Empty Nesters Sponsored Programs

The B'nai Tikvah Empty Nesters encompasses over 200 Synagogue families who are loosely defined as having children of college age or older and who are interested in joining their peers at cultural and social programs with a Jewish slant.  Over the past three years, this has included Shabbat dinners, featured speakers, movie and book reviews, field trips to sites of Jewish significance, concerts, etc. The Empty Nesters' events are a great way to renew old ties or make new friends and keep active in synagogue and Jewish community life

Save these dates for upcoming Empty Nester Programs for 2010-2011

Save the Dates Fall 2010 to register

Sunday, July 11 - American (Jewish) Masters: Bernstein, Copland, Gershwin

Join your B’nai Tikvah Empty Nester friends for an afternoon of camaraderie and music as Ravinia celebrates the memory of three of America’s favorite Jewish composer/conductors in a program that features three quintessentially American masterpieces: Bernstein’s “Symphony No 2,” Copland’s “Appalachian Spring,” and Gershwin’s “Concerto in F.”  Register here Ravinia 7-10

You bring chairs or a blanket (or rent chairs in the park) and a dairy lunch; we’ll provide desserts. 3pm, park opens; 5pm concert. $3 per person for dessert payable to Synagogue; lawn tickets at park are $10 per person.

Sunday, September 26 - LBJ and the Jews

Leon Stein, Professor Emeritus of History at Roosevelt University, will talk about recently released Presidential tapes that reveal the role of LBJ in rescuing hundreds of endangered Jews during and after World War II as well as his "personal and often emotional connection to the State of Israel," according to the Associated Press. 7:00pm dessert, 7:30pm program, $6 per person.

Sunday, October . 24 - Prisoner of Her Past, Screening and Discussion

A new documentary about Chicago Tribune Arts Critic Howard Reich's journey as he tries to understand why his mother is reliving her horrific childhood in Eastern Europe during World War II. Howard and other of the filmmakers will then lead a discussion about the film. 6:30 screening, 7:30 dessert, 8:00 discussion, $6 per person.

Sunday, November 21 - Aaron Freeman and Sharon Rosenzweig on The Comic Torah - Comedian and media personality Aaron Freeman and visual artist Sharon Rosenzweig have reimagined the Torah in a wildly unorthodox, yet deeply faithful way. After three years of collaboration and on-line postings of the weekly parsha, they have now published The Comic Torah as a book. Aaron and Sharon join us to discuss this unique work. Warning: this program contains graphic representations of the Deity, racially diverse Israelites, bloodshed, and idolatrous orgies. And as we have learned to expect from Aaron, anything else is possible. 7:00 pm dessert, 7:30 pm program, $6 per person