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Weekly Update
SEPTEMBER 23, 2009
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Greetings!
Tonight, our Living Room will focus on "How to Enter the Holy of Holies: Preparing for Yom Kippur" with many special guests!
You are also invited to Storahtelling's Yom Kippur afternoon, this Monday in Soho, where Samir, Rabia, Bowie and others will be leading Interfaith Prayers for Peace.
On Saturday, Oct 3rd, Faith House is going to Brooklyn for our first "Serve Together" opportunity this fall, organized by Bara.
Then on Thursday, Oct 8th, we're headed to Queens to visit the Ganesh Temple in Flushing as our Field Trip.
We look forward to seeing you soon, in Manhattan and as we venture to the outer boroughs of this great city!
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LIVING ROOM GATHERING
How to Enter the Holy of Holies:
Preparing for Yom Kippur
Tonight!
Wednesday, Sept 23, 2009
Intersections, 274 5th Ave
Doors Open at 6 PM
Program at 7 PM
With Amichai Lau-Lavie, Storahtelling Artists Shira
Kline and Elana Bell, and Jill Minkoff
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, then Jill
Minkoff will lead us through the Al Het
Litany and an acrostic prayer of repentance. 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 higholidays.com)
Please bring snacks to share!
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.
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.
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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SERVE TOGETHER
"Day of Dignity" with World Faith
 Saturday, October 3, 2009
12 PM - 4 PM
Volunteers Arrive at 11 AM
Masjid At-Taqwa
1266 Bedford Ave @ Fulton
Brooklyn, New York
Kicking off our first Serve Together opportunity of the
year, Faith House Manhattan volunteers will join together with members of World Faith to participate in Islamic Relief USA's "Day of Dignity." As
volunteers we will be joining a much larger group of individuals from all over
the country who are taking their time to make a difference and help their
neighbors in need. The "Day of Dignity" event will reach more than 19
cities over the course of ten weekends and will provide clothing and
accessories for the winter, a hot meal and toiletries, as well as health and
dental screenings. Last year in New York alone the "Day of Dignity"
served approximately 1,000 individuals in four hours. That number is
expected to increase this year.
I invite you to join us as a volunteer for this important
event. As we embark on our first Serve Together program of the year, I
want to pose two questions for thought. What is the role of Dignity in
service? Is charity, service and giving less valuable if it is performed
in an undignified manner? We will informally explore these questions,
share reflections and debrief the day after the event at a local eatery.
NOTE: We recognize that the day conflicts with the Jewish harvest
holiday of Sukkot. As a Jewish individual I find personal meaning in
serving on many Jewish holidays, though I realize many others would not
participate in this type of event given Jewish law guidelines. Given the
diversity of our community, many days when we can participate in service
projects overlap with religious holidays. We do our best to alternate
days and program our events with religious observance in mind. This said,
we did not want to pass up this opportunity to make a connection with Islamic
Relief and World Faith, and serve members of the NYC
community.
I look forward to serving with you and taking part in this
amazing event, and/or the many Serve Together events which we have to come.
Please RSVP or send your questions to bara4987@gmail.com
Bara
Social Justice Intern
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FIELD TRIP
Ganesh Temple (Hindu), Queens NY
Thursday, Octob er 8, 2009
6:45 PM Gather
7 PM Lighting of Lamps, followed by Pooja and tour
Stay after for Indian dinner together in the Canteen.
45-57 Bowne Street, Flushing, NY 11355
The ritual that evening will be a Raghavendra Swamy Guru Paduka Pooja. Visit the Ganesh Temple's website at www.nyganeshtemple.org. Read about its recent "Reconsecration, With Bells, Saffron and Elephant" in the New York Times. Rathi Raja, a member of our Advisory Council and a recent Living Room host, will be with us.
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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 on faithhousemanhattan.org
My Summer of Relgion
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~by Leah Varsano "I
decided to embrace the experiential, stand-in-your-neighbor's-shoes mission of
Faith House, and spend my summer exploring and experiencing as many different
faith traditions as I could find... Here is what I learned" CLICK to read the rest |
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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