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January 2017 – January 2018
Includes light supper. Booking essential
A Small Step to the Moon but a Giant Leap in Undertsanding of the Jewish Calendar of its Day – A talk by Barbara Moont
The Earth goes around the sun every year and the moon goes around the earth every month. The Jewish calendar is based on both of these rotations. Around the year 350, Hillel HaNasi started the Jewish calendar of today. His accuracy was not equaled by the Western calendar for another 1000 years.
Barbara will explain the history of the Jewish calendar. She will also talk about the moon landings starting in 1969, when she worked on the Apollo project.
The history, conservation & digitization of the Dead Sea Scrolls, presented by Orit Rosengarten, Assistant to the Director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Leah Gross, together with Ashley Shapiro, will give an illustrated presentation on the subject of musicals.
Exact date and venue to be announced nearer the time
Advance booking required by 26th December, 2017
Colonel Ronnie Westerman, Defence Attache at the British Embassy in Israel will speak about her career and what drives her to succeed.
Writer and Jerusalem Post columnist, Brian Blum, will talk about his
new book “Totaled: The billion-dollar crash of the startup that took on big auto, big oil and the world”.