Tuesday, December 1 7:45 am Zoom Shaharit Torah on Tuesday will not meet on December 1
Musical Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Friday, November 27, 5:30 pm Join Rina, Karen & friends for a joyful, spirited, interactive service geared for families with children in grades pre-Kindergarten-6th, but ALL are welcome to attend! The service will take approximately 45 minutes. Please invite grandparents, cousins, friends, and other loved ones whom you are missing seeing in person over Thanksgiving weekend to join us to be together in prayer, song, and gratitude. Zoom Musical Kabbalat Shabbat
High Holiday Appeal
Please Donate to the High Holiday Appeal Read the Appeal message here. Thanks to generous contributions received in the past week, we are approaching our goal. We hope those who have not yet given will help put us over the top. Your gift will help Habonim stay strong during these difficult times and plant the seeds for our future. Thank you for your contribution and to those who have already contributed.
For a FULL listing of events and services at Habonim this week and beyond, please follow the links in the buttons below.
Please click on the picture to see this week's Yahrzeit observances. May all the mourners be comforted.
Coffee and Conversation
Coffee and Conversation is back! Thursday, December 3, 9:30-10:15 am Parents of Nursery School-aged children are invited to join Rabbi Gelber to talk about how to find light in these times as we prepare to celebrate Hanukkah. We'll also have space to raise whatever is on your mind. Contact rabbigelber@habonim.net with topic suggestions for our monthly sessions. Click here for Zoom link
Families with Young Children
Friday, December 4, 5:15-5:45 pm Families with children 5 years old and younger: Come sing, dance, pray, and celebrate Shabbat together with your Congregation Habonim friends!
Israeli Philharmonic
Sunday, December 6, 2-3 pm Israeli Philharmonic Pre-Hanukkah Global Celebration Free Virtual Event Click here to register
Light Against the Darkness Hanukkah Program
The Adult Education Committee is proud to present a special Hanukkah event with Rabbi Francine Roston: Light Against the Darkness Sunday, December 13, 5 - 6 PM (EST) Rabbi Roston will share how Hanukkah's message of spiritual resistance inspired her Montana community when it was harassed and cyber-terrorized by Neo-Nazis and how Hanukkah can guide us all in the face of antisemitism and hatred. The program concludes with candle lighting. Appropriate for young people in Grade 6 and up. Register here and click on the photo for more information.
Habonim Community Hanukkah Candle Lighting
Join Congregation Habonim to light up the night on Thursday, December 10/24 Kislev at 5:45 pm
Let's gather together to celebrate community, light candles, and sing songs. Zoom in live and/or be part of our community Hanukkah videos.
Click on the picture for video information: Deadline for video submissions is Thursday, December 3, 8 pm
Sisterhood Hanukkah Happy Hour
Sisterhood Hanukkah Zoom Happy Hour Monday, December 14, 8 pm Please RSVP to sisterhood@habonim.net
December Birthdays
Book Club
Next Book Club: Wednesday, December 16 We're reading The Color of Love by Marra Gad (recommended by Rabbi Gelber).
Purchasing the book through Amazon Smile helps support Congregation Habonim
Habonim Reads
Habonim Reads Sunday, January 10, 5:15-6:15 pm Join this special event where community members of almost all ages can read or listen to the same book and discuss it in a Zoom gathering. We're reading Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse. It's a fictional story based on the real-life inventors of the Teddy Bear, the Michtom Family, who arrived in Brooklyn from Russia in the late 1880s. Click here to register.
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In the Community
Divine Chocolate is partnering with T'ruah: the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, to promote Kosher Fair Trade gelt this Hanukkah. Click here to purchase. Click here to learn more about the partnership and to download Hanukkah recipes, blessings, and more.
When We Turned Within
When We Turned Within, Volume 2 features writing by 107 contributors from around the world - Rabbi Lisa Gelber and Malkie Grozalsky among them. Proceeds support UJA-Federation of New York’s COVID-19 relief work.
Congregation Habonim supports core Jewish values, including racial justice and dignity for all.
Congregation Habonim - Building Jewish Community Together RABBI LISA B. GELBER CANTOR BRUCE HALEV MALKIE GROZALSKY, Director of Administration RINA COHEN SCHWARZ, Education Director TINA LOBEL, Nursery School Director RICHARD VERNER, President www.habonim.net
