Hi friends,
As our website continues to experience technical difficulties, all upcoming events are posted on this page at the moment…
And happy Purim, everyone — enjoy your celebration of this joyous holiday!
Warmly,
Ben, Sarah, Aaron and Margie
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Mon Mar 9: Purim!
Wed Mar 11: Kavod Local Food Education Team Workshop
Wed Mar 11: Logo Creation Team Gathering
Sun Mar 15: Canvassing for Housing Justice
Sun Mar 15: Crafternoon — Multi-Media Collaging
Sat Mar 21: Gragger — A Purim Party!
Thurs Apr 2: Labor Seder
Thurs Apr 9: Moishe/Kavod Second Night Seder is On
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Mon, March 9, 5:00 pm
Purim!
On Monday, March 9th, celebrate the most festive and playful holiday in the Jewish calendar with your friends at Kavod House. Meet up with your fellow Kavodniks at 5pm for “L’Chaims!” (joyous, life-affirming drinks) at Kavod House. Then we’ll head over to Temple Beth Zion (TBZ) to hear the Megillah (Book of Esther) at 6:30, or you can just meet us there.
Temple Beth Zion, 6:30pm – Megillah Reading
1566 Beacon Street, Brookline
Wondering what’s happening in Cambridge? Here are some Purim options:
Cambridge Minyan/Minyan Tehillah
7pm – Megillah Reading
9pm – Purim PARTY
(co-sponsored by Harvard Hillel Grads)
Divinity School in Rockefeller Cafe
45 St. Francis Avenue, Cambridge
Tremont Street Shul (TBS)
7pm – Megillah Reading
8:30pm – Purim Spiel and Auction
8 Tremont Street, Cambridge
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Wednesday, March 11th, 6:30pm
Kavod Local Food Education Team: Think Games! Think Food! Think Fun!
The Kavod Local Foods Education Team has collaboratively created a 1.5-hour interactive workshop to engage Jewish communities in the Boston area about local food choices. Young adults in the Kavod community and other Jewish communities across Greater Boston will be trained in leading the workshop, and empowered as local food educators.
The Education Team is doing a beta test of this workshop this Wednesday, March 11, from 6:30-8:30pm, at Kavod House. Vegetarian dinner provided. Seating is limited and RSVP is first-come, first-serve. Community members that are excited about gaining educational tools connecting food and Judaism as well as delivering the workshop for their community are strongly encouraged to attend. RSVP by Wednesday at noon to kavodfoodjusticeeducation@gmail.com or call Shoshana at 617-733-0088.
Learn more about the Kavod Local Foods Campaign at http://www.kavodhouse.com/about/current-programs/social-justice/food-justice/. Contact the Education Team at kavodfoodjusticeeducation@gmail.com if you want us to do a workshop for your congregation or community group in early spring.
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The workshop, which will focus on local fruits and vegetables, will include interactive activities about locally available produce; text studies comparing classical and contemporary Jewish sources on food ethics; and information about how to obtain a community supported agriculture (CSA) share.
We are offering the workshop for free in local congregations, community centers, and possibly schools as well as training leaders in this organization to deliver the workshops themselves. The workshop will be modifiable to fit audiences of different ages and Jewish backgrounds, and will require minimal supplies and infrastructure
Contact the Moishe/Kavod Food Justice Education Team if you’re interested in getting involved with or coordinating a workshop in your congregation, community center or school.
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Wednesday, March 11th, 7pm
Logo Creation Team Gathering
Logos are one important way that an organization presents itself to the world. Moishe/Kavod House has started a design process to create a logo that both represents us and is consistent with the Moishe House logo. We want to make sure we include as many voices as we can in the process. So, we are forming the Logo Creation Team!
The Logo Creation team will discuss what the logo should look like, (including font/theme/images) and work with our professional designer to create designs that reflect our vision. Regardless of whether you sign up, in our final stage of design, we will share options with the Moishe/Kavod community via the weekly email and at the house for you to pick your favorite, and help us reach the best logo for our community.
Please RSVP to margieklein1@gmail.com if you are interested a) joining us for our first meeting of the Logo Creation team on March 11th, or b) interested in joining the Logo Creation team, even though you can’t make the (first) meeting.
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Sunday, March 15th, 2pm at City Life/Vida Urbana (284 Amory St. in JP)
Anti-Foreclosure Canvassing with City Life/Vida Urbana
For over a year, Moishe/Kavod activists have been hitting the streets of Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan in partnership with our community allies at City Life/Vida Urbana. Together, we have been knocking on the doors of homeowners and tenants in properties that are in danger of foreclosure, connecting residents to legal services and to an anti-foreclosure movement that has been growing in strength.
Join us for an afternoon of canvassing (preceded by training) and movement-building. RSVP to msternthal@gmail.com, lnsturtz@gmail.com, or l.wolin@gmail.com.
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Sunday, March 15th, 3pm
Crafternoon: Multi-Media Collaging with Shoshana Friedman
Using art as a form of self research, we will use paints, pastels, paper, and fabric to create wild and beautiful art. We leave time at the end to privately reflect on what we have created and what is has to teach us. Come with an open heart and hands that want to get sticky! No experience necessary. As Bread & Puppet theater says, “ART is CHEAP! HALLELUJAH!” No RSVP necessary.
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Saturday, March 21st, 8pm at SEIU Local 615 (26 West St. downtown)
Workmen’s Circle Second Annual Radical Purim Party
Celebrating Housing Justice!
With a focus on Housing Justice, this event will be a celebration of radical community and culture, centered on a Jewish holiday and open to folks of all backgrounds. We will honor work that is being done locally to protect tenants’ rights and fight for affordable housing. A portion of the proceeds will go to support City Life/Vida Urbana. The Gragger, the Jewish noisemaker, is traditionally used to drown out the name of our foes — on March 21, we’ll make some serious noise in a rowdy call for justice and joy! Join us.
Music by Deboband and DJ D’hana. Performance by members of the Boston Hoop Troop and the Grasshopper Collective.
Saturday, March 21, 8pm – 1am
At SEIU Local 615
26 West Street, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA
Sliding scale $10-20
Tickets can be purchased ahead of time. Email leah@circleboston.org or call 617-566-6281.
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Thursday, April 2nd, 5:30pm at SEIU Local 615 (26 West St. downtown)
Annual Labor Seder
Every year, Moishe/Kavod House helps put on the annual Labor Seder, which celebrates the Passover holiday and current workers’ struggles for justice here in Greater Boston, drawing parallels between the liberation of Jews from slavery in ancient Egypt and the issues that workers and labor organizations face today. It has become an event where organizers, Jewish community leaders, union representatives, workers, students, educators and clergy from all faiths meet and learn from one another in an effort to recommit ourselves to fighting for key social justice issues that affect working people, Jews and non-Jews alike.
Tickets are $20, and well worth it, but all are welcome regardless of ability to pay.
Please RSVP to benjaminghealey@gmail.com.
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Thursday, April 9th
Moishe/Kavod Second Night Passover Seder
Join Moishe/Kavod House for our second annual Passover Seder! The seder will include both traditional liturgy, readings, and songs, as well as creative activities dedicating ourselves to Passover’s message of transformation and redemption, both personal and political. The seder will cost $25-30/person, and if possible, we are asking participants to serve a shift (details TBA) in our Passover cleaning and cooking, which is a big job.
Space is limited, so please RSVP by March 13th to azamansk@gmail.com if you want to join. Please also let us know a) if you want to help plan the seder and b) if you think you will have time to help with cleaning (Sunday or weekday evenings the week before) or cooking on Wednesday or Thursday.