Sounds In The Sanctuary
Our 13th season promises to be memorable! Enjoy the returning favorites and new artists, and join us for a special bonus event at the Colonial Theatre featuring jazz clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen.
Sounds In The Sanctuary
Our 13th season promises to be memorable! Enjoy the returning favorites and new artists, and join us for a special bonus event at the Colonial Theatre featuring jazz clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen.
Dylan and Friends: Poets, Protests & Prophets
Dylan and Friends: Poets, Protest & Prophets
Concert with Andris Berry and Bill Borror
This program is brought to Israel Congregation with the support of the Mindy Bloom Cultural Affairs Fund.
Melacha U'Veracha
A 5-DAY EARTH-SKILLS GATHERING ROOTED IN JEWISH TRADITION
Melacha U'Vracha seeks to create resilient, pluralistic Jewish communities where we reclaim our ancestors’ skills, deepen our relationship with the Earth, and grow capacity with one another through tending the sacred with our hands and hearts.
Read more about the gathering here.
Sounds In The Sanctuary
Our 13th season promises to be memorable! Enjoy the returning favorites and new artists, and join us for a special bonus event at the Colonial Theatre featuring jazz clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen.
Noah’s Wine vs. Pharaoh’s Beer
Come meet Biblical and Talmudic botanist Dr. Jon Greenberg to learn about the forgotten meanings of foods and drinks while enjoying beer, wine, fruit, pastries, and other familiar foods with deep Biblical significance. You'll learn:
Why Joseph's pharaoh drank wine, but Moses's did not.
The Jewish exile who paved the way for American cuisine by showing Thomas Jefferson that tomatoes are not poisonous
Why some archaeologists think that civilization began as a way to get a beer.
And so much more!
RSVP here no later than Friday August 14th
Sounds In The Sanctuary
Our 13th season promises to be memorable! Enjoy the returning favorites and new artists, and join us for a special bonus event at the Colonial Theatre featuring jazz clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen.
Friends of the Arava Institute 30th Anniversary Concert
The concert features music from Joana Genova and Ariel Rudiakov of Taconic Music. A reception will follow the concert.
For more information please contact:
Rabbi Michael Cohen
Director of Community Relations
rabbimichael@friendsofarava.org
Since 1996 the Arava Institute has brought together Palestinians, Jordanians, Israelis and participants from around the world at its campus on Kibbutz Ketura in Israel. As it marks its 30th year, Friends of the Arava Institute celebrate this work and invite you to help ensure it continues.
UVJC Sunset cruise + Havdalah
UVJC Havdalah Cruise
on Lake Sunapee
July 18
7 - 9 pm
Celebrate the end of Shabbat on July 18 with UVJC members and friends as part of a UVJC-chartered two-hour cruise on beautiful Lake Sunapee. The cruise is a tour of the lake's sights, history, and homes of celebrities narrated by the Captain. You will have a choice of sitting on the open deck upstairs or on the covered (yet still with wrap-around viewing) first floor. A soundtrack of klezmer music will set the mood. Rabbi Mark will lead the service as the sun sets while returning to Sunapee Harbor.
Questions? Email Paul Etkind.
Sounds In The Sanctuary
Bernard Rose, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach
Preludes and Fugues from The Well‑Tempered Clavier, Book I
Aaron Copland
Piano Sonata
Ludvig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata in A‑flat major, Op. 11
A Bissel Borscht Belt
A Bissel Borscht Belt is a fun-filled tribute to the Catskills variety shows of yesteryear that truly shaped modern American entertainment. This interactive performance experience filled with live Klezmer music, dancing, comedy, juggling, acrobatics, Yiddish language and culture, schtick, spiel, kvetching, and cursing will have you kibbitzing, kvelling, and getting verklempt from all the meshuggaas! In other words, you’ll have a blast and won’t want to miss it!
Featuring an all-star cast of trouble-makers hosted by physical comedy duo Stephanie Abrams and Patrick Branstetter along with…
@sirfossilot
@teolinbianco
@fleeky.flanco
& Klezmer music by Rachel Leader, Ariel Shapiro, & Ozzy Irving Gold- Shapiro
*Dress to impress! Vintage attire encouraged
This project has been made possible through support and sponsorship from:
@yiddish_book_center -Yiddish Arts and Culture Initiative
@jcvt75 JCVT
@haroldgrinspoonfoundation
@brattleboroareajewishcommunity
@morninggloriousvintage
and other generous individual donors
Artwork by @slamboni.mov
#vaudeville #varietyshow #borschtbelt #yiddish #yiddishculture
Tot Shabbat at UVJC Kol haEmek
Tot Shabbat!
Tot Shabbat for Jewish children ages birth to 6 years. Everyone is welcome.
Hungarian Strudel Party!
Hungarian Strudel Party!
Join CBE for a fun filled Strudel party with Vera Eisenberg,
the "Strudel Queen", as she demonstrates the art
of the Hand-Stretched Hungarian Strudel.
Lunch and strudel will follow the demonstration.
Need assistance with registration? Email the office
Yizkor Service
Yizkor and Shabbat Morning Worship
In the sanctuary and on Zoom with Rabbi Haigh.
Shavuot On The Mountain
Come celebrate Shavuot and Shabbat with joy, fresh air, and community connection! Our 12th annual multigenerational pilgrimage hike to the Mountain Chapel on Mt. Mansfield is one of Living Tree Alliance’s most cherished traditions. Together we’ll take in Vermont’s springtime beauty, share meaningful moments, and welcome the holiday with music and creativity.
Shavuot
Join us in person or on Zoom as we celebrate the blessing of the “first fruits” and our youngest Shir Shalom members. Please bring the first cuttings from your garden. In keeping with the holiday and the tradition of eating dairy on Shavuot, please bring something to share.
Doris Bass Book Club
This is the first complete English-language translation of a classic of Yiddish literature, one of the great comic novels of the twentieth century. The Zelmenyaners describes the travails of a Jewish family in Minsk that is torn asunder by the new Soviet reality. Four generations are depicted in riveting and often uproarious detail as they face the profound changes brought on by the demands of the Soviet regime and its collectivist, radical secularism. The resultant inter-generational showdowns—including disputes over the introduction of electricity, radio, and electric trolley—are rendered with humor, pathos, and a finely controlled satiric pen. Moyshe Kulbak, a contemporary of the Soviet Jewish writer Isaac Babel, picks up where Sholem Aleichem left off a generation before, exploring in this book the transformation of Jewish life.
Not yet a member of the Doris Bass Book Club? Click here to register!
Israeli Folk Dancing
Come discover your inner Klezmer clarinet
and let the music move you!
Whether you have folk danced before
or you're a newbie, join the fun!
Dress comfortably to move.
No dance experience necessary.
Dances will be taught.
Questions? Contact Diane Roston.
International Folk Dancing
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.
CBE Bookclub
Join us for a discussion of "The Book of Israela" by CBE Rabbinic Team Member, Rabbi Rena Blumenthal. In person, in the Social Hall.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Jerusalem, 2002: the height of the second intifada. Kobi Benami is a middle-aged psychologist whose life is in shambles. His wife has thrown him out for casual philandering; his daughter won’t speak to him; and he may lose his job due to indifferent work habits. At this desperate juncture, Kobi gets a new patient, Israela, whose story is full of uncanny Biblical references, and whose powerful enigmatic husband Y may or may not exist. Israela hasn’t seen Y in months, but she is being stalked by his prophet-like emissaries, spanning the spectrum of Israeli society — Orthodox to secular, right-wing settlers to left-wing urban elites — united only in their harsh condemnation of Israel, a fierce devotion to Y, and connection to The Outstretched Arm, a sinister organization purported to be run by Y.
As Kobi becomes ensnared in a surreal encounter with anthropomorphized ancient Israel, and preoccupied with questions about the nature and existence of Y, he is forced to confront his dysfunctional life patterns, his family’s tragic past, and the endless war that rages around him.
Tot Shabbat
Tot Shabbat on May 16, at the Roth Center (10:30-11:30), suitable for families with children ages birth to 6 years
Adult Education
The Book of Ruth is traditionally chanted during the upcoming festival of Shavuot. For the next several weeks, we will be reading and studying The Book of Ruth contained in this unique edition, Stong As Death Is Love.
Click here to participate via Zoom! Or connect via telephone. Dial in number 929-436-2866, meeting ID is 423 184 465, password 334401.
Purchase your book for class!
Paperback editions are available from the Northshire Bookstore.
Hardcover, paperback and e-book editions are available from Amazon
