Sukkot 2011

Please click on the link above to watch a slide show of celebrating Sukkot. Thank you to Raphael Coiman for sharing his home and his pictures.

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Rosh Chodesh

Rosh Chodesh is the celebration of the new moon, central to the Jewish calendar and to women. We explore Jewish women's issues such as personal spirituality, ritual and celebration, share our "oys and joys," and we nosh. An article by Ruth Berger Goldston and Merle Feld describes a Rosh Chodesh group ‘a very special experience of community…a unique opportunity to lead and be led, to grow and to experiment, to learn and to teach, to struggle and to celebrate with our sisters.’ We hope that you'll want to help us grow this special group in our community. We look forward to getting to know you better. 

Our coordinators are Lisa Robitchek (robit@garlic.com or 409-0039) and Megan Shapiro (ewingmeg@yahoo.com or 421-1531).

Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians Annual Traditional Jiingtamok (Powwow), Peshawbestown, Sunday August 21, 2011.
We are planning to meet to carpool in Traverse City to go to the powwow. It's a great event, and we will be particularly looking for comparisons between Jewish and Odawa traditions and values. The Grand Entry (when an honor guard and all of the dancers enter the dance circle ceremonially) will be at 1:00 p.m. We are currently working on details about what time we are going up; we are thinking we would like to get there a little early to grab a bite to eat from the food vendors and get settled in. We hope to be able to arrange a brief discussion with a tribal member before the event to discuss the significance of what we will see and event ettiquette.

Rosh Chodesh meeting at the home of Susan Metcalfe, 402 Chestnut Street, Grayling MI 49738, Sunday, August 7, 2011 at 5:00 p.m.
Susan Curtis and Sharon Vreeland will be sharing their blintz making recipe and techniques! We will make both cheese blintzes and potato & onion blintzes. More information will follow in about a week as to what people can bring. If anyone has an electric frying pan and/or crepe pans those will be particularly welcome! We will share a dairy meal centered around out blintzes. We also plan to carpool, complete with Jewish music for the "bus" ride. So, get those RSVPs in soon - once we know who plans on coming we can arrange carpool meeting points for the trip.

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Remembering the Holocaust

Central United Methodist Church

Traverse City, Michigan
May 15, 2011