Shavuot

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Rabbi Albert, Shavuot 2020 (video thumb)
Watch Video Message from Rabbi Alpert, President of Rabbinical Association of Greater Kansas City

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:

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