Why Israel Matters is a series of letters to the millennial generation addressed to their questions, doubts, struggles, and need to understand why our relationship with the State of Israel matters for our own future and the future of the Jewish People. Rabbi Rosove probes the thinking of young American Jews (and their parents) beyond the headlines and polarization between Israelis and liberal American Jews and between liberal and conservative American Jews when discussing Israel, its policies and its aspirations.

Rabbi John L. Rosove is Rabbi Emeritus at Temple Israel of Hollywood.

Start your week off right with TIOH's resident Text-pert and lively, fun group of congregants. Study Talmud in a confortable setting and discuss how it relates to our lives today. No prior knowledge of Talmud or Hebrew required.

Friday mornings:
January 24, 31 and February 7, 2020 - 9:15 to 10:30 am.
Dr. Debra Linesch
Class limit: 15 people.

Based on the Japanese process of Kintsugi, repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold, this 3-part workshop focusses on the processes of relief (breaking) and solace (restoring). The project includes text study, controlled breakage and intentional repair. No previous study or art experience is required. 

In each session we will explore the work of a single philosopher. Session 1 will look at the work of Tamar Ross an Orthodox Jewish Feminist and her approach to halachic change. Session 2 will concentrate on the thinking of the modern Orthodox Philospher Menachem Fisch whose work unpacks the rational nature of religious disputes and in the third session we turn to the work of Benjamin Sommer who asks the question in what sense can we believe in revelation.

Saturday, August 3, Meet at 7:30 pm. Showtime at 8:00 pm.

Cost: $10

Meeting Place: Philosophical Research Society,
3910 Los Feliz Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90027

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(Note: this play is done on a campus, and there will be a lot of walking and standing)

Enter the gates of the Venice Ghetto of the 17th century and go on a journey of dominance, separation, and survival that spirals down through the pits of Gehenna. hell prepared: a ritual exorcism inspired by kabbalistic principles, performed within a dominant cultural context takes place in multiple locations on the campus of the Philosophical Research Society, allowing you to be immersed in the secluded world of the Ghetto and dissolve into places beyond the corporeal.  Featuring a landscape of choreographed movement, poetic text, shadow puppetry, and choral scoring, hell prepared follows a spiritual leader as he endeavors to exorcise the dominant culture and its influence on his world. In the process, he is driven down through the pits of hell where he sees visions of a challenging past and an uncertain future.  hell prepared is inspired by Tofteh Arukh, a dramatic poem written in the 17th century from within the Jewish ghettos of Italy by rabbi, poet, and mystic Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto. 

Wednesday July 10, 2019
10:30 am – 12:00 noon

Location: Private home near LaBrea & Beverly Blvd (exact location will be given before the event)  

  
  

If you like to read and discuss books, this is for you.  We aim to meet every other month. 
Rabbi Missaghieh will facilitate a discussion on The Flight Portfolio, the long-awaited new work from the best selling author of The Invisible Bridge takes us back to occupied Europe in this gripping historical novel based on the true story of Varian Fry's extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust.

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