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Hello,

Here is the first draft of this week's update for period Thursday, March 23, 2023 to Thursday, April 6, 2023.

Please send me your additions/corrections by noon tomorrow, Wednesday March 22.

Thanks

Chris
 
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Weekly Update
 
 

Shabbat Services

 Led by Rabbi Mark

Shabbat  Service
Friday, Mar 24 at 6 pm
Join us in-person or via Zoom

Shabbat Service
Saturday, Mar 25 at 10 am
Join us in-person or via Zoom

Brown Bag Lunch and Learn will begin
directly after services, see the box below.


 Professor Moshe Naor
Jewish Studies Program, Dartmouth College
Saturday, March 25,11:30 am to 1 pm
Join us in-person or via Zoom

Israel's Democratic Crisis:
Between Second and First Israel

             
Professor Naor will talk about the crisis in Israel regarding the power of the Judiciary.

This talk will follow Shabbat Services at the Roth Center.

This will be a Brown Bag Lunch and Learn. Our kitchen will be koshered for Passover before Shabbat this week, so we will not be able to use the kitchen for food preparation or for refrigerated storage. Bring what you wish in a small cooler. 

Learn to Write a Family Story
Sun, March 26, 10:30 am to Noon
Roth Center

This workshop launches you into choosing a family story to tell, finding your best way to tell it, and planning to get the whole story written. "Write what you know" and salute life -- l'chaim!

Please bring a photo, either on a phone or printed, that relates to your story.

Published fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writer and fellow congregant Beth Kanell will lead this workshop.

RSVP to the UVJC office. Space is limited!

Literature Lovers
Sunday, Mar 26 at 7 pm
Via Zoom Only


Monkey Boy 
by Francisco Goldman


Please contact office@uvjc.org for the Zoom link
and more information.
We welcome new participants.

Proverbs Class
"Let wisdom enter into your heart"
March 28, 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Join us via Zoom

Meets weekly on Tuesdays.

Email Rabbi Mark if you are
interested in joining.


Preparing for Pesach:
Schmooze, Share & Study
with Rabbi Mark

Wed, March 29, 7 pm to 7:45 pm
Join us via Zoom ONLY

Let's reconnect and get ready by sharing menus, ideas, stories, jokes, inspirations, and questions to prime our souls for freedom and to prepare our homes and hearts for Passover.


Mazal Tov to Kenna Hausler for her acceptance into a pharmacy residency at Central Virginia VA Healthcare System starting this July. Her grandfather and great-grandfather were both pharmacists, so she is carrying on a proud family tradition! Kenna will graduate in May as a Doctor in Pharmacy from the University of Rhode Island.

Congratulations to Izaiah Siegel who participated in the ski racing State Championships, representing Ford Sayre as a first year U14 (under 14-year old skier). The two-day event included slalom on Saturday and giant slalom on Sunday. 


Please submit good news about community members to the UVJC office or Roberta Berner.
Save the Date!

Jazz, Wine and Nosh
Sat, April 1 at 7:30 pm
Join us in-person
Roth Center

The evening of April 1, we will celebrate Havdalah then enjoy our time together with live jazz performed by guitarist Rafael Flores and bassist Bill Craig. We'll have the chance to sample a fine Kosher for Passover red wine and a white wine, too. We'll also have non-alcoholic drink options and light refreshments.

Come for Havdalah at 7:30 pm, then join us for jazz, wine, and refreshments around 8 pm We hope to see you there! 

RSVPs are welcome to office@uvjc.org.


Inaugural Dayenu Circle Meeting
Sunday, April 2, 6 pm to 7:30 pm

Come find out what the UVJC's newest group is all about!

We'll be meeting in-person to get to know one another, find out more about how our chapter of the national Dayenu organization will work, share ideas about sustainability, explore options for local and national climate action, learn and get inspired, and kick off a series of exciting April Earth Month activities.

Please RSVP to dayenu@uvjc.org for meeting location details.

If you are interested in participating but can't join for this first meeting, please let us know so we can add you to our communications moving forward.


Second Seder via Zoom
Thursday, April 6, at 6 pm
Join us via Zoom

Please join Rabbi Mark and the Melamut family in conducting a Passover Second Night Seder via Zoom on Thursday, April 6 beginning at 6 pm. The link is here as well as in the Weekly Update on our website. Rabbi Mark will take approximately one hour to conduct this seder.

Our congregational survey indicated some support for an in-person, catered First Night Seder. As we are seeing in much or our programming, reluctance to gather indoors with a crowd remains. We have no criticism for this. Regardless, it did not appear we could meet the caterer’s stipulation of a minimum of 50 meals (at $45 per meal).

Please RSVP by contacting the UVJC office by noon on April 5 (office@uvjc.org, or 603-646-0460).

March 16 - March 26
Bonus Weeks
March 27- April 16

A Multi-Access Festival Featuring Both In-Theater and Virtual Screenings!

Please click here for pricing and more information.

Upper Valley Jewish
Genealogy Society
Lecture Series


Informative monthly lectures occur the second Sunday of the month at 1:15 pm via Zoom.

SAVE THE DATE!
April 23 half-day Jewish genealogy workshop.


You can contact Sharon Racusin for information about Society membership.

A History of Jewish Life in Vermont

Read or listen to this 5 chapter article which discusses 
Vermont’s Jewish history stretching back hundreds of years.

Please click here to read or listen!

Sponsor a Kiddush
 
Sharing our joys, sorrow, memories and hopes is a very Jewish act. Sponsoring a Shabbat kiddush promotes and strengthens this tradition of communal sharing. Even a small-scale Kiddush can honor an event or a memory.

Sign up here to provide food for a specific date, or email Chris to sponsor via a donation. Questions? Email UVJC Kiddush Coordinator Yoni Neirman

A Little Help Needed
 
For many years a group of UVJC members have provided community dinners at Listen in White River Junction for less fortunate members of the Upper Valley. The food is provided and we cook and serve it to the guests  We are looking for more volunteers.

Can you help? please contact Judy Oxman.

Office Hours with Rabbi Mark
 
Please email Rabbi Mark to set up an appointment to chat by phone or Zoom, or to meet up for coffee or a stroll around Occom Pond.

Sign-up for Hixon House
UVJC Dinner Team 

Third Monday of Each Month 2023

 Enjoy cooking?  Join the Social Action Committee to help prepare a monthly Monday night dinner at the Haven’s Hixon House. Try it once, and more, if you wish! For more information see below for contact details.
 
For more information please click here. Please email Alice Berliner with any questions.

Torah Reading

 If you would like to read Torah either in-person or virtually during a Shabbat service, email Rabbi Mark.

Saturday, March 25
Saturday, April 1
Saturday, April 8
Saturday, April 15
Please send your 30–50-word submission to office@uvjc.org including links and graphics when appropriate. For example: a logo, a book cover, a head shot of a speaker, etc.

The suggested format:

Event Name
Date, time, place
2–3 sentences and a link for more info.
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