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SUMMARY:THE SOUNDS OF MUSIC: CONCERT FEATURING THE MUSICAL ENSEMBLES OF TEMPLE BETH EL
DESCRIPTION:The Sounds of Music! Concert Featuring the Musical Ensembles of Temple Beth El \nConcert featuring the Musical Ensembles of Temple Beth El \nTemple Beth El of Boca Raton invites the public to attend this free concert on Sunday\, May 4\, 2025 at 3:00pm at their Schaefer Family Campus. From Gershwin to Bernstein to Sondheim and more\, enjoy an uplifting afternoon of inspiring songs and showtunes by beloved Jewish composers in a multi-generational performance by the music ensembles of Temple Beth El! \nFree\, but registration is required to attend. \nInfo link: https://tbeboca.org/event/sounds-of-music-concert/
URL:https://jewishboca.org/events/the-sounds-of-music-concert-featuring-the-musical-ensembles-of-temple-beth-el/
LOCATION:Temple Beth El of Boca Raton\, 333 S.W. 4th Avenue\, Boca Raton\, 33432\, United States
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SUMMARY:Israel@77: Looking Back to Look Forward with Dr. Ken Stein
DESCRIPTION:Temple Beth El of Boca Raton presents Israel @ 77: Looking Back to Look Forward with Dr. Ken Stein of the Center for Israel Education at their Schaefer Family Campus in east Boca Raton  on May 1\, 2025 at 7:00 pm. Free and open to the public\, however registration is required. \nEvent info:  \nOctober 7\, 2023 stunned Israelis\, American Jews and others across the world. Could the heinous Hamas attacks on Israelis been avoided? \nIn February and March 2025\, the Israel Defense Forces released a series of findings that pointed to wrong-headed thinking and preparations prior to October 7. What mindsets and miscalculations were in fact deeply held in the months and years before the attacks? Underestimation of the enemy\, domestic complacency\, and overconfidence in one’s own superiority were the mistakes that Israeli intelligence made fifty years earlier prior to the outbreak of the October 1973 War! \n\nWhy did so many in 2023 believe that a peaceful resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was possible if only Israel made the necessary overtures\, or if the Israeli leadership were different?\nDid Israelis and her supporters worldwide truly understand that Hamas’ motivations and those elsewhere in the Muslim world were singularly interested in killing Jews and eradicating Israel?\nHow will October 7 and its aftermath be remembered and taught to generations to come?\nWill it only be remembered as just another tragic event in Jewish history or\, in addition are there valuable lessons to be gleaned about ourselves and our neighbors that must be taught to our children.\nAre we prepared to change our collective mindsets to avoid more miscalculations?\n\nNo Fee but Registration is Required  \n  \nSpeaker Bio:  \nDr. Kenneth Stein is Emory University Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History\, Political Science\, and Israel Studies. From 1977 to 2024 he taught some 5800 students\, earning university and national recognition for his excellence in teaching\, life-long mentoring of students\, internationalizing the curriculum. He was awarded ADL recognition for his intellectual integrity for refuting the inaccuracies and inventions in Jimmy Carter’s controversial 2006 book\, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid. Ken also took issue with Carter’s full-throated embrace of Hamas. He authored six books and since 1977 became the key scholarly link between Emory and the Atlanta community in teaching about Israel\, US foreign policy toward the region and the modern Arab world. Ken’s record as a superb scholar and valued public intellectual has been recognized world-wide. Ken and his family support several scholarships at Israeli universities that promote the study of modern Israel. \nKen was the first director of the Carter Center 1983-1986; he founded and directed at Emory the first permanent Institute for the Study of modern Israel (1998- 2024) in the U.S\, and he remains the founding President the Center for Israel Education\, which started in 2008. The Center for Israel Education – CIE is unique world-wide; it has evolved to be the largest visited English website globally for access to timely and reliable content on Israeli history\, politics and society. 2.4 million users visited the website in 2024. CIE targets young adults\, the general public\, and Spanish readers. In fifteen years it has enriched Israel knowledge for 400\,000 educators\, Jewish and non-Jewish clergy. In an age of Instagram\, Facebook\, ‘X” and multiple blogging all across the political spectrum\, the CIE website stays true to the provision of trustworthy information about modern Israel and its quest to remain the nation-state of the Jewish people
URL:https://jewishboca.org/events/israel77-looking-back-to-look-forward-with-dr-ken-stein/
LOCATION:Temple Beth El of Boca Raton\, 333 S.W. 4th Avenue\, Boca Raton\, 33432\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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SUMMARY:REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM TOWN HALL at TEMPLE BETH EL OF BOCA RATON
DESCRIPTION:VOTE YES ON AMENDMENT 4 CAMPAIGN KICKOFF \nTake action to restore reproductive rights in Florida! \nMembers of the Temple Beth El of Boca Raton congregation and the surrounding community were instrumental in collecting the signed petitions required to place Amendment 4 on the ballot in November 2024\, which will restore Reproductive Freedom in Florida if passed. \nJoin us on Wednesday\, September 4th to kick off our efforts to VOTE YES on Amendment 4\, learn why Reproductive Freedom is grounded in our Jewish values and what you can do to help secure this fundamental right. We will hear from the Temple Beth El clergy\, leadership from YESon4 and Men4Choice\, our teen leaders and more. Registration for in-person attendance required. \nAttend in person at Temple Beth El of Boca Raton’s Schaefer Family Campus \n333 S.W. 4th Avenue\, Boca Raton\, FL 33432 \nor Watch on Virtual Beth El \nRegister at: \nhttps://tbeboca.shulcloud.com/event/reproductive-freedom-town-hall-vote-yes-on-amendment-4.html
URL:https://jewishboca.org/events/reproductive-freedom-town-hall-at-temple-beth-el-of-boca-raton/
LOCATION:Temple Beth El of Boca Raton\, 333 S.W. 4th Avenue\, Boca Raton\, 33432\, United States
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SUMMARY:EILU V’EILU THESE AND THOSE: A DEBATE ON JEWISH VALUES AND AMERICAN POLITICS BY TWO OF AMERICAN JEWRY’S MOST PROMINENT SOCIAL POLICY THINKERS
DESCRIPTION:The Talmud records the famous divides between Hillel and Shammai\, but when they honored each other in the midst of their disagreements\, the Holy One would say: “Eilu V’Eilu Divrei Elohim Chayim – These words and those words are the words of the Living God.” \nThousands of years later\, with our nation so divided\, Temple Beth El is proud to host Dr. Tevi Troy and Rabbi David Saperstein for a night of engaging dialogue around the pressing issues facing our people and our nation today. Dr. Troy and Rabbi Saperstein will model how even political protagonists with sharply differing political\, religious\, and ideological views can engage in respectful and constructive dialogue\, offering us an opportunity to learn from two extraordinary leaders and thinkers – the places where they differ\, and where they find common ground. \nRegistration link: https://tbeboca.shulcloud.com/event/eilu-veilu—these-and-those-a-debate-on-jewish-values-and-american-politics.html \nBIOS \n TEVI TROY \nBest-selling author Dr. Tevi Troy formerly served as a senior White House aide\, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services and Liaison to the Jewish Community in the Bush administration. The  author of five books on the presidency\, including the forthcoming The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between American Titans of Industry and Commanders in Chief\, he is currently Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center\, a Visiting Fellow at the Mercatus Center and a Senior Scholar at Yeshiva University’s Straus Center. \nRABBI DAVID SAPERSTEIN \nFor 40 years\, Rabbi Saperstein served as Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism\, representing the Reform Jewish Movement in Washington\, DC. In 2014\, he was appointed by President Obama to serve as the first non-Christian US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. Also an attorney\, Rabbi Saperstein taught seminars on church-state law and on comparative Jewish and American law for 35 years at Georgetown University Law Center. \nRegister here 
URL:https://jewishboca.org/events/eilu-veilu-these-and-those-a-debate-on-jewish-values-and-american-politics-by-two-of-american-jewrys-most-prominent-social-policy-thinkers/
LOCATION:Temple Beth El of Boca Raton\, 333 S.W. 4th Avenue\, Boca Raton\, 33432\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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