Only a month away! The National Havurah Committee is having its first Chesapeake Region Retreat in over a decade. This retreat, taking place March 3-5, 2006, at the Pearlstone Retreat Center in Reisterstown, Maryland, will bring together grassroots Jewish communities from all over the Mid-Atlantic region, from Virginia to New York, for a multigenerational weekend of Jewish learning and community.
Highlights include:

• Elizabeth Richman, “Heavenly Voices, Eyes that Kill, and Naked Torah Study”
• Sherry Israel, “Early Rabbinic Politics”
• Ben Dreyfus, “Don’t Think of an Elephant: How Can Liberal Jews Express Our Values?“
• “The Care and Feeding of Havurot: An Intergenerational Conversation”
• Sarah Beller, “Hodu ad Kush: Purim Songs from Around the World”
• and much more!

Download the brochure and registration form. And post a comment if you’ll be there!
(Photo credit: shir-yaakov at sixthirteen.org)