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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.
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Jan 1, 2024
Jan 15, 2024
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Jan 25, 2024
Tu B'Shevat
Jan
1 2024
Jan
4 2024
Talmud Brachot Study Group
8:30AM - 9:30AM
Beth David Synagogue
20 Dover Road
West Hartford, CT 06119
This has been an ongoing group for several years. We welcome newcomers. Some familiarity with Talmud and Aramaic reco…
Jan
4 2024
Murder in Manchuria: A True Story, with Scott Seligman
7:00PM - 8:00PM
The Yiddish Book Center
In Murder in Manchuria, Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set amid the chaos that reigned in China in the…
Jan
6 2024
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.
Jan
6 2024
The Weisel Dor L'Dor Family Learning Program
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Young Israel of West Hartford
2240 Albany Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117
Our Dor L'Dor: Family Learning Program has been providing children and families with a meaningful and exciting Torah …
Jan
6 2024
Author Talk: "Jews In The Garden" with Judy Rakowsky
6:30PM - 8:00PM
Noah Webster Library
20 South Main Street
West Hartford, CT 06107
An author talk with career journalist Judy Rakowsky about her recently published memoir, Jews in the Garden. The…
Jan
7 2024
JCC Book Festival Event
1:00PM - 3:00PM
Mandell JCC
Start off the new calendar year with a JCC Book Festival event. Come meet the authors! Details TBA.
Jan
7 2024
Friendship Circle Mid-Year Training for Volunteers
5:00PM - 6:30PM
All FC Volunteers are invited to join to retrain themselves!
Jan
8 2024
Beth David Synagogue Board Meeting
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Beth David Synagogue
20 Dover Road
West Hartford, CT 06119
Beth David Synagogue Board Meeting
Jan
10 2024
"T-L-C”: The Lunch Club
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Beth David Synagogue
20 Dover Road
West Hartford, CT 06119
What can the various voices in our rabbinic tradition (Torah she’b’al peh) teach us about the origin and…
Jan
10 2024
Confessions of a Yiddish Writer: The Life and Work of Chava Rosenfarb
7:00PM - 8:30PM
The Yiddish Book Center
In this new online course, participants will learn about Chava Rosenfarb, a major Yiddish novelist, essayist, and sho…
Jan
10 2024
JFS Board Meeting
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Community Services Building
Federation Board Room
333 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford,
JFS Board Meeting
Jan
11 2024
Talmud Brachot Study Group
8:30AM - 9:30AM
Beth David Synagogue
20 Dover Road
West Hartford, CT 06119
This has been an ongoing group for several years. We welcome newcomers. Some familiarity with Talmud and Aramaic reco…
Jan
11 2024
Jan
11 2024
JLA's Presidents' Circle
6:00PM - 8:00PM
Presidents and chairs of area synagogue and Jewish agency boards are welcome to join us for a light dinner, networkin…
Jan
13 2024
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.
Jan
15 2024
Jan
17 2024
Jan
17 2024
Confessions of a Yiddish Writer: The Life and Work of Chava Rosenfarb
7:00PM - 8:30PM
The Yiddish Book Center
In this new online course, participants will learn about Chava Rosenfarb, a major Yiddish novelist, essayist, and sho…
Jan
18 2024
Talmud Brachot Study Group
8:30AM - 9:30AM
Beth David Synagogue
20 Dover Road
West Hartford, CT 06119
This has been an ongoing group for several years. We welcome newcomers. Some familiarity with Talmud and Aramaic reco…
Jan
18 2024
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
Jan
18 2024
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
Jan
20 2024
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.
Jan
20 2024
The Weisel Dor L'Dor Family Learning Program
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Young Israel of West Hartford
2240 Albany Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117
Our Dor L'Dor: Family Learning Program has been providing children and families with a meaningful and exciting Torah …
Jan
20 2024
Phyllis Hoffman Hartford Jewish Film Festival
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Phyllis Hoffman Hartford Jewish Film Festival January films. All details subject to change.
Jan
21 2024
Phyllis Hoffman Hartford Jewish Film Festival
3:00PM - 5:00PM
Phyllis Hoffman Hartford Jewish Film Festival January films. All details subject to change.
Jan
22 2024
Monthly Night of Study: The Beth David Beit Midrash
7:00PM - 8:45PM
Beth David Synagogue
20 Dover Road
West Hartford, CT 06119
Session One, 7:00pm: "How to conduct a Tu B'Shvat Seder" (Shuli Zerin); OR "Animal Ethics and Jewish Values"…
Jan
23 2024
Jan
24 2024
Confessions of a Yiddish Writer: The Life and Work of Chava Rosenfarb
7:00PM - 8:30PM
The Yiddish Book Center
In this new online course, participants will learn about Chava Rosenfarb, a major Yiddish novelist, essayist, and sho…
Jan
25 2024
Jan
25 2024
Talmud Brachot Study Group
8:30AM - 9:30AM
Beth David Synagogue
20 Dover Road
West Hartford, CT 06119
This has been an ongoing group for several years. We welcome newcomers. Some familiarity with Talmud and Aramaic reco…
Jan
26 2024
JCRC Board Meeting-Breakfast meeting
8:30AM - 10:30AM
JFGH Board Room, CSB Building
333 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117
JCRC Board Meeting-Breakfast meeting
Jan
27 2024
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.
Jan
27 2024
Tu Bish'vat PJ Havdalah
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Farmington Valley Jewish Congregation-Emek Shalom
55 BUSHY HILL RD
Farmington Valley Jewish Congregation
Simsbury, CT 06070
Connecting young families from around the Valley, our Program welcomes all and is focused on Jewish Holidays…
Jan
28 2024
RED LETTER: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
11:00AM - 1:00PM
Kathy Fishman
CT
RED LETTER DATE
Jan
29 2024
Opening the Gates of Opportunity: Access to Higher Education, Then and Now
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Avenue
Harry Jack Gray Center
West Hartford, CT 06117
Join Mark Oppenheimer, creator of the podcast “Gatecrashers” about Jews and the Ivy League, and Walt Harrison,…
Jan
29 2024
Launch JLI Advice for Life
7:30PM - 9:30PM
Chabad House
2352 Albany Avenue
w hartford, CT 06117
Advice for Life: The Lubavitcher Rebbe's Guidance for Leading a More Purposeful Life
Launch of 6 part series
The Rebb…
Jan
30 2024
Jan
31 2024
Confessions of a Yiddish Writer: The Life and Work of Chava Rosenfarb
7:00PM - 8:30PM
The Yiddish Book Center
In this new online course, participants will learn about Chava Rosenfarb, a major Yiddish novelist, essayist, and sho…
Jan
31 2024
Mandell JCC - Board Meeting
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Mandell JCC
335 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117
Mandell JCC - Board Meeting