INNOVATIVE CURRENTS IN CONTEMPORARY JEWISH THOUGHT: FRANZ ROSENZWEIG, EMMANUEL LEVINAS, MICHAEL FISHBANE – Led by Rabbi Klein

Contemporary Jewish thinkers, like their significant non-Jewish European and American counterparts, have mounted a challenge to the world view of the Enlightenment, a view that privileges reason, universalism, and the idea of a common humanity.

In these three sessions we will explore the path-breaking writings of Franz Rosenzweig, Emmanuel Levinas, and Michael Fishbane. We will read and discuss Rosenzweig’s work on “The New Thinking,” excerpts from Levinas’s Nine Talmudic Readings and other writings, and passages from Fishbane’s recent Sacred Attunement.

To Download the Lectures click on the link below.

Lecture 1 April 11, 2010

Lecture 2 April 18, 2010

Lecture 3 April 25, 2010

Featured Friday - President Barbara Snyder

BARBARA R. SNYDER
President of Case Western Reserve University

The Temple is pleased to welcome Barbara R. Snyder as our Featured Friday speaker. A legal scholar who began her academic career at Case Western Reserve University, she became president on July 1, 2007, with a promise towork collaboratively with all constituencies to help the university realize more of its enormous potential.

To listen to her lecture use the player on the right.

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Jerry Graham

THE TEMPLE SENIORS

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24 2010

THE TEMPLE SENIORS WELCOME POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR
JERRY GRAHAM, BACK TO THE TEMPLE WHERE HE WILL DISCUSS:

“What Are We Laughing At And Should We Be Laughing"

To Listen to Jerry Graham's talk use the player on the right.

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COSI FAN TUTTE: MOZART’S OPERA OF LOVE, GAIETY, SATIRE AND UNMANAGEABLE PASSIONS

A PRESENTATION OF THE OPERA’S MUSIC AND MEANING

Rabbi Roger Klein

Wednesday, February 24 from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Cosi Fan Tutte, which the Cleveland Orchestra will perform on March 2, 4, 6, and 8, contains some of the most stunningly beautiful music in all of opera. It is also an opera that haunts the listener because, though the plot seems trivial and the characters superficial and silly, the unfolding of events, the shifting loyalties of the protagonists,and the ambiguous ending call into question the ideal of romantic love and human constancy.

To download the lecture to your computer click on the link below, and at the hosting site click on "Download Original"

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Rabbi Klein's lecture on Cosi Fan Tutte

SmART Sundays - Rabbi Klein's lectures on Mahler

Gustav Mahler, Judaism, and German Expressionism
Sunday, January 31, February 7, 13 & 21 • 10:00 a.m. - Noon
Taught by Rabbi Roger C. Klein

Discover the astonishing works of Gustav Mahler and the contemporary artistic movement known as German Expressionism. Participants will explore Mahler’s complex relationship to Judaism and discuss examples of his works with their stunning range of raw emotional content.

All three lectures of this series are currently available. To download them to your computer click on the links below, and at the hosting site click on "Download Original"

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Lecture 1 January 31, 2010

Lecture 2 February 7, 2010

Lecture 3 February 21, 2010

Rabbi Klein's 2010 Lecture on Jewish Humor

Once agin it is January, and the Temple Seniors Luncheon featured the well know raconteur, philosopher, and humorist Rabbi Roger Klein in his Third 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.

Rabbi Klein Jewish Humor 2010

To listen to it "live" click on the file in the Player on the right ( The most recent lecture is at the bottom).

Happy listening and laughing!