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Adult Education

Adult Education provides a variety of high-quality programming for our community, seeking to enhance the congregation’s understanding of the culture, religion, and practices of the Jewish people, both past and present, in our country and around the world. Our programs include:

• Guest speakers

• Talks and films about Israel and the Diaspora, including discount tickets to the Boston Jewish Film Festival

• Seasonal series of classes led by our clergy

• Adult B’nai Mitzvah classes

• Music and other special events, in person and on Zoom. 

While many of our programs are offered free of charge, we greatly appreciate any and all donations to the Arnold and Leona Rubin Adult Education Fund to help us defray costs and assist us in continuing to bring high quality programming to our community.

For more information, please email our chairs at adulted@bnaitikvahma.org.

A Novel Group

Monday, February 17: The Jazz Club Spy by Roberta Rich
The book is about a young Jewish Russian immigrant on the Lower East Side in 1939 who is determined to track down the Cossack who destroyed her village and get justice for her family. A cigarette girl at a jazz club, she gets embroiled in a plot to keep America out of World War II.

 

Monday, March 17: Songs for the Brokenhearted by Ayelet Tsabari
In an immigrant camp for Yemeni Jews in Israel in 1950, a shy young man happens upon Saida, a beautiful girl singing by the river. In the midst of chaos and uncertainty, they fall in love. But Saida is married and has a child. In 1995, her daughter Zohara flies from New York to Israel after learning Saida has died, and learns her family’s secrets.

Tue, January 21 2025 21 Tevet 5785