We are happy to announce that the Spring/Summer 2010 catalogue will be available shortly in pdf format. Hard copies will also be available upon request.

Film and Book Discussions

Lunch and Learn Book Club - Join Educational Director Susan Werk as she facilitates lunch and learn book discussions of books covering various Jewish topics.
Thursdays:
March 4, The Mascot by Mark Kursem, A son's search for his Jewish father's Nazi boyhood;
April 22, Abraham by Bruce Feiler, A journey to the heart of 3 faiths;
June 3, Hunting Eichmann by Neil Bascomb, How a band of survivors and  a young spy agency chased down the world's most notorious Nazi.
11:45 am - 1:15 pm.
Free; registration not required .
Location & Sponsor: Congregation Agudath Israel

Thursday Night Monthly Film Series -- Films will be shown the third Thursday of every month.  They will be followed by a discussion led by Temple members.  For details go to www.templebnaior.org and click on Adult Education.
Thursdays             Feb. 18-My Mexican Shiva
                                    March 18-Trembling Before God
                                    April 15- Love Comes Lately
                                    May 20-  Blessed is the Match:  The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
7:30 PM.
$5.00 Donation; No registration required.
Location & Sponsor: Temple B'nai Or.

Book Group led by Rabbi Clifford Kulwin: In Their Own Words -  For a people consumed with words, the Literature of Jewish autobiographies and memoirs is not overly rich. Some that do exist, notably that of Gluckel of Hamelin, who lived some 300 years ago, have become important sources for understanding daily life of a certain period. During these three months we read first-hand accounts of Jewish lives that are significant in one case because of the importance of the individual and I each case because of the Jewish picture they paint of a particular place and time.
Thursdays:
Feb. 4: The Jew Store by Stella Suberman. The author's Russian immigrant family was the first Jews to move to the small Tennessee town of Concordia. The narrative addresses how rural southern Christians understood Jews in the early 20^th century, how those Jews understood the world around them, and inevitably touches as well on the political, social, economic and, or course racial issues of the day.
March 4: The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer.  The Nazis arrived in Vienna when the author was a young woman. With the help of a Christian friend, she went into hiding, only to emerge later in Munich under the name Grete Denner. The title tells the rest of the story, truly one of the most extraordinary to come from a tragic and calamitous time that produced many extraordinary stories.
7:30 pm.
Free; registration required - call 973-994-2290.
Location & Sponsor: Temple B'nai Abraham.

LIVE AND BECOME - The magnificent, epic story of an Ethiopian boy who is airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel in 1984 during Operation Moses. Shlomo is plagued by two big secrets: he is neither a Jew nor an orphan, just an African boy who survived and wants, somehow, to fulfill his Ethiopian mom's parting request the he "go, live, and become." Buoyed by a profound and unfaltering motherly love both in his memory and in the arms of his adoptive mom he ultimately finds an identity and happiness all his own.
Sunday      February 21
2:00 pm.
Fee TBA; registration not required.
Location & Sponsor:  Temple Ner Tamid.

LUNCH WITH THE RABBI -- Bring your own lunch and join Rabbi Kushner at Temple Ner Tamid for thought-provoking discussions of the book In the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language by Joel Hoffman. The book will be available for purchase in the Temple office.
Second Tuesday of each month.
Feb 9, March 9, April 13, May 11, June 8.
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm.
Free; Registration not required.
Location & Sponsor: Temple Ner Tamid.

Motzei Shabbat Show -- Join post-Shabbat movie excursions, titles to be determined, based on what is showing at the local theater. Following the show, stay around to discuss the movie and have a nosh. Participants are notified by e-mail or phone at least a week in advance.
Saturdays (some Sundays) Evenings             
Dates TBA.
After Shabbat.
Cost of ticket (group rate); registration required - call 973-627-4500.
Location & Sponsor: White Meadow Temple.

Film Series --Enjoy snacks and a movie, followed by an interactive discussion moderated by Dr. Eric Goldman, the founder and president of Ergo Media and a film reviewer for New Jersey's, "The Jewish Standard."
Sundays
March 7,  7:00pm. THE SECRETS  (Israel) Naomi, a bright student and daughter of a rabbi, convinces her father to delay her arranged marriage to pursue her studies at a girl's yeshiva. There in Tzfat, the birthplace of kabbalah, she becomes friendly with Michelle and after volunteering to deliver food to a sick French woman, is persuaded by Michelle to use her knowledge of kabalistic practice to find a cure for the mysteriously ailing woman. Eventually this journeys into the forbidden and leads to a growing attraction between the two girls.
May 2,    7:00pm. "12" (Russia). An adaptation of Reginald Rose's 1954 teleplay and Sidney Lumet's 1959 film "Twelve Angry Men," except t hat the locale is today's Russia. Experience contemporary Russia via 12 jurors, providing insight into Russian jurisprudence and social issues facing Russian citizens today. The jurors seem convinced that a Chechen youth killed his Russian stepfather. As they deliberate, what appears to be a quick and easy verdict, their jury room discussions go beyond issues of justice, particularly for the one Jewish juror.
Free for Rimon Partners; No registration required.
Location & Sponsor:  Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel.

Jewish Literature -- Enjoy an informal discussion on works of fiction and non-fiction. Instructor: Rabbi Benjamin Adler.
4th Monday of Month:
February 22 (Dona Gracia of the House of Nasi  by Cecil Roth)
March 22 (The Wandering Jews by Joseph Roth)
April 26 (Four Meals by Meir Shalev)
My 24 (Postville, USA: Surviving   Diversity in Small-Town America by Mark A. Grey)
8:15 - 9:15 PM.
$18; registration required - call 973-627-4500.
Location & Sponsor: White Meadow Temple.

Real to Reel: Holocaust Film Series - Join a viewing and discussion on Holocaust-related films. Facilitator: Carol Simon, fellow, Auschwitz Jewish Center.
Wednesday
Feb. 17:  TBA (2:00 pm)
Mar. 24 Saving Private Ryan (7:00pm)
Sunday
Apr. 11: No. 4 Street of our Lady (2:00 pm)
Tuesday
May 25 (TBA) (7:00 pm)
Wednesday
June 16 (TBA) (7:00 pm)
Free; registration not required.
Location: Aidekman Family Campus; Sponsor: Holocaust Council.

Saturday Night Film Series: Rabbi Azriel Fellner will show short clips from the movie and use those clips as illustrations to examine the themes and values which the movie portrays. These clips are suggestive of the message of the filmmaker and will focus on certain key elements which make the movie an important contribution to Jewish and general culture.
March 20 - The Band's Visit - When the Ceremonial Police Band of Alexandria, Egypt, journeys to a gig in Israel, they can hardly anticipate getting stuck in a rut. But upon arrival at the Israeli airport, their hosts and transportation fail to show. So begins first-time director Eran Kolirin's fish-out-of-water comedy Trapped in a middle-of-nowhere desert town, the group members try to figure out what to do and where to go.|
8:30 pm.
$10 per movie; Registration not required.
Location & Sponsor: Congregation Agudath Israel.