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Ari was born in Israel and moved to the USA in 1960 at the age of 24. He was married to Joan, a reading teacher, for nearly 51 years. She passed away in 2011.

He is a retired clinical psychologist, with a doctorate from Columbia University. He worked for the Gov’t of Israel, and in the US, at agencies and he was in private practice for nearly 40 years. Ari volunteered three times with the IDF, in his seventies, and wrote a book about it, in two languages.

For the last 10 years Ari and Judie have been together and recently got married. He has three daughters and seven grandchildren. He has many interests; writing (3 books, many essays,)
painting and sketching, sculpting and woodworking, travel, flying (no more,) and recently boating. He speaks three languages and teaches two at Pelican Cove where he and Judie have been for the last 5 years. He gave courses at Pelican Cove on opera, requiems, symphonies and conductors, although he is not a musician. Jewish life plays an important part in Ari and Judie’s lives.

Modeled on the Daf Yomi program of reading a page of Talmud every day, this class discusses several brief readings from the Talmud each week. All texts are in English, with explanatory text by Rabbi Aden Steinsaltz. Prospective students meet with Rabbi Jennifer prior to joining, and are asked to make a commitment to participate regularly. The texts for each week are emailed the night before class.

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Each week we will discuss the Torah portion for the following Shabbat. This class is designed for those who are new to Torah study, although more advanced students are welcome. All text and conversation will be in English. Students can use any copy of the Jewish Bible, with or without commentary.

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This year’s dates are:

October 6th
November 3rd
Dec. 1st
Jan. 5th
Feb. 2nd
March 2nd
April 6th
May 4th
June 1st

All to begin at 7:30 pm.

Modeled on the Daf Yomi program of reading a page of Talmud every day, this class discusses several brief readings from the Talmud each week. All texts are in English, with explanatory text by Rabbi Aden Steinsaltz. Prospective students meet with Rabbi Jennifer prior to joining, and are asked to make a commitment to participate regularly. The texts for each week are emailed the night before class.

To Sign Up For These Ongoing Classes Please Click Here

Each week we will discuss the Torah portion for the following Shabbat. This class is designed for those who are new to Torah study, although more advanced students are welcome. All text and conversation will be in English. Students can use any copy of the Jewish Bible, with or without commentary.

To Sign Up For These Ongoing Classes Please Click Here

Modeled on the Daf Yomi program of reading a page of Talmud every day, this class discusses several brief readings from the Talmud each week. All texts are in English, with explanatory text by Rabbi Aden Steinsaltz. Prospective students meet with Rabbi Jennifer prior to joining, and are asked to make a commitment to participate regularly. The texts for each week are emailed the night before class.

To Sign Up For These Ongoing Classes Please Click Here

Each week we will discuss the Torah portion for the following Shabbat. This class is designed for those who are new to Torah study, although more advanced students are welcome. All text and conversation will be in English. Students can use any copy of the Jewish Bible, with or without commentary.

To Sign Up For These Ongoing Classes Please Click Here

Modeled on the Daf Yomi program of reading a page of Talmud every day, this class discusses several brief readings from the Talmud each week. All texts are in English, with explanatory text by Rabbi Aden Steinsaltz. Prospective students meet with Rabbi Jennifer prior to joining, and are asked to make a commitment to participate regularly. The texts for each week are emailed the night before class.

To Sign Up For These Ongoing Classes Please Click Here

Speaker: Herb Levine

Herb Levine was born in Boston, MA, raised in Newton, educated at Harvard and Princeton, where he met Ellen Frankel in a graduate class in Romanticism. They embarked on a life together that has been centered in Jewish study and practice. He and Ellen have been actively involved in advising a Hillel,creating a day school and teaching in synagogues and non-profits focused on adult Jewish education. Herb had a career teaching literature at Franklin and Marshall College, followed by a second career in non-profit management, working on issues of youth violence, diversity & intergroup relations and homelessness policy. Pursuing his twin passions of poetry and Jewishness, he has written a scholarly book on the Psalms and two volumes of bi-lingual poetry in Hebrew and English. He is delighted to be living at Pelican Cove and to be a member of Jewish communities in Auburn, ME and Sarasota.

Each week we will discuss the Torah portion for the following Shabbat. This class is designed for those who are new to Torah study, although more advanced students are welcome. All text and conversation will be in English. Students can use any copy of the Jewish Bible, with or without commentary.

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Class Instructor: Herb Levine.

Dates: November 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29

Time:  1:00 – 2:30 PM

Course Description: This course will give students the basic information that a student would gain from a Jewish Studies class at a university. No prior knowledge is needed. From close readings of selected texts, the class will demonstrate how the Torah was composed long after the events narrated in it, by a variety of authors with differing points of view. In four classes, we will explore these points of view and what was of concern to each. The final week of the class will look at strategies for how we can continue to find value in the Torah as a book of wisdom that speaks across the generations to us as contemporary Jews.

Herb Levine loves teaching Jewish Studies to adults. He was trained as a Ph.D. in English and American Literature and taught courses in the Bible as literature and its impact on later literature. He previously taught Mussar as a KH adult education offering.

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Modeled on the Daf Yomi program of reading a page of Talmud every day, this class discusses several brief readings from the Talmud each week. All texts are in English, with explanatory text by Rabbi Aden Steinsaltz. Prospective students meet with Rabbi Jennifer prior to joining, and are asked to make a commitment to participate regularly. The texts for each week are emailed the night before class.

To Sign Up For These Ongoing Classes Please Click Here

Each week we will discuss the Torah portion for the following Shabbat. This class is designed for those who are new to Torah study, although more advanced students are welcome. All text and conversation will be in English. Students can use any copy of the Jewish Bible, with or without commentary.

To Sign Up For These Ongoing Classes Please Click Here

This year’s dates are:

October 6th
November 3rd
Dec. 1st
Jan. 5th
Feb. 2nd
March 2nd
April 6th
May 4th
June 1st

All to begin at 7:30 pm.