Torah on Tuesday December 22, 11 am Join our thoughtful and inquisitive group to discuss the weekly parasha on Tuesday mornings. In 5781, we will make use of The Heart of Torah, Rabbi Shai Held's Essays on the Weekly Torah portion. For those who like to have a book in hand, you may wish to purchase either one or both volumes. This week we will look at Vayiggash #1, Humiliation: 99 , 100-101 , 102-103
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.
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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Torah Fund Event
Special Torah Fund Event: Virtual Tour of Zacharias Frankel College, Masorti Rabbinical School, Potsdam, Germany Sunday, December 20, 10 am - noon (EST) Register here to receive the Zoom link Donate ($18 minimum) here
Hanukkah at Habonim
Members of the Habonim community celebrated Hanukkah together (photos can also be viewed here )
Vivien Friedman Newman writes: The Adult Education Committee proudly presented "Light Against the Darkness" on Sunday with Rabbi Francine Roston from Glacer Jewish Community/B'nai Shalom in Whitefish, Montana. She shared what she and her community
experienced when they were harassed and cyber-terrorized by Neo-Nazis across the country. She discussed how Hanukkah's message of spiritual resistance inspired her community and how it can guide us all in the face of antisemitism and hatred. Our Zoom audience stretched across the United States and across the ocean
to London. It was an important message for all to hear. Thank you to Rabbi Gelber for bringing the light all year to the Habonim community and to Cantor Halev for this terrific shot of our Community-wide candle lighting that was so inspiring. Chanukkah Sameach!
Book Club
Next Book Club meeting: Wednesday, February 3
We're reading The Third Daughter: A Novel by Talia Carner (2019), about a late 19th century Jewish-run syndicate kidnapping Eastern European young women and selling them as prostitutes in Buenos Aires. https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/the-third-daughter
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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
