Programs of the Pesti Shul, May 2003




Our regular Shabbat morning services start at 9 a.m. For more information contact Tamas Biro.

May 3, 2003: Lecture of Gabor Balazs on the different meanings of "your fellow" ("reacha") and the different interpretations of "Ve-ahavta le-reacha kamocha" ("and you shall love your fellow..."; on Shabbat parashat Kedoshim). Special emphesis will be put on the ethical issues raised by different inclusive and exclusive interpretations.

May 9, 2003: Moroccan dinner. Following our tradition of presenting the history, the present, the culture and the gastronomy of different Jewish communities, this month a member of our synagogue, Nachshon will present us traditional sepharadic cuisine. During the dinner Dov Levy will tell us more about the Jews in Morocco. Here you can find some preliminary information about Jews in Morocco.

May 19, 2003: Lag Ba-omer party at 19.30, in the garden of the Lauder-Yavne School. Entrance fee: 1000 HUF, that includes the price of the food and drinks, as well as some tsdaka. Free for children. For more information, contact Miklos Panyi: 06-30-221-8465 (++36-30-221-8465) or miklos.panyi@hu.ey.com .

May 27, 2003: Lecture of András Kovács at 7 p.m. at the Visegradi street synagogue (1132 Budapest, Visegradi utca 3.), on the large scale empirical research carried out in 1999 and 2000 on the different forms of contemporary Jewish identities in Hungary.
András Kovács is a sociologist, teaching at the Central European University (Nationalism studies and Jewish studies) and doing research at the Minority Studies Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Science. He is the author of several books and articles on the history and sociology of Jews, especially in Hungary after the Shoah, as well as on forms of identity and antisemitism.
The lecture is held in Hungarian.


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