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September
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11
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Friday Evening
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Adult Community Program: “Hot Topics” – A discussion among friends - Come to an
informal discussion over burning issues over coffee, tea and dessert – 8
PM at NEW LOCATION -The Reformed Church of
Highland Park
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3
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Sunday
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Open House, 11:00 AM — 12:30 PM, Rutgers Prep (Call 732-545-9691 for
directions and further information.)
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19
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Saturday
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Rosh Hashana
Ceremony - 11:00 AM - Rutgers Prep.
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27
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Sunday
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(Class 1)
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Opening Ceremony/Parent
Orientation
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28
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Monday
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Yom Kippur Ceremony
- 11:00 AM - Rutgers Prep.
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October
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2-4
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Friday-Sunday
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Weekend
retreat at Stokes State Forest – no school
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11
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Sunday
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(Class 2)
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Sukkot Celebration - 11:00 AM - Rutgers Prep.
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18
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Sunday
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(Class 3)
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Adult Yiddish Class: First meeting to discuss framework
for the year – 9:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
Adult Community Program:
Some brainstorming to gather ideas for the year's Sunday morning
programs. 10:30 AM at Rutgers
Prep.
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23
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Friday Evening
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Adult Community Program: A Presentation by Medea Benjamin, the Founding Director of
Global Exchange. For over twenty years, Medea has supported human rights
and social justice struggles around the world. She is also the co-founder of CODEPINK:
Women for Peace, a women's group that has been organizing creative
actions against the war in Iraq. CODEPINK
is pushing for a reorientation of budget priorities in the US to focus on
heath care, education and housing, not war. Code Pink now has over 250
chapters throughout the United States.
7:00 PM at the Reformed Church of Highland Park, 19-21 S. 2nd
Ave., Highland Park.
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25
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Sunday
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(Class 4)
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Adult Community Program: A Presentation by Warren I. Schaeffer, Ph.D.:
"Everything we know about Influenza 1915 to Present" – This
presentation will include the history of influenza in the U.S.; what the
"H" and "N" mean, why we need to vaccinate
seasonally, and what is about H1N1 that made it so scary originally? 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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November
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1
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Sunday
Sunday afternoon
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(Class 5)
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Adult Community
Program: A
Presentation by Joel Cantor, Sc.D. “The Healthcare Reform
Debate: Impacts for real
people." Joel Cantor is the
Director of the Center for State Health Policy and Professor of Public
Policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Dr. Cantor’s research
focuses on issues of health care regulation, financing, and
delivery. 9:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
Adult Community Program: Movie and Dinner at the Rutgers New
Jersey Jewish Film Festival - "The Little Traitor” " at 3:30 PM
at the Regal Theater in North Brunswick.
Based on a novel by Amos Oz and set in the final months of the
British Mandate of Palestine, The Little Traitor is the lyrical story of
an unlikely friendship between an English sergeant and a twelve-year-old
boy who longs for Israel’s statehood.
Caught between his hatred of the British and his affection for
Sergeant Dunlop, Proffy soon discovers that the course of his young life
has been changed forever. The show
will likely sell out, so get your tickets in advance here. After the film, we will travel just
north on Route 1 to the Omega Diner to have dinner together and discuss
the film.
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8
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Sunday
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(Class 6)
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Adult
Community Program: Peretz Introductions – Family Roots - Everyone
will have 5 minutes to share their family background with the group or
alternatively to introduce themselves however they choose - careers,
hobbies, interests. 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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15
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Sunday
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(Class 7)
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Adult Community Program: "Odessa - The Jewish Soul of a
Cosmopolitan City” – A presentation by Valery Bazarov, Director of HIAS
(Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) Family History and Location Services. He will speak about Odessa's past,
growing up in Odessa, living as a refusnik, and the future of Jewish life
in Odessa. 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep."
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22
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Sunday
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(Class 8)
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Classroom Visitation
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29
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Sunday
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Thanksgiving weekend — no school
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December
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4
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Friday Evening
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Adult Community Program: “Justice, Tough Love, and Politics in the Hebrew
Bible” – A presentation by Gordon
Schochet, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers.
Professor Schochet is the founding editor of Hebraic Political
Studies, a journal devoted to the recovery of the uses of Biblical and
rabbinic Hebrew writings in the history of political thought. 8 PM at The Reformed Church of Highland
Park, 19-21
S. 2nd Ave., Highland Park.
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6
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Sunday
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(Class 9)
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Children - Latke Making
Adult Community Program: Avi Hoffman's "Too Jewish - A Mensch & His
Musical" A video of Avi Hoffman presenting the theater, comedy and
Yiddish songs that were part of his Jewish upbringing. 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
Everyone – Annual Coat Drive
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13
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Sunday
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(Class 10)
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Chanukah Celebration - 11 AM
at Rutgers Prep.
Our annual Chanukah Mitzvah
Day will take place after school from 12:30 to 3:30 PM. Following pizza in the mult-purpose
room, we will make a "car caravan" to the Stein Assisted Living
Residence on DeMott Lane. Join in
the fun as the children lead a Chanukah music sing-along with the
residents followed by dreidel playing.
This is a mitzvah and a community outreach activity that makes
everyone feel good!
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18
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Friday Evening
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10th Annual Chanukah Party for
the adult members of the entire Peretz Community
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20
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Sunday
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(Class 11)
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Adult Community Program: "Bar and Bat Mitzvah in a Secular-Humanistic
Community" - a presentation by Ira Mintz, I. L Peretz
President. The program will address
the many options one has in celebrating this rite of passage into young
adulthood. A Bar or Bat Mitzvah
can be a very special opportunity to explore how to make our Jewishness
relevant to ourselves and our children. 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep. Postponed to January 3 because of snow.
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27
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Sunday
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Winter Break - no school
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January
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3
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Sunday
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(Class 12)
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Adult Community Program: "Bar and Bat Mitzvah in a Secular-Humanistic
Community" - a presentation by Ira Mintz, I. L Peretz
President. The program will
address the many options one has in celebrating this rite of passage into
young adulthood. A Bar or Bat Mitzvah
can be a very special opportunity to explore how to make our Jewishness
relevant to ourselves and our children. 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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10
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Sunday
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(Class 13)
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Adult
Community Program:
"Stem Cell Research - Fact, Fiction, and Ethics" -Peretz member
Rick Cohen will discuss the basic elements of human stem cell research
and then go on to discuss moral and ethical implications for our society
whether or not we are in a more restrictive or permissive Federal/State
environment. 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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Sunday
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(Class 14)
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Martin Luther King Ceremony
Adult Community Program: "Mayn rue-plats - My resting place” - a
presentation by Nikolai Borodulin - Assistant Director, Center for Jewish
Cultural Life of the Workmen’s Circle.
There is an honor row of great Yiddish literary figures and
activists at the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring section of Mt. Carmel
Cemetery." Nikolai will talk
about the amazing legacy of Yiddish culture and activism reflected on the
tombstones. 10:30 AM at Rutgers
Prep.
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Friday Evening
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Adult Community Program: “Speaking Truth to
Power: Jewish Freethinkers / Apikorsim from Abraham to Sherwin Wine” – A
presentation by Bennett Muraskin.
If following the 613 commandments, praying and religious ritual
are not relevant to our Jewish identity as secular Jews, then what
is?
What
is unique to Jewish tradition is questioning authority. Beginning with Abraham, Bennett
Muraskin will illuminate the history of Jewish free thought, as expressed
in the Torah, other books of the Jewish Bible, the Talmud, Midrash and
Hasidic folklore. He will also
discuss some well-known and lesser known Jewish heretics throughout the
ages from Roman Judea to medieval Afghanistan, Renaissance Italy, 17th
century Spain and 20th century Poland, culminating with Rabbi Sherwin
Wine, the leading contemporary voice of secular humanistic Judaism, who
died in 2007.
Join
the Peretz Community on this journey through the history of this
neglected but still vital tradition in Jewish life. 8:00 PM at The Reformed Church of
Highland Park, 19-21 S. 2nd Ave., Highland Park.
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Sunday
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(Class 15)
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Adult Community Program: "Introduction
to [Jewish] Genealogy (Family tree research)" - Peretz member Ron Herrmann
will share his personal knowledge about family tree research using
available tools. 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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31
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Sunday
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(Class 16)
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Tu B'Shevat Celebration
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February
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7
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Sunday
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(Class 17)
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Adult Community Program: “Sunday Morning Cartoons” – An
assortment of modern adult animated feature films and shorts curated by
Peretz community member Mike Weiss.
Teens are welcome and encouraged to attend. 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep..
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Sunday
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(Class 18)
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Adult
Community Program: A
Presentation by Peretz Attorney Lynn Miller on Secular and Jewish
Environmental Law. 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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19
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Friday Evening
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Adult
Community Program: “A Twentieth Century Odyssey - Jewish Poultry
Farmers in the Garden State” - From the 1920s to the 1960s, in
communities from Vineland in the south to Freehold in the north, three generations of Jewish farmers
established the state's important poultry and egg industry and saw it
prosper and then fail as economic and social conditions changed. Mostly first-generation immigrants from the cities, and
later refugees from Nazi Germany, they came from an urban culture but
quickly mastered and introduced modern farming techniques. As farmers, they established strong
social and community ties that endure in the hearts of their
descendants. Excerpts from a 1993
film by former Princeton resident Gertrude Dubrovsky (who grew up on a
farm in Farmingdale) about these experiences will be shown, followed by
presentations by Marion Munk and Allen Kassof, who grew up on farms in
Toms River in mid-century. 8:00 PM at The Reformed Church of Highland Park,
19-21 S. 2nd Ave., Highland Park.
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Sunday
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(Class 19)
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Adult
Community Program: “Equipping Progressive Citizens of the
Jewish World: Jewish Languages, Jewish Practices, and Secular Jewish
Spirituality”.
As the Workmen’s Circle starts up a new education vision, it is
holding a series of discussions with shule (school) families. In this interactive session, Adrienne
Cooper, External Affairs Officer of the Workmen’s Circle, will preview
the education vision and crack open the intimate role languages play in
Jewish cultural literacy, as well as how secular people can express
spirituality.
In preparation for the session you may want to think about the
following topics from your own family’s experience:
1. names of relatives – especially any Hebrew or Yiddish
names
2. affectionate terms used for family members – in any
language
3. an object that you think of as connected to/expressing
your family’s spirituality (can be a ritual object, a keepsake, a book)
–if possible bring it in with you to show.
4. a word, joke, phrase or saying – again in a foreign language
(Yiddish, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, whatever) or in English that comes
from what you think of as your family’s heritage
10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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Sunday
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(Class 20)
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Purim Celebration: 10:30 AM at Rutgers
Prep. Please bring canned food for
our Food Drive
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March
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7
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Sunday
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(Class 21)
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Adult Community Program: “The Last Exile” – A presentation by
Jasha Levi, who will talk about his life on the run during World War II, including
a description of the school his late wife and he established for the
children of Yugoslav Jewish 'Civilian Internees of War' in Asolo,
Italy. Jasha Levi is the author
of “The Last Exile.” 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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Sunday
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(Class 22)
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Adult Community Program: “Listening to Moses” – A
presentation by Stephen Eisdorfer.
We will listen to various classical compositions that have set the
words and actions of Moses to music. (There are actually surprisingly
few.) We will then talk about the
philosophical and theological points of view reflected in the words and
music. Although we will span about
200 years, we focus particularly on two pieces that were both written
around 1930 that provide very different settings of the words and actions
of Moses on coming down from Mt. Sinai and discovering the Golden
Calf--one by Kurt Weill and the other by Arnold Schoenberg. These are particularly interesting, not
only because they treat the story very differently, but also because each
composer was then in the process of groping his way back to Judaism and
each was aware--and publicly disapproved--of the philosophical and
artistic ideas of the other. We
follow along with the texts and discuss.
No special musical background is required except open ears. 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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Sunday
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(Class 23)
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Regular classes in the
morning; Community Seder at 3
PM at Rutgers Prep. For reservations, see the form here.
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28
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Sunday
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(Class 24)
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Adult Community Program: “The Goldstone Report” - The UN
Human Rights Council released a report on the recent fighting between
Hamas and Israel in Gaza. While concluding that both Israel's military and
Hamas likely committed war crimes during the fighting, the report was
particularly harsh in its condemnation of Israel's actions, saying they
were "a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish,
humiliate, and terrorize a civilian population, radically diminish its
local economic capacity both to work and to provide for itself, and to
force upon it an ever increasing sense of dependency and
vulnerability." A political firestorm ensued, and some of the
criticism was aimed at the head of the investigative mission, Judge
Richard Goldstone. Goldstone joined Bill Moyers on BILL MOYERS JOURNAL to
discuss the report, his critics and why he believes international
humanitarian law is an important part of the peace process. Come view the interview and join a
discussion. 10:30 AM at Rutgers
Prep.
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April
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4
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Sunday
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No school - Spring Break
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11
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Sunday
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(Class 25)
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Yom
HaShoah Guest Speaker and Ceremony
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18
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Sunday
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(Class 26)
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Peretz Board
Nominations
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24
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Saturday evening
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Peretz Fundraiser Concert: 7:30 PM at Rutgers Fiber Optics
Auditorium, 101 Bevier Road, Piscataway Busch Campus at Rutgers. Details Soon!
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25
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Sunday
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(Class 27)
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May
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2
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Sunday
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(Class 28)
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Board
Elections: 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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9
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Sunday
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(Class 29)
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Adult Community Program:
“The Torah – Your Own Interpretation” – a presentation by Rabbi
Melinda Zalma. There are a lot of holes
in the narrative of the Torah and throughout the ages, Jews have
endeavored to fill them in through Midrash, stories and interpretations
of the Bible, to create deeper meaning.
We will explore the story of Cain and Able, look at traditional
interpretations and create our own.
10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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16
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Sunday
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(Class 30)
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Graduation/Closing
Ceremony
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June
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11-13
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Weekend
retreat at Stokes State Forest
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July
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