Congregation Emanu-El, Victoria, British Columbia
1461 Blanshard St V8W 2J3 Victoria, BC, Canada

Congregation Emanu-El, November 20 - 26, 2020 - https://mailchi.mp/9d8713aa75/congregation-emanu-el-9451898

Sunday, December 6, 2020 at 7 pmThe Congregation Emanu-El Adult Education team invites you to a presentation Ancient Astrology: Fatalist or Optimist by Rabbi Matt Ponak on Sunday, December 6, 2020 at 7 pm. Does Judaism teach that our lives are determined by the stars? Did it ever? The answer is not so simple. While Jewish teachings greatly value free will, the word mazal, as in "Mazal Tov," literally means constellation.... https://congregationemanuelnews.wordpress.com//ancient-as/

Congregation Emanu-El, October 30 - November 5, 2020 - https://mailchi.mp/ec66266d1e/congregation-emanu-el-9439574

Starts Thursday, November 19, 2020 on ZoomA light in a dark and strange time: Calling All Artists returns! We will begin our monthly meetings with Rabbi Harry on Thursday, November 19, 2020, and continue on December 10, 2020, and in 2021 on January 14, February 11, and March 18. Calling All Artists is a project inviting artists of many kindsvisual, textile, multi-media, music, poetryto study a biblical or rabbinical text with Rabbi Harry, and to interpret this learning through their art. [ 79 more words ] https://congregationemanuelnews.wordpress.com//calling-al/

Come join us for Mysterious Moses, a super fun game (aka Gamadim and Anakim 5781), and spread light all through the eight nights of anukkah and stay connected through these dark COVID-19 days. Leah Levi ran the game over Sukkot, calling it Gamadim and Anakimsome comments from players:It was fun to be part of a real-life community-based activity!... https://congregationemanuelnews.wordpress.com//why-not-gi/

Martine smiles at her last painting My mother Martine Baugniet (latterly Gow-Cooper) was born in Brussels in 1939. Her mother was a Montrealer who was raised and educated in Belgium, and her father was a Belgian who converted to Judaism in 1934 before they married. My mother, her mother, and her eldest brother were rescued from Belgium in May of 1940 by my great-grandfather Albert Freedman, who had been an intelligence officer in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in WWI, and served the British intelligence effort before and during WWII, based in London.... https://congregationemanuelnews.wordpress.com//martine-go/

Last Sunday evening, Lee Henderson led a fascinating virtual literary salon discussion of the parallels and differences linking two amazing writers whose lives were separated by about 100 years. Lee expertly explained how the stories and parables crafted by Franz Kafka and Rabbi Nachman reflected both secular and religious perspectives on the often strange vagaries of life they encountered. The audience was treated to a wonderful evening of learning and no doubt will be seeking out books and articles on these two masters so they can delve further into what made them tick. https://congregationemanuelnews.wordpress.com//a-wonderfu/

Sunday, November 15, 2020 at 7 pmCongregation Emanu-El Adult Education Team invites you to the first of our 2020/21 one-off sessions on Sunday, November 15, 2020 at 7 pm featuring a discussion of Kafka, Nachman, Kabbalah and Neuroses by Lee Henderson, an Associate Professor of Writing at the University of Victoria. Lee will discuss Franz Kafka, his writing, his life, and the influence of Jewish mysticism and [ 90 more words ] https://congregationemanuelnews.wordpress.com//kafka-nach/

Congregation Emanu-El, November 13 - 19, 2020 - https://mailchi.mp/b4bb2a507d/congregation-emanu-el-9447238

Congregation Emanu-El, October 23 - October 29, 2020 - https://mailchi.mp/2672ba2c38/congregation-emanu-el-9434094

Tuesday, November 17, 2020 from 7 - 8:30 pm on ZoomGreater Victoria Acting Together (GVAT) Core Teams Workshop on Tuesday, November 17, 2020 from 7 - 8:30 pm on Zoom provides its member organizations with an opportunity to learn how to build support for GVAT purposes and activities from its members and to help them make the world a better place.... https://congregationemanuelnews.wordpress.com//want-to-go/

Congregation Emanu-El (CEE) members were graced with an enthusiastic Greater Victoria Acting Together (GVAT) panel that included Rabbi Harry, CEE congregants Robert Oppenheimer and Ruth Shreier (shown above) and GVAT Lead Organizer Chet Phillips. The panelists briefed us on GVAT’s past and present; they invited us to consider what a world where we took better care of each other might look like. [ 92 more words ] https://congregationemanuelnews.wordpress.com//what-if-we/

Adult Education 2020-2021 Congregation Emanu-El Adult Education & Events team has arranged an interesting mix of ongoing and one-off sessions for the coming fall-winter term. Of course, the COVID pandemic has made the process a bit more challenging since most of what will be taking place will be on Zoom for the foreseeable future. See below for information about our ongoing sessions. [ 644 more words ] https://congregationemanuelnews.wordpress.com//adult-educ/

Emanu-El member Mark Leiren-Young, has just earned top honours for his children’s book Orcas Everywhere: The Mystery and History of Killer Whales. He is the winner of the City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize, now in its 13th year. Mark’s entry topped several well-known locals to take the $5,000 prize awarded during a virtual gala last Sunday evening. Congratulations, Mark, from all of us! https://congregationemanuelnews.wordpress.com//an-honour-/

Monday, November 9, 2020 beginning at 7 pmThe Victoria Shoah Project invites the public to the annual commemoration of Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), the beginning of the tragic history of attacks on European Jews. This year we will live-stream the commemoration on Monday, November 9, 2020 on Zoom beginning at 7 pm. The title of the program is [ 252 more words ] https://congregationemanuelnews.wordpress.com//kristallna/

Congregation Emanu-El, October 16 - October 22, 2020 - https://mailchi.mp/b8968e3636/congregation-emanu-el-9427438

Congregation Emanu-El, October 9 - October 15, 2020 - https://mailchi.mp/e6c2a82de8/congregation-emanu-el-9424298

Congregation Emanu-El, October 2 - October 8, 2020 - https://mailchi.mp/0bea57aa98/congregation-emanu-el-9414290

Congregants gathered joyfully and safely by the ocean under blue, clear skies at Cook & Dallas for the beautiful shofar and tashlikh services led by Rabbi Harry with his COVID-19 compliant shofar. This was one of three such meaningful services held by Congregation Emanu-El on the second day of Rosh Hashanah by the ocean in Victoria and at Banfield Park, West Vic. For more photos by Penny Tennenhouse... https://congregationemanuelnews.wordpress.com//tashlikh-2/

Congregation Emanu-El, September 25 - October 1, 2020 - https://mailchi.mp/35bf22b81b/congregation-emanu-el-9410550

Congregation Emanu-El, September 18 - 24, 2020 - https://mailchi.mp/13025627fd/congregation-emanu-el-9403474