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SUMMARY:Opening Courageous Conversations on Israel/Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Do you feel heard? \nWe welcome all Jewish identified adults to explore our feelings and reactions to the tensions in Israel/ Palestine today. We will use Jewish values\, and Jewish and Palestinian writings as a basis for holding courageous conversations together. Coffee and goodies included. \nThese 5 conversations will build on each other. Come to as many as you can. In person at Ohavi Zedek\, monthly on Sunday mornings. Please register so we can send you materials ahead of each session. \nSundays from 9:15 – 11:00 in the OZ Sanctuary & Social Hall \nClick to Register \nClick to access the short readings for the sessions
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/opening-courageous-conversations-on-israel-palestine-5/
LOCATION:Ohavi Zedek Synagogue\, 188 North Prospect Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adult Learning
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SUMMARY:ChaiLights - Opening Courageous Conversations on Israel/Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Do you feel heard? \nWe welcome all Jewish identified adults to explore our feelings and reactions to the tensions in Israel/ Palestine today. We will use Jewish values\, and Jewish and Palestinian writings as a basis for holding courageous conversations together. Coffee and goodies included. \n  \nREGISTER HERE \n\nChaiLights gatherings will give you a chance to learn\, taste and connect. \nEach gathering will start off with food and open conversation\, followed by a unique experience that will engage and inspire\, let us create and improve the world. \nThis project’s vibe is fun\, social and low-pressure\, with activities lead by community volunteers. It’s a great fit for Jews\, Jewish-adjacent and those who are just curious. \nBagels and coffee served at 9:15 am \n\n  \n\n    Date / Time ChaiLights Experience Community Member Hosts Sunday January 25 9:15 am - 12:00 pm Participate in Bread for Peace bread baking Scott Silverstein Sunday February 1 9:15 am - 11:00 am Tu b'Shevat / Pruning Your Fruit Trees Jacob Holzberg-Pill Sunday February 8 9:15 am - 11:00 am Opening Courageous Conversations on Israel/Palestine Nancy Sugarman Marjorie Corbman Sunday February 15 9:15 am - 10:30 am  'Ask the Rabbi' conversation Rabbi Ariel Sunday March 22 9:15 am - 10:30 am  End of Life Traditions Discussion Lynda Siegel Sunday March 29 9:15 am - 10:30 am  How to Talk to Your Children and Grandchildren  About Antisemitism Resource Therapists / Educators Sunday April 12 9:15 am - 10:30 am Opening Courageous Conversations on Israel/Palestine Nancy Sugarman Marjorie Corbman Sunday May 3 9:15 am - 10:30 am Making Pickles with a little Jewish Food History on the Side Alexa Weitzman Sunday May 10 9:15 am - 11:00 am Opening Courageous Conversations on Israel/Palestine Nancy Sugarman\n Marjorie Corbman
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/chailights-israel-conversations/
LOCATION:Ohavi Zedek Synagogue\, 188 North Prospect Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States
CATEGORIES:ChaiLights,Community Events
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SUMMARY:Jewish Play Reading Series - Joshua Harmon: Bad Jews
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in plays? Come together in person from 2-4:00 on a Sunday afternoon to read and discuss a Jewish play. Each play is from a different period in Jewish history. Drop in to as many sessions as you can. Never read a script before – we’ll help you! \nJoshua Harmon: Bad Jews (first produced in 2013) present day NYC upper west side apartment after their grandfather’s funeral\, 3 twenty-something Jewish relatives and the non-Jewish girlfriend\, challenge each other to define what it means to be Jewish in a family of holocaust survivors.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/jewish-play-reading-series-joshua-harmon-bad-jews/
LOCATION:Ohavi Zedek Synagogue\, 188 North Prospect Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adult Learning
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SUMMARY:Kulanu event: Antisemitism across the Political Spectrum
DESCRIPTION:Antisemitism is a prejudice that waxes and wanes\, and today is embedded in both left-wing and right-wing political views. Biases can cause a person to ignore or trivialize expressions of prejudice that align with their own political identity. This program explores how common antisemitic stereotypes (tropes) get used across the political spectrum\, and how to counter them. \nWe’ll gather Monday\, May 11th\, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. at Ohavi Zedek. \nPlease register if you plan to attend. \n  \n\n 
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/kulanu-event-anti-semitism-across-the-political-spectrum/
LOCATION:Ohavi Zedek Synagogue\, 188 North Prospect Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adult Learning,Social Justice
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SUMMARY:Discover a New Side of Israel: The Past\, Present and Future of Israeli Conservation (at Temple Sinai)
DESCRIPTION:Join Jay Shofet\, seasoned activist and member of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI)\, as he paints a vibrant picture of Israel as seasonal sanctuary for millions of birds\, and explains how this migration fly route serves as a keystone for global environmental resilience. We will explore Israel’s transformation from technological innovator to global environmental trailblazer\, and explore the question of: How is a tiny global diversity hotspot rebounding after war and wildfires\, and how can nature heal a traumatized nation? You’ll learn about pioneering efforts to restore Israel’s lost swamps\, challenge myths about the century-long journey of Israeli tree-planting and how Israel is becoming a green beacon to the world. \nIn person at Temple Sinai and on Zoom: REGISTER HERE \n 
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/discover-a-new-side-of-israel/
LOCATION:Temple Sinai\, 500 Swift Street\, south burlington\, 05403\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adult Learning,Community Events
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SUMMARY:OZ Book Club - Goyhood by Reuven Fenton
DESCRIPTION:The OZ Monthly Book Club meets monthly and welcomes adult readers. Book selections are determined by the group\, with topics that are related to Jewish themes and concepts. Join these casual discussions about the book. \n \nGoyhood by Reuven Fenton \nFunny\, poignant\, and revelatory while plumbing the emotional depths of the relationship between estranged brothers\, Goyhood examines what happens when one becomes unmoored from a comfortable\, spiritual existence and must decide whether coincidence is in fact destiny. \nWhen Mayer (née Marty) Belkin fled small town Georgia for Brooklyn nearly thirty years ago\, he thought he’d left his wasted youth behind. Now he’s a Talmud scholar married into one of the greatest rabbinical families in the world – a dirt poor country boy reinvented in the image of God. \nBut his mother’s untimely death brings a shocking Mayer and his ne’er-do-well twin brother David aren’t\, in fact\, Jewish. Traumatized and spiritually bereft\, Mayer’s only recourse is to convert to Judaism. But the earliest date he can get is a week from now. What are two estranged brothers to do in the interim? \nSo begins the Belkins’ Rumspringa through America’s Deep South with Mom’s ashes in tow\, plus two an insightful Instagram influencer named Charlayne Valentine and Popeye\, a one-eyed dog. As the crew gets tangled up in a series of increasingly surreal adventures\, Mayer grapples with a God who betrayed him and an emotionally withdrawn wife in Brooklyn who has yet to learn her husband is a counterfeit Jew.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/oz-book-club-goyhood-by-reuven-fenton/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T124500
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SUMMARY:A Sojourn through the Siddur
DESCRIPTION:Let’s take a sojourn through the siddur! \nTogether\, we will take our time\, going page by page to better understand our prayers\, their meaning\, structure\, theology\, choreography\, and any questions you can think of. All are welcome to participate\, with all texts being available in translation and no background knowledge necessary! \nSaturdays\, at 12:45 PM following kiddish in the Samuelson Saiger Sanctuary.
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/a-sojourn-through-the-siddur/2026-05-16/
LOCATION:Ohavi Zedek Samuelson Saiger Sanctuary\, 188 North Prospect Street\, Burlington\, VT\, 05401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adult Learning
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