Jewish Learning Lab: Volume 2

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The Jewish Learning Lab

<H2><SPAN>Announcing our second crop of courses, all designed to educate and fill your minds with Jewish knowledge!</SPAN></H2>
<P><SPAN>Along with Rabbi Avi Finegold and Dr. Steven Lapidus we have a new teacher joining us, Cantor Heather Batchelor who will be teaching about the Siddur and Jewish Liturgy. We are also excited to move our spring/summer semester to the new Museum of Jewish Montreal at 4040 Boulevard St. Laurent.</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN>Classes will be held on Monday and Tuesday nights with the first class at 7:00-8:15 pm and the second at 8:30-9:45. Mondays classes will go from June 6th-July 11th with the exception of June 13th due to Shavuot. Tuesday classes will go from June 7th-July 12th. </SPAN></P>
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<H3><SPAN>Monday 7:00 PM with Cantor Heather Batchelor:</SPAN></H3>
<H3><SPAN>Road Map to the Siddur</SPAN></H3>
<P><SPAN>Do you feel lost in synagogue services? Heading in circles (wait, didn't we just say the kaddish…)? This class will give you the tools to understand the siddur, it's structure and meaning, and add depth to your "davening experience" -- all in a fun and engaging format.</SPAN></P>
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<H3><SPAN>Monday 8:30 PM with Dr. Steven Laipdus:</SPAN></H3>
<H3>Resistance during the Holocaust<SPAN></SPAN></H3>
<P><SPAN>Jewish resistance to Nazi terror was a multi-faceted and diverse.  Besides the many acts of physical resistance, such as the uprisings in Treblinka, Auschwitz and Sobibor and Warsaw, there were numerous other forms of struggle.  Religious Jews resisted by keeping up traditions against Nazi regulations and ideology.  Many donated of their time to help and succor those in even direr straits.  Humanity, hope, and mutuality helped yet others survive through gifts, extra food, a helping hand or an available ear.  Concerts, symphonies, plays, ballets and opera raised the spirits of thousands in the ghettos of eastern Europe.  Scientists performed research, reported their findings and left an intellectual legacy for future generations.  Thousands documented their experiences and described the horrors they witnessed through art, documentary projects, diaries, photographs, hand-drawn maps, monographs, poems, handicrafts – buried and secreted to survive where many of their creators did not, these examples illuminate to us the courage of those who chose humanity and morality in the midst of horror.   Join us to discover some of the lesser-known but equally remarkable and personal acts of defiance against the Nazi juggernaut.</SPAN></P>
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<H3><SPAN>Tuesday 7:00 PM With Rabbi Avi Finegold:</SPAN></H3>
<H3><SPAN>The Book Of Numbers</SPAN></H3>
<P><SPAN>Often overlooked, the Book of Bamidbar, or Numbers is an engaging look a the formative moments in the national history of the Jewish People. Wandering the desert, this is a picture of spies, leaders, laws and intrigue. Join us as we dissect key moments in the book, using literary methods, and classical and modern commentaries.</SPAN></P>
<H3><SPAN>Tuesday 8:30 With Dr. Steven Lapidus</SPAN></H3>
<H3>Jews of Montreal<SPAN></SPAN></H3>
<P><SPAN>Jews were among the first to settle in Lower Canada after the British victory, in fact several accompanied the conquering English troops.  Settling in Trois-Rivières, and eventually resettling in Montreal, they established a synagogue – the Spanish and Portuguese She’arith Israel – within a decade of their arrival.  Close-knit and traditional, the community grew only slowly, until the end of the nineteenth century, when the floodgates of eastern Europe opened and new Russian and Romanian immigrants developed a rich European Jewish culture including introducing bagels and smoked meat to Montreal.  A second wave in the early twentieth century made Yiddish the third most-spoken language in the city after French and English.  Holocaust survivors, North African Jews, Soviet Jews, Ethiopian and Argentinian Jews have joined and enriched the community since the end of the Second World War.  Join us in discovering the fascinating 250-year history of Jews in Montreal.</SPAN></P>
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<H2><SPAN>About our Educators:</SPAN></H2>
<P>Cantor Heather Batchelor graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary with a Master's in Sacred Music and Diploma of Hazzan. She has over a decade of pulpit experience, and has led diverse congregations in the U.S., Canada, France and Poland. She is currently pursuing an additional master's degree in Judaic Studies, and is enrolled in the Institute for Jewish Spirituality's Meditation Teacher's Training program. In her spare time she is teaching herself to play the ukulele.<SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN>Rabbi Avi Finegold received his ordination from Yeshivat Noam Hatorah in Montreal under the direction of Rabbi Joshua Shmidman. He studied at Concordia and the University of Chicago and has been Teaching adults in North America for 10 years. He is a founding Chair of Limmud Chicago and a past Chair of LeMood Montreal and is currently the Executive Director of the Montreal Board of Rabbis.</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN>Steven Lapidus, Ph.D., is a well-known researcher and teacher of local Jewish life and history.  Having received his doctorate at Concordia University, where he teaches, he has also taught at the State University of New York (SUNY) and McGill.  With a broad background in Jewish history and culture, he has also served as co-curator of the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre.  Join him for “Jewish Montreal” and “Resistance during the Holocaust.”</SPAN></P>

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