Tot Shabbat/Passover Celebration
Tot Shabbat is a Shabbat service designed to engage young children and their families. Snacks and social time will follow the service. This service will be special for Passover!
Community Passover Seder
Delicious chicken soup and matzo balls by Shir Shalomers will be provided.
Please bring a 3-quart pot and ladle (labeled) to serve the soup at each table.
In addition please bring a prepared and plated dish for 10 (main courses encouraged) for the Pot Luck dinner. Reminder: no shellfish, no pork, no pasta products.
Please bring non perishable/properly dated food for the Woodstock/Reading Food Shelf.
If you are hosting a first-night seder on Wednesday, April 1 and have room at your table, please consider welcoming someone in our community who may not have a place to go this year.
If you’re able and willing to include an extra guest (or more), please email office@shirshalomvt.org.
Young Families Purim Party
Come to a special Young Families Purim Party! Snacks will be provided.
Costumes are encouraged but not required!
Please sign up here so Aimee knows how many Purim baskets to have. If you forget to sign up, please come anyway! We will have extras.
Purim Celebration 2026
10:30am – 11am: Megila reading and costume parade
11am -12:30pm: Party, music, lunch, games, bouncy castle, raffle
Suggested donation (for party and not Megila reading): $18/family, $5/adult, $3/child
Purim Celebration
Purim Celebration and Shpiel at Shir Shalom Everyone Welcome Potluck- bring a dish to share
Annual Purim Party
Join Beth Jacob Synagogue for our annual Purim Party! Come to enjoy Hebrew, Yiddish, and klezmer music, make crafts with the kids, and enjoy an English/Hebrew hybrid reading of the megillah!
This year will be a potluck-style dinner. Bring your favorite veggie or dairy dish to share!
Beverages and hamantaschen will be served. Registration is encouraged
In partnership with PJ Library in Vermont
Purim at the Circus
Purim at the Circus – Community Celebration!
🎭 3:30 PM – Megillah Reading
🎪 4:00 PM – Carnival Fair for all ages!
🍽 4:30 PM – Dinner Opens
✨ 5:00 PM – Marko the Magician
Megillah Reading and Purim Celebration
Join Ohavi Zedek for a joyous Purim celebration!
We’ll begin with the weekday Maariv evening service, followed by the reading of the Megillah. Afterward, we’ll transition into a lively celebration with food, schmoozing, and dancing for those who feel like it.
🎭Costumes encouraged; we will have an informal competition!
Come ready to enjoy a hearty lentil stew at 6:30pm and we’ll celebrate the mitzvah of eating together and, of course, indulge in some delicious hamantaschen
Purim Party
Purim is coming soon! Join us Monday, March 2nd at 6:00 PM for Chabad of Stowe's Purim party!
There will be an aminated reading of the megillah led by Rabbi Simon and punctuated by our loudest Haman booing. Then we'll partake in a Purim feast fit for royalty. On Purim the goal is to be as joyful as possible and with games, crafts, drinks, costumes, and music, our party will be rocking. There will be delicious Hamantaschen that bring you back to childhood and a Mishloach Manot station so you can make a Purim gift for a friend. Let's turn our worlds upside down for an evening- in the best way possible!
This event is free to attend. Please RSVP at sara@chabadofstowe.com
Resilience Through Story & Humor - Nosh, Schmooze & Megillah Reading
Join us In-person or via Zoom
6 pm to 6:30 pm - Slices, Salad & Entertainment
provided by "local legend" Barry Wenig
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm - The “Whole Megillah”
(Hebrew selections along with English)
Join with friends, dig up a funny hat, and bring along a favorite beverage of your choice to say, “l’chayim!”
Purim’s eternal meaning and messages for the Jewish people and the world are needed now more than ever. Join us and shake the grogger to imagine a world without corruption and wickedness.
Cheer on Mordechai and Esther as they embody their true Jewish identity in speaking truth to power. As the story teaches, “may we find light and happiness, joy and honor,” in our lives
Havurah of Addison County Purim Party
We need LOTS of help and participation to make this event a success so please be in touch with Sarit if you are available to assist with any aspect: set up, clean up, baking hamantaschen, reading megillah excerpts (Hebrew of English), parody song etc.
Suggested donation $5/person
UVJC Congregational Purim Party
There will be face painting, hamantaschen baking, and a Purim spiel (play). Please bring/wear costumes and bring a box of mac and cheese (or some other food item that makes good noise) to use first as a graggar and then to donate to the food pantry. We will serve hamantaschen and other triangle shaped food (pizza).
Purim Dance Party
L’Chaim Collective is throwing down for Purim this year! Call up the babysitter, find a DD, and get ready to shake around like a grogger because we’re turning up the spice level.
Come in your best costume (yes, there will be a contest judged by the most shrewd of judges; sparkles encouraged) and dance like your baddie queens Esther and Vashti wish you would. We’ll have hamantaschen on offer, plus challah and candles for Shabbat. Expect a very irreverent improv Purim spiel and a disco ball.
We’re suggesting a $18 donation to help us cover the space rental. Any additional funds we collect will go to Migrant Justice as our form of Mishloach Manot (gift giving on Purim).
Click here for more information. We can’t wait to celebrate with you!
Trees, Trails & Tu BiShvat
The holiday of Tu BiShvat—the time when, in Jewish tradition, the trees become another year older—falls halfway between the winter solstice and spring equinox. Join us to honor this moment of renewal and consider how we can live in deeper reciprocity with the natural world while we explore the land at Living Tree.
Due to extreme cold in the weather forecast, we’ll be primarily gathering indoors.
2–3 p.m.: Outdoor winter fun (optional). For those who love the cold: sledding and skiing in the field! Melanie will be at the sledding hill, and Sephirah will guide a ski loop for anyone who wants to get their winter adventure in first.
3 p.m.: Indoor Tu BiShvat journey at the Common House.
Come in from the cold for an experiential journey through the four worlds of the Tu BiShvat seder. We'll connect to environmental stewardship, the trees, and our local landscape through story, song, seasonal fruits, and reflection. We'll end with a sound bath, and then step outside for a little tree time before gathering around the fire with hot chocolate, hemlock tea, and birthday cake for the trees
We’re thrilled to be joined by special guest Shamu Sadeh, lead educator and director of the Adamah Fellowship program at Isabella Freedman.
What to bring (if participating in outdoor fun):
Warm layers for outdoor activities
Sleds, skis, or snowshoes (if you have them)
Snowshoes available for rent at Clearwater Sports
In partnership with PJ Library in Vermont
Singing to the Trees
Join Living Tree Alliance and Moretown Library for a joyful midwinter gathering honoring the trees and the deep roots that sustain us through the cold season. Perfect for families with children ages 2–5, this celebration brings together song, craft-making, and connection to the natural world.
Tu BiShvat is a Jewish holiday known as the birthday of the trees. This celebration of trees, seasons, and our connection to the earth is open to families of all faiths and backgrounds who value nature and want to share that wonder with their children.
What to expect:
Songs and movement with Ms. Andrea from Musical Munchkins, celebrating the trees through rhythm, dance, and gratitude
Hands-on nature craft: make all-natural bird feeders to share with our feathered friends\
In partnership with PJ Library in Vermont
Tu B'Shvat Community Seder
Join Beth Jacob for a Tu B'Shvat Seder led by Rabbi Shana Margolin at 2:00pm. Registration is encouraged.
Celebrate Tu B'shvat
All About Grains
All About Grains
On Tu B'shvat it is traditional to eat 7 species, of which 2 are grains. This year, we are fortunate to have Ricky Klein, member of the Young Families group, Jewish farmer, founding member of the Franklin County Havurah and overall mensch, giving a hands-on presentation which will include baking and tasting several different ancient grains.
CBE Celebrates Tu B'Shvat Seder
It may still be winter in Vermont, but it's the New Year of the Trees! Join CBE and chef Dina Bronson for a "fruitful" Tu BiShvat Seder and lunch to celebrate and explore our ecological bounty, our sustainable future, and our spiritual growth.
All ages welcome. $25 per person/ $15 Children under 12
ChaiLights – Tu b’Shevat / Pruning Your Fruit Trees
Tu B’shvat is a great time to prune and care for your fruit trees. Join Jacob Holzberg-Pill of Juneberry Landscapes as we talk Torah and fruit tree care while visiting and pruning the OZ orchard (apple, cherry, mulberry, juneberry and peach).
Please be sure to dress to be outside for the full session and wear boots for standing in snow.
Latkes & Light
Join CBE for Latkes and Lights and Shabbat to celebrate the last night of Chanukah. Bring your menorahs and candles and your favorite latkes to share. Fun for the whole family.
Mad River Valley Hanukkah on Ice in Waterbury
Come skate with JCOGS at Waterbury Ice for a celebration with our Mad River neighbor
Hanukkah 🕎 Party
Brattleboro Area Jewish Community (BAJC) invites you to join us as we celebrate the festival of Hanukkah.
This joyous celebration will feature
Klezmer music & dancing with A Glezele Tey
menorah lighting
latke contest
traditional treats & refreshments
PJ Library book nook for kids and families!
Donation of $10-$20 per adult will be accepted at the door. (Larger donations appreciated!)
Additional donations of $5 per child will be most welcome!
A Glezele Tey (Yiddish for “a little glass of tea”) invites you into their living room for a little glass of tea from the samovar, bringing audiences into an intimate and enthralling world of klezmer, Yiddish folk song, and tkhines (traditional Ashkenazi prayers centering the experiences of women, trans, and gender non-conforming people, set to new melodies). Drawing from old recordings and contemporary culture rooted in the Eastern European Jewish diaspora, A Glezele Tey’s music is an act of deep care—rooted in community gathering, lineage, and ritual. We raise our collective voices to move through grief, inspire action, and build a frayer velt (a freer world). A Glezele Tey is comprised of acclaimed klezmer musicians and composers Ariel Shapiro, Rachel Leader, and Richie Barshay. For more information on this group go here.
Hanukkah Party in the NEK
Gather with our northern community at United Church in Greensboro for Hanukkah music with Rabbi David, a fabulous potluck, basking in the glow of the seventh candle. Bring your favorite menorah and a creative vegetarian dish to share as we celebrate the Festival of Lights together in the Northeast Kingdom. All are welcome!
