June 27th - Pride Shabbat.
Led by Rabbi Emily and/or Cantor Melissa, our services offer a grounding, uplifting, and prayerful way to celebrate Shabbat. Our services always invite active participation from our congregation, and include both traditional as well as “reconstructed” interpretations of prayer, song, and Torah.
This service is both in person and on Zoom. (For Zoom link, please check your e-newsletter or admin [at] westendsynagogue.org (contact Joan).)
Join us for Festival services and Yizkor when we will chant selections from the Book of Ruth. Professor Mel Scult will be giving a short talk about the way the Book of Ruth has been considered from ancient times to the present.
Song-filled, joyful service open to all, featuring our in-house band, and particularly welcoming to children and their families (who help with leadership!). This week, our JFLL Moving Up Ceremony will celebrate our students progressing.
From October through June, a dairy/parve potluck dinner follows the service. (No potluck over the summer).
Unless otherwise noted, this service will always be in person and on Zoom.
During the 1880-1920 migration of eastern European Jews to the US, the immigrants built an in-house music industry on the Lower East Side that offered pianos and phonographs on the installment plan, commercial Yiddish music records, and hundreds of folios of sheet music, often from Yiddish theater shows, to play at home. Professor Mark Slobin will discuss this music.
This longstanding Adult Education group meets on Zoom two Tuesdays a month at 7:30pm to study the Torah in English translation, in depth, considering it from the perspectives of literature, sacred text, religious mythology, family lore, psychology, drama, history, pop culture, and more. Please contact the office for Zoom link.
In this, the 3rd session of her three presentations, Israeli Emissary, Gali Rabin, will analyze, "The Current Kibbutz Movement in Israel."
Discussion and text study of West End’s Middah (ethical value/character trait) of the month.
Our Middah study group meets on the third Monday of each month, led by Susan Schorr. All WES members are invited to join our study of a selected Middah of the month. Discussions are text-based using materials from both ours and other spiritual traditions, as well as insights from modern authors, pop culture and more. Texts may range from Talmud to Psychology Today, from Maimonides to Leonard Cohen, from modern-day rabbis to classic Broadway.
This longstanding Adult Education group meets on Zoom two Tuesdays a month at 7:30pm to study the Torah in English translation, in depth, considering it from the perspectives of literature, sacred text, religious mythology, family lore, psychology, drama, history, pop culture, and more. Please contact the office for Zoom link.
Rabbi Lester Bronstein and his wife Cantor Benji Schiller will speak and sing on the theme of “Preparing to Leave the Narrow Places: Personal and Global. Songs and Stories for Pre-Passover.”
****PLEASE NOTE FRIDAY NOV. 29 AND TORAH STUDY AND SERVICES ON SATURDAY NOV. 30 WILL BE ZOOM ONLY****
Please check your e-newsletter or contact the office for the Zoom link. (admin [at] westendsynagogue.org (Office Email))
