The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning
Original broadcast December of 2008
A discussion of the many different aspects of the death and mourning process, including the traditions concerning the taharah, the chevra kaddisha, the burial, the mourning process, and the comforting of mourners, among others. To explain both what the Jewish tradition mandates, and, perhaps more important, the wisdom behind the tradition. We will come to understand why it is not appropriate to be buried in regular clothes, why above-ground burial is forbidden, why we use a simple coffin, and what to say (and not say!) to a mourner.

In Our Own Hands
Wednesday, January 21, 8:00 pm
This documentary about "His Majesty's Jewish Brigade" caught an episode in world Jewish History of the only Jewish fighing unit in the war to combat the Nazis and come away victorious....
Bring Friends. Refreshments to follow.

Professor Gerald Pomper
Wednesday, April 22, 8:00 pm
Professor Gerald Pomper from the Eagleton Institute of Politics of Rutgers University speaks about the "Implications of President Obama's election and What That Means for the Jews". Professor Pomper was educated at Columbia and Princeton and has been a Fulbright or visiting professor at Tel-Aviv University, Oxford, and the Australian National University. He has been at Rutgers for 40 years and chairman of the University and Livingston College political science departments for 9 years. He continues to teach regularly at Rutgers and other institutions.

Celebration of Yom Ha'atzmaut
Sunday, May 3, 4:30 pm
Klezmer music and a light Israeli dinner. The Odessa Klezmer Band, under the direction of Ed Goldberg, returns to B'nai Tikvah to present traditional Eastern European and Middle Eastern melodies. Admission: $15 Adults, $10 for Children.