Join us for a special Family Shabbat Celebration!

Friday, November 15th

5:30 pm - Meet & Greet Pre-neg

6:00 Shabbat Service begins

7:00 pm Kiddush and Pot Luck Dinner

Michael Braunold will be joining us from Israel via Zoom to share his family story, particularly his parents' rescue via the kindertransport program just weeks after Kristallnacht. Having spent years doing research, Michael has an impressive knowledge of the Holocaust, especially the significance of Kristallnacht, the kindertransport program and settlement thereafter in England.

Lunch will be provided following the presentation.

Please join us on November 10th!

To request a Zoom link email cbevtoffice@gmail.com

Joana Genova, violin and Willis Delony, piano perform Sonatas No. 1 and No. 3 by Stephen Dankner; selections from Porgy and Bess by Gershwin, arr. by Heifetz; Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Brock, arr. by John Williams and a premiere of a new jazz piece by Willis Delony.

General admission Adults $15 at the door, kids free

Friday, October 25

• 6:30 pm - Shabbat Worship/Simchat Torah Celebration. To join services on Zoom, click here to join.

SIMCHAT TORAH

Featuring Ida Mae Specker on Fiddle with guest Rabbi Lee Moore

Shemini Atzeret/Yizkor Services
Thursday, October 24, 5:00 pm
Live and Virtual

Simchat Torah Service
Thursday, October 24, 6:00 pm
Live and Virtual

For more information, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the RJC Office or Rabbi Shemtov.

Israel Congregation Hebrew School

Wednesday, October 23

Simchat Torah

in person and via Zoom!

5:30 pm Celebrate Simchat Torah- Get ready to dance, sing, and celebratel Join us for a lively

Simchat Torah celebration featuring the incredible Ida Mae Specker, a masterful fiddle player whose music is sure to fill the room with joy. Bring your dancing shoes, your friends, and your family, as we come together to celebrate the completion of the Torah reading cycle and the beginning of a new one. Our Hebrew School students will be participating in the service.

Immediately following Sukkot, we observe Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, a fun-filled day during which we celebrate the completion of the annual reading of the Torah and affirm Torah as one of the pillars on which we build our lives.

As part of the celebration, the Torah scrolls are taken from the ark and carried or danced around the synagogue seven times. during the Torah service, the concluding section of the fifth book of the Torah D'varm (Deuteronomy), is read, and immediately following, the opening section of Genesis, or B'reishit, is read. This practice represents the cyclical nature of the relationship between the Jewish people and the reading of the Torah.

Our Interfaith Discussion Continues...

Faith & State-Separations, Permeability, and Limitations

Jewish and Christian Perspectives on the Relationship Between Religion and Politics.

All are welcome and encouraged to participate.

Tuesday, October 22nd, 7:00 p.m.

First Congregational Church

3624 Main Street

Manchester Center, Vermont

Facilitators:

Reverend Bill Borror, First Congregational Church, has spent many years in interfaith work, including as a member of the national Jewish-Presbyterian dialogue team and fellow with the Christian Leadership Initiative

of AJC & Shalom Hartman Institute.

Cantor Scott Buckner, Israel Congregation, serves as Israel Congregation's spiritual leader and Past President of the Interfaith Council of the Northshire.

Jennifer Daks is an interfaith scholar of Jewish studies and education specializing in interfaith engagement to build bridges of understanding and foster supportive relationships between Christians and Jews.

Admission is free, however, donations are greatly appreciated. Donations can be made ahead of time using this link or at the door during the event.

Joe Alpar, well-known musician and Bennington College professor*, along with his ensemble, will treat you to lively Jewish music from the Middle East, Balkans, Eastern Europe and more. Their music will lift your spirits, gladden your heart, and coax you out of your seat and onto the dance floor!

Come and celebrate Saturday night of Sukkot with Havdalah, food and dancing.

This event is a collaboration between Brattleboro Area Jewish Community and Congregation Beth El of Bennington, supported by a Covenant Grant from Jewish Communities of Vermont.

* More information on Joe Alpar.

OCTOBER 7 MEMORIAL

IN PERSON 

6:00 PM NH STATE HOUSE

Tot Shabbat Kidz Club Jewish New Year Celebration

A BAJC initiative in collaboration with All Souls Church in West Brattleboro, welcoming the interfaith community and the general public. Event will be held at All Souls Church, West Brattleboro.

Four Women of Vision are arriving from Israel to the United States ready to share our hearts’ vision in sacred space with you. We invite you to be part of our tribe, to pray, to dream, to lead the way out of the fire of war into leadership and responsibility. What can we do? We can meet you, share our stories and our process, create rituals, sing, dance and learn together. We can talk with your community, facilitate workshops using theater and art, perform in song, dance and storytelling. Join us in visioning a new way together.

Mah Jong

Dr Rachel Korazim

Rachel is a Jewish education consultant at the Shalom Hartman Institute in curriculum development for Israel and Holocaust education. Rachel opens for her audiences a window to Israeli society through literature; through stories, poems and songs of the best of Israel’s writers. Since October 7th, she has collected, translated, and taught the voices of Israeli and Palestinian poets. These special sessions on Zoom will provide a unique opportunity to read, discuss, reflect, and connect with the poetry, voices, and emotions of the moment through Rachel's teachings.

Since the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic – Rachel created a global community of hundreds of learners who meet to study Israeli poetry online regularly – 

Rachel teaches at Israel’s well known learning centers such as Pardes and the Shalom Hartman Institutes as well as numerous world Jewish communities.

We hope you will join!

Zoom Link:

https://zoom.us/j/7259482096

or by phone dial: 415-762-9988

Meeting ID: 725 948 2096

password: 856328

Join PJ Library and Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation for an afternoon of fun at a public playground!  We invite families with young children to meet other families, join us for a story and craft, and enjoy a snack together. Free event! Registration requested.

Are you looking for a Mahjong Game? Want to learn how to play?

 Please come with your card and a Mahjong set if you own one and be ready to play.  

Lessons from dance instructor Susanna Stein

7-7:30 in East Coast Swing and 8:30-9 in Line Dance

Optional donations welcome

Waltz!

Salsa!

At Shir Shalom

Join Havurah of Addison County for a fun evening aboard The Escape to take in the beauty of Lake Champlain. The boat will launch from Basin Harbor, in Vergennes at 6pm. Enjoy an open bar with beer, hard cider, wine and non-alcoholic options. Fancy finger foods and a gorgeous view will make this a special evening - help Havurah continue to thrive!!

Shabbat Sh' Beach

PRESENTED BY KOL HA'EMEK, DARTMOUTH HILLEL, ALPHA CHI, & CHI DELTA

Volleyball --- Beach Games --- Arts & Crafts --- Slip 'n Slide

Shabbat Services --- BBQ Dinner --- New Friends at Dartmouth!!|

ALPHA CHI, ROTH CENTER ROTH CENTER

5-6 pm Camp Activities 6-7:30 pm Shabbat Services, dinner

An Evening in Tuscany Sunday, August 11th

The Mun at Manchester Celebration Barn

Cocktails E Alor d'ourves • Complimentary Wine • Open Bar

Dinner • Live & Silent Auction • Cash Call

Looking for a fun and relaxing way to spend a day outdoors? Join us for a potluck picnic in the park!

All ages welcome. We hope to see you there!

Middlebury Friends Meeting

Havurah of Addison County

Champlain Valley Unitarian

Universalist Society

Breadloaf Mountain Zen Center

Gather at the pop up tent on the right side near the water!

Here Comes the Sun Summer Fundraiser 2024

Saturday, July 20, 2024 • 14 Tammuz 5784

5:00 PM - 8:30 PMVINS

Come and enjoy a beautiful summer evening with old friends and new ones!

Please RSVP by July 1, 2024

Register

Brown Bag
Lunch & Learn
Saturday, July 20 at 11:30 am
Join us in-person or via Zoom

Community Organizing as

a Faith-Based Response to Injustice

Sarah Jane Knoy, Executive Director of the Granite State Organizing Project (GSOP), has 25 years of experience in community organizing efforts. She will speak about the power of community organizing and how it can work to strengthen the power and capacity of GSOP and its member institutions through developing and training leaders, recruiting new members, and developing issue-specific strategic campaigns.

Lunch and a period of schmoozing will begin immediately following the Shabbat service at the Roth Center at 11:30, and Ms. Knoy will begin her talk, with Q&A, at noon. It will last approximately one hour.

 Rabbi Barbara Penzner will lead Friday evening services followed​ by a community Shabbat dinner catered by the popular​ Yalla's Mideastern restaurant in Brattleboro.  After dinner,  Rabbi Barbara will lead a discussion, Prophetic Wisdom for Thriving in Turbulent Times

Rabbi Barbara Penzner has been the spiritual leader of Temple Hillel B'nai Torah, a Reconstructionist synagogue in Boston, for 28 years. While Rabbi Penzner continues to serve HBT as rabbi emerita, she has just been appointed the Interim CEO of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association. 
She loves leading services and teaching all ages. Rabbi Penzner creates a joyful service of singing and poetry to engage people of every level of Jewish knowledge. She and her husband Brian Rosman are looking forward to welcoming Shabbat with Congregation Beth El.
This event is made available by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation

Palestinian writer/director Elia Suleiman's exquisite semi-biographical drama recounts the creation of the Israeli state from 1948 to the present.

Arab-Israeli screenwriter Sayed Kashua has curated this film for the course he is teaching this summer on "The Politics of Israel and Palestine," and will introduce the film.

Bring family and friends to the Israel Congregation lawn with your picnic supplies! No entry fee! Food! Music! Fireworks!

Susannah Heschel 
Dartmouth College Professor
and Renowned Scholar  

“Antisemitism as a cultural code:
what’s new in the scholarship?”

Antisemitism is not new, but the scholarship analyzing its varied manifestations is young and underdeveloped. Professor Heschel will discuss debates among scholars about the nature and purpose of antisemitism and suggest new approaches, drawing from theories of emotions, gender, sexuality, and temporality to better understand antisemitic motivations and impact.