Tu B'Shevat
Community Calendar
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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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Feb 13, 2025
Feb 17, 2025
Presidents' Day
Feb
1 2025
Shabbat morning services
10:00AM - 11:30AM
Gishrei Shalom Jewish Congegation
37 Main Street
Southington,, CT 06489
Shabbat morning services in Southington.
Feb
1 2025
CBI's Tot Shabbat
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119
Children under 6, siblings, parents, grandparents - the whole mishpocha - are invited to join us. We will sing and da…
Feb
1 2025
RED LETTER: Trivia Night dedicated in memory of Elan Ganeles z'l
7:00PM - 10:00PM
Trivia Night dedicated in memory of Elan Ganeles z'l
Feb
2 2025
3rd and 4th Grade Community Tu Bishvat Together Program led by USY!
9:30AM - 11:30AM
3rd and 4th graders from area synagogues will join together at Auer Farm on February 2 from 9:30-11:30am to celebrate…
Feb
2 2025
RED LETTER: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
12:00PM - 2:00PM
Annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration with Sam Kassow
Feb
3 2025
Launch of JLI: Decoding the Talmud
7:30PM - 9:00PM
Chabad House of Greater Hartford
2352 Albany Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117
Discover the intricate world of the Talmud, its history, authors, and significance—and experience it yourself. You…
Feb
3 2025
Launch of JLI Course: Decoding the Talmud
7:30PM - 9:30PM
Chabad of Greater Hartford
2352 Albany Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117
Beginning February 3rd from 7:30-9:30pm at the Chabad of Greater Hartford, 6 consecutive classes about decoding the…
Feb
4 2025
Community Investment & Impact Committee Meeting 1
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Jewish Federation Board Room
333 Bloomfield Ave Suite C
West Hartford, CT 06117
Community Investment & Impact Committee Meeting
Feb
5 2025
Launch of JLI: Decoding the Talmud
7:30PM - 9:00PM
FARMINGTON CHABAD
304 Main Street
Suite E613
Farmington, CT 06032
Discover the intricate world of the Talmud, its history, authors, and significance—and experience it yourself. You…
Feb
5 2025
Art & Judaism
8:00PM - 9:00PM
Chabad House
2352 albany ave
WEST HARTFORD, CT 06117-1406
Brushstrokes of Tradition:
The Untold Story of Jewish Medieval Art with Rabbi Mordechai Dinerman
Rabbi Dinerman is th…
Feb
7 2025
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.
Feb
7 2025
First Fridays at Beth David Synagogue
6:00PM - 9:00PM
Beth David Synagogue
20 Dover Road
West Hartford, CT 06119
First Fridays is a catered kosher meal for 20’s and 30’s young professionals at Beth David Synagogue. This event …
Feb
8 2025
Shabbat Shirah: Service, Concert & Lunch
11:00AM - 1:00PM
Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119
Please join us for our service followed by lunch and a celebratory concert of cantorial classics and songs from the Y…
Feb
8 2025
Pajama Havdalah & Storytime
4:30PM - 6:30PM
Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119
This event is perfect for children 6 and under and their families! Read, sing and enjoy breakfast for dinner. The cos…
Feb
8 2025
HJFF: Bad Shabbos
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Mandell JCC
335 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117
Join the Phyllis Hoffman Hartford Jewish Film Festival for a screening of BAD SHABBOS. When two couples, Abby and Ben…
Feb
9 2025
Friends of the IDF Special Briefing and Breakfast
10:30AM - 12:30PM
The Friends of the IDF
Invites you to a special community briefing with special guests, Dr. Ari Sacher and IDF Soldie…
Feb
9 2025
CBI's Adult Ed: Jewish Ireland
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119
The Irish-Jewish community has been a small but influential part of Irish life for centuries. This lecture will dive …
Feb
9 2025
The Wedding Jester with John Feffer
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Yiddish Book Center
1021 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002
John Feffer’s one man show The Wedding Jester is a fictional account inspired by the real-life making of the Fiddle…
Feb
9 2025
HJFF: Children of Peace
3:00PM - 4:00PM
Mandell JCC
335 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117
Join the Phyllis Hoffman Hartford Jewish Film Festival for CHILDREN OF PEACE, a documentary about the Neve Shalom (Oa…
Feb
9 2025
HJFF: Technion 100
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Mandell JCC
335 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117
Screening after CHILDREN OF PEACE, TECHNION 100 celebrates the centennial of one of the leading technological researc…
Feb
9 2025
NEJA Alumni Happy Hour
4:00PM - 5:30PM
New England Jewish Academy
300 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117
Alumni Happy Hour will be a social gathering for alumni and the community to catch up at NEJA. FREE and RSVP…
Feb
10 2025
Caring Conversations About End of Life
12:30PM - 1:45PM
The Emanuel Synagogue
160 Mohegan Drive
West Hartford, CT 06117
Join Rabbi Melanie Levav, Executive Director of Shomer Collective, to explore the value that end-of-life planning…
Feb
10 2025
This World is a Garden
8:00PM - 9:00PM
Chabad House
2352 albany ave
WEST HARTFORD, CT 06117-1406
Chabad of Greater Hartford invites you to an Evening of Film & Music
This World is a Garden with The Festival Quartet
Feb
11 2025
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…
Feb
11 2025
Brine & Boards
6:30PM - 8:30PM
chabad house
2352 Albany Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117
Join us for a Pre Tu B'Shvat event!
Pickled Vegetables - Wood board burning - Soup and Breads - Tu B'Shvat Foods
Ma…
Feb
11 2025
Feb
12 2025
Feb
12 2025
Tu B'Shvat Charcuterie!
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Beth David Synogogue
20 Dover Road
WEST HARTFORD, CT 06119
Join us for a glass of wine and an interactive discussion, presented by Allison Gamzon ( Science Educator, Writer, an…
Feb
12 2025
Art & Judaism
8:00PM - 9:00PM
Chabad House
2352 albany ave
WEST HARTFORD, CT 06117-1406
The Rebbe and the Advent of Chassidic Art
Transforming Matter into Spirit with Dovid Margolin
Dovid Margolin is a sen…
Feb
13 2025
Feb
16 2025
THE WAY OF LOVE, AN INTERSPIRITUAL CONVERGENCE
8:30AM - 4:30PM
Holy Family Monastery
303 Tunxis Rd.
West Hartford, Connecticut, CT 06107
Presenter Profiles Rev. Matthew Wright Rev. Matthew Wright is an Episcopal priest, writer, and retreat leader…
Feb
14 2025
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.
Feb
14 2025
CBI's Kol Shabbat Service & Community Dinner
6:00PM - 7:30PM
Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119
Join us for our camp-style service with a song-leader playing guitar, followed by a delicious community dinner!
Feb
15 2025
CBI's Tot Shabbat
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119
Children under 6, siblings, parents, grandparents - the whole mishpocha - are invited to join us. We will sing and da…
Feb
16 2025
HJFF: Wanted: Roni Kalderon
1:00PM - 3:00PM
Mandell JCC
335 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117
Next on the field at the Phyllis Hoffman Hartford Jewish Film Festival is WANTED: RONI KALDERON. The film chronicles …
Feb
16 2025
HJFF: Monkey House
3:00PM - 5:30PM
Mandell JCC
335 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartord, CT 06117
The latest film by one of Israel's most well known filmmaker's, Avi Nesher, is MONKEY HOUSE. Amir Haddad, a very ambi…
Feb
19 2025
Jewish Book Festival Jean Hanff Koelitz_ The Sequel
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Mandell JCC
335 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117
Jewish Book Festival continues with this virtual event with Jean Hanff Koeltitz. The Plot continues in Korelitz’s n…
Feb
19 2025
Art & Judaism
8:00PM - 9:00PM
Chabad House
2352 albany ave
WEST HARTFORD, CT 06117-1406
My Journey:
Art and My Path to My Jewish Roots with Dr Sarah Anita Clunis, PhD
Dr Clunis is the Executive Director at…
Feb
20 2025
Jewish Community Foundation Board Meeting
4:30PM - 6:30PM
Community Service Building
333 Bloomfield Ave.
West Hartford, CT 06117
Jewish Community Foundation Board Meeting
Feb
20 2025
Schechter Monthly Board Meeting
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Solomon Schechter Day School
26 Buena Vista Road
West Hartford, CT 06117
7th Schechter Monthly Board Meeting
Feb
20 2025
CBI's Adult Ed: The Disappearing Dead Sea
8:30PM
Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119
In 1934, a group of teenagers from a Zionist youth and scouting group became the first people in recorded history to …
Feb
21 2025
Shabbat Services and Tu B'Shevat Celebration
7:00AM - 8:30PM
Gishrei Shalom Jewish Congegation
37 Main Street
Southington,, CT 06489
Combined Shabbat and Tu B'Shevat celebration.
Feb
21 2025
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.
Feb
23 2025
RED LETTER Event: NEJA Annual Fundraising Dinner
12:00AM - 11:55PM
NEJA Annual Fundraising Dinner: Stay Tuned More Details To Follow
Feb
23 2025
Emerging Leadership Yoga Night
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Sweet Lotus Yoga Studio
520 Hartford Tpk
Vernon, CT 06066
Gentle beginner-friendly yoga class !
Registration required, please bring your own mat if you are able!
Open to the…
Feb
26 2025
Mandell JCC - Board Meeting
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Sandy Goldstein
335 Bloomfield Avenue
Innovation Center
West Hartford, CT 06117
Mandell JCC - Board Meeting
Feb
27 2025
HJFF: All About the Levkoviches
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Mandell JCC
335 Bloomfield Ave.
West Hartford, CT 06117
ALL ABOUT THE LEVKOVICHES is a drama about family. The generous but stubborn boxing coach, Tamás gets along well wit…
Feb
28 2025
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.
Feb
28 2025
CBI's Shabbat LIVE! Service
6:30PM - 7:30PM
Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119
Lift your spirits and inspire your soul at this Shabbat Service with contemporary and Jewish tunes by our amazing Sha…