Our regular Shabbat morning services start at 9 a.m. For more information please contact Tamas Biro.
February 25, Wednesday, at 7 p.m.: lecture of prof. Zvi Gitelman on The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics (in English) (written version)
Starting on February 19th, Anna Dénes launches a new study group
for women, entitled Shmirat Shabbat (at 7.30 p.m.).
February 14th:
During the Shabbos service, we will inaugurate the new Torah clothes, the new parochet and new Chumashim. These are the generous gifts of Mordechai Berkowicz (New York), for which we are extremely thankful.
Following the service, at 11.30, Patricia Esther Margit will give a kiddush rabba, in honour of her name giving.
At 12.00, her favorite teacher at Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem), rav Arie Strichowski will give a lecture on the revelation at Mount Sinai and the Matan Torah (in English).
February 12th, 6.30 p.m.: Remembering the past: our guest
speakers will tell us about old Jewish life.
February 8, Sunday, 6 p.m.: we remember the shloshim of Andrew Moshe Moskovits z"l, our Reb Moyshe, followed by the projection of a film of Daniel Beran and Zoltan Ligeti, which presents Reb Moyshe's visiting the Eastern Hungarian Jewish cemeteries. Before that program, we study Mishna (masechet Shabbat) with Gabor Balazs at 4.30 p.m., for the memory of Andrew Moshe Moskovits.
February 7, Shabbat: we offer a special Tu bi-Shvat seder after the kiddush, Shabbat noon.
Mishna Brura - halacha in practice: study group lead by Gergő Dénes, every Monday night at 7.30 p.m. in the Visegradi street synagogue. (Planned to be in Hungarian.)
Study group with Dov Levy: Introduction into the Talmud. Held every Tuesday night at 6 p.m., in the Visegradi street synagogue. We learn now Massechet Baba Kamma.
Rosh Chodesh Club, about women, for women, led by Agnes Peresztegi. Next meeting: February 26, at 7.30 p.m. The topic this time will be the story of Dina.
How and why Jewish politics changed from kehilla politics focused on religious issues to modern political parties and movements with new kinds of leaders. How the franchise was expanded to include women (not too many) and "lower classes." How Orthodoxy resisted modernization through the doctrine of "daas Torah," paralleling papal infallibility among Catholics.
Zvi Gitelman is Professor of Political Science and Preston Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA where he also serves as Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. Author, editor or co-author of nine books and over 80 articles, Gitelman specializes in ethnicity and politics in the former Soviet Union and other formerly socialist states. His most recent book is Bitter Legacy: Confronting the Holocaust in the Soviet Union. Gitelman has been recently working with Professor Vladimir Shapiro and Dr. Valery Chervyakov of the Jewish Research Center, Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, on a study of Jewish ethnicity in Russia and Ukraine. He has also analyzed oral histories of Soviet Jewish veterans of World War II.