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This week:
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Tonight, Thursday, April 18, at 7:00 pm—Regular monthly Board meeting by Zoom. The vote for the Energy Project is on the agenda. Click here to join.
- Friday, April 19
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5:30 pm—Pizza and Prep for next month's Post Bet Mitzvah Service.
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7:00 pm—Live Services in the Sanctuary and on Zoom with Rabbi Ilene Haigh & Rabbinic Intern Ezra Leventhal. Click here to join.
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Saturday, April 20 at 4-6 pm—Upper Valley Tot Passover Shabbat, at the Kilton Public Library in Lebanon, NH, brought to children ages 0-7 by Shir Shalom and Kol Ha'Emek.
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Monday, April 22 at 6:00—Passover Congregational First Seder. Led by Rabbi Ilene Haigh & Rabbinic Intern Ezra Leventhal live in the Sanctuary and on Zoom. Please bring a dish to share with 10 people. Remember no pork, shellfish, or pasta. Click here to join.
Save the date:
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Tuesday, April 30 at 10 am—Passover Yizkor Service with Rabbi Haigh on Zoom only. Click here to join.
- Wednesday, May 1
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Noon—Rescheduled: The Israel Working Group presents Rabbi Yoav Ende of Kibbutz Hannaton on helping farmers. Only on Zoom. Click here to join.
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4:00—Women's Book Group. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. Click here to join. On Zoom only.
- Friday, May 3
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5:30—Community Potluck. Please bring a dish to share with 10 people.
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7:00—Yom HaShoah/Sidney Gravitz Memorial Lecture with Holocaust survivor Fran Malkin will follow live Shabbat Services with Rabbi Ilene Haigh in the Sanctuary and on Zoom. Click here to join.
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Sunday, May 5 at 10:30 am—In-person Parents' Roundtable with Rabbi Haigh.
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Also on Sunday, May 5 at 4 pm—Ezra Leventhal to be ordained at the Hebrew Union College in New York City.
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Friday, May 17 at 7—Post Bet Mitzvah Service and dedication of the Memorial Board, in the Sanctuary and on Zoom. Click here to join.
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Saturday, July 20—Summer Fundraiser at VINS Open Air Pavilion.
To see more of Shir Shalom's calendar, click here.
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Live Services Tomorrow,
Friday, April 19 at 7
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with Rabbi Ilene Haigh and Rabbinic Intern
Ezra Leventhal
in the Sanctuary
and on Zoom
Click here to join
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Also tomorrow:
Pizza and Prep at 5:30
for participents
in the May 17th Post Bet Mitzvah Service
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Please join us
for the First Seder
מַה נִּשְׁתַּנָּה הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה
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Mah nishtanah? Why is this night different
from all other nights?
This year the questions might be different, and each of us might respond in our own way. Wherever you are, this year we all need the joy of Pesach more than ever. Our hearts may be in deep tangles of uncertainty and pain, but this year more than ever we need to be together. Join us, bring your friends, celebrate the joy and wonder of a time of redemption, and of hope.
Chag Pesach sameach
Rabbi Ilene Haigh
Michael Brown, President
and Rabbinic Intern Ezra Leventhal
Please bring a dish to share with 10 people.
Remember no pork, shellfish, or pasta.
We will provide the matzah ball soup.
Please bring pots and ladles to serve delicious chicken matzo ball soup for your table. Please label your pots and ladles.
We need volunteers to help us to set up and to help us
to transform our sanctuary after the festivities.
Please join us. Our Passover celebration is open to all. Gather your family and friends and come celebrate with us!
Please email Roni Skerker or Dan Gottlieb
if you will be able to help.
No reservations necessary.
In the Sanctuary and on Zoom
Click here to join
Zoom Information:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2199028045
Meeting ID: 219 902 8045
Passcode: Dg8WLC
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Torah Study during
the Omer begins
Thursday, April 25th
10:00
with Rabbi Ilene Haigh
No Hebrew required
on Zoom only
Click here to join
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Passover Yizkor Service
with Rabbi Ilene Haigh
Tuesday, April 30 at 10 am
on Zoom only
Click here to join
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The Israel Working Group Presents | |
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Rabbi Yoav Ende of Kibbutz Hannaton
on helping farmers
(rescheduled
from April 1)
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On Wednesday, May 1 at noon, we will meet on Zoom with Rabbi Yoav Ende. He is the spiritual leader of Kibbutz Hannaton in Northern Israel, which received donations a few months ago from Shir Shalom's Israel Fund. He is also founder and CEO of the kibbutz's renowned pluralistic Educational Center.
Since the beginning of the War, the kibbutz has provided shelter, food and medical assistance to the residents of kibbutzim attacked by the Hamas terrorists on October 7.
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In our Zoom meeting, Rabbi Ende will describe what the kibbutz residents and graduates of its Educational Center have done to assist local farmers in maintaining crops.
Click here to join
Zoom Information:
https://zoom.us/j/7259482096
Meeting ID: 725 948 2096
Password: 856328
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Women's Book Group Zooms
on Wednesday, May 1 at 4:00
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Named a "Must Read for the Summer" by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Time, AARP, Town & Country, St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
A new bestseller from James McBride, whose book, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, described being raised by his Jewish mother in an all-Black neighborhood. He is also author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird.
In The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development in 1972, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As the story unfolds, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us.
On Zoom only. Click here to join. (https://zoom.us/j/7259482096)
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Watch the documentary beforehand on Fran,
No. 4 Street of Our Lady,
to enrich the talk.
Click here
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Sidney Gravitz
Memorial Lecture
with Holocaust survivor
Fran Malkin
Friday, May 3
Live Services at 7
with Rabbi Ilene Haigh
followed by lecture
in the Sanctuary and on Zoom.
Please stay for the oneg.
Click here to join
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Also on
Friday, May 3
before Services
Community Potluck
5:30
Please bring a plated dish for 10,
ready to serve.
If you can list allergens, such as nuts, dairy, alcohol, and gluten, many people will appreciate your consideration. Thank you.
photo by Shayda Torabi
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On May 5 at 4 pm, at its New York City campus,
the Hebrew Union College will ordain Ezra.
If you're interested in watching him become a Rabbi, then click below.
Please register here
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Post Bet Mitzvah Service
and Dedication of the Memorial Board
Friday, May 17 at 7
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Calling out to our talented members—we need you! We are hosting a live auction at our summer fundraiser and an online auction this fall, and we are relying on you to contribute your wares, your skills, whatever you can think of. For example, babysit for a few hours? Share your passion for baking? Or simply offer to do yard work or run errands. If you have an idea, please get in touch! And if you want to get involved and aren't sure how, we want to hear from you, too!
Email Sue Brown at susanbrown331@gmail.com.
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Save the Date
Here Comes the Sun!
Shir Shalom’s
Summer Fundraiser
Saturday, July 20 at VINS, at 5:00 pm
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Come join your friends
for a festive dinner, live auction, and lots of fun!
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Thank you very much for your generosity. Your donation makes it possible for us to continue to bring Judaism to the Upper Valley.
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As we have no dues or fees, gifts like yours are essential. You may give by credit card, PayPal, or check mailed to:
WAJC
PO Box 526
Woodstock, VT 05091
Thank you again.
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Zadiah Eisenberg's Charity for Giving Away Bikes | | |
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Zoom Information
Sanctuary Room - this will be used for larger group events
such as the 1st and 3rd Friday Night Shabbat Services, B'nei Mitzvahs,
and other live events
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2199028045
Meeting ID: 219 902 8045
Passcode: Dg8WLC
Meeting - this will be used for Rabbi's teaching, including Torah Study, Hebrew I and II, Adult Education, Wednesday and Saturday Minyans, Social Groups, etc.
https://zoom.us/j/7259482096
Meeting ID: 725 948 2096
Password: 856328
Check the calendar at www.shirshalomvt.org for Zoom numbers to use for each event or meeting.
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Woodstock Area Jewish Community, Congregation Shir Shalom
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