Shabbat Shalom Thursday, January 7, 2021/23 Tevet 5781
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Tot Shabbat Friday, January 8, 5:15 pm Families with children 5 years old and younger: Come sing, dance, pray, and celebrate Shabbat together with your Congregation Habonim friends! We encourage your child to have a shaker or other instrument to play along during our service. Join Zoom Tot Shabbat
Torah on Tuesday January 12, 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 Va'era #2: Cultivating Freedom: 139,140-141 , 142-143
Rosh Hodesh Group
Rosh Hodesh Group Thursday, January 14, 7 pm This year's Rosh Hodesh group offers women the opportunity to join together and celebrate the new moon and new month. Join Rabbi Lisa Gelber for New Year, New Month: Planting Hope. To mark the new month of Sh'vat, we'll plant seeds - real and imagined. Those who wish should have a small cup, some /earth/dirt and parsley (or other) seeds. RSVP HERE by Friday, January 8th for Zoom link and material list.
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Please click on the picture to see this week's Yahrzeit observances. May all the mourners be comforted.
Community Challah Making and Wine Sipping
Thursday, January 21, 7:45 pm It's DOUGH time! WINE not? Join us for a community evening of challah making and shaping, paired with a wine of your choice.
Everyone is welcome - no baking or adult beverage drinking required. Our very own Rina Cohen Schwarz will teach us to shape and braid our challahs and Beth Bornstein will teach us about wine to complement our challahs as we shape and top them for baking. Bring your own dough - recipe can be provided or you can buy store-made dough. Bring your own beverage - suggested wines will be provided.
RSVP to membership@habonim.net for Zoom link, dough recipe, and wine recommendations. *Please RSVP as soon as possible to leave time to purchase ingredients and wine.
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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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
