YOM IYYUN “JEWISH DAY OF LEARNING” JANUARY 29, 2012: 9:00 am –4:30 pm at Havurah Shalom
December 21, 2011
Come join Reconstructionists from across Oregon and Washington and explore how “place” impacts Jewish life and practice in the Diaspora in the 21st century.
THEME: “East by Northwest: A Jewish Perspective on the Role of Place and Community in the Northwest”
Keynote by Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz: “When We Talk About Israel, What are We Saying?”
Workshops:
Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman: “Portnoy’s Mother’s Complaint; Jewish Gender Dislocations in North America”
Dr. Oren Kosansky, Ph.D., “Place, Person, and Piety in Jewish Morocco”
Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz, Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin, and Rabbi Joseph Wolf, moderated by Randi Brenowitz, a discussion: “What Place in Our Lives for this Place Called Israel: the Ideas, Symbols, and Realities of Israel for 21st Century Reconstructionist Jews”
Simon Goldenberg, “Jewish Life and Immigration in British Columbia”
David Fuks, “I Didn’t Want My Mouth Should Be Full’: Issues of Aging and the Jewish Community”
This is a joint event of the Pacific Northwest JRF Congregations and Havurot: Temple Beth Israel (Eugene, Oregon), Temple Beth Shalom (Salem, Oregon), Havurah Shalom (Portland, Oregon), Temple Beth Hatfiloh (Olympia, Washington), and Kadima (Seattle, Washington)
Online registration is available!
Cost: $25.00, $15.00 for students. Morning snacks and lunch provided.
If you are in need of a scholarship to attend, please contact your home synagogues or Havurah’s office. All registration is online (unless you are have received a scholarship, in which case your synagogue or Havurah will forward your registration).
For those who would like to travel to Portland the night before, several families from Havurah Shalom in Portland are ready to welcome you as their guests on Saturday night. When you register, check the box to indicate that you would like “home hospitality” to be matched with one of these host families. Organizers also can put you in touch with others interested in carpooling from your area; again, check the box that says you are interested in carpooling.
Childcare also is available at no additional cost; just check that box when you register.
Be sure to join us for what promises to be a stimulating, community-building, and very enjoyable day of praying, singing, and studying together.
Schedule
9:00 a.m.
Coffee and Registration
9:30 a.m.
Welcome and Shach’rit services
10:00 a.m.
Keynote by Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz,, “When We Talk About Israel, What are We Saying?”
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 pm
Morning Workshops
A. “Portnoy’s Mother’s Complaint; Jewish Gender Dislocations in North America”, Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman,
B. I Didn’t Want My Mouth Should Be Full’: Issues of Aging and the Jewish Community” David Fuks
12:15 – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
Early Afternoon Workshops
C. “What Place in Our Lives for this Place Called Israel: a Discussion About the Ideas, Symbols, and Realities of Israel for 21st Century Reconstructionist Jews”, Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz, Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin, and Rabbi Joseph Wolf, moderated by Randi Brenowitz – Part One
D. Northwest: “Jewish Life and Immigration in British Columbia”, Simon Goldenberg
2:30 – 3:45 p.m.
Late Afternoon Workshops
E. “What Place in Our Lives for this Place Called Israel: a Discussion About the Ideas, Symbols, and Realities of Israel for 21st Century Reconstructionist Jews”, Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz, Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin, and Rabbi Joseph Wolf, moderated by Randi Brenowitz – Part Two
F. East: ” Place, Person, and Piety in Jewish Morocco.”, Dr. Oren Kosansky, Ph.D.,
4:00 – 4:15
Closing remarks and Wrap-Up
Please contact the Havurah office for more information or visit the JRF website.
Havurah Seeks Full Time Synagogue Community Engagement Manager
December 14, 2011
THE APPLICATION PROCESS FOR THIS POSITION HAS NOW CLOSED.
Havurah Shalom, a Reconstructionist congregation in Portland Oregon is seeking a Full Time Synagogue Community Engagement Manager. The Community Engagement Manager enlists and engages members in a wide variety of roles and fosters communal connection, ensures day-to-day programmatic excellence, with a focus on engaging volunteers, and developing volunteer leadership. This role provides and facilitates leadership development and training to give members the tools and skills needed to work successfully together in the context of Havurah, and to prepare future leaders to share in the ongoing vibrancy of Havurah. This position also provides support to committees in their recruitment and coordination of volunteers.
Requirements and Qualifications
- At least 5+ years of volunteer management or community organizing experience or experience in community leadership development.
- Demonstrated ability to inspire and mobilize groups, develop volunteer leadership, as well as an awareness of financial constraints.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Experience with and passion for working with the Jewish community.
- Self-starter with proven ability to work with a diversity of people and responsibilities.
- Understanding of how to support people to work together for the good of the community.
- Understanding of budgeting.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Excellent communication, team membership, team building, and interpersonal skills. Appreciation for ethnic, racial, and sexual diversity, strong cultural competence, and sensitivity in working with diverse populations.
- I.T. knowledge including Microsoft Office Suite.
- Flexibility with regard to working hours. Some evening and weekend hours required.
- Good sense of humor!
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of the local Jewish Community and congregations preferred.
- Knowledge of progressive trends and explorations in spirituality and public policy taking place elsewhere in the Jewish world preferred.
- Experience in donor relations preferred.
- Experience with marketing and public relations preferred.
Please send cover letter and resume to havurahjobpost at gmail. com by: December 30th 2011.
Range 38k-42K DOE
Havurah is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Only two more days to RSVP for our fabulous Chanukah Celebration! Don’t get left out in the cold!
December 13, 2011
Havurah Shalom’s Chanukah Celebration – For all ages!!!
Friday, December 23, 5:30-7:30 pm
Come out of the cold, for a bissel latke and community warmth!
5:30 pm: brief Kabbalat Shabbat, Chanukah Storytelling through singing, Candle lighting
6:15 pm: Potluck dinner with Latkes; Chanukah Crafts and Dreidel games
RSVP by December 15! with 1) family name, 2) ages of kids 3) potluck dish you wish to bring: latkes OR VEGETARIAN main dish OR salad plus dessert
Chanukah Tzedakah Project – Havurah has an ongoing relationship with Transition Projects Inc. We help serve meals at their shelter in the Bud Clark Commons, which provides support and assistance for homeless members of our greater community. Please bring any of the following items: Belts, socks, flash drives, personal care items including razors, q-tips, deodorant, combs, hair bands, hair clips, towels, wash cloths, antibiotic ointment, travel size bottles of shampoo, conditioner, lotion, toothpaste, and bar soap.
Want to learn more on how to prepare your family for Chanukah? Click here.
Havurah’s Memoir Writing class presents: “An Evening of Memories,” Friday, December 16th at 7:00 pm
December 5, 2011
On December 16, join us for a special Friday night service, which will include the 3rd annual reading by the participants of the “Memoir Writing from a Jewish Perspective” workshop.
The class has been working for the past eight weeks under the direction of Rob Freedman to develop their personal stories, reflective of a wide range of the American Jewish experience. You will hear tales of family dilemmas, stories of survival, of love and loss. You will hear stories that may remind you of your own. This is, after all, a communal experience.
Readers will include: Heidi Bader, Jenni Besen, Nathan Cogan, Rob Freedman, Andrine de la Rocha, Howard Patterson, Scott Snyder, Fufkin Vollmeyer, and Sabina Wohlfeiler.
Please note that there will be an early starting time for services at 7 pm which will be led by Rabbi Joey, with the reading and oneg to follow.
End-of-Year Giving: Please make a Chanukah Gift to Havurah!
December 5, 2011
Please include our Havurah Shalom community this year in your list of worthwhile organizations to which you make end-of-the-tax year charitable donations.
One glance at the bi-weekly Havurah email or Hakol is enough to remind us of how Havurah Shalom draws us together with our friends, nurtures our spirituality, connects us and our children with our age-old Jewish traditions, and empowers our drive to repair the world and connect with other communities. All this takes financial resources beyond what our dues structure supports.
This year Havurah’s budget depends on our contributing financially beyond our dues. Most of our fundraising activity involves events that build community and bring us together for enjoyable moments–music, theater, and more. But these only go so far.
Donate now in honor of friends or relatives, fellow Havurahniks you wish to honor with a gift, Rabbi Joey, Deborah Eisenbach-Budner, or Mario Castellar. Let’s fill a whole page or more in Hakol with such tributes!
Please send a Chanukah check to the office today, or donate now online
