Programs

THIS WEEKEND! SAJ Festival of Books: Book Sale, Author Roundtable and Storytelling

On Sunday, March 14 come join us and bring your family and friends to hear our SAJ authors, listen to stories, and browse and buy children's books, Judaica books, SAJ author books, and the Reconstructionist Haggadah edited by Rabbis Michael Strassfeld and Joy Levitt.  Read more»

A Jazz Shabbat Weekend

Afro-Semitic Experience to appear at SAJ

Friday, March 19 and Saturday March 20, deliver a Jazz Shabbat weekend to SAJ. Featuring the Afro-Semitic Experience at the Friday night service and a talk on "The Fusion of Jazz A Synagogue Music" given by Cantor Lisa Arbisser on Saturday, this weekend will be a unique experience and merging of different music styles. Click here to RSVP for kosher dairy/parve potluck dinner. RSVP not required if you are attending the service only.  Read more»

Adult Education Class on Biblical Literature and Poetry

Dianne Cohler Esses teaches at SAJ

Modern and contemporary poets often use Biblical images and narratives in ways that are highly personal and at times also sensual. Yehudah Amichai, one of the central poets we will study, is one of the best examples of this practice, breathing new life, so to speak into old wine skins. In this course entitled Internalizing the Word; Biblical Literature and Poetry will explore how poetry helps us read Biblical literature anew. We will analyze the artistry with which poets shifts, often radically, the traditional sense of the text, placing it in the context of personal and sometimes intimate settings and/or in the settings concerning history and the life of a society. We will also consider how biblical images and narratives might be reconfigured in light of our own lives and settings.  Read more»

SAJ Book Club

Photo of a woment reading a book in front of a moving subway

The SAJ Book club meets monthly to discuss authors and literature. Please join us for our first discussion of 2010 when we meet on Sunday evening, February 28 at 7:30PM to discuss John Updike's novel "Bech: A Book". Please contact the SAJ office at 212-724-7000 for location information. We hope you will join us.  Read more»

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