Come relax and enjoy Shabbat together!
All ages welcome!
6:00 PM - Services
7:00 PM - Dinner
- $10 per adult, $5 per child (under 13)
- BYOB (unopened Kosher)
- RSVP by Noon on Wednesday, December 12
8:15 PM - Following dinner everyone is welcome to join us
in the Chapel for a Joy of Shabbat Featured Speaker:
Dr. Alon Tam
Jewish Middle Eastern Culture in Modern Israel
This talk will take an in-depth look at the history and culture of Middle Eastern and North African Jews (Mizrahim) in Israel today. It will start with a brief historical background on the Jewish communities of the Ottoman Empire (including Ottoman Palestine/Israel), Iran, and Morocco; their culture; their Aliyah (immigration to Israel), and their integration into Israeli society. We will then focus on the culture they brought with them, and produced, in Israel: music, literature, film, food, and more. In this framework, we may also consider such issues as cultural orientations, generational differences, memory and forgetting, cultural decline and revival.
Dr. Alon Tam is currently a Fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, and an Israel Institute Visiting Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also earned his PhD. He is a social and cultural historian of the Middle East, who has done research on such topics as the history of coffeehouses in Cairo, Jewish social identities in Egypt, the Judeo-Arabic press in Morocco, or film, literature, and food in the Middle East.