Our Shir Shalom – May/June 2019 – Nisan/Iyar/Sivan 5779
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Mitzvah Day 2019
Join us for our annual Congregation Shir Shalom Mitzvah Day!
Don’t miss this opportunity to help those in our community who are in need ….and to spend the day working with a bunch of nice folks too!
We will reach out to Kids in Crisis, Daily Bread Food Pantry, SPCA of Westchester, Dorothy Day soup kitchen, Community Center of Northern Westchester and Women’s Center of Danbury just to name a few.
Check out the full list on this link. Sign up to go to one of our OFF-SITE LOCATIONS OR TO STAY AT SHIR SHALOM for a variety of meaningful and enjoyable outreach activities.
Many charitable organizations are relying on us.
Sign up and spread the word! We are also collecting new and gently used children’s books for Danbury Family and Children’s Aid!
Also, you can donate old broken crayons (to be remade for hospitalized children), new school supplies for the Community Center of Northern Westchester, and candy for our troops.
History and Culture of Bukharian Jews with Historian Manashe Khaimov
Manashe Khaimov is an Adjunct Professor in Jewish studies with a specialty of History and Culture of the Bukharian Jews at CUNY Queens College. He was born in a city along the Silk Road, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan where his ancestors lived for over 2000 years.
The program topics will include:
– Where did Bukharian Jews come from? Bukharian Roots: Movie Screening & Discussion
– Bukharian Jews and The Great Silk Road. What is the connection?
Authentic Bukharian snacks will be served.
Donation $18
Let us know you are coming by emailing AdultProgramming@OurShirShalom.org
The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary Drink
Barry Joseph/Seltzertopia author speaking at Shir Shalom
Presented by Congregation Shir Shalom Religious
School & Adult Programming Committee
COME AND MEET THE AUTHOR, BARRY JOSEPH WHO WILL BE SPEAKING ABOUT… WHAT’S JEWISH ABOUT SELTZER!
Sunday, March 3 from 11 am to 12 pm
All congregants and families are welcome!
This is a great program to help everyone excited about our special guests from…
Gomberg Seltzer Works of Brooklyn who will set up an old-fashioned Egg Cream station
at our Jewish Food Fair/Purim Carnival Event on March 17!
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The Patriots: Americans in Russia
Author Talk with Sana Krasikov
Award winning author Sana Krasikov presents the true story behind her new novel “The Patriots”.
Sunday, January 27 at 3 PM
Slavic/Yankee Melange Nosh to be served.
Donation $10
Let us know you are coming by emailing AdultProgramming@OurShirShalom.org
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Author Talk with Sana Krasikov
THE PATRIOTS: An idealistic young American woman heads for the Soviet Union in 1934, with consequences that reverberate through three generations of one Jewish family. An epic that takes us from Stalin’s era to America to the oil-rich world of New Russia.
Imagine a United States post-economic crisis. Economic uncertainty divides us by race and class. A new form of popular media fuels outrage. And the presidency is taken by the wealthy son of a New York family, who promptly develops a surprising friendship with Russia’s strong man leader.
If you think I’m talking about today…. you’d be off by about 80 years.
Come hear to the true story behind Sana Krasikov’s latest Novel, The Patriots, about Florence Fein, a young American woman who abandons her middle-class Brooklyn Jewish family and heads to where she thinks the Future is happening. Florence was hardly alone. Thousands of Americans made that “reverse migration”, only to find themselves trapped in Russia for good. Trapped not only by Stalinist schemes, but by America’s own complicated relationship with the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Includes the story of the Yiddish Poets who executed the greatest Jewish fundraising campaign you’ve (likely) never heard of.
Bio:
Sana Krasikov was born in 1979 in Ukraine and grew up in the former Soviet republic of Georgia and in New York. In 2017 She was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. Krasikov’s debut story collection, One More Year, was a finalist for the 2009 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. It received a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 award and won the 2009 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic, among other publications. She lives in Hastings-on-Hudson with her husband, Gregory Warner, a radio journalist, and their two children.
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Shir Shalom Annual Mitzvah Day was a big success
May 7, 2019 by Webmaster • Community, Social Action, Social Action Blog • 0 Comments
Thanks to our Social Action Committee, and all the congregants and friends and family who attended this year’s Mitzvah Day and worked on a variety of projects to help organizations in our community:
Making blankets for Kids in Crisis, braiding dog toys for the SPCA, potting flowers for nursing homes, baking cookies for the homeless, and of course outdoor work and clean-up and so much more!
See for yourself our volunteers enthusiasm and energy!