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.

To download a four-year Jewish Holiday Calendar, click here.

Feb

9 2020

Forever Letter Writing Workshop with Rabbi Elana Zaiman

10:00AM - 1:00PM  

Beth El Temple
2626 Albany Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117

You don’t have to be a writer. You don’t have to love to write. You don’t even have to know to whom you will wr…

Feb

9 2020

Friends of Yiddish

10:30AM - 12:30PM  

B'nai Tikvoh-Sholom/Neshama
180 Still Road
Bloomfield, CT 06002

Friends of Yiddish – Sunday, February 9 @ 10:30 a.m. at the Mandell JCC, 335 Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford – for…

Feb

9 2020

Widows' & Widowers' Lunch Gathering

1:00PM - 3:00PM  

Panera
Bishop’s Corner
2542 Albany Ave.
West Hartford, CT

Join us for casual get-together!
Meet other local Jewish widows & widowers!
Learn more about our Jewish Widows' & Wid…

Feb

10 2020

JewGood Hartford Donor Celebration

6:00PM - 8:00PM  

private home in West Hartford

Join JewGood Hartford to celebrate our one year anniversary and plan for 2020 and beyond!

Feb

10 2020

Lecture-Why are We Still Afraid

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

University of Hartford
Wilde Auditorium
200 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford,, CT 06117

Mark Lavie, reporter and award-winning author, will speak on WHY ARE WE STILL AFRAID?

Feb

10 2020

Rabbi Josh Weinberg on "How to Build a Strong Reform Movement in Israel"

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119

Rabbi Josh Weinberg serves as the Vice President of the URJ for Israel and Reform Zionism and is the Executive Direct…

Feb

10 2020

JLI presents a new series, Judaism's Gifts to the World.

Feb

11 2020

Beth David Synagogue Board Meeting

7:00PM - 8:30PM  

Beth David Synagogue
20 Dover Road
West Hartford, CT 06119

Board Meeting

Feb

12 2020

A Unique Learning Experience: Gvanim Limmud

6:30PM - 8:30PM  

Mandell JCC
335 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117

Mandell JCC is thrilled to welcome Eden Hazani Zion (the Israeli American Council’s adult leadership program develo…

Feb

12 2020

Israeli Dance Festival

6:30PM - 8:30PM  

Israeli Dancing Fun! (snow date February 20)

Feb

12 2020

Voices of Hope Board Meeting

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

Voices of Hope office
10 Waterside Drive
Farmington , CT 06032

Voices of Hope board meeting

Feb

13 2020

Preschool Pals Training

6:30PM - 8:30PM  

Mandell JCC Innovation Center
335 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117

New volunteers will be trained to mentor in the 10-week Preschool Pals program.

Feb

13 2020

Momentum - FREE Israel Trip for Moms - Parlor Meeting

7:00PM - 8:00PM  

Home of Leesa Wallace

Bloomfield,

The MOMentum Trip, run in partnership with Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford, brings moms of children under age 1…

Feb

13 2020

Solomon Schechter Board Meeting

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

Meeting of the Schechter Board of Trustees

Feb

14 2020

PJ Library Family Shabbat

10:45AM - 12:00PM  

Mandell JCC
Zachs Campus
335 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117

All children and their grownups are welcome to a family friendly Shabbat celebration.
Bring your little one to play i…

Feb

14 2020

Hearts & Pipes Organ Concert

6:45PM - 7:30PM  

Congregation Beth Israel
701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119

This musical program features two scintillating sopranos: our own Cantor Stephanie Kupfer (right) and Svetlana Bendik…

Feb

15 2020

Songwriters in the Round

8:00PM - 10:00PM  

The Emanuel Synagogue
160 Mohegan Drive
West Hartford, CT 06117

Enjoy an intimate acoustic cafe experience of music from the talented Kate Callahan, Eric Paradine and Melanie…