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Weekly Update
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
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Greetings!
Last Wednesday, we were blessed to have 55 people attend our first Living Room gathering of the fall, a Ramadan Iftar, including members of the Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Community, other Muslims, and many non-Muslims. It was a night of prayerfulness and togetherness, including five rows of people performing Salat, followed by a feast of Indian food. This was also our first Living Room where our collection covered our rent! A night of blessings.
We look forward to seeing you at Faith House events this fall!
Living Room Gatherings
Wednesday Evenings, Doors at 6 PM, Program at 7 PM
Intersections, 274 Fifth Ave, between 29th and 30th
Upcoming ProgramsSeptember 23 How to Enter the Holy of Holies: Preparing for Yom Kippur (see below)
October 14 Spirit & the Creative Imagination
October 28 Union Theological Seminary professor Paul Knitter on themes from his new book: Without Buddha, I Could Not Be a Christian
November 11 Marcia Kannry, from The Dialogue Project, & Sam Aboelela from the Progressive Muslim Meetup, lead a session on
Israel & Palestine
November 25 Interfaith Thanksgiving
December 9 TBA
December 23 Deconstructed Pre-Christmas Rummage Sale All programs free and open to the public. Donations welcome.
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LIVING ROOM GATHERING
How to Enter the Holy of Holies:
Preparing for Yom Kippur
Wednesday, Sept 23, 2009
Intersections, 274 5th Ave
Doors Open at 6 PM
Program at 7 PM
With Jill
Minkoff, Amichai Lau-Lavie and Storahtelling Artists Shira
Kline and Elana Bell
Beginning by blowing the shofar, we will gather to prepare for the Day of
Atonement and entering the Holy of Holies. The evening will include music
with Shira Kline, a Storahtelling segment led by Amichai Lau-Lavie and Elana Bell
on Scapegoats, a reading on Atonement from Samir Selmanovic's new book It's Really All About God, and Jill
Minkoff will lead us through the Al Het
Litany, an acrostic prayer of repentance, and community discussion. Come
experience your neighbors' faith in this innovative Living Room focused on the
most solemn and important Jewish holy day, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
(Image from www.higholidays.com)
Jill Mikoff is the former Jewish Co-Leader for Faith House, and currently a member of the Faith House Board of Directors, Planning Coordinator for the Jewish Board of Education, and a Rabbinical Student at the Academy of Jewish Religion.
Amichai Lau-Lavie
is the Founder, Executive and Artistic
director of Storahtelling. An Israeli-born teacher of Judaic Literature and
performance artist, he is described as "one of the most interesting
thinkers in the Jewish world" by the NY Jewish Week and "iconoclastic
mystic" by Time OUT NY. Amichai
is a member of the Synagogue
3000 Leadership Network and serves on the Advisory Council for Faith House Manhattan.
RSVPs welcome, but not required, on our Facebook Event or Meetup Event online.
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SPECIAL INVITATION
Interfaith Prayers for Peace
On Yom Kippur Day with Storahtelling
 Monday, September 28
4-5 PM Interfaith Prayer for Peace
Free from 4-5 pm (tell them you came for Peace Prayers)
OR Stay for the Neila (closing prayers) and Break-fast for $25
City Winery, 155 Varick St
SOHO at Vandam St.
Faith House has been invited to prepare and participate in
Interfaith prayers for peace on Yom Kippur Day for High Holidays 5770 with Amichai Lau-Lavie (Member of Faith House Advisory Council), Shira Kline, Rose Ayelet Gottlieb, Jeremy Brown and Storahtelling artists.
City Winery presents alternative High Holidays Services: A
remix of live music, traditional and modern liturgy, interactive learning,
visual media, dramatized scripture, and age appropriate children's programs. www.higholidays.com
We hope you can join us!
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You may have noticed that this email and our website have a new "look and feel." Our re-design is still in progress! Please check out www.faithhousemanhattan.org and send us your feedback. We will be completing our re-design this month and would love to hear from you! Email all ideas and feedback to bowie@faithhousemanhattan.org. Much gratitude to Mairim Pina, who designed the new banner.
In Faith,
Juliet rabia Gentile, Islamic Co-Leader
Samir Selmanovic, Founder and Christian Co-Leader
Bara Levitt, Social Justice Intern
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Featured Article from
faithhousemanhattan.org
Meditations on Three Psalms
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Isaac Everett, author of The Emergent
Psalter is the creator of an exceptional podcast series on the Psalms.
Each under ten minutes, inspiring, wonderfully edited, mixed, and arranged: * Psalm 19 with
Samir Selmanovic
* Psalm 125
with Amichai Lau-Lavie
* Psalm 48 with
Bowie Snodgrass
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Featured Article from
faithhousemanhattan.org
Ramadan Mubarak! Ramadan Karim!
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A Ramadan Greeting from Faith House Islamic Co-Leader, Rabia Gentile
O blessed month of Ramadan, welcome...
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by...
Ellen Bass
Meister Eckhart
Juliet rabia Gentile
Fanny Howe
Robert Lax
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Bowie Snodgrass
Rabindranath Tagore
Alice Walker
David Whyte
Please email us your suggestions of poems to post on Fridays this fall!
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