Weekday classes
What is Your Food Worth?
Si’ach (conversation) in the Sukkah: What Is Your Food Worth?
October 2 at 5:30pm
Bryant Simon (Co-Director of the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History, Temple University Department of History) and Rabbi Eli Freedman (Assistant Rabbi at Congregation Rodeph Shalom) will lead a wide-ranging conversation on ethnic and food choices with a distinguished Philadelphia-based panel. Light food and drinks will be provided (under the Sukkah).
Panelists
Andrew Siegel, owner of Fare Restaurant
Kevin Kleinman, Associate Rabbi at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel
Jeff Benjamin, Vetri Foundation
Laurel Klein, organizer of Center City CSA and owner of Café Olam
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November 7: Bryant Simon
Interim Director, Feinstein Center
“What is Your Food Worth?” represents collaboration among the Feinstein Center, The Gershman Y, the National Museum of American Jewish History, and Rodeph Shalom. The public will be invited to a series of programs bringing together historians, scholars of religion, kosher bakers, labor activists, chefs, and foodies to investigate how American Jewish life and thought is articulated, contested, marketed, lived and digested. For more information: www.whatisyourfoodworth.com
March 13: Mark Bittman, New York Times Food Critic
What Is Your Food Worth?
“What is Your Food Worth?” represents collaboration among the Feinstein Center, The Gershman Y, the National Museum of American Jewish History, and Rodeph Shalom. The public will be invited to a series of programs bringing together historians, scholars of religion, kosher bakers, labor activists, chefs, and foodies to investigate how American Jewish life and thought is articulated, contested, marketed, lived and digested. For more information: www.whatisyourfoodworth.com
May 8: Melissa Anderson, Psy.D.
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Co-sponsored by Jewish Learning Venture and RS Families with Young Children