Across Iranian Jewry: Home, Exile, and Belonging

After our online Minyan on Monday mornings we open a short Grief Garden Circle, a sacred listening space, from 8.30-9.00am.  Please join us there if you are holding grief. To join our weekly Grief Garden Circle, click here Have questions? Please email [email protected] Schedule a 1-0n-1 Grief Support with Dev here: https://cal.com/devorah-brous/grief-support?duration=60

5:30pm: Children’s Program (food, art project, mini Megillah reading) 6:20pm: Ma’ariv 6:30pm: Whole Megillah Reading and Spiel 7:45pm til late: Party Entrance is free for all! REGISTRATION IS STRONGLY SUGGESTED IF 21+, BRING YOUR ID FOR DRINKS It’s been a hard year, folks. Fires. Funding cuts. Federal agents. This Purim, we’re saying We Love You, LA. Come join us for a big group hug of our city and community, with stories of resilience, courage, and survival. Come celebrate, dress up, laugh a little, and remember: no matter who your Haman is, we’re still here. Together.

What is the Grief Garden? Please join Dev Brous, a certified trauma-informed Compassionate Bereavement Care grief counselor, and herbalist. Join this safe, reflective space to hold, and to be held as we “garden” grief. Here, we share reflections on what we’re learning from grief through embodied weekly prompts that connect people to nature-based Jewish healing practices. To sign-up, please fill out this form. Here’s the link to join the Grief Garden FS2S What’sApp: https://tinyurl.com/2eacz8nc Schedule a 1-0n-1 Grief Support with Dev here: https://cal.com/devorah-brous/grief-support?duration=60  

In this four-part series, we will explore how Judaism addresses kind and harmful speech, beginning with Torah and developing over the history of Halakhah (Jewish law). We will study the laws of Ona’at D’varim (harmful speech) as both a window into ancient and contemporary Jewish values, as well as the ongoing process of biblical and legal interpretation.