Saturday, October 24 | 9:30 am – College & Bathurst
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Join us for soulful and song-filled Shabbat morning services, followed by a delicious Shabbat lunch and stimulating learning!
Lunch registration required by Thursday, October 22.
Services don’t require registration – no need to register if you’re not staying for lunch!
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Thank you to Green Economy Law for their generous sponsorship.
Supervised childcare will be provided in Makom’s playroom during services.
At lunch, Professor Alan Verskin will lead us in thought-provoking, interactive learning session about “Life and Love in the Medieval Jewish World.”
There was once a Jewish community that saved nearly every piece of paper: love letters, grocery lists, children’s doodles, anxious notes between parents and teachers, as well as all of their sacred books. These papers became known as the Cairo Genizah. Come explore the writings they left us. Step into the everyday lives of Jewish men, women, and children from centuries ago: messy, moving, and startlingly familiar – all in their own words.
Alan Verskin is the Samuel J. Zacks Chair of Jewish History at the University of Toronto. His areas of research include religious, legal, and social history in both Jewish and Islamic contexts, from the middle ages through the nineteenth century. He is particularly interested in travel, translation, and the migration of ideas between religious communities. He is also interested in intellectual responses to religious persecution and minorityhood. What unites and connects all of these areas is an emphasis on paying attention to the first-person stories of those whose perspectives have been marginalized. Read more…
