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Event Schedule For Yom Ha'atzmaut
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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!
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Events Sponsored by the Anna P. Housen Israel Desk--Robert Engell, Chair |
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
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Other Yom Ha'atzmaut Events in the Community |
Sunday, April 26 ~ 7:00 p.m.
Jewish Community of Amherst, 742 Main Street, Amherst
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Community of Amherst and the Northampton-Amherst Chapter of Hadassah
Join us to watch a film, The Case for Israel: Democracy's Outpost, which presents a vigorous case for Israel--for its basic right to exist, to protect its citizens from terrorism, and to defend its borders from hostile enemies. Alan Dershowitz engages leading political, judicial and academic leaders from Israel and North America in honest and intelligent discourse on the critical challenges facing Israel and the West. Among the commentators featured in the film are Ehud Barak, Phyllis Chesler, Dore Gold, Tzipi Livni, Benny Morris, Benjamin Netanyahu, Shimon Peres, Dennis Ross and Natan Sharansky. Haim Gunner will lead a discussion after the film.
Wednesday, April 29 ~ 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Campus Pond Lawn, UMass (North Pleasant Street Side)
Live band, BBQ, moon bounce and much more
Sponsored by UMass Hillel
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