Trivia Fest

TRIVIA FEST!

Join Susan and Rich Tuttle for an exciting afternoon of Trivia on Sunday, June 3 at 4:00 PM! Teams and individuals are welcome. Door prizes, raffles. Get your tickets in advance by calling 541-488-7716. Read More

Kabbalah Meditation

Kabbalah Meditation with Rabbi David Zaslow

Beginning on Thursday, June 21 from 5-6 PM, Rabbi David Zaslow will teach an introduction class in Kabbalah Meditation. Participants will learn to understand the chakra system in Judaism known as Sefirot. Read More

A Healing Journey with Ana Holub to Eastern Europe

A Healing Journey to Eastern Europe; a slideshow by Ana Holub

On Wednesday, May 23 at 7:30 PM Ana Holub will share a slideshow and talk about her journey. In April, Holub visited the Czech Republic and Poland, the land of her ancestors. She traveled to their hometowns, offered prayers of gratitude for their lives and bore witness to their struggles as Jews during the Holocaust. Read More

Unholy Betrayal; Confronting Sexual Abuse by Religious Leaders

Unholy Betrayal: Confronting Sexual Abuse by Spiritual Leaders

Sunday evening, May 20 at 7:30 PM

Revelations of sexual misconduct in Hollywood sparked the #metoo movement and a nationwide discussion on the prevalence power dynamics and sexuality in all sectors of our culture. Emerging reports of sexual abuse in education, medicine, sports, politics, corporations, the military, in religious establishments, and in every profession has forced institutions to look inward at the causes of such behavior within their own worlds. Read More

Memorial Plaques Sale

TWO MITZVAHS, TWO BENEFITS!

אנחנו זוכרים   WE REMEMBER

Purchase plaques by June 1 and pay only $26 each, or seven for $22 each!

Remembrance is not only about bringing loved ones to mind, but calls us to do things to honor their memory and the impact they have had upon us.

To remember is to lift up all those things our ancestors have taught us so that their lives continue through our own hearts.

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Isle of Klezbos

ISLE OF KLEZBOS IN CONCERT – TUESDAY, JULY 10TH, 7:30 PM

 On Tuesday, July 10 at 7:30 PM the Havurah Synagogue will host ISLE of KLEZBOS in concert. Tickets are $25 in advance, available at the Music Coop, 268 E. Main St. in Ashland or online at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3385911

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Wisdom Garden for All Young Teens

Wisdom Garden’s Social Action, Ecology Program Opens to All Young Teens, starts October 14

The Havurah Synagogue’s Wisdom Garden program provides a hands-on early teen educational program, geared toward 11-14 year old Jewish and non-Jewish students. The program’s curriculum is based on making the world a better place and includes outdoor and social action components. The focus of the curriculum is to give young teens the confidence to be the best they can be by helping make the world and the planet a better place.

Students will learn values and ethics, rooted in Judaism and universally applicable, that offer guidance in the stewardship of the earth, social action, and encouraging the cultivation of a universal approach to spirituality.  The 1-2 year program culminates with a transformational, coming-of-age sacred ceremony for the non-Jewish participants and a bar or bat mitzvah for the Jewish students.

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Hebrew Classes

Beginner’s Hebrew Class begins Thursday, May 17 with Rabbi David Zaslow. Five weeks. Fee is $25 members, $40 non-members and includes the text. Call 541-488-7716 to pre-register by May 2.

Advanced beginner’s Class with Ayala Zonnenschein, American Israeli,  for Advanced Beginners who would like to become more fluent readers, learn Hebrew roots and gain vocabulary.

Class meets on Mondays from 2-3:30 PM. $20 donation for each 4 week block for members, $25 for non-members. Classes are ongoing and open to new students.

Call Ayala at 541-393-0805 for more info

Carlebach Kabbalat Shabbat

CARLEBACH KABBALAT SHABBAT

Join Hadassah Dejack and Allen Kenner for monthly Kabbalat Shabbat gatherings on Friday nights. The short (less than one hour) gathering of singing in Shabbat is followed by a veggie potluck dinner and group clean up. Bring your instruments and stay after the meal to play music and shmooze. All welcome. The next gathering is on Friday, Friday, February 23 at 6:30 PM.

Here are some links if you would like to familiarize yourself with the music we’ll be singing:

First song of the service:

Yedid Nefesh sung at the grave of the Baal Shem Tov   Click Here

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