Dear friends and friends of friends
Join us for dinner and services:
"NEW SHABBAT TABLE!" is pleased join "Tikvat Yisrael"
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"NEW SHABBAT TABLE!" + "Tikvat Yisrael"
Choose from 4 prayer services + Joint dinner (200 ppl expected) + 3 programs.
Friday Night June 22, 7:30 PM
Location: Abraham Joshua Heschel Lower School
270 West 89th Street (between Broadway and West End), NYC
To register go to:
http://www.tikvatyisrael.org/signup.html.
(meat and vegetarian options $23 before June 18, $28 after)
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Share Shabbat with people from diverse Jewish communities.
*NOTE: After dinner, Tikvat Yisrael will be running 3 different programs at the same time.
You choose which program you would like to attend.
"New Shabbat Table!" will be hosting one of the after-dinner programs with special guest Yitzchak Schonfeld.
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"New Shabbat Table!" welcomes a personal dvar Torah on Parshat Chukat given by:
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Mr. Yitzchak Schonfeld of the "Chulent Gatherings"
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"Chulent" is the name given to the informal weekly gatherings for Orthodox Jews on the margins of their close-knit society that Mr. Schonfeld, a business consultant from Borough Park, Brooklyn, has been holding for the past year.." (quote from New York Times, March 8, 2007) he helps create warm spirited gatherings for chassidim, ex-chassidim, artists and people on all sorts of personal journeys.
See NY Times article at link below:
At each "New Shabbat Table!", we invite a special guest to give their personal thoughts on the Torah portion of the week. The special guest is often known for something creative they do in the world, but not usually known for speaking Torah in public. When they give their own personal thoughts on the Torah portion, we hope it inspires people to continue to find their own personal meaning in the weekly Torah portion and share it with each other. There is a unique piece of Torah that only you have and its important for you to share it.
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"NEW SHABBAT TABLE!" is hosted by Elyakeem Kinstlinger and Theo Kisch.
"TIKVAT YISRAEL" (
www.tikvatyisrael.org) is an organization with a vision for a new type of Jewish community. "Our goal is to bring together Jews of different religious backgrounds, using commitment to prayer as a fundamental tie that binds us together. It is our hope that, together, we can construct a forum in which we can learn, grow, celebrate Shabbat, and most importantly, pray together as a community."
Theo Kisch also runs
www.EssenceDating.comA great place to meet people who may be at the "NEW SHABBAT TABLE!"
(NEW SHABBAT TABLE! events are community-wide for singles, couples & families)
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Description of program run by Tikvat Yisrael:
***FOUR prayer services to choose from:
1) Alternative Minyan: An alternative Shabbat service drawing on inner dimensions of Jewish spirituality: Receive the blessing of Shabbat through movement, song, mindfulness and meditation. There will be a Mechitza.
Led by Elyakeem Kinstlinger and Jody Teicher.
(see
http://www.tikvatyisrael.org/services.html for more details.)
2) Orthodox Minyan: This service strives to provide a lively and inclusive prayer environment with lots of singing, consistent with the tenets of traditional orthodox halakhah, containing a full mechitzah, male-led davening, and traditional liturgy.
3) Traditional EgalitarianMinyan: organized by
Kehilat Hadar, an independent, egalitarian community committed to spirited traditional prayer, study and social action.
4) Kehillat Romemu: is New York 's inspirational, Kabbalistic, transdenominational, integral congregation. Romemu seeks to integrate body, heart, mind and spirit in Jewish practice. Unabashedly eclectic, Romemu's services reflect the Kabbalistic model of the four worlds and feature traditional liturgy as well as ecstatic chant, yoga and meditation, joyous song and quiet contemplation.
***At fter dinner options including Rabbi Julia Andelman of Congregation Shaare Zedek who will be leading a singing/melody learning session.
1) Rabbi Nati Helfgot of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah: What is open Orthodoxy? What is it trying to achive?
What are some of its foundational principles? How I see it impacting on the Jewish community.
2) Rabbi Julia Andelman of Congregation Shaare Zedek: Music, niggunim and zemirot - learn new
melodies and sing favorites with one of the song masters of our community.
3) "New Shabbat Table!": A roundtable discussion of "Personal Torah," featuring Mr. Yitzchak
Schonfeld of the "Chulent Gatherings". New York Times Article, March 8, 2007: "Chulent" is the name
given to the informal weekly gatherings for Orthodox Jews on the margins of their close-knit society that Mr.
Schonfeld, a business consultant from Borough Park, Brooklyn, has been holding for the past year..."
Tikvat Yisrael's program is brought to you in part by
UJA-Federation of New York
S. Daniel Abraham Foundation
"New Shabbat Table!" is co-hosted by Elyakeem & Theo and is a commmunity-wide event for families and singles:
Elyakeem Kinstlinger of www.TheFullHit.com
Get a full hit of intellectual and spiritual nourishment: events, community, ideas.
Theo Kisch of www.EssenceDating.com
A great place to meet people who may be at the "NEW SHABBAT TABLE!"