Community Forums on Reopening

Havurah’s Core Crisis Team will be holding Community Forums on the topic of re-opening our building. We want to hear your thoughts, hopes and concerns as we move towards being together again for services, simchas, meetings, and meals. Please join us at one or both events:

•   Sunday, July 11 at 10 am in Room Aleph: RSVP here
•   Monday, July 19 at 7 pm in Room Aleph: RSVP here

If you have any questions for the Core Crisis Team about our current Guidelines, re-opening, or the upcoming Community Forum events, please email info@havurahshalom.org and a member of the committee will get back to you.

Sincerely,
Loree Devery, Ben Walters, Julia Lager-Mesulam, Miriam Reshotko, Oren Kosansky, Rabbi Benjamin Barnett, Deborah Eisenbach-Budner, Adela Basayne, Rachel Pollak, Brad Pector, Carrie Kirschner, Michael Heumann, Richard Goldenberg, Rachel Plotinsky, Joe Sullivan

Upcoming Events

Community Minyan
Saturday, July 10, 10 am – Room Aleph
Please join us for Shabbat morning! Led by community members and Rabbi Benjamin, this service includes davening, Torah reading, and discussion.

Israel/Palestine Committee Meeting
Sunday, July 11, 7 pm – Room Bet
The Israel/Palestine Committee will meet to assess our activities to date; discuss how we want to move forward – after the High Holy Days; discuss how we want the committee to operate in the future – how often we want to meet and who can be considered a ‘member’ of the comittee; and discuss what types of resources to share through the committee webpage. Meeting open to all Havurah members.

Jewish Mindfulness & Meditation
Tuesday, July 13, 12 pm – Room Bet
We gather to find some moments of quiet and shalom. Led by Rabbi Benjamin, Adela Basayne, or Nancy Becker.

Morning Minyan
Wednesday, July 14, 8:30 am – Room Aleph
For all who want a regular prayer practice and for people saying Kaddish.

Kabbalat Shabbat
Friday, July 16, 7 pm – Room Aleph
Please join us for our spirited and joy-filled Kabbalat Shabbat service led by J.D. Kleinke. Music will be provided by our talented Havurah musicians.

Bat Mitzvah of Ella Bendsneyder-Koven
Saturday, July 17, 10 am – Room Aleph
Please join us in welcoming Ella Bendsneyder-Koven as a Bat Mitzvah and member of our community.

Tisha B'Av: 40 Day of Teshuvah
film screening, panel, and discussion
Sunday, July 18, 10 am
On Tisha B’Av we commemorate the darkest moments in our Jewish history and begin to move from brokenness towards redemption. “Zion will be redeemed through justice” (Isaiah 1:27). As we emerge from the losses of the COVID pandemic, we have a fresh opportunity to reengage in the work of repair both at the level of our intimate communities and in the broader society. Havurah joins the Inside Out Wisdom and Action Project and the Reconstructing Judaism movement in showing the film, 40 Days of Teshuvah, Last summer, Yehudah Webster and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) protested for 40 days culminating with Tisha B'Av. The film offers a powerful model for integrating Jewish spiritual tools and technologies like prayer, teshuvah and Mussar into the work of social change in general and racial justice in particular. RSVP here.

Maria & Carlos: Donations Needed

Tikkun Olam

Particpate in the Racial Justice Committee
There is a group of people who have been meeting to discuss and define a Racial Justice Committee within the Tikkun Olam Cluster. We have met twice. If you are interested in participating and have not been included in the previous meetings, contact Bob Brown via email at tikkunolam@havurahshalom.org and he will include you in communications about this effort.

News & Events from Our Tikkun Olam Partners

Portland Homeless Family Solutions (PHFS) | Interfaith Alliance on Poverty (IAP) | Lift UP | MACG

COVID-19 Vaccines & Assistance

Congregation Neveh Shalom COVID-19 Outreach and Services (CNSCOS)
CNSCOS can help you make sense of all there is to know about the pandemic, testing, and vaccines. CNSCOS can help with finding and applying for financial resources, running errands, accessing food assistance, finding other helpful services, or just calling to chat with folks who are feeling isolated or lonely. The CNSCOS team also provides timely information online here and via a weekly email here. Contact covid19@nevehshalom.org or call 971-990-5652 if you need COVID-19 assistance.

Do You Need Help?

Questions About Havurah?

The Transparency & Inclusivity Committee is an avenue within Havurah Shalom to help members find the answers to question they have wondered about. Please send your questions to transparency@havurahshalom.org. We will anonymously publish your question in Hakol and then answer that question. Everyone in our community benefits from this clarity!

Havurah Zoom Rooms

To see our full Zoom room instructions, click here. Member sign-in required.