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Israel Congregation Hebrew School Simchat Torah
Oct
23

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.

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Tikkun Leil Shavuot
Jun
11

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?

  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.

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UVJC Purim Party
Mar
23

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.

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Shabbat Shira & Tu B'Shvat
Jan
27

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.

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