Shavuot
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Local Study Opportunities
The Temple, Congregation B’nai Jehudah
We will be holding our Shavuot Morning service on Friday, May 29, 2020 at 10:30 a.m. — facebook.com/TTCBJ.
Congregation Beth Torah
Virtual Erev Shavuot service on Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 6:15 to 6:50 p.m. CDT on Facebook Live:
- Event link (this has the information; the service will be on our main page) — www.facebook.com/events/2638905063051086/
- Live Stream Link — www.facebook.com/pg/CongregationBethTorah/videos
Kehilath Israel Synagogue’s Pre-Shavuot Nighttime Learning Program
Hosted online via Zoom, Tuesday night, May 26th:
Join Zoom Meeting — https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86221103734
Meeting ID: 862 2110 3734
If you want to participate just as a phone call, dial 312.626.6799 and when asked for meeting id, punch in 862 2110 3734.
Schedule:
7:00 pm – Rabbi Moshe Grussgott on “Mystical Hasidic Insights of My Great-Great-Great Grandfather on Shavuot”
7:30 pm – Mincha Service (without kaddish)
7:40 pm – Rabbi Herbert Mandl on “The History of All Night Learning on Shavuot”
8:00 pm – Lieutenant Colonel Bill Greenberg, USA, Ret., will give the keynote address of the night on “Shavuot in Historical Context: The Middle East and Sinai in the Times of the Torah”
8:35 pm – Maariv Service (without kaddish)
8:45 pm – Program Concludes
Ohev Sholom
May 28 – 29, 2020 / Sivan 5 – 6, 5780:
Will be joining live-streamed Tikkun Leil Shavuot, a Conservative Movement-wide event across North America, Thursday, May 28, 8:00 p.m. CST – Friday, May 29, 8:00 am CST. Please follow this link to the YouTube Live Stream — www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv7oKHg6-OM
Congregation Kol Ami
Offering a Shabbat/Shavuot service on Friday, May 29, 2020, beginning at 6:45 pm. Following the service, we will have informal Torah Study to further celebrate Shavuot. Everyone is encouraged to have a traditional Shavuot dairy meal ready for after the service (about 7:30 pm) for our virtual celebration. Here is the Zoom link to join in onlin: Join Zoom Meeting — https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86864405184
Congregation Beth Shalom
Pre-Shavuot Yizkor and Erev Shavuot Learning: Thursday May 28, 2020, 6:00 – 8:00 pm. Chiddush: Innovation / Renewal. An Evening by Zoom to welcome the Festival of Shavuot. Prayer. Learning. Community. BYOC – Bring Your Own Cheesecake.
All events happen in the Zoom Space for Daily Minyan. Contact amalone@bethshalomkc.org for the link. During the learning sessions, we will split the group into two Zoom Breakout Rooms.
Schedule:
6:00 – 6:15 pm | Daily Minyan
6:15 – 6:30 pm | Pre-Shavuot Yizkor
6:30 – 7:15 pm | Session I
Breakout Room A: Rabbi David Singer, Executive Director, Limmud North America. Animating Change: Innovating Toward a Brighter Jewish Future.
Breakout Room B: Professor Sam Brody, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Kansas. Unprecedented: New Relations between Jews and Others in the Late 20th/Early 21st Centuries.
7:15 pm | Session II
Breakout Room A: Professor Leah Hochman, HUC Los Angeles. Tell Your Story, Change the World: Memoirs, Memories and Making Meaning (Looking at Glueckl of Hameln).
Breakout Room B: Michal Cahlon, Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy. Bad New Good New: Jewish Responses to Change.
National Study Opportunities
Videos and Study Guides
Tikkun Leil Shavuot Videos and Study Guides — reformjudaism.org/tikkun-leil-shavuot-videos-and-study-guides
Reform Movement Tikkun Leil Shavuot
Come together with the Reform Movement on Thursday, May 28, for Tikkun Leil Shavuot – an evening of learning, music, prayer, and poetry. Together, we will delve into the beauty, complexity, and joy of Torah. Join us for one, two, three, or all four hours — urj.org/calendar/reform-movement-tikkun-leil-shavuot