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Yom Ha'atzmaut Celebration
Event Schedule For Yom Ha'atzmaut
Celebrate Israel's 61st Birthday at Community-Wide Yom Ha'Atzmaut Events
 
Greetings!
 
Please be our guest...join us at one of the many events in our area celebrating Israel's 61st birthday!  These programs are free and open to the public and are sponsored by the Federation's Anna P. Housen Israel Desk.  Thanks to Robert Engell, Israel Desk Chair, for organizing such an exciting host of programs!
 
Sincerely,
 
Meredith Dragon
Executive Director
Events
 
Sunday, April 19 ~ 7:00 p.m.
Congregation B'nai Israel 
253 Prospect Street, Northampton 
 
Kenneth Levin, author of "The Oslo Syndrome:  Delusions of a People Under Siege" will speak on "The Oslo Syndrome and Israel Today."
 
Community Yom Hazikaron & Yom Ha'atzmaut Program
Tuesday, April 28 ~ 5:00 p.m. Israeli Dinner / 5:45 p.m. Program
 
Springfield JCC
1160 Dickinson Street
Springfield, Massachusetts
 
Please place your dinner order ahead of time at the JCC front desk -- pre-payment preferred.  Enjoy delicious falafel and other Israeli treats, and a celebration filled with Israeli songs led by Cantors Liz Berke, Steven Berke, Martin Levson, Rabbi Micah Becker-Klein and youth choirs.
 
Wednesday, April 29 ~ A Community Day of Learning
 
- 7:00 a.m. ~ Orthodox Alliance, 124 Sumner Ave., Springfield
Rabbi Hyman leads program "A Personal Break with Common Policy:  Why I Say Hallel with a Blessing on Yom Ha'atzmaut"--Religious Zionism Gets Off the Fence of Halachah and History 
 
- Noon ~ at Offices of Shatz, Schwartz & Fentin, 1441 Main Street, Springfield
Rabbis Amy Katz & Mark Shapiro to teach "Texts and Torah That Challenge Israel and Us"; Israeli lunch available ($12.00) -- R.S.V.P. requested by calling (413) 737-4313 by April 24

- Noon ~ at Temple Beth El, 979 Dickinson Street, Springfield
Rabbi Fred Hyman to teach "The Global Importance of Israel"
 
- 1:00 p.m. ~ Springfield JCC, 1160 Dickinson Street, Springfield
Rabbi Micah Becker-Klein to teach "Prayers for the State of Israel in Contemporary Jewish Prayerbooks:  Orthodox, Conservative, Reconstructionist and Reform"
 
- 2:00 p.m. ~ Ruth's House, 770 Converse Street, Longmeadow
Rabbi Devorah Jacobson to teach Israel current events
 
- 5:45 p.m. ~ Temple Beth El, 979 Dickinson Street, Springfield
Rabbi Amy Katz to teach "The State of Israel in Our Prayers" during Minyan
 
 
Jewish Federation of Western Massachusetts
1160 Dickinson Street
Springfield, Massachusetts 01108
For more information, visit www.jewishwesternmass.org or call the Federation office at (413) 737-4313.