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The Charlotte Jewish News - February 2016 - Page 5 Synagogue. ONGREGATIONS Temple Beth El Hosts Rabbi Amy Scheinerman for a Scholar-in-Residence Weekend By Rabbi Jonathan Freirich Rabbi Amy Scheinerman, an insightful scholar and inspiring teacher of Jewish sources, from Torah to Talmud, and from Family to Fanaticism, will join Temple Beth El and Hebrew High for a weekend of learning and discus sion, Friday, February 19 through Sunday, F ebruary 21. Rabbi Scheinerman has served congregations of multiple denom inations, edits the Torah Commen tary column of the Newsletter for the Central Conference of Ameri can Rabbis, and is a member of the Central Conference of Ameri can Rabbis Responsa Committee. As a teacher. Rabbi Scheiner man inspires with easy and ap proachable explanations of ancient, archaic, and complicated rabbinic and medieval thoughts. I have watched her teach a room full of scholars, easily using everyone’s questions as spring boards to relevant discussions. Our Temple Beth El Talmud Lunch groups regularly uses her Ten Minutes of Talmud teachings to spark conversations that clarify and deepen our experience of Ju daism, no matter what our experi ence in learning. Over the course of her weekend here in Charlotte, Rabbi Scheiner man will lead the following: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Re lationships: Building a Better Us Friday, February 19, at 6:00 PM, she will offer reflections from the Talmud on navigating the relationships in our life, at Shab- bat Worship at Temple Beth El, in the Blumenthal Sanctuary. Religious Fanaticism Saturday, February 20, at 9:00 AM, Rabbi Scheinerman will lead a session discussing various Jew ish traditions that warn us of the dangers of extremism, at Temple Beth El, in the Archer Chapel. This session will be completely accessible to everyone regardless of background. Saturday, February 20, during the evening. Rabbi Scheinerman will teach our teens during the Consolidated Hebrew High School Eighth and Ninth Grade Retreat. The Rabbis’ Radical Views of God Sunday, February 21, at 11:00 AM, Rabbi Scheinerman will lead a brunch and learn about our in 1984 at HUC-JIR in New York, where she also received a Doctor of Divinity in 2009. Rabbi Schein erman is the hospice rabbi in Howard County, MD, and teaches in a variety of venues. She has re cently served on the CCAR Board of Trustees, as president of both the Greater Carolinas Association of Rabbis and the Baltimore Board of Rabbis. She has served (Continued on page 20) IP TEMPLE BETH EL Rabbi Amy Scheinerman Sages’ struggles with relation ships, emotions, and moral choices, and how their ideas of an imperfect God helped create mod els for human behavior, at Temple Beth El in the Levine Social Hall. This session will be completely accessible to everyone regardless of background. Rabbi Amy Scheinerman re ceived her bachelor’s degree from Brown University; has studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Princeton Theolog ical Seminary; and was ordained Temple Beth Selects Rabbi Asher Knight as New Senior Rabbi On January 6, Jack Levinson, president of Temple Beth El an nounced that Rabbi Asher Knight had been selected as the new sen ior rabbi. “Throughout the search process. Rabbi Knight stood out as an outstanding candidate. He has demonstrated strengths in re lationship building, engagement practices, pastoral care, and lead ership on the Bimah. He is organ ized, driven, and innovative. In addition to building and support ing a strong clergy team, we be lieve he will represent us well within Shalom Park, the greater Charlotte community, and in the Union for Reform Judaism. Our primary goal is to strengthen our foundation and create the path for each congregant to connect and proudly call Temple Beth El his or her spiritual home,” Levinson said. Rabbi Knight was ordained in 2007 from Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion and holds a BA in International Rela tions from the University of Den ver. He is coming to us from Temple Emanu-El in Dallas that has over 2,500 congregant fami lies and where he has had the priv ilege of working with a stellar clergy team led by Rabbi David Stem. As Associate Rabbi in Dal las, Rabbi Knight has been inti mately involved with every aspect of the synagogue - worship, life cycle, religious school, adult learning, social justice, engage ment, and community relations. He is highly respected and has t Over the coming weeks, the synagogue will begin its transition plan. ^ Rabbi Asher Knight been insfrumental in finding ways to make a large congregation feel accessible to its members. “Although Rabbi Knight has not been a senior rabbi, he has ex emplary large-congregation expe rience and is ready to assume this leadership role for us. We are pre pared to provide him with the sup port that he both desires and will need to develop and continue building on his aheady impressive list of successes,” Levinson con tinued. “I’d like to take this opportu nity to thank our Search Commit tee members (Adam Bernstein, co-chair, Moira Quinn Klein, co chair, Fred Dumas, Larry Farber, Bob Lidz, Jack Levinson, Frances Liss, Annie Lord, Joe Machicote, Cyndee Patterson, Ginny Rosen berg, Carissa Schlesinger, Howard Seidler, Becky Stamler, and Laura Bernstein, ex-officio) who worked tirelessly and tenaciously over the past seven months on our behalf to bring us three great finalists and a well thought-out and presented recommendation.” * The Diamond Specialists - since 1980 - SAY EVERYTHING WITHOUT SAYING A WORD At The Arboretum | 704-341-1188 www.malakj ewelers .com o o ® ® o ®
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