Lunch and Learn 3/18/2017
Saturday, March 18, 2017 • 20 Adar 5777
12:15 PM - 2:45 PMDCJCC, 1529 16th Street, NWJewish Unity Through Crisis? A Study of Chaim Grade's "My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner"
In the early 1950s, the Yiddish poet and novelist Chaim Grade wrote a short story depicting a multi-year dialogue between himself and an alter ego. Unlike Grade, this character, Hersh Rasseyner, had been through the camps and had remained a pious Jew. The text raises questions about the potential for
Jewish unity, particularly in times of crisis, that continue to reverberate in our time. To mark the first yartseit of Rabbi Henri Zvi Szubin z"l, who lived and embodied much of the history and discourse contained in this work, Rabbi Benjamin Weiner will lead a study of some of its exemplary passages.
Rabbi Benjamin Weiner is the spiritual leader of the Jewish Community of Amherst, Rabbi Benjamin Weiner is also a writer, a scholar of Yiddish and Irish literature, a musician, and a homesteader. A 2008 graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Rabbi Weiner studied English literature at Columbia University and received a Masters of Philosophy degree in Anglo-Irish literature from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, focusing his thesis on the works of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.
Sorry, Registration has ended.
Share Print Save To My Calendar |
Fri, April 26 2024
18 Nisan 5784
Today's Sefirah Count Is 3
היום שלשה ימים לעמר |
Candle Lighting
Friday, Apr 26, 7:38pm |
Havdalah
Motzei Shabbat, Apr 27, 8:39pm |
Subscribe to our Email List
Sign up for our weekly email with upcoming events and Shabbat davening times.
Mitzvah List
The Mitzvah Volunteer List is there when community members need a little extra support, whether it's an illness, a new baby, or some other event. To join the team, or to let them know that you or a friend needs help, email mitzvah@dcminyan.org.
Buy Wine; Support DC Minyan
If you shop at kosherwine.com (or judaica.com), use our affiliate link or select DC Minyan from the list of charities in their Give Back Program, and 5% of your order will be donated to DC Minyan.
Volunteer
As part of our continuing effort to maintain a strong and vibrant lay-led community, we encourage our members to sign up to volunteer this coming year in some capacity, including volunteering to host other members, planning or volunteering at one of our events, davening, leyning, or setting up/cleaning up Kiddush. Click to learn about volunteer opportunities.