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SUMMARY:Tashlikh (+Shofar & Minhah\, Bishop's Landing)
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URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/tashlikh-shofar-minhah-bishops-landing/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Rosh haShanah Day 1
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URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/rosh-hashanah-day-1-5/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Erev Rosh haShanah
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URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/erev-rosh-hashanah-5/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220918T123000
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SUMMARY:Book Club Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Our next meeting will be Sunday\, September 18 at 12:30pm in the comfort of your own home via Zoom! \nWe will be discussing Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/81355181514?pwd=QmhLdDZ6ekQ2a1FLMmRWK2tXU0F0Zz09 \nMeeting ID: 813 5518 1514\nPasscode: 1955 \nSYNOPSIS \nThe Nobel Prize–winner’s richest\, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious\, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. \nIn the mid-eighteenth century\, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent\, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long\, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences\, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come\, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again\, converts to Islam and then Catholicism\, is pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah\, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order\, Jewish and Christian alike\, with scandalous rumors of his sect’s secret rituals and the spread of his increasingly iconoclastic beliefs. The story of Frank—a real historical figure around whom mystery and controversy swirl to this day—is the perfect canvas for the genius and unparalleled reach of Olga Tokarczuk. Narrated through the perspectives of his contemporaries—those who revere him\, those who revile him\, the friend who betrays him\, the lone woman who sees him for what he is—The Books of Jacob captures a world on the cusp of precipitous change\, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n Olga Tokarczuk has won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker International Prize\, among many other honors. She is the author of a dozen works of fiction\, two collections of essays\, and a children’s book; her work has been translated into fifty languages.
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/book-club-meeting-14/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220917T213000
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SUMMARY:Selihot
DESCRIPTION:This Saturday night at 9:30 we will usher in the final countdown to the High Holidays with our yearly Seliḥot (“Penitential”) service\, preparing ourselves spiritually and ethically for the High Holiday season. This year we will have the choice to attend in-person\, or participate remotely over two different virtual platforms\, StreamSpot and Zoom.  \n  \nSeliḥot is a good way to get into the mood of these “Days of Awe\,” as well as refamiliarize ourselves with some of the beautiful High Holiday melodies we’ll soon sing together on Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur in synagogue.  \n  \nThis year’s Seliḥot is unique\, as we will all have a chance to hear and meet our High Holiday ḥazzan\, Jonathon Adler\, who will be joining us remotely from away. Jonathon is a Rabbinical School student at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York\, and we are excited to welcome him (and his beautiful singing voice) to the Shaar to enrich our tefillah\, beginning with Seliḥot.  \n  \nWe will gather in-person in the Shaar sanctuary this Saturday night at 9:30\, and the StreamSpot and Zoom webcasts will be live then.  \n  \nLooking forward to sharing this very unique service with you.
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/selihot/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Book Club Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Our next meeting will be Sunday\, August 21 at 12:30 pm in the comfort of your own home via Zoom. We will be discussing Libby Copeland’s The Lost Family. To join the Zoom meeting\, click here (Password: 1955) \nSYNOPSIS \nYou swab your cheek or spit into a vial\, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry certain genetic risks. Or the report could reveal a long-buried family secret and upend your entire sense of identity. Soon a lark becomes an obsession\, an incessant desire to find answers to questions at the core of your being\, like “Who am I?” and “Where did I come from?” Welcome to the age of home genetic testing. \nIn The Lost Family\, journalist Libby Copeland investigates what happens when we embark on a vast social experiment with little understanding of the ramifications. Copeland explores the culture of genealogy buffs\, the science of DNA\, and the business of companies like Ancestry and 23andMe\, all while tracing the story of one woman\, her unusual results\, and a relentless methodical drive for answers that becomes a thoroughly modern genetic detective story. \nThe Lost Family delves into the many lives that have been irrevocably changed by home DNA tests—a technology that represents the end of family secrets. There are the adoptees who’ve used the tests to find their birth parents; donor-conceived adults who suddenly discover they have more than fifty siblings; hundreds of thousands of Americans who discover their fathers aren’t biologically related to them\, a phenomenon so common it is known as a “non-paternity event”; and individuals who are left to grapple with their conceptions of race and ethnicity when their true ancestral histories are discovered. Throughout these accounts\, Copeland explores the impulse toward genetic essentialism and raises the question of how much our genes should get to tell us about who we are. With more than thirty million people having undergone home DNA testing\, the answer to that question is more important than ever. \nGripping and masterfully told\, The Lost Family is a spectacular book on a big\, timely subject. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n Libby Copeland is an award-winning journalist who writes about culture\, science and human behavior. Her book\, The Lost Family\, published March 3\, 2020\, looks at the impact of home DNA testing on the American family. A staff reporter and editor for The Washington Post for over a decade\, she now writes from New York for publications including The Atlantic\, Slate\, New York Magazine\, Smithsonian Magazine\, The New York Times\, The New Republic\, Esquire.com\, The Wall Street Journal\, Fast Company\, Glamour and more. In recent years\, she’s chronicled the cultural and personal implications of at-home DNA testing. \n 
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/book-club-meeting-13/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220806T213000
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SUMMARY:Tish'a B'Av services
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URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/tisha-bav-services/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Torah Over Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, July 26\, we will continue our Zoom series studying the Mishnah\, one of the formative texts of the Jewish tradition. \nThis session will conclude our study of the Tractate Berakhot\, on “Blessings” and related matters. As such\, we will have a virtual siyyum\, a celebration of this milestone. Click here to see the text we will be studying\, and please bring some refreshments to the session. L’Ḥayyim! \nTo join us\, just click here on July 26 at 7:00 pm. \n 
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/torah-over-zoom-43/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220724T123000
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:We will be discussing Kathrine Kressmann Taylor’s Address Unknown \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/86285011614?pwd=ZFBzMGJHYnE4NXJlbzBBMVJ4cHdLZz09 \nMeeting ID: 862 8501 1614 \nPasscode: 1955 \nSYNOPSIS \nA rediscovered classic and international bestseller that recounts the gripping tale of a friendship destroyed at the hands of Nazi Germany  \nIn this searing novel\, Kathrine Kressmann Taylor brings vividly to life the insidious spread of Nazism through a series of letters between Max\, a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco\, and Martin\, his friend and former business partner who has returned to Germany in 1932\, just as Hitler is coming to power. \nOriginally published in Story magazine in 1938\, Address Unknown became an international sensation. Credited with exposing the dangers of Nazism to American readers early on\, it is also a scathing indictment of fascist movements around the world and a harrowing exposé of the power of the pen as a weapon. \nA powerful and eloquent tale about the consequences of a friendship—and society—poisoned by extremism\, Address Unknown remains hauntingly and painfully relevant today. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n Kathrine Kressmann Taylor was an American author best remembered for Address Unknown\, originally published in Story magazine in 1938. She was also the author of Day of No Return\, and a professor of creative writing and journalism at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania for nineteen years. Kressmann Taylor died in Minnesota in 1996.
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/book-club-25/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Special Guest Speaker This Shabbat Morning: Joshua Wolfe of CJPAC
DESCRIPTION:This Shabbat morning\, we’re pleased to welcome Joshua Wolfe of the Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee as a guest speaker. Joshua will be speaking at the beginning of kiddush on the topic of “CJPAC: The Political Engagement People and What We Do.” \nJosh is the Director of Outreach and Programming for Quebec and Atlantic Canada for CJPAC. He is a government relations and community outreach specialist who graduated from Princeton University. After graduation\, he spent five years as a political advisor to a Member of the Quebec National Assembly. In 2012\, and prior to coming to CJPAC\, he joined CIJA’s Quebec office to lead their government relations team. He has been politically active at all levels of government\, and was most recently named by Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante as a member of her newly-created Roundtable on Diversity\, Inclusion and the Fight Against Discrimination. \nJosh describes his message as talking “about the work that we do and how we strive to ensure that Canada’s Jewish community gets involved at all levels of government to ensure that we have an impact. While we may only be a small percentage of the population\, CJPAC provides strategic ways for us to make sure we can help shape Canada’s democracy.”
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/special-guest-speaker-this-shabbat-morning-joshua-wolfe-of-cjpac/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220719T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220719T203000
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SUMMARY:Torah Over Zoom
DESCRIPTION:We will continue our Zoom series studying the Mishnah\, one of the formative texts of the Jewish tradition. \nWant to know more or see what we’ll be learning? Click here to see the text we will be studying (Berakhot\, on “Blessings” and related matters. \nTo join us\, just click here on July 19 at 7:00 pm. \n 
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/torah-over-zoom-42/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220626T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220626T143000
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Our next meeting will be Sunday\, June 26 at 12:30pm in the comfort of your own home via Zoom!\nWe will be discussing Hugo Hamilton’s The Pages \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/83825264244?pwd=Y0NOOTd0T2hFMFhaL0ltcU1zWmZOUT09  \nMeeting ID: 838 2526 4244 \nPasscode: 1955 \nSYNOPSIS \nAn entirely original novel in which a book—Joseph Roth’s masterpiece Rebellion—narrates its own astonishing life story\, from 1930s Germany to the present day\, at the heart of a gripping mystery. \n“A powerful\, powerful piece of work.” —Colum McCann\, best-selling author of Apeirogon \nOne old copy of the novel Rebellion sits in Lena Knecht’s tote bag\, about to accompany her on a journey from New York to Berlin in search of a clue to the hand-drawn map on its last page. It is the brilliantly captivating voice of this novel—a first edition nearly burned by Nazis in May 1933—that is our narrator. \nFast-paced and tightly plotted\, The Pages brings together a multitude of dazzling characters\, real and invented\, in a sweeping story of survival\, chance\, and the joys and struggles of love. At its center are Roth\, an Austrian Jewish author on the run\, and his wife\, Friederike\, who falls victim to mental illness as Europe descends into war. With vivid evocations of Germany under Nazism and today\, The Pages dramatically illuminates the connections between past and present as it looks at censorship\, oppression\, and violence. Here is a propulsive\, inspiring tale of literature over a hundred years: a novel for book lovers everywhere that will bring a fresh audience to this acclaimed writer. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nHugo Hamilton is the internationally acclaimed author of the memoirs The Speckled People (a New York Times notable book\, hailed as a “masterpiece” by Colm Tóibín\, translated into fifteen languages\, and the winner of prizes in France and Italy) and The Harbor Boys. Also the author of five novels\, one collection of short stories\, and an original play\, he has been awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his unique contribution to literature and cross-cultural understanding. He lives in Dublin.
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/book-club-24/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220522T140000
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SUMMARY:BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Our next meeting will be Sunday\, May 22 at 12:30pm in the comfort of your own home via Zoom!\nWe will be discussing Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/87206364079?pwd=eG9ZWjJKaklPYU04VGRQdGJaM0dRQT09 \nMeeting ID: 872 0636 4079\nPasscode: 1955 \nSYNOPSIS \nIt’s December 23\, 1971\, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt\, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church\, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless—unless his wife\, Marion\, who has her own secret life\, beats him to it. Their eldest child\, Clem\, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism\, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem’s sister\, Becky\, long the social queen of her high-school class\, has sharply veered into the counterculture\, while their brilliant younger brother Perry\, who’s been selling drugs to seventh graders\, has resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate. \nJonathan Franzen’s novels are celebrated for their unforgettably vivid characters and for their keen-eyed take on contemporary America. Now\, in Crossroads\, Franzen ventures back into the past and explores the history of two generations. With characteristic humor and complexity\, and with even greater warmth\, he conjures a world that resonates powerfully with our own. \nA tour de force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense\, its action largely unfolding on a single winter day\, Crossroads is the story of a Midwestern family at a pivotal moment of moral crisis. Jonathan Franzen’s gift for melding the small picture and the big picture has never been more dazzlingly evident. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nJonathan Franzen is the author of five novels\, including The Corrections\, Freedom\, and Crossroads\, and five works of nonfiction\, most recently Farther Away and The End of the End of the Earth\, all published by Farrar\, Straus and Giroux. He lives in Santa Cruz\, California.
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/book-club-meeting-12/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220424T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220424T140000
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SUMMARY:BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Our next meeting will be Sunday\, April 24 at 12:30pm in the comfort of your own home via Zoom!\nWe will be discussing Dara Horn ‘s People Love Dead Jews: Reports for a Haunted Present \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/88461762498?pwd=S2M1WEhQZmc1a05vcmRTTHlvV3I1Zz09 \nMeeting ID: 884 6176 2498\nPasscode: 1955 \nPODCAST \nAdventures with Dead Jews \nThis companion podcast to Dara Horn’s new book People Love Dead Jews takes listeners beyond the book to some of the strangest corners of Jewish history\, exploring how the popular mania for dead Jews warps our understanding of both past and present. Produced by Tablet Studios and SoulShop. \nSYNOPSIS\n\nRenowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist\, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture—and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks—Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews\, never about living ones. In these essays\, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank\, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island\, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz\, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin\, China\, and the little-known life of the “righteous Gentile” Varian Fry. Throughout\, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths\, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present. \nHorn draws upon her travels\, her research\, and also her own family life—trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious ten-year-old\, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children’s school\, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study—to assert the vitality\, complexity\, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that\, far from being disarmed by the mantra of “Never forget\,” is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years\, she reveals the subtler dehumanization built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past—making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity. \nWinner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Life and Prac­tice\nFinalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction \nA New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal\, Chicago Public Library\, Publishers Weekly\, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year \nA startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nDara Horn is the award-winning author of six books\, including the novels In the Image (Norton 2002)\, The World to Come (Norton 2006)\, All Other Nights (Norton 2009)\, A Guide for the Perplexed (Norton 2013)\, and Eternal Life (Norton 2018)\, and the essay collection People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (Norton 2021). One of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists (2007)\, she is the recipient of two National Jewish Book Awards\, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award\, the Harold U. Ribalow Award\, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize\, and she was a finalist for the Wingate Prize\, the Simpson Family Literary Prize\, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books\, Booklist’s 25 Best Books of the Decade\, and San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of the Year\, and have been translated into eleven languages. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, Smithsonian Magazine\, and The Jewish Review of Books\, among many other publications\, and she is a regular columnist for Tablet Magazine. Horn received her doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard University\, studying Yiddish and Hebrew. She has taught courses in these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University\, and held the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard. She has lectured for audiences in hundreds of venues throughout North America\, Israel\, and Australia. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children.
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/book-club-meeting-11/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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UID:10048-1650705300-1650747000@theshaar.ca
SUMMARY:Last Day of Pesaḥ
DESCRIPTION:9:15 am………………………….Shabbat + Yom Tom morning services (Yizkor)\n8:50 pm………………………….Festival ends (Havdallah; time for your ḥametz 9:20)
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/last-day-of-pesa%e1%b8%a5/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220422T195000
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SUMMARY:(Seventh day of Pesaḥ)
DESCRIPTION:9:15 am………………………….Yom Tom morning services\n6:00 pm………………………….Erev Shabbat and Yom Tov service\n7:50 pm………………………….candle lighting for Shabbat and the final evening of the festival
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/seventh-day-of-pesa%e1%b8%a5/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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UID:10044-1650570480-1650570480@theshaar.ca
SUMMARY:Seventh evening of Pesaḥ
DESCRIPTION:7:48 pm………………………….candle lighting for the seventh evening of the festival
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/seventh-evening-of-pesa%e1%b8%a5/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220417T091500
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220417T210000
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UID:10042-1650186900-1650229200@theshaar.ca
SUMMARY:(Second day of Pesaḥ)
DESCRIPTION:9:15 am………………………….Yom Tom morning services\n8:42 pm (or later*) ………….First two days of the festival end
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/second-day-of-pesa%e1%b8%a5/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220416T210000
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SUMMARY:(Shabbat & first day of Pesaḥ)
DESCRIPTION:9:15 am………………………….Shabbat morning services\n8:41 pm (or later*) ………….candle lighting for the second evening of the festival
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/shabbat-first-day-of-pesa%e1%b8%a5/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220415T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220415T210000
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UID:10038-1650013200-1650056400@theshaar.ca
SUMMARY:Friday\, April 15 (Burn your set-aside ḥametz today)
DESCRIPTION:9:00 am………………………….Siyyum Bekhorot (for the first-born) over Zoom\n10:59 am………………………..Last time for eating ḥametz\n12:07 pm………………………..Last time to nullify your ḥametz\n6:00 pm………………………….Shabbat and Yom Tov evening service\n7:41 pm………………………….candle lighting for Shabbat and the holiday
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/friday-april-15-burn-your-set-aside-%e1%b8%a5ametz-today/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220329T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220329T203000
DTSTAMP:20220324T141500Z
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UID:10024-1648580400-1648585800@theshaar.ca
SUMMARY:Torah Over Zoom
DESCRIPTION:This Tuesday\, March 29\, we will continue our Zoom classes on the Mishnah\, one of the formative texts of the Jewish tradition. \nWant to know more or see what we’ll be learning? Click here to access the text we will be studying (Berakhot\, on “Blessings” and related matters. And click here to read an article on our class from the most recent AJC Shalom magazine by Rabbi Karlin. \nJust click here\, on March 29 at 7:00 pm to learn more. (Remember that the Zoom link previously used for Tuesday evening classes has now changed.)
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/torah-over-zoom-41/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220322T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220322T203000
DTSTAMP:20220317T205421Z
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UID:9980-1647975600-1647981000@theshaar.ca
SUMMARY:Torah Over Zoom
DESCRIPTION:This Tuesday\, March 22\, we will continue our Zoom classes on the Mishnah\, one of the formative texts of the Jewish tradition. \nWant to know more or see what we’ll be learning? Click here to access the text we will be studying (Berakhot\, on “Blessings” and related matters. And click here to read an article on our class from the most recent AJC Shalom magazine by Rabbi Karlin. \nJust click here\, on March 22 at 7:00 pm to learn more. (Remember that the Zoom link previously used for Tuesday evening classes has now changed.) \n 
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/torah-over-zoom-40/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220320T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220320T140000
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UID:9968-1647779400-1647784800@theshaar.ca
SUMMARY:BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Our next meeting will be Sunday\, March 20 at 12:30pm in the comfort of your own home via Zoom! \nWe will be discussing Mikhail Iossel ‘s Love Like Water\, Love Like Fire \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/87103912668?pwd=QTEwMFRDMDZESXl6MzZ5YTZmYmhEZz09  \nMeeting ID: 871 0391 2668 \nPassword: 1955 \nSYNOPSIS\n\nFrom the moment of its founding\, the USSR was reviled and admired\, demonized and idealized. Many Jews saw the new society ushered in by the Russian Revolution as their salvation from shtetl life with its deprivations and deadly pogroms. But Soviet Russia was rife with antisemitism\, and a Jewish boy growing up in Leningrad learned early\, harsh\, and enduring lessons. \nUnsparing and poignant\, Mikhail Iossel’s twenty stories of Soviet childhood and adulthood\, dissidence and subsequent immigration\, are filled with wit and humor even as they describe the daily absurdities of a fickle and often perilous reality. \nParagraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Winner \nStory Prize Longlist \nChicago Review of Books “Must-Read Books” selection \nWAMC The Roundtable “Book Picks” selection \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nMikhail Iossel was born in Leningrad\, USSR (now St. Petersburg\, Russia)\, where he worked as an electromagnetic engineer and belonged to an organization of samizdat writers before immigrating to the United States in 1986. He is the author of Notes from Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling and one previous collection of fiction: Every Hunter Wants to Know. A frequent contributor to the New Yorker\, his stories and essays have also appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Foreign Policy\, Ecotone\, Guernica\, Tikkun\, Best American Short Stories\, and elsewhere. Iossel\, a Guggenheim\, National Endowment for the Arts\, and Stegner Fellow\, has taught in universities throughout the United States and is an associate professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal. \n  \n 
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/book-club-meeting-10/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Purim at the Shaar
DESCRIPTION:Come for the Shaar’s 67th annual Purim Megillah Reading and Celebration: A Last Blast With the Masks!  \n >  6:30 pm\, Persian Pizza & Masking Madness \n > 7:00 pm\, Megillah Mayhem \n > 8:00 pm\, Costume Challenge w/ Precious Prizes \nThe evening’s festivities are sponsored by the Noa and Sarah Heinish Fund
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/purim-at-the-shaar/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220313T190000
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SUMMARY:Kabbalat Shabbat - Welcoming Shabbat Services
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in person for services on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings. \nAll services – Shabbat evenings and mornings – can also be accessed over StreamSpot by clicking here. \nThe StreamSpot platform allows you to log-on before Shabbat/the festival begins\, and keep the stream running untouched for the duration of Shabbat.
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/kabbalat-shabbat-welcoming-shabbat-services-3/2022-03-13/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Services
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220303T210000
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SUMMARY:Dalhousie Shaar Shalom Lecture
DESCRIPTION:The next Shaar Shalom lecture at Dalhousie is Thursday\, March 3 at 7:00 pm. We’re delighted to be hosting Cindy Blackstock as the speaker. The lecture can be attended virtually as well as in person. Registration is required – click here to reserve your place. \n 
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/dalhousie-shaar-shalom-lecture/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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UID:9944-1645965000-1645970400@theshaar.ca
SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:We will be discussing Ilana Masad’s All My Mother’s Lovers \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/83599315634?pwd=d1JnVDgyZGZqQUxwNi9mOC9aSlN6dz09 \nMeeting ID: 835 9931 5634\nPasscode: 1955 \nSYNOPSIS\n\nAfter Maggie Krause’s mother dies suddenly in a car crash\, Maggie finds five sealed envelopes with her will\, each addressed to a mysterious man she’s never heard of. Maggie and her mother\, Iris\, weren’t close\, especially since Maggie came out\, but she never thought they would run out of time to figure each other out. Now in her late twenties\, Maggie is finally in something resembling a serious relationship\, wondering if some of whatever shaped her parents’ decades-long love story might exist after all. \nOverwhelmed by her grief and frustrated with her family\, Maggie decides to escape the shiva and hand-deliver her mother’s letters. The ensuing road trip takes her over miles of California highways\, through strangers’ recollections of a second\, hidden life (that seems almost impossible to reconcile with the Iris she knew)\, and a journey through her own fears as she navigates her new relationship. As she fills in the details of Iris’s story\, Maggie must confront the possibility that almost everything she knew about her mother — her marriage\, her lukewarm relationship to Judaism\, her disapproval of her daughter’s queerness — is more meaningful than she ever allowed herself to imagine. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nIlana Masad is a fiction writer\, essayist\, and book critic whose work has appeared in The New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, The Washington Post\, The Paris Review\,\nNPR\, BuzzFeed\, Catapult\, StoryQuarterly\, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, as well as several others. All My Mother’s Lovers is Masad’s debut novel. \n  \n—
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/book-club-23/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Our next meeting will be Sunday\, January 23 at 12:30pm in the comfort of your own home via Zoom! \nWe will be discussing Ramona Ausubel’s No One Is Here Except All of US \nJoin Zoom Meeting:\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/83752837541?pwd=ay9rcGdWdHZ0U1lleXRxQmI1YXJmUT09  \nMeeting ID: 837 5283 7541 \nPassword: 1955 \nSYNOPSIS\n\nAn isolated village tries to save itself from a war through sheer force of imagination—all at the suggestion of a girl. \nIn 1939\, the families in a remote Jewish village in Romania feel the war close in on them. Their tribe has moved and escaped for thousands of years—across oceans\, deserts\, and mountains—but now\, it seems\, there is nowhere else to go. Danger is imminent in every direction\, yet the territory of imagination and belief is limitless. At the suggestion of an eleven-year-old girl and a mysterious stranger who has washed up on the riverbank\, the villagers decide to reinvent the world: deny any relationship with the known\, and start over from scratch. Destiny is unwritten. Time and history are forgotten. Jobs\, husbands\, a child\, are reassigned. And for years\, there is boundless hope. But the real world continues to unfold alongside the imagined one\, eventually overtaking it\, and soon our narrator—the girl\, grown into a young mother—must flee her village\, move from one world to the next\, to find her husband and save her children\, and propel them toward a real and hopeful future. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nRamona Ausubel grew up in Santa Fe\, New Mexico. She is the author of two novels and two story collections. Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award\, she has also been a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award\, California and Colorado Book Awards and long-listed for the Story Prize\, Frank O’Connor International Story Award and the International Impac Dublin Literary Award and New York Times Notable Book selections. She holds an MFA from the University of California\, Irvine where she won the Glenn Schaeffer Award in Fiction and served as editor of Faultline Journal of Art & Literature. \nHer work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Tin House\, The New York Times\, NPR’s Selected Shorts\, One Story\, Electric Literature\, Ploughshares\, The Oxford American\, and collected in The Best American Fantasy and online in The Paris Review.   She has been a finalist for the Puschart Prize and a Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. \nRamona has taught at Tin House\, The Community of Writers\, Writing X Writers and is a faculty member in both the Low-Residency MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts and Colorado State University. \n 
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/book-club-22/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Our next meeting will be Sunday\, December 19 at 12:30pm in the comfort of your own home via Zoom! \nWe will be discussing Francine Prose’s The Vixen \nJoin Zoom Meeting: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/81895304299?pwd=Q2g0WjIwSXVGTHNWRE9IVEdaZjdZZz09 \nMeeting ID: 818 9530 4299 \nPasscode: 1955 \nSYNOPSIS\n\nIt’s 1953\, and Simon Putnam\, a recent Harvard graduate newly hired by a distinguished New York publishing firm\, has entered a glittering world of three-martini lunches\, exclusive literary parties\, and old-money aristocrats in exquisitely tailored suits\, a far cry from his loving\, middle-class Jewish family in Coney Island. \nBut Simon’s first assignment—editing The Vixen\, the Patriot and the Fanatic\, a lurid bodice-ripper improbably based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg\, a potboiler intended to shore up the firm’s failing finances—makes him question the cost of admission. Because Simon has a secret that\, at the height of the Red Scare and the McCarthy hearings\, he cannot reveal: his beloved mother was a childhood friend of Ethel Rosenberg’s. His parents mourn Ethel’s death. \nSimon’s dilemma grows thornier when he meets The Vixen’s author\, the startlingly beautiful\, reckless\, seductive Anya Partridge\, ensconced in her opium-scented boudoir in a luxury Hudson River mental asylum. As mysteries deepen\, as the confluence of sex\, money\, politics and power spirals out of Simon’s control\, he must face what he’s lost by exchanging the loving safety of his middle-class Jewish parents’ Coney Island apartment for the witty\, whiskey-soaked orbit of his charismatic boss\, the legendary Warren Landry. Gradually Simon realizes that the people around him are not what they seem\, that everyone is keeping secrets\, that ordinary events may conceal a diabolical plot—and that these crises may steer him toward a brighter future. \nAt once domestic and political\, contemporary and historic\, funny and heartbreaking\, enlivened by surprising plot turns and passages from Anya’s hilariously bad novel\, The Vixen illuminates a period of history with eerily striking similarities to the current moment. Meanwhile it asks timeless questions: How do we balance ambition and conscience? What do social mobility and cultural assimilation require us to sacrifice? How do we develop an authentic self\, discover a vocation\, and learn to live with the mysteries of love\, family\, art\, life and loss? \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nFrancine Prose is the author of twenty-one works of fiction including\, the highly acclaimed Mister Monkey; the New York Times bestseller Lovers at the Chameleon Club\, Paris 1932; A Changed Man\, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include the highly praised Anne Frank: The Book\, The Life\, The Afterlife\, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer\, which has become a classic. The recipient of numerous grants and honors\, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright\, a Director’s Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library\, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center\, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. \n 
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/book-club-21/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Torah Over Zoom
DESCRIPTION:This Tuesday\, December 7\, we will continue our Zoom classes on the Mishnah\, one of the formative texts of the Jewish tradition. \nWant to know more or see what we’ll be learning? Click here to access the text we will be studying (Berakhot\, on “Blessings” and related matters). \nJust click here\, on December 7 at 7:00 pm to join us.
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/torah-over-zoom-39/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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