Community Calendar

A calendar of events hosted and sponsored by agencies and members of the Greater New Haven & Shoreline communities.

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28 2021

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Dec

5 2021

Celebrate the Hanukkah season with eight nights of exclusive, award-winning new films, available to view from the com…

Dec

5 2021

The Great Gelt and Dreidel Drop of 2021

3:00PM - 5:00PM  


360 Amity Rd
Woodbridge, CT 06525

This outdoor event will consist of a Gelt and Dreidel Drop; the Woodbridge Fire Department will climb their ladder…

Dec

5 2021

The Great Gelt and Dreidel Drop of 2021

3:00PM - 5:00PM  

JCC of Greater New Haven
360 Amity Rd.
Woodbridge, CT 06525

Families will experience hundreds of dreidels and gelt bags fly from the sky with help from the Woodbridge Fire Depar…

Dec

5 2021

BEKI Kadima and USY Hanukkah Party

4:00PM - 6:00PM  

Congregation Beth El–Keser Israel (BEKI)
85 Harrison Street
New Haven, CT 06515-1724

BEKI's Kadima and USY youth groups will celebrate the holiday with a shared Hanukkah party on Sunday, December 5, fr…

Dec

5 2021

Chanukah In Westville Grand Menorah Lighting

4:30PM - 5:30PM  

Whalley and Blake Parking Lot
919 Whalley Ave
New Haven, CT 06515

Community Outdoor Grand Menorah Lighting and the Great PARACHUTE GELT Drop.

With Delicious Donuts & Refreshments! A …

Dec

5 2021

Chanukah Concert with "Simply Tsfat"

5:00PM - 6:30PM  

James Blackstone Memorial Library,
758 Main Street
Branford, CT 06437

Celebrate the last night of Chanukah with Israeli band Simply Tsfat. Hailing from the northern Galilee city of Tsfat,…

Dec

5 2021

Light the Hanukkah Menorah at BEKI

5:30PM - 5:45PM  

Congregation Beth El–Keser Israel (BEKI)
85 Harrison Street
New Haven, CT 06515-1724

Join us as we light the giant hanukiyah in the BEKI lobby each evening. Or sing along on Zoom. Consult office@beki.or…

Dec

6 2021

Faith in Jewish Tradition, Monday night class with Rabbi Shapiro

7:30PM - 9:30PM  

Congregation B'nai Jacob
75 Rimmon Road
Woodbridge, CT 06525

Jews sometimes recoil at the word "faith" as if it were a Christian concept. But faith lies at the heart of our…

Dec

6 2021

Shine A Light on Antisemitism

7:30PM - 8:30PM  

Zoom

Chanukah, the Jewish festival of lights, celebrates the freedom to live and worship as we choose. But increasingly, t…

Dec

7 2021

The Greater New Haven NAACP is hosting a Virtual Panel Discussion: CRITICAL RACE THEORY: What it is – What it i…

Dec

10 2021

Temple Emanuel Shabbat Service with Torah

7:30PM - 8:30PM  

Temple Emanuel
150 Derby Avenue
Orange, CT 06477

Temple Emanuel Kabbalat Shabbat with Torah Service both indoors and livestreamed.

Dec

11 2021

BEKI Children's Shabbat Services

10:45AM - 12:00PM  

Congregation Beth El–Keser Israel (BEKI)
85 Harrison Street
New Haven, CT 06515-1724

All three children's services meet every week at 10:45 am. Children's Havura meets outdoors in the courtyard, whenev…

Dec

11 2021

BEKI Violin Concert Featuring Ilana Zaks

7:30PM - 8:30PM  

Congregation Beth El–Keser Israel (BEKI)
85 Harrison Street
New Haven, CT 06515-1724

By popular demand, violinist Ilana Zaks will return to BEKI. Now in her second year in the master’s program at the …

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