Name: JCC East Bay Rosh Chodesh Circle
Start: 2024-05-06T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-05-06T20:30:00-07:00
Location: Rockridge

Celebrate the new moon with an evening of reflection and connection at JCC. Join for wine, desserts, journaling, and some Jewish joy!
About this Event

Join us this Rosh Chodesh with the JCC East Bay as we hold a reflective reading and writing workshop led by Gahl Pratt Pardes, a writer from the Negev and current Stegner Fellow in creative writing at Stanford University.

This time of year is weighted towards difficult memory. Yom HaZikaron (Israeli Memorial Day) falls on the 5th of Iyyar. And this month's Rosh Chodesh meeting happens to fall on Yom HaShoah (Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day). Through deep reading of poems by the 20th century poets Avot Yeshurun and Zelda, and a subsequent generative writing workshop, we will delve into the act of holding and giving language to communal memory, grief, and hope.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

JCC East Bay's Rosh Chodesh Circle is a gender-non specific gathering. This gathering is envisioned for folks in their 40-50s, however all are welcome to join!
Specific address will be shared after registration via confirmation email

Please read the FAQs below for imporant information!

Equal access to all:

The JCC East Bay welcomes and supports our diverse Jewish community, people of all religions, nationalities, and socioeconomic backgrounds, communities of color, people with disabilities, and the LGBTQ+ community.

The JCC East Bay believes it is important for people of all abilities to feel welcome and included in our space. Our building does offer limitations, and cannot accommodate everyone in the way we would hope. Please let us know your specific needs so we can best support you to feel included in our space.

If you are experiencing financial hardship and are unable to afford the price of the ticket, please contact [email protected] and she'll sign you up! We look forward to hearing from you to make your experience at the JCC East Bay a positive one!

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