RABBI ROBERT E. FINE MEMORIAL SHABBAT
Friday night November 21
6:00pm Shabbat service followed by dinner and talk
“THE GREEK HERITAGE OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY”
Professor Elaine Pagels (Princeton University)
Elaine Pagels is best known for research and publication involving a cache of over fifty ancient Greek texts discovered translated into Coptic in Upper Egypt in 1945. She is a renowned National Book Award winning scholar and received the National Medal for the Arts from President Obama. She is the author of The Gnostic Gospels, Why Religion?, and most recently, Miracles and Wonder. Before her doctoral work at Harvard she studied Greek and Latin classics at Stanford along with the late Rabbi Robert E. Fine.
Follow-up discussion with Rabbi David Fine on Saturday at Shabbat morning kiddush.
Sponsored by the Rabbi Robert E. Fine Memorial Fund at Temple Israel, with support from the Max Aaron Strachman Memorial Library Endowment Fund.
RSVP: November 7 to office@synagogue.org
Donations can be directed to the Rabbi Robert E. Fine Memorial Fund