Oct. 19 Community Email
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SUKKOT, SHEMINI ATZERET, SIMCHAT TORAH, ART & LOTS OF LEARNING
UPCOMING SHABBAT Sukkot Shabbat Service Join us for a Friday night celebration during Sukkot with a Havurah-sponsored dessert oneg following the service. Please RSVP here if you can come!
Community Minyan At this Saturday’s Community Minyan, we will read and discuss Exodus 33:12–34:26. In this passage, Moses asks to see God and is allowed to see God's back, which is revealed while the 13 Attributes of Mercy are proclaimed. What does it mean to see and be seen? And what is rachamim, or mercy, which is repeated so often during High Holy Days? Join Rabbi Joey, Diane Chaplin, Sam Sirkin, and other Havurah leaders and leyners at this Saturday's service to learn and share your ideas. RABBI JOEY'S KOL NIDREI DRASH - "THE LAST DRASH" "This is likely the last time I'll give a Kol Nidrei drash for Havurah. The last drash - my son Simi said it reminded him of The Last Waltz. I appreciate the obvious similarities. "No, but I am philosophical about it. "Look, I'm left with some worries. This is because I think of myself as religious, but in a contemporary way. Over the years I have made it a point to let you know that I don't regard myself as different from you - we're all steeped in the same secular, agnostic culture. And even though I may have had a jump on you (when I took my first tentative steps on a pathway back to Jewish spiritual pracice in my early 20's), it still seems like it was just yesterday that I set out on this path." ... Read the full drash here. CLIMATE ACTION DISCUSSION COURSE Starts Thursday, Oct. 20 Come join the six-session discussion course on climate action. Increase your understanding about what is happening and how we can take action to increase resilience and mitigate the impacts of climate change. This course will refer to connections in Jewish texts that relate to our impact on the earth. The discussion sessions integrate video and readings compiled by the Northwest Earth Institute’s guide "Change is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions" that will help us choose accessible individual and community actions to build a better tomorrow. The planning committee includes Michael Heumann, Don Caniparoli, Jan Zuckerman and Steve Birkel. The first session of the course will be Thursday, Oct. 20, from 7:00 to 8:30 pm. Classes are from 7:00 to 8:30 pm on Oct. 20, Nov.10, Dec. 1, Jan. 5, Jan. 26, Feb. 9. Register online here! SUKKOT AT HAVURAH Folk Singing In the Sukkah If you love folk singing together, COME! Great singing abilities or “singing on key” is NOT necessary or important! Some Tikkun Olam folks are organizing an afternoon with singing and music (think guitars, autoharp, drums) to sing folk songs in our Sukkah! We will have some copies of Rise Up Singing to guide us. Bring your copy if you have one. Questions? Contact Susan Rosenthall at sarosenthall@msn.com or Judy Heumann at mjheumann@gmail.com. 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.
SHEMINI ATZERET Monday, Oct. 24 Shemini means "eighth" and Atzeret means "to gather" or "to store up." On the eighth day of Sukkot, the final day of the celebration, we gather the sentiments of gratitude and devotion acquired through the entire holiday season. Please join us! SIMCHAT TORAH WITH RABBI JOEY & THE HAVURAH HAKAFOT ORCHESTRA Monday, Oct. 24 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 and Havurah violinist Andrew Ehrlich, who will lead the Havurah Hakafot Orchestra. RSVP here!
HAKOL HELP NEXT THURSDAY, OCT. 27 Our Hakol mailing will be on Thursday, Oct. 27. Please come to the office at 9:00 am to help us fold and mail our Hakol! With enough help it will take less than two hours. Please email Rachel if you are able to assist. 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
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. Portland Homeless Family Solutions (PHFS) Goose Hollow Shelter Tikkun Olam-Sponsored Direct Service Project From now until then, PHFS, along with the other 140 organizations of Welcome Home, will be organizing, door-knocking, and fundraising for this critical campaign to be enormously successful. Join us in the movement! Let us know that you want to become more involved or volunteer here at YES for Affordable Homes and follow along on Facebook! We know that it all starts with having a home, so let's make sure home is a place all Portland families can afford. Goose Hollow Family Shelter Orientations: (PHFS night shelter) ADULT LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES Davenology 101
A Kippah in the Caribbean November is Jewish Book Month. 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. PACIFIC NW RECONSTRUCTIONIST SHABBATON Online registration is open now for the Pacific NW Reconstructionist Shabbaton Weekend, May 5-7, 2017. Celebrate Shabbat at Camp Solomon Schechter with members of the five Pacific Northwest Reconstructionist congregations!
See the attached flier for more details and register here. There's priority registration for those who register by Nov. 23! IN THE COMMUNITY ... ORA, a Jewish Art Organization, is throwing two parties and admission is FREE. In Hebrew, ora means light - luminosity, warmth, perspective, liveliness, brightness. Havurah member Lou Jaffe is on the board of directors of ORA. Taste of Art Join the preview party. Free tasty treats from Mother's Bistro combined with sample tastings of Ambacht Beer and Gompers Gin. You will enjoy live music from "The Noted.” Raffle tickets given for art purchases $25 and up. Five great packages will be awarded at the end of Sunday. You need not be present to win. Celebration of Art Art Sale by ORA: Northwest Jewish Artists. Judaic and secular art in many price ranges. Chanukah gift offerings. Live Music, and raffle tickets will be given for all art purchases $25 and up. Five great packages will be awarded at the end of the day. You need not be present to win. Sponsors are MJCC and Jewish Federation of Portland 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 you have questions, please contact the Rabbi Search Committee at rabbisearch@havurahshalom.org. |
