A reminder ¨C WUTSup 5 ¨C 5:30 PM Mountain Time. Topic: The Last Words of the Biblical Book of Genesis.

Our text for today is Genesis 49:26 through the end of Gen. 50¡ªthe end of the stories of Jacob and Joseph. Bonus: Time permitting, we will also look at Maimonides¡¯ Book of Commandments on Tefillin: learn about this archetypical aspect of Judaism, worn by Jews for at least 2000 years and possible 3000 years.

Here¡¯s the link for today: WUTSup! Wyoming Union Torah Study - Klatch (getklatch.com)   (not my usual ZOOM). Today would be a good day to try it out.

Seth Ward

Hi everyone!

Many students, friends and colleagues have expressed interests in Scriptural Studies. Some of you have been active with WUTSup! Today would be a good time to join us! Our text for today is Genesis 49:26 through the end of Gen. 50―the end of the stories of Jacob and Joseph. Here’s the link for today: WUTSup! Wyoming Union Torah Study - Klatch (getklatch.com)

WUTSup! has been meeting online and with informal Scripture discussions since March 2020. The name “WUTSup” comes from prior to March 2020, when we used to meet in the Wyoming Union on the UW campus for “Torah Study.” I hope to go back to meeting in person January 19, but will keep the online-access.

The Scriptural Passages we discuss are largely based on the traditional Jewish reading cycle (“Weekly Torah Reading”). I try to include traditional Jewish commentary, legends and folklore (what might be called “Bible Stories”), as well as Modern scholarship, and comparative material from Christian and Muslim sources. For example, in the past I have compared Qur’anic and Biblical materials about Abraham, Joseph, Moses and other Biblical figures. I strive for the sessions to be “ecumenical and inclusive” while remaining true to the original sense of Scripture and to Jewish interpretational traditions. This year, I am also trying to read a section from Maimonides’ Book of Commandments each week to give another way of learning about Jewish scriptural interpretation. (Time permitting, today’s passage is about the Tefillin worn today during the morning prayer.

I strive to keep these sessions 30 minutes (although some of us stick around to chat a little while longer). No one can complain that they don’t have an hour to spare.

TODAY’s link is a new platform. It requires registration, which should only take a few seconds (although I recommend registering in advance anyway). Here is the link again: WUTSup! Wyoming Union Torah Study - Klatch (getklatch.com) Please note that the website says 7PM Eastern which is the same thing as 5 Mountain. It also sets a “charge of $0.” i.e. there is no charge.

WUTS meets at 5 PM Mountain time today, Wed. Dec. 15. Looking forward to seeing you!

Seth Ward

Wyoming Baroque and The Golem

Wyoming Baroque

Performs a new Film Soundtrack by 

Dr. Mark Elliot Bergman

Sheridan College Director of Strings and Orchestral Studies

together with

a screening of the 1920 silent film

The Golem

Monday, October 4, 2021--7:30 PM

Choral Rehearsal Room, Room 2003 in the

Buchanan Fine Arts Center

University of Wyoming, Laramie WY.

A short trailer about the project is available here. 

INFO:

Dr. Mark Elliot Bergman
Sheridan College Director of Strings and Orchestral Studies

Music Director, Wyoming Baroque

mbergman@sheridan.edu

307.675.0730

Sheridan College Music Department

Personal website

Sheridan College Strings and Orchestral Studies

 Sefarad vehaMizrah on the occasion of its 30^th year anniversary is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting on Wednesday, July 28 beginning at 19:30 p.m. Israel time.

Topic: Global zoom of some 27 Sephardi and Mizrahi presentations going from east to west every 20-30 minutes beginning in Israel and continuing throughout Europe and the Americas until the same evening on the west coast of the USA Pacific time.

 
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6968745676?pwd=RE84RDhyYy9CNzdsdytKS0R4T3Jvdz09

Presentations (ca. 20 minutes each):

1) Ambassador Dan Oryan, Israeli ambassador to North Macedonia and initiator of Bitola/Monastir cemetery restoration project, “The Jewish Cemetery in Bitola (Monastir) from the Perspective of the Israeli Ambassador” 19:50

2) Dr. Vlatko Janev, University of Skopje (from Tiblisi, Georgia), “The Jewish community in Skopje during the last century of Ottoman rule (1800-1912)”. 20:10 (21:10 in Tiblisi)

3)  Prof. Zvi Zohar, Bar Ilan University, “Are Israeli Mizrahi Rabbis still Sephardic? Reporting on a newly -begun research project”.20:30

4) Yagel Harush, paytan of Moroccan Jewry, Yerucham College Sephardi/Mizrahi studies program. 20:50

4a) Dr. Aviva Franke, Univ. of Koln/Jerusalem. “The Twenty-four Wards of the Priests in the Holy Temple as they appear in archeological inscriptions in Yemen”. 21:05.

5) Prof. Dov (Claude) Stuczynski  Bar-Ilan University, “New Christian `Men of the nation’: Judeo-Christian Identities”. 21:25

6) Dr. Margalit Bejarano, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “FESELA” (”La Federación Sefaradí Latinoamericana”) 21:55

7) Yossi Ohana, Kehilot Sharot Piyyut Project, Jerusalem. 22:15

8) Dr. Avraham Huli, “Greek Jewish Rescuers in the Holocaust, and growing up at Greek Jewish moshav Tzur Moshe”.22:35

9) Dr. Rami Kimhi, Ariel University, Sephardic filmmaker, film scholar, and film critic, ”Material Culture of the Land of Israel; In New Palestinian and Israeli Cinema”. 22:50

Musical interlude, Sarah Aroeste “Mi Monastir”. 23:05

10) Dr. Paul Isaac Hagoel, Thessaloniki (Salonika), “The Holocaust in Salonika”.23:10 (Israel), 22:10 Thessaloniki

11) Ken Blady, Berkeley, California, “From the Land of Frankincense and Myrrh: The Jews of Yemen”.23:30 Israel, 13:30 Pacific time, California

12) Nardo Bonomi, Florence, Italy, “The History of Sephardim in Italy”.23:50 (Israel), 22:50 Florence, Italy time.

13) Sydney Corcos, Jerusalem (from Essoueira, Mogador, Morocco), “The New Jewish Museum in Essoueira (Mogador) and the Corcos family”. 24:20 (Israel), 22:20 Morocco time.

14) Prof. Jose Tavim, University of Lisbon, “Portuguese Jews in Morocco and Cochin, XVI century”.24:40 (Israel), 22:40 Portugal time.

15) Prof. Shalva Weil, Hebrew University (broadcasted from Univ. of Cambridge, England) “The Jews of Goa”.  1 a.m, Israel time, 11:00 p.m./23:00 p.m. Cambridge, England time

16) Yosi Stepanski, archeologist, Safed, Israel, “Newly Discovered Sepharadi Epitaphs from the Tsfat (Safed) Cemetery”. 1:30 a.m. Israel time.

17) Dr. Shoshana (Susana) Weich-Shachak, Tel Aviv, “The Treasure of Sephardic Childhood Repertoire”. 2 a.m. Israel time.

18) Dr.Judith Roumani, Editor Sephardic Horizons, “"The online journal Sephardic Horizons in the contact of electronic publication; and an update on Libyan Jewish studies", Wash. D.C. 2:30 a.m. Israel time, 7:30 p.m./19:30 p.m.  Wash DC, EST)

19) Dr. Annette Fromm, Miami, anthropologist and museum curator, “We are a minority among a minority, the romantization of the Romaniotes”. 8:00 p.m./20:00 p.m. Miami, FL. EST

20) Dr. Judith Cohen, Toronto, musicologist and Judeo-Spanish singer “Around the worlds of Sephardic music in 20 minutes”, 8:30 p.m./20:30 p.m. Toronto, Canada

21) Dr. Hernan Rodriguez, author, Santiago, Chile, “Kultura Sefardi Biva”. 9:00 p.m./21:00 p.m. Santiago/Chile. Equivalent to EST. 

22) Prof. Henry Green, Univ. of Miami, “Sephardi Voices: the Untold Story”.9:30 p.m./21:30 p.m. Miami, Florida EST

23) Prof. Victor Friedman, University of Chicago, “Judezmo in Macedonia”.

9:00 p.m./21:00 p.m. (Central time).

24) Arthur Benveniste, Los Angeles, CA, Editor “Halapid” (Crypto-Jewish studies), “The History of the Sephardim in Los Angeles”. 7:30 p.m./19:30 p.m. Los Angles, CA, Pacific time. (20:30 Mountain time)

25) Dr. Seth Ward, Univ. of Wyoming, Denver, Colorado, “Anusim Descendants in Contemporary Colorado and New Mexico, USA: a talk celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Sephardic Newsletter”. 9 p.m./21:00 p.m.  Mountain time, Denver, Colorado.

26) Prof. Ethan Katz, University of California, Berkeley. Historian on North African Jews in France, and Operation Torch in North Africa during WWII.  8:30 p.m./20:30 p.m. Pacific Time, Berkeley, California.

Conclusion: Prof. Yitzchak Kerem, 7:00 a.m. (Jerusalem), 21:00 PST, 22:00 Mountain time, 23:00 Central Time, 24:00 EST.

Foundation for Jewish Diversity, Los Angeles

The Heritage House for the Sephardic and Eastern Communities (Beit Maksim), Jerusalem