Find Passover eats
at Chabad Tucson
For people looking to stock up on kosher eats before Passover, Chabad Tucson, 2443 E. Fourth St., has it covered.
The congregation’s Sunday Passover 101 event will sell traditional shmurah matzah bread from Israel and Brooklyn. Kosher wines from the United States, Israel, France and Italy will be available for sale and tasting.
“There is so much on everyone’s plate when it comes to Passover,” Chabad’s program director, Feigie Ceitlin, said in a prepared statement.
This event — with its opportunity for sharing recipes and asking Passover questions — is expected to make the eight-day holiday easier.
Chabad’s Facebook page posted that the free event will also distribute about $600 worth of coupons for kosher foods. Also, children can craft and bake their own matzah in a model bakery.
The event runs from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information, call 795-0090.
Organist to perform at Desert Hills church
Desert Hills Lutheran Church, 2150 S. Camino del Sol in Green Valley, will host an organ concert by musician Laura Edman Sunday at 4 p.m.
Edman, an organ instructor at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and an organist at a Presbyterian church in Minnesota, will play at the church’s free event.
Contact the church at dhlc.org or 648-1633.
Holocaust vigil set
for next week at UA
For 24 hours, the University of Arizona’s Hillel Foundation will turn the UA Mall into a place of memory.
The 24th Holocaust Vigil begins at noon Wednesday and runs until noon Thursday.
During that time, volunteers will read the names of thousands of victims, and displays and speakers will recognize other aspects of the Holocaust.
Survivors will speak from noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday, according to a Facebook post.
The Butterfly Project (Zikaron V’Tikvah, Hebrew for “Remembrance and Hope”) will give participants a chance to paint a ceramic butterfly in memory of the 1.5 million children who perished during the Holocaust.
For more information call 624-6561.
Buddhist temple plans classes on happiness
The two-part workshop “Buddhism, the Brain and Happiness” begins at Awam Tibetan Buddhist Institute, 3400 E. Speedway, from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 28.
The classes examine “What is ‘happiness,’ and how do we get it?” and will draw on Buddhist views and Western psychology, institute volunteer Jane Stanley said via email.
Dean Pielstick, a management professor at Northern Arizona University in Tucson, is known as Khenpo Drimed Dawa and will share his knowledge as a practitioner of the Dzogchen teachings.
Anne Parker, a wellness counselor at Miraval Arizona Resort & Spa, also will speak.
The second class is from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 25. Registration costs $30 for one class or $50 for both. Register at awaminstitute.org online.
Secular Humanist Jewish Seder planned
The Secular Humanist Jewish Circle will share a Passover Seder on April 4 at 11:30 a.m. RSVPs for the meal and event are due Sunday, March 29.
The celebration marks the beginning of the eight-day holiday with a meal and other Passover traditions, including the recounting of the biblical Exodus story. The event begins with a reading from a humanist Haggadah text.
The cost is $25 for members and $35 for nonmembers, with reduced cost for minors. For instructions about how to RSVP, visit secularhumanistjewishcircle.org and click on the “Community Seder” event information.
