Adult Education - חינוך

Education

Study with Rabbi Miller
Tuesdays 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. August 17^th, 24^th, 31^st, & September 7^th

We continue the tradition of studying Pirke Avot in preparation for the High Holy Days. Rabbi Miller will lead us in study and discussion of texts from Pirke Avot (Ethics of the Fathers). This is a wonderful collection of rabbinic literature that will challenge and inspire us and encourage us to take a good look at the meaning of our own lives. Bring lunch or just come and learn. It will change the meaning of the High Holy Days for you.

Study with Rabbi Epstein
Tuesdays 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
beginning October 5th

Join us as we continue the tradition of regular Talmud study at Anshe Emeth! This year, we will explore Masechet Berachot, the first tractate of the Talmud. Masechet Berachot discusses the halakhic intricacies of blessings and prayers, including the Shema, the Amidah, and the Torah Blessings. Of course, we can count on our sages to make fascinating digressions: stories of healings and heroics, theological debates, and even rabbinic recipes reveal themselves in the twists and turns of the dialectic.

Mondays 7:30-9:00 p.m.
beginning October 4th

Rabbi Bennett F. Miller
Rabbi Rebecca Solielle Epstein
Cantor Anna West Ott

Now is the time to participate in this powerful and important lifecycle event. If you have never had a Bar or Bat Mitzvah, our Adult B’nai Mitzvah program can help you reach a new level of learning and action in your life. Anshe Emeth’s two year program includes studies in Jewish rituals, holidays, theology and prayer.

Hebrew

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Sun Oct 03 @06:30PM
Hebrew Marathon

Mon Oct 04 @06:30PM
Read Hebrew America I & II begins

Mon Oct 04 @06:30PM
Shulchan Ivri:Advanced Hebrew for Adults begins

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Sunday, October 3
9:30 a.m.

Learn to read Hebrew in one day. This one day crash course gives you the opportunity to be able to read the prayers for Shabbat.
Cost: $35 per person for members, $40 for non-members
$25 for a review if you took the course at Anshe Emeth in a previous year

Mondays beginning October 4th
6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

A Special National Program
Take your Hebrew to the next level; improve your reading of Hebrew and understand the prayerbook. The Hebrew Marathon or previous Hebrew experience is a pre-requisite. Contact Rabbi Epstein for more information or to register. There is no fee for this class.

Mondays beginning October 4th
6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

For those students who have taken Read Hebrew America I or have a basic knowledge of Hebrew reading. This class is for Hebrew conversation and reading. Contact Rabbi Epstein for more information or to register. There is no fee for this class.

Mondays beginning October 4th
6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Advanced Hebrew for Adults. For students who know Hebrew well, this class will help you improve your listening Hebrew skills. In this class, the students will read and speak only Hebrew. Contact Rabbi Epstein for more information or to register. There is no fee for this class.

Improve your Hebrew skills and enjoy speaking Hebrew. High school students can receive language credit at their schools for their Hebrew studies at Anshe Emeth. Four levels of hour-long classes assure a perfect match. If you are unsure which level to attend, please contact Rabbi Epstein.

Beginning Wednesday, September 11th:

Conversational Hebrew Alef
Wednesdays 6:30 p.m.
Conversational Hebrew Bet
Wednesdays 6:30 p.m.
Conversational Hebrew Gimmel
Wednesdays 7:30 p.m.
Conversational Hebrew Dalet
Wednesdays 7:30 p.m.

Shabbat

Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.
year-round

Join us in our study of the weekly Torah portion. Each Shabbat morning for more than 30 years, Anshe Emeth members have gathered to study Torah and all that it offers us. This class provides an opportunity to explore the rich spiritual meanings and applications of Torah in our daily lives. No previous Hebrew is necessary; the prerequisite is only a desire to learn and grow. Newcomers are always welcome.

Saturdays 9:30 a.m.
beginning September 25th
Taught by Debbie Cohn

Tanach is the Jewish name for the book which others call the Bible. If you have been studying Torah (the first five books of Tanach) for a few years, this class will take you on to explore the books of history, prophecy, poetry, and prose which make up the rest of the Tanach. Historical context, traditional Jewish interpretations, and modern biblical scholarship will be included. We will be continuing our study with the books of Ezekiel and other post-exilic prophets, and the book of Psalms. No knowledge of Hebrew is needed to participate in this class.

Saturday morning, 10:45 a.m.

Our entire Shabbat morning community – Religious School, all Adult Education classes – will gather in the Sanctuary to celebrate the joy of Shabbat morning together. It will feature uplifting music led by the Ma’alot band and all of our choirs.

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Sat Oct 30 @10:45AM
Shabbat Tov L'hodot

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Welcome to Tanu Rabanan! A special program of learning on Shabbat mornings. In addition to our regular Shabbat morning study classes, this year we inaugurate Tanu Rabanan, a master class in Torah learning. this is a special opportunity to study and learn from scholars, students of Torah, and teachers.

Sat Nov 13 @09:30AM - 10:30AM
Tanu Rabanan - David Snyder

Sat Dec 11 @09:30AM - 10:30AM
Tanu Rabanan - Max Likin

Sat Jan 15 @09:30AM - 10:30AM
Tanu Rabanan - Paula Kaplan-Reiss

Sat Feb 12 @09:30AM - 10:30AM
Tanu Rabanan - Kathy Olstein

Sat Mar 26 @09:30AM - 10:30AM
Tanu Rabanan - Peter Guarnaccia

Sat Apr 30 @09:30AM - 10:30AM
Tanu Rabanan - Marcia Midler

Saturdays 9:30 a.m.
beginning September 25th
Taught by Sara Levine

What is being Jewish? How can you bring Judaism to light in your home? Find out all these things and more by joining us in “Back to Basics”. Learn how to create a Jewish home with your family - create your own rituals, learn how to celebrate holidays at home and much more. Want to know how to “make Shabbat”, build a Sukkah, run a Seder? Explore all of this and other fun topics! Join us and come ask about things that have been puzzling you and be empowered to start doing things Jewishly!

Saturday, 9:30am

Beginning 1/22, Winter Semester

We will look at ways to understand our connections to Judaism through objects we use and the people who created them.

Taught by David Gronlund-Jacob

Saturdays, 11:15 a.m.
when Hebrew School is in session

Our students lead us in prayer and study of the weekly Torah portion. Guests are always invited to join students, teachers, and parents as we celebrate together in prayer and song.

Membership Advanced Placement Program

Saturdays 9:30-12:15 a.m.
beginning September 25th

There can be no better way to spend Shabbat morning than this special opportunity to study with Rabbi Miller and other Temple leaders. While designed primarily for new members, the Membership Advancement Program is open to anyone in our congregation. Those interested in joining should contact MAP Coordinators Jesse Crosson, Laura Gordon or Andrea Schon.

Spend Shabbat with your Temple family from Kabbalat Shabbat to Havdalah. Program highlights include Shabbat lunch, song, dance, arts and crafts, mitzvah projects, and celebration. Fun for all ages.

Sat Oct 02 @12:30PM - 01:30PM
AEMT Candy Shabbaton

Sat Dec 11 @12:30PM - 01:30PM
Anshe Emeth's got Talent

Sat Mar 12 @12:30PM - 01:30PM
Shabbaton with Rabbi Miller Chai Tribute Scholar

Sat Apr 09 @12:30PM - 01:30PM
Anshe Emeth Family Passover Workshop

Sat Apr 30 @12:30PM - 01:30PM
How to draw Gag Cartoons

Keepers

Who are the Keepers?

The KEEPERS OF JEWISH EXCELLENCE are a special group of Temple members committed to providing Jewish excellence for both the Temple community and the entire Jewish community. Contributions to a special KEEPERS OF JEWISH EXCELLENCE FUND enable our congregation to hear and study with speakers and scholars in many fields and provide dynamic scholarship to the entire community.

Mon Sep 27 @07:30PM - Martin Fletcher - Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation

Mon Oct 18 @07:30PM - Margaret Henoch - When Must a Jew Take the Risk to Tell the Truth?

Sun Dec 19 @10:30AM - Linda Gradstein - Is the Media Biased Against Israel?

Sun Feb 27 @10:30AM - Arie Kaplan - Judaism Through the Eyes of the Cartoonist

Mon Mar 28 @10:30AM - Erica Brown - How Jews Can Respond When Other Jews Do Bad Things.

Sun Apr 10 @10:30AM - Liel Leibovitz - The CHosen People: Amierca, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election

Scholars

Rabbi Levi D. Lauer
The State of Wrestling with God

Rabbi Levi Lauer is the Founding Executive Director of Avodot TZdaka U’Mishpat (ATZUM). Ordained by the Hebrew Union College, he devoted his work to educational endeavor as Hillel Director and Instructor of Religion at the University of Missouri; Executive Director of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, the first co-educational halakhic yeshiva; Dean of the Brandeis-Bardin Camp Institute; and Director of Rabbinic Enrichment at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem. He served eleven years in the combat

Rabbi Levi Lauer

The State of Wrestling with God Friday, December 4th - Sunday, December 6th

Friday, 6:00 p.m.
Kabbalat Shabbat, Dinner and Study
Choosing an Identity of Conflict: Comfort Is Not a Jewish Value
The Kotzker Rebbe’s teaching of disturbing doubt and Jewish authenticity, can ambiguity be a firm basis for Jewish dedication and emuna/trust?

Saturday, Torah Study, 9:30 a.m.
Parshat Vayishlakh
Changing identity and a dialectics of communal and personal obligation.

Saturday, 12:30 p.m.

Ari Rath

Born on the Principle of Sharing Palestine: Israel at the Crossroad

Sunday, November 22^nd at 10:30 a.m.

President Obama’s demand that the festering, decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be resolved by creating a Palestinian State alongside the State of Israel, has legitimate roots in the dramatic history of the region. Today Israel faces a historic crossroad, whether to end 42 years of occupation and reach a peaceful compromise with the Palestinians, or to continue its settlement activity in the West Bank and perpetuate Israeli military rule over two million Palestinians. Read more...

Kollel

On Monday evenings at 7:30pm together with family and congregants, join with scholars, rabbis & teachers as they lead us in discussion.

In Celebration of Anshe Emeth's 150th

Reflections on Our People, Place in New Brunswick and the World

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Mon Oct 25 @07:30PM
Bruce Birnberg: The Jewish Afterlife .. And Getting There Gently

Mon Nov 01 @07:30PM
Dinner - Environmental Cancer - A Discussion between Researchers and the Religious Community

Mon Nov 01 @07:30PM
Panel Discussion - Environmental Cancer - A Discussion between Researchers and the Religious Community

Mon Nov 08 @07:30PM
Rev. John deVelder: Spiritual Care in the Hospital Setting

Mon Nov 15 @07:30PM
Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale: Immigration and Housing Ministries Born from Communal Prayer

Mon Nov 22 @07:30PM
Rabbi Erin Glazer: Raising Strong Jewish Girls

Mon Nov 29 @07:30PM
Sara Levine, JFVS: The Sandwich Generation: Caught in the Middle

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Our Speakers (Click on speaker name for more information):

Cantor Ann West Ott: Ordained in May 1998 from the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York City, has been the Cantor at Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple since July 1999. She had a diverse career in central New Jersey as a singer, pianist, guitarist, educator, and choral director long before she came to the cantorate. Read more...
Rickey Stein: Rickey Stein is one of the founding members of Makhelat Anshe Emet – formerly the Anshe Emeth Adult Volunteer No Ringer Choir.

He and his wife Dana have been members of Anshe Emeth for more than 40 years. They were married here and their girls were named in the sanctuary and became b’not mitzvah here. Ricky worked as a pharmacist for 45 years and is the author of “Monitor the World”, a hobbyist’s manual on scanner radios.

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Rabbi Esther Reed: Rabbi Esther Reed is the Associate Director for Jewish Campus Life at Rutgers University Hillel. She attended Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, graduating cum laude with a degree in Judaic Studies.

She received both rabbinic ordination and a master’s degree in Jewish women’s studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2001. While at JTS, Rabbi Reed was a recipient of the prestigious Wexner Graduate Fellowship. Read more...
Professor Nathan Reiss: Nathan Reiss is a resident of Highland Park and has been engaged in the study of genealogy for over 35 years. In 1980, he authored a book on his own family history, and has recently updated it with a new 1,100 page edition.

In 1997, he became Chairman of the Genealogy Committee of the Jewish Historical Society of Central Jersey; in 2002 he was elected Vice President and from 2003 to the present he has served as President of the Society. From 1996 to 2001 he also served as President of Congregation Etz Ahaim, a Sephardic congregation in Highland Park.
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Ruth Patt: Ruth Patt grew up in New Brunswick, NJ and graduated from Douglass College of Rutgers Univeristy. She founded the Jewish Historical Society of Central Jersey in 1977, and has organized the Jewish American Lecture Series for 11 years.

She is the author of four books, including The Jewish Scene in New Jersey’s Raritan Valley, the Jewish Experience at Rutgers, and Uncommon Lives: 18 Extraordinary Jews from New Jersey. Mrs. Patt chaired the celebration of New Brunswick’s 300th Birthday in 1980. Read more...
Rabbi Bennett F. Miller: Rabbi Bennett F. Miller, a native of Rochester, N.Y., is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati. He earned a Master of Arts and Hebrew Letters from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati where he was ordained a Rabbi in 1974. He also earned his doctorate from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1988. In March, 1999 he was awarded a Doctor of Divinity Degree from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. In 2008 Rabbi Miller completed a Certificate in Fund Raising at the George Heyman Center for Non-Profit Management and Fund Raising at New York University. Read more...
Dr. Mark Kligman: Dr. Mark Kligman is a professor of Jewish Musicology at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. Educated at New York University and California State University. He earned his doctorate in Musicology with an emphasis on Ethnomusicology at NYU in 1997. Read more...
Harvey Hauptman: Harvey Hauptman is a long time member of Anshe Emeth. He served as First Vice President, as well as an officer and member of the Board of Trustees. He acts as moderator of the Temple’s annual Yom Kippur Interim service and bi-ennial Consultation on Conscience.

He is vice president of the Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey and lectures on the subject of sports and media matters. Read more...
Howard Green: Howard L. Green started Public History Partners in the summer of 2005. His clients include museums, historical organizations, government agencies, and individuals. Howard’s larger projects in the last few years include: a recent history of the Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, and a history of public school construction in New Jersey, which is nearing completion. Read more...
Rabbi Arnold Gluck: Rabbi Gluck has served as rabbi of Temple Beth-El of Hillsborough, New Jersey, since 1991. He was among the founders of the Interfaith Hospitality Network for the Homeless of Union County and Somerset County.

He has served on the CCAR Conversion Committee and remains a member of the CCAR Task Force on the Challenge of Intermarriage for the Reform Rabbi, and the URJ/CCAR Joint Commission on Outreach and Synagogue Community. Read more...
Rabbi Rebecca Epstein: We are delighted to welcome Rabbi Rebecca Epstein to our Temple community. She comes to us having recently completed her studies at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City. While attending HUC-JIR she received numerous prizes for her scholarship and excellence. She was ordained in June 2009 at Temple Emanuel in New York.
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Dr. Joseph Cohn: Joseph Cohn, MD who grew up at Anshe Emeth and had both his bar mitzvah and confirmation here, is in solo practice of Family Medicine in Highland Park.

His twenty-five year practice includes patients ranging in age from newborns to centenarians. He is a senior attending physician at RWJUH and St. Peter’s University Hospital, and is also a Clinical Asistant Professor at both UMDNJ and Drexel University School of Medicine. Read more...
Mark Busch: Mark and his wife, Frankie, have been members of Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple and of Congregation Ahavas Achim for many years.

Mark practices law with his brother and five cousins at Busch and Busch, LLP in North Brunswick, a full-service family law firm founded in 1927. He successfully litigated to gain zoning permission for both Rabbi Pesach Raymon Yeshiva and Ahavas Achim to establish and expand their buildings. Read more...
Rabbi Eric Wisnia: Rabbi Wisnia has served as rabbi of Congregation Beth Chaim in Princeton Junction, New Jersey, since 1977.

Rabbi Wisnia formerly participated in the Institutional Review Board for Medical Ethics of the Medical Center at Princeton, where he currently serves on the Committee on Religious Ministries at the Medical Center.

Additionally, Rabbi Wisnia served as President of the New Jersey Association of Reform Rabbis and as President of the Windsor Hightstown Area Ministerium.