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Check out our High Holy Days page to see our schedule.
Again, we are having virtual services this year, and we would love for you to join us. If you haven't already, make arrangements to check out machzurim (High Holy Day prayerbooks).
On Friday, August 27, join us for services (in person and on Zoom) with Rabbi Caroline Sim of the ISJL.
On Saturday, August 28, join us for Torah study and a Saturday service, too! Afterward, we will have our Taste of Greece luncheon with Rabbi Sim.
As you probably know, we have decided to make our High Holidays Services virtual again this year. This decision was not taken lightly, but rather, is a consideration of the limitations of our small shul and the desire to preserve and protect the lives of our members in the midst of the recent COVID-19 Delta variant surge.
Please go here for the High Holiday Services Schedule
From Publishers Weekly:
In Sayed Kashua’s debut novel, a nameless anti-hero contends with the legacy of a grandfather who died fighting the Zionists in 1948, and a father who was jailed for blowing up a school cafeteria in the name of freedom. When the narrator is granted a scholarship to an elite Jewish boarding school, his family rejoices, dreaming that he will grow up to be the first Arab to build an atom bomb. But to their dismay, he turns out to be a coward devoid of any national pride; his only ambition is to fit in with his Jewish peers who reject him. He changes his clothes, his accent, his eating habits, and becomes an expert at faking identities, sliding between different cultures, schools, and languages, and eventually a Jewish lover and an Arab wife.
With refreshing candor and self-deprecating wit, Dancing Arabs is a “chilling, convincing tale” of one man’s struggle to disentangle his personal and national identities, only to tragically and inevitably forfeit both (Publishers Weekly).Discussion Details
Join us by Zoom for an interesting discussion of Sayed Kashuah's book Dancing Arabs.
Read about us and follow us on Facebook. Join us for regular events (Friday services, Torah study, men's breakfasts) and special events (High Holy Days, holiday celebrations, book discussions, special programs, and visiting rabbis, educators, and speakers). Parents, contact us to learn about our religious school.
On Friday, April 30, join us for Zoom services with Rabbi Arturo Kalfus and Jewish educator Phyllis Meyers, They will be conducting services remotely from Mexico, and they always bring with them, even remotely, a deep spirituality. Services will include live music.
On Saturday, join us for Torah study led by Rabbi Kalfus (and likely Phyllis Meyers).
(Available via paperback and Kindle)
From the Publisher:
It's 1948 and the Arab villagers of Khirbet Khizeh are about to be violently expelled from their homes. A young Israeli soldier who is on duty that day finds himself battling on two fronts: with the villagers and, ultimately, with his own conscience.
Published just months after the founding of the state of Israel and the end of the 1948 war, the novella Khirbet Khizeh was an immediate sensation when it first appeared. Since then, the book has continued to challenge and disturb, even finding its way onto the school curriculum in Israel. The various debates it has prompted would themselves make Khirbet Khizeh worth reading, but the novella is much more than a vital historical document: it is also a great work of art. Yizhar's haunting, lyrical style and charged view of the landscape are in many ways as startling as his wrenchingly honest view of modern Israel's primal scene.
Considered a modern Hebrew masterpiece, Khirbet Khizeh is an extraordinary and heartbreaking book that is destined to be a classic of world literature.
Join us by Zoom for an interesting discussion of Yizhar's book Khirbet Khizeh.
Read about us and follow us on Facebook. Join us for regular events (Friday services, Torah study, men's breakfasts) and special events (High Holy Days, holiday celebrations, book discussions, special programs, and visiting rabbis, educators, and speakers). Parents, contact us to learn about our religious school.
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The direct link to the presentation is in members’ and friends’ emails. If you are not on our contact list and would like to attend, please email us.
What: One of our members (KP) will present and talk about the few documents saved from her family’s experience in Nazi-occupied Austria and Czechoslovakia. These are documents she has never shared completely before, not even with her family. They tell something about the experience of her parents in Vienna and that of a cousin and his family in the Moravian-Silesian region in eastern Czechoslovakia. They span the years 1938 to 1941 and illustrate events from the annexation of Austria into the German empire and Nazi occupation of Czechloslovakia.
Duration: KP's presentation will begin at 3:00 p.m. and last approximately 30 minutes, after which there will be time for questions and discussion.
Future Events? With this event, the Cultural Arts Committee will start what we hope will be a series of Zoom get-togethers entitled “Show and Tell.” We want to create a way for members of the Beth Shalom community to share experiences and stories about their own or their family’s experience as Jews. Items shared can include ritual or other artifacts and objects, photographs, stories, or anything else you would like to share with the community.