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Schmooze in the Sukkah
Thursday, October 9th at 5:00pm
The October Schmooze and Brews with Jews will be a BYOB gathering in the sukkah at CAA!
We’ll provide pizza and pretzels :)
Please let us know if you plan to come!
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Musical Shabbat Service led by Rabbi Dan and Lainee Ginsberg accompanied by several CAA members
Friday, October 10th at 7:00pm
On Friday, October 10th, join us for a special Musical Shabbat, featuring the talents of new members Matt and Alice Lemon (guitar and voice), plus Rebecca Sayles (flute), Craig Sylvern (clarinet), and Cheryl Gallien (violin), with musical arrangements by our resident music director, Lainee Ginsberg.
Come and sing along with joy!
Stick around for a special oneg!!
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Shabbat Morning Torah Service with Rabbi Dan
Saturday, October 11th and November 8th at 9:30 AM
On Saturday, October 11th, we invite you to our monthly Shabbat Morning Service, onsite and online.
Help us make a minyan as we celebrate Shabbat with Torah and tradition.
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Young Families’ Sukkah Drop-In
Sunday, October 12th from 2:00 – 3:30pm
Got a kiddo from newborn to grade schooler? Drop by CAA’s Sukkah anytime for snacks, crafts, stories, and lots of fun!
Sign up here to let us know you’re coming: https://forms.gle/eUChadwhx1PEJrT39, but you can come even if you don’t register.
In case of inclement weather, we will postpone our Sukkah event until 2026/5787. Let’s hope for good weather this year!
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Simchat Torah Celebration
Tuesday, October 14th at 6:00pm
Join us for a family celebration of Torah with Rabbi Dan and Lainee Ginsberg! We will complete the reading of Deuteronomy together and then begin all over again with Genesis. All the children will have an aliyah under a gigantic tallit. There will be music, dancing, laughter, and treats!
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Religious School
Sundays, October 19th and 26th at 9:30am
Our Religious School meets most Sundays during the school year. Our current students are in grades 2 through 7. If you would like to explore religious school for the 2025-2026 school year, please contact Rabbi Dan at rabbida@keenesynagogue.org or (603) 352-6747.
Parents, please look out for occasional emails from Rabbi Dan and Daniella with particular information throughout the year.
PLEASE NOTE: we will not hold classes on Sunday, October 12th to honor Indigenous People’s Day
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Talmud Study For Beginners with Daniel Gil
NEW TIME!!
Thursdays, October 16th, 23rd and 30th
at 5:00pm
Join CAA member Daniel Gil for this introduction to Talmud study. We will be studying Tractate Brakhot, the first and most accessible volume of the Talmud. We will be using the English and Hebrew Koren Noe Edition of Talmud Bavli with commentary by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz z”l. No prior knowledge of Talmud, Hebrew, or Aramaic is required.
The publisher asks that students purchase a printable PDF of the text for $9.95 HERE. Also available are a large hardback volume and a paperback volume published as four booklets. A large full-color volume is available HERE.
New participants are invited and welcome- just show up!
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Nathan Cohen Lecture Series:
Late in Arriving, How Electricity Changed Rural New Hampshire
Sunday, October 19th at 3:00pm
Presenter: Stephen Taylor
Imagine a New Hampshire town where some people enjoyed the benefits of electricity – lighting at the flick of a switch and reliable heating controlled by a thermostat – while others lived with smelly kerosene lamps and smoky box stoves. In New Hampshire, during the first half of the 20th century, residents of developed communities enjoyed the transformative benefits of electric power while those in the sparsely populated regions lived and worked in conditions little changed from the 19th century.
It took the coming of the New Deal’s Rural Electrification Administration and a determined band of farmers to overcome opposition from the established private utilities to create the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative in 1939. Despite labor and material shortages during World War II, within a decade, power came to almost all of the previously unserved areas of the state. For thousands of households, this meant relief from the drudgery of the wood-fueled cookstove, the washboard and the kerosene lamp. Reliable electric power similarly brought new ways of life to farmers and artisans.
This program will explore how these developments changed civic and social life in New Hampshire’s countryside, and touch the ways the disparity of broadband access in the state today echoes these earlier struggles.
This event is free and open to the public.
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Serve dinner at
The Community Kitchen!
Our next date to serve dinner at TCK is Thursday, October 16th
A message from Gary Shapiro…
An excellent team of CAA volunteers serve evening meals for dozens of guests at The Community Kitchen on the third Thursday of every month as well as on the fifth Thursday, if one occurs.
Our next Community Kitchen date for the evening meal is Thursday, October 16th. Let Malcolm or me know if you are interested in joining in this greatly-appreciated effort.
Gary Shapiro
gm_shapiro@yahoo.com
603-352-0440
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Timely Topics in
Jewish Life
Friday, October 24th at 11:00 am
A presentation and discussion on all things Jewish with Rabbi Dan on the 4th Friday of each month.
Where? Covenant Living of Keene, 95 Wyman Road, Keene, NH 03431
When? 11 AM-Noon, October 24th
Who? An interfaith group of residents at Covenant Living, including a number of CAA members.
All members of CAA are welcome to attend.
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Send us the name of a person in need of comfort and healing so we can pray for them whenever we recite the Misheberach prayer for healing during our worship services.
CLICK HERE to submit a name for the Misheberach list.
If you add a name to the list, please attend services as you are able and pray along with the community for those in need of healing.
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Encountering the Past: Primary Sources and the Holocaust
Mason Library – Room 132
Monday, October 20th at 5:30pm
This hands-on workshop will demonstrate how original archival materials (documents, photos, and artifacts) are used to teach students to remember and learn about the Holocaust through Keene State College’s Special Collections & Archives. Attendees, under the guidance of the Archives staff, will have an opportunity to handle, examine, and analyze documents from the college’s special collection in Holocaust Studies.
This event is free and open to everyone – students, faculty, staff, community members, local educators, and more!– but advanced registration is requested as space is limited. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.
This workshop is part of a series of events being co-hosted by the KSC Archives and the Cohen Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies during the 2025-2026 academic year. Please emailcoheninstitute@keene.edu with any questions.
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Friday Night Erev Shabbat Services
Fridays at 7:00pm
Celebrate Shabbat and relax after a long week as we welcome Shabbat at Friday night services in our beautiful sanctuary with music and prayer.
Stick around after the service to visit with community members and friends at the oneg.
ALL are welcome, including families with young children and people who want to learn more about Jewish practice.
CLICK HERE to attend the service online.
CLICK HERE for a pdf of our siddur (prayerbook).
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In Memory of…
For the week of
October 11 – 17
19 – 25 Tishrei 5786
Yahrzeits
Rose Malin, mother of Carol Shapiro on October 11, 19 Tishrei
Harris Shapiro, father of Diane Shamas on October 12, 20 Tishrei
Beth Shapiro Steele, sister of Diane Shamas on October 13, 21 Tishrei
William Lipsky, grandfather of Aaron Lipsky on October 16, 24 Tishrei
Rose B. Mariaschin, mother of Daniel Mariaschin on October 16, 24 Tishrei
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Shloshim
Janet Furcht is in her first thirty days of mourning the loss of her husband, Joseph Mirzoeff
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In First Year of Mourning
Gary Shapiro is in mourning the loss of his brother, Steven Shapiro
Mark Silbey is in his first year of mourning the loss of his mother, Esther Silbey
Jon Ostriker is mourning the loss of his brother, Jeremiah Ostriker
Wendy Fulton is mourning the loss of her mother, Marcia Berk
Vivian Prunier is mourning the loss of her mother, Melita Garbuny
Steven Levy is mourning the loss of his wife, Susan Levy
Deborah Kaufman is mourning the loss of her father, Donal Blaise Lloyd
Lainee Ginsberg is mourning the loss of her mother, Laura Broad
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Blessing of the Pets
Sunday, November 2nd at 9:30am
Celebrate the weekend of Parashat Noach by bringing your well-behaved dogs, cats, goats, ferrets, chickens, unicorns, or whatever other animal companions live with you to receive Noah’s blessing. If your animal isn’t so well behaved, then bring a photo. Don’t have a live animal companion? Bring a stuffed animal, instead.
Please also bring donations of dog food, blankets, and dog toys to donate to the Humane Society. The need is great!
This event happens rain or shine. After all, this is Noah we’re talking about! If it rains, Noah will be perched under the overhang at the entrance to CAA.
Noah’s Rules: For the safety of humans and animal companions alike, please do not bring your pet on a flexi lead, and please do not use a lead longer than 6 feet. Also, because we don’t want to get the elderly animals on the ark sick, all our animal companions should be up to date on all their vaccinations.
Got questions? Call the office at (603) 352-6747 or email at office@keenesynagogue.org
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Compassionate Listening
Across Difference
Presented by
The Cohen Institute for
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
October and November 2025
The Cohen Institute is teaming up with the Compassionate Listening Project to host sessions on Compassionate Listening Across Difference in October and November. The purpose of each session is to give participants an opportunity to deepen their understanding of how realities in Israel and Palestine are affecting them personally and to deepen their understanding of the impact on their Keene State College and community neighbors as well. Each two-hour session will be led by trained facilitators and will provide space for creating authentic human connection across differences. This offering is not a forum for debate. Rather, it is an opportunity for participants to express their own views while listening respectfully to the views of those with different perspectives.
If you are interested in participating in one of these sessions, please email coheninstitute@keene.edu no later than Thursday, October 9.
Sessions will be held for KSC students, faculty and staff, and community members; all are welcome but pre-registration is required and spaces are limited. Sessions will be held in person in Keene, NH.
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The CAA Book Club
Day After Night
by Anita Diamant
Sunday, November 16th at 10:30am
The next meeting of the CAA Book Club will be on Sunday, November 16, 2025. The book we will be discussing is Day After Night by Anita Diamant. This historical novel takes place before Israel’s statehood and focuses on four young women who, having fled Europe, were captured and held in a British detention camp near Haifa.
We gather at CAA at about 10:15 a.m. to share goodies (often bagels) and start the discussion at 10:30. We always welcome new faces!
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Shabbat Morning Torah Study with Rabbi Dan
Saturdays, October 18th and 25th and November 1st and 14th at 9:30 AM
We invite you to our (almost) weekly Shabbat Morning Torah Study, led by Rabbi Dan, and sometimes guests. We read a third of each week’s Torah reading in English and mine it for meaning for our lives today.
Newcomers and people of all abilities are always welcome!
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Coffee Hour
with Rabbi Dan at Brewbakers Café in Keene
Tuesday, October 28th at 11:00am
and
Wednesday, November 12th at 2:00pm
Grab a cup of Joe or a Chai Latte and pull up a seat. Rabbi Dan looks forward to chatting about… whatever!
Coffee Hour with Rabbi Dan takes place monthly on the 2nd Wednesday and 4th Tuesday of the month or by appointment at a more convenient time.
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