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Shir Shalom Newsletter for
Thursday, March 6, 2025
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Coming Up this Week, Sunday,
March 9 — Antisemitism Symposium
1:00–5:30 pm at Shir Shalom
(If you are unable to join us in person, see Zoom links below to join us for the portions of the program.)
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Symposium Program
1:00 pm Sign In & Welcome Rabbi Mark Melamut and Rabbi Ilene Haigh
1:15 pm Keynote Speaker Susannah Heschel, Link to Zoom
2:00 pm Break
2:15 pm Keynote Speaker Susannah Heschel, Link to Zoom
3:00 pm Presentation — Honor Memorial Trust Scrolls & Betty Lauer
Link to Zoom
3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm Breakout Sessions
4:30 pm Community Interfaith Dialogue Moderated by Rabbi Mark & Rabbi Ilene, The Rev. Jonathan Hauze, The Rev. Dr. Leon Dunkley, The Rev. Amy Spagna, Link to Zoom
5:00 pm Closing Ritual
Schmooze & Nosh
Symposium Workshops (CLICK HERE TO VIEW) Choose from the following to pursue ways to build your resilience.
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Calendar
To view the complete Shir Shalom calendar, click here.
Today, Thursday, March 6
Friday, March 7
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7:00 pm — Live Shabbat Service with Rabbi Ilene Haigh at Shir Shalom and on Zoom. Shabbat hosts: Arthur and Roni Skerker, Link to Zoom
Saturday, March 8
- 9:00 am — Tot Shabbat
- 10:30 am — Bet Mitzvah Learning
Sunday, March 9
- 10:00 am — Hebrew School
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1:00 pm — Symposium, Resilience in the face of Antisemitism, at Shir Shalom, with some portions on Zoom, Link to Zoom
Wednesday, March 12
Thursday, March 13
Saturday, March 15
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10:30 am — Shabbat Minyan on Zoom only, Link to Zoom
- 5:30 pm — "Wicked" Purim Celebration, at Shir Shalom
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- Create “Wicked” costumes for kids and grown-ups. We’ll have kid-size witch hats.
- Make groggers/noisemakers to drown out Hamen’s name — marbles in a small container, perhaps.
- Games and activities for the kids.
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Purim Spiel — “Wicked” theme — contact Tom Beck to sign up for a part (tombeckvt@gmail.com). NO memorizing. Bring your script and read your part onstage.
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Hamantaschen made by our children — everyone bring a dessert.
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Looking Ahead . . .
Tuesday, March 18
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7:00 pm — Adult Education Scholar Series: Two Jewish Philosophers, Part 2: Martin Buber with Dr. Samuel Brody on Zoom, Link to Zoom
Friday, March 21
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7:00 pm — Live Shabbat Service with Rabbi Ilene Haigh at Shir Shalom and on Zoom. Shabbat hosts: Jeffrey and Rachel Kahn, Link to Zoom
Friday, March 28
- 7:00 p.m. — Pot Luck Shabbat Dinner at the Home of Sarah Goldfine
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Live Shabbat Service with Rabbi Ilene Haigh
Friday, March 7, 7:00 pm
Shabbat hosts: Arthur and Roni Skerker.
Please bring a dessert to share.
At Shir Shalom and on Zoom.
Link to Zoom
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Tot Shabbat
at Shir Shalom
Saturday, March 8
9:00 am (Please note earlier time)
Tot shabbat is for our youngest members and their families to gather for prayer, song, stories and play. Connect with old friends and make new ones; this is our community. Please join us.
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Virtual Minyan
Wednesday, March 12
8:30 am
On Zoom only.
Link to Zoom
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Cocktails in Memory
Wednesday, March 12
7:00 pm
You're invited to a virtual cocktail party. Bring memories. Meet new friends. Explore together this new reality.
Link to Zoom
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Adult Education Scholar Series
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Two Jewish Philosophers,
Part 2: Martin Buber
Dr. Samuel Brody
Tuesday, March 18
7:00 pm on Zoom
Link to Zoom
Is Martin Buber's I and Thou a Jewish Book?
Martin Buber was one of the most significant Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. However, many readers have wondered about the connection between his best-selling work of existential philosophy, I and Thou (1923), and his Jewish commitments. In this talk, Dr. Brody will draw out the hidden connections between I and Thou and Buber's unique way of being Jewish.
Samuel Hayim Brody is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Martin Buber's Theopolitics (2018), which won the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association of Jewish Studies. He is also the co-editor, with Julie E. Cooper, of The King is in the Field: Essays in Modern Jewish Political Thought (2023).
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Pot Luck Shabbat Dinner
Friday, March 28
7:00 pm
Hosted by Sarah Goldfine at her home in Woodstock. Please contact Sarah at sarah.e.goldfine@gmail.com if you'd like to attend. Space is limited to ten people.
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Shir Shalom Women's
Book Group
Shir Shalom Women's Book Group meets on the first Wednesday of the month at 4:00 pm on Zoom (unless otherwise noted). Here is a list of upcoming dates
and books:
April 2 — Ladies Lunch
May 7 — An Unfinished Love Story
Link to Zoom
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Other Important Events Coming Up:
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Zecil and Sidney Gravitz Holocaust Memorial Lecture Lecture: Sunday, April 27, 1:00 pm
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Shavuot: Sunday, June 1 at 5:30 pm. Pot Luck Supper
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Scholar-In-Residence: June 6–8 with Rabbi Gordon Tucker
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Annual Summer Fundraiser Auction and Dinner: Saturday, July 19 at VINS
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As we have no dues or fees, gifts like yours are essential. You may give by credit card, PayPal, or check mailed to:
WAJC
PO Box 526
Woodstock, VT 05091
Thank you again.
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Zoom Information
Sanctuary Room — this will be used for larger group events
such as the 1st and 3rd Friday Night Shabbat Services, B'nei Mitzvahs,
and other live events
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2199028045
Meeting ID: 219 902 8045
Passcode: Dg8WLC
Meeting — this will be used for Rabbi's teaching, including Torah Study, Hebrew I and II, Adult Education, Wednesday and Saturday Minyans, Social Groups, etc.
https://zoom.us/j/7259482096
Meeting ID: 725 948 2096
Password: 856328
Check the calendar at www.shirshalomvt.org for Zoom numbers to use for each event or meeting.
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