Oct. 7, 2021 - Weekly News From The Chatham Synagogue / Netivot Torah |
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10/7/21 TCS/NT Update Table of Contents |
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1. Requirements for In-Personal Shabbat Services Attendance
2. In Person & Zoom Shabbat (Services will begin at 10am. Masks are mandatory.)
3. Virtual Sit/Stand/Breathe Exercise
4. Virtual Yoga
5. Donations
6. Virtual Out & About: Entertainment / Education / Social Action
7. ETC. "Beautiful & Broken: Abram's Vision" by Rabbi Or Rose
8. Visit Our Website
9. Become a Member
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1. Requirements for In-Person Attendance
Our Shabbat services are open for all vaccinated attendees and, due to the surge in the Delta COVID variant, masks are now required. We will also continue to use Zoom to bring services to those who can’t attend in-person, or who have not yet been vaccinated.
Please Note: if you’d like to join us in-person we request that, if you’re able, you scan your vaccination card or your New York State Excelsior Pass* and email a copy to Ken Kranz at barken1993@gmail.com. If you don’t get a confirmation that your email was received, please email the copy to: thechathamsynagogue@gmail.com. If you’re not able to scan and email your vaccination card or Excelsior Pass, we will have someone at the door checking vaccination proof so you can bring your vaccination card or a paper or digital copy of your Excelsior pass with you.
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2. Shabbat - October 9, 2021
You must be vaccinated to attend in person.
MASKS COVERING YOUR MOUTH & NOSE MUST BE WORN AT ALL TIMES IN SHUL.
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Please note: Due to the rise in COVID cases in Columbia County and the high infection rate of the Delta Variant, MASKS ARE REQUIRED INSIDE THE SHUL. |
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Friday, Oct. 8, 2021
Cheshvan 2, 5781
Shabbat Candle Lighting - 6:06pm
Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021 - Note: Services will begin at 10am.
Cheshvan 3, 5781
Shabbat Service - 10:00am
Shabbat Ends - 7046pm
Torah Reading
Parshah: Noach
Genesis 6:9 - 11:32
Click here to read Rabbi Or Rose's commentary on Noach, "Beautiful & Broken: Abram's Vision"
Note: For those unable to attend in person, our services will also be available via Zoom. Services will begin at 10:00am:
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3. Virtual Sit/Stand/Breathe Exercise
Every Monday - 11am - 12pm
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TCS/NT member, and dancer, choreographer, physician-assistant Jamie Stiller is teaching a sit/stand exercise group. For the duration, the group will meet every Monday, via Zoom, from 11am - 12pm. The focus of these classes will be on building strength in your core and extremities, learning to breathe mindfully to fuel your entire body, and having fun!
There is a $10 donation per class. Click here email Jamie and arrange payment (Venmo, checks, etc.).
ZOOM LOG-IN LINK & INFO:
Meeting ID: 898 6317 0484
Password: 953995
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4. Virtual Yoga
Every Friday at 9:30am
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Our weekly Yoga classes are resuming, virtually. TCS/NT member, and dancer, choreographer, physician-assistant, Jamie Stiller, will be leading the classes. There is a $10 donation per class. Click here email Jamie and arrange payment (Venmo, checks, etc.).
ZOOM LOG-IN LINK & INFO:
Meeting ID: 825 5860 0433
Password: 953995
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(Note: Donations can be made online on our website. Click here to donate.)
Phyliss & Steve Abramson - HH Donation
Roberta Bernstein & Viki Sand - HH Donation
Frana K. Baruch- HH Donation
Harriet Burack - HH Donation
Diane & Alan Christie - HH Donation
Howard Cohen - HH Donation
Sharon & Bennet Cohen - HH Donation
Jonathan Cope - HH Donation
Michelle Daum - HH Donation IMO Fredric Daum
Andrea Fertig & Rich Corenthal - HH Donation
Natasha & Avi Dresner - HH Donation
Diane & Steve Eidman - HH Donation
Ellen & Alan Goldner - Thank you to Marilyn Cohen for her inspiring appeal
Maggie Kaplen & Leo Sokol - HH Donation
Elaine & Mitch Khosrova - HH Donation
Stuart Kramer - HH Donation
Barbara Lax & Ken Kranz - IHO the engagement of Cathy Zises' daughter
Aileen Leventon & Marc Freed - HH Donation
Joe Levin - HH Donation
Karen Levine & Alan Gelb - Thank you to the board, our President, and the ritual committee for keeping us going
Lucile & Sheldon Lichtblau - HH Donation
Bella Meyer - HH Donation
Jan Moseman & Robert Zukerman - HH Donation
Laura & Eric Perlman - HH Donation
Michael Peskoe - HH Donation
Jody Porter & Gabe Wolosky - IHO of our newest grandson, Charlie Jacob Wolosky
Susan Puder & Peter Verrengia - HH Donation
Gloria Rapoport - HH Donation
Carol and Rabbi Neal Rose - HH Donation IHO Rabbi Or Rose
Barbara Roth & Michael Canick - HH Donation
Joyce and Charles Sarner - HH Donation
Carol Schein - HH Donation
Annette Schickman - HH Donation
Marcia & Bernhard Seibald - HH Donation
Sheila Silver & John Feldman - HH Donation IHO Rabbi Or Rose's inspiring and virtuosic singing and chanting
Fran Snyder & David Voremberg - HH Donation
Alice Swersey - IHO Sloane Kranz Mcguire, granddaughter of Barbara Lax & Ken Kranz
Susan Waisbren & Howard Lipton - HH Donation
Sharon Weinberg & Jeffrey Zimmerman - HH Donation
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6. Virtual Out & About
Entertainment / Education / Social Action
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Spencertown Academy Festival of Books: Discussion with Peter Sis, Author of Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and Children Rescued
Sunday, October 10 from 4pm
Online Event
Author-illustrator Peter Sis, recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Hans Christian Andersen Medal, will discuss Nicky and Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued With luminous images and poetic language, Sis tells the true story of a young British stockbroker, Nicholas Winton, who raised funds and found foster homes in England for more than 600 Jewish children, saving them from the Nazis. Though a children’s book, the tale resonates with all ages. Joining the author in conversation will be Carl Atkins, Festival Committee member.
▶︎ Click here to sign up for the event and get log-in information
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[NEW] Music Among the Crypto-Jews of Portugal: An Almost Vanished World
Thursday, Oct. 14 at 1:30pm
General Admission - $18
Supported Admisttion - $9
Online Event
In 1497, only 5 years after the expulsion of Jews from Spain, King Manuel I of Portugal decreed that all Jews had to convert to Christianity or leave the country. Thousands left, others converted and stayed, some kept practicing their Jewish faith as Crypto-Jews. The early 20th century saw the "discovery" of the Jews of Belmonte and the northeast region of Tras-os-Montes, who had lived in isolation with few cultural contacts with the outside world. The dictatorship of Salazar sent them back underground until their re-emerging after the 1975 "Carnation Revolution".
Judith Cohen, an ethnomusicologist and singer known for her work in Sephardic music conducted on-site fieldwork in those areas starting in 1990s up to the pandemic. In this presentation sheI will introduce the people she interviewed, and explain how songs and recited prayers work in both the religious and secular contexts. She will also talk about the music's "folklorization in the age of the internet and social media.
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[NEW] The Mount Presents: The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
Wednesday, October 20 from 4-5pm
Tickets $5 - $10
Outdoor Event near the Stable at the Mount
2 Plunkett Street
Lenox, MA
There will be heaters and complimentary hot apple cider
"It was the autumn after I had the typhoid. I'd been three months in hospital, and when I came out, I looked so weak and tottery that the two or three ladies I applied to were afraid to engage me."
So begins the haunting tale told by the Lady's Maid.
In October, The Mount celebrates Edith Wharton's Ghost Stories with a live reading of her short story, "The Lady's Maid's Bell," published in 1902 by Scribner's Magazine. Elric Walker, a widely known performing songwriter and poet living in the Western Hills of Massachusetts will be reading the story.
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Jewish Women's Archive Quarantine(ish) Book Talks - Fall Series
October 7, 14, & 21 at 8pm
Online Events
The Jewish Women's Archive is bringing back the Quarantine(ish) Book Talks this month. You're invited to these enlightening and lively conversations with authors, moderated by JWA's CEO Judith Rosenbaum. Register once and attend as many talks as you like. Authors include: Lizzie Skurnick and Alexandra Dunietz talking about their book From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family; Judy Bolton-Fasman talking about Asylum: A Memoir of Family Secrets; and Vanessa Zoltan talking about Praying with Jane Ayre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice.
▶︎ Click here to read more about these authors and books and to sign up for the discussions.
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"Whimsy" Art Exhibit at Spencertown Academy
Saturday, Oct. 2 through Sunday, Oct. 31
Open Saturdays and Sundays 1pm - 5pm
Admission is free and the art is for sale with a portion of the proceeds to benefit the Academy
Masks are required
This Saturday, Oct. 2nd, from 1-5pm, Spencertown Academy is having an Opening Reception for their new art show, "Whimsy," an exhibit featuring paintings and sculptures by Gabe Brown, Keith Davidson, Ron Harrington, Dorothy Sabean, Audrie Sturman, and Elizabeth Wallin. All are invited.
The exhibit was organized by the Academy's Curatorial Committee Co-Chair (and TCS/NT member) Barbara Lax Kranz. “In a world that seems more and more fractured and traumatized by a pandemic, the idea of a show focusing on whimsy seemed a necessity for the soul,” she says. “Whimsy can be defined in many ways—capricious, fanciful, fantastical, imaginative, and unpredictable are just a few words that come to mind. We all need a little escape now and then. Six very different artists have produced works that will bring smiles to your faces. They look at the world around them in a different way,” continues curator Lax Kranz. “Some travel to an alternate universe while others create work that will just make you laugh or leave you delighted.”
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"Seeing Torah: A Visual Midrash"
Through December 10
Ted Cutler Atrium at Hebrew College
160 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459
If you find yourself in Boston between now and the end of the year, be sure to catch this show at Hebrew College. They've partnered with The Jewish Arts Collaborative and CJP to create the Artist Beit Midrash, bringing together Boston artists to study Jewish texts and share their creative process. "Seeing Torah" is a visual diary documenting artist Anita Rbainoff-Goldman's study and artistic response to each of the 54 Torah portions over the cycle of a single Jewish year. Each piece is a visual midrash in the tradition of Jewish creative commentary: imaginative re-envisionings as seen through a woman's lens illuminating the spiritual, political, and feminist lessons living in the Torah.
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7. ETC. Commentary by Rabbi Or Rose: "Broken & Beautiful"
If you skipped over Section 2 in this week's Update, or read it but didn't notice the link to Rabbi Rose's piece, Beautiful & Broken: Abram's Vision, his commentary about Noach, this week Parshah, here's another opportunity to click the link and read his powerful and timely interpretation and analysis.
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8. Visit Our Website
Have you checked out our website at: thechathamsynagogue.org? On it you can find a current listing of events, links to services, information about who we are, and a growing library of photos.
For members there is also a member portal. You should have received an email with a link inviting you to access the portal, instructions on how to log-in, and an explanation of some of the information that you will find there. Check it out and let us know what you think. If you have any questions or need help accessing the member portal, please email: tcsntmembers@gmail.com.
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Our Mailing Address: The Chatham Synagogue / P.O. Box 51 / Chatham, NY 12037
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