Events

Ashrey Yoshvey Veytecha! - Happy are those who sit within your house! Looking for a midweek opportunity to recharge your spiritual battery? Looking for a few minutes of peace and quiet? Rabbi Elliott invites you to join him for a short period of silent meditation on Wednesdays 12:30-1:00 PM. Each session will start promptly with a little singing, include about 18 minutes of quiet contemplation, and end with a kaddish if we have a minyan or more singing if we do not.

Our joyous Friday evening services to welcome Shabbat include music and song. Join us and refresh your spirit. 1st Friday of each month at 7:45 PM, September through June.

1st Friday of each month at 7:45 PM, September through June. Kabbalat Keshet means receiving the rainbow. The Rainbow is a symbol of the covenant between God and humanity. Our joyous Friday evening services to welcome Shabbat are called "Kabbalat Keshet" services, and include music and song. Join us and refresh your spirit.

Since one of the hallmarks of Reconstructionist ideology is that Judaism is a civilization, we are aware that our Jewish lives are informed by art, language and culture as well as by religious ideology and religious practice. To ensure that we have meaningful opportunities to engage with art, language and culture, our morning Torah study will consist of reading poetry. We will be looking at Jewish poems, but this begs the question, what is a Jewish poem?

Ashrey Yoshvey Veytecha! - Happy are those who sit within your house! Looking for a midweek opportunity to recharge your spiritual battery? Looking for a few minutes of peace and quiet? Rabbi Elliott invites you to join him for a short period of silent meditation on Wednesdays 12:30-1:00 PM. Each session will start promptly with a little singing, include about 18 minutes of quiet contemplation, and end with a kaddish if we have a minyan or more singing if we do not.

Melissa Schaffer joins Beth Sandweiss and May Benatar to lead our 9:00 AM chanting and meditation sessions for what promises to be an invigorating spiritual workout. This past summer Beth and Melissa studied with renowned spiritual leader, Rabbi Shefa Gold, who is a leader in Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal and received her ordination both from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. We look forward to hearing about their experiences, learning some new chants and finding new ways to get our spiritual juices flowing.

Ashrey Yoshvey Veytecha! - Happy are those who sit within your house! Looking for a midweek opportunity to recharge your spiritual battery? Looking for a few minutes of peace and quiet? Rabbi Elliott invites you to join him for a short period of silent meditation on Wednesdays 12:30-1:00 PM. Each session will start promptly with a little singing, include about 18 minutes of quiet contemplation, and end with a kaddish if we have a minyan or more singing if we do not.

Mark Levy,
Jewish Folksongs in Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladino

We close out this season with a bang (in three languages!) Courtesy of the Hirschhorn Foundation and the JCC, Mark Levy brings us a delightful evening of Jewish folksongs, the Language of the Soul.  Mark delivers a song with such feeling and conviction that audiences around the world are mesmerized. Descended from an Eastern European Ashkenazi mother and a Western European Sephardi father, he combines the beautiful Yiddish and Ladino melodies of both traditions with the newer Hebrew and Israeli songs in a versatile performance that constantly transports the listener to another time and place.

In this class we'll combine two core Jewish spiritual practices: Torah study and meditation. In each class we'll study texts related to our search for lives of holiness. We'll also practice various techniques of meditation and mindfulness practice intended to help us recognize and experience holiness.

We gather in our beautiful sanctuary every Saturday at 10:00 a.m. for Shabbat morning services which include prayers, songs, and discussion of the weekly Torah portion. After services there is a kiddush for meeting and greeting - and, of course, eating.

Please join us this week as we celebrate a Bar Mitzvah.

Join BK Reads and travel back to postwar Brooklyn as we discuss Pete Hamill's Snow in August, a New York Time's bestseller. Michael Delvin, an 11-year-old altar boy, befriends Rabbi Judah Hirsch, a Holocaust survivor from Czechoslovakia. The two form a strong bond in which they help and learn from one another, as well as fight anainst neighborhood prejudice.

Ashrey Yoshvey Veytecha! - Happy are those who sit within your house! Looking for a midweek opportunity to recharge your spiritual battery? Looking for a few minutes of peace and quiet? Rabbi Elliott invites you to join him for a short period of silent meditation on Wednesdays 12:30-1:00 PM. Each session will start promptly with a little singing, include about 18 minutes of quiet contemplation, and end with a kaddish if we have a minyan or more singing if we do not.

We gather in our beautiful sanctuary every Saturday at 10:00 a.m. for Shabbat morning services which include prayers, songs, and discussion of the weekly Torah portion. After services there is a kiddush for meeting and greeting - and, of course, eating.