Community Calendar

Suggest an Event

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.

Oct 2, 2024
Erev Rosh Hashanah
Oct 3, 2024
Rosh Hashanah
Oct 4, 2024
Rosh Hashanah
Oct 11, 2024
Erev Yom Kippur
Oct 12, 2024
Yom Kippur
Oct 14, 2024
Columbus Day
Oct 16, 2024
Erev Sukkot
Oct 17, 2024
Sukkot
Oct 18, 2024
Sukkot
Oct 19, 2024
Sukkot
Oct 20, 2024
Sukkot
Oct 21, 2024
Sukkot
Oct 22, 2024
Sukkot
Oct 23, 2024
Sukkot
Oct 24, 2024
Shemini Atzeret
Oct 25, 2024
Simchat Torah
Oct

1 2024

CBI's Baby Talk: For Parents of 0-12 Months Children

11:00AM - 12:00PM  

Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119

FOR PARENTS OF 0-12 MONTHS CHILDREN! Bring yourself and your 0-12 month old baby (if you'd like!). Please bring a bla…

Oct

2 2024

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Oct

3 2024

Rosh Hashanah in Southington

7:00PM - 2:30PM  

Gishrei Shalom Jewish Congegation
37 Main Street
Southington,, CT 06489

Join us on 10/2 and /or 10/3/24 for Rosh Hashanah services.

Oct

4 2024

Shabbat Shebang! With the ECC

9:40AM - 10:10AM  

New England Jewish Academy
300 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117

 

Join NEJA for Shabbat Shebang! Parents bring your children ages 4 and under for some fun music, shabbat songs and prayers.

Oct

7 2024

 

Details To Be Announced 

Oct

8 2024

CBI's Baby Talk: For Parents of 0-12 Months Children

11:00AM - 12:00PM  

Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119

FOR PARENTS OF 0-12 MONTHS CHILDREN! Bring yourself and your 0-12 month old baby (if you'd like!). Please bring a bla…

Oct

9 2024

Youth Mental Health First Aid

9:00AM - 3:00PM  

Jewish Family Services of Greater Hartford
333 Bloomfield Ave, Suite A
West Hartford, CT 06117

 

Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, neigh…

Oct

9 2024

Community Leadership Initiative

5:30PM - 8:30PM  

Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford
333 Bloomfield Avenue, Suite C
West Hartford, CT 06117

The Community Leadership Initiative (CLI) is a 10-month program designed for senior level lay leaders from Greater Ha…

Oct

9 2024

 

Emotional Regulation Skills (DBT): Essential Tools to Model and Teach Emotion Management

Jennifer L. Hartstein, PsyD…

Oct

10 2024

Annual Campaign Kick-off Breakfast

Oct

10 2024

4th Annual Tash & Nosh

5:30PM - 7:30PM  

Solomon Schechter Day School
26 Buena Vista Road
West Hartford, CT 06107

Join the Federation's Emerging Leadership Division as we cast the past year's stresses and transgressions away and pe…

Oct

11 2024

Shabbat Shebang! With the ECC

9:40AM - 10:10AM  

New England Jewish Academy
300 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117

 

Join NEJA for Shabbat Shebang! Parents bring your children ages 4 and under for some fun music, shabbat songs and prayers.

Oct

15 2024

Jewish Book Festival Lee Yaron _10-7 100 Human Stories

7:00AM - 8:30AM  

Mandell JCC
335 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117

 

Jewish Book Festival: Lee Yaron, author of 10/7:100 Human Stories, in Conversation with Mel Simon
Lee Yaron, a Climat…

Oct

15 2024

CBI's Baby Talk: For Parents of 0-12 Months Children

11:00AM - 12:00PM  

Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119

FOR PARENTS OF 0-12 MONTHS CHILDREN! Bring yourself and your 0-12 month old baby (if you'd like!). Please bring a bla…

Oct

15 2024

Oct

18 2024

Shabbat Shebang! With the ECC

9:40AM - 10:10AM  

New England Jewish Academy
300 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117

 

Join NEJA for Shabbat Shebang! Parents bring your children ages 4 and under for some fun music, shabbat songs and prayers.

Oct

19 2024

JNext Fall Fest

7:30PM - 9:30PM  

Sparrow Pizza Bar
977 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT

 

Join JNext for a fun, festive night out!

Oct

20 2024

Film Screening and Director Talkback: The Last New Yorker, with Harvey Wang

2:00PM - 4:00PM  

Yiddish Book Center
1021 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002

 

Lifelong friends and New Yorkers Lenny Sugarman (Dominic Chianese) and Ruben Liebner (Dick Latessa) barely recognize…

Oct

20 2024

Sukkot Celebration!

3:00PM - 4:30PM  

Mandell JCC of Greater Hartford
335 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117

Join the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford's Emerging Leadership Division, JNext, and PJ Library for a family-fri…

Oct

21 2024

Nova Festival Survivor

7:00PM - 8:00PM  

First Church of Christ
675 Main Street
Hartford,

 

Joining Community. Bear Witness. Learn from Nova Festival Survivor Ron Segev.

Oct

21 2024

Sushi & Drinks in the Sukkah

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

Beth David Synagogue
20 Dover Road
West Hartford, CT 06119

 

Kosher sushi and snacks will be served in Beth David’s sukkah. The event is for young professionals (20s & 30s)…

Oct

22 2024

CBI's Baby Talk: For Parents of 0-12 Months Children

11:00AM - 12:00PM  

Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119

FOR PARENTS OF 0-12 MONTHS CHILDREN! Bring yourself and your 0-12 month old baby (if you'd like!). Please bring a bla…

Oct

22 2024

Journey and Joy on Sukkot: A Hands-On Workshop

6:00PM - 7:30PM  

Mandell JCC
335 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117

 

Join us in the Sukkah in the JCC Courtyard* for a special workshop led by Debra Cantor, Rabbi of B'nai…

Oct

24 2024

Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

Yiddish Book Center
1021 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002

 

Mayer Kirshenblatt was born in 1916 and left Poland for Canada in 1934. He taught himself to paint at age 73 and made…

Oct

25 2024

Shabbat Shebang! With the ECC

9:40AM - 10:10AM  

New England Jewish Academy
300 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117

 

Join NEJA for Shabbat Shebang! Parents bring your children ages 4 and under for some fun music, shabbat songs and prayers.

Oct

28 2024

Schechter Monthly Board Meeting

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

Solomon Schechter Day School
26 Buena Vista Road
West Hartford, CT 06117

3rd Monthly Schechter Board Meeting 2024-2025

Oct

29 2024

CBI's Baby Talk: For Parents of 0-12 Months Children

11:00AM - 12:00PM  

Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119

FOR PARENTS OF 0-12 MONTHS CHILDREN! Bring yourself and your 0-12 month old baby (if you'd like!). Please bring a bla…

Oct

29 2024

Voices of Hope Evening of Hope

Oct

30 2024

The Jewish Community Foundation's annual celebration of you - our dedicated donors and leaders! Details to follow.