Inspiration, illumination, exhilaration. Song, silence, prayer, music, meditation, conversation, yoga, studying, davening. It's Get Higher 5777: Mishkan High Holidays. Get to the gates. Register
Inspiration, illumination, exhilaration. Song, silence, prayer, music, meditation, conversation, yoga, studying, davening. It's Get Higher 5777: Mishkan High Holidays. Get to the gates. Register
What is a sukkah? Why do we have them? What is a home? Join us as we gather to explore these questions and to decorate our own sukkah! Register
The Jewish holiday of Sukkot (Feast of Booths in the Torah) starts on Sunday, Oct 16. It's an awesome holiday- you build a fort in thebackyard or on your porch and basically do as much outside in it as possible– eating, sleeping, singing, etc.The spiritual idea is three-fold 1. Remembering what living in the wilderness was like for 40 years, not having a home, being […]
This holiday is all about the full-body, total-sensory experience of being alive and awake in the world, having a sense of wonder and appreciation of all things person-made (symbolized by the sukkah) and all things divine (symbolized by the stars, clouds and natural world beyond its thin walls). This holiday is about celebrating the incredible […]
Join JCC 20s & 30s for a community-wide happy hour in the sukkah. Tickets include drinks + apps (1 drink ticket included), a kosher cooking demo and cider making. Adults of all are ages welcome & this event is free! RSVP on Facebook
The CRASH Talk is the indispensable introduction to Talmud learning with Mishkan and SVARA. It is a lecture to end all lectures, a mind-blowing intellectual experience to end all…you get the point. Come hear how the Talmud–and all radical ideas–are born, crash, and are reborn anew. Discover your radical edge and how queer you really […]
Simchat Torah celebrates the joy and satisfaction of finishing something and......(we never finished that sentence). JOKE! The joy of finishing something and beginning something new. One door closes and another opens. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. 7 circles, 7 inspired, fiery, leave-it-on-the-court, 2-minute speeches from folks in the community, drums, guitars, […]