandparents Circle: a **five-session** course that inspires and teaches participants how to nurture the Jewish identities of their grandchildren while respecting the choices of their intermarried adult children. In a supportive environment, participants will learn techniques for listening to and […]
Join us for a book discussion with author Adam Mansbach about his new book _The Golem in Brooklyn_. Adam is a NYT bestselling author and the author of many books. Organized by: Temple Kol Ami View event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/5689
Join the Michigan Board of Cantors for a community-wide concert as we stand in solidarity with the people of Israel in the wake of the devastating and historic terrorist attacks. **In lieu of concert admission, donations are requested to go towards the JFMD’s Israel Emergency Campaign.** **** https://jewishdetroit.org/iec/ Organized by: Michigan Board of Cantors, Congregation […]
In November of last year, ChatGPT, a cutting-edge AI application, became available for free to the general public. In the months since then, the Jewish world has exploded with possibilities about how Judaism might be impacted by AI and what Judaism might offer the AI conversation in turn. In this on-line course with David Zvi […]
**The Baal Shem Tov: An Icon Of Radical Spirituality** An exploration of the legendary founder of the Hasidic movement and the teachings attributed to him. Come and learn how this larger-than-life figure shook up the Jewish world by bringing mysticism to the masses. We’ll get to know The Besht through Hasidic tales and teachings, as […]
Join the **Detroit Jewish Book Fair** for **PATRON NIGHT** featuring. Author **Michael Schulman** discussing his new book, _Oscars Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears_ with Elliot Wilhem, Curator of Film, Detroit Film Theater. Followed by a concert of award-winning music that made the films with Cantor Neil and Stephanie Michaels, joined […]
Come on down, y’all, to our Country/Western Shabbat dinner and TGIS service! Special service & activities for the young-uns, and all are encouraged to wear your finest bandanas, cowboy and cowgirl hats and boots! **Family Shabbat Service – 5:30 p.m. ** **Shabbat Dinner: 6:00 p.m.** **T.G.I.S. Service: 7:00 p.m.** **There is no charge to join […]