How Wondrous Are Thy Works?

Celebrate Kabbalat Shabbat with dinner and davening and … Lift up your eyes to majestic images of the cosmos; hear Jewish text combined with science and music; and welcome the Shabbat.

Sing the psalmist's words: "Mah Gadlu! How Great are God's words, how deep God's thoughts!"

Hazzan Rachel Hersh Epstein, Pianist Michael Gottlieb and Taste of Shabbat musicians unite with the Institute for Science and Judaism's Rabbi George B. Driesen and Steve Brody to present a unique evening at Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation.

Candle lighting, Kiddush and a delicious catered fish/veg dinner 6:45 PM. Services at 7:45 PM; program at 8:15 PM. The services and program are free. The dinner is $18 adults/teens, under 12 free. Reserve by Tuesday, March 17, either at www.adatshalolm.net, click Taste of Shabbat; or call 301/767-3333 ext 561, leave a message, do not wait for a return call, then send check to Adat Shalom Recon. Cong., 7727 Persimmon Tree Lane, Bethesda, MD, 20817, or email reservation to TasteOfShabbat@AdatShalom.net and send check to address above. For more information about the Institute for Science and Judaism, please visit scienceandjudiasm.blogspot.com.

Despair, Ecstasy and Religious Experience

Join Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University as she presents a talk on Despair, Ecstasy and Religious Experience. Dr. Jamison is Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center. She is also Honorary Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Highly respected as a researcher and clinician by her medical and scientific peers, she co-authored of the standard medical textbook on bipolar illness. However, it is her four critically acclaimed books for lay audiences that have touched the hearts of countless people world-wide. These books include her candid and brave memoir An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness. The outpouring of stories from the readers prompted her to address the difficult, almost taboo, subject of suicide in Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide. Dr. Jamison is the recipient of numerous scientific awards, including the prestigious MacArthur Award.

Sunday, March 22, 2009
Breakfast: 9:30AM
Presentation: 10:00AM

Congregation Beth El
Free – no reservations required
8215 Old Georgetown Road
Bethesda, Maryland

Near both the Bethesda and Medical Center Red Line Metro Stations
Directions available at http://www.bethelmc.org/ 301-652-2606

The War Between Science and Religion

Approximately 100 people heard Dr. Alan Leshner's fascinating and provocative talk recent talk entitled "The War Between Science and Religion: A Report from the Front Lines" at Adas Israel in Washington, D.C., in January.

Pictured here are Adas Israel Rabbi Feinberg, Dr. Leshner and Rabbi Driesen, the President of the Institute for Science and Judiasm which co-sponsored the event with Adas.