Join us for Torah study Monday, October 23, at 6:30pm led by Mitch Pearl. No previous experience or Hebrew skills required.

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend.

For questions and more info contact Ritual Chair, Emmie Donadio.

Learn more about this event here.

The 35^th Annual Hannah A. Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies

A Mini-Residency, October 17-18

Lecture, Tuesday, October 17

Poet and translator Peter Cole will speak on “Wanting Song, In the Beginning: Poetic Surprise and Jewish Life”

4:30 pm, Twilight Hall Auditorium

Poetry Reading, Wednesday, October 18

Peter Cole reads from his new book of poems, Draw Me After (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2022)

4:30 pm, Abernethy Room, Axinn Center at Starr Library

Sponsored by the Program in Jewish Studies and the Program in Creative Writing

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Peter Cole is a celebrated poet and translator whose work takes root where cultures meet and where tradition is at once retrieved and extended in vital fashion. Praised for his “prosodic mastery” and “keen moral intelligence” (The American Poet), and for the “rigor, vigor, joy, and wit” of his poetry (The Paris Review), Cole has created a ramifying vision of connectedness that defies conventional distinctions between old and new, foreign and familiar, translation and original. He is, Harold Bloom wrote, “a matchless translator and one of the handful of authentic poets in his own American generation.”

Born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1957, Cole has published several books of poems. They include Draw Me After (2022), Rift (1989), Things on Which I’ve Stumbled (2008), The Invention of Influence (2014), and Hymns & Qualms: New and Selected Poems and Translations (2017). With Adina Hoffman, he wrote the nonfiction volume Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza (2011). Described by Harold Bloom as a “major poet-translator,” Cole has translated important writers in Hebrew and Arabic, including Aharon Shabtai and Taha Muhammad Ali. He also edited and translated The Poetry of the Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition(2012) and The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950–1492(2007), a comprehensive rendering of the Hebrew poetry of the Spanish “Golden Age” into contemporary English.

Cole has received many honors and awards, among them fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and a genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation. He is the recipient of a National Jewish Book Award for Poetry, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, a TLS Translation Prize, the American Library Association’s Sophie Brody Medal for outstanding Jewish literature, and the 2010 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Cole divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven, Connecticut, where he teaches each spring at Yale University.

WHAT Rally for Jews and Allies
WHEN Sunday, October 15th 3p,
WHERE In front of City Hall between Main and College Street in downtown Burlington, Vermont

Parents Circle Families Forum (PCFF) is a joint Israeli-Palestinian organization of over 600 families, all of whom have lost an immediate family member to the ongoing conflict. Moreover, the PCFF has concluded that the process of reconciliation between nations is a prerequisite to achieving a sustainable peace. The organization thus utilizes all resources available in education, public meetings and the media, to spread these ideas.

Join us by Zoom to light a candle, take a moment of silence and reconnect to shared values of peace in this difficult time. 

Sunday, October 15th at 11:00AM EST Register for this online Zoom event here.

Havurah Shabbat Morning Service and Torah Reading from Bereshit

Saturday, October 14 at 10am

Rabbi Danielle Stillman will be leading this Shabbat morning shacharit service which will include a Torah service. A simple Oneg will follow.

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend.

For questions contact Ritual Chair Emmie Donadio or Sarit Katzew

If enough people are able, we may also try to take down the Sukkah following services (weather permitting) so please consider joining even if you don’t usually attend.

The next Shabbat morning service will take place on 10/28. Details to follow.

Sign up today using this Google Spreadsheet! ✨

Return again, return again, return to the land of your soul.
Return to who you are. Return to what you are. Return to where you are born and reborn.

To help prepare for the High Holy days this year we are providing a direct link to the Middlebury College High Holidays 2023/5784 Landing Page. An abridged listing of service times and locations can also be found below.

Rabbi Danielle Stillman and alumnus Aaron Mendelsohn (’95) will lead in person services this year.

We request that everyone in attendance at indoor services wear a mask. We are an intergenerational congregation for the High Holidays and we want to be sensitive to different health needs. However, the College is not requiring masks at this time.

Please visit the college landing site often, as it will be updated frequently with new content, opportunities, and any COVID related changes.

If you are interested in participating in High Holy Day services please contact Karen Straim.

Zoom Link for All Services: You can access all of our High Holiday services this year via zoom webinar. Link information will be updated here shortly. There is no need to register in advance!

HIGH HOLY DAY SERVICE SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, SEPT. 15

7:00-8:00 pm College Chapel

Erev Rosh Hashanah Services
Welcome the New Year with our Erev Rosh Hashanah service, and a sermon from Rabbi Danielle Stillman.

8:15pm Forest East Lounge

Apples and Honey Reception

Please join us for the Ashkenazi tradition of dipping apples in honey for a sweet new year, along with honey cake and apple cider.  All are welcome.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 16

9:30 am College Chapel

Shacharit, morning service. This service will sing us into a prayer space where we can begin to reflect on the themes of the New Year.   

10-11 am Interactive Children’s Service

Child must be accompanied by an adult for this short, interactive experience led by Hillel students (who teach Havurah Hebrew School) in the Hepburn lounge (in the building next to College Chapel)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13C8GSgGinXsMdl3J0a_Vrc9yokd_rWokHlediFns8_0/edit

Tashlich – moved to Sunday at 3:30pm see below for details.
 

SUNDAY, SEPT. 17

9:30 am Havurah of Addison County

Shacharit, morning service

For the second day of Rosh Hashanah we will hold services at the Havurah of Addison County at 56 North Pleasant St. All are welcome to attend.  Contact Ellen McKay Jewett (emckay@middlebury.edu) for directions.

Potluck Lunch at Havurah

Join Havurah for a vegetarian lunch following Second Day Rosh Hashanah Services, at the Havurah House. Please bring a dish to share, but if that is not possible please come anyway!  All are invited.

Please RSVP so we can plan our set up needs and make sure there is enough food for everyone!

Follow this link to sign up for a dish to share at the Potluck lunch.

3:30 pm

Pond behind the Mahaney Center for the Arts

Tashlich and Shofar Blowing — Casting the Old Away  
This is a short, outdoor service where we cast our old ways into the water to make room for the new.  We will also have a chance to hear the shofar blasts which bring in the New Year.  All are welcome.  There is ample parking in the arts center lot.

SUNDAY, SEPT 24

7:00 pm College Chapel

Kol Nidre
Join us for the moving melodies of Kol Nidre.

MONDAY, SEPT. 25

9:30 am College Chapel

Shacharit – Morning Service

10-11 am Interactive Children’s Service

Child must be accompanied by an adult for this short, interactive experience led by Hillel students (who teach Havurah Hebrew School) in the Hepburn lounge (in the building next to College Chapel)

~11:15 am College Chapel

Yizkor – Memorial Service
Anyone is welcome to Yizkor, whether you are remembering someone specific this year, or would just like to take a moment to acknowledge the enormous loss of life our country, and the world, has experienced recently.  

3:30-4:30 pm Goldsmith Lounge, Virtue Field House

Gentle Yoga for Yom Kippur Afternoon (we are hoping to offer this again this year)

This will be a gentle practice that supports both fasting and reflection as we prepare ourselves for the final prayers of this day. Please wear comfortable clothes and bring a mat.

5:00 pm College Chapel

Minchah – Afternoon Service, and Ne’ilah – Concluding Services
The closing of the gates.  This is our last opportunity on Yom Kippur to turn toward a new approach for the new year. 

7:00 pm College Chapel

Shofar Blowing and Havdalah
We’ll hear the sound of the shofar for the last time of the season, and re-enter regular time through the havdalah ceremony.  Bring a shofar to blow if you have one!

7:30 pm Redfield Proctor Dining Room

Break-the-Fast

RSVP for Break-the-Fast by Sept. 18

5:30 PM start time, please bring a dish to share*

SATURDAY JULY 15
HOME Of EMILY JOSELSON & ALAN HEWAT

SATURDAY AUGUST 26
HOME Of LIV & CHRIS HERDMAN

* Reminders, requests for RSVPs, and event locations will be sent closer to each date via the Havurah email newsletter. Sign up to receive Havurah emails here.

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

12-1pm

Henry Sheldon Museum

One Park Street Middlebury, VT 05753 United States (map)

This is the second presentation in a series of gallery talks that highlight a collage in its current exhibition, Artists in the Archives: Unseen Neighbors that explores themes with which members of our community have grappled historically, including race, difference, sexuality, and gender. 

Harry and Stella Lazarus migrated to Middlebury in 1911 and were among the first Jewish settlers in the town. For most of the twentieth century, their Lazarus Department Store prospered, and the family became involved in community and civic activities. They supported the local Jewish community in many ways and ultimately gifted their family homestead to become the home of Havurah: the Addison County Jewish Congregation. Lazarus Park, located between the town green and the Marble Works, is on the site of the former Lazarus Department Store. The park honors the long history of public service by the Lazarus family.  

David Rosenberg is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Middlebury College (1972-2010), Editor of VermontShapeNoteSingers.com and Editor of SouthChinaSea.org

WHEN: May 20, 2023 at 6 PM

WHERE: Havurah House

ADMISSION: $20

RAFFLE TICKETS: $10

RSVP by May 17

Join us for a festive evening of drinks, hors d’oeuvres, and raffle prizes from local businesses. We will gather under the twinkling lights at Havurah House to raise funds for Havurah’s vibrant future. We will also pay homage to the past as we share our plans for preserving the Lazarus Family Legacy and unveil the Lyn Lifshin Library.

How can you help? We would love your creative hors d’oeuvres and appetizer-making skills and help with set-up too.

Can’t join us? Make a donation to Havurah and/or buy tickets even if you can’t attend.

Buy raffle tickets! Even if you can’t join us you can still win!

Make a Donation here and add a note with the number of raffle tickets you would like to buy.

Questions? Contact Sarit at hheddirector@gmail.com