Oct. 11 Community Email
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YOM KIPPUR, SUKKOT, SIMCHAT TORAH & MORE
YOM KIPPUR & SUKKOT Kol Nidre Service, 8:00 pm Please join us for our Kol Nidre Service at 8:00 pm tonight, at the Tiffany Center, and tomorrow for Yom Kippur Services, which begin at 9:30 am. You'll find more information here. Havurah's High Holy Days Services are free and open to everyone. Donations make it possible for us to open our doors to all, so no one needs to miss Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur services. Click here to make a donation for High Holy Days. This is our last call for High Holy Days volunteers! We need more folks to take down the flower arrangements on Thursday, Oct. 13, from 8:30 to 10:30 am. And Thursday afternoon, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm, we need more people to help load up at the Tiffany Center and unload at Havurah. We plan to order cheese pizza for everyone so we can refuel at Havurah afterward. Click on the SignUp button below to join us!
Sukkah Decorating Havurah's sukkah will be built this Thursday and Friday. All are invited to decorate the sukkah any time on Sunday, Oct. 16, with greenery from our Yom Kippur flower arrangements, lavender and bamboo branches from Shelley Sobel's garden, and other decorations of your choice. Sukkot begins at sundown on Sunday. Be sure to mark your calendars for the Sukkot happenings at Havurah listed below. UPCOMING SHABBAT Text & Torah Our Text & Torah study this Saturday will be led by Diane Chaplin and will focus on Sukkot. It will be followed by a short Shabbat Service led by Rabbi Joey and Havurah members. We will serve breakfast and coffee, including bagels and lox and gluten-free options. Please arrive early to eat before the study begins at 10:00 am. Kudos to Susan Lazareck and Annie Goldberg for giving their first drash at Havurah last Saturday, and for doing it so beautifully! TZEDAKAH PROJECT FOR HIGH HOLY DAYS Hello Havurahniks! You generously donated enough Tzedakah items for Goose Hollow Homeless Shelter and refugee families to fill a van! We could use more of the following:
Of course, any of the items listed in your High Holy Days packet are welcome and appreciated. Thank you! - Goose Hollow and Refugee Resettlement Coordinators Gloria Halper and Rachel Oh
The above photo of Havurah's sukkah was taken by Ellen Regal. SUKKOT AT HAVURAH Alter Rockers Potluck in the Sukkah Havurah Alter Rockers will meet in the sukkah for pizza and vegetarian potluck salads and desserts. Please RSVP to Sarah at sarah.r.rosenberg@gmail.com or Roberta at herbs_daughter@yahoo.com if you can come. Sukkot Shabbat Service Join us for a Friday night celebration during Sukkot with a dessert oneg in our sukkah following the service. Please RSVP here if you can come! Folk Singing in the Sukkah Tivnu Housing Sukkot Event This event involves morning canvassing in NE Portland and a dairy potluck lunch in Tivnu's sukkah. Learn where the gathering will be by emailing info@tivnu.org.
SIMCHAT TORAH CELEBRATION WITH HAVURAH HAKAFOT ORCHESTRA! Join us for our Simchat Torah Celebration on Monday, Oct. 24. Music, joy and sweetness for all ages! We'll have potluck desserts at 6:30 pm and a sweet, spirited service for all ages from 7:00 – 8:00 pm, led by Rabbi Joey with Havurah violinist Andrew Ehrlich leading the Havurah Hakafot Orchestra. RSVP here!
HELP CREATE A LEGACY OF ART AT HAVURAH Sign up now for free tile-making workshops with Lynn Takata on Oct. 30, Nov. 20, Dec. 4, Dec. 11 Want to help create a beautiful work of art as a legacy for Havurah's future? Join other Havurahniks to make ceramics for Havurah's Community Courtyard Art Project. Free art workshops with artist Lynn Takata are sponsored by Havurah's Design Committee. Refreshments will be provided at each workshop. Read more and sign up for a workshop here.  TIKKUN OLAM iAct for Refugees The Never Again Coalition is sponsoring this Sunday event, which includes live jazz, Lagunitas beers on tap, Oregon wines, a raffle and silent auction, and snacks by Le Pigeon, Little Bird and Stella Taco. iAct empowers refugees facing humanitarian crises in central Africa. Tickets are $10, which gets you two drinks, food and entry. Buy tickets here.
Join the Havurah Team in the Race to End Child Homelessness! This event is sponsored by New City Initiative, which brings faith communities together to end the cycle of homelessness. Havurah's team will join many other teams from congregations throughout the area in three fun events:
Besides joining Havurah's team, you can help by:
Click here to register with the Havurah Shalom Team. For more information about the race, contact Tom Berg at bergtb@gmail.com or visit this website. ADULT LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES Creating Climate Solutions Join us for the first of a six-session course to better understand climate change and how we can take action to increase resilience and mitigate the impacts. The course will refer to connections in Jewish texts that relate to our impact on the earth. The discussion sessions will integrate video and readings compiled by the Northwest Earth Institute’s guide "Change is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions." For more information, contact Michael Heumann (heumanncycle@gmail.com). Being Jewish Makes a World of Difference: Equity, Privilege & Otherness Rabbi Joey will lead the first three sessions where we will look at texts from Jewish tradition about equity and otherness. These examples of situational ethics will be the foundation for our study and reflection - what do the texts mean to you as an individual? What is the relevance in our own lives? What are the issues that we need to confront? How do we address the impact of our behavior and that of others in respectful and productive ways both in and beyond Havurah? Outside educators will facilitate these three sessions. The course is limited to 20 Havurah members, so register soon! Davenology 101
A Kippah in the Caribbean November is Jewish Book Month, and Havurah Shalom is co-sponsoring one of Portland’s community-wide events to augment discussions of this year's selection, Alice Hoffman's The Marriage of Opposites, which is set on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. On Wednesday, Nov. 16, Havurah will team up with the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education and the Institute for Judaic Studies to present the film, A Kippah in the Caribbean. It is a lively Dutch documentary (with English subtitles), suitable for teens and adults. For more information about this movie night at Havurah, please contact Ruth Feldman at ruth@ruthmike.com. Read more here about Jewish Book Month in Portland. You can watch a trailer of the movie here. Havurah Book Discussion Group At the next Havurah Book Discussion on Nov. 29, we will discuss The Marrying of Chani Kaufman, a novel by Eve Harris. Learn more about the evening and RSVP here. HAVURAHNIKS IN OUR COMMUNITY ... Alicia Jo Rabins' Poems & Music at PSU
Nili Yosha In Oregon Jewish Life Nili will show "The Lost Boys of Portlandia" at Havurah on Wednesday night, March 1, 2017. You can see a trailer of the movie here. RABBI SEARCH The Rabbi Search Committee is currently identifying candidates to bring to Havurah for the interview weekends. Please don’t forget to put on your calendars the following weekends:
During these weekends, the congregation will be able to see and interact with the candidates at:
How is the decision going to be made? In mid January a final survey will be sent via email to each congregant asking them to rank the candidates. In February 2017, after considering all the feedback, the Rabbi Search Committee will give a recommendation to the Steering Committee. At a congregational meeting on March 5, 2017, the congregation will be asked to approve the Steering Committee’s recommendation. We look forward to seeing you at the interview weekends. We thank you for your engagement and participation throughout this important process. As always, if there are questions, please contact the Rabbi Search Committee at rabbisearch@havurahshalom.org.
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