2 congregations share building, Hanukkah

the lighting of Hanukkah Menorahs, eating of latkes and Sufganyiot (doughnuts) and pizza. Traditional Hanukkah songs will be sung, along with rousing Shabbat Niggunim (songs without words). At 10:30 a.m. Dec. 9, the Unitarian Universalists have invited their Jewish neighbors to a service that will feature the stories of the miracle of light and the rededication of the Temple, the basis for Hanukkah. They will sing traditional Hanukkah songs and ponder the story of the rededication of the Temple. The Live Oak choir will sing in Hebrew.

With a religious heritage that came by way of the Puritan Congregationalists, the Unitarians grew to embrace the great truths of other world religions. At the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, a time in the fall to remember the bounty of the Earth, Congregation Shir Ami builds a Sukkah (a temporary shelter) on the grounds, in which guests are invited and a meal is enjoyed. Rabbi Betcher remembers “the wonderful feeling of warmth rush through me as I walked upstairs to our religious school classrooms and saw that the children of Live Oak UU had built their own Sukkah in the hallway. To see them being taught

6 p.m. Sundays. Features singing, contemplation and conversation. The Historic Victory Grill, 1104 E. 11th St. Free. www.frontporchaustin. org.

8 p.m. Sundays. Features musicians, authors and about our Jewish traditions and history was so moving.”

Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Church is filled with Shir Ami’s Hebrew school classes on weekday afternoons and the sanctuary is filled with the traditional prayers and songs of Judaism on Friday evenings and during the High Holy Days. Betcher and Bunyard hope to share some sermons in that common pulpit in speakers. Historic Victory Grill, 1104 E. 11th St. Free. www.frontporchaustin.org.

6:45 p.m. Wednesday. Monthly support group for women struggling to conceive. The Vitae Clinic, 1600 W. 38th St., Suite 115. 736-7334 or email SarahsHopeAustin@gmail. the coming year. What is important to both of them is that their congregations respect one other’s spiritual practices and beliefs. Both religious leaders pray: “May this be God’s will for all of us during this holiday season.”

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5:30 p.m. Thursdays. Christian meditation. Seton Cove, 3708 Crawford St. Free. 4510272, www.setoncove.net.