2024 Bagel U

The Amazing Story of Curt Bloch: Curt Bloch was a German Jew who was hidden from the Nazis in a tiny crawl space below the attic rafters of a modest Dutch home. He made 97 single copy editions of a satirical, highly creative magazine series called, The Underwater Cabaret. 

The Search for a Path to a Just and Lasting Peace in Israel: Any path toward peace must face the moral and political situation in its full complexity. Our speakers will summarize those complexities and outline some of JStreet’s suggestions for ways out of the current morass.

David Stoller's Modern Jewish Artists - Man Ray In his ongoing series examining Jewish Artists, David Stoller examines the long and varied career of painter and photographer Man Ray who achieved fame in the United States and Europe primarily in the 1920s-1940s, but his career extended before and after that period. 

"Heaven & Earth Grocery Store" book discusion  - KHN Member  Susan Light lead a discussion of James McBride's best-selling book about a poor neighborhood in Pottstown, PA where Jewish immigrants and blacks lived side-by-side sharing ambitions, sorrows, and their struggles to survive.

"People Love Dead Jews" book discussion -  KHN Member Debra Brosan lead a discussion of Dara Horn's book "People Love Dead Jews".  With the rise of Jewish hate, now is the time to understand the past so that we can confront the patterns of antisemitism and biases against Jews. In the discussion we grappled with: How does Jewish history shape the present moment? How is it exploited for the comfort of the living? VIDEO NOT AVAILABLE.

Community Seder Meal in the Style of Mrs. Maisel - Prior to Passover, the Popkin ladies (Amy, Emma, and Lily Arnell) provided our school and members with a Communal Meal in the style of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. We  enjoyed a meal in the style of 1950s Manhattan and enjoyed what we might eat if we joined the Maisel Family for a Jewish Festival Banquet. NO VIDEO AVAILABLE
   

Cook an Indian Passover Seder Meal Together  -  KHN Member Judith Daniels, who grew up in Bombay, India and developed a knowledge of Bene Israeli cuisine, showed us how to cook a simple Indian Jewish meal of rice pilaf, a curried salmon and a simple tomato/onion/cucumber salad: A meal that migrated from Bombay to America.  VIDEO NOT AVAILABLE
 

Explore Judaica at Princeton University - During our guided tour of Princeton University's Department of Special Collections Firestone Library , in March three of the department’s librarians will gave us a ‘Show and Tell’ of special objects and collections with Jewish content, either directly related to Judaism or related to the Jewish experience.  No video available. For more info about this trip click HERE.   Here is a photo from the trip. 

Heretics & Heresy KHN members David Stoller and Abraham Leibson will explore the underlying concepts, assumptions, and world views that produce heretics and relate those to the different ways of being Jewish in the U.S., in Israel and around the world and interview each other for how their histories relate to heresy.

Why Do We Have Poverty? KHN Member Sally Feineman led us in a discussion of poverty in America, grounded in her many years providing food to the poor in our local area and from the lessons taught in two exceptional books - “Poverty by America” by Matthew Desmond and "There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice through Jewish Law and Tradition" by Rabbi Jill Jacobs.