Adult Education Classes

Bagels, Lox and Learning

Our award-winning guest lecture series, Bagels, Lox, and Learning (BLL), meets on the second Sunday of every month in the Multipurpose Room of Kehillah Jewish High School in Palo Alto. For details, see the BLL Web page.

Spring Classes

Unless otherwise noted, all sessions are 7PM to 8:30 PM at Kehillah Jewish High School.

To register, or for further information on any class, please email the Keddem Adult Ed Chair, at Adult_Ed_Chair -at- Keddem.org (please make the obvious change in the address).

Forgiveness
Dennis Briskin

Forgiveness can be defined as the "peace and understanding that come from reducing or eliminating blaming that which has hurt you, taking life experience less personally and changing your grievance story." We will explore the benefits of forgiving and some techniques known to help one do it. Expect lively class discussion of highly charged topics in a safe, confidential environment. Sharing personal material will be optional. Our work together will have two aspects:

Writing in a private journal.
Reading and discussing a breathtaking work on forgiveness set in the Holocaust: The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal.

Led by Dennis Briskin, this class builds on two successful Yom Kippur workshops.

Three sessions: April 22, April 29 and May 6. Please register by April 15 via email to adult_ed_chair -at- Keddem.org (replace -at- with @).

The Ketubah
Melissa Dinwiddie

Explore this uniquely Jewish aspect of marriage through the eyes of a ketubah artist, our own Melissa Dinwiddie. The history of this document will be illustrated through picutres of antique ketubot. Learn what goes into the making of a ketubah as well as the trials and tribulations of being a ketubah artist. One session. Monday, May 10, 2010. Please register by May 3 via email to adult_ed_chair -at- Keddem.org (replace -at- with @).

Fall-Spring, Reading/Discussion Group on Contemporary Israeli Authors

On a monthly basis we read and discuss fiction produced by contemporary Israeli authors. There is no prepared agenda for the group. Instead, it is a free ranging discussion of the book chosen for each month. You are welcome to come if you have already read these authors, if you have never read these authors, if you read in Hebrew, if you read in English, if you are interested in learning about life in Israel as seen through the work of its authors. The first meeting of this year is on Oct. 14, 2009, and subsequent meetings will always be on the second Wednesday of the month at 7:30 at a member's home.

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