Events for the Center for Religion, Spirituality, and Social Justice
Text Study
Noon, Mondays, CRSSJ Prayer Garage
Starting Sept. 8
The Book of Psalms
An inter-religious Bible Study. All are welcome.
Lunch provided, RSVP appreciated to Stacey Cannon.
GRINNELL COMMUNITY MEAL
5:45 p.m. Tuesdays
Grinnell Community Meal is served every week and is free and open to the public. The community meal is coordinated and sponsored by the Social Justice Action Group (SJAG). For more information or if your group would like to prepare a meal, please contact x4597 or x4981. Volunteers are always needed to help with prep, serve and clean up.
Gumma: Muslim Prayer
2:30 p.m. Fridays CRSSJ Prayer Garage
Prayer is led by prayer leader Kamal Hammouda. For more information please contact call x4981.
Kabbalat Shabbat Service
5:15 p.m. Fridays in the Chalutzim lounge
All are welcome to this weekly informal egalitarian service, which provides a spiritual and self-reflective cap to the week, ushering in the Sabbath, day of rest and renewal. The service takes place in the Chalutzim lounge in the Multi-cultural suites, from 5:15 to 6 p.m. on Friday. For more information about this event or Jewish life on campus, please contact Rabbi Rob Cabelli at x4266.
Shabbat Table
6:15 p.m. Fridays at the Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center, Room 209
Please join us for Shabbat Tablem a bountiful way to bring the week to a close with friends and community in a spirit of peace and gratitude, with a delicious vegetarian meal cooked and prepared by students in the Chalutzim student group in the Chalutzim kosher kitchen. Shabbat Table, as well as the informal egalitarian service that precedes it at 5:15 in the Chalutzim lounge, is open to everyone. RSVP’s for Shabbat Table are recommended, by Wednesday if possible, with your ID number if you are able to donate a meal from your meal plan. For more information about this event or Jewish life on campus, please contact Rabbi Rob Cabelli at x4266.
Shabbat Torah Study
10:30-noon Saturdays at the CRSSJ Prayer Garage
What is Torah study? We read and interrogate texts from the Five Books of Moses (i.e. Torah) according to the presumption that this ancient compilation has important things to say about the human condition, but we make no assumptions about what they are. We mine it for meaning, trying to insinuate ourselves into the “mind of the Torah.” We encounter language and literary theory, spirituality, philosophy, anthropology, philology, ideas of justice and questions about the nature of life and the universe, and a whole lot more in our explorations. All are welcome – you need not know Hebrew at all, though we do delve into it at times, nor hold any particular religious or theological beliefs, practices, or tenets – that’s not what this is about. For more information please contact Rabbi Rob Cabelli at x4266.
Religious Life Staff are available for confidential conversation and counseling for students, staff and faculty.
Walk-in hours follow (or please contact us at x4981 for an appointment):
Rev. Deanna Shorb
Dean of Religious Life and Chaplain
Tuesdays (10 a.m.-11:30am) CRSSJ
Wednesdays (1 p.m. —2:00pm) Spencer Grill
Fridays (9 a.m. — 10 a.m.) Spencer Grill
Rabbi Rob Cabelli
Associate Chaplain
Tuesdays (1 p.m. —2 p.m.) Spencer Grill
Wednesdays (10:30 a.m. —Noon) CRSSJ
Thursdays (11a.m.—Noon) Spencer Grill
Kamal Hammouda
Muslim Prayer Leader
By Appointment
Center for Religion, Spirituality, and Social Justice (1233 Park St, across from ARH) please call x4981.
Going Solo For Prayer and Meditation?
The prayer rooms at the Center for Religion, Spirituality, and Social Justice (2nd Floor, 1233 Park St) and Herrick Chapel (Basement) are open daily 8 a.m. until Midnight.
Support Meetings:
AA 11th. Step Meeting
Mondays @ 7 p.m.
CRSSJ Prayer Garage
Meets every Monday, all are welcome
1233 Park St (Park & 8th Ave) (Back of building, North entrance.)
For more information about other anonymous support groups, contact the chaplain's office.
Marijuana Anonymous Meeting
Starting Sept. 3,
5 p.m. Wednesdays, CRSSJ Prayer Garage