Events
-
-
Tea & Torah learning session, and a Q&A
The Shaar 1981 Oxford St, Halifax, NS, CanadaAfter Shabbat morning services, join Rabbi Karlin for a Tea & Torah learning session, and a Q&A.
-
Dedication of the Morris & Esther Strug Memorial Garden
Shaar Shalom Cemetery Connaught Avenue (just below the corner of Windsor Street), Halifax, NSA generous donation from the Strug family has made it possible to construct a permanent, covered, and landscaped seating area (with ritual wash station) in the Shaar Shalom Cemetery. At 10am on Sunday, July 21st, the Strug family will dedicate the area in memory of Morris and Esther Strug. The "Morris and Esther Strug Memorial…
-
Book Club
The Shaar 1981 Oxford St, Halifax, NS, CanadaSunday, July 21st at 12:30pm, in the Shaar Library. We will be discussing Max Eisen's “By Chance Alone”.
-
-
Q&A with RGK
The Shaar 1981 Oxford St, Halifax, NS, CanadaRabbi Karlin invites all Shaarites to ask their questions at kiddush on Shabbat Devarim (Chazon), August 10th. If you have a particularly complex question, you can pose it in advance to rabbi@theshaar.ca.
-
Tish’a b’Av – the Fast of the Ninth of Av
The Shaar 1981 Oxford St, Halifax, NS, CanadaPlease join us as we commemorate this saddest day of the Jewish year on Saturday night, August 10th at 10:00 p.m. with the chanting of the book of Lamentations and a brief service.
-
Bar-Mitzvah of Ouinn Nathanson
The Shaar 1981 Oxford St, Halifax, NS, Canada -
Book Club
The Shaar 1981 Oxford St, Halifax, NS, CanadaSunday, August 25th at 12:30pm, in the Shaar Library. We will be discussing MaNishtana's Ariel Samson: Freelance Rabbi
-
Tea & Torah learning session
The Shaar 1981 Oxford St, Halifax, NS, CanadaJoin Rabbi Karlin for a Tea & Torah study session at the end of the Kiddush on Shabbat morning, August 31. This week's topic is "Patrilineal Descent: What About the Father?"
-
-
Judith Cohen at the David Schroeder Music and Culture Series
Local Women's Council House 989 Young Avenue, Halifax, CanadaDr. Judith Cohen, ethnomusicologist, singer, and storyteller, will “sing stories and tell songs” from many traditions, especially the Sephardim, or the Jewish people expelled from Spain and Portugal in 1492. Monday, Sept 16 at 7:00–9:00 PM at the Local Women’s Council House at 989 Young Avenue. Admission: Pay what you can; $15 recommended.
-
Judith Cohen at the David Schroeder Music and Culture Series
Dalhousie Arts Centre 6101 University Avenue, Halifax, NS, CanadaDr. Judith R. Cohen is a Canadian scholar and singer known for her work in Sephardic music and related traditions. Her ethnomusicological work and her life as a performer are intertwined. Village songs of Spain and Portugal, narrative ballads and stories in English and pan-European traditions, Balkan singing, songs of French Canada, Yiddish, and music of…