Day of Study Planned at Temple Isaiah: 'Justice, Justice You Shall Pursue'

Temple Isaiah of Great Neck will host a full day of activities April 13 as part of a retreat dedicated to the theme of justice, an event that was rescheduled from February due to poor weather. 

The day’s long list activities are open to the entire community and are free of charge. 

Schedule of events:

• Activities begin at 9:30 a.m. with a service and torah study, followed by a light brunch.
• At noon, there will be an inter-age mock trial based on the Jacob, Esau and the leadership of the Hebrew people.
• Temple Isaiah’s 1000 Paper Crane Origami Project will begin at 1:30 p.m., with instructions on how to fold the paper cranes based on an ancient practice from Japan. Temple Isaiah’s commitment to folding the 1000 paper cranes will be in the spirit of The Paper Clips Project, the successful effort by Tennessee students to collect paper clips for each of the estimated number of Jewish victims of the Nazis between 1939 and 1945. Temple Isaiah’s project will be dedicated to the idea of healing and repair.
• Dr. Linda Burghardt will give a presentation at 2;30 p.m. based on her dissertation entitled, “Last Waltz in Vienna: Escape and Survival at the Dawn of the Holocaust.” It focuses on the Jews of Vienna who survived through escape in 1938 and 1939, when escape was still possible. Immediately after the talk; Dr. Howard Israel will give an overview of the Temple’s Holocaust Archive project.
• At 4 p.m., there will be a showing of a contemporary Israeli film, “Footnote,” which addresses issues of justice in an academic setting in modern Jerusalem.   

Temple Isaiah in Great Neck, at One Chelsea Place, is a member congregation of the Union for Reform Judaism. For further information, contact the temple at (516) 487-5373 or online at http://www.templeisaiahgn.org/ 

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