Membership Drive
Our 2021 PHS Membership Campaign is ongoing! Please see most recent
email from PHS Board President David Hammer with more information on how to join or renew your membership.
Finding God in Isolation: Dr. Erica Brown
Save the Date! Feb 16 at 8 pm. RSVP by Feb 16 at noon.
Our next Finding God in Isolation series will feature Dr. Erica Brown.
Dr. Erica Brown is the director of the Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership and an associate professor of curriculum and pedagogy at The George Washington University. Erica was a Jerusalem Fellow, is a faculty member of the Wexner Foundation, an Avi Chai Fellow and the recipient of the 2009 Covenant Award for her work in education. She is the author of twelve books on leadership, the Hebrew Bible and spirituality; her newest book is The Book of Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile (Koren). She has been published in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Tablet, First Things, and The Jewish Review of Books and wrote a monthly column for the New York Jewish Week. She has blogged for Psychology Today, Newsweek/Washington Post’s “On Faith” and JTA and tweeted on one page of Talmud study a day at DrEricaBrown. She has a daily podcast, “Take Your Soul to Work.”
Next Session: Mar 4 at 8 pm
Cooking with Shushana
Just in time for Purim, join Shushana Young for a demo of the classic Persian dish Khoreshteh Geymeh (Split Pea Stew).
Sunday, February 21 at 8:30 PM
Feel free to simply watch or to cook along with the recipe below as our rough guide. No previous cooking experience or Persian genetics required.
1 large onion, chopped
3 garlic cloves, pressed or minced
1/4cup vegetable oil
2 pounds stew meat (if vegetarian, substitute mushrooms or white beans)
2 cups yellow split peas
1 teaspoon cinnamon
4 cups water
1 can tomato paste
1 large tomato
5 whole dehydrated limes (3 pierced and 2 crushed) called leemuh amani in farsi
1/2 bottled lemon juice
1/2 cup canned potato sticks
salt, pepper
Zoom Information: Link or Meeting ID: 961 9690 8001 Passcode: 091527
Save the Dates!
Purim is coming! ORDER YOUR MISHLOACH MANOT HERE by February 20.
Feb 18 - 8:30 PM Hilchot Megillah with Rabbi Leener (Zoom
Link or Meeting ID: 961 9690 8001 Passcode: 091527)
Feb 25 - Ta'anit Esther
5:15 AM Fast Begins
6:30 AM Shacharit
6:12 PM Fast Ends
6:15 PM Megillah Reading - ZOOM AND IN PERSON WILL BE AVAILABLE
Feb 26 - Purim
7 AM Shacharit & Megillah Reading
And don't forget to contribute to the Megillah Campaign by clicking
here.
Please join us for an upcoming winter series run by YCT on important issues of the day during the month of February. PHS is a sponsor!
- Sunday, February 14, 12pm Eastern (11am Central, 10am Mountain, 9am Pacific)
- Sunday, February 21, 8pm Eastern (7pm Central, 6pm Mountain, 5pm Pacific)
- Sunday, February 28, 8pm Eastern (7pm Central, 6pm Mountain, 5pm Pacific)
Please fill in the information below and you will receive the Zoom information upon registering. If you don't receive it, you can join us on Facebook Live (
www.facebook.com/YCTorah)
If you are interested in closed captioning and/or ASL interpretation, please check that box below as well. You must use the Zoom link (not Facebook Live) in order to reliably view the captions/ASL interpreter.
You can sign up here:
tiny.cc/yctorah
