Chautauqua Institution - Interfaith Lecture Series with Rabbi Mira Rivera
To learn more about this lecture, please check the Chautauqua Institution website.
[IN PERSON] Beloved Community@JCC Harlem, Saturday Morning Spout Shabbat
Bring your little ones for morning Shabbat prayers of movement, art, and singing - and a little nosh. Learn the basics of Jewish ritual, and celebrate family.
Age Range: birth to 8 years old
[IN PERSON] Beloved Community @ JCC Harlem Kabbalat Shabbat and Evening Service
Step into Shabbat. Sing/pray. Savor silence. Shelter in Shekhinah (Divine Presence) in your shechunah (neighborhood). Enter into prayer that sings, and songs that pray. With Jerome Korman on keyboard.
The "Beloved Community" phrase was first used by Josiah Royce, a theologian founder of The Fellowship of Reconciliation. Then Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King brought "beloved community" to the national consciousness.
[IN PERSON] Beloved Community @ JCC Harlem, Saturday Morning Learners Minyan and Torah Service
Come celebrate BMitzvah Alex Chester-Iwata as she comes forward to read from the Torah!
American Jewish Identity Beyond Israel and the Synagogue: The Paul Feig z"l Tikkun Leil Shavuot 2023, 3rd floor North Gym
Explore current challenges of Jewish life and identity, new opportunities outside of Israeli engagement and the synagogue, and ways to create Jewish leadership and identity in our new normal. With Arielle Angel of Jewish Currents, Michele Schulman from Moishe House, and Rabbi Mira Rivera from JCC Harlem; moderated by Andrew Silow-Caroll, editor of The Jewish Week.
Open Your Hands to the Great Hand: The Power of Gesture @ The Paul Feig z"l Tikkun Leil Shavuot 2023, 7th floor Makom
A stationary Hamsa on the wall becomes animated into the opening of hands in Poteach et Yadekha in the Ashrei prayer, which becomes a gesture of opening of regret. While the hands are our instruments of action in the world, they are also the way through which Spirit is revealed. Explore how Jewish text looks upon the hands as symbols of power, authority, the whole person, and life itself.
[IN PERSON] Beloved Community @ JCC Harlem, Sprout Shabbat with Rabbi Mira and Arielle Korman
Bring your little ones for morning Shabbat prayers of movement, art, singing, and a little nosh. Learn the basics of Jewish ritual and celebrate family. We welcome those who identify as seekers, learners, BIPOC, JOC, multi-heritage, interfaith, allies all.
[IN PERSON] Beloved Community @JCC Harlem. Shabbat Morning Learners Minyan and Torah Service with Rabbi Mira and Arielle Korman
Join Rabbi Mira and Arielle for morning davening, leading to an open, engaging study of this week's Torah portion. Celebrate community and Jewish wisdom with your neighbors. Whether you know a little or a lot about Judaism, this space is for you. We welcome those who identify as seekers, learners, BIPOC, JOCs, multiracial, interfaith, allies all.