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Ashrey Yoshvey Veytecha! - Happy are those who sit within your house! Looking for a midweek opportunity to recharge your spiritual battery? Looking for a few minutes of peace and quiet? Rabbi Elliott invites you to join him

Join your fellow congregants for a member-led discussion centered on a portion of Torah. The topic is Sipur Yetziat Mitzraim....telling the story of the going out from Egypt.

At West End Synagogue in Manhattan. Kehillah Kedoshah is a program to support leaders in working on outreach and growth. Through a generous grant from UJA Federation, the NY-NJ Region will be consulting with and providing training sessions for all area Reconstructionist synagogues. To register for the Kickoff or to learn more about Kehillah Kedoshah contact Hannah Greenstein, JRF NY-NJ Outreach Coordinator.

Our guest this month will be Fran Rod, the NJ Outreach Coordinator for DOROT (English translation GENERATIONS), planning and promoting two of DOROT'S programs that are available to older adults and family caregivers, University Without Walls and Caregivers' Connections. DOROT is a not-for-profit social service agency based in Manhattan, providing innovative programs and services to seniors since 1976. UWW and CC are teleconferenced-based programs that bring professionally facilitated classes and support groups to people at home using a regular telephone. Please join us for this important program. $12 per person. RSVP to the BK office by Wednesday 4/2. All are invited.

Jane is a long-time member of BK, and was president of the JRF for four years. She has served on the board of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and continues to serve on the JRF board. She is an avid Reconstructionist. This class will focus on Kaplanian theology and the function of prayer, as well as an overview of the Reconstructionist movement.

At Bnai Keshet.
The Interfaith Environmental Coalition (IEC) and BlueWave NJ are cosponsoring a public forum to discuss environmental and energy-related issues that affect Montclair. Candidates running for mayor and town council will answer questions and share their vision and ideas regarding energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and issues related to sustainability. Gray Russell, the Montclair Environmental Affairs Coordinator,will give a

Salomon (Sal) Louis Vaz Dias, a Dutch Jew of Sephardic ancestry, has been involved in Zionist politics for several decades, serving on the boards of numerous Zionist organizations. As a leader of the Likud faction of the World Zionist Organization, he has been involved in Israel's developing political dynamics and will speak to and field questions about the current Israeli real politick.

A group of poets, Israeli, Palestinian, and Americans with strong ties to the Middle East,  read their work and discuss the personal and political perspective from which they write. The poets share a deep passion for peace, an intricate historical perspective, and a love of the written word. The premise of the evening is that only when we understand the pain and longing of the "other," can we ever find peace. A discussion, with questions from the audience, will follow, moderated by Bnai Keshet member Martin Golan, a journalist and writer. Among those reading are:

Do you find the words in the prayerbook inspiring? Do they speak to you and help you open your heart? Or perhaps they are alienating, confusing, and results in your feeling closed down? Join Daria once a month for an exploration of some of the tefillot (prayers) that we use every Shabbat. Through text study, discussion, and song we will unpack some of the layers imbedded in these tefillot as well as learn new ways to possibly connect to them. No Hebrew skills are required. Please bring a willingness to open and a desire to learn.