Judea Reform - Adult Education Committee

10/20/2020

Join JRC and Jewish For Good (formerly the JCC) for a much needed Blood Drive. See information in the link to sign up!

Sun 25 Oct, 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Sign up here!

07/22/2020

This event tonight at 5pm, hosted by the Jewish Federation, might be of interest!

Becoming Eve: A talk with author, speaker, and activist Abby Stein

Click here to join on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84736308755

Abby Stein is a Jewish educator, author, speaker, and activist. She was born and raised in a Hasidic family of rabbinic descent, and is a direct descendant of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism. Abby attended Yeshiva, completing a rabbinical degree in 2011. In 2012, she left the Hasidic world to explore a self-determined life. In 2015 Abby came out as a woman of trans experience. Since coming out, she has been working to raise support and awareness for trans rights and those leaving Ultra-Orthodoxy.

02/14/2020

Do you have family who lived in Poland? According to the YIVO institute, around 85% of Jews in the US have Polish roots!

And although most Polish Jews fled or were killed in the N**i Holocaust, there's still a strong Jewish community thriving in Poland today.

Here are some photos of our congregant Anna Klein's presentation about "Jewish Life in Poland" last month at the synagogue. Thanks, Anna, for sharing your experience and knowledge!

01/12/2020

We are so grateful to be learning from the Hertzes, from the students of Middle Creek High School, and from Dr. Seth Kotch about how they have mapped and commemorated histories of violence: from the N**i Holocaust to North Carolina lynchings.

At today’s event “The Past is Always With Us”

02/10/2019

Some (belated) photos from an incredible talk last month by Prof. Adrienne Krone of Allegheny College - “The World of Jewish Communal Farming” - with a farm stand from our very own One Soil Farm!

02/10/2019

Full house this afternoon to hear the brilliant and engaging Judith Ruderman talk about her new book “Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture,” now out from Indiana University Press: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=809359

04/29/2018

Some photos from our beautiful Sacred Burial event with the Religious Practices committee this morning. No document containing the name of God in Hebrew can be thrown out or burned, so in accordance with Jewish ritual, we interred our retired prayerbooks in a grave next to our synagogue. Our people do truly love our books!

Many thanks to Rabbi Lara Lieber for her teaching about genizas, and to the incredible leadership of Ken Caudell,Rena Fraadee, Ray Jones, and Andrew Geller for pulling this event together. The 6th grade religious school class led an incredible service outside before we handed books down.

02/23/2018

Next Thursday evening, Mizrahi Jewish scholar Ella Habiba Shohat will speak at Carolina Center for Jewish Studies at the UNC Friday Center in a community lecture, free and open to the public.

The lecture will address our assumptions about an Arab / Jewish divide — and the ambiguous position of Arab Jews within that dichotomy. It should be of interest to the Judea Reform community!

This lecture will offer a genealogical reading of the gradual splitting of the once-linked Semitic figure into “Arab” and “Jew” and its ramifications for contemporary discourses about Jews and Muslims. Examining the shifting Orientalist imaginary in the wake of the Enlightenment and colonial...

01/14/2018

A couple of photos from Shabbat services with Koach Baruch Frazier and Dove Kent yesterday evening - we are so excited for their workshop tomorrow! If you're registered, we'll see you at 9:45AM in the Social Hall!

01/10/2018

Last call for registration! We let the numbers go over a little...but we're going to run out of space. Registration closes tonight!

https://www.judeareform.org/event/rooting-out-racism-antisemitism-and-white-supremacy-a-workshop.html

This workshop will offer insight and analysis into the ways that antisemitism, anti-Black racism and white supremacy intersect, and will enable participants to think through examples in their own lives when they've seen and felt this connection. We'll wrestle with the roles and responsibilities that...