Shabbat

Fri 3 Jun, 6:30-8:30 pm. 14th Street Y, 344 East 14th St., between 1st & 2nd Ave., New York, 10001. Amy Stein, 212-213-1002. The City Congregation for Humanistic Judaism - [website][email][events]

Shabbat Service and Cultural Program at 7:30pm followed by Pot-Luck Dessert Shavuot Celebration: In Honor of Our Collective Literature Traditionally, this holiday commemorates the giving of the Torah on Mt. Sinai. As Humanistic Jews, we use this occasion to celebrate all of our collective literature. FACES OF Jewish HUMOR: The Saga of the Shlemiel and the Shlimazel Ruth Adler, professor of Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature at Baruch College, CUNY, will describe the travails of the shlemiel and the shlimazel as they have been depicted in the writings of the three major East-European writers, Mendele, Sholem Aleichem, and Peretz, and also explore their appearance in earlier periods. Ruth Adler is the author of Women of the Shtetl - Through the Eyes