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Rabbi Panken's Jewish Interest Book Club

Rabbi Panken's Jewish Interest Book Club

 
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  • Wednesday ,
    MarMarch  19 , 2025
     
     
    Rabbi Panken's Book Club: The Amen Effect by Rabbi Sharon Brous
    Wednesday, Mar 19th 6:00p to 8:00p
    In a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, what will it take to mend our broken hearts and rebuild our society? Sharon Brous—a leading American rabbi—makes the case that the spiritual work of our time, as instinctual as it is counter-cultural, is to find our way to one other in celebration, in sorrow, and in solidarity. It is through honoring our most basic human instinct-- the yearning for real connection-- that we reawaken our shared humanity and begin to heal. This kind of sacred presence is captured by the word amen, a powerful ancient idea that we affirm the fullness of one another’s experience by demonstrating, in body and word: “I see you. You are not alone.”

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  • Wednesday ,
    MarMarch  19 , 2025
     
     
    Rabbi Panken's Book Club: The Amen Effect by Rabbi Sharon Brous
    Wednesday, Mar 19th 7:00p to 8:00p
    In a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, what will it take to mend our broken hearts and rebuild our society? Sharon Brous—a leading American rabbi—makes the case that the spiritual work of our time, as instinctual as it is counter-cultural, is to find our way to one other in celebration, in sorrow, and in solidarity. It is through honoring our most basic human instinct-- the yearning for real connection-- that we reawaken our shared humanity and begin to heal. This kind of sacred presence is captured by the word amen, a powerful ancient idea that we affirm the fullness of one another’s experience by demonstrating, in body and word: “I see you. You are not alone.”

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  • Wednesday ,
    MayMay  28 , 2025
     
     
    Rabbi Panken's Book Club: The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross
    Wednesday, May 28th 6:00p to 7:00p
    A remarkable debut novel about a small Jewish village in the Polish forest that is so secluded no one knows it exists . . . until now. For decades, the tiny Jewish shtetl of Kreskol existed in happy isolation, virtually untouched and unchanged. Spared by the Holocaust and the Cold War, its residents enjoyed remarkable peace. It missed out on cars, and electricity, and the internet, and indoor plumbing. But when a marriage dispute spins out of control, the whole town comes crashing into the twenty-first century.

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  • Wednesday ,
    MayMay  28 , 2025
     
     
    Rabbi Panken's Book Club: The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross
    Wednesday, May 28th 7:00p to 8:00p
    A remarkable debut novel about a small Jewish village in the Polish forest that is so secluded no one knows it exists . . . until now. For decades, the tiny Jewish shtetl of Kreskol existed in happy isolation, virtually untouched and unchanged. Spared by the Holocaust and the Cold War, its residents enjoyed remarkable peace. It missed out on cars, and electricity, and the internet, and indoor plumbing. But when a marriage dispute spins out of control, the whole town comes crashing into the twenty-first century.

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Fri, February 21 2025 23 Sh'vat 5785