Havurat Shalom is a small egalitarian chavurah

Chavurah

A chavurah or havurah is a small group of like-minded Jews who assemble for the purposes of facilitating Shabbat and holiday prayer services, sharing communal experiences such as lifecycle events, and Jewish learning...

 in Somerville

Somerville, Massachusetts

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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 that has 30 members in a large yellow house.http://www.pluralism.org/profiles/view/74837 Founded in 1968, it is not affiliated with the major Jewish denominations

Jewish denominations

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Further reading

Havurat Shalom Siddur
Official website of Havurat Shalom
Sarna, Jonathan. "'With-It' Judaism: The havurah movement and The Jewish Catalog blended Judaism with the 1960s counterculture" in American Judaism: A History (Yale University Press, 2004). Internet reprint
Profile of Havurat Shalom. The Pluralism Project at Harvard University

Harvard University

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Richard Siegel, Strassfeld, Michael and Sharon. The Jewish Catalog: A Do-It-Yourself Kit 1973