Friday Night Oneg Survey and words from Rabbi David
05/13/2024 10:51:28 AM
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Saying “Lehitraot”—See You Again—to JCOGS
05/10/2024 01:03:02 PM
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In Remembrance-Weekly Email
05/08/2024 03:01:53 PM
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Celebrating Ahavah/Love-Weekly Email
05/01/2024 03:25:28 PM
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Passover Blessing: Praying for Elijah’s Visit
04/21/2024 09:36:58 AM
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Happy Passover-Weekly Email
04/17/2024 03:25:01 PM
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JCOGS teens go to nyc - april 2024
04/17/2024 01:36:50 PM
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Three intrepid JCOGS teens, Ella, Fiona, and Manny, joined the Jew Crew of Kol haEmek (Upper Valley Jewish Community) and teens from Shir Shalom (Woodstock) for an amazing, whirlwind visit to NYC. We traveled by Dartmouth Coach arriving just in time to visit Ted Comet at his Upper West Side apartment where he gave us an emotional tour of tapestries created by his wife, Shoshanah, a Holocaust survivor.
Then, we went to services at Temple Israel of the Upper East Side and met with teens there. On Shabbat we took a delicious food tour of the Lower East Side eating bialys, donuts, pickles, knishes AND old time candies all before noon!. Next we made our way to the southernmost tip of Manhattan to take the ferry to Ellis Island, where we spent the afternoon learning about how difficult our ancestors' arrival in this country must have been.
That evening we had dinner at a kosher Chinese restaurant and then saw Kimberly Akimbo, an emotional Broadway show.
Sunday morning we left the hostel on the Upper West Side and wrapped up the weekend with a visit to the famous Zabar's food emporium. We delighted in the new Moynihan Hall at Penn Station as we raced to catch the Amtrak train back to NH/VT.
Register for Passover Today-Weekly Email
04/10/2024 03:13:54 PM
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Invitation to JCOGS’s 2nd Night Passover Seder: Beginning the Journey Home
04/05/2024 08:11:09 AM
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Purim, Passover and Penguins-Weekly Email
04/03/2024 03:13:56 PM
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Purim 5784/2024!
04/03/2024 01:25:56 PM
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Click here to see all the Purim fun!
Purim volunteers
- Willa for coordinating and Nat, Dani, Aron, Lis, Abe, Arlo, and Neil for reading our Megillah so beautifully
- Marni, Kara, Eli, and Abe for creating an awesome spiel and all the impromptu players who joined in
- Leah for face painting
- Rachel and friend for leading songs and story for our little ones
- Amy R, Nora, and Jo for help setting up
- Gavin, Lily, and Judah for running games
- Sarah E for sparkly sangria
- Patti for coordinating the potluck picnic
- And enormous thanks to Moni for setting up decorations and wrapping up in record time.
Thank you to everyone who brought delectable dishes for the Persian Potluck Picnic!
Let's Party for Purim!-Weekly Email
03/27/2024 03:15:52 PM
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Purim-Weekly Email
03/20/2024 03:36:01 PM
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A Holiday for JCOGS: The 7th of Adar
03/15/2024 10:24:28 AM
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Concerts, Parties, and Birthdays!-Weekly Email
03/13/2024 02:57:11 PM
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What's new at JCOGS-Weekly Email
03/06/2024 02:38:01 PM
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More Joy, Less Oy-Weekly Email
02/28/2024 02:53:03 PM
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Tetzaveh With An Interfaith Heart -Weekly Email
02/21/2024 10:21:32 AM
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building a sculpture of love
02/20/2024 12:01:24 PM
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On Feb 14th a heart-y crew of Olam Chesed Club kids and parents braved the cold to create a giant heart sculpture in front of JCOGS. Faced with the challenges of not-so-frozen ice blocks (it takes days of deep freeze to make good ice), it was decided to create a horizontal sculpture rather than a vertical one. Working together the kids chose a location that would be seen from the road and engineered a sloping base to elevate the heart as much as possible.
After a raucus session of sledding down giant snow hills, we gathered for soup and hot chocolate to warm our bones and some activities and discussions about love. We had a love song sing-off and compared two different Jewish concepts of love: chesed חסד/lovingkindness and ahavah אהבה/love, and learned the phrase:
Love the other as you love yourself וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ
Moni told the midrash of R. Shamai and R. Hillel being challenged to tell the whole of Torah on one foot which inspired the kids to launch into a deep discussion of how love is at the heart of our relationship with G!d.
Love of Learning at JCOGS-Weekly Email
02/14/2024 02:43:15 PM
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So Much Happening-Weekly Email
02/07/2024 04:12:11 PM
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The Ten Commandments in Montpelier-Weekly Email
01/31/2024 01:55:12 PM
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Thursday 1/25 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day-Weekly Email
01/24/2024 02:28:55 PM
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A Personal Update: The Hope of Tu BiShvat
01/19/2024 10:04:09 AM
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Let's talk about Israel -Weekly Email
01/17/2024 02:06:55 PM
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Tu BiShvat and Martin Luther King-Weekly Email
01/10/2024 02:33:31 PM
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Post Card from Rabbi David- Weekly Email
01/03/2024 02:47:01 PM
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Happy 2024!-Weekly Email
12/20/2023 02:00:45 PM
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The Seventh Night of Light -Weekly Email
12/13/2023 01:03:44 PM
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Hanukkah 2023
12/12/2023 06:12:24 PM
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The Increase the Light family Glow Dance Party brought nearly 70 folks from the Mad River Valley and Waterbury area to celebrate the 7th candle with us. The kids had a great time playing rousing games of "Flip the Latkes" and "Pin the Candle on the Menorah", thanks to the masterful MC, Moni Liberman. Libby and David Babbott-Klein led everyone in an exciting interactive retelling of the Hanukkah story. Many thanks to ZenBarn for delicious latkes and a wonderful space, to Cold Hollow and Shaw's for discounts on cider and donuts.
The annual Iron Chef and Hanukkah party was such a colorful, joyful, light-filled celebration! Everyone created such wonderful delectables using this year's secret ingredient: RAINBOW which was inspired by the colorful Hanukkah candles.
Special thanks to Shelly Citron for coordinating the Iron Chef, to Art Dorfman for tallying the votes, and to Emmanuel Cantor for being such a mensch of a guest judge.
Mazel tov to the winners:
Lyla and Barb S. - braided rainbow challah - overall
Amy Rosenthal and Jonah W - Noah's ark cake and rice crispie sculpture - best Talmudic reference
B. and Fiona B. - rainbow skittles cake - presentation
Amy Hoskins - vegan, gluten free rainbow pizza - taste
Emi M. - rainbow cupcakes with fluffy clouds - best use of rainbow
Much gratitude to our generous neighbors for the gift certificates awarded as prizes:
Sushi Yossi Pizza on Main Aladdin Black Diamond
Mazel tov to Siena S. for guessing the closest number of dreidels in the bowl!