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My honoraria vary depending on location, number of programs and type of programs. I have spoken before several hundred groups over the past 30 years because my honoraria have always been affordable.
Please E-Mail me at arthur.kurzweil@verizon.net
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Absolutely! We have lots of experience and time-proven, successful programming ideas. Speak with the Jewish Lecture & Arts Network; they'll be happy to put us in touch.

My lectures on Jewish genealogy and family history are usually about 50 minutes and then a question/answer session. I like Talmud lectures and classes to be at least one and a half hours. But, I can easily make them shorter -- or longer! "Searching for God in a Magic Shop" is a one hour and fifteen minute performance.

Searching for God in a Magic Shop is an entertaining and thought provoking presentation by a Jewish magician who has discovered that his interest in performing magic sheds light on his exploration of Jewish theology. The presentations combine a discussion of some of the profound questions of life with accompanying magic tricks that tie in directly to the discussion. On one level it’s a real fine magic show. On another level, it’s an exploration of eternal Jewish spiritual ideas. Audiences are entertained and inspired.

While the performance is designed for thoughtful adults, there is lots of pure entertainment value in the hour and a quarter presentation. Middle school and up would be best.

It was once the commonly held view that Jews could not do genealogical research successfully. Now we know that it is quite possible to discover significant information our Jewish families. I have successfully traced my family back centuries! In my lectures, I describe how to climb your family tree and I offer amazing and productive ways of doing so. More Jews are tracing their family trees now than ever before.

Yes. Often a synagogue or Jewish organization will ask me to offer a lecture on Jewish genealogy and as a result I am often ask to come back to run a hands-on workshop. At that workshop, I bring lots of fascinating books and other reference materials that serve to launch some serious Jewish genealogical research. I have also spoken before many groups where a whole day or a half-day is devoted to the subject. First, I give an introduction and motivational talk; and then we do a hands-on workshop.

Yes, and I have done so many times over the years. Often the schedule looks like this:
- Friday night: an introductory talk on why people trace their Jewish roots.
- Shabbat morning: a dvar Torah relating to the Torah portion and Jewish family history.
- Shabbat afternoon and/or evening: A major presentation or presentations, From Generation to Generation: How To Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History. This can be one session or two sessions.
- Sunday morning: A talk to the religious school, or a men club/sisterhood breakfast

They sure can! There are two major efforts to translate the Talmud into English, one by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz and one by Mesorah Publications. Both editions make Talmud study quite possible—and very exciting—for the English language student.

Teens love the material, in part because the Talmud stimulates lots of questions, and in part because the subject matter that I select for study from the Talmud is quite interesting to teenagers.