Interfaith Shabbat Service & Building Together Panel Discussion

Saint Mark’s community is invited to join Temple DeHirsch’s Shabbat service on November 20 at 6 p.m. The Shabbat service will afford Saint Marks’ members a wonderful opportunity to join in sung prayer, Torah reading, and teaching with our Jewish neighbors.

This service is offered in collaboration with Building Together, a Chicago-based non-profit focused on peace and reconciliation through working with Palestinian and Jewish date farmers producing honey in the West Bank. Following the service, Rabbi Daniel Weiner and Dean Steve Thomason will join in a panel conversation with Dima, a young Muslim-American woman from Building Together.

Temple DeHirsch and Saint Mark’s are supporting the work of Building Together’s Date Honey Project. This initiative connects Palestinian and Israeli date farmers who collaborate to produce silan (date honey) and work together to strengthen sustainable livelihoods for their farming communities. Saint Mark’s will sell this honey at the Alternative Gift Market on Sunday, November 22.