The Brotherhood of Temple Beth-El is pleased to announce that it will once again be facilitating the award of up to three $1,000 college scholarships to Temple Beth-El members’ children that plan to attend a four-year bachelor degree granting institution in the fall of 2020. Interested applicants may apply for a scholarship on-line by completing and submitting the application form accessible via the link on the Brotherhood of Temple Beth-El web page within the Temple Beth-El website. The on-line application has no mechanism for saving partially completed application forms, so applicants should be prepared to complete the application form and submit it in one sitting.
Pop-up Torah Classes In our amazing community, we each have something to share! Join us for these classes where members of our community will share their Torah via the Zoom links below. Do you have some “torah” to teach? Let us know and we’d love to showcase your knowledge with our community as a way to stay connected!
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 4:00 PM “Finding Strength and Serenity in Nature” Join John Torgan, RI State Director of The Nature Conservancy in Rhode Island.
John is a native Rhode Islander who has spent most of his career working to clean up and protect the coastal waters. Prior to coming to The Nature Conservancy, John worked for 18 years for Save The Bay serving as Narragansett Baykeeper and Director of Advocacy. He joined the Conservancy as Director of Ocean and Coastal Conservation in 2011, where he worked to advance coastal water quality, habitat restoration, and led the organization’s coastal conservation programs and projects in Rhode Island as well as regional work across southern New England. John was named State Director in early 2017. The Nature Conservancy is the world’s largest conservation organization with offices serving all 50 states and 79 countries working in collaboration around the world. As State Director, John leads a dynamic staff of 30 people working to advance conservation in Rhode Island for all of nature. John is also a Temple Beth-El Bar Mitzvah, class of 1983, and father of William and Caroline.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2020 4:00 PM "Where do we stand, how is this pandemic evolving and how are we managing with this historic challenge here in our own community, and around the country?" Join Lewis R. Weiner, M.D. for an update on the Coronavirus. We will discuss and reinforce opportunities for staying safe and healthy, and have a question and answer session to follow.
Dr. Weiner, a Temple member for over 20 years, has been practicing internal medicine in the community for 30 years, following completion of his residency at Rhode Island Hospital. Fifteen years ago he started a limited size practice focusing on wellness and prevention, affiliated with MDVIP, a national network of similar practices around the country. In the setting of increasingly complex and disconnected health care systems, which are largely population-based, this approach is designed to restore a focus on the individual patient, and ensure improved outcomes in achieving patients' personal lifestyle and health care goals.
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Thursday, April, 2, 2020 4:00 PM Tehillim - Soul Soothing Psalms with Rabbi Gavi Ruit During times of uncertainty and distress, Jews have always turned to the Sefer Tehillim - The Book of Psalms - for solace, guidance, and renewal. Rabbi Gavi Ruit will lead a Psalms discussion group. We will be reading and discussing Psalms selected specifically for these difficult times.
Saturday, April 4, 2020 9:00 AM Torah Study
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Sunday, April 5, 2020 10:00 AM “Passover Palooza”
Join Rabbi Mack and Rachel with special guest Karen Isenberg, who will provide us with an interactive musical program. Be sure to have a tablet or smart phone handy as we will be playing a Passover trivia game using Kahoot. More details will go out in an email later this week.
Karen Isenberg has been performing in TBE’s Purim Spiel for 12 years. Outside of TBE, she teaches Music Together, a global early childhood music program, with Old Colony Music Together in Rehoboth, MA. For the past 2 years she has received an Individual Artist grant from the RI State Council on the Arts to provide her early childhood music program, “Me & U-kulele” at Providence Community Library branches. An avid ukulele player and singer, she has performed for the past 5 years at the Pawtucket Wintertime Farmer’s Market and other area farmer’s markets and various senior living facilities. She is also a member of the all-ukulele band, Ukunami. She lives in Providence with her husband Michael, daughter Samantha, and dog Crosby.
Meditation and Mindfulness Each evening please join our friends at the Center for Resilience for a moment of peace and a 10 minute mindfulness session at 8:00 PM via Zoom.
Monday, April 13, 2020 4:00 PM What will happen to the US Economy? Presenter: Robert Sandy
News stories during the pandemic often claim that there will be a severe recession, perhaps on the scale of the Great Recession of 2008 or the Great Depression of the 1930s. However, these stories offer little or no explanation of how economic down turn caused by the pandemic could differ from other recessions, how long the down turn will last, and what the recovery will look like. This talk will cover the definition of a recession, their causes, why some recessions were short and others long, why some had rapid recoveries while others had anemic recoveries. The key question I will address is how the current pandemic/recession fits into these patterns.
Robert Sandy is a retired economist. He was a professor of economics from 1974 to 2011 at Indiana University, Purdue University Indianapolis and at the University of Aberdeen. He served as the Economics Department chair for 12 years and then served as Indiana University Assistant Vice President for Statewide Academic Relations for 5 years. He has authored textbooks on statistics and on the economics of sports. He has written twenty articles in leading economics journals. His main research area is occupational safety and health. In retirement he continues to work as a consultant on using statistical sampling to detect Medicaid and Medicare fraud.
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