HNT

Lunch & Learn with Rabbi Herber
2022-01-05 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-01-19 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-02-02 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-03-02 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-03-16 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-03-30 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-04-13 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-05-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 1 more date
Every other Wednesday ● 12:00-1:00pm via Zoom
Join Rabbi Herber for the series, “The Walking With,” created by the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in partnership with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, the Rabbinical Assembly, the Women’s League for Conservative Judaism, and the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs. Topics will include: Walking With Life, Walking With the Jewish Calendar, Walking With Mitzvot, Walking With History. Participants should read “Lifecycle, Covenant Cycle in preparation for the first session.
You can access the text here: https://www.aju.edu/sites/default/files/sites/default/default/docs/Walking%20With%20God/Walking%20With%20Life/2%20-%20WwLife%20Introduction%20%5BUnit%201%5D.pdf
Register at https://hnt.wufoo.com/forms/lunch-learn-with-rabbi-herber/

Introduction To Judaism
2022-01-09 10:30 - 11:30, 2022-01-16 10:30 - 11:30, 2022-01-23 10:30 - 11:30, 2022-01-30 10:30 - 11:30, 2022-02-06 10:30 - 11:30, 2022-02-13 10:30 - 11:30, 2022-02-27 10:30 - 11:30
Taught by Rabbi Jacob Herber
Sundays ● 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM ● via Zoom
This course is open to all, and is perfect for interfaith couples, those raising Jewish children, spiritual seekers, individuals considering conversion, and Jews who want a meaningful chance to reconnect with their Judaism as an adult. This class will be held online using Zoom to meet and learn together.
Please register for this class at: https://hnt.wufoo.com/forms/introduction-to-judaism/

Foundations for a Thoughtful Judaism
2022-01-12 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-01-26 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-03-09 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-03-23 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-04-06 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-04-27 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-05-11 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-05-25 19:00 - 20:30
Taught by Rabbi Jacob Herber
Every other Wednesday ● 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM ● via Zoom
Join Rabbi Herber for Foundations for a Thoughtful Judaism, The Shalom Hartman Institute’s latest curricular project, which offers a sophisticated yet accessible introduction to philosophical ideas in Jewish peoplehood, practice, faith, and ethics. Within these four rubrics we will explore the following questions:
Peoplehood
Explores questions related to the collective experience of Jewish life: What does it mean to be part of the Jewish community? To what extent can communities hold diverse and shared values at the same time? What does Jewish Peoplehood mean today, when the centers of Jewish life, North America and Israel, are so different and independent from one another?
Faith
Explores questions related to what a relationship in God and a life of faith entails: Where does faith come from? What are the models in Jewish tradition for a complex relationship with God which includes reverence and joy, but also anger and argument? Where does doubt fit into a life of faith? Where do Jews who do not believe fit in?
Practice
Explores questions that are fundamental to Jewish practice: What is the system of mitzvot trying to accomplish? Why the need for ritual action beyond belief? How have Jewish thinkers conceived of the meaning of mitzvot in an age of radical human autonomy?
Ethics
Explores questions related to ethical obligation and decision-making: How has Jewish tradition conceived of what we owe other people? How might we approach ethical dilemmas which test our loyalties to values and to people?
Register at https://hnt.wufoo.com/forms/foundations-for-a-thoughtful-judaism

Review: Two Paths to One God: Jews and Christians in Holy Difference
2022-02-21 19:00 - 20:45
Led by Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum & Reverend Elizabeth Riley via Zoom
Fifty years ago, the Christian world revolutionized its relationship with the Jewish people by rejecting the teaching of contempt, the belief that Jews were to be blamed for the death of Jesus. This led to a dramatic decrease in Christian antisemitism. But, with antisemitism on the rise, the transformation of Jewish-Christian relations can serve as a model for all of us.
In this class we will review what we discussed in our January 2021 class to lay the groundwork for our upcoming new experiences, and we will be adding some new material on The Relationship between Body and Soul in Judaism and Christianity. In this segment, we will explore more stereotypes that Jews and Christians have about each other regarding the physical world, the human body, law and love.
Registration link for all Christians & Jews In Conversation classes: https://hnt.wufoo.com/forms/christians-and-jews-in-conversation/
Zoom link when the class meets on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2280574426

The Shabbat/Sabbath in Jewish and Christian Experience
2022-03-04 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-03-13 10:00 - 12:00
Led by Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum & Reverend Elizabeth Riley
At Herzl-Ner Tamid (in-person): Friday night, March 4th, 6pm
At Emmanuel Episcopal Church (in-person): Sunday, March 13th, 10am
This will be a face-to-face encounter with Jewish and Christian spiritual practice. Members of the Christian community will have the opportunity to attend a shabbat (Sabbath) worship service at Herzl-Ner Tamid congregation on a Friday night. And, members of the Jewish community will have a chance to attend a Sunday worship service at Emmanuel Episcopal. There will be time for questions and discussion.
Registration link for all Christians & Jews In Conversation classes: https://hnt.wufoo.com/forms/christians-and-jews-in-conversation/

Scholar in Residence With Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin
2022-04-01 18:00 - 19:15, 2022-04-02 09:30 - 12:15, 2022-04-03 10:00 - 11:15
“On Israel, Zionism, and the Jewish People”
Please register to attend Scholar-In-Residence in-person here: https://hnt.wufoo.com/forms/x1grfhhb0m9p21e/
All sessions will be live-streamed via h-nt.org/youtube.
Please note that times and meal offerings have been updated since first publicized.
Friday, April 1st
6:00 PM – 6:45 PM Friday Night Services
Please join us for dinner as Rabbi Herber’s guest (register below) following services.
7:45 PM Presentation: “The Z Word: Israel Without Apology.” What is it about Israel and Zionism that is so troublesome, to so many people? Israel was supposed to be the great Jewish unifier. Why is it the source of so much discord within the American Jewish community? A candid conversation about the many narratives that comprise the Israel conversation today.
Saturday, April 2nd
10:00 AM – 12:15 PM Saturday Morning Shabbat Services
Sermon: “American Jews are from Mars; Israeli Jews are from Venus.” You know how siblings can be very different from each other? That’s American Jews and Israel. Why are we so different, and how can we still sit together at the same family table?
12:15 PM – 1:00 PM Kiddush Lunch
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM Presentation: “The Oldest Ism.” Anti-Semitism is alive and well in many places. Why? What is it about the Jews – and Judaism – that arouses so many strong feelings? How does Antisemitism present itself – in subtle and unsubtle ways?
Sunday, April 3rd
Please join us for brunch as Rabbi Herber’s guest (register below).
10:00 AM Brunch
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Presentation: “Some Of Our Best Friends” Jewish history is more than “they hated us; they tried to kill us; we won; let’s eat!” In every age, there have been gentiles who have nourished and nurtured Jewish life – and Jewish lives.
About Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin
With the regular appearance of his award-winning blog, “Martini Judaism: for those who want to be shaken and stirred,” published by the Religion News Service, Jeffrey Salkin has risen to the forefront of being one of American Judaism’s most prolific and most-quoted rabbis and thought leaders.
Ever since his first book, Putting God on the Guest List: How to Reclaim The Spiritual Meaning of Your Child’s Bar or Bat Mitzvah (Jewish Lights Publishing), Rabbi Salkin has been known for his writing, teaching and activism. His books are on such subjects as making Jewish ritual meaningful; struggling with the meaning of masculinity in today’s world; interpreting Israel and Zionism to Jews and non-Jews; and the task of reclaiming Judaism’s central role as a takes-no-prisoners, speak-truth-to-power-and-culture religious tradition.
Because of his national reputation as an American Jewish thought leader, the Chautauqua Institution, America’s iconic educational and cultural community, invited Rabbi Salkin to deliver the keynote address for its week on religion, in summer, 2020.
Rabbi Salkin’s essays have appeared in the Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Tablet, Mosaic, Forward, and JTA. He has discussed the American political scene on CNN and the BBC. He has contributed articles to scholarly journals. Several of his books have won national awards.
His colleagues have described him as “courageous,” “always relevant,” and “one of American Judaism’s true public intellectuals.”
Rabbi Salkin serves as the rabbi of Temple Israel in West Palm Beach, Florida. His hobbies include playing guitar, reading voraciously, and consuming vast quantities of coffee.
