Category: Events

Solidarity Shabbat “Pop-up” Dinner
November 2, 6pm
Location: Sweeney/Woll residence

A hearty fall soup and fresh-baked challah awaits all who wish to spend this Shabbat evening together.
Sign up here so we know how many to plan for!

Solidarity Song and Study
November 3, 10am
Location: Shir space at Plymouth

Dr. Irfan Omer, Professor of Theology and Interfaith Studies at Marquette, will join us as we explore the stories found in both Torah and Quran. We begin, as always, with prayer and song followed by a morning nosh. Bring a Torah text and nibble to share and your friends and family!!  We have invited members of the Plymouth church community to join us as well.

Shir Community Table
November 9, 6pm
Location: Home of Eve Dicker Eiseman

Join your Shir chevre for Shabbat blessings, delicious food,
and interesting conversation in an intimate setting.
Sign up here

Shir Mishugas Service and Potluck
November 16, 6:30pm
Location: Shir space at Plymouth

You like music? You like food? You like lovely people?
You like Shabbat? You should come!!

CSH is co-sponsor of this special screening of two short films by guest Israeli filmmakers. This is a sister program to the screening of Senior Moments, on Sunday at the JCC, and features the filmmakers’ more personal, and political, work:

Join filmmaker Tamar Kay for a screening and talkback on her documentary The Mute House, about a Palestinian family living in the Jewish quarter of Hebron.In the short film The Arrest, directed by Yair Agmon, the Palestinian army occupies the Middle East in an alternate version of history, and Palestinian directors make action films about their experiences in the military.

Tikkun Ha-Ir has been offered a matching grant that will match all donations made now through the end of December. Please donate to help us continue to do the necessary work toward repairing our city. To date, the Food Justice Initiative crew has cooked and delivered approximately 20,000 meals! Once again this year Tikkun Ha-Ir will be embarking on their Holiday Gifts for the Homeless drive, November 26 – December 16. Stay tuned for more details.

Click HERE to double your donation to Tikkun Ha-Ir.

Musical Service and Potluck
October 12, 6:30pm
Location: Shir space at Plymouth

Enjoy the first spirited, musical service and delicious potluck of the Jewish year!

Shir Community Table
October 19, 6pm
Location: TBA – Host needed!

Join your Shir chevre for food and conversation at a lovely, intimate gathering.

“The Paper and Gene Trails: Researching Your Family Roots.”
Thursday, October 18, 7-9pm
Location: At Plymouth in the Upper Study.

Led by Karyn Rotker.

Shabbat Shuvah Service
September 15, 10am

Kol Nidre Service
September 18, 6:30pm

Yom Kippur Day
September 19, 9:30am

Song and Study 
September 22, 10am

Sukkah Building and Sukkot Celebration
September 23, 4PM and 6PM

Simchat Torah Celebration
September 30, 7pm

YOM KIPPUR SCHEDULE

Tuesday, September 18
Kol Nidre
6:30pm – 8:30pm

Wednesday, September 19
Shacharit/Morning Services, including Yizkor
9:30am – 1:00pm

YK Movement
1:30pm

Afternoon Learning and Conversation
4:30pm

Neilah, including Havdalah
6:00pm

Potluck Break-the-Fast
7:30pm

10am, September 22
Song and Study
2400 E. Stratford Ct.

The new year has started but the Torah cycle is not quite finished! After singing some morning chants and blessings, we will explore the final chapters of Deuteronomy and the end of the life of Moses. Bring a morning treat and a Torah text. Come at 9:45 if you want to grab that first cuppa’ something!

6pm, September 28
Sukkot Community Tables

We invite all of our members who have their own Sukkah to invite Shir members to join them for a Shabbat Sukkot meal. There is also opportunity to host at the community sukkah at Plymouth if someone wishes to. Please let Rabbi Michal know if you are interested in hosting a table this evening, for any other meal during the Sukkot holiday, or for any shabbat in the future!!

7pm July 6
Summer Shabbat
Location: Shir space at Plymouth

Special story and oneg in honor of David and Sandy Brusin’s Anniversary!

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​6pm​ ​July 13
Shir Community Table
Location: TBA – Host needed!

Join your Shir chevre for food and conversation at a lovely, intimate gathering.

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10am Saturday August 4
Song and Study
Woll/Sweeney Home
2400 E Stratford Ct, Shorewood

The book of Deuteronomy provides not only a review of the wanderings in the desert but also a window into our political and theological history. Come and learn more about this “second law” or D’varim – all these words. Please bring a nosh to share. Come at 9:45 for that first cuppa something!

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​​6:30pm August 10
Musical Service and Potluck
Location: Shir space at Plymouth

Join us for the last potluck of the Jewish year as we prepare to welcome the month of Elul.

WE NEED PHOTOS!

As we update the Shir website, we are seeking more photos of us doing our stuff – playing music, dancing, pot lucks, learning, schmoozing, the ungala, garden projects and christmas dinner and other justice events. Dig up your photos and send them to Rabbi Michal! Please understand not all photos will be used.

Monday, July 9, 7pm
Shir space at Plymouth

​Exploring the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict through a Dual Narrative Lens
with guest teacher Rabbi Michael Cohen of the Arava Institute

Narratives are one of the anchors that help us ground our lives and infuse them with purpose. Confronting an opposing narrative challenges how we contextualize our lives. This is the power of the dual narrative lens. It is essential that Israelis and Palestinians – as well as organizations and governments from outside the region working to mitigate and resolve the conflict – better understand the two narratives.

Last November marked the 100th and 50th anniversaries of two seminal documents of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Balfour Declaration, which began the diplomatic process leading to the partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel, and Resolution 242, the basis for the Egyptian/Israeli and Jordanian/Israeli peace treaties as well as the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli talks since Oslo (1993). These documents provide a window into both perspectives of the Arab-Israeli conflict and highlight the importance of the dual narrative.

Join Rabbi Michael M. Cohen (RRC ’90) for an exploration of these two documents through the Dual Narrative Lens. Rabbi Michael has been involved with the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies since 1996. He also teaches Conflict Resolution at Bennington College. He has written scores of articles across the Middle East on the Arab-Israeli conflict and has been a Policy Advisor to the Office of the Special Envoy for Middle East Peace of the U.S. Department of State.

​Saturday July 21st, 7:30 pm​
​Graham Chapel at Plymouth

Tisha B’Av Observance

We will blend learning and traditional ritual with the creation of our own laments of the destruction in our lives and world. Havdalah will mark the transition from shabbat into this solemn day. ​Bring a candle or flashlight to read by as the light fades.

It looks like summer may actually arrive and the
Surplus Harvest/Chop Shop projects will begin operations on July 9.

​We ​​are seeking volunteers to help with collecting produce, preparing food​,
​and distributing healthy vegetable and fruit products.

​Please see the attached flyer here for more information.

Questions may also be directed toTHI board (and Shir) member Susan Armour Seidman (sas@uwalumni.com or 414 759 8650) or THI Food Justice Coordinator Karen Royster (414 426 4473)