9:00 – Sunday School
Adult Programming
10:30 – Schmooze & Announcements
11:00 – Service
11:30-12:45 – Ashkenaz Rising: The Near Demise and Resurgence of Yiddish Musical Culture
In this multimedia lecture, ethnomusicologist Hankus Netsky examines the factors that led to the near demise of Yiddish musical culture. As a pioneering member of a movement to revive this nearly lost art form, Netsky will present an overview of an amazing four-decades of cultural rekindling, with personal insights about a resurgence that has grown to thousands of participants and fans across the Americas, Europe, Australia and Asia.
RSVP to info@kahalbraira.org for the Zoom link.
The Executive Committee is Kahal B’raira’s leadership and coordinating body. It includes the president, vice-president, treasurer, secretary, members-at-large, Sunday school chair and representative to the Society for Humanistic Judaism. Meetings are open to all KB members. RSVP for Zoom link to info@kahalbraira.org
KB members are invited to join our book group where we will learn together through reading, self-reflection, and discussion. We will read both non-fiction and fiction (current and historical fiction) and will also share online resources with each other that will support our learning and current experiences. This is a peer-supported group and not led by an expert on the subject. We are on a learning journey and hope you will join us.
For the Zoom link, please email info@kahalbraira.org.
Tentative Schedule
October – initial meeting – discussion / introduction initial self-reflection
November – So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
December – Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
January – The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
February – Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, by Beverly Daniel Tatum
March – The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
April – The Color of Law, by Richard Rothstein [no relation]
May – Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, by Eddie S Glaude, Jr.
June – Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson
Bring the whole family for an international gathering of Humanistic Jewish households, as we light the eighth and final Hanukkah candle together. Also bring your MOST UNUSUAL MENORAH for a competition with prizes for the top three entries—however you define “unusual” (could be unusually rare, unusually beautiful, totally impractical, ridiculously whimsical, etc.). We would also like to hear about your WILDEST LATKE RECIPE, the only criteria being that it has to actually be edible. By humans.
Thursday, December 17 at 8:00pm Eastern
Free and open to all but PLEASE REGISTER HERE FOR THE LINK.
Zoom Live Stream Links
Sunday School Zoom Links (same every week)
K1/1st: 9:00 – 10:15
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88314451274?pwd=NmNheEU5MDdnVlM0bWpGemF0dHBuZz09
Password: 955228
2nd & 3rd Grade: 9:00 – 10:30
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82487904224?pwd=Wmc3dTI2ZnhlSjJSZVUvY081NzBEUT09
Password: 278671
Art Elective: 9:00 – 10:00
Zoom Link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/7200675332?pwd=UndIYnRHMVJhQWJ4bTJZb2haMjFZZz09
Password: LOVE
Cooking Elective: 9:00 – 10:00
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84171895680?pwd=WjdXMGdabENPQ1VJNXh3T25tVHlRZz09
Password: 061356
4th & 5th Grade: 10:15 – 11:30 (Same link as Art)
Zoom Link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/7200675332?pwd=UndIYnRHMVJhQWJ4bTJZb2haMjFZZz09
Password: LOVE
6th & 7th Grade: 10:15 – 11:30 (Same link as Cooking)
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84171895680?pwd=WjdXMGdabENPQ1VJNXh3T25tVHlRZz09
Password: 061356
9:00 – Sunday School
Adult Programming
10:30 – Schmooze & Announcements
11:00 – Service
11:30-12:45 – Program: The Life and Work of Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall: One of the 20th Century’s greatest painters grew up in a poor, Hasidic family in the Russian village of Vitebsk. Rabbi David Berkman, an artist himself before becoming a rabbi, will share with us Chagall’s creative life, explaining how—even though the young artist left behind his formal religious upbringing—his work reveals the font of creativity that emerged from his Jewish roots and culture.
Please join us for all or part of the morning. For the Zoom link, RSVP to info@kahalbraira.org.