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Quick Links: Join HAZAK · HAZAK Events Winter-Spring 2013
                       
Upcoming HAZAK Events on Interactive Calendar

HAZAK at Beth Emeth is a congenial group for all interested adults of an uncertain age who are free to gather in the early afternoon. 

Hazak listens to "Hot Kugel"

We meet at the Social Hall from 1:00 to 3:00 on the third Tuesday of each month. We listen to excellent speakers, often discussing their latest books, and, of course, we nosh and schmooze. We celebrate holidays and take trips. This year we begin our programming in October after the High Holy Days and Sukkot, and run through June. Join us!

The name Hazak means "Strong," and is also made up of the first Hebrew letters of the words:

Hochmah: Wisdom
Ziknah: Maturity
Kadima: Looking Ahead

 

Upcoming Hazak Events
Guests speaker events are listed below; throughout the year we will publish additional information on our programming here and in the Shofar.

Date Guest Speaker
May 21
1:00 PM,
or bring your dairy lunch at 12:15 and schmooze before the program
Dr. Liliane Willens, "Three Waves of Jewish Migration to China: 1845-1941"

Jewish migration to China? It's not exactly the first place that comes to mind when we think of Jewish expansion to new worlds - but it has happened, again and again. In the second half of the 19th century, Sephardic merchants moved to China in large numbers to engage in trade. In the first half of the 20th century; Ashkenazi Jews fled from the Russian Revolution and accompanying pogroms and Central and Eastern European Jews escaped to the safety of China from Nazi-occupations across Europe.

As part of her presentation on this bit of Jewish history, Dr. Liliane Willens will draw from her own memoir, Stateless in Shanghai, where she describes her experience growing up in China during wars, revolutions and varying regimes.

Before her retirement, Dr. Willens taught at Boston College and MIT and worked at the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Peace Corps. Following her presentation, Dr. Willens will be happy to sign copies of Stateless in Shanghai.

June 18 Our closing meeting for the year will include some special desserts along with our special program. 

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Have you joined? Have you renewed your membership? Don't miss out. Dues are $18.00; checks payable to CBE Hazak. Click here to download and print the membership form.

FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION

 

L’dor vador—from generation to generation—

I pass to you

Not the giddy joy of success,

But the lump in the throat the signals

The wisdom to speak softly in a fragile world.

 

Through these finger tips

Pass sensual gifts—

The feel of sand between the toes,

The eye that captures

The flight of the gull at sunset,

 

Take them, child of my child—

The ability to grow inside the mind,

To change, to forgive, to love.

Take them,

And when you grow old,

Bequeath them l’dor vador,

For these are the things that remain worthwhile,

That make life worth living.

 

            S. Anne Sostrom