Join us for a Friday night Shabbat experience for young professionals, where we bring you good food and great company on the fourth Shabbat of each month.
Our January event includes spirited services, wine, beer, and delicious Indian food. In anticipation of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, photographer Leslie Starobin will introduce us to her exhibit, Looming in the Shadows of Lodz, a multi-media series that weaves together film, photography, and oral histories to reveal how the Shoah affects generations of one family. This exhibit appears at The Vilna from Friday, January 26, through Friday, February 16, and is supported by a CJP Community Creative Grant.
6pm - Doors Open
6:15pm - Kabbalat Shabbat
7:15pm - Dinner
8pm - Exhibit Talk with Leslie Starobin
8:30pm - Dessert
Havurah on the Hill, The Vilna’s Friday Night experience for young professionals, is organized in partnership with OneTable. Hope to see you there!
Save the dates! This winter and spring are full of Havurah on the Hill:
January 26
February 23
March 22
April 26
May 31
June 28
Meet the Artist
Leslie Starobin is a Boston-area photographer and montage artist.
Starobin’s artwork is in the permanent collection of many academic museums, including the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California at Berkeley, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, and the Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton, MA. Her work is also in the collection of numerous public museums in America, including the Jewish Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY, the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, TX.
Throughout her career, Starobin has received numerous grants. In 2020, she received a grant from the Framingham Cultural Council, a subsidiary of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, to support the project, “Looming in the Shadows of Łódź.”
Starobin is a tenured Professor of Studio Art at Framingham State University in Massachusetts. She currently teaches photography and photojournalism.
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