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

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.

Brown Bag
Lunch & Learn
Saturday, June 29 at 11:30 am
Join us in-person or via Zoom

From Nazi Germany to Main Street: 
Finding Refuge in Hanover

Dena Rueb Romero will discuss her book All for You: A World War II Family Memoir of Love, Separation, and Loss. This memoir tells how her father came to Hanover from a small German village in 1939. A penniless refugee, he struggled to find footing in a new culture and language while seeking to reunite with his fiancée in England and save his family. The story reminds us what it means to leave your homeland and the impact that experience has on the next generation

A Service of Remembrance 
Sunday, May 5 at 5 pm
 Join us in-person or via Zoom

As part of our service, the names of Jewish victims from Breclav, the Czech Republic, where our Holocaust Memorial Scroll is from will be read. If you’d like to add any names of family members who perished in the Holocaust, please send them to Chris at office@uvjc.org.

Please click HERE for more information from Rabbi Mark.

Meet Michelle Weinfeld, Author of From Generation to Generation

Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, but Michelle Weinfeld's grandfather survived. From Generation to Generation explores the intersection of values, history, and identity. It answers

questions such as:

How are we influenced by the generations that came before us?

How do we embrace religion and culture in a secular society?

What is necessary for self acceptance?

Come hear Michelle tell her family story!

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.

1:00 pm • Sunday, Jan. 28
CBE Social Hall
 

A panel discussion with friends in Israel will take place on Zoom with Rabbis Michael Cohen and Osnat Eldar, Dr. Shai Golan, and Ms. Clare King Lassman. They will share their understanding of the war situation and its effect on Israeli life.  These presenters will join us from Israel via Zoom.  Lance Wang will serve as moderator for this panel discussion.  Time for audience questions and comments will follow.

About the speakers.

• Rabbi Osnat Eldar, a Reform rabbi, serves Kehilat Salaam Yaakov in Zikhron Ya'akov and is a leader in progressive social activism there.

• Rabbi Michael Cohen (whom we know well!) is a Reconstructionist rabbi on the faculty of Bennington College and the Arava Institute, whose focus on environmental activism serves as a bridge between Jewish and Palestinian (and other Arab) cultures

• Dr. Shai Golan practices Chinese medicine in Zikhron Yaakov and, as a member of Physicians for Human Rights, has volunteered with a mobile clinic in the West Bank

• Ms. Clare King Lassman is a fundraiser and development specialist for the Givat Haviva School and works with the Akko Arab-Jewish Community Centre, both of these organizations building bridges across the Jewish-Arab divide in Israel

TU B'SHVAT SEDER BY ZOOM

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 7:30 PM

"TU b'SHVAT is the most important Jewish holiday we could be celebrating at this time."

-Rabbi Kirshbaum

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