There is SO much going on this month! It is heartening that our Jewish community – both local and national – is coming together for mutual support during this season. Please see the events listed below to learn more!
Sunday, November 1st. Limmud Michigan eFestival. Limmud MI will host a day of workshops with something for everyone. Some examples: “How to Be A Spiritual Badass through the Power of the Feminine Divine,” with Rabbi Tamara Kolton, “When Bigots Cite Scripture,” with Saeed Kahn and David Polsky, and “Beauty and Brutality: Art of the Holocaust,” with Jacob Kraus – and MANY more. Sign up here.
Songs for the Revolution! Tuesday, November 3rd, 8pm until we’re done! We could spend all evening on November 3rd anxiously watching the news … and/or we could sing together! Join Rabbi Ora and members as we keep one another company, schmooze, and sing our favorite (secular and Jewish) songs of hope, resistance, and revolution. If you have a song you’d like to sing or lead, please email the lyrics to Rabbi Ora by November 1, or download the lyrics in advance and be prepared to screen share.
Friday, November 6th, 5-5:30pm. Post Election/Pre-Shabbat Pause with Bend the Arc Ann Arbor (Rabbi Ora will be a speaker at this event). Regardless of the outcome (if we have one), this is a chance to gather with others to breathe, to gain strength for the work ahead, and to sing, yell, cry, and laugh. RSVP to Bend the Arc for a Zoom Link.
Sunday, November 8th, Global Day of Jewish Learning with Reconstructing Judaism. The Global Day of Jewish Learning is a project to unite Jewish communities through study of our shared texts, with a 24-hour period of live-streamed events around the world. This year’s theme is about Judaism’s vision of human dignity, the ethics of inclusivity, and the imperative to decrease marginalization. It will take place on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. More information can be found here.
Second Saturday Shabbat Morning Service. November 14th. Ta’Shma: Come and Learn begins at 10am; Shabbat service begins at 10:30. Meditation, prayer, discussion, community. Everyone is welcome! Zoom link will be sent out the week before the event.
Annual Membership Meeting. Sunday, November 15th, 1-2:30pm. We’ll discuss what kind of COVID-safe programming we’d like to see in Fall-Winter 2020/2021. If you have ideas for new programs or ways to innovate old ones, and how you can help, please come prepared to present your idea at the Annual Meeting.
AARC Book Club. Sunday, November 22nd, 1-2:30pm. We will discuss Michal Lemberger’s book of short stories, After Abel, and Other Stories. This book updates the midrash tradition by telling the stories of Eve and eight other women mentioned briefly in the Hebrew Bible. If you would like to join this online discussion, please email Greg Saltzman.
Friday, November 27th, 6:30pm. Fourth Friday Kabbalat Shabbat. Come connect with community, rest, recharge, rejuvenate. Everyone welcome.
