Signing up is quick and easy! Click here to go to the registration form and sign up online Each home has limited space. If the first date you chose is full, please choose a second date. In order to give everyone a chance to attend, we ask that you sign up for ONE Shabbat@Home.
There is no cost to you, but your host may ask you to bring an appetizer, side dish or desert. Some homes are kosher and some are not. Please indicate if you prefer the Shabbat@Home to be in a kosher home. Your host family will contact you to give you the details and to ask for any help.
Pick a date soon - spaces are limited for every Shabbat@Home experience. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out the co-chairs: Laurie Brownstein lauriesbrownstein@gmail.com Esther Finkielsztein estherfin@live.com Or you can contact Yael Hurwitz-Lange yael@mishkantefila.org
Mussar More Class Options!
New Class starting!!!! Taught by Rabbi Plumb Foundations of Mussar - a beginners class Meets twice monthly: 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Making Mussar Real - an introduction to Mussar Meets monthly: 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Intermediate Mussar - a continued exploration Meets weekly: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Thanks to our CMT members who came to the security team training on Sunday - Daniel Grau, Steven Kaitz, Caryl Goodman, Austin Wertheimer, Lynda Gordon, Alison Wintman, Mark Goodstein, David Kaplan, Rabbi Plumb. Please contact the office if you would like to volunteer.
Join CMT in partnership with Action for Post-Soviet Jewry and Center Makor for this three-part event
The Jewish Experience: Pogrom This photographic exhibit will be on display from Sunday, Nov 17th to Thursday, Nov 21st in the Mishkan lounge. The Jewish Experience: Pogrom is the first-ever photographic and video exhibit, helping to bring these events to light. This traveling exhibit features 45 rare, archival photographs together with a five-minute, looping video overview of this time period. The photographs, from the rare book Jewish Pogroms 1918-1921 (Moscow, 1926), are displayed in illuminated kiosks and document the anti-Jewish violence in Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. https://www.thejewishexperience.org/
CMT Lounge Night Join us on Wednesday, November 20th, for a discussion with LeeAnn Dance, co-producer/director of “My Dear Children” and Diane Covert artist and curator of the Jewish experience.
Campus Events
LimmudBoston LimmudFest 2019
The Festival of All Things Jewish Join us in celebrating our 10th anniversary and honoring our Founder, Steffi Aronson Karp. Sunday November 17, 2019 from 9:00 am to 5:30 PM at the 384 Harvard St. Campus in Brookline
9:00 AM - Rabbi Plumb will be teaching a session on
"From Silence to Speech: Mussar on Shticka/Silence" If you are shy and wish you could speak up more, or you interrupt people to make your point, this session is for you. Using Mussar middah of Shtickah/Silence, we will look at the role words and silence play in our lives. We will investigate how and when we speak in person, online and even what we "say" with our body language. No prior knowledge needed.
Registration is now open for The New England Inclusion Summit 2019!
Sunday, November 10, 2019 9:30 AM – 6:30 PM The Campus @ 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
Social isolation and loneliness are increasingly being treated as public health priorities the world over the world over and described as a global epidemic.
New England Yachad in partnership with The Ruderman Family Foundation is gathering community leaders, organizations, parents, individuals with disabilities, clergy, and professionals around this important issue.
Throughout the day, we will collectively identify roadblocks and solutions to reducing isolation and loneliness while creating friendships through social and recreational activities.
Your registration will include: A full and diverse agenda of activities ranging from panel discussions to hands-on interactive workshops. Click here to review. Lunch! A special performance by the Me/2 Orchestra - Music for Mental Health sharing their music and their stories. We welcome you to join us in making this an aspirational, informative and moving day to remember. For more information and to register: www.yachad.org/newengland/inclusionsummit2019
In the Community
USCJ 20/20 Judaism Convention 20/20 Judaism is a collaborative convention of USCJ and the Rabbinical Assembly. On the eve of the next decade, it is more critical than ever for USCJ, the RA and our community to come together to address the ways that our movement approaches Israel, the Jewish family, spirituality, inclusion and other topics that will shape the future of Conservative Judaism. Join us for an inspiring Shabbaton (Friday-Sunday), a thought-provoking conference (Sunday - Tuesday) or both. December 6 – 10, 2019 Westin Boston Waterfront 425 Summer St, Boston, MA Please join members of CMT and register at the USCJ website .
Congregation Mishkan Tefila 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA 02446
