Congregation Orach Chaim Events and Schedule

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Service Schedules

OC HASHKAMA MINYAN DATES FOR 2009 - 2010

OC Hashkama Minyan will meet on the following Shabbat Mornings at 7:14AM - September 26, October 24, November 7 & 21, December 5 & 19 January 2, 16 & 30, February 13 & 27, March 13 & 27, April 17, May 1 & 15, June 12 & 26

OC BOOK CLUB DATES

Ah September, the kids are back at school, the weather gets cooler and Orach Chaim Book Club is back in session. This year we will be holding around 4 or 5 Book Club meetings. Our fantastic leader, Yael Harari, is back and better than ever.

NEXT BOOK CLUB MEETING - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14 After all the Pesach prep, sit back, relax and enjoy the next OC Book Club selection........

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

Read it and then join us for a lively discussion led by our own Yael Harari Wednesday, April 14th at 8pm

It's August of 1974, a summer "hot and serious and full of death and betrayal," and Watergate and the Vietnam War make the world feel precarious. A stunned hush pauses the cacophonous universe of New York City as a man on a cable walks (repeatedly) between World Trade Center towers. This extraordinary, real-life feat by French funambulist Philippe Petit becomes the touchstone for stories that briefly submerge you in ten varied and intense lives--a street priest, heroin-addicted hookers, mothers mourning sons lost in war, young artists, a Park Avenue judge. All their lives are ordinary and unforgettable, overlapping at the edges, occasionally converging. And when they coalesce in the final pages, the moment hums with such grace that its memory might tighten your throat weeks later. You might find yourself paused, considering the universe of lives one city contains in any slice of time, each of us a singular world, sometimes passing close enough to touch or collide, to birth a new generation or kill it, sending out ripples, leaving residue, an imprint, marking each other, our city, the very air--compassionately or callously, unable to see all the damage we do or heal. And most of us stumbling, just trying not to trip, or step in something awful.