Event Series Choosing Judaism: Fall 2024

Choosing Judaism: Fall 2024

Temple Emanu-El Ackerman Conference Room

Choosing Judaism is an eight session class for those pursuing conversion. The students will explore their own personal reasons for converting, learn more about integrating Judaism in their lives, conversion rituals, and Israel, among other topics.

Event Series Choosing Judaism: Fall 2024

Choosing Judaism: Fall 2024

Temple Emanu-El Ackerman Conference Room

Choosing Judaism is an eight session class for those pursuing conversion. The students will explore their own personal reasons for converting, learn more about integrating Judaism in their lives, conversion rituals, and Israel, among other topics.

Defiant Requiem: A Film Screening

Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Muesum

This 45-minute documentary highlights the story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant and courageous young Czech conductor who was arrested and sent to Terezín in 1941. He taught Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem to 150 prisoners, who then performed it 16 times for Terezín prisoners as an unspoken work of defiance against the Nazis. The film includes testimony...

Jewish and You: Classes for the Curious | Trimester 2

Temple Emanu-El

Jewish and You: Classes for the Curious provide basic information about core aspects of Judaism, including history, texts, foundational stories, ideas, and more. Join us to explore some of the big questions facing the Jewish people, past and future. Trimester 2 - Jewish Ideas Session 1 – Talmud and Mishnah Session 2 – Jewish Holidays...