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Eve’s Daughters, the Interfaith Women’s Bible Study, will meet again on Monday, February 27th to discuss the story of Tamar and Judah (Genesis 38).

The gathering will take place at Congregation Mishkan Israel on Ridge Road in Hamden and will begin at 6:30 p.m. with supper.

All women of the congregation are welcome. A sign up sheet will be on the Welcome Table.

For more information about this exciting interfaith dialogue, please talk with Co-Pastor Maria LaSala.

Eve’s Daughters returns this January! Women from Congregation Mishkan Israel and First Presbyterian Church will gather for supper and a conversation on the “Woman of Valor” found in Proverbs 31. This year Co-Pastor Maria LaSala will be joined by Kinneret Chiel, the former principal of the Congregation Mishkan Israel preschool.

Rabbi Alison Adler has taken a congregation of her own in Beverly, Massachusetts and will no longer be co-leading the program. Kinneret has years of teaching experience and will delight you with her tales and interpretations of sacred texts.

The program will take place at First Presbyterian Church on Monday, January 30th from 6:30-8:30 p.m. A vegetarian main dish will be provided. If you would like to prepare a salad or dessert, please indicate your preference on the sign up sheet at the Welcome Table.

The next gathering of Eve’s Daughters, the Women’s Interfaith Bible Study with the women from Congregation Mishkan Israel will take place on Monday, May 16 at 6:30 p.m. at Congregation Mishkan Israel on Ridge Road in Hamden.

This month’s bible study, “Sarah and Hagar: Sisters in the Wilderness,” will explore the complex relationship between these two matriarchs and the role they play in God’s story of shaping a people.

Supper will be provided. Co-Pastor Maria LaSala leads this study with Rabbi Alison Adler.

Please sign up at the Welcome Table.

In February, women from Congregation Mishkan Israel and First Presbyterian Church met to explore the wonder of The Song of Songs, the most romantic poetry in the Bible.

This month we will look at “Disobedience and Redemption: The Women of the Exodus Story.” At the beginning of the Book of Exodus a conspiracy of women sparks the redemption of the Israelites from Egypt: The midwives, Moses’ mother, Yoheved, Miriam, Pharoah’s daughter (named “Batya” – daughter of God – by the Jewish sages), and all of the women who continue to give birth despite Pharoah’s genocidal decrees perform acts of civil disobedience. We will explore their stories over another delicious meal.

We may also ask, where are the acts of disobedience in our lives? How have they, or how might they, give birth to or nurture new things?

Join us on Monday, March 28th from 6:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. in the Miller Gathering Hall at First Presbyterian Church for another exciting interfaith conversation and Bible study. Sign up at the Welcome Table.

Eve’s Daughters, the women’s Interfaith Bible Study shared with the women of Congregation Mishkan Israel, will be gathering on Monday, February 28, at 6:30 p.m.  The meeting will take place at Congregation Mishkan Israel on Ridge Road in Hamden and begins with a prepared dinner.

The evening’s discussion will be on “Song of Songs: Romance, Passion, and Religion.” The Song of Songs is a passionate, romantic, and erotic poem. What is it doing in the Bible? First century scholar Rabbi Akiva called it the Bible’s “Holy of Holies”. In spite of the lack of explicitly religious content, it has been interpreted as an allegory of the relationship between God and the People of Israel; for Christians, God and the Church or Christ and the human soul. As we study this ancient text we will also explore Jewish and Christian attitudes towards romantic relationships.

Sign up at the Welcome Table and be a part of this dynamic interfaith conversation. Co-Pastor Maria LaSala and Rabbi Alison Adler lead the Bible Study.