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• Temple Beth Sholom presents “An Evening with Israeli Ambassador Akiva Tor” at 7 p.m. Sunday via Zoom. Join Tor, the Ambassador of Israel to the Republic of Korea, as he shares his presentation on “Israel and the World Jewish Community: The Way Forward.” Registration for this event is required. Visit templebethsholomfl.org/events to register. For more information, contact the office at 941-955-8121 or email info@templebethsholomfl.org
• Temple Sinai presents a new Zoom series, Breathwork: Therapeutic Voice Exercises for Impaired Breathing with Chazzan Cliff Abramson at 11 a.m. Wednesdays. This free Zoom workshop will offer exercises for better breathing, phonation and habitual vocal behavior. For Zoom information, visit templesinai-sarasota.org.
The East Valley Jewish Community Center, Temple Beth Sholom of the East Valley and Temple Emanuel of Tempe are partnering to present a live virtual piano recital at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 25.
Elias-Axel Pettersson, founder of Southwest Piano Festival, will perform works by Jewish composers and other monumental figures, taking a cultural tour through time.
âI try to organize events that are bringing the Jewish community together â and one such event is this,â Pettersson said.
Pettersson grew up in a Jewish home and community in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
âI have a connection to the faith and also just to the history and the culture and the traditions surrounding it,â he said. âThere is some spirituality in music, and I feel like bringing that to more people is important.â
A year ago, religious leaders were forced to quicklyplan virtual services for Easter, Ramadan and Passover as a deadly pandemic was getting its grip on the U.S.
Now, as a small but growing percentage of Americans have been vaccinated, and gatherings are allowed in many states, the faithful are greeting the 2021 holy season with a mix of excitement, enthusiasm – and caution. It s a really complex kind of situation, said Maimuna Majumder, a computational epidemiologist and faculty member at Harvard Medical School. This is a situation where people really need to very carefully navigate their risk with their family and their friends.