Southern Vermont/ New Hampshire
Southern Vermont/ New Hampshire
Simchat Torah
SIMCHAT TORAH
Featuring Ida Mae Specker on Fiddle with guest Rabbi Lee Moore
Israel Congregation Hebrew School Simchat Torah
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.
Shir Shalom Shavuot Service
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.
Tikkun Leil Shavuot
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?
7:45 PM, Session 2, Heather Brubaker: Exploring the Book of Ruth Through Modern Poetry
8:30 PM, Maariv (evening prayer service) for Shavuot
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.
30-10 PM, Meditative Gonging Session with Stephan Brandstatter
Please bring a dairy dish or dessert to share.
Yom Ha'Atzma'ut
Yom Ha'Atzma'ut (Israeli Independence Day) Program
Friday, May 17, 6:00 pm
Service—Live and Virtual
Potluck Dinner and Discussion—Live Only
ICM Passover Seder
Passover Seder! Experience the beauty of Passover
REVO by April 16. Click anywhere on this image or call 802-362-4578
At will donations gratefully accepted.
Annual Havurah Passover Seder
Havurah of Addison County annual Passover Seder
email for details sarit@havurahofaddisoncounty.ccsend.com
Shir Shalom
Mah nishtanah? Why is this night different
from all other nights?
מַה נִּשְׁתַּנָּה הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה
Community Purim Celebration
Come celebrate Purim at Israel Congregation!
Sunday, March 24th, 5:00 pm
A Celebration of Purim
A Celebration of Purim
11 am • Sunday, March 24
Megillah Reading • Purim Schpiel • Catered lunch
Costumes Encouraged
Thursday is the cutoff date to RSVP. Call the office at 802-442-9645 or email cbevtoffice@gmail.com
Purim Palooza
BUTTERFLY JAZZ QUARTET
Joe LoMonaco, Amanda Bernhard, Cathy Martin, James Daggs plus
Stephanie Abrams
Award Winning Mime,
Contortionist and Director
UVJC Purim Party
UVJC Purim Party
Saturday, March 23, 6 pm to 8 pm
RSVP by March 20
Zoom for the Megillah reading,
which will begin at 7:30 pm
Happy Purim!
It's time to celebrate together with the entire community.
This event promises to be fun for all ages.
Get dressed up in your favorite costume or just grab a funny hat or accessory.
Here's what we're planning:
-Disco party and music
-Vashti's Vine Bar and Mordechai's Mocktails
[including: Long Island Vash-tea, Mordechai's Mojito, Esther's Persia-Politain
-Pizza, salads and hamantaschen
-Purim Pinata and games for the kids
-Havdallah
-Dramatic reading in Hebrew/English of the "whole megillah"
RSVP by March 20 so that we'll know how much pizza to order.
Please sign up to bring a salad and/or a batch of hamantaschen.
Here are a few recipes:
And, bring along a box or many boxes of mac n cheese.
These will serve as our groggers and then be donated to the Haven to fulfill the Purim mitzvah of feeding those in need.
Looking forward to celebrating and having some Purim fun together.
Shabbat Shira & Tu B'Shvat
In the Land of Israel-Palestine, the almond trees are blossoming. Whether or not you have ever participated in a Tu B’Shvat Seder before, please join us in celebrating this fun, tasty, multi-layered holiday. Tree foods, challah and grape juice provided with the support of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation’s Rekindle Shabbat grant. The seder itself consists of foods that grow on trees. Feel free to bring other foods to supplement. As is true of the Passover seder, there is an order to the Tu B’Shvat Seder, although it is more flexible than the Pesach order. The Tu B’Shvat seder was created by Kabbalists in 16th century Tsfat (aka Safed) in Northern Israel — the same mystics who created the Kabbalat Shabbat service.
You are also invited to bring tree-related poems and songs.
If you are able to help with set up for this seder, (preferably by coming at 9:30, before Shabbat Shira services begin), please contact ravamita@bajcvermont.org.
TU B'SHVAT SEDER BY ZOOM
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
email for link bethlehemshul@gmail.com