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.
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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 »
Please join us at 8:00 pm for a Tisha b’Av Gathering in the Temple Israel Chapel. On the fast day of Tisha b’Av (the ninth day of the Hebrew month Av), we recall the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and we grieve for the many losses endured by the Jewish people throughout the ages and through to this very moment.
