Swim, sing, picnic and celebrate Havdalah at Havurah’s Shabbat In the Pool (For All Ages!) on August 8. We will have the pool to ourselves from 5:15 to 6:15 pm, then gather for Havdalah singing, a story, and BYO picnic under the trees.
RSVP at RSVP@havurahshalom.org by Monday, July 27 with family name(s) and ages of any children so we can reserve enough lifeguards. In order to defray the major cost of the renting the pool/lifeguards, please consider making a donation of $5–$15.
Kimberly Hartnett, author of the new acclaimed best seller Carolina Israelite, How Harry Golden Made Us Care About Jews, the South, and Civil Rights will be our scholar in residence for a three part program.
Shabbat Service, Dec. 4, 7 pm at Beit Haverim. Topic: Who was Harry Golden and why was he so central to the history of American Jews and to our own lives?
Torah Study, Dec. 5 , 10 am at Beit Haverim. Questions and Dialogue with Kimberly Hartnett
Havdalah, Dec. 5, 6:30 pm at a private residence. Address will be given when you RSVP at beithav.org or call 503-568-1241
This program is established through a gracious gift by Jo-Ann and John Moss
“Women in Torah”
Mondays, Feb. 22 & 29; March 7, 14 & 28; April 4 & 18; May 2, 9 & 16
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Register at RSVP@havurahshalom.org with subject line “Women in Torah” by Feb. 8.
This spring, Havurah member Alicia Jo Rabins will guide us through the complicated lives of ten Biblical women. Alicia’s Women in Torah workshop will use creativity and conversation to explore characters from Eve to Yiftach’s daughter. This is the first full-length pilot course of Alicia’s Girls in Trouble curriculum, created around her critically acclaimed Girls in Trouble song cycle (indie-folk songs about women in Torah).
A poet, violinist, and Torah scholar, Alicia created the one-woman show A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, which she performed recently at Disjecta. Her new collection of poems, Divinity School, won the 2015 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize.
With Alicia’s expertise, we will examine these famous and not-so-famous women in ways that might inspire us in moments of struggle and in the context of our own lives. Each of the ten sessions will explore one woman and is relatively independent of the others within the overarching theme of the course.
–Ruth Feldman
This course is free for Havurah members, $15/class for non-members.
Join us in the warm water pool with pool toys, music, and good times! *Parents must accompany children in the water.
$15/family
Free for members
We will have the Sellwood Park Pool to ourselves on Saturday, Aug. 6, from 5:15 to 6:15 pm. Afterward, we’ll gather for Havdalah singing, a story, and BYO picnic under the trees.
Shabbat in the Pool is free, but in order to defray the major cost of renting the pool/lifeguards, please consider making a donation of $5–$15.
RSVP here here by Monday, Aug. 1 with family name(s) and ages of any children so we can reserve enough lifeguards.
We invite you to join us on Friday, Dec. 30, to welcome Shabbat, spread the light of the Chanukah candles, and share our feelings, fears, and hopes for the difficult times we are facing as a country. For those of us who came together on the Sunday after the election, it was a powerful expression of community, and there have been requests to identify some next steps. It continues to feel premature to launch a specific action plan. Instead, it seems more appropriate to gather in community, listen to how we are doing, and continue conversations about our hopes and fears about areas such as immigrants and refugees, poverty and homelessness, climate change, equity, and gun control.
We will begin by lighting the Chanukah and Shabbat candles, sing some songs, and then spend our time talking and listening. There will not be a formal Friday night service.