Rising Song Workshop with Joey Weisenberg brought to you by Havurah House, Temple Sinai & Ohavi Zedek

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WHEN? Wednesday, June 5 at 7pm

WHERE? Havurah House in Middlebury VT

WHAT? Hands on workshop with Joey Weisenberg

The workshop also serves as a gateway to Weisenberg's acclaimed Master Classes in Jewish Song and Prayer, a comprehensive video library gleaned from decades of leadership in the field of Jewish music. Participants will have the opportunity to:

• Study from 18 online courses covering diverse topics from nigun (spiritual melodies) and nusach(traditional prayer chants) to composition & instruments

• Deepen their musical knowledge and practice at their own pace

• Connect with a vibrant online community of fellow learners

Subscribing members of Joey's Master Classes can attend the Rising Song Workshop for free. 

When you subscribe to the class (just $18/month cancelable anytime) you unlock access to this amazing workshop!

Poetry Reading with Margi Rogal

Thursday, May 23 at 6pm

Vermont Book Shop on Main Street

Did you know that bird songs can be drawn? With dashes, curves, and squiggles

spaces in between

kind of like a poem-a song poem. Margi will be reading poems from her book Field

Notes (North Dakota University Press, 2022). Marjorie Ryerson will also be reading from her book

The Views From Mount Hunger (Green Writers

Press, 2023) Please join us for this special event where Havurah member Margaret Rogal will read selections from her

book of poems entitled Field Notes. Her book is based around field notes she unearthed in her grandfather's archives. The book is filled with some of these notes, her poems as well as beautiful illustrations by

Mike Jacobs.

Ohavi Zedek is pleased to welcome our recent visiting clergy member Rabbi Jessca Kate Meyer (vocals) and Boston-based musicians Hankus Netsky (piano) and Itay Dayan(clarinet).  Their trio is called Fun Yener Velt” (“From Another World”).

Join us for a spirited performance to benefit OZ’s Full Circle Preschool.

Soulful Jewish melodies rescued from a Carpathian farming village

Joyfully raucous Klezmer and Yiddish theater tunes

and a few surprises…

Join us beforehand for a wine & cheese benefit art show reception at 6:30 pm.

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Annual Poetry Shabbat

The Unimaginable Journey of Peter Ertel

A Documentary Screening and Discussion

This film combines archive footage -much of which has never before been shown - with Ertel's

own brave telling of his extraordinary odyssey. A true story so bold, brave, and beautiful, it will restore your faith that humanity can survive even the darkest days.

Filmmaker Joseph Cahn will join us live on screen for Q & A following the screening.

Suggested donation - $10.00

Reservations recommended.

Email cbevtoffice@gmail.com to reserve a seat.

Come celebrate Purim with us! Our

annual Purim Party is fun for all ages! Wear a costume and be ready for mask

making and face painting! Hear a section of the megillah, and of course, stay for pizza and

hamantaschen!

Purim Celebration

BUTTERFLY JAZZ QUARTET

Joe LoMonaco, Amanda Bernhard, Cathy Martin, James Daggs plus

Stephanie Abrams

Award Winning Mime,

Contortionist and Director

5 pm Festival of Fools
5:30 Persian Potluck Picnic
6:00 pm Megillah reading
6:30 Just Come On Get Silly Spiel
7:00 pm Disco Dance Party! with Sparkly Snacks and Sarah’s Sangria
Volunteers needed for: decorating, potluck coordinating, festival activity running, DJing , and spiel performing
Contact Beth to help out! beth.liberman@jcogs.org

STARRING MICHELLE AZAR AS RUTH BADER GINSBURG

DIRECTED BY LALEY LIPPARD

WRITTEN BY TONY AWARD-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT RUPERT HOLMES

Supreme Court Justice “RBG” welcomes a friend of the family to her cozy chambers to convey, over the course of ninety fascinating and often funny minutes, a sense of her life and its many trials: losing her mother the day before she graduated as valedictorian of her Brooklyn high school . . . being one of only nine young women studying law at Harvard while also raising a daughter and helping her husband battle cancer . . . fighting for women's rights in the nineteen-seventies before condescending all-male courts . . . and taking courageous stands for human rights as a voice of reason amid a splintering and increasingly politicized Supreme Court. An evening with a great and compassionate icon of straight-thinking American justice emerges . . . an RBG who is not only “notorious” but victorious as she takes a stand for ordinary people facing the many challenges of a changing world. Bring your scrunchies, your hankies, your humor and your heart to this entertaining and uplifting event!

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Jewish poets in Vermont are invited to a Zoom-based salon

• If you self-identify as Jewish and write poetry, you are welcome •

• Meet Jessica Jacobs, founder of Yetzirah, a hearth for Jewish poetry •

• Option to share a poem •

• Explore our interests in coming together •

• Discuss ideas and possibilities for future gathering, online or IRL •

Tough & Tender Landscapes (in person)

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Beth Jacob welcomes Wendy Hoffman and Judith Janoo, two friends and published authors in their own right.

Sharing some of their recently published poetry, Jewish and non-Jewish perspectives overlap in their experiences. Just Thisis a lyrical journey of growing up in a Maine fishing village, marrying into the Malaysian culture, and living in the Northeast Kingdom. Eloquently detailed, Judith Janoo’s poems speak to the earth and its creatures, love and connection, loss and beauty, and wonder.

In Belonging, Wendy Hoffman’s poems describe recipes and cooked-from-scratch Jewish food carried in the grandmother’s memory from the Old Country to this New Land. Strudels keep a clashing family holding on. The poems encompass the truths of the daily lives of three generations of women and hint at contradictory hidden ones.

We’re building a community ice sculpture in honor of our theme this year: ahavah/love. Come help build at 4pm! Lighting ceremony and a family-friendly Tu biShvat seder from 5 - 6 pm. Pizza and warm drinks will be served.

Adult volunteers needed to start the building earlier. Helping hands welcome on Tue 1/23 and Wed from 11-2 pm!

Celebrate the deep beauty of mid-winter with Living Tree Alliance as we gather to honor the holiday of Tu BiShvat, the birthday of the trees. With programs for all ages, we’ll plant seeds of stewardship and intergenerational community-building.

We’ll gather 11 am to 2 pm, with three program options:

• Contemplative showshoe/walk for adults. Led by Kohenet Sephirah Oshkello, we’ll snowshoe or walk through the woods on a contemplative journey inspired by the teachings of Jewish mystics, while appreciating and connecting with the tree community that lives here.

• Outdoor family program. Led by primitive skills mentor Elliot Cluba of Herbs and Arrows and Living Tree Education Director Melanie Grubman, we’ll connect with the holiday through storytelling, forest games and tracking.

• Music for little ones. Ms Andrea of Musical Munchkins will lead a joyful musical program for young children.

A few more details:

• Be sure to dress warmly for outdoor activities.

• If there's snow, you're invited to bring sleds, skiis, and snowshoes for outdoor fun on the property.

• Snowshoes available for rent at Clearwater Sports

• Bring food to share around the fire!

Mitzvah Day Weekend

Did you know that only a third of fourth graders in America can read at a proficient level? Unfortunately, illiteracy impacts many children in Vermont, too. There are lifelong implications for children who don’t learn how to read, and they grow into adults who struggle with low literacy. This is a solvable problem! Learn how we can all work to change the early literacy crisis for all children and their families.