Labor Day
Community Calendar
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.
To download a four-year Jewish Holiday Calendar, click here.
Sep 4, 2023
Sep 16 - Sep 17, 2023
Rosh Hashanah
Sep 25, 2023
Yom Kippur
Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2023
Sukkot
Sep
3 2023
Beth David BBQ and High Holiday Event
11:00AM - 3:00PM
Beth David Synagogue
20 Dover Road
West Hartford, CT 06119
Fall Pre-holiday event
Sep
6 2023
Sep
7 2023
Sep
8 2023
CBI's Kol Shabbat Service & Dinner
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119
Kol Shabbat is a camp-style service with a song-leader playing guitar, sometimes led in part by students in our Youth…
Sep
10 2023
JTConnect Kick-Off Event
11:00AM - 1:00PM
JTConnect's 2023-2024 Program Year Kick-Off Event open to all teens and families! Location TBD.
Sep
10 2023
Back to Beth El Temple Carnival & Community Celebration
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Beth El Temple
2626 Albany Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117
Gather with your community and learn about all that Beth El has to offer! Enjoy an inflatable obstacle course, fun, f…
Sep
10 2023
Friendship Circle Teen Kick Off Training
5:00PM - 7:00PM
West Hartford, CT
Training for ALL teen volunteers.
Sep
11 2023
Beth David Synagogue Board Meeting
7:25PM - 8:55PM
Beth David Synagogue
20 Dover Road
West Hartford, CT 06119
Beth David Synagogue Board Meeting
Sep
12 2023
CBI's SAGE: A Conversation with CBI Leadership
11:00AM - 12:00PM
Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119
SAGE meetings are open to all regardless of age. A light buffet lunch follows each SAGE in-person presentation.
A Con…
Sep
12 2023
Pomegranate event
5:30PM - 7:30PM
This will be a cooking demonstration with Scott Miller, chef at Zohara to be held at Evi Shekhman's house.
Sep
12 2023
The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Mandell JCC
335 Bloomfield Avenue,
West Hartford, CT 06117
Book talk by Sandra Fox, author of "The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture," which explores the meaning…
Sep
13 2023
Global Connections with Robert Siegel: Combating Antisemitism
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Halie Grace Shost
New York, NY, USA
Zoom
New York, NY 10012
Robert Siegel (NPR) interviews: Dr. Georgette Bennett, Dan Granot, Ted Deutch & Tamara Berens
Sep
13 2023
Voices of Hope Board Meeting
6:00PM - 8:00PM
Kathy Fishman
20 Waterside Drive, Suite 100
Farmington, CT 06032
Voices of Hope Board Meeting
Sep
13 2023
JFS Board Meeting
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Community Services Building
Federation Board Room
333 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford,
JFS Board Meeting
Sep
15 2023
Sep
17 2023
Rosh Hashanah Services at Beth David
6:30AM - 7:30PM
Beth David Synagogue
20 Dover Road
West Hartford, CT 06119
Rosh Hashanah There is no charge for attending services for the High Holydays/Yamim Noraim at Beth David Synagogue…
Sep
19 2023
Is Democracy in Israel Salvageable? Featuring Dahlia Scheindlin
12:30PM - 1:30PM
The Dodd Center for Human Rights
405 Babbidge Road - U-1205 Room 158
Storrs, CT 06269
Her newest book, The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel: Promise Unfulfilled is a narrative chronicle of Israeli…
Sep
19 2023
3rd Annual Tash & Nosh
6:00PM - 8:00PM
Windsor, CT
Join the Federation's Emerging Leadership Division as we cast the past year's stresses and transgressions away and pe…
Sep
21 2023
JTConnect Board Meeting
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Jewish Community Services Building
333 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117
Board of Directors meeting for JTConnect program
Sep
21 2023
Schechter Board Meeting
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Schechter Day School
26 Buena Vista Road
West Hartford, CT 06117
Monthly meeting of the Board of Trustees
Sep
21 2023
CBI's Adult Ed: Louis Schmidt
8:30PM - 9:30PM
Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Ave.
West Hartford, CT 06119
Virtual only program, visit cbict.org to register. Louis Schmidt will talk about the genesis of his involvement with …
Sep
24 2023
Sep
25 2023
Yom Kippur Services at Beth David
6:30PM - 7:30PM
Beth David Synagogue
20 Dover Road
West Hartford, CT 06119
There is no charge for attending services for Yom Kippur at Beth David Synagogue this year. However, pre…
Sep
26 2023
Pancake Breakfast for First Responders
8:00AM - 10:00AM
Penni Martin
Hebrew Center for Health and Rehabilitation
1 Abrahms Blvd.
West Hartford, CT 06117
Stop by our facility for a first responders pancake breakfast.
Sep
27 2023
JFGH Board Meeting
5:00PM - 7:00PM
JFGH Board Room
333 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117
JFGH Board Meeting
Sep
27 2023
Mandell JCC - Board Meeting
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Mandell JCC
335 Bloomfield Avenue
Hartford, CT 06117
Mandell JCC - Board Meeting
Sep
28 2023
Sep
28 2023
Women Committing to Action
7:00PM - 9:00PM
The Mark Twain House and Museum
385 Farmington Avenue
Hartford, CT 06105
Join our community Security Director, John Colangelo, in a special training just for women. For yourselves and your f…
Sep
29 2023
Organ Sounds Concert featuring Alexander Straus-Fausto
6:45PM - 7:30PM
Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119
Join us in celebrating the 90th birthday of Congregation Beth Israel's historic Austin organ. This is the first conce…
Sep
29 2023
Erev Sukkot & Shabbat Service with Shabbat Band
7:30PM - 8:30PM
Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119
We welcome our cantorial soloist Adam Blotner and our klezmer band for our Shabbat Service and to celebrate Sukkot, a…
Sep
30 2023
Chevra Mishnayot, Tractate Kiddushin
9:30AM - 10:00AM
Beth David Synagogue
20 Dover Road
West Hartford, CT 06119
Ongoing class. You can join at any time. Texts provided in both Hebrew and English.
Sep
30 2023
Sukkot Party & Open House: Pizza in the Hut!
6:00PM - 7:30PM
Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119
All are welcome to join us to celebrate Sukkot in our courtyard sukkah! Enjoy pizza in the hut and get a chance to sh…