People of all ages and levels of experience with Judaism will LOVE Shabbat Simcha!
10:15: Teaching service - Designed to help you learn about different parts of the Shabbat Morning Service. Led by Cantor Sharon Bernstein and Rabbi Camille Angel
10:15 - Drop your child off at Holy Family Day (across the street), if they want to attend the youth service Tots to 3rd grade.
10:30 -Youth service (pre-school to 3rd grade) - With Daniel Meyer O'Keeffe, Rebecca Weiner
11:00am - Explore the theme of Jewish Journeys3 year olds to 1st graders. Through stories, arts and crafts, and song. Led by Jessie Austin ,Ida Kuluk, Andrea Guerra.
Carrying Jewish Baggage- 2-3rd grade (parents are welcome to join, but they don’t have to). This art project will invite students to build their own Jewish dioramas in actual suitcases. This actual baggage will be a living art project to Jewish history which include texts, objects and pictures. Jaron Kangeson
The whole Meggillah- Purim Speil 2010- A journey to celebrate! 4th to Adult This workshop will practice this year’s Purim speil, a musical theatrical extravaganza based on the show GLEE. This workshop will rehearse the play and musical numbers. We will also learn new misrash about the Purim story.Actors, dancer, singers join us to create this Shusanian wonder!Rebecca Weiner, Dev Noily
Jewish World Music- w/Daniel Meyer-O'Keeffe - All Ages This musical extravaganza will invite students to sing Jewish songs from around the world. Take a musical journey and bring your ruach!
D'veikut - 6th graders to Adults This ongoing circle will be hosted by different leaders focusing on a range of paths towards accessing the divine. This session will be led by Ruth Schoenbach & Susan Lubeck.
The Wandering Jew Goes to the Movies 4th - Adult What does it mean to be on a Jewish Journey? How does film bring that out in different ways? In this session for Shabbat Simcha, we will watch film clips that portray a Jewish Journey of some sort. Yentl needed to dress in drag to be her true self and journey both physically as well as geographically to follow her dreams of studying Torah. Many other famous Jewish movie characters from Tevye the Milkman to Alvie Singer to the Jazz Singer to the Yiddle with her Fiddle and so on journey to find themsleves and to discover who they are. How can we learn about ourselves and our resepctive Jewish and Queer Identities by viewing Jewish films? This session is for 4th graders through adult learners. Shalom Rosenberg
Hungry for Social Justice- Making Lunches for the Homeless 4th-Adult In this service learning workshop, we will learn about the journey of Jewish social Justice and make meals for the hungry. This is a learning and doing workshop where participants will learn about the journey of social justice from pushkes to service learning projects.
In the Shabbos spirit, we are asking people to walk to shul and wear white! Questions? Please contact Rebecca Weiner at rebweiner@gmail.com or (510) 872-4903. Supported by a grant from the Legacy Heritage Innovation Project of Legacy Heritage Programming, an affiliate of the Legacy Heritage Fund
