Songwriter Spotlight
Featuring Leah Shoshanah, Ilene Safyan and Beth Hamon
Sunday, Jan. 24, 4:30 pm – Special Zoom Room
Join us for a special concert featuring our own Havurah songwriters. They will share their music, both secular and Jewish. RSVP here.
Jewish Mindfulness & Meditation
Tuesday, Jan. 26, 12 pm – Room Bet
We gather to find some moments of quiet and shalom. Led by Rabbi Benjamin, Adela Basayne, or Nancy Becker.
Book Group
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love, by Dani Shapiro
Tuesday, Jan. 26, 7 pm – Room Bet
Dani Shapiro's memoir unfolds at a breakneck pace – part mystery, part real-time investigation, part rumination on the ineffable combination of memory, history, biology, and experience that makes us who we are. A haunting interrogation of the meaning of kinship and identity, written with stunning intensity and precision--Dani Shapiro's most intimate and compelling work yet. Discussion led by Barbara Hershey.
Morning Minyan
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 8:30 am – Room Aleph
For all who want a regular prayer practice and for people saying Kaddish.
Reconstructionist Communities of the PNW Joint Tu B’shvat
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 6:30-8 pm – Register here
Join an evening of learning and eating meditations as we celebrate the New Year of Trees through an in-depth exploration of the seven species of abundance in Torah: wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olive (oil) and dates. We invite you to bring your own samples of each of these items (or their respective derivatives), and journey through the mystical and the mundane as each rabbi explores the significance of one of these items in Jewish tradition and leads us in mindful tasting. Registration here.
Dancing In God’s Earthquake: Book Talk & Discussion with Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow
Saturday, Jan. 30, 3 pm – RSVP for Zoom access
Between climate change, COVID, great social injustice, and more, we are living in powerfully transformative times. Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow’s latest book, Dancing In God’s Earthquake, The Coming Transformation of Religion, will help guide us through. He will be joining Havurah & P’nai Or for a book talk and discussion, followed by Havdalah, led by Rabbi Benjamin. RSVP and order the book here if you desire. The book can be preordered through Havurah at a discount: $15 through Jan. 3.
Bar Mitzvah of Logan Mafchir-Werth
Saturday, Jan. 30, 10 am – Room Aleph
Please join us in welcoming Logan Mafchir-Werth as a Bar Mitzvah and member of our community!
Reviving the Havurah History Committee
Sunday, Jan. 31, 7-8:30 pm – Room Bet
Are you interested in reviving and participating in Havurah's History Committee? There will be a meeting of people interested in preserving and recording Havurah's history soon! If you are interested or have questions, please contact Miryam Brewer via the Havurah Member Directory.