What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with the categories of black and white? Join historian Eric Goldstein, author of The Price of Whiteness, as he shares an overview of the uneasy place Jews have held in America’s racial culture. Dr. Goldstein will trace the often tumultuous encounter with race, from the 1870s through to WWII, when Jews became vested as part of America’s white mainstream. He will also discuss how these issues have shaped the relationship between Jews and African Americans, from the 19th century through contemporary movements for racial justice. A Q & A with Dr. Goldstein will follow his talk.
Professor Goldstein is the author of The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity
9:00 – Sunday School
Adult Programming
10:30 – Schmooze & Announcements
11:00 – Service
11:30-12:45 – Harnessing the Benefits of Behavioral Science in a Challenging Time, with Nurit Nobel
30-40 minute talk, followed by a 30-45 minute Q and A
As an Israeli PhD researcher in Economic Psychology at Stockholm School of Economics and the CEO and co-founder of Impactually, a behavioral science consultancy, Nurit Nobel aims to improve people’s health, wellbeing, and finances. Join us as she speaks with us about how behavioral insights can be used to nudge each of us, during a challenging time, into living more deliberately in accordance with our highest values.
Visitors are always welcome! For Zoom information, please RSVP to info@kahalbraira.org.
The Executive Committee is Kahal B’raira’s leadership and coordinating body. It includes the president, vice-president, treasurer, secretary, members-at-large, Sunday school chair and representative to the Society for Humanistic Judaism. Meetings are open to all KB members. RSVP for Zoom link to info@kahalbraira.org
KB members are invited to join our book group where we will learn together through reading, self-reflection, and discussion. We will read both non-fiction and fiction (current and historical fiction) and will also share online resources with each other that will support our learning and current experiences. This is a peer-supported group and not led by an expert on the subject. We are on a learning journey and hope you will join us.
For the Zoom link, please email info@kahalbraira.org.
Tentative Schedule
October – initial meeting – discussion / introduction initial self-reflection
November – So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
December – Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
January – The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
February – Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, by Beverly Daniel Tatum
March – The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
April – The Color of Law, by Richard Rothstein [no relation]
May – Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, by Eddie S Glaude, Jr.
June – Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson
9:00 – Sunday School
Adult Programming
10:30 – Schmooze & Announcements
11:00 – Service
11:30-12:45 – The Band’s Visit Movie Discussion
Join us for a facilitated discussion of the The Band’s Visit (2007), winner of eight Ophir (Academy Award) prizes by the Israeli Film Board. The film presents a musical band composed of members of the Egyptian police force, as they head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center. Finding themselves lost in the wrong town, both Egyptians and Israelis overcome ethnic barriers, finding companionship through a pervading undercurrent of shared melancholy. The Boston Globe reviewer described this film as a “comedy and tragedy of the things that separate people: borders, religions, languages, loneliness. It’s a small, profoundly satisfying movie that keeps echoing long after it’s over.”
NOTE: We will NOT be screening the film together. The film is available to stream for free here. You can find other places to watch at here. Please watch the movie in advance of the discussion.
KB members are invited to join our book group where we will learn together through reading, self-reflection, and discussion. We will read both non-fiction and fiction (current and historical fiction) and will also share online resources with each other that will support our learning and current experiences. This is a peer-supported group and not led by an expert on the subject. We are on a learning journey and hope you will join us.
For the Zoom link, please email info@kahalbraira.org.
Tentative Schedule
October – initial meeting – discussion / introduction initial self-reflection
November – So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
December – Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
January – The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
February – Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, by Beverly Daniel Tatum
March – The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
April – The Color of Law, by Richard Rothstein [no relation]
May – Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, by Eddie S Glaude, Jr.
June – Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson
9:00 – Sunday School
Adult Programming
10:30 – Schmooze & Announcements
11:00 – Service
11:30-12:45 – Ashkenaz Rising: The Near Demise and Resurgence of Yiddish Musical Culture
In this multimedia lecture, ethnomusicologist Hankus Netsky examines the factors that led to the near demise of Yiddish musical culture. As a pioneering member of a movement to revive this nearly lost art form, Netsky will present an overview of an amazing four-decades of cultural rekindling, with personal insights about a resurgence that has grown to thousands of participants and fans across the Americas, Europe, Australia and Asia.
RSVP to info@kahalbraira.org for the Zoom link.
The Executive Committee is Kahal B’raira’s leadership and coordinating body. It includes the president, vice-president, treasurer, secretary, members-at-large, Sunday school chair and representative to the Society for Humanistic Judaism. Meetings are open to all KB members. RSVP for Zoom link to info@kahalbraira.org