On the afternoon of Sunday, Nov 1, 2020 a large group of CEH congregants and guests learned from two fabulous speakers on the topic “The Science of Noah.” This event was the Adult Education portion of the…
Congregation Etz Hayim is proud to be a co-sponsor of ScholarStream, an initiative of the RA, USCJ, JTS, and the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies to offer high-quality adult education opportunities. ScholarStream is a four-part series opportunity to learn from some of the world’s…
On May 12, 2020, congregant Ken Ackerman led a book talk about “Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time.” “Founder” is a rich, detailed, and intimate biography of Meyer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the…
On Saturday, March 7, 2020, we learned and were entertained by Seth Kibel’s presentation, “The Jews of American Jazz.” The session was an examination of the personalities, lives and careers of Jewish-American musicians — including George Gershwin,…
On December 15, 2019, CEH’s Adult Education program sponsored a trip to the Smithsonian American Art Museum led by Deborah Kaplan, CEH member and SAAM docent. CEH members and their families enjoyed a 90-minute tour of paintings…
On Tuesday, November 5, the Haberman Institute for Jewish Studies presented a lecture entitled “Justice for All? Ethics From Our Bible,” at Congregation Etz Hayim. The speaker was Professor Jeremiah Unterman who is a Resident Scholar at…
Excerpted review from Goodreads.com: What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which…
Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His TimeBy Amos Elon Excerpted from Amazon.com:Meyer Amschel Rothschild was born in the Frankfurt ghetto in the mid-eighteenth century, in a city more restrictive in its treatment of Jews…
This summer I had the incredible experience of attending a 3-week summer session at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem. I’ve been to Israel as both a tourist and a student including a 10-day session at Hebrew Union…
On a beautiful sunny day, CEH members and friends enjoyed a walking tour of Jewish Washington, DC. The tour focused on the historic Seventh Street, NW, neighborhood during the years 1850 to 1950. We saw four former…