Lifetime Learning
Mission
The mission of Lifetime Learning is to provide programs and opportunities for adult members of Beth-El Congregation and the Jewish Community at-large which will enable them to learn and experience the heritage, values, theology and language of the Jewish people from a Reform point of view.
Committee Members: Steve Geer, Robert Gurney, Julian and Marian Haber, Rabbi Ralph Mecklenburger, Seymour Roberts, Leigh Schultz, Burton Schwartz, Len Schweitzer, Elaine and Jim Stanton, and Jim Stein
Upcoming Lifetime Learning Programs
Judaism 103
Sundays, 9:30 to 10:30 am
Join us each Sunday in the Sanctuary for an hour of Jewish learning in a fun, friendly and relaxed atmosphere. You do not need to be registered for this program. Just come and enjoy the talk whenever you can.
The Judaism 103 topics for the 2009-2010 year are:
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2010 92nd Street Y Spring Programs | ||
Thursday, January 28, 2010, 7:00 pm Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Nina Totenberg, moderator Ruth Bader Ginsburg was nominated by Former President Clinton as Assoociate Justice of the United States Supreme Court in June, 1993, and took the oath of office in August 1993. Ginsburg has written widely in the areas of civil procedure, conflic of laws, constitutional law, and comparative law. | Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 7:00 pm Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Gopnik Adam Gopnik is an award-winning journalist and has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. His books include Angels and Ages:A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life, Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York, Paris to the Moon, Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology, and The King in the Window. Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He is the author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, and Outliers:The Story of Success, all of which were #1 New YorkTimes best sellers. This will be a free-flowing discussion about the world of ideas. | Thursday, April 15, 2010, 7:00 pm "A World in Crisis: What Are Our Moral Obligations?" with Elie Wiesel Explore the obligations of humans in general, and the Jewish community in particular, in responding to the crises around us -- from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the looming threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, from an unstable Pakistan to genocide in Africa. |
Did You Know
Inspired by our Jewish ancestors, shopping has been a major pastime for centuries. The first major department stores of the 19th century were created by these Jewish families: The Altmans, Gimbels, Kaufmanns, Lazaruses, Magnins, Mays, and Strausses. Also, Julius Rosenwald revolutionized the way Americans purchased goods by improving Sears Roebuck's mail order merchandising. Hart, Schaffner, Marx, Kuppenheimer and Levi Strauss became household names in mens' clothing, and let's not forget EJ Korvets (short for eight Jewish Korean [war] Veterans)!
Beth-El’s Film Festival
Beth-El’s Library has a copy of each film that was shown at our annual film festivals. These films are available to Beth-El members for short-term check-out at no cost. We would like to thank Beth-El’s Endowment #2 and a grant from the Jewish Federation of Fort Worth and Tarrant County for making this possible.
2010 Film Festival | 2009 Film Festival | |
| The Beth-El Film Festival is funded in part by the Jewish Federation of Fort Worth and Tarrant County. | ||
The films for the 2010 Beth-El Film Festival have been selected. For those wishing to participate, there will be an optional meal prior to each film at a cost of $12 per person. There is no charge for those wishing to only view the films. Reservations for the meal can be made by calling the Temple office at 817-332-7141. For all films, dinner will be at 6:30 pm and the movie is at 7:30 pm.
Saturday, January 16, 2010 Bart Got a Room (PG-13) Meal: Yucatan Taco Stand - roasted tequila lime chicken, chipotle mashed potatoes, braised Latin vegetables, Yucatan house salad with fried plantains. Nerdy high school senior Danny has spent six hundred bucks on the hotel room, the limo, and the tux for his prom. He's only missing one thing -- the girl. Hampered by well-intentioned but clueless advice from his newly-divorced parents and unsympathetic mocking from his best friends, Danny battles peer pressure, teen angst, and his own raging hormones as he desperately searches for a prom date. Danny's luckless quest turns to panic when he learns that even Bart - the school's biggest dweeb - has secured not only a date, but also a hotel room for the night. Children's movies: The Chosen and Something from Nothing Saturday, January 30, 2010 Sixty-six Meal: Babe's Fried Chicken - fried chicken tenders with honey mustard sauce and smoked chicken with BBQsauce, mashed potatoes with cream gravy, Grandma's corn, green beans, biscuit with honey and butter, banana pudding. It's the summer of 1966 and England is about to be consumed by World Cup Fever. For 12-year-old Bernie, though, the biggest day of his life is looming:his Bar Mitzvah, the day he becomes a man. However, Bernie's family is increasingly distracted by the threat of losing their business and their wayward older son, and the scale of Bernie's Bar Mitzvah diminishes daily. Worst of all, the Cup Final is scheduled to take place on the same day and when England makes it through the qualifying rounds, Bernie's longed-for Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a complete disaster! Children's movies: Pre-K through 4th grades will watch The Prince Who Thought He Was a Rooster and other wonderful Jewish stories. Children in 5th grade and above will watch Unstrung Heroes (rated PG).
Noodle(suitable for ages 10 and up) Meal: Pak-a-Pocket - grilled marinated chicken breast, basmati rice or red potatoes, cold green beans with either tomatoes, onion and garlic, or green beans with almonds, Greek salad, hummus, pita bread, and baklava. At thirty-seven, Miri is a twice-widowed El Al flight attendant. Her well-regulated existence is suddenly turned upside-down by an abandoned Chinese boy whose migrant-worker mother has been summarily deported from Israel. The film is a touchingcomic-drama in which two human beings - as different from each other as Tel Aviv is from Bejing - accompany each other on a remarkable journey, one that takes them both back to a meaningful life. Children's movies: The Frisco Kid and It Can Always Be Worse. | The Band The Year My Parents Went on Vacation Only Human The Point The Adventures of Agent Emes- The Fish Head Masada | |
(suitable for ages 10 and up)
This film tells the story of a police orchestra from Egypt who come to Israel only to make a wrong turn and end up in a remote desert town, where cultures clash in a forgotten place void of culture. When the band leaves in the morning for their intended destination, it is clear that their unplanned detour was worth the trip! Susannah Perlman, movie critic for Jewtastic.com comments that filmmaker Eran Kolirin masterfully weaves comedy, drama and poignancy in this pitch perfect piece.
Set in the turbulent year of 1970, this poignant and humorous coming of age story thrusts twelve year-old Mauro into a maelstrom of political and personal upheaval. When his left-wing militant parents are forced to go underground, Mauro is left in the care of his Jewish grandfather’s neighbor in Sao Paulo. Suddenly finding himself an exile in his own country, he is forced to create an ersatz family from the religiously diverse and colorful population of his new neighborhood..jpg)
Guess who's coming to dinner at the Dalinsky home? In this Spanish screwball comedy, Leni introduces her Palestinian fiancto her Jewish family. Murder, mayhem, and belly dancing ensue in this cross-cultural romp that provides comic relief to a seemingly irresolvable conflict. It’s a Jewish Meets the Parents-type comedy that will spiral out of control and provide for hilarious misunderstandings!
A classic fable by American songwriter and musician Harry Nilsson about a boy named Oblio, the only round-headed person in The Pointed Village, where by law everyone and everything had to have a point. This wonderful movie has a simple but direct message--accept everyone for who they are and not force them to fit into a preconceived notion of who they should be.
Enter the exciting world of Agent Emes, the fearless yeshiva-boy-turned-crime fighter who battles to save the Jews and thwart the evil schemes of the fiendish Dr. Lo-Tov of Aveiros International. Agent E's first escapade finds him trying to decode a mysterious message, delivered by an even more mysterious source, a talking fish head in the local kosher market. His search leads him and his rambunctious yeshiva classmates to a shofar-making factory, where Agent E cracks the case and nabs the bad guys..jpg)
Wits and weapons clash in this 1981 epic chronicling a rebellion by Jewish Zealots against Roman rule. After Jerusalem falls to the Romans in 70 A.D., nearly a thousand Jewish rebels withdraw to a mountaintop fortress 30 miles southeast of Jerusalem. There, fed by defiance and an unlimited supply of cistern water, they make their stand against Roman rule.Share Your Ideas
Is there a program or topic that you would like for the Lifetime Learning Committee to consider? Let us hear from you. Email your thoughts at bethelofc@bethelfw.org.
External Websites for Lifetime Learning