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

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

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

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

 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

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.

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

Tot Shabbat with Daniel Steinberg at the Roth Center

Silver Lake: Live Shabbat Worship with Rabbi Ilene Haigh. Barry and Tory Milstone are Board hosts.

Friday, June 21, 2024 • 15 Sivan 5784

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Live Shavuot Service with Rabbi Ilene Haigh Blessing new babies & 12th graders

Tuesday, June 11 6 pm

Join us as we celebrate the blessing of the "first Fruits" and bless all of our children. Please bring the first cuttings from your garden and a dairy treat for oneg.

In the Sanctuary and on Zoom. Click here to join.

6:45 PM, Session 1, Patti Frankel: The Story of Ruth: What can we learn from this story about the tension between longing and belonging, and being outside vs inside?

1. 7:45 PM, Session 2, Heather Brubaker: Exploring the Book of Ruth Through Modern Poetry

2. 8:30 PM, Maariv (evening prayer service) for Shavuot

1. 30-9:15 PM, Session 3, Rabbi Amita: Revelation: What Happened at Mount Sinai? We will look at the source text (Torah) and some commentaries, followed by a meditation in which we will imagine (remember!) ourselves there, in that timeless moment.

2. 30-10 PM, Meditative Gonging Session with Stephan Brandstatter

Please bring a dairy dish or dessert to share.

Tot Shabbat

Rising Song Workshop with Joey Weisenberg brought to you by Havurah House and Temple Sinai