Join renowned storyteller, scholar, and rabbi Dan Judson for a thoughtful lecture and interactive conversation on The Past and Future of Liberal Zionism. At this moment of crisis in Israel, the very possibility of a Zionism that is grounded in liberal, humanistic values has come into question. In this lecture, we will define what liberal Judaism means in today’s context, explore some of its history, and ask what the future holds for liberal Zionism. Catered dinner and desserts served.

6:00pm Dinner and 6:30-8:00pm Lecture 

This event will be on Zoom starting at approximately 6:30pm.

Rabbi Dan Judson, Ph.D. serves as the Provost of Hebrew College in Newton, MA where he is also a lecturer in Jewish history. Rabbi Judson received his doctorate in Jewish history at Brandeis University and his book, Pennies for Heaven: The History of American Synagogues and Money (University of Chicago Press, 2018) was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. He is presently working on a book about American Zionist history, When America Became Zionist: The Lodge-Fish Resolution of 1922 and the Surprising Group of Politicians who Changed American Policy Towards Israel. His research and writing on new models of synagogue finance have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Haaretz, Reform Judaism magazine and many other Jewish publications. He is also a storyteller who has appeared on the MOTH national radio hour.

This program is funded in part by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation     

Miri Leshem-Pelly will be visiting Temple Sinai to teach children and their families about the amazing beauty and diversity of Israel's flora and fauna. Her new book, A Feather, A Pebble, A Shell follows a girl’s hikes through the diverse nature sites of Israel.

Join us as Miri shares her creative process, reads her new book, and teaches us about the natural wonders of Israel

Whether you are speaking at a town hall meeting, on campus, or shooting a video for social media, you have to know how to grab your audience's attention in the first 30 seconds and then concisely talk about Israel in a way that is engaging and resonates with your audience.

In our workshop on Sunday, we will learn techniques in presentation skills and crafting messages for various audiences in talking about Israel.

We will see some of the top influencers, spokespeople and content creators in the field for sources of information and inspiration.

And, of course, this will be hands on. Some of the participants will try their speaking skills in filmed simulations.

Linda Lovitch is a media consultant in Israel with decades of experience working with Israel's spokespersons and diplomats.

She truly knows how to talk to the toughest of crowds.

A BAJC initiative in collaboration with All Souls Church in West Brattleboro, welcoming the interfaith community and the general public. Event will be held at All Souls Church, West Brattleboro.

Four Women of Vision are arriving from Israel to the United States ready to share our hearts’ vision in sacred space with you. We invite you to be part of our tribe, to pray, to dream, to lead the way out of the fire of war into leadership and responsibility. What can we do? We can meet you, share our stories and our process, create rituals, sing, dance and learn together. We can talk with your community, facilitate workshops using theater and art, perform in song, dance and storytelling. Join us in visioning a new way together.

Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger and Noor A'wad are leaders of the West Bank-based Roots/Shorashim/Judur, a local Palestinian-Israeli grassroots initiative for understanding, non-violence, and transformation. Roots' work is aimed at challenging the assumptions the two communities hold about each other. They represent a unique network of Israelis and Palestinians who have come to see each other as partners in the work to make changes to reduce tension, prevent escalation, and end the conflict.

Rabbi Hanan and Noor will discuss their personal experiences having spent most of their lives living in the heart of the conflict, both before October 7, 2023, and since. They will also share how their perspectives, their work, and their societies have and have not been changed in recent months, how Israeli and Palestinian communities view Roots, and what they see for the future.

To Register, please go to www.shalomalliancevt.org and click on events.

Please join us as we string together bracelets bearing the names of the hostages to maintain and spread

awareness to the greater community.

The 35th Annual Hannah A. Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies

A Mini-Residency

Middlebury College

October 17-18, 2023

Lecture, Tuesday, October 17

4:30 pm, Twilight Hall Auditorium

Peter Cole will speak on “Wanting Song, In the Beginning: Poetic Surprise and Jewish Life”

Poet, translator, MacArthur Foundation fellow and senior lecturer at Yale, Peter Cole has published several volumes of poetry and translation, including The Dream of the Poem (2007), his prize-winning anthology of translations of medieval Hebrew poetry. In his lecture he will attempt some broader reflection on the religious functions of Jewish poetry in its various socio-historical contexts.

Poetry Reading, Wednesday, October 18

4:30 pm, Abernethy Room

Cole reads from his new book of poems, Draw Me After (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2022)

The Hannah A. Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies, now in its 35th year, was established with the mandate “to provoke interest in and to deepen understanding of the culture, the religion, the history, and the literature of the Jews, and to bring a Jewish perspective to bear on ethical and political questions. Its goal is also to draw not only the Middlebury College community, but the people of the town and region into the discussion and debate.”  In that spirit, all are welcome.

For further information, click here.

Contact: Vijaya Wunnava, Coordinator, Program in Jewish Studies, Middlebury College, Middlebury VT 05753

Email: vwunnava@midlebury.edu  / Tel. 802-443-5009.

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Peter Cole is a celebrated poet and translator whose work takes root where cultures meet and where tradition is at once retrieved and extended in vital fashion. Praised for his “prosodic mastery” and “keen moral intelligence” (The American Poet), and for the “rigor, vigor, joy, and wit” of his poetry (The Paris Review), Cole has created a ramifying vision of connectedness that defies conventional distinctions between old and new, foreign and familiar, translation and original. He is, Harold Bloom wrote, “a matchless translator and one of the handful of authentic poets in his own American generation.”

Born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1957, Cole has published several books of poems. They include Draw Me After (2022),Rift (1989), Things on Which I’ve Stumbled (2008), The Invention of Influence (2014), and Hymns & Qualms: New and Selected Poems and Translations (2017). With Adina Hoffman, he wrote the nonfiction volume Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza (2011). Described by Harold Bloom as a “major poet-translator,” Cole has translated important writers in Hebrew and Arabic, including Aharon Shabtai and Taha Muhammad Ali. He also edited and translated The Poetry of the Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition (2012) and The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950–1492 (2007), a comprehensive rendering of the Hebrew poetry of the Spanish “Golden Age” into contemporary English.

Cole has received many honors and awards, among them fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and a genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation. He is the recipient of a National Jewish Book Award for Poetry, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, a TLS Translation Prize, the American Library Association’s Sophie Brody Medal for outstanding Jewish literature, and the 2010 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Cole divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven, Connecticut, where he teaches each spring at Yale University.

The 35th Annual Hannah A. Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies

A Mini-Residency

Middlebury College

October 17-18, 2023

Lecture, Tuesday, October 17

4:30 pm, Twilight Hall Auditorium

Peter Cole will speak on “Wanting Song, In the Beginning: Poetic Surprise and Jewish Life”

Poet, translator, MacArthur Foundation fellow and senior lecturer at Yale, Peter Cole has published several volumes of poetry and translation, including The Dream of the Poem (2007), his prize-winning anthology of translations of medieval Hebrew poetry. In his lecture he will attempt some broader reflection on the religious functions of Jewish poetry in its various socio-historical contexts.

Poetry Reading, Wednesday, October 18

4:30 pm, Abernethy Room

Cole reads from his new book of poems, Draw Me After (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2022)

The Hannah A. Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies, now in its 35th year, was established with the mandate “to provoke interest in and to deepen understanding of the culture, the religion, the history, and the literature of the Jews, and to bring a Jewish perspective to bear on ethical and political questions. Its goal is also to draw not only the Middlebury College community, but the people of the town and region into the discussion and debate.”  In that spirit, all are welcome.

For further information, click here.

Contact: Vijaya Wunnava, Coordinator, Program in Jewish Studies, Middlebury College, Middlebury VT 05753

Email: vwunnava@midlebury.edu  / Tel. 802-443-5009.

  * * * * *

Peter Cole is a celebrated poet and translator whose work takes root where cultures meet and where tradition is at once retrieved and extended in vital fashion. Praised for his “prosodic mastery” and “keen moral intelligence” (The American Poet), and for the “rigor, vigor, joy, and wit” of his poetry (The Paris Review), Cole has created a ramifying vision of connectedness that defies conventional distinctions between old and new, foreign and familiar, translation and original. He is, Harold Bloom wrote, “a matchless translator and one of the handful of authentic poets in his own American generation.”

Born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1957, Cole has published several books of poems. They include Draw Me After (2022),Rift (1989), Things on Which I’ve Stumbled (2008), The Invention of Influence (2014), and Hymns & Qualms: New and Selected Poems and Translations (2017). With Adina Hoffman, he wrote the nonfiction volume Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza (2011). Described by Harold Bloom as a “major poet-translator,” Cole has translated important writers in Hebrew and Arabic, including Aharon Shabtai and Taha Muhammad Ali. He also edited and translated The Poetry of the Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition (2012) and The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950–1492 (2007), a comprehensive rendering of the Hebrew poetry of the Spanish “Golden Age” into contemporary English.

Cole has received many honors and awards, among them fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and a genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation. He is the recipient of a National Jewish Book Award for Poetry, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, a TLS Translation Prize, the American Library Association’s Sophie Brody Medal for outstanding Jewish literature, and the 2010 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Cole divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven, Connecticut, where he teaches each spring at Yale University.

The 2023 A. Pearly & Edith C. Feen Lecture Seriesspeaker is Dahlia Lithwick.

Dahlia Lithwick is the author of Lady Justice, Supreme Court Reporter, public speaker, Senior Editor at Slate Magazine, regular contributing analyst at MSNBC and AMICUS Podcast Host.

Please register here.

The award-winning author of Four Perfect Pebbles will be speaking with JCOGS students and the wider community about her extraordinary experience surviving the Holocaust.   Please register below for the Zoom link.

Join us in a night of music to remember the victims of the Holocaust.

Temple Trio are players of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra (Laura Markowitz, violin; Ana Ruesink, viola; and John Dunlop, cello). Berta Frank will host the event.

"Davidovits' stories are unique and finely honed, and while highly personal, their vivid depiction of survival and the determination of the human spirit–even in the face of barbarity and seemingly insurmountable odds–is universal and will remain relevant to every generation."

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

JEWISH COMMUNITY OF GREATER STOWE AND VERMONT HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL
COMMEMORATE THE HOLOCAUST WITH MUSIC OF JEWISH RESISTANCE

REGISTER BELOW

The Jewish Community of Greater Stowe (JCOGS) in conjunction with the Vermont Holocaust Memorial are planning a tribute to the spirit of resistance—and a solemn remembrance of the Jewish and other victims of the Holocaust, the unprecedented genocide perpetrated by Nazi Germany and its allies during World War Two. The commemoration and
concert will be held at JCOGS, 1189 Cape Cod Road, Stowe, at 4PM on Sunday, April 16 th .

Featured as part of the commemoration will be a concert entitled Whispers From the Past, performed by
Temple Trio, musicians from the Vermont Symphony Orchestra: Laura Markowitz, violin; Ana
Ruesink, viola; and John Dunlop, cello. Musicologist and child of Holocaust survivor, Berta Frank, will
host the event.

“For many of the doomed inmates of Theresienstadt (Terezín) concentration camp in
Czechoslovakia, and other sites of murder and horror, composing and performing music helped to
preserve their souls,” said Debora Steinerman, president and cofounder of the Vermont Holocaust
Memorial, an organizer of the event. “These compositions are vital historical records of a painful
time and afford us a glimpse of some of the feelings experienced by many of these prisoners.”

“Whispers from the Past” is a concert that interweaves music composed during the Holocaust with ancestral Jewish melodies- a program that transcends a time of sorrow with the human desire for hope. Performing is Temple Trio, a string trio consisting of violin, viola and cello.

Besides music of composers who perished in the camps such as Viktor Ullmann, Gideon Klein and Hans Krasa, there will be music of two composers who lived through the Holocaust, as well as some Yiddish songs.

Temple Trio are players of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra (Laura Markowitz, violin; Ana Ruesink, viola; and John Dunlop, cello). Berta Frank will host the event.

Rsvp to HHEdDirector@gmail.com to help plan our set up needs.

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