Adult programming is geared towards presenting a variety of Jewish content that will appeal to our adult community. The group gathers regularly for movie nights, book discussions, speakers and who knows…?

It is open to the community as well as our congregants. For more information, check Our Shir Shalom newsletter or contact AdultProgramming@OurShirShalom.org

Next Event

Arthur Kurzweil Jewish Genealogy

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Congregation Shir Shalom invites you on a journey with Arthur Kurzweil, the Guru of Jewish Genealogy.

Author, educator, writer, publisher, illusionist and widely recognized as the leading expert on Jewish genealogy.

Featuring a Nosh that Bubbe could have made!

November 4th at 3 pm

Let us know you are coming by emailing us at AdultProgramming@OurShirShalom.org

Suggested Donation: $18

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Semi(te) Sweet with Rabbi Deborah Prinz

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On the chocolate trail

Adult Programming Presents

Rabbi Deborah Prinz draws from her world travels and research on the trail of chocolate as she unwraps stories of the trade, retail and manufacture of chocolate since it was first introduced to Europeans.

Copious chocolate treats from the kitchen of Stacey and Adam Sussman will be served

Suggested Donation $10

Saturday, October 6 at 7:30 pm
Let us know you are coming by emailing AdultProgramming@OurShirShalom.org
Bring your friends! Babysitting provided!

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Operation Wedding: a documentary

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Sunday, August 12, 2018 at 3 pm

Soviet Jews denied exit visas in 1970 hatch a plan to hijack an empty plane and escape under the guise of attending a family wedding, View the harrowing tale before it opens wide in theaters.

 

SYNOPSIS
Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Soviet Jews who were denied exit visas, plots to “hijack” an
empty plane and escape the USSR.
It started as a fantasy, Operation Wedding, as outrageous as it was simple: Under the disguise of a trip to a
local family wedding, the hijackers would buy every ticket on a small 12-seater plane, so there would be no
passengers but them, no innocents in harm’s way. The group’s pilot would take over the controls and fly
the 16 runaways into the sky, over the Soviet border, on to Sweden, bound for Israel.
Caught by the KGB a few steps from boarding, they were sentenced to years in the gulag and two
were sentenced to death; they never got on a plane.
While the Soviet press writes “the criminals received their punishment”, tens of thousands of people in the
free world demand “Let My People Go!“ and as the Iron Curtain opens a crack for 300,000 Soviets Jews
wanting to flee, the group members are held back to pay the price of freedom for everyone else.
45 years later, filmmaker Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov reveals the compelling story of her parents,
leading characters of the group, “heroes” in the West but “terrorists” in Russia, even today.
Anat and her mother Sylva, retrace the group’s journey from a Soviet airport to a KGB prison.
Cigarettes and vodka fuel interviews with the parents filled with intelligence and humor. Archives,
reenactments and interviews with KGB officers enhance this inspiring story of young Jews who imagined
freedom and cracked the Iron Curtain

Above and Beyond

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Veterans’ Day, November 11th at 6:00 PM at Congregation Shir Shalom.

Light dinner followed by documentary film, discussion and dessert.

Cost $18

For reservations contact Neirot @ OurShirShalom.org by November 6th

Send check to Congregation Shir Shalom, with Neirot in memo line

The film was produced by Nancy Spielberg (sister of Steven) and tells the story of Jewish-American WWII pilots who risked life and liberty to fight secretly in Israel’s 1948 fight for independence. The film draws on interviews with historians, surviving pilots, re-enactments by George Lucas, and archival footage. 

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