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Shabbat Dinner and Learning
7:30pm Shabbat dinner ($15/adult, $7/student, free for 5 and under) and Learning:
Babysitting available. Please let us know that you are attending so that we can make arrangements.
“HE WAS ONE OF US!” – AMERICAN JEWRY’S RELATIONSHIP WITH ABRAHAM LINCOLN
This session is based on Professor Zola’s new volume, We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry (Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 2014) which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Few are aware of the remarkable history linking American Jewry and President Lincoln. Dr. Zola will explain why many of Lincoln’s personal and professional characteristics that have caused American Jews to embrace the sixteenth president as a man who possessed a Jewish soul. Lincoln’s remarkable human qualities offer American Jewry an uplifting legacy to ponder.
Scholar-in-Residence Weekend In Partnership with the Jewish Federation of Greater El Paso featuring Dr. Gary P. Zola. 
Executive Director of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA) and the Edward M. Ackerman Family Distinguished Professor of the American Jewish Experience & Reform Jewish History at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Cincinnati.
date & time
12/09/16 7:30pm — 9:30pm
location
Temple Mount Sinai
price
$15 adults
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12/09/16 7:30pm — 9:30pm
location
Temple Mount Sinai
price
$15 adults
7:30pm Shabbat dinner ($15/adult, $7/student, free for 5 and under) and Learning:
Babysitting available. Please let us know that you are attending so that we can make arrangements.
“HE WAS ONE OF US!” – AMERICAN JEWRY’S RELATIONSHIP WITH ABRAHAM LINCOLN
This session is based on Professor Zola’s new volume, We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry (Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 2014) which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Few are aware of the remarkable history linking American Jewry and President Lincoln. Dr. Zola will explain why many of Lincoln’s personal and professional characteristics that have caused American Jews to embrace the sixteenth president as a man who possessed a Jewish soul. Lincoln’s remarkable human qualities offer American Jewry an uplifting legacy to ponder.
Scholar-in-Residence Weekend In Partnership with the Jewish Federation of Greater El Paso featuring Dr. Gary P. Zola.
Executive Director of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA) and the Edward M. Ackerman Family Distinguished Professor of the American Jewish Experience & Reform Jewish History at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Cincinnati.
