New Heights Minyan Info
Hello from the Underground...
Just wanted to let everyone know about a new Minyan taking place in Washington Heights. It'll be fun and warm so I hope that everyone and all of their friends can make it.
Here's the official Minyan Information:
Welcome to MigdalOr - the Lighthouse. We are a new minyan in Washington Heights that is a reflection of the growing progressive Orthodox spirit in our community. 
Our mission is to create a warm, participatory environment dedicated to enhancing kavanah (devotion) and forward mindedness in tefillah (prayer), while working within the context of halakhah (Jewish law). Building upon this paradigm, our goal is to foster a spirit of social action within the larger context of Washington Heights. We challenge members to take an active role in their religious expression. This includes, but is not limited to, more participation by all members of the community.
We will be meeting Friday nights on a bimonthly basis. Services will include Minchah, Kabbalat Shabbat, and Maariv.
Our first meeting will take place on March 16th at 6:45 pm in 263 Bennett Ave. apt. 4F in the Fort Tryon Apartments Complex (the apartment of Rachel Berger, Rachel Scheier, and Shayna Gould). Prayer sheets will be available, and we will conclude with a small Kiddush.
Okay, that's the official info... I hope everyone is able to join us - I am really looking forward to this great excuse to see you all that weekend :)
If you want more info (or the same info) or have any questions, feel free to email us (Rachel Berger, Karen Shulman, and myself - Shani Simkovich) at MigdalOr.Minyan@gmail.com or visit us at our MySpace page.
Thanks, guys!
14 comments:
Just a thought.
You should submit it to
http://shulshopper.com
what kind of minyan is this exactly? Are women leading the kabalat shabbat services for men? Is it mixed or separate seating? Please give us all a little more detail...
Hi M,
The deal is that men will be leading mincha and maariv, while a woman will be leading kabbalat shabbat. There will be separate seating, with a mechitzah. The litergy style will be pretty straight forward and somewhat more carlebachy. I hope that helps, if you or anyone else has any questions you can post here or email us migdalor.minyan@gmail.com. Take care.
What is meant by "active role in religious expression?"
Do you feel that there currently is no "spirit of social action within the larger context of Washington Heights" ?
MORE info? That page has even less info. Why are you so afraid to asnwer people's questions?
hi curious
we welcome your questions at migdalor.minyan@gmail.com
no fears
rachel berger
Kol Hakavod, and hatzlacha with the new minyan!
Congrads on the new Minyan. Sorry I missed it. enjoying time with Aaron and Shira. Yehudi, you are a good man
So kabbalat shabbat will be led by a woman in front of men in violation of kol isha... and this is halachic?
You can also check out our new blog at MigdalOrMinyan.blogspot.com
It should be updated this week.
Karen :)
with all these lstings,mentions,blogs,facebook,blog,myspaces etc etc you obviously want attention and publicity and yet you still cant elaborate and ignore simple inquiries concerning your wordy yet empty mission statement.
What are you talking about? Of course they want attention and publicity, its an upstart organization trying to get people to know of their existence. And they dont ignore inquiries, they just prefer to do so through e-mails where people have to actually say who they are and thus behave in a somewhat respectful, decent manner. Why would anyone want to respond to attack questions like yours?
thank you sarah.
love that you guys have a myspace page. so modern!
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