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| Community gathers for a ‘Taste of Honey’ Staff Report Ever wanted to delve into Jewish Shamanism, find out the Jewish take on reincarnation or learn how to cook kosher sushi? These and dozens more topics of Jewish interest are being offered during a day of workshops at the Jewish Community Center on Feb. 2. Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb will join cantorial soloist Beth Cohen and several other members of Nahalat Shalom, as well as dozens of other spiritual leaders and scholars from New Mexico’s Jewish community, in sharing their expertise on subjects from spirituality to ritual to Jewish history and music and Mideast politics. The 45-minute workshops will be offered in three sessions, at 1:20, 2:15 and 3:10 p.m., with various topics presented during each session. At 4 p.m. there will be desserts, music and dancing with the Nahalat Shalom Community Klezmer Band and Alan & Maxine Yablonsky. The event name, “A Taste of Honey,” comes from the old tradition of placing a drop of honey on each letter of the Hebrew Aleph-Bet, so that youngsters made a lifelong connection between learning and sweetness. Taste of Honey workshops include: Yoga with a Jewish touch taught by Naja Halpern; Afterlife and Reincarnation with Rabbi Berel Levertov of the Chabad Jewish Center of Santa Fe; The Sephardic Legacy in New Mexico: A history of the Crypto-Jews with Stan Hordes, NM Jewish Historical Society; Interfaith Families: Making the connection to Judaism with Glenda E. Orchant of Congregation Albert; Being a Parent or Grandparent of a Gay Child, with Dina Berger, Jerry Small and a parents panel; Wisdom of the Heart: Chochmat Lev, Portraits of Jewish Artists (slide presentation) with Lia Rosen; Jewish Midrash and Storytelling with Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb; Jewish Mediation and Chanting with Rabbi Shefa Gold of the Center for Devotional, Energy and Ecstatic Practice; Yiddish Storytelling with Harvey Buchalter, Yiddish Translator and Sculptor; Jewish Perspective on the environment: Tikkun Olam-Our Role with Debra Wechter-Friedman of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life; Women Spiritual Leaders in the Jewish Community with Rabbi Malka Drucker of HaMakom; Jewish Shamanism with Rabbi Gershon Winkler of the Walking Stick Foundation; and Klezmer Music and Dance with Nahalat’s Beth Cohen. Each class costs $10, and childcare will be available. Pre-registration through the Jewish Federation of Greater Albuquerque, which is sponsoring the program, is required for the workshops and day care program. For information or to register, go to www.jewishnewmexico.org. NS members asked to participate in food drive By Nancy Phillips Since 1970, The Storehouse has provided free food to our neighbors in Albuquerque. Some of its customers are the working poor and others are the homeless. No one is turned away hungry. Our congregation has agreed to participate in one of the Storehouse's programs, namely, EACH ONE FEED ONE. Here's how it works: Each member of Nahalat Shalom is asked to put one additional item (canned fruit) on their weekly shopping list, and drop that item off at the synagogue when they come for worship or other activities. The Storehouse is a local, ecumenical and grassroots effort. Its members are churches and other organizations. The need for its food services has drastically increased in recent years, and this increase is directly proportional to cuts in welfare, food stamp and health programs and even the smallest changes in the economy. For example, The Storehouse has gone from giving boxes of food that provided 32,000 meals for 1,500 people in 1996, to 1.2 million meals for 52,000 people in 2001. Our congregation can be part of this effort to feed the hungry in Albuquerque by each member simply remembering to bring one can of fruit to Shul each week. Please leave the cans in a basket outside the sanctuary, and they will be collected and taken to The Storehouse on a regular basis. If each of us participates in this program, we will help ensure that a child, a parent, a senior or sick person will not go to bed hungry. For questions, call 858-0115 or The Storehouse at 842-6499. | ||||||||
