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Synaplex 101 Ways to Connect
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Synaplex Shabbat

April 23-24

101 Ways to Connect at Adath

With A Night of 101 Dinners
and Guest Scholar Rabbi Steven Greenberg

Co-sponsored with the Adath Jeshurun Keruv (drawing close) Committee. It is made possible through the generous support of the Burton and Marty Abramson Fund and Ken and Sally Appelbaum Keruv Fund of the Adath Jeshurun Foundation, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas, and other individuals and funds.

 


Rabbi Steven Greenberg

Rabbi Steven Greenberg is Director of the CLAL Diversity Project and a Senior Teaching Fellow at CLAL (National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership). An award-winning author of Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, teacher and religious iconoclast, he has broken boundaries and led the fight to make Orthodox Judaism more open and inclusive of homosexual members. He appeared in Trembling Before God, a groundbreaking documentary about gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews.


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call (952) 545-2424 x335 or email Synaplex@adath.net



   


Friday Evening, April 23


6:00 pm
 
Kabbalat Shabbat Service
7:00 pm
 

Congregational Dinner with Rabbi Steven Greenberg: Gays in the Garden: Searching for a Place in Our People’s Story. RSVP by April 16

101 Shabbat Dinners throughout the Adath Neighborhood    click for more

 

     
Saturday Morning, April 24

Shabbat Morning Service
  Hachnasat Orchim: Constructing the Welcoming Tent D’var Torah by Rabbi Steven Greenberg
9:00 am - 10:00 am
  Wrestling with God and Man: Why My Macalester Students Loved Steven Greenberg’s Book with Rabbi Barry Cytron
10:00 am - 10:45 am
  Inside and Outside: Feeling Included at Adath with Barbara Rudnick of JFCS
10:45 am - 11:20 pm
  Inside and Outside: What’s at Adath to Do? with Abby Kirschner and panel of Adath members
9:30 am - 12:15 am
  What Is "Chadashot" Anyway? Understanding Adath-Speak in the Synaplex Coffee House with Starbucks coffee and snacks
11:30 am- 12:15 pm
  Gimel Family Service is Back! Music, spirit and fun for families with Rabbi Sadoff, Laurie Herstig and Julie Dean
10:30 am - 11:15 am
  Informal Torah Discussion with Steve Lear
1:00 am - 2:15 pm
  Learn After Lunch - Wrestling with Leviticus: Four Rationales for the Biblical Prohibitio with Rabbi Steven Greenberg
     
     

click here to download and print the full schedule and to print the RSVP for for Shabbat Dinner.