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Check out Jewish learning in NYC this week

March 4, 2014

Here's what's happening in NYC this week: (we update listings every Sunday night)

** JEWS ON STAGE:  "Jews Telling Jokes," Westside Theater Nov 2013

** JEWS IN CINEMAS:  Barry Levinson's "Avalon" - Angelica Theater 3/14

** JEWISH BOOK TALKS:  Ari Shavit at The Jewish Week 4/14

LECTURES AND CLASSES @

Central Synagogue:  "Do Jews believe in an afterlife" Rabbi Peter Rubinstein

92nd Street Y:  Elie Wiesel in conversation with Jeffrey Goldberg

JCC in Manhattan: Joan Nathan takes you through Pesach recipes. 4/14

NYPL:  Rachel Kushner on her novel  "The Flamethrowers."   Sept 2014

BARNES & NOBLE:  Lorne Michaels on his autobiography.

HUC:  "The hurdles of Gratitude," Prof. Carole Bailin  Dec 2014

Mechon Hadar:  "Self-Transcendence and Heschel," Rabbi Shai Held

Skirball Center:  Rabbi Leon Morris on "Shalom Bayit"

Drisha:  "The Schechina presence and where it can be felt."

Park Ave Syn:  Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove on the "Uketananetokef" prayer

JTS:  "Interfaith dialogue after national crisis," with Prof. Arnold Eisen

YCT:  "Soviet Jewry: The Second Exodus," with Rabbi Avi Weiss

UJA:  "Philanthropy Under 25," with Alisa Doctoroff.   

 

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Quotes

“Love your neighbor as yourself — this is the major principle of the Torah.”
— Palestinian Talmud, Nedarim 9:4
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me, and if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”
— Rabbi Hillel, Pirkei Avot 1:14
“The obligation to try to ‘perfect the world under the rule of God’ is said three times a day.”
— Aleinu prayer

“The great figures of the Bible and Talmud saw ethics as Judaism’s central demand. ”
— Rabbi Joseph Telushkin

“When the Arabs love their children more than they hate us, [Arab tension will be resolved.]””
— Golda Meir

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