What started as a challenging idea – to spend a full year living gratefully – became a life-changing experience for author, magazine editor and producer Janice Kaplan. Her inspirational memoir, The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Transformed My Life reached the New York Times bestseller list. Gratitude will her topic on Wednesday, March 18 at 7 pm at the Tucson Hebrew Academy at 3888 E. River Road in Tucson for the second annual Rabbi Lee A. Kivel Lecture on Jewish Life, open to the public and presented by the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona.
Janice promises that attendees can profoundly change their family relationships with what she will share in the lecture. “Improve relationships with your children, your spouse, and the whole family. Knowing how to appreciate your children brings gratitude to their lives.” She also will talk about gratitude at work, “how it can help transform a workplace and make you more successful.”
Registration at the door, for $10, opens at 6:30 pm. Janice’s keynote will be followed by breakout sessions related to gratitude with community rabbis. Refreshments, book sales, and a book signing will follow the program.
For more information, visit jfsa.org/jewishlearning20120.
Rebecca Rust & Friedrich Edelmann – An Evening of Classical Music
Wednesday, March 18th – 7pm
FREE ADMISSION
RSVP: lbell@azjhs.org
We are proud to co-sponsor with the Los Angeles German Consulate General an evening of classical music featuring the work of Jewish composers performed by cellist Rebecca Rust and bassoonist Friedrich Edelmann.
Rust, born in Oakland and raised in Richmond, California, and Edelmann from Kaiserslautern in southwest Germany, met and have been married for over 40 years. They have had stellar teachers and performed under the baton of internationally recognized conductors, almost household names, such as Karel Ancerl, Daniel Barenboim, Carlo Maria Giulini, Erich Leinsdorf,
Lorin Maazel, and Kurt Masur. They travel about three months out of the year performing in the United States, especially the West Coast where Rust has family and friends. Performance has also taken them to Austria, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, England, France, Israel, Italy, Japan (at least 25 locations), Korea, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Tunisia, and
Venezuela, where Friedrich performed and taught while “Gustavo Dudamel was a baby.” Recently, Rust and Edelmann appeared at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust performing works of Jewish composers banned by the Nazis.
Learn the Mishnah every morning with Rabbi Israel Becker, Monday-Friday 6:15 AM, Shabbos 8:15 AM and Sundays and Major Secular Holidays 7:15 AM.
For the first time in Tucson, everyone in the Jewish community has an opportunity to have their mezuzahs checked!
March 15-19th, Rabbi Moshe Peretz Gilden – a certified scribe from the Milwaukee Kollel – will be at Congregation Chofetz Chayim to check mezuzahs.
Email Rabbi Becker at yzbecker@me.com to set up your appointment. Please indicate the number of mezuzahs. The cost is $10 per mezuzah for inspection and replacement mezuzas are available for sale.
Join us Sunday, March 15, 5-6 p.m. – Rabbi Gilden will present a forum on the detailed training of a scribe, as well as what the scribe looks for in checking a Torah, mezuzah or tefillin and mezuzah placement in homes and private property. This event is free and refreshments will be served. Please RSVP by March 11th at www.tuscontorah.org/mezuzah
Make new friends – visit with others — Join us for our monthly dinner out at a selected restaurant.
Please call Bunnye at 602-371-3744 to be seated with the group.
Third Thursday – singles and couples welcome
Thursday, March 19th at 7pm: Antisemitism: Here and Now by Deborah Lipstadt.
2019 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER
Jewish Education and Identity Award
The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left: from
white supremacist demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, to mainstream enablers of antisemitism such as Donald Trump and Jeremy Corbyn, to a gay pride march in Chicago that expelled a group of women for carrying a Star of David banner.
Over the last decade there has been a noticeable uptick in antisemitic rhetoric and incidents by left-wing groups targeting Jewish students and Jewish organizations on American college campuses. And the reemergence of the white nationalist movement in America, complete with Nazi slogans and imagery, has been reminiscent of the horrific fascist displays of the 1930s. Throughout Europe, Jews have been attacked by terrorists, and some have been murdered.
Where is all this hatred coming from? Is there any significant difference between left-wing and right-wing antisemitism? What role has the anti-Zionist movement played? And what can be done to combat the latest manifestations of an ancient hatred? In a series of letters to an imagined college student and imagined colleague, both of whom are perplexed by this resurgence, acclaimed historian Deborah Lipstadt gives us her own superbly reasoned, brilliantly argued, and certain to be controversial responses to these troubling questions.
Learn the Mishnah every morning with Rabbi Israel Becker, Monday-Friday 6:15 AM, Shabbos 8:15 AM and Sundays and Major Secular Holidays 7:15 AM.
Get a “life lift” every Friday! Join Rabbi Becker for stimulating and provocative discussions based on the Torah portion, the Talmud and commentaries. Each week participants together will “plunge” into the sacred texts leading to challenging questions and healthy debate. In our pursuit of truth our thoughts crystallize and we emerge each week with “breakthrough” lessons that reshape our values, enhance our character and bring refreshing new meaning to our lives.
Contact Rabbi Becker at 520-747-7780 for more information. The program is free and open to all men and women in the Tucson Jewish community.
| Shabbat Dinner
Friday, March 20th, 4:45pm Scrumptious full course Shabbat dinner! Suggested minimum donation: $5 (to donate online click here.) RSVP REQUIRED: chani@sosaz.org or call 602-492-7670 |
New fitness class beginning on Saturday mornings 8:00am
Start your Saturday strong! Commit to balance training that will increase your strength and endurance while providing a complete body workout. BOSU (or both sides up) will incorporate circuits as well as group exercises designed to maximize use of this clever piece of equipment as a tool for functional fitness training. Be prepared to sweat!