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!
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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Wednesday, April 22, 2020 4:00 PM Tikkun Olam Through Vegetable Gardening Learn about Temple Beth-El's vegetable garden at Fox Point park including what is grown and where it is donated. Bio: Sam Zwetchkenbaum learned to love growing vegetables from both his grandfather in Washington, DC and his Uncle Max in Taunton who had an amazing garden and loved to share with his community. During his years in Michigan, Sam volunteered for the garden of his congregation, so was very excited to see we have a vegetable garden here at Beth El. He has been involved for the last three years and looks forward to helping more people get involved!
