This celebration and period of fasting celebrate giving back to the community and giving gifts to loved ones, which honors the Divine Essence of God. This celebration markets the start of the fasting month, where Bahá’ís 15 years and older abstain from food and drink between sunrise and sunset. Begins at sundown on the previous […]
"Resistance: They Fought Back" MJFF Screening and Q&A with executive producer and co-director, Paula S. Apsell & Education Coordinator at the. Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine, Erica Nadelhaft. April 16th 7:00 pm Donald P. Corbett Business Building, 100
Silent Voices Remembered A concert of Holocaust memorial trios presented by the Essex Piano Trio (Ashley Offret, violin / David Cabral, cello / Beverly Soll, piano). Entitled Silent Voices Remembered, the concert of Holocaust memorial trios will explore the music of five composers dating from the 1940s to the present. Although the subject is dark, the music […]
Day of mourning to commemorate many tragedies that have befallen Jewish people, many occurring on the ninth of Av (fasting and some work restrictions)
Beginning of the Jewish Year and High Holy Days.(Work is prohibited)
Day of Atonement (Fasting and work prohibited)
Neta Weiner and Samira Saraya have collaborated for more than a decade in a range of artistic projects, sharing the stage in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Salzburg, Berlin and New York, among other places. Their work demonstrates the role of art in opening up questions and facilitating conflictual dialogues and collaboration, and examines the boundaries between […]
The Feast of the Tabernacles and Harvest festival (work is prohibited the first two days)
Marks the end of Sukkot (work prohibited)
Celebrates the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings and the beginning of a new cycle (work is prohibited)
