Shabbat Shmooze

Join us in the JCC Lobby for a very special Shabbat Shmooze! As Passover ends, we’ll celebrate Mimouna– the Maghrebi Jewish feast marking the return to eating hametz (leavened bread), which is forbidden during Passover. Featuring Sephardic-Mizrachi songs by Rachel Valfer of the Qadim Ensemble, along with traditional delicacies to taste! While you’re here, be sure to walk through our galleries to see She’erit, the artwork of Chama Metchaly, before this exhibit leaves.

About this exhibit:

She’erit, שְׁאֵרִית, is the Hebrew word for “remnant.” It evokes what survives erasure, what endures exile, what persists across generations despite the forces of assimilation and antisemitism. Rooted in the intersecting spiritual and cultural lineages of Amazigh and Sephardi heritage, the exhibition transforms devastation into art, not to beautify pain, but to dignify indigenous inheritance against the erasures of colonial Islamist ideology. This is a reclamation of narrative, of space, of voice, and breath.

We will gather every 2nd Friday, monthly.

Free event! All are welcome. No registration, just drop-in!