Shabbat Shalom Thursday, December 24, 2020/9 Tevet 5781
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Services
Candle lighting - Friday, December 25, 4:16 pm Havdalah - Saturday, December 26, 5:21 pm Friday, December 25 6:30 pm Zoom Kabbalat Shabbat Saturday, December 26 9:30 am Zoom Shaharit Parashat Vayigash Torah Tots will not be meeting this week 5:15 pm Zoom Havdalah
Torah on Tuesday December 29, 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 Vayehi #1, The Majesty of Restraint: 109 , 110-111 , 112-113
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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, 7 pm Please note start time has changed to 7 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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January Birthdays
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
