Feb

1 2025

Sharing the Light: Community-Wide Havdalah and Concert 2025

7:00PM - 8:30PM  

This Federation event will take place at Temple Anshe Amunim 26 Broad Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201

Contact Rabbi Daveen Litwin
4134424360
dlitwin@jewishberkshires.org

Join our Berkshire Rabbis, local musicians and extraordinary singer Laura Wetzler and percussionist Robin Burdulis for an inspirational evening of music, spirit and schmoozing.

Enjoy the beautiful and rhythmic world beat songs created by Jews living in such places as Spain, Turkey, Greece, Sarajevo, Iran, Iraq, Ethiopia, Uganda, Morocco, Syria, and India.

All ages welcome! Free Havdalah candle and spice sets (while supplies last).

Event will also be available to livestream. https://youtube.com/live/10ljEJ1P5n0?feature=share

Laura Wetzler, ASCAP Award winning singer, composer, guitarist and recording artist, tours internationally in over 150 concerts and lectures each year.  Laura has composed for independent film and television, and her critically acclaimed CDs, including Songwriter's Notebook, Kabbalah Music: Songs of the Jewish Mystics, Again! Again! Songs for Kids, Flying and The Fracking Blues single are heard on over 750 radio stations around the world. Laura has shared stages with such artists as Pete Seeger, Odetta, Richie Havens, The Klezmatics, and many others, here and abroad. Meticulous research goes into creating her over 50 different exciting multimedia lecture programs featuring a wide range of musical topics, from Bach to Bob Dylan. Laura is also the writer, director, producer, and composer of the award-winning new film, What Happened at the Veterans Home? winner of Best Humanitarian Film in Prague and Best Screenplay in Paris, now streaming worldwide. 

This event is co-sponsored by The Jewish Federation of the Berkshires, Hevreh of Southern Berkshire, Knesset Israel, Congregation Ahavath Sholom, Congregation Beth Israel, Temple Anshe Amunim, the Berkshire Minyan, Williams College Jewish Association and Berkshire Hills Hadassah.    

Funded in part by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation