Registration opens for Kallah!

It is with great excitement that we announce that registration is now open for the International Alumni Association Kallah scheduled for April 20-22, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois.

The theme for the weekend of study will be Jews Within, Jews Without: Examining Jewish Identity, led by our own beloved and talented Haim Aronovitz, Director of Israel Seminars. Our featured presenter is Dr. Hal Lewis, president and CEO of Spertus/A Center for Jewish Learning & Culture, and both Dr. Yonatan Mirvis, International Director, and Judy Mars Kupchan, North American Director, will join us as faculty as well.

The theme will inspire our study and exploration of the cultural and religious borders which have kept us a people apart, but may well endanger our future.

The program for the weekend will include:

• Study sessions: What’s the Place of Time? What’s the Place of Place?
  Who draws the boundaries?
  
  
• Yummy Shabbat meals and more: What makes a meal “Jewish?” The food? The company? The conversation?
  
  
• Panel Discussions: Is Israel making Jewish identity any easier?
  
  
• Group discussions: Does the past dictate the future?
  
  
• An Evening of Film and Wine tasting at the home of Sherrie and Albert Weiss.

To register for the Kallah, please go to www.events.org/fmams2012Kallah.

Both IAA members and non-IAA members are invited!

We look forward to sharing this very special weekend of learning with you. For more information, please contact Jody Hyman at jhyman@fmams.org.il.