Silver Scholar in Residence

FEATURING VANESSA L. OCHS
Associate Professor of Religious Studies at The University of Virginia

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30 • THE TEMPLE, BEACHWOOD
FEATURED FRIDAY WITH PROFESSOR OCHS

8:00 p.m. - “Jewish Spiritual Technology: Jewish Rituals, Ancient & Contemporary”
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31 • TORAH STUDY AT 9:15 AM
“Jewish Spiritual Journeys” - Drawing upon her work in feminist midrashim, Professor Ochs and Rabbi Richard Block will explore what men's and women's spiritual journeys might involve, using Abram and Sarai's momentous journey as the starting point.

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Doctors Talking with Patients/ Patients Talking with Doctors: Improving Communication in Medical Visits

FRIDAY, MAY 8 AT THE TEMPLE, BEACHWOOD
PROFESSOR DEBRA ROTER

The Temple is pleased to welcome Debra Roter as its Featured Friday guest. She is a Professor in the School of Medicine and the
School of Nursing in the Bloomberg School of Public Health at The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Roter has written widely on the
subject of patient-physician communication. She has developed a method of process analysis applied to audiotapes of medical
encounters which has been widely adopted by researchers, both nationally and internationally. Her studies include basic social
psychology research regarding communication dynamics and interpersonal influence, as well as health education and health
services research.

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THE SEARCH FOR GOD IN THE MODERN WORLD - RABBI KLEIN

Belief in God has been absolutely central to Judaism since its very beginning. Yet today many people have a great deal of difficulty with belief either because they have no plausible and compelling view of God or because they see no reason to believe in God in the first place. And the challenges of modern science and an onslaught of “New Atheists” have raised the stakes even higher. In this series we will take up the reasons people have traditionally believed in God, the modes of evidence for such belief, and the different kinds of belief featured in the Bible, the Prayerbook, and the writings of Jewish thinkers like Maimonides, Martin Buber, Mordecai Kaplan and Joseph Soloveitchik.

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Lecture 1 - April 5, 2009

Lecture 2 - April 19, 2009

Lecture 3 - May 03, 2009

Rabbi Klein on Mozart's Marriage of Figero

On Wednesday March 18, 2009 Rabbi Klein gave a lecture on Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, that was a tour de fource. For those of you who missed it, it is now available on the web in 2 parts (named prosaically Pt1 and Pt2).
To download the files onto your own machine to listen to them at your leisure, click on the links below. To listen to them now, click on the files in the Player on the right.

Marriage of Figero Pt1

Marriage of Figero Pt2

Rabbi Klein's Lecture on Jewish Humor

This January the Temple Seniors Luncheon featured the well know raconteur, philosopher, and humorist Rabbi Roger Klein in his second lecture on "Jewish Humor". For those of you who missed it, or wanted to listen to it again, or who wanted to share it with a friend, we have posted it on the web.

To Download it onto your own computer (where you can listen to it at your leisure, or burn an audio CD of it) click on the link below, and when you get to the hosting site (DivShar) click on "Download Original" on the right hand panel.

R. Klein Humor


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