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Join your fellow Shir Tikvah members, and hear about how our congregation is doing as we transition to new leadership, and celebrate a special year. Click here for full details: 8th Annual Anniversary Celebration and Annual Meeting (link to flyer)

Where: Bridgeport

When: 3-5pm

Shabbat, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote, is a “sanctuary in time.”Once every two years we of Shir Tikvah have created for ourselves the chance to work on our sanctuary in time with a quiet, small, and lovely Shabbat experience at Menucha, a retreat center in Corbett, overlooking the Gorge. If you are signed up for the retreat, and haven’t received your confirmation email, please contact the office.

For details on this year’s retreat, click here: http://www.shir-tikvah.net/shirblog/calendar/upcoming-events/

When: 6:30pm

Where: Bridgeport

We’ll share erev Shabbat dinner together as a Kabbalat Shabbat experience: no tefilah first, other than the tefilah we’ll do around the Shabbat table. Get ready for a lovely Shabbat experience together with your congregational family.

* a traditional Shabbat dinner, beginning with Shabbat songs, candles and kiddush and hamotzi

* a potluck dinner we create and share together

* featuring the Nashira Project’s End of Year celebration, and presentations by our youngest classes

* you’ll get a new CD featuring Shir Tikvah Shabbat At Home music, so you can try this at home!

* more surprises even than can fit in this email! please see all the details here:  erev Shabbat Flyer (link to doc)

A Night of Adult Study: “One Community, Many Voices”

Shir Tikvah and Neveh Shalom celebrate erev Shabbat together:

On the evening of May 18 join us in crossing the river for erev Shavuot tefilah, learning, and prayer:

• 8pm Tefilah with Ilene Safyan and Rabbi Greenstein
• 9pm 1st Breakout Session: Professor Sylvia Frankel-Taste of Melton; Ayal Yariv-Cafe V’Ivrit; Rabbi Ariel Stone-document unearthed: a vision of God in Tzfat
• 10pm 2nd Breakout Session: Josh Lake Eco-Judaism; PSU Professor Natan Meir–Jewish poetry; Rabbi Daniel Isaak (TBA)
• 11pm LATE NIGHT SESSION with Rabbi Bradley Greenstein

For all the details, click here: Tikun Leil Shavuot (link to flyer)