This week:

• Saturday, April 13 at 10:30 am—Shabbat Minyan on Zoom only. Click here to join.

• Monday, April 15 at 7:30 pm— Energy Project community discussion on Zoom with Michael Brown, Elliot Goodman, and Dan Gottlieb. Click here to join.

• Wednesday, April 17 at 8:30 am—Virtual Minyan. Click here to join.

• Thursday, April 18 at 11:00 am—Hebrew Review. Click here to join.

• Thursday, April 18, at 7:00 pm—Regular monthly Board meeting by Zoom. The vote to approve the Energy Project is on the agenda. Click here to join.

Save the date:

• Friday, April 19
• 5:30 pm—Pizza and Prep for next month's post Bet Mitzvah Service.
• 7:00 pm—Live Services in the Sanctuary and on Zoom with Rabbi Haigh and Rabbinic Intern Ezra Leventhal. Click here to join.

• Saturday, April 20
• 9:30 am—Tot Shabbat.
• 10:30 am—In-person only, Rabbi's Roundtable for Parents on Israel/Gaza.

• 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.

• Thursday, April 25 at 10:00—Torah Study during the Omer begins with Rabbi Haigh on Zoom only. Click here to join.

• Wednesday, May 1
• Noon—Rescheduled: The Israel Working Group presents Rabbi Yoav Ende of Kibbutz Hannaton on helping farmers. Only on Zoom. Click here to join.
• 4:00—Women's Book Group. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride.  Click here to join. Only on Zoom.

• Friday, May 3
• 5:30—Community Potluck. Please bring a dish to share with 10 people.
• 7:00—Yom HaShoah/Sidney Gravitz Memorial Lecture with Holocaust survivor Fran Malkin. After live Shabbat Services with Rabbi Ilene Haigh in the Sanctuary and on Zoom. Click here to join.

• 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.

• Saturday, July 20—Summer Fundraiser at VINS Open Air Pavilion.

To see more of Shir Shalom's calendar, click here.

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

Please join Rabbi Haigh and Lois Fein

for music, stories and fun

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

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.

Only on Zoom.  Click here to join. (https://zoom.us/j/7259482096)

Come join your friends

for a festive dinner, live auction, and lots of fun!

The Vermont Holocaust Memorial is asking Shir Shalom congregants to e-mail all the House Education committee members together in one e-mail (and cc the committee assistant) today, letting them know that you would like to see Holocaust education for all Vermont students. If the committee does not adopt that policy, you would like them to support the Senate’s language re: Holocaust education in S.167, which specifies that “the Agency of Education work in consultation with the Vermont Holocaust Memorial to obtain a report from all supervisory unions regarding whether and where Holocaust education is taught in schools, as well as to provide all supervisory unions with Holocaust education resources.”



To read the entire Vermont Holocaust Memorial’s entire email and to find the email addresses the pertinent legislators, please click here.

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. 

Contact Information:

(802) 457-4840

 Rabbi Ilene Haigh

rabbihaigh@gmail.com

Michael Brown, President 

president@shirshalomvt.org

Ann Brandon, Temple Administrator

ann.brandon@shirshalomvt.org

Mailing Address:

PO Box 526, Woodstock, VT 05091