January 18, 2012 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • Page 15 Ridgewood ‘Ancient Synagogues and Churches’ to be presented D. Cohen Professor of Rabbinic Culture and professor of history at The Jewish Theological Seminary before joining the Columbia faculty. Temple Israel and JCC is located at 475 Grove Street in Ridgewood. It is an egalitarian Conservative synagogue with members from over a dozen Bergen County commu- nities. Weekly Shabbat services are held on Fridays at 8:30 p.m. (replaced by a 7 p.m. Family Service on the second Friday of each month) and Saturdays at 9 a.m. During the week, minyan takes place on Sunday mornings at 9:30 a.m. and Tuesday nights at 7:45 p.m. For more information, call (201) 444-9320 or e-mail office@synagogue.org. Dr. Seth Schwartz Temple Israel and JCC of Ridgewood will host Scholarin-Residence Dr. Seth Schwartz, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization at Columbia University, on Sunday, Feb. 5 at 10:30 a.m. Guest lecturing as part of Temple Israel Rabbi David J. Fine’s Sunday-morning series on “History of the Holy Land,” Dr. Schwartz will discuss “Ancient Synagogues and Churches.” Admission is free and all in the community are invited. Dr. Schwartz is a social, cultural, and political historian of the ancient Jews, with strong interests in their Hellenistic, Roman, and early Christian environments. The author most recently of “Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism,” Dr. Schwartz received the National Jewish Book Award for his work, “Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 BCE to 640 CE,” a study of the influence of imperialism on the religious, political, social, and economic development of Jewish life in ancient Palestine. The recipient of numerous prestigious fellowships, including the Guggenheim and Harvard Society of Fellows, Dr. Schwartz was the Gerson Informative outing Ridgewood Somerville Daisy Troop 5274 recently visited TD Bank. Evelice Lopez demonstrated the penny arcade, and took the girls on a tour of the vault and drive through. The girls learned important information about the bank in order to get ready for their upcoming cookie sale.