"‘Here I Stand’ – Hineni – the most sublime prayer of the Holiday season.
August 06, 2021
Ahat Sha’alti (“One Thing I Ask”)
Topic(s) / Shabbat, Music
High Holidays are a month away - we can’t wait to welcome you back! Psalm 27 expresses the hope of Elul, preparing for the Days of Awe. Wishing you a Shabbat shalom and Hodesh tov!
July 30, 2021
Cantor Schwartz Sings Sh’ma Koleinu (“Hear Our Voice”)
Topic(s) / Music, Shabbat
The Summer Olympic Games are an example of youth in full flower, yet it is the nature of humanity to grow older.
July 26, 2021
The Light of Days - Women of the Resistance
Topic(s) / Lecture
While doing research on strong Jewish women at the British Library, Judy Batalion came across an old, dusty Yiddish book. Freuen in di Ghettos (Women in the Ghettos) was a thriller about “ghetto girls” who
July 23, 2021
Cantor Schwartz Sings Ya’aleh (“Rise Up”)
Topic(s) / Shabbat, Music
It is exciting that this medieval text has received a fresh melody - its reverse-acrostic structure and poetic progression is echoed in the harmonic progression of the music. Looking forward to the High Holidays six weeks from now, we hope you will join us in singing it.
July 22, 2021
Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream
Topic(s) / Reading Jewish Lives, Lecture
In a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel rose from desperate poverty to ill-gotten riches, from an early-twentieth-century family of Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side to a kingdom of his own making in Las Vegas.
July 21, 2021
Lunch & Learn: The Torah of Ted Lasso
Topic(s) / Lunch & Learn, Lecture
When Ted Lasso was hired to coach an English Premier League football team, little did he know that he would have more victories off the field than on the pitch. Learn how his core goals are rooted in Jewish tradition. Pray ball!
July 17, 2021
Poems Born in Bergen-Belsen
Topic(s) / Lecture
Confronting God, the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and the bystanders to the genocide in which six million Jews were murdered, Menachem Rosensaft's new book of poetry also reflects on themes that echo from then to now: other global genocides, the urgency of racial justice, and the separation and
July 16, 2021
Cantor Schwartz Sings Kol Berama Nishma (“A Cry is heard in Ramah”)
Topic(s) / Shabbat, Music
This Sunday, our community will observe Tisha B'Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar. This song describes the tension between weeping over past tragedies and taking action to create a better future – both are important. We wish you a Shabbat Shalom and a meaningful Tisha B’Av.
July 13, 2021
Tikkun Olam: The Role of Private Enterprise in Healing the World
Topic(s) / Keynote Series
From social justice to climate change, how does the business sector fit into the work of repairing the world? Lisa Hall moderates a conversation with experts David Blood and Geeta Aiyer as they share their insights.