Events
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Torah Over Zoom
The Shaar 1981 Oxford St, Halifax, NS, CanadaThis Tuesday, December 7, we will continue our Zoom classes on the Mishnah, one of the formative texts of the Jewish tradition. Want 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). Just click here, on December 7 at…
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Book Club
The Shaar 1981 Oxford St, Halifax, NS, CanadaOur next meeting will be Sunday, December 19 at 12:30pm in the comfort of your own home via Zoom! We will be discussing Francine Prose's The Vixen Join Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81895304299?pwd=Q2g0WjIwSXVGTHNWRE9IVEdaZjdZZz09 Meeting ID: 818 9530 4299 Passcode: 1955 SYNOPSIS It’s 1953, and Simon Putnam, a recent Harvard graduate newly hired by a distinguished New York publishing firm,…
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Book Club
The Shaar 1981 Oxford St, Halifax, NS, CanadaOur next meeting will be Sunday, January 23 at 12:30pm in the comfort of your own home via Zoom! We will be discussing Ramona Ausubel's No One Is Here Except All of US Join Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83752837541?pwd=ay9rcGdWdHZ0U1lleXRxQmI1YXJmUT09 Meeting ID: 837 5283 7541 Password: 1955 SYNOPSIS An isolated village tries to save itself from a war through sheer force of…
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Book Club
The Shaar 1981 Oxford St, Halifax, NS, CanadaWe will be discussing Ilana Masad's All My Mother's Lovers Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83599315634?pwd=d1JnVDgyZGZqQUxwNi9mOC9aSlN6dz09 Meeting ID: 835 9931 5634 Passcode: 1955 SYNOPSIS After 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,…
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Dalhousie Shaar Shalom Lecture
The Shaar 1981 Oxford St, Halifax, NS, CanadaThe 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.
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Kabbalat Shabbat – Welcoming Shabbat Services
The Shaar 1981 Oxford St, Halifax, NS, CanadaPlease join us in person for services on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings. All services – Shabbat evenings and mornings – can also be accessed over StreamSpot by clicking here. The StreamSpot platform allows you to log-on before Shabbat/the festival begins, and keep the stream running untouched for the duration of Shabbat.
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Purim at the Shaar
The Shaar 1981 Oxford St, Halifax, NS, CanadaCome for the Shaar’s 67th annual Purim Megillah Reading and Celebration: A Last Blast With the Masks! > 6:30 pm, Persian Pizza & Masking Madness > 7:00 pm, Megillah Mayhem > 8:00 pm, Costume Challenge w/ Precious Prizes The evening’s festivities are sponsored by the Noa and Sarah Heinish Fund
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BOOK CLUB MEETING
The Shaar 1981 Oxford St, Halifax, NS, CanadaOur next meeting will be Sunday, March 20 at 12:30pm in the comfort of your own home via Zoom! We will be discussing Mikhail Iossel 's Love Like Water, Love Like Fire Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87103912668?pwd=QTEwMFRDMDZESXl6MzZ5YTZmYmhEZz09 Meeting ID: 871 0391 2668 Password: 1955 SYNOPSIS From the moment of its founding, the USSR was reviled and admired, demonized and idealized. Many…
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Torah Over Zoom
The Shaar 1981 Oxford St, Halifax, NS, CanadaThis Tuesday, March 22, we will continue our Zoom classes on the Mishnah, one of the formative texts of the Jewish tradition. Want 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…
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Torah Over Zoom
The Shaar 1981 Oxford St, Halifax, NS, CanadaThis Tuesday, March 29, we will continue our Zoom classes on the Mishnah, one of the formative texts of the Jewish tradition. Want 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…