Community Calendar

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Click here for directions to submit your Jewish nonprofit community event to the Community Calendar. Federation encourages you to consult and follow the latest Connecticut COVID-19 guidelines when planning in-person events. 

ABOUT RED AND ORANGE LETTER EVENTS:

  • To request a Red or Orange Letter event, please submit your event as you would any other, but include “RED LETTER: Event Name” or “ORANGE LETTER: Event Name” as the title (for example: RED LETTER: JCC Annual Meeting).
  • All events will be added to the Community Calendar in the order they were submitted.

QUESTIONS? Contact Samantha Schoenberg at schoenberg@jewishhartford.org.

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Mar

1 2021

Voices of Hope Speaker Series

7:00PM - 8:30PM  

Weekly series with speakers on topics involving the Holocaust and genocide.

Mar

1 2021

Young Israel Board Meeting

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

 

Young Israel Board Meeting

Mar

2 2021

JFGH Board Meeting

5:30PM - 7:30PM  

Federation Board of Directors Meeting

Mar

2 2021

Hartford Jewish Film Festival Reel Talk – Holy Silence – Steven Pressman, Director and Producer; Dr. Suzanne Brow…

Mar

2 2021

Emanuel Synagogue Executive Committee Meeting

7:30PM - 9:00PM  

Emanuel Synagogue
78 Parsons Drive
West Hartford, CT 06117

The Emanuel Executive Committee Meeting (meets first Tuesday of every month)

Mar

3 2021

FIDF Project Overcome Lunch & Learn

12:00PM - 2:00PM  

Zoom

Join FIDF for a Lunch & Learn - Overcoming the odds: How the IDF transforms lives

At the IDF Chavat Hashomer base, I…

Mar

3 2021

America's Jewish Women: An Evening with Pamela Nadell

8:00PM - 9:00PM  

Beth El Temple -- Online Event
2626 Albany Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117

Professor Pamela Nadell will celebrate Women’s History Month with us and share insights from her recent book, "Amer…

Mar

4 2021

JCRC Board Meeting

5:30PM - 7:00PM  

Zoom call

JCRC Monthly Board Meeting

Mar

4 2021

Kendell Pinkney is a Brooklyn based theatre-maker, Jewish-life consultant, and rabbinical student at the Jewish…

Mar

5 2021

PJ Library Family Shabbat Club

11:00AM - 11:30AM  

Susan Lentini
Zachs Campus
335 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117

Let's welcome Shabbat together virtually with song, blessings and PJ Library stories.

Free and open to all little on…

Mar

7 2021

Bridging Israel and the Diaspora

11:15AM - 1:15PM  

A Zoom conversation with Rabbi Seth Farber

Mar

7 2021

Budapest & Vienna: In the Footsteps of Theodor Herzl with Mike Hollander

1:00PM - 3:00PM  

Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119

These two capitals of the Austro-Hungarian Empire boasted thriving, creative, successful, and influential Jewish comm…

Mar

8 2021

Voices of Hope Speaker Series

7:00PM - 8:30PM  

Weekly series with speakers on topics involving the Holocaust and genocide.

Mar

9 2021

Pre-Pesach wine tasting

6:00PM - 9:00PM  

Pre-Pesach wine tasting

Mar

9 2021

Mar

9 2021

 

Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies present Trio Sefardi featuring Susan Feltman Gaeta.

Mar

10 2021

Voices of Hope Board Meeting

6:00PM - 7:30PM  

Voices of Hope Board Meeting

Mar

10 2021

NEJA Executive Board Meeting

7:00PM - 9:00PM  



CT

NEJA Executive Board Meeting - Zoom Meeting

Mar

11 2021

Hartford Jewish Film Festival Reel Talk – ‘Til Kingdom Comes with Amy Weiss, University of Hartford Greenberg Cen…

Mar

12 2021

PJ Library Family Shabbat Club

11:00AM - 11:30AM  

Susan Lentini
Zachs Campus
335 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117

Let's welcome Shabbat together virtually with song, blessings and PJ Library stories.

Free and open to all little on…

Mar

12 2021

Organ Sounds Concert Series

6:30PM - 7:15PM  

Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119

Join us as we feature our musical director Natasha Ulyanovsky on our historic organ and guest soloists in a series of…

Mar

14 2021

FIDF Hipstory with Amit Shoshani

10:00AM - 11:00AM  

Zoom

Join FIDF for an exclusive interview with Israeli artist and creator of Hipstory, Amit Shimoni, as he chronicles his …

Mar

14 2021

Anat Hoffman: The Legal Status of the Reform Movement in Israel

11:00AM - 1:00PM  

Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119

Despite the Reform movement arguably being the largest in world Jewry, it has never received much support from the Is…

Mar

14 2021

Travel to Israel may be on our hearts and minds, but sadly, in the world's current climate, our visits are regulated…

Mar

14 2021

Solomon Schechter 50th Anniversary Gala

Mar

15 2021

Voices of Hope Speaker Series

7:00PM - 8:30PM  

Weekly series with speakers on topics involving the Holocaust and genocide.

Mar

16 2021

Emanuel Synagogue Board of Trustees Meeting

7:30PM - 9:00PM  

Emanuel Synagogue
160 Mohegan Drive
West Hartford, CT 06117

The Emanuel Synagogue Board of Trustees meet monthly, on the third Tuesday of the month

Mar

17 2021

Robert Siegel (former Senior Host of NPR’s All Things Considered for 31 years) interviews Jonathan Greenblatt…

Mar

17 2021

JHSGH Board Meeting

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

JHSGH virtual meeting of the board of directors

Mar

18 2021

Federation Men's Philanthropy: "Bitcoin: Blockbuster or Bubble?"

7:00PM - 8:15PM  

Virtual event: Zoom

CT

Will cryptocurrency’s promise of faster payments and lower fees upend banking as we know it? Or is it a flash in…

Mar

18 2021

Schechter Board Meeting

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

Meeting of the Trustees of the Board

Mar

18 2021

ALEPH, Blacks, Jews, and Black Jews

7:30PM - 9:30PM  

Zoom

Susannah Heschel on Jews and the civil rights movement, then and now

Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Professor of …

Mar

19 2021

PJ Library Family Shabbat Club

11:00AM - 11:30AM  

Susan Lentini
Zachs Campus
335 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117

Let's welcome Shabbat together virtually with song, blessings and PJ Library stories.

Free and open to all little on…

Mar

20 2021

Virtual Tot Seder Tot Shabbat

10:30AM - 11:00AM  

Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119

Children under 5, siblings, parents, grandparents are invited to join us. Get ready for Passover with us as we prepar…

Mar

21 2021

Emanuel Synagogue's Day of Learning

9:00AM - 5:00PM  

Lisa Lenkiewicz
160 Mohegan Drive
West Hartford, CT 06117

The Emanuel Synagogue will hold a Day of Learning, which will include guest speakers.

Mar

21 2021

Travel to Israel may be on our hearts and minds, but sadly, in the world's current climate, our visits are regulated…

Mar

21 2021

Please join the members of Temple Beth Hillel On Sunday, March 21 at 2 PM for a virtual panel discussion featuring Je…

Mar

21 2021

Join us for an entertaining virtual Seder experience with the very top artists in Jewish kids music. Get ready for Pa…

Mar

21 2021

Author & Book Discussion: The Kosher Capones

5:00PM - 6:30PM  

Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119

The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago's Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author …

Mar

21 2021

Beth El Music & Arts Concert: Beethoven & Grieg 4EVER

8:00PM - 9:00PM  

Beth El Temple -- Online Event
2626 Albany Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117

In our continued commitment to engage the community with classical music, we bring you an amazing evening with two of…

Mar

22 2021

JewGood Reads Author Chat

7:00PM - 8:00PM  

zoom event

Start your week with a dose of inspiration. Hear about heartwarming moments when a seemingly small act of kindness ch…

Mar

22 2021

Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies Lecture via Zoom with Josh Teplitsky. For additional information please c…

Mar

23 2021

Federation Virtual Passover Cook-Along

6:30PM - 8:00PM  

Zoom

Join us as we make a delicious dairy matzo strata and chocolate macaroons over Zoom! Recipes and shopping list provided.

Mar

24 2021

Hartford Jewish Film Festival Reel Talk – Viral & Thou Shalt Not Hate – Andrew Goldberg, Director of Viral; moder…

Mar

24 2021

JFS Board of Directors Meeting

7:00PM - 8:00PM  

Zoom

Jewish Family Services Board of Directors scheduled meeting

Mar

24 2021

Let It Go: A Virtual Women's Seder

7:30PM - 9:00PM  

Virtual | Zoom

The Mandell JCC joins the Bender JCC of Greater Washington and the JCC of Greater Washington to share, 'Let It Go: A …

Mar

25 2021

Conversation with Professor Ewa Callahan of Quinnipiac University on film and the Holocaust

Mar

26 2021

PJ Library Family Shabbat Club

11:00AM - 11:30AM  

Susan Lentini
Zachs Campus
335 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117

Let's welcome Shabbat together virtually with song, blessings and PJ Library stories.

Free and open to all little on…

Mar

27 2021

Pre-Pesach Luncheon

12:00PM - 2:00PM  

Pre-Pesach Luncheon

Mar

28 2021

Virtual Women's Seder

5:00PM - 6:00PM  

Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119

A seder for women of all ages. If my liberation is bound up in your liberation then let's start with the original sto…

Mar

29 2021

Gishrei Shalom Jewish Congregation Virtual Seder

6:00PM - 8:00PM  

GSJC Zoom link

Join us on Zoom for a virtual seder led by Rabbi Alana Wasserman!!! Contact us for more information and the Zoom link.

Mar

31 2021

Virtual Chocolate-Themed Seder

4:30PM - 5:30PM  

Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119

Everyone is welcome, especially chocolate enthusiastsm to join us for this sweet—themed seder.

Mar

31 2021

JCC Board of Directors meeting

5:30PM - 7:00PM  

JCC Board of Directors meeting