April 28 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free
Congregation B’nai Shalom in Walnut Creek offers a talk with prison-reform activist and co-author of “Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women.” Free, with registration.Event Website
Partnered with North Shore International Jewish Film Festival, 13 films set to screen
Worcester Magazine
It was lucky for the 13th Central Mass International Jewish Film Festival in 2020 that the event presented by the Worcester JCC had been traditionally held in January.
The festival started last year on Jan. 17 with a free “encore showing” of “Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me” at the Worcester Senior Center and continued with five more films (paid admission) including the acclaimed documentary “Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles.” The films were screened at different locations including The Willows in Worcester, Congregation B’nai Shalom in Westboro, St. John s High School in Shrewsbury, and the Worcester JCC Auditorium.
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Judging by the conversation online, I can tell many Jews are wondering: Is there a consensus on what blessing to recite when we receive our Covid-19 vaccine?
The question intuits what I’ve heard firsthand from members of my community, Congregation B’nai Shalom in Walnut Creek: receiving the vaccine is a spiritual moment. It provides a glimmer of hope and sense of deep relief after a profoundly difficult year. Receiving the first dose of the vaccine also moves the recipient into what sociologist Arnold Van Gennep famously called a liminal period.
From the Latin word
limen, meaning threshold, the term is applied to a person on the brink of entering a new phase of life. These seasons of life are betwixt and between: the person in a liminal phase is no longer who they were but also not yet who they will become. Van Gennep contended that these periods were disorienting and jarring both for the individual and the community and, as a result, societies needed rituals and ceremoni
Frequently touched surfaces to be cleaner thanks to local interfaith effort
Updated Mar 07, 2021;
Posted Mar 07, 2021
Ali Ak, left, from Chestnut Retreat Center outside Saylorsburg, delivers free cases of sanitizing wipes to Easton s Greater Shiloh Church.Courtesy photo | For lehighvalleylive.com
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A distribution effort spanning the Lehigh Valley and southern Pocono Mountains has delivered some 300 cases of sanitizing wipes to area religious groups, nonprofits and other recipients at no cost to them.
Chestnut Retreat Center, founded by Turkish-American Muslims in the Saylorsburg area, secured the donated wipes and enlisted distribution help from Trinity Episcopal Church in Easton through connections in the Lehigh Dialogue Center, said Pat Romano, who runs Trinity’s ecumenical and interfaith mission.