Kew Hebrew Congregation Inc.

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

Tuesday 13th October, 8:30 pm

Speaker: Mark Regev, Spokesman and Foreign Press Advisor for the Prime Minister of Israel

Topic: What Will Make A Real Peace?

Q & A moderated by Dr Mark Baker, Director, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation Associate Professor, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Monash University.

KHC LIBRARY PRESENTS: LEON CEBON MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES 2010

Relating Judaism and Halachah to Science and Medicine
- On The Genetics of Being Jewish
- B’reishit vs. The Big Bang: Must Science and Religion be in Conflict?
- "The Best of the Doctors Goes to Hell" - The Ramifications of this Mishnah today
- The Environment: What can we do?

All lectures are held on Sunday nights at 8.00pm at Kew Hebrew Congregation in the Norman Smorgon Hall.

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PAST LECTURES:

DATE: Monday 17th August 2009, 2:00 pm
SPEAKER: DR RODNEY GOUTTMAN
TOPIC: ZIONISM - An Embattled Landscape

When first promoted, political Zionism attracted few supporters in the Jewish world. This situation began to change when it became clear that very few states were willing to provide refuge for most Jewish victims of Hilter’s Germany. Non-Jewish attitudes to Zionism have varied depending according to views of the Israel-Arab cum Palestinian conflict. This talk will explore these developments in the Australian context from the early 1900s to the present.

Rodney Gouttman has worked at the University of SA, as a political analyst at the B'nai Brith Anti-Defamation Commission and is a past editor of the Australian Journal of Jewish Studies and Journal of the Australian Jewish Historical Society. Presently, he is a Research Associate in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University. His current research concerns the Australian Jewish community's attitude to both World Wars I and II, and the ideological Left's view of anti-Semitism and Zionism from the 1920s to the present.

This lecture is available to be streamed from our website - please click here.
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DATE: Sunday 19th July 2009, 8:00 pm
SPEAKER: Rabbi James Kennard
TOPIC: The Charedim & Israeli Politics

Rabbi James Kennard is Principal of Mount Scopus Memorial College. He holds a master's degree in mathematics from Oxford University and was previously Head of London's King Solomon High School. He received Rabbinic ordination in Israel in 1989 and has served as a Hillel director/chaplain on campuses across England. Rabbi Kennard is a dynamic speaker who will address the topic of "Charedim and the Knesset; the history, philosophy and the politics of the different Charedi parties and their impact on Israel's past, present and future".

This lecture is available to be streamed from our website - please click here.
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DATE: Sunday 15 February 2009, 8.00pm
TOPIC: Yiddish Language and Culture
SPEAKER: Bobbi Zylberman and Michael Zylberman

From the pre WW2 years in Europe to 2009, Israel and the far flung Jewish Diaspora with the focus on Melbourne; what have been the important developments in Yiddish Language and Culture? Is the language, its literature and music and the ideology of the BUND still relevant today? What are the challenges for the future? Who better to lead us through this fascinating topic than Bobbi and Michael Zylberman. Bobbi is a Lecturer in Yiddish Language and Culture at the Australian Centre of Jewish Civilization at Monash University and serves on the International Association of Yiddish Clubs Advisory Board. Michael is the Chairperson of the BUND in Melbourne and convenor of the Jewish Broadcasting Group at Radio 3ZZZ 92.3FM.

"Mir Kumen On" Yiddish Choir rehearsals take place weekly on Tuesdays at 8pm at Waks House (281 Hawthorn Rd). The Choir is run by Tomi Kalinski under the auspices of the J. Waks Cultural Trust. The Choir meets weekly to learn new and old Yiddish songs and has begun performing at various events around Melbourne. Yiddish enthusiasts of all ages are welcome. Email KHC on office@khc.org.au if you are interested in joining the choir.

The details for the contact person for Din and Henry's information, in case they get any queries are: ring Reyzl on 0400960204 or e-mail bundyiddishchoir@gmail.com.
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DATE: Sunday 7th December 8.00pm
TOPIC: Jewish Day Schools in Melbourne: The Length and the Breadth of our Community.
SPEAKER: Miriam Muntz.

The Melbourne Jewish community is vibrant and multi-facted and this is exemplified by the amazing range of ideologies that underpin its Jewish Day Schools from Adass Israel through to Sholem Aleichem.
Miriam Munz, a Research Associate in Jewish Studies at the Australian Centre of Jewish Civilization at Monash University, will draw on her extensive knowledge of these schools, though working in and with them for many years, to provide us with an overview of the rich diversity of the community. She will look at how the schools came to be set up, their philosophies, and their challenges for the future. Miriam has served as Principal of Leibler Yavneh College and Head of Jewish Studies at Mount Scopus Memorial College; and she was the founding President of Bet Aharon, the Modern Orthodox Congregation based at the Gandel Besen campus of Mount Scopus Memorial College.
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The KHC Library has existed since the 1960s. in June 2008 the KHC Library joined the Makor Jewish Library Network. The KHC Library includes a collection of mainly Jewish religious books and objects but also books about Jewish history, culture, music and literature, education, adult fiction and non fiction as well as children's books on Jewish themes, both fiction and non-fiction. The library and its archives includes the historical records of the Congregation, and educational materials for the teaching of Hebrew, Jewish history, Jewish culture and religion and music as well as objects and art works of religious significance.

Rabbi Stephen Boroda is the director of the KHC Library. Rabbi Boroda has a Bachelor of economics and Social Studies, a BA in Literature and an MA in Education as well as his rabbinical qualification. These staff work part time in the library. Leonie Fleiszig, Director of the Makor Library, is consulted with regard to professional library issues.

There is a volunteer Library Committee which reports to the President of KHC, Dr. Psyc. Deborah Golvan and Executive of the Board of Management of the Congregation.

The Library Committee includes:
Chairperson:
Ms Lynda Walters
Members:
Ms Cynthia Benporath
Ms Carol Bloustein
Ms Judy Krape
Ms Alice Zydower

'The KHC Library and Education Fund finances our Library and its educational program to:
1) purchase new books and other materials;
3) maintain a catalogue of our books which is (delete already) linked to the Makor Jewish Library network;
4) lend books to our members and the general public;
5) maintain the library rooms and additional reading/lecture rooms;
6) provide lectures and educational programs associated with our collection to adults and children; and
7) print publications educating out members and the general public about our books and our educational program.

Donations to the KHC Library and Education Fund are tax deductible.'

KHC Library Rules

Members of the public may borrow from the library upon production of appropriate identification Two (2) books may be borrowed at any one time Books may be borrowed for a period of four (4) weeks No reference books may be removed from the library

The Library is open for borrowing at these times:
Mondays 10.00am to 2.00pm
Tuesdays 10.00am to 2.00pm
Wednesdays 7.30pm to 9.30pm
Thursdays 10.00am to 2.00pm

Lost or damaged books must be paid for at replacement value.

The Library is at present closed for a major clean, stock take and catalogue, however, if individuals are keen to view and study from books on the premises this can be arranged by contacting Rabbi Boroda.

For further information, please contact the Library.