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This week:
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Tuesday, April 30 at 10 am—Passover Yizkor Service with Rabbi Ilene Haigh on Zoom only. Click here to join.
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Wednesday, May 1
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8:30 am—Virtual Minyan. Click here to join.
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Noon—The Israel Working Group presents Rabbi Yoav Ende of Kibbutz Hannaton on helping farmers. On Zoom only. Click here to join.
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4:00—Women's Book Group. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. Click here to join. On Zoom only.
Save the date:
- Friday, May 3
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5:30—Community Potluck. Please bring a dish to share with 10 people.
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7:00—The Yom HaShoah/Sidney Gravitz Memorial Lecture with Holocaust survivor Fran Malkin will follow live Shabbat Services with Rabbi Ilene Haigh in the Sanctuary and on Zoom. Click here to join.
- Sunday, May 5
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10:00 am—Hebrew School
- 10:30 am—In-person Parents' Roundtable with Rabbi Haigh.
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Also on Sunday, May 5 at 4 pm—Ezra Leventhal to be ordained at the Hebrew Union College in New York City. Register to see it on Zoom.
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Friday, May 17 at 7—Post Bet Mitzvah Service and dedication of the Memorial Board, in the Sanctuary and on Zoom. Click here to join.
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Tuesday, June 11 at 7 pm—Shavuot Service blessing new babies and 12th graders. Live with Rabbi Haigh in the Sanctuary and on Zoom. Click here to join.
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Saturday, July 20—Summer Fundraiser at VINS Open Air Pavilion.
To see more of Shir Shalom's calendar, click here.
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Live Services
Friday, May 3 at 7
with Rabbi Ilene Haigh
in the Sanctuary
and on Zoom
Click here to join
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Followed by
Sidney Gravitz
Memorial Lecture
with Holocaust survivor
Fran Malkin
Please stay for the oneg.
Click here to join
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Please bring festive desserts for conversation with Fran after the Service | | | |
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Also on
Friday, May 3
before Services
Community Potluck
5:30
Please bring a plated dish for 10, ready to serve.
If you can list allergens, such as nuts, dairy, alcohol, and gluten, many people will appreciate your consideration. Thank you.
photo by Shayda Torabi
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2024 Sidney Gravitz
Holocaust Memorial Lecture
Dear Fellow Congregants,
On Friday evening, May 3, after Shabbat services, we will present the 2024 Sydney Gravitz Holocaust Memorial lecture. Sidney, along with his wife Zecil, were very active members of our congregation for many years. After Sidney passed away several years ago, his family established a fund in his memory. Their generous gift allowed us to obtain our Holocaust Torah and to establish an annual program for the observance of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), which falls on May 6 this year.
Our speaker on May 3 will be Fran Malkin. Fran is a Holocaust survivor speaks often to gatherings of adults and school children about the Holocaust. In fact, she will meet with a group of students from Woodstock High School at Shir Shalom during the week of May 6. I recommend that you watch the documentary about Fran’s horrific experience when she hid from the Nazis in Poland. It is a short, well-produced film that will make Fran’s lecture more meaningful. Click here for the film.
Also, I am pleased to report that at a Special Meeting of the Congregation on Monday evening, a few minutes before the start of our wonderful Seder, the Congregation authorized the Board to move forward on the Energy Project. Our plan is to install solar panels on the roof of our sanctuary and heat pumps in the sanctuary to provide both heat and air conditioning. The solar panels and heat pumps will greatly reduce our energy expenses and our use of propane.
While Shir Shalom’s Board had unanimously approved the Energy Project at its meeting on April 18, the April 22nd vote by the congregation was required by our bylaws because of the cost of the Project, and because we will be seeking a loan to finance the Project. The loan we hope to secure will be interest-free, an offering to synagogues for energy projects like ours, from a major Jewish organization. In addition, we will seek grants in the hope that we will be able to reduce the need to ask congregants for Energy Project donations.
It might take some time for us to complete this project, because we will not go forward until we have the funding in hand. But for now, with the congregation’s approval, we have taken a meaningful step toward reducing energy costs as well as our use of fossil fuels.
Wishing all a Sweet Pesach.
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Passover Yizkor Service
with Rabbi Ilene Haigh
Tuesday, April 30 at 10 am
on Zoom only
Click here to join
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The Israel Working Group Presents | |
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Rabbi Yoav Ende of Kibbutz Hannaton
on helping farmers
(rescheduled
from April 1)
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On Wednesday, May 1 at noon, we will meet on Zoom with Rabbi Yoav Ende. He is the spiritual leader of Kibbutz Hannaton in Northern Israel, which received donations a few months ago from Shir Shalom's Israel Fund. He is also founder and CEO of the kibbutz's renowned pluralistic Educational Center.
Since the beginning of the War, the kibbutz has provided shelter, food and medical assistance to the residents of kibbutzim attacked by the Hamas terrorists on October 7.
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In our Zoom meeting, Rabbi Ende will describe what the kibbutz residents and graduates of its Educational Center have done to assist local farmers in maintaining crops. Click here to joi
Zoom Information:
https://zoom.us/j/7259482096
Meeting ID: 725 948 2096
Password: 856328
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Women's Book Group Zooms
on Wednesday, May 1 at 4:00
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Named a "Must Read for the Summer" by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Time, AARP, Town & Country, St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
A new bestseller from James McBride, whose book, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, described being raised by his Jewish mother in an all-Black neighborhood. He is also author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird.
In The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development in 1972, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store.
When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As the story unfolds, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us.
On Zoom only. Click here to join. (https://zoom.us/j/7259482096)
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Torah Study during
the Omer continues
Thursday, May 2
10:00
with Rabbi Ilene Haigh
No Hebrew required
on Zoom only
Click here to join
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On May 5 at 9:30 am, at its New York City campus,
the Hebrew Union College will ordain Ezra.
If you're interested in attending his ordination via Zoom, then click below.
Please register here
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Search for a Director of the Hebrew School | | |
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Shir Shalom has started a search for a Director of Education, who has full responsibility for the successful organization, development and operation of the Hebrew School education program for enrolled children and their parents.
The Director supervises three to four teachers, creates and implements the curriculum, and promotes parent involvement. This is a part-time position of 20 hours per week. If you know of someone who might be interested in applying or who wants to know more about the position, please have that person contact either Roni Skerker at veronicaskerker@gmail.com or me at president@shirshalomvt.org. Thanks.
—Michael Brown
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Post Bet Mitzvah Service
and Dedication of the Memorial Board
Friday, May 17 at 7
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Live Shavuot Service
with Rabbi Ilene Haigh Blessing new babies
& 12th graders
Tuesday, June 11
7 pm
Join us as we celebrate the blessing of the "first Fruits" and bless all of our children. Please bring the first cuttings from your garden and a dairy treat for oneg.
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Calling out to our talented members—we need you! We are hosting a live auction at our summer fundraiser and an online auction this fall, and we are relying on you to contribute your wares, your skills, whatever you can think of. For example, babysit for a few hours? Share your passion for baking? Or simply offer to do yard work or run errands. If you have an idea, please get in touch! And if you want to get involved and aren't sure how, we want to hear from you, too!
Email Sue Brown at susanbrown331@gmail.com.
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Save the Date
Here Comes the Sun!
Shir Shalom’s
Summer Fundraiser
Saturday, July 20 at VINS, at 5:00 pm
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Come join your friends
for a festive dinner, live auction, and lots of fun!
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Thank you very much for your generosity. Your donation makes it possible for us to continue to bring Judaism to the Upper Valley.
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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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Zadiah Eisenberg's Charity for Giving Away Bikes | | |
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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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Woodstock Area Jewish Community, Congregation Shir Shalom
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