Calendar - Congregation Or Tzion

Sun	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
29Kislev 13 NO Religious School - Thanksgiving 10:00a A Rabbi Reads The Qu'ran, with Rabbi David Klatzker, Ph.D.	30Kislev 14 5:00p Parsha Hashavuah Class with Rabbi Sussman	1Kislev 15 6:00p Hidden Histories and Untold Stories Series	2Kislev 16 4:00p Religious School 7:00p Education Committee Meeting 8:00p Transitional Committee Meeting 8:00p Equity, Forgiveness and Intersectionality Series	3Kislev 17 7:30a Minyan 7:00p 5th Grade Bar/Bat Mitzvah Orientation	4Kislev 18 Bar Mitzvah weekend of Alex Moriarty 5:01p Candle Lighting 6:00p Shabbat Service	5Kislev 19 Vayishlach 9:30a Shabbat Services 11:15a Parsha Hashavuah Class with Rabbi Sussman
6Kislev 20 9:00a WLCOT Hanukkah Gift Shop 10:00a Religious School 12:00p 6th-7th Grade Bar/Bat Mitzvah Orientation 1:30p Hanukkah Latke Making	7Kislev 21 5:00p Parsha Hashavuah Class with Rabbi Sussman 7:00p Focus Group	8Kislev 22 6:00p Hidden Histories and Untold Stories Series 7:00p Focus Group	9Kislev 23 4:00p Religious School 7:00p Kadima Lounge Night: Dreidel Wars (Virtual) 7:00p Finance Committee Meeting 8:00p Equity, Forgiveness and Intersectionality Series	10Kislev 24 Erev Chanukah 7:30a Minyan 7:00p Focus Group	11Kislev 25 Chanukah Bat Mitzvah weekend of Tegan Lamb 5:02p Candle Lighting 6:00p Shabbat Service	12Kislev 26 Chanukah Shabbat Mevarchim Vayeshev 9:30a Shabbat Services 6:00p POSSIBLE Hanukkah Celebration 7:00p USY Hannukah Hang
13Kislev 27 Chanukah 10:00a A Rabbi Reads The Qu'ran, with Rabbi David Klatzker, Ph.D. 10:00a Hanukkah Light 10:00a Religious School	14Kislev 28 Chanukah 5:00p Parsha Hashavuah Class with Rabbi Sussman 7:00p Focus Group	15Kislev 29 Chanukah 7:00p Focus Group	16Tevet 1 Chanukah Rosh Chodesh Tevet 4:00p Religious School 7:00p Focus Group	17Tevet 2 Chanukah 7:30a Minyan 7:00p Board Meeting	18Tevet 3 Chanukah 5:04p Candle Lighting	19Tevet 4 Miketz 9:30a Shabbat Services 11:15a Parsha Hashavuah Class with Rabbi Sussman
20Tevet 5 NO Religious School - Winter Break 9:00a Young Family Committee Meeting (Virtual) 10:00a A Rabbi Reads The Qu'ran, with Rabbi David Klatzker, Ph.D. 1:00p Focus Group	21Tevet 6 5:00p Parsha Hashavuah Class with Rabbi Sussman	22Tevet 7 7:00p Membership and Marketing Meeting (virtual)	23Tevet 8 NO Religious School - Winter Break 7:00p Ritual Committee Meeting	24Tevet 9 9:30a Minyan	25Tevet 10 Fast of Tevet OFFICE CLOSED 5:08p Candle Lighting 6:00p Shabbat Service	26Tevet 11 Vayigash 9:30a Shabbat Services
27Tevet 12 NO Religious School - Winter Break 5:00p WLCOT BINGO	28Tevet 13 1:00p Valley Beit Midrash/Scientists in Synagogues 5:00p Parsha Hashavuah Class with Rabbi Sussman	29Tevet 14	30Tevet 15 NO Religious School - Winter Break	31Tevet 16 9:30a Minyan	1Tevet 17 New Year's Day OFFICE CLOSED 5:12p Candle Lighting 6:00p Shabbat Service	2Tevet 18 Vayechi 9:30a Shabbat Services

Sunday, November 29, 2020 • 13 Kislev 5781

All	Day		NO Religious School - Thanksgiving
10:00a	11:15a		A Rabbi Reads The Qu'ran, with Rabbi David Klatzker, Ph.D. Join us for an introduction to the Qu’ran, paying special attention to how it relates to Jews, Torah and Jewish tradition. Please purchase a copy of M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, translator, The Qu’ran (Oxford University Press). Available in paperback or on Kindle and Nook. This is the translation most commonly used in American universities today. Questions? Contact Rabbi Klatzker, rabbiklatzker@congregationortzion.org There is no charge for the class. RSVP to receive a Zoom link: ortzion@congregationortzion.org

Monday, November 30, 2020 • 14 Kislev 5781

5:00p

5:45p

Parsha Hashavuah Class with Rabbi Sussman

Parsha Hashavuah - Join Rabbi Sussman for Parsha Hashavuah. For the latter part of 2020, we will meet once a week to read and discuss the Torah Portion of the week. Join the zoom at otaz.org/sussman.

Tuesday, December 1, 2020 • 15 Kislev 5781

6:00p

7:00p

Hidden Histories and Untold Stories Series

Join JTS scholars as they uncover the hidden context around biblical figures and important eras in Jewish history. 11/10: Dr. David Fishman on how religious pre-Holocaust Eastern European Jewry actually was—or wasn’t 11/17: Dr. Alan Cooper on why we stopped caring about Moses’s descendants 12/1: Dr. Sarah Wolf on how foreign the beit midrash would feel to the early Rabbis 12/8: Dr. Amy Kalmanofsky on what the Bible really had against Jezebel

Wednesday, December 2, 2020 • 16 Kislev 5781

4:00p	5:40p	Religious School
7:00p		Education Committee Meeting
8:00p	9:00p	Transitional Committee Meeting
8:00p	9:00p	Equity, Forgiveness and Intersectionality Series Join Ziegler faculty as they explore issues related to race, gender equality, intersectionality, and building a democracy of the future. Download the full descriptions for each Ziegler session here. 11/11: Rabbi Cheryl Peretz will examine the centuries old Jewish march towards gender equality and justice 11/18: Rabbi Dr. Elliot Dorff will explore the concept of communal forgiveness 12/2: Rabbi Dr. Gail Labovitz on what Exodus has to teach us about intersectionality 12/9: Rabbi Dr. Aryeh Cohen on building a multiracial democracy

Thursday, December 3, 2020 • 17 Kislev 5781

7:30a			Minyan 1 hrs:
7:00p	8:00p		5th Grade Bar/Bat Mitzvah Orientation

Friday, December 4, 2020 • 18 Kislev 5781

All	Day	Bar Mitzvah weekend of Alex Moriarty
5:01p		Candle Lighting
6:00p		Shabbat Service

Shabbat, December 5, 2020 • 19 Kislev 5781

Parshat Vayishlach

9:30a

Shabbat Services

11:15a

12:00p