Congregation Beth Mordecai
Congregation Beth Mordecai
An inclusive congregation affiliated with the Conservative Movement.
Your Jewish Home for the Soul!
An inclusive congregation affiliated with the Conservative Movement.
Your Jewish Home for the Soul!
June 1, 2019 By Beth Mordecai no comments.
On Friday, June 21, we will discuss Rashi's Daughters, Miriam: A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Medieval France , the second novel in the popular Rashi's Daughters trilogy about the lives and loves of three daughters of the great Talmud scholar.
The engrossing historical series of three sisters living in eleventh-century Troyes, France, continues with the tale of Miriam, the lively and daring middle child of Salomon ben Isaac, the great Talmudic authority.
Having no sons, he teaches his daughters the intricacies of Mishnah and Gemara in an era when educating women in Jewish scholarship was unheard of. His middle daughter, Miriam, is determined to bring new life safely into the Troyes Jewish community and[...]
May 10, 2019 By Beth Mordecai no comments.
Learn more about the prolific (and essential) great Medieval commentator, Rashi, in this racy, captivating and fun historical novel, Rashi's Daughters, Joheved: A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Medieval France (book one of the popular Rashi's daughters series).
It's 1068, and the scholar Salomon ben Isaac ("Rashi") returns home to Troyes, France, to take over the family winemaking business. He embarks on a path that will indelibly influence the Jewish world, writing the first Talmud commentary, and secretly teaching Talmud to his daughters.
Joheved, the eldest of his three girls, finds her mind and spirit awakened by religious study, but, knowing the risk, she must keep her passion for learning and prayer hidden. When she[...]
February 7, 2019 By Beth Mordecai no comments.
Meets February 7 at 7 p.m. and special event on March 2. In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic and dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York harbor in 1899. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert, trapped in an old copper flask, and released in New York City, though still not entirely free. Ahmad and Chava become unlikely friends and soul[...]
Category : Book Club
December 8, 2018 By Beth Mordecai no comments.
Join us to read and discuss "The Haj," by Leon Uris.
The Haj is an epic story of hate and love, vengeance and forgiveness. It is about a Palestinian Arab family caught up in the Middle East's historic events of the 1920s-1950s as witnessed by Ishmael, the youngest son of a village leader's family. The book discusses the interactions and clashed between Ishmael's village and the Jewish pioneers building up Palestine, and making it into Israel.
Tuesday, December 11 at 7 p.m.
Location: Congregation Beth Mordecai
RSVP to Rabbi.SaraMetz@gmail.com
