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The devastating earthquake in Haiti has killed hundreds of people, destroyed thousands of homes, and those who have survived are in urgent need. Jewish Federations are collectively supporting relief efforts through The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), which is providing critical medical supplies and emergency aid.
If you’d like to support these efforts, you can donate directly to the cause at jdc.org/HaitiEarthquake2021.
In Memory of Rabbi Aaron D. Panken, Ph.D.,
on His Third Yahrzeit
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 6:00 pm ET
Jews of Color
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl
Central Synagogue, New York City
Bruce Phillips, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology & Jewish Communal Service, HUC/Los Angeles
Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D.
HUC President; Moderator
When the Torah first calls us a People, coming out of Egypt, we are described as an erev rav, a “mixed multitude.” It’s time to refute the definition of Jews as a race – which has been used to justify antisemitism, violence, and even genocide – and adopt a definition of covenant as the foundation of Jewish peoplehood, one that embraces Jews of color and celebrates diversity and inclusion.
To RSVP, please email scroll@shaarey.org.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4523093548?pwd=N2hzSnpUeXk5ek5YOHBKZG1uY2lLZz09
Meeting ID: 452 309 3548
Passcode: Torah
Please see Bible Study links below:
March 2
https://shaarey.org/parashahkitissamar2/
March 8
https://shaarey.org/vahakel_-pekudaimar8/
March 16
ttps://shaarey.org/parashahvayikramar16/
March 23
https://shaarey.org/pesachtorahstudy2021mar23/
ATTENTION CONGREGANTS! LOOKING FOR SOMETHING FUN TO DO THIS SUNDAY NIGHT? HOW ABOUT SOME B-I-N-G-O!
Join Us on Sunday, February 28th @ 
7pm for a fun night of Zoom BINGO!
Here’s what’ll need — a highlighter or bingo marker to mark the numbers.
: Via Venmo: @lori-needleman or Check: Lori Weshnak-Needleman, 23 Tulip Road, Springfield, NJ 07081
Make sure you let Lori know how many players over 21 and how many players under 21. Also, include your best email address.
You will receive your cards and the Zoom link via email.
This Is What Jewish Looks Like
It’s long been a point of pride that Jews are a multicultural people with roots in every corner of the planet; that we are of all hues; that our grandparents spoke Yiddish and Hindi, German and Malayalam, Hebrew and Amharic.
After all, our global Jewish community is composed of the descendants of Jews who moved to present-day Iraq after the Babylonian Exile, Chinese Jews whose ancestors were Persians traveling the Silk Road, European Jews living all across the Continent long before the word Ashkenazi was ever uttered and African Jews scattered from Ethiopia to Mali for thousands of years.
Their descendants, in turn, migrated to the United States, where an estimated 12-15 percent of the Jewish community are Jews of color, including many of African descent.
For Black History Month, The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center will celebrate our richly diverse experience through the personal stories of four prominent Black Jews who will talk about life as a minority within a minority and discuss what the Jewish community needs to do to turn the word inclusion into a reality.
Monday, February 8
6:00 PM EST
Free
A photographer and filmmaker born into the Beta Israel community, Avishai Mekonen chronicled his journey from Ethiopia to Israel as part of Operation Moses and on to the United States in the documentary film 400 Miles to Freedom, which explores racism and diversity in the Jewish community in the United States, Israel and beyond. He will show selected clips from his films.
Monday, February 15
6:00 PM EST
Free
Senior Jewish educator in the Chaplain’s office at Yale University, Rabbi Goldstein-Stoll grew up in the Reform movement, from NFTY (the Reform Jewish Youth Movement) and URJ Camp Harlam, to her ordination at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. She is active in Be’chol Lashon, an organization dedicated to serving Jews of Color, and is an advocate around issues of Jewish diversity.
Monday, February 22
6:00 PM EST
Free
A culinary historian and anthropologist, Michael Twitty is the author of The Cooking Gene, the James Beard Foundation book of the year in 2018. Twitty is a popular speaker about how we process our identities through food, as he does in his matzo meal fried chicken and black-eyed pea hummus. He is currently tracing his personal journey as an African American Jewish man in his forthcoming Kosher Soul.
