Havurah Sanctuary Committee Meeting Tuesday, June 27 700 - 900 pm Havurah Shalom This will be an important meeting! Havurah is making plans with the folks at the Clara Vista apartments in Cully, and we need to discuss how we will be able to suppor
Tuesday Sanctuary Committee Meeting & Book Discussion Group
July 14 Dorot in the Park, July 15 Israeli Scholar in Residence
This will be an important meeting! Havurah is making plans with the folks at the Clara Vista apartments in Cully, and we need to discuss how we will be able to support the community. We will also hear about the rapid response training and important work needed to oppose some initiative petitions that we might see in 2018. Please attend. Questions? Email Kathy Gordon at farvergordon@gmail.com.
Above photo is from the movie "The Zookeeper's Wife."
Book Discussion Group
Tuesday, June 27
7:00 - 8:30 pm
Havurah Shalom
Phil Walters will lead a discussion of The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman. This is a riveting and tragic non-fiction work drawing upon the unpublished diary of Antonina Zabinski and her accounting of her life during World War II with her husband Jan Zabinski, the director of the Warsaw Zoo. The couple became active in the Polish underground resistance and risked their lives to shelter more than 300 Jews in the zoo, saving them from deportation from the Warsaw ghetto to the camps. Please RSVP here.
Dorot Kabbalat Shabbat & Potluck Picnic in the Park
Friday, July 14
5:30 - 8:30 pm
Laurelhurst Park Picnic Area D
Near SE Ankeny & Cesar Chavez
Please join our Dorot musicians, Tanja Lux, Sarah Shine, Gabe Adoff & Jacob Mandelsberg, as we bring our family-friendly, musical Dorot service from the sanctuary to the beautiful grounds of Laurelhurst Park. Please bring a veggie dish to share and your blankets to spread as we welcome Shabbat in true summer-style. Who knows ... we just may break into a camp-style song session while we're at it. Kiddos and parents are welcome to bring a music-making instrument and/or spirit!! We have Picnic Area "D" reserved from 4:00 pm until closing, and the site contains five picnic benches. For questions, contactjmandelsberg@gmail.comor sarah.shine@gmail.com.
Photo above is of Emanuel Ben-David and his wife, Connie.
Emanuel Ben-David, Scholar In Residence
Saturday, July 15
10:00 am - 3:30 pm (service, lunch, presentations)
Havurah Shalom
Havurah is honored to welcome Emily Simon's good friend from Ashland and Israel, Emanuel Ben-David, as our Scholar In Residence on Saturday, July 15. He will lead morning services at 10:00 am, join us for a potluck vegetarian lunch afterward, then give two presentations on Israel in the afternoon.
Being a native Israeli, Emanuel notices nuances in Hebrew, and as a result his teachings have great depth. He is studying for the rabbinate, and he and Emily have led services together in Ashland. His "day job" in Israel involved the technical side of Israeli military defense.
In the first afternoon presentation, at 1:30 pm, he will share “Ten Commandments” that humorously examine the characteristics of the "typical" Israeli and, by extension, of the country at large. The commandments examine some of the driving forces and origins that have made Israelis who they are and explain how they came to be that way. Each of the ten points is supported by examples and facts, many of which come from Emanuel’s personal experience.
In the second presentation, at 2:30 pm, Emanuel will unveil his personal experience working for decades for Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, one of the major three Defense Contractors in Israel. Among the technologies and products he describes are the Iron Dome and David’s Sling, two of the three layers of Israel’s Missile Defense Architecture. He will also give an example of how defense technology is transposed to the medical arena to provide life-saving breakthroughs.
All are invited to the morning service and potluck lunch or the afternoon presentations, or both the morning and the afternoon. Please RSVP here.
Photo below is a cool photo of Havurah this past winter. Hard to imagine today, with the temperature soaring over 100!
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[B'nei Mitzvah Run Through] Friday, Aug 15th 12:00p to 2:00p (This is a closed event and is included in our calendar for space reservation reasons and attendee reference.)
Shabbat Morning with Bat Mitzvah of Natasha Raish Shabbat, Aug 16th 10:00a to 12:00p Please join us for Shabbat morning services, including welcoming Natasha Raish as a Bat Mitzvah and member of our community.
(IP) Elul Gallery Art Drop-Off Sunday, Aug 17th 12:00p to 3:00p As part of our annual holiday cycle, Havurah members are invited to share our own reflections on the themes and stories of the High Holiday season. In addition to prose or poetry that may be shared on the bima at High Holiday services, we are putting out a call for artistic expressions in any visual medium, including paintings, drawings and photography. We welcome your reflections on any aspect of the High Holidays experience, whether they arise from our tradition’s core concepts of teshuvah (return) or seliḥah (forgiveness), or from any other aspect of your own process of looking inward during the time leading into the holiday season. The Elul and High Holiday Gallery is a project of the High Holidays Committee and the Design Committee, led by Joan Peck and Marcia Suttenberg.
(ZM) Climate Change Book Group Slow Reading of "Not Too Late" Monday, Aug 18th 5:30p to 6:30p All are welcome! Havurah members and non-members alike are invited to join us in this slow, section-by-section reading of "Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility." Click and RSVP. Attend any or all of these HCAT (Havurah's Climate Action Team) Book Group discussions about "Not Too Late."
(ZM) Healing the Heart, Soothing the Soul: A Grief Process Support Group Tuesday, Aug 19th 5:30p to 7:00p During the month of Elul, we are guided to examine our souls, explore our relationships, reflect on our actions with God and others, and prepare ourselves spiritually to begin a new year. With the Spirit of Elul, we will journey into exploring the aspects of grief. For Havurah members only. Limited to 8 people. Participants are strongly encouraged to attend all sessions.
(IP) Israeli Dancing Wednesday, Aug 20th 7:30p to 8:30p Join us to learn Israeli dancing! We’ll teach the steps and tell the stories behind Israeli dances while you enjoy the catchy rhythms, creative body movements, and spending time with friends.
Led by Havurah members Cindy Merrill and Gail Schwartz with dance instructor Rhona Feldman.
Hakol Deadline is Thursday, August 21 Thursday, Aug 21st (All day) Havurah members, click to learn how to submit your contributions to our monthly newsletter, Hakol.
(HYB) Solidarity Kabbalat Shabbat Friday, Aug 22nd 5:45p to 8:00p Join Havurah members and friends for a Solidarity Shabbat service and potluck nosh. This is a spiritual space for community members working in solidarity with Palestinians - and for the liberation of all peoples - to come together to pray, build connections, and renew ourselves on Shabbat to continue our justice work. Please review Havurah's Brit Kavod for our community guidelines. Masks strongly encouraged and provided.
