September 30, 2022

Vaiyelech

Hello!

The next Jewsletter will go out October 21st, which is the day before the shabbat mevarchim rosh chodesh cheshvan. I'm excited for the break but I'll miss sending out a weekly update!

Jewish Calendar

Before the next time I send out an email, we'll go through the following parts of the torah:

• 10/1, Shabbat Shuva, we read Vaiyelech. Here's the jewsletters from that week last year and two years ago (combined with Nitzavim). Also: come daven with me tomorrow!

• 10/8 we read HaAzinu. Here's the jewsletters from that week last year and two years ago.

• 10/15, which is one of the less-holiday days of sukkot (chol hamoed), we read a special Sukkot section: Here's the jewsletters from that week last year and two years ago.

Also, check out this twitter thread about musicals and the jewish year.

Yom Kippur

https://twitter.com/KeismanPhil/status/1575549699775295494

I wasn't initially gonna link this Star Trek selicha prayer but then i got to the footnotes, which include a side-track into how to pronounce and spell Bajor in hebrew. (PS this week's Lower Decks was delightful.)

David Zvi Kalman's new newsletter has started off with an unconventional Yom Kippur sermon.

Sukkot

Rabbinical school student Shoshana Nambi wrote a very cute looking childrens book about Sukkot as celebrated in her community of origin: the Abayudaya community of Uganda. GlobalJews interviewed her about it.

On Sukkot we also read Kohelet, my favorite book of the bible.

https://twitter.com/maimonides_nutz/status/1575508072847417344

Miscellaneous

I have been thinking quite a bit lately about trauma's legacies and story ownership, so this piece from Ruth Madievsky in Catapult showed up at exactly the right moment for me personally.

Shel Maala has a new weekly class starting 10/30! It Is In The Heavens: Jewish Astrology in the Talmud and Beyond will be taught by Lexi Kohanski and meets on Sundays. For other original language text study, SVARA's fall classes are up and meet 11/7-12/22.

Check out the Jewish Covid Resilience Network and their call to action, alongside this deeply affecting video featuring several faces i recognize (HI FRIENDS I LOVE YOU)

The SF chronicle has an article on what's up with Kosher wine these days.

There is an ongoing kickstarter campaign for Jewish Futures, a Jewish sci fi anthology! Writer friends take note: as a stretch goal, they'll be opening up some more slots for additional submissions.

Events!

As always, bolded means it's newly added. Or a jewish holiday date. I'm figuring this out as I go.

10/1 Shabbat Shuva shacharit on zoom with me!

10/2 Yom Kippur Morrocan Nusach lesson with Laura Elkeslassy

10/2 Soul Candles for the Days of Awe 5783 workshop

10/2 Symposium on Jews in the Gilded Age from the American Jewish Historical Society

10/3 IJV Online Chavurah: Book of Jonah Session

10/3 Mortality and Morality in Yom Kippur Liturgy text study with Ari Yovel

10/5 Yom Kippur

• Kanisse's Multicultural Yom Kippur Services livestream

• Disability Centered Healing Service at Kehilla Community Synagogue

10/10-10/16 Sukkot

10/16 Experimental Liturgy: Shəmini Atzéret evening services led by brin solomon

10/17 Shemini Atzeret

10/18 Simchat Torah

10/20 Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities book talk with author Emily Tamkin

10/20 Queer Crip Revelation: Disability Dance, Jewish Text, and the Sacred Potency of Difference, a talk from Julia Watts Belser

Jewish Pet of the Week

The Jewish Pet of the Week this week is Pepper the guinea pig, who is very stylish if a bit out of season.

<3

Meli