Shabbat Service and Cultural Program

Our Shabbat service.

Cultural program:

Yaakov Malkin (1926-2019) has been chosen by the Society for Humanistic Judaism as the Humanist Role Model  of the Year.  Malkin was the provost of Tmura, the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism based in Jerusalem, and Rabbi Tzemah’s teacher.

He was an original and powerful spokesperson for the Secular Humanistic Jewish movement. Malkin dedicated his writings to the humanistic beliefs shared by the non-religious community in the West generally, and among the Jewish people in particular. Malkin was an educator, writer, literary critic, and professor emeritus at the Faculty of Arts at Tel Aviv University., where he taught comparative literature, aesthetics, theater, and film criticism. He co-founded the Department for Cinema and Television at Tel Aviv University. Among his many books are Judaism Without God and Epicurus and Apikorsim, available through the SHJ here and Secular Jewish Culture on Amazon here.

Rabbi Tzemah will speak about his life and legacy at our Shabbat program.

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