The Oyven: An Interfaith Break Fast at JCC Harlem
Sun, Jul 18
|JCC Harlem
Presented by FED and Oyven in partnership with the Muslim-Jewish Solidarity Committee, Kehillat Harlem, Based in Harlem, Sephardic Mizrahi Q Network, Harlem Moishe House, Repair the World: Harlem, and JCC Harlem.
Time & Location
Jul 18, 2021, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
JCC Harlem, 318 W 118th St, New York, NY 10026, USA
About the event
The Oyven (Yiddish for oven) reclaims the Jewish spirit of a communal oven. For centuries in villages from Poland to Morocco, communal ovens served as gathering points for a social exchange, where recipes and stories were swapped and cooperation strengthened. Our traveling mobile wood-fired Oyven is a platform for food, art and ideas where everyone is fed, physically, spiritually and emotionally, through sharing the experience of shaping, baking and sharing bread.
In an outdoor community-building event, we will mark both the end of the Jewish holiday of Tisha B'Av (a day of fasting that commemorates and mourns the destruction of the Temples, expulsion of Jews from Spain and England, and other tragedies, with cultural programming that speaks to the central message of the fight against baseless hatred between human beings (sinat chinam)) and also the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha (which celebrates Abraham's devotion to God through animal sacrifice, and…