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.

We will be studying Erech Apayim / Slow to Anger on Monday, October 20 at 7:30 pm on Zoom. 

Better to be slow to anger than mighty, To have self-control than to conquer a city. 
(Proverbs 16:32)

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))

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.

(During Shabbat service.)

With Carole Kessner, synagogue member. Carole Kessner is professor emerita of comparative studies in the programs of Judaic studies and women’s studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Prof. Ilan Stavans will speak on the Exodus of Jews from Spain in 1492 and their landing in Latin America in the years that followed, defining a culture that thrives today.