We join together to celebrate our holidays throughout the year, including Rosh Hashanah, a sweet beginning; breaking the fast as a community after the final blast of the shofar on Yom Kippur; gathering in our sukkah for songs and snacks; dancing to a live klezmer band on Simchat Torah; eating latkes and lighting candles together on Hanukkah; greeting Purim with groggers, hamentashen, Megillah reading and a Purim carnival; holding community seders for Pesach and Tu B’Shevat; and learning a bit of Torah together on Shavuot.
Temple Israel has a great lineup of holiday programming.
Candle lighting on each of the nights of Hanukkah (December 14-21, 2025)
Purim festivities, March 2-3, 2026
Passover, April 2-9, 2026
Shavuot, May 22, 2026
Watch our Calendar for Upcoming Events
Join Temple Israel for the High Holidays!
Join us at these events!
Erev Purim, Thursday, March 13, 2025:
6:00 PM – Pizza Dinner – Register so we have enough pizza!
6:30 PM – Silly Megillah Reading in the sanctuary – come in costume or a silly hat!
Sunday, March 16:
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM – Purim in OZ Carnival
Yom Kippur 2024 Sermons & Videos “Kinship for the Soul” Sermon for Kol Nidre, Erev Yom Kippur, 5785/2024, by Rabba Kaya Stern-Kaufman Gut Shabbes, gut Yontiff! Tonight, unlike most Friday nights, we won’t be singing L’kha Dodi. However, I want to bring our attention to an intriguing line from that beloved piyut; sof ma’aseh b’machshava Continue Reading »
Rosh Hashanah 2024 Sermons “Remembering 5784” Sermon for Erev Rosh Hashanah, 5785/2024 by Rabba Kaya Stern-Kaufman Tonight we begin a journey of memory. Rosh Hashanah- referred to in the Talmud as Yom Hazikaron- the Day of Remembering, demands that we look back before we can set forth into the new year. It is the holy Continue Reading »
