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Tuesday Discussion Group: Comparing US & Canadian Government Systems
San Miguel Discussion Group
Learn Cuban Popular Dance with Patri
Enjoy this journey through Cuban music and dance. Learn traditional and popular genres such as Son Cubano, chachacha, mambo, guaracha and danzon, and from there, we will get to salsa.
INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCING
Please join us for our weekly international folk dance class.
“If you can walk you can dance.” Enjoy yourself and meet new friends. Dance is a universal language. Exercise and socialize to great music as you learn dances from around the world. No experience necessary.
Instructor Elliot Fine has performed Balkan dances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Alvin Ailey Theater. He has taught International and Israeli folk-dancing at Antioch College, in New York City as well as here in San Miguel de Allende.
Donation: $100 MXN. Pay at the door
Conservative Kabbalat Shabbat Service – Online
Please join us on Zoom for this Conservative (traditional/egalitarian) service led by Dan Lessner (mostly in Hebrew, conducted in Spanish), just before sundown. Click on the blue graphic for details.
Conservative Egalitarian Shabbat Morning Service
Conducted mostly in Hebrew as well as Spanish and English, in person and via Zoom. Following services, about 12 noon, is a pot-luck kiddish luncheon (vegetarian or dairy only). Please bring a dish to share. Click on the blue graphic for more details.
Hebrew School
Two Sundays a month from 10 a.m to 12 p.m.
The next two classes are December 8 and 22
Open to members’ children. Your children will learn about what it means to be Jewish. Teacher and musician Mario Moya leads a dynamic and creative class. Children will explore what it means to be Jewish and live a Jewish life through activities and projects explore Jewish values, history, literature and ritual. They will also learn to read and chant from the Torah in Hebrew. The class is taught in Spanish.
Contact the office:
415 185 9191
shalomsanmiguel@gmail.com
The Untold Story of a Holocaust Hero (with optional brunch)
The Untold Story of a Holocaust Hero - Lecture by Elizabeth Vrato (live streamed at the JC3)
Two years ago, as part of our Holocaust Remembrance, we hosted an online discussion with Elizabeth Vrato....
Elizabeth Vrato is the grand-daughter of Commandant Kadri Cakrani, who sheltered hundreds of Jewish people in Berat, Albania while serving as the top military leader in the region during WWII when the country was Fascist-occupied and Nazi-occupied. Berat was the hub of Albania’s protection of Jewish refugees, with a count of over 600 people saved from Nazi deportation. Albania is the only European country to have more Jews living in it after the Holocaust than it had before.
Cakrani took the details of his efforts to his grave because of Iron Curtain politics. His story was first shared in the U.S. in 2020 and is now traveling the globe.
In the years since we last gathered, more information has been discovered to fill out the story regarding Resistance efforts, first-person testimony, and government commemoration. We'll have an invigorating discussion again. It is not necesary to have attended the previous discussion to participate in this presentation, and there will be enough new information to interest those who did.
Ms. Vrato is the author of The Counselors: Conversations with 18 Courageous Women Who Have Changed the World (with a foreword by President Bill Clinton), which provides mentoring advice from some of this country's most trailblazing women leaders, including Sandra Day O'Connor and Janet Reno. Vrato has practiced law in both the public and private sectors and is a graduate of NYU Law School and a Truman Scholar.
Brunch (optional 11am-1pm):
There will be an optional a bagel and lox brunch before the lecture, which unfortuntely Ms Vrato will not be able to attend.
Please note that paid reservations for the brunch must be received no later than 5pm Friday, January 23.
DONATION:
Without brunch:
Non-member $270 Clip, $250 cash; Member $170 Clip, $150 cash
With brunch:
Non-member $420 Clip, $400 cash; Member $320 Clip, $300 cash
When paying by CLIP, please note that donations are in pesos . Be sure to add your name, the event, the date of the event and number of tickets on the description field to ensure proper booking. Please bring either a printed or digital receipt on your phone with you to the event.
Perashat hashavúa, Pintar Torá / Drawing on Torah
Drawing on Torah: Chapter of the Week, in Spanish
Learn Cuban Popular Dance with Patri
Enjoy this journey through Cuban music and dance. Learn traditional and popular genres such as Son Cubano, chachacha, mambo, guaracha and danzon, and from there, we will get to salsa.
INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCING
Please join us for our weekly international folk dance class.
“If you can walk you can dance.” Enjoy yourself and meet new friends. Dance is a universal language. Exercise and socialize to great music as you learn dances from around the world. No experience necessary.
Instructor Elliot Fine has performed Balkan dances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Alvin Ailey Theater. He has taught International and Israeli folk-dancing at Antioch College, in New York City as well as here in San Miguel de Allende.
Donation: $100 MXN. Pay at the door
Wednesday Mornings with Bea: Picasso's Zoo
Wednesday Mornings with Bea: Picasso’s Zoo
Picasso’s life was blessed with the presence of many animals. Birds, bulls, horses, mice, cats, dogs, monkeys, toads, goats, and even snails found their place in the life and work of the Spanish genius.
Bea would like to invite you in discovering this unique angle on the story of PIcasso’s life and work as seen through the eyes of the animal kingdom.
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February 12 Rembrandt 1606-1669. The Chiarodscuro of Life. The Light of the Soul
February 26 Jules Pascin The Last Bohemian Prince, The Wandering Jew. The King of Three Mounts: Montmatre, Mountparnesse and Mount Venus
March 5 Raul Dufy, The Joy of Painting
March 12, Les Fetes Galantes or the Bantering Art of Seduction in the 18th Century French Rococo,
March 19 History of Color
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Donation:
Members 160 pesos 150 pesos cash
Non-Members 265 pesos 250 pesos cash
When paying by CLIP, please note that donations are in pesos . Be sure to add your name, the event, the date of the event and number of tickets on the description field to ensure proper booking. Please bring either a printed or digital receipt on your phone with you to the event.
Jewish Literary Circle: A Horse Walked into a Bar by David Grossman
Discussion of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, a book boycotted because of its “Zionist” author.
Wednesday Mornings with Bea: Rembrandt 1606-1669. The Chiarodscuro of Life, The Light of the Soul
Wednesday Mornings with Bea: Rembrandt 1606-1669. The Chiarodscuro of Life, The Light of the Soul
Rembrandt’s art enacts the eternal drama of Light and Dark, an existentialchiaroscuro which reveals a deep intuitive psychology.
In this New Holland, born out of the defeat of the Spanish, a new aristocracy is born: la bourgeoisie. We are in the Dutch17th Century Golden Age, an age of speculation and money. Money was the new God. But Rembrandt never whored himself.
With Rembrandt we witness something very rare today: a harmony between felt experience, the act of painting and the active passion of the heart. His compassion led him to paint beggars, the poor, the simple folks, and the Jewish people with whom he felt a strong affinity and whom he respected so much.
In the whole history of art, there is none like Rembrandt. His continuous self interrogation urged him to paint a series of uncompromising self-portraits, some 90 of them, which spans his entire life. We shall look together at some of these self-portraits and decipher, recognize, appreciate the depth of their psychological power.
We shall look at his most famous works, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Tulp, The Night Watch, The Jewish Bride, Saul and Solomon, Danae, The Prodigal Son, the Beef Carcass, and many others, pausing and pondering on the magic of his art, his heart wrenching portrayal of the human condition.
Donation:
Members 160 pesos 150 pesos cash
Non-Members 265 pesos 250 pesos cash
When paying by CLIP, please note that donations are in pesos . Be sure to add your name, the event, the date of the event and number of tickets on the description field to ensure proper booking. Please bring either a printed or digital receipt on your phone with you to the event.
Tu Bishvat Tree Planting at Tikkun Eco Center
Tu Bishvat Tree Planting at Tikkun Eco Center
Wednesday Mornings with Bea: Jules Pascin: The Last Bohemian Prince, The Wandering Jew, The King of Three Mounts: Montmatre, Mountparnesse and Mount Venus
Wednesday Mornings with Bea: Jules Pascin: The Last Bohemian Prince, The Wandering Jew, The King of Three Mounts: Montmatre, Mountparnesse and Mount Venus
“No other artist, with the exception of Picasso,
has drawn with as much passion and diabolical brilliance”
George Waldemar
Julius Mordechai Pincas was born in Vidin, Bulgaria, in 1885. All he wanted to do was to draw, paint, and live the life! Already at 16, he was an “habitué” of the brothels, slept there, felt at home among the prostitutes and the clients, sketching them in their most intimate relationships.
Julius Pincas changed his name to the anagram Pascin not to offend his family because of his way of life and most of all because of the erotic content of his paintings. He drunk too much, he loved too much, he partied too much…But that was the only way he knew.
His unique sensuous style will enthrall you! Nobody has painted the human flesh like he did. A musical vibrato of caresses…yes! He caressed the canvas. His mother-of-pearl effect is still today unsurpassed.
Although associated with what is called L’Ecole de Paris, The School of Paris, - together with Chagall, Zadkine, Modigliani, Kisling, Soutine, all foreigners, all Jews-, Pascin never belonged to any “movement.” The dance of “isms” did not appeal to him. Pascin followed his own creative path, recognizable by the way he entranced line and color
Donation:
Members 160 pesos 150 pesos cash
Non-Members 265 pesos 250 pesos cash
When paying by CLIP, please note that donations are in pesos . Be sure to add your name, the event, the date of the event and number of tickets on the description field to ensure proper booking. Please bring either a printed or digital receipt on your phone with you to the event.
Wednesday Mornings with Bea: Raoul Dufy, The Joy of Painting
Wednesday Mornings with Bea: Raoul Dufy, The Joy of Painting
“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly”
“If life not always smiled to me, I smiled to life”
Raoul Dufy
Bea chose to share with you the art of Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) because of her sadness facing today’s frighteningly chaotic world and its lack of harmony. Dufy will enthuse you with a poetical, lyrical, cheerful perception of life. He will warm you up with his contagious enthusiasm, unfolding a floating dreamlike world which breathes impressionistic freshness and the ephemeral beauty of what he chose to see and paint.
Through his use of color and line, Dufy succeeded to create a world where pain does not exist, a world where color is light, where light is color. Be ready for a total illumination of your spirits which pervades all of his work through what he called his theory of “couleur-lumière”; :Light is the soul of color, without light, color is lifeless.” His blues are quite astonishing…
Bea invites you to discover or reacquaint yourself with the magical work of Raoul Dufy, where our inner child will come alive again, where our dreams of simplicity and joy will sing forever.
Donation:
Members 160 pesos 150 pesos cash
Non-Members 265 pesos 250 pesos cash
When paying by CLIP, please note that donations are in pesos . Be sure to add your name, the event, the date of the event and number of tickets on the description field to ensure proper booking. Please bring either a printed or digital receipt on your phone with you to the event.
Wednesday Mornings with Bea: Les Fetes Galantes or The Bantering Art of Seduction in 18th Century French Rococo
Wednesday Mornings with Bea: Les Fetes Galantes or The Bantering Art of Seduction in 18th Century French Rococo
Sensuous dreams, voluptuous colors, cheeky amorous games, idealized idyllic pastoral settings, an aristocratic escapism before the tsunami of the Revolution, Les Fêtes Galantes, better translated as Courtship Parties, are the invention of Antoine Watteau,the Mozart of art, the master of subtlety, delight and pleasure, yet always oozing a dimension of sadness and subliminal anxiety.
These amorous parties ooze a lightness of being infused by the French Rococo sensibility. After Watteau, this flirtatious genre continued in the works of Pater, Lancret, Boucher and Fragonard, whose paintings will ravish your senses.
Donation:
Members 160 pesos 150 pesos cash
Non-Members 265 pesos 250 pesos cash
When paying by CLIP, please note that donations are in pesos . Be sure to add your name, the event, the date of the event and number of tickets on the description field to ensure proper booking. Please bring either a printed or digital receipt on your phone with you to the event.
Wednesday Mornings with Bea: History of Color
Wednesday Mornings with Bea: History of Color
WHAT IS COLOR?
(Isaac Newton)
WHERE DOES COLOR COME FROM?
(animal, vegetal, mineral pigments, to synthetic lab-made colors)
Today we press on a tube and premixed color oozes out. Ready to use
But…
BEFORE THE TUBE…
Bea will give you a brief history of color from Prehistorical times until today, and throughout different cultures too (Mayan, Ancient Egypt, Greco-Roman, the Americas, India, and more)
You will learn about tempera, encaustic, oil, watercolor, acrylic. We think we know it all, but Bea is pretty sure you’ll learn a few things in this fascinating historical, scientifical, technological COLOR JOURNEY!
Donation:
Members 160 pesos 150 pesos cash
Non-Members 265 pesos 250 pesos cash
When paying by CLIP, please note that donations are in pesos . Be sure to add your name, the event, the date of the event and number of tickets on the description field to ensure proper booking. Please bring either a printed or digital receipt on your phone with you to the event.
THE LETTERS PROJECT III
THE LETTERS PROJECT III: EVEN FURTHER ADVENTURES IN CORRESPONDENCE
A THIRD and Entirely NEW COLLECTION of LETTERS!
Dear Theater Enthusiasts of San Miguel,
They’re BA-A-A-ACKCK!!! Please consider this your official notice that THE LETTERS PROJECT folks are back at JC3 with their newest staged reading, THE LETTERS PROJECT III: Even Further Adventures in Correspondence. This company’s entertaining performance of sometimes-moving, sometimes-hilarious, sometimes-thought-provoking but always captivating letters will live in your mind for days after you’ve experienced it. Performed by The Letters Project’s intrepid crew, Lee Duberman, Richard Fink, Steve Garfinkel and Gene Harvey, this third reading from the Project features an entirely different collection of letters than its two, wildly popular, previous readings.
There will be two performances of THE LETTERS PROJECT III: Even Further Adventures in Correspondence this month. Both will be Sunday Matinee offerings at JC3 (the Jewish Cultural and Community Center of San Miguel de Allende / 47 Las Moras at Cinco de Mayo). Starting time for each of the performances is at 4:00 p.m. Dates are Sunday, January 12, 2025, and Sunday, January 19, 2025. Doors open at 3:30 p.m. for both performances, with snacks and drinks available for purchase before the show.
The reading consists of a mix of noteworthy letters selected from the two-volume set, “Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience,” collected by Sean Usher. Some are written to or by famous figures from the worlds of literary, artistic, theatrical, political or scientific endeavor, as well as some by folks you’ve never heard of.
There are funny letters and sad letters, with touching advice and amazing perspectives. Some just allow you to be a “fly-on-the wall” as figures from history speak from the heart to a friend or lover. The totality of the evening makes for a fascinating experience in the theater.
From a letter by a British TV star to her recently deceased dog to a letter by the father of an astronaut on the day before his first launch into space, from a note by recently burgled Mark Twain to any future thieves considering ransacking his home to a ransom note from a famous Muppet, each letter will have you wondering “What could possibly be coming NEXT???” Hint: You’ll never guess, and you won’t believe it when you hear it!
The letters in the Project have been culled and assembled by veteran SMA theater stars Lee Duberman and Richard Fink, in conjunction with JC3’s Steve Garfinkel. Joining the Duberman/Finks onstage for the readings are actors Gene Harvey and S. Garfinkel
Matinee staged readings of Letters of Note III: Even Further Adventures in Correspondence will be performed at JC3 (47 Calle Las Moras at Cinco de Mayo) on two Sundays at 4:00 p.m., January 12 and 19, 2025. Doors open at 3:30, with wine, other drinks and snacks available for purchase. Come schmoose before the show!
Admission is $200 pesos for non-members of JC3 / $150 for members. For ticket purchases or information, call (+52) 415-185-9191, visit shalomsanmiguel.org or email shalomsanmiguel@gmail.com.
Donation:
Non-member $210MXN, $200MXN when paying cash
Member $160MXN, $150MXN when paying cash
When paying by CLIP, please note that donations are in pesos . Be sure to add your name, the event, the date of the event and number of tickets on the description field to ensure proper booking. Please bring either a printed or digital receipt on your phone with you to the event.
Conservative Egalitarian Shabbat Morning Service
Conducted mostly in Hebrew as well as Spanish and English, in person and via Zoom. Following services, about 12 noon, is a pot-luck kiddish luncheon (vegetarian or dairy only). Please bring a dish to share. Click on the blue graphic for more details.
Conservative Kabbalat Shabbat Service – Online
Please join us on Zoom for this Conservative (traditional/egalitarian) service led by Dan Lessner (mostly in Hebrew, conducted in Spanish), just before sundown. Click on the blue graphic for details.
INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCING
Please join us for our weekly international folk dance class.
“If you can walk you can dance.” Enjoy yourself and meet new friends. Dance is a universal language. Exercise and socialize to great music as you learn dances from around the world. No experience necessary.
Instructor Elliot Fine has performed Balkan dances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Alvin Ailey Theater. He has taught International and Israeli folk-dancing at Antioch College, in New York City as well as here in San Miguel de Allende.
Donation: $100 MXN. Pay at the door
Perashat hashavúa, Pintar Torá / Drawing on Torah
Drawing on Torah: Chapter of the Week, in Spanish
THE LETTERS PROJECT III
THE LETTERS PROJECT III: EVEN FURTHER ADVENTURES IN CORRESPONDENCE
A THIRD and Entirely NEW COLLECTION of LETTERS!
Dear Theater Enthusiasts of San Miguel,
They’re BA-A-A-ACKCK!!! Please consider this your official notice that THE LETTERS PROJECT folks are back at JC3 with their newest staged reading, THE LETTERS PROJECT III: Even Further Adventures in Correspondence. This company’s entertaining performance of sometimes-moving, sometimes-hilarious, sometimes-thought-provoking but always captivating letters will live in your mind for days after you’ve experienced it. Performed by The Letters Project’s intrepid crew, Lee Duberman, Richard Fink, Steve Garfinkel and Gene Harvey, this third reading from the Project features an entirely different collection of letters than its two, wildly popular, previous readings.
There will be two performances of THE LETTERS PROJECT III: Even Further Adventures in Correspondence this month. Both will be Sunday Matinee offerings at JC3 (the Jewish Cultural and Community Center of San Miguel de Allende / 47 Las Moras at Cinco de Mayo). Starting time for each of the performances is at 4:00 p.m. Dates are Sunday, January 12, 2025, and Sunday, January 19, 2025. Doors open at 3:30 p.m. for both performances, with snacks and drinks available for purchase before the show.
The reading consists of a mix of noteworthy letters selected from the two-volume set, “Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience,” collected by Sean Usher. Some are written to or by famous figures from the worlds of literary, artistic, theatrical, political or scientific endeavor, as well as some by folks you’ve never heard of.
There are funny letters and sad letters, with touching advice and amazing perspectives. Some just allow you to be a “fly-on-the wall” as figures from history speak from the heart to a friend or lover. The totality of the evening makes for a fascinating experience in the theater.
From a letter by a British TV star to her recently deceased dog to a letter by the father of an astronaut on the day before his first launch into space, from a note by recently burgled Mark Twain to any future thieves considering ransacking his home to a ransom note from a famous Muppet, each letter will have you wondering “What could possibly be coming NEXT???” Hint: You’ll never guess, and you won’t believe it when you hear it!
The letters in the Project have been culled and assembled by veteran SMA theater stars Lee Duberman and Richard Fink, in conjunction with JC3’s Steve Garfinkel. Joining the Duberman/Finks onstage for the readings are actors Gene Harvey and S. Garfinkel
Matinee staged readings of Letters of Note III: Even Further Adventures in Correspondence will be performed at JC3 (47 Calle Las Moras at Cinco de Mayo) on two Sundays at 4:00 p.m., January 12 and 19, 2025. Doors open at 3:30, with wine, other drinks and snacks available for purchase. Come schmoose before the show!
Admission is $200 pesos for non-members of JC3 / $150 for members. For ticket purchases or information, call (+52) 415-185-9191, visit shalomsanmiguel.org or email shalomsanmiguel@gmail.com.
Donation:
Non-member $210MXN, $200MXN when paying cash
Member $160MXN, $150MXN when paying cash
When paying by CLIP, please note that donations are in pesos . Be sure to add your name, the event, the date of the event and number of tickets on the description field to ensure proper booking. Please bring either a printed or digital receipt on your phone with you to the event.
Hebrew School
Two Sundays a month from 10 a.m to 12 p.m.
The next two classes are December 8 and 22
Open to members’ children. Your children will learn about what it means to be Jewish. Teacher and musician Mario Moya leads a dynamic and creative class. Children will explore what it means to be Jewish and live a Jewish life through activities and projects explore Jewish values, history, literature and ritual. They will also learn to read and chant from the Torah in Hebrew. The class is taught in Spanish.
Contact the office:
415 185 9191
shalomsanmiguel@gmail.com
Conservative Egalitarian Shabbat Morning Service
Conducted mostly in Hebrew as well as Spanish and English, in person and via Zoom. Following services, about 12 noon, is a pot-luck kiddish luncheon (vegetarian or dairy only). Please bring a dish to share. Click on the blue graphic for more details.
Conservative Kabbalat Shabbat Service – Online
Please join us on Zoom for this Conservative (traditional/egalitarian) service led by Dan Lessner (mostly in Hebrew, conducted in Spanish), just before sundown. Click on the blue graphic for details.
International Folk Dancing
Please join us for our weekly international folk dance class.
“If you can walk you can dance.” Enjoy yourself and meet new friends. Dance is a universal language. Exercise and socialize to great music as you learn dances from around the world. No experience necessary.
Instructor Elliot Fine has performed Balkan dances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Alvin Ailey Theater. He has taught International and Israeli folk-dancing at Antioch College, in New York City as well as here in San Miguel de Allende.
Donation: $100 MXN. Pay at the door
Perashat hashavúa, Pintar Torá / Drawing on Torah
Drawing on Torah: Chapter of the Week, in Spanish
Conservative Egalitarian Shabbat Morning Service
Conducted mostly in Hebrew as well as Spanish and English, in person and via Zoom. Following services, about 12 noon, is a pot-luck kiddish luncheon (vegetarian or dairy only). Please bring a dish to share. Click on the blue graphic for more details.
Conservative Kabbalat Shabbat Service – Online
Please join us on Zoom for this Conservative (traditional/egalitarian) service led by Dan Lessner (mostly in Hebrew, conducted in Spanish), just before sundown. Click on the blue graphic for details.
Jewish Literary Circle: The Netanyahus
Discussion of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, a book boycotted because of its “Zionist” author.
Chanukah Party / Fiesta de Janucá
Please join us at the JC3 for our annual CHANUKAH CELEBRATION.
There will be games, latkes, drinks served up by a bartender, singing, dancing, live Spicy Jewish Music (Sephardic with a Mexican twist) and Klezmer by members of the Hot Tamales, latkes, candle lighting, latkes, and our annual piñata dreidel smashing.
Remember to bring vegetarian food to share with others at the party, your own menorah and candles. Also please bring canned, and boxed food which will be used to build our traditional community menorah. The food will be donated to So Others May Eat.
Most importantly bring yourselves.
Members: Free (You can join on the day of the party)
Non-members: cash $250, CLIP $263
Press the link below to pay by CLIP (credit/debit card).
When paying by CLIP, please note that donations are in pesos . Be sure to add your name, the event and the date of the event on the description field to ensure proper booking. Please bring either a printed or digital receipt on your phone with you to the event.
Conservative Egalitarian Shabbat Morning Service
Conducted mostly in Hebrew as well as Spanish and English, in person and via Zoom. Following services, about 12 noon, is a pot-luck kiddish luncheon (vegetarian or dairy only). Please bring a dish to share. Click on the blue graphic for more details.
Conservative Musical Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Sing some of your favorite Shabbat songs, accompanied on guitar and keyboard and led by our very own members, and lay leader Dan Lessner and Mario Moya. Conducted mostly in Hebrew as well as Spanish and English, in person and via Zoom. Following services, about 7:30pm, is a pot-luck kiddish (vegetarian or dairy only). Please bring a dish to share.
Chanukah Shabbaton
Friday, Dec. 27
· 5:30 Menorah lighting (Day 3 of Chanukah)
· 5:45 Shabbat candlelighting
· 5:45-6:45 Joyous, musical "Conservative-lite" Kabbalat Shabbal and Evening Service, featuring Mario Moya on keyboard.
· Shared Shabbat Community Dinner (please bring vegetarian or dairy food to share)
· Birkat Ha-mazon and zemirot/singing
· Lots of socializing and schmoozing!
Saturday, Dec. 28
· 9-12:15 Full Shabbat Shacharit/ Morning Service
· 12:30-1:30 Community Kiddush Luncheon (please bring vegetarian or dairy food to share)
· Birkat Ha-mazon with zemirot /singing
· 1:30-3:30 Torah Discussion Groups (Dan Lessner will lead the Spanish-language group;volunteer-led English-language group.)
· 3-4 Minchah/ Afternoon Service for Shabbat (with Torah reading)
· Free time for "Shabbos shluff" or to enjoy SMA
· 6:00 Seudah shelishit (afternoon snack)
· 7:00 Havdalah followed by Menorah lighting (Day 4 of Chanukah)
· 7:30-8 Weekday Arvit/Evening Service
· 8-10 (or later) "Melaveh Malka"/ Party to say goodbye to the "Shabbat Queen"
Sunday, Dec. 29
· 9–10:15 Weekday Shacharit/Morning Service
· 10:15-11 Continental Breakfast
· 11-12 Talk on "The Miracle(s) of Chanukah" in Spanish (English translation as needed)
· 10-12 Rene's Sing along for youth (AT TEDDY'S HOUSE). Please contact shalomsanmiguel.org for details
· 12-3 Rest
· 2 Setup – Volunteers welcome
· 3-4 Let the party begin
· Bartender for adults, latkes for all, and gamesand "Make Your Own Chanukah Headband" for children and youth: dreidel, board games, and storytelling.
· 3:45 Mario's duet gets ready with The Story of Hanuka and Ocho Kandelikas sing along.
· 4-5 Spicy Jewish Music. Sephardic from around the world with a touch a spicy Mexican Music. Mario Moya and Malki Ramos.
· 5-6 Klezmer music by members of the Hot Tamales
· 6:15 Candelighting
Please bring:
o Vegetarian or dairy food to share
o Your own chanukiot (menorahs) and candles/oil to light
o Canned or dried food (rice, beans, pasta...) for our "Mitzvah Menorah" (to be donated to charity after the party.
Chanuka First Night Lighting / Primera Noche de Janucá
First Night of Chanukah: Join us on Wednesday, December 25, at 5:45 to schmooze a bit in the Parroquia atrio, or courtyard and then for the first candle-ligting on our community Chanukah menorah. Sing with us and enjoy the favors we hand out at the end. For those of you visiting the area, the Parroquia is the iconic central church of San Miguel that is in the main square, or Jardin of the town.
Primera Noche de Janucá: Únanse a nosotros el miércoles 25 de diciembre, a las 5:45 p.m. para un momento de convivencia en el atrio de la Parroquia en el Jardín, seguido del encendido de la primera vela en nuestra Janukiá comunitaria.
Conservative Egalitarian Shabbat Morning Service
Conducted mostly in Hebrew as well as Spanish and English, in person and via Zoom. Following services, about 12 noon, is a pot-luck kiddish luncheon (vegetarian or dairy only). Please bring a dish to share. Click on the blue graphic for more details.
ZOOM Conservative Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Conducted mostly in Hebrew as well as Spanish and English, in person and via Zoom. Following services, about 12 noon, is a pot-luck kiddish luncheon (vegetarian or dairy only). Please bring a dish to share. Click on the blue graphic for more details.