Purim Celebration and Shpiel at Shir Shalom Everyone Welcome Potluck- bring a dish to share

MCL is honored to kick off our partnership with the Yiddish Book Center’s Between Two Worlds Reading Group by hosting a ROWDY viewing of Fiddler on the Roof! Come dance and sing along to this classic movie inspired by Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye the Dairyman. Please come in costume and bring an instrument or a snack if you feel so inclined! 

And don’t miss our first book discussion of Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye the Dairyman on Thursday, March 26th at 5:30 pm!

This film screening is presented as part of the Yiddish Book Center’s Public Libraries Program, Between Two Worlds, a partnership with the American Library Association. Made possible by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. 

Purim is Coming!

Registration

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

Adult discussion led by Peggy Kasden

Tot shabbat for Jewish children ages birth to 6 years

For information contact Melissa Herman

In partnership with PJ Library in Vermont

Shir Chadash - a Purim Puppet Shpiel

Puppeteer Anna Sobel performing a Purim Puppet Shpiel

You are invited to attend UVJC’s first Valentine’s day Social

Music by Jazz Duo Eric Bronstein with Chris Billiau

Havdalah to start us off.
A variety of wines and non-alcoholic beverages will be served
Hot and Cold appetizers
Valentine’s Day themed sweets

Special Note: Calling All Parents!

Complimentary Childcare is provided.
No need to make dinner – Kids will enjoy cheese pizza
and apple juice after havdallah.

Please join us for International Folk Dancing at the RJC. Come and dance, or you can enjoy sitting and watching. Please bring clean, dry shoes for dancing.

For more information, please get in touch with Judy.

Family Shabbat followed by lunch open to everyone and aimed at families with elementary school children.

In partnership with PJ Library in Vermont

Tot Shabbat with Rabbi Haigh at Shir Shalom

Enjoy a Tu B'Shvat seder, lead by Rabbi Michael Cohen and the students of our Hebrew School. Celebratory and ritual fruits that represent the holiday will be served as we sing, pray and hear readings from our students.

"A Hidden Child's Holocaust Survival Story,
As Told by his Daughter"

11:30 am - Noon (Lunch)
Noon  - 1 pm (Learn)
 
Ludwik "Louis" Pohoryles was born in 1937 in Lwow, Poland. He spent most of the war pretending to be a Polish child. By the end of the war, he was hiding in plain sight. Lou eventually settled in the Washington DC area to raise his three children and enjoy his seven grandchildren.

His daughter, Sharon Pohoryles, will share her father's survival story. Sharon will join us virtually from Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Tikkun Olam Tot Shabbat with Tu Beshvat songs and stories,open to everyone, aimed at families with kids ages birth - 6 years.

A joint program of UVJC and Shir Shalom in partnership with PJ Library in Vermont

Please join us for International Folk Dancing at the RJC. Come and dance, or you can enjoy sitting and watching. Please bring clean, dry shoes for dancing.

For more information, please get in touch with Judy.

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.

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.

Shabbat service for families with children ages birth to 7 years

Come celebrate the Festival of Lights at our Community Chanukah Musical Celebration

featuring our own Jason Weinberger along with Cantor Scott Buckner

Enjoy a Pizza Dinner! Sufganiyot! Chanukah Games!Jason Weinberger stands out among musicians of his generation for his wholly contemporary approach to the programming, presentation, and performance of ensemble music. Jason is currently Artistic Director of Iowa's pioneering ensemble wcfsymphony. When Jason is not in lowa for concerts and symphony activities or traveling for guest conducting he resides in Winhall, Vermont where he teaches at Israel Congregation's Hebrew School and coaches alpine ski racing at Stratton Mountain.

Join us for a Potluck with latkes, children's games and

live music by the RJC Klezmer Band!

For more information please contact office@rutlandjewishcenter.org

Congregational Hanukkah party, open to everyone, all ages

Join CBE for a day of Shabbat learning and discussion on the history, current crisis and hope for the future of Israel/Palestine with CBE Scholar-in-Residence, Jared Goldfarb. Two sessions with a break for brunch. Learn more and register by Dec. 11.