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Upcoming Gatherings and Programs

Upcoming Gatherings & Programs at Temple Shalom

Temple Shalom is bursting with meaningful, joyful, and inspiring programs! From engaging family events to thought-provoking conversations, there’s something for everyone. Dive into community, connect over shared history, and explore your passions through the following gatherings and programs. Whether you're seeking spiritual enrichment, community connection, or just some fun, Temple Shalom offers a warm, welcoming space to grow, give back, and celebrate together.

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URJ ARZA Vote Reform in the World Zionist Congress Election 

March 10, 2025 – May 4, 2025  Voting in the WZC 2025 election 


Our congregation needs your help.  Be a part of our movement to:
• Protect democracy in Israel
• Support a path to peace
• Fight for Reform values

Join us today by signing up at https://urj.tfaforms.net/1507

To learn more about the WZC, visit www.vote4reform.org.     #VoteReformWZC2025
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Rabbi Dr. Ron Kronish Zoom Talks on Israel

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 7:00-8:15pm  (Zoom) & Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 10:00 - 11:15am  (Zoom)

Rabbi Kronish is an American-born Israeli teacher, author, and thought-leader who advocates for peace and unity in Israel. He has kindly agreed to speak with Temple Shalom members during a 2-lecture series via Zoom. To learn more about him, see his website.

Tuesday April 1,  "After October 7th: Religion, Politics, and Peace in Israel."
Sunday April 20, "Is Peace Possible? Peacemaking and Peacebuilding between Israelis and Palestinians."

Don't worry if you cannot attend both meetings. We will record them and make them available to participants for 30 days after the event. 

Register Here
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Donation Drive to support Welcome Home 

Sunday, March 9, 2025 - Sunday, March 30, 2025  (Lower lobby)

Do a mitzvah in March!

Welcome Home, based in West Newton, is a home goods pantry which provides individuals and families experiencing hardship with basic household items they need to live in dignity, so they are able to turn any living situation into a home!

Please help by donating new, or clean, like-new (no rips or stains) bed and bath items such as blankets, sheets, sheet sets, pillowcases, and towels. Look for the Welcome Home bin in the temple lobby during the month of March to drop off your donations.

You can also order items from our online wish list
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Rabbi Dr. Ron Kronish Zoom Talks on Israel

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 7:00-8:15pm  (Zoom) & Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 10:00 - 11:15am  (Zoom)

Rabbi Kronish is an American-born Israeli teacher, author, and thought-leader who advocates for peace and unity in Israel. He has kindly agreed to speak with Temple Shalom members during a 2-lecture series via Zoom. To learn more about him, see his website.

Tuesday April 1,  "After October 7th: Religion, Politics, and Peace in Israel."
Sunday April 20, "Is Peace Possible? Peacemaking and Peacebuilding between Israelis and Palestinians."

Don't worry if you cannot attend both meetings. We will record them and make them available to participants for 30 days after the event. 

Register Here
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

 35th Annual Project Manna Concert

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 7:00pm  (Temple Emanuel, 385 Ward Street, Newton) 

Support Temple Shalom's own chorus, Shir Shalom and Cantor Keren at the 35th Annual Project Manna Concert featuring an array of choirs and singers.

Proceeds benefit the Massachusetts Avenue Baptist Church Soup Kitchen. Don’t miss out on this fantastic evening of music, while doing an important mitzvah!

 

Click here to order tickets.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Tzedek Committee West Newton Family Navigation Center Info  Meeting

Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 7 :00pm  (Zoom)

Please join the Tzedek Team virtual meeting to learn about our new neighbors - the West Newton Family Navigation Center around the corner from us!

We'll introduce our Temple Shalom community to this wonderful new resource for the community and the Commonwealth, and brainstorm about ways we can welcome and help our new neighbors.
 

Sign Up Here


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

 Altshuler Scholar Weekend & Shabbat B'Yachad
Temple Shalom Presents: Jacob "Spike" Kraus, a musical scholar in residence

Friday, April 4, 2025
5:30pm  Tot Services.  (Sanctuary)
6:00pm  Family Shabbat Dinner.  (Social Hall)
6:30pm  Shabbat Services with Spike.  (Sanctuary)
7:30pm  Adult Dinner. (Room 101)
8:00pm  Musical Conversation with Spike after the adult dinner.  (Room 101)

Register Here for the Family Dinner

Register Here for the Adult Dinner
 

 

Saturday, April 5, 2025
9:45am  Torah Study led by Spike.
11:00am  Song Leader Training for teens and adults.  (Room 101)

Register Here for Song Leader Training


 

Sunday, April 6, 2025
 9:30-10:00am  Please join us for our Tefillah gathering with Spike.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Little Explorers

Sunday, April 6, 2025 - 10:00am -12:00pm  (Nursery School)

This program is designed for families to explore together and have a chance to connect with the community.

Led by our Nursery School curriculum coordinator, Eliana Levin, children ages 0-5 years are invited to come with their caregivers and explore a variety of different materials in all of our beautiful classroom spaces.

Siblings welcome.

Drop in. There is no charge. No registration necessary!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Passover Seder Matching

Deadline to sign up is April 7, 2025

This year, Passover begins on Saturday evening, April 12, 2025.  Open your door to a guest, just as you open your door for Elijah!

The Caring Community is facilitating matches for home Passover Seder gatherings.  If your family tradition involves a second Seder on Sunday, April 13, 2025, you can sign up to invite one or more Temple Shalom members to join you.
or
Sign up if you would like to join a Temple Shalom member or family at their Seder.

We will do our best to accommodate everyone, however, matches are not guaranteed. Thank you.

Register Here
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Silent Auction Highlights:
✨ Dinner or Torah Study with Rabbi Abrasley
✨ A guitar lesson with Rabbi Gubitz
✨ A singing lesson with Cantor Keren
✨ Tickets to a Celtics Game
✨ Tickets to a Red Sox Game
✨ A Suite and Concert Tickets at TD Garden

Sip & Support Community FUNdraiser

Thursday, April 10, 2025 -  6:00 - 9:00pm  (Social Hall)

Join us for an unforgettable evening of wine, refreshments, community, and giving at our Fun-draising event! Enjoy an elegant night filled with delicious wines, nonalcoholic refreshments, gourmet snacks, live entertainment, and exciting auctions—all while supporting Temple Shalom.

Ticket Levels:
Merlot – 1 ticket | $36
Pinot – 2 tickets | $72
Cab – 2 VIP tickets | $118
Manischewitz – 4 VIP tickets + name listed at the event | $360
Prosecco – 6 VIP tickets + reserved table + name listed at the event | $720
Champagne – 8 VIP tickets + private reserved table + name listed at the event | $900

Spread the word and invite friends & family!
Mark your calendars and secure your tickets today. Let’s sip, socialize, and support together!

Register Here

✨ A private plane flight experience                ✨ Sailing instruction on Lake Sunapee
✨ Private pickleball Lessons                               ✨ 4 hours of expert babysitting
✨ Family portrait session on location
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Multi-Generational Pre-Shabbat Passover Activities & Gathering

Friday, April 11, 2025
3:30-4:00pm Passover Families with Young Children experience: music, dancing, interactive storytelling and snacks for Families with Young Children.  
4:00-5:30pm free play in the Temple Shalom Nursery School space
5:30-5:45pm  Bedikat Hametz ( searching for Hametz/leavened bread) scavenger hunt from Temple Shalom Nursery School classrooms into learning space
5:45 - 6:15pm Passover learning experience, pre-neg for those coming early for services
6:30pm Shabbat services
5:45-6:15pm Festive Pre-neg gathering for families and adults in the Social Hall.

Register Here for Families with Young Children Program 
Register Here for  Pre-neg Gathering
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Shabbat Mind: Mindfulness & Mediation

Saturday, April 19, 2025 - 12:00pm  (Room 101 & Zoom) 

Join us for Shabbat Mind, an hour of Shabbat-inspired stillness and reflection led by members of our community. 

Shabbat Mind includes guided imagery, meditation, discussion, and sharing.  Appropriate for all experience and comfort levels.

For more information please email Renee Brant



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

                               

Yom Hashoah Observance: Remember. Reflect. Create.
Mapping Connections in Challenging Times

Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 6:00-8:00pm  (Room 101)

In observance of Yom Hashoah, we invite you to join us for an evening devoted to remembrance and reflection. After a shared meal, Sandra Mayo, JARTS Community Creative Fellow, will guide our learning about political art and stories of social trauma from Holocaust survivors as we examine how individuals and communities navigate and reshape their lives through challenges. This participatory workshop invites us to explore the transformative power of art and the language of genograms to understand family relationships and personal her/histories. Together, we’ll explore and create new genogram symbols representing the essence that sustains us all. Our evening will conclude with a Yom Hashoah ritual observance.

6:00-6:30pm Dinner
6:30-7:45pm Program with Sandra Mayo
7:45-8:00pm Yom Hashoah Ritual

With gratitude to “Open Our Eyes” which honors the memory and creative spirit of Anita Winer for sponsoring this evening

Register Here
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Reunion Dinner of Parents of Bar and Bat Mitzvah Students 1990-1995

Friday, April 25, 2025 - after services (Room 101)

We warmly invite current members of Temple Shalom who have been part of our community for 35 years or more — and whose children celebrated their Bar or Bat Mitzvah between 1990 and 1995 — to a special Reunion Dinner. 

Join us for an evening of re-connection and reminiscing as we share memories, catch up with old friends, and celebrate the lasting bonds that continue to shape our Temple Shalom family.

We look forward to welcoming you back to where so many meaningful moments began.

Register Here
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

After the Light Pre-Concert Conversation

April 27, 2025 -10:00am  (Chapel)

Join singer, writer, and voice teacher Rachel Rynick, together with Rabbi Abrasley, for a deep conversation about the power of music to express our despair, hope, and everything in between. They’ll explore the creative process behind Rachel’s new album After the Light and discuss how music can help us connect with our emotions and our shared humanity.

In dark times, how can we use music as a tool to come together to express our despair, as well as our hope? Can we make space for our dread and grief, our numbness and our rage, while reminding ourselves of our connection to our own power, and the wild joy of existence that is possible when we allow ourselves to truly see and be seen?

Register Here
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Film Club presents the 1998 European Film "train of life"

Sunday, April 27, 2025 - 12:30 to 3:30 pm  (Conference Room)

Our final film in this year’s Film Club series tells a tale of how somewhere in Central Europe in the summer of 1941, the inhabitants of an isolated shtetl take the initiative to deport themselves before the Nazis get a chance.  This tragicomic account of how Yiddish-speaking Jews secure a train, sew phony Nazi uniforms and divvy up into fake captors and captives in an attempt to reach Palestine via the Soviet Union. Train of Life represents a unique blending of broad humor, wishful thinking, and astute psychological observation.  Train of Life is one of three Holocaust Comedies (Life Is Beautiful and Jakob the Liar) and, in the opinion of many reviewers, the best of the trio. The film is in Yiddish with English subtitles. The movie is unrated, but teenagers aware of the Holocaust will not find the film disturbing.

Nibbles, soft drinks, tea, and coffee are available. Because of the 12:30 pm time of this presentation,
you are invited to bring your lunch.

You are invited to stay after the movie to discuss what it says about the Jewish experience and the film.

Register Here
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

 Modern Jewish Shabbat Sha'baby

Saturday,  May 3, 2025 - 9:00-10:00am  (Library)

Coffee, bagels, babies and Shabbat, what more could you ask for?

Join Rabbi Jen Gubitz, her son Ori, and Ashley DeNoble, for this sweet Shabbat morning gathering.
We'll sing, we'll chat, we'll sip coffee, and we'll get to know other parents who are all equally exhausted but excited to connect.
We celebrate families who are interfaith, Jewish, queer, multiracial, partnered or solo parents and are sensitive to those who have been on fertility journeys or built their family through adoption, fostering or surrogacy.

For all babies and their grown-ups.  Older siblings are welcome.

Register Here
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

After The Light Concert featuring Rachel Rynick, Cantor Keren & Shir Shalom 

Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 4:00pm (Sanctuary, reception to follow in the Social Hall)

Experience an intimate acoustic concert featuring Rachel Rynick, Cantor Keren, and Shir Shalom. This performance will bring the themes of After the Light to life through soulful music, showcasing both the rawness of grief and the healing power of joy. Don’t miss this chance to connect through music and share in a transformative experience.
Singer, writer, and voice teacher Rachel Rynick is a Temple member and nursery school parent, whose new album, After the Light, explores these themes and more.

Thanks to the sponsorship of the Sisterhood and the Music Committee, Rachel will gift our community with an acoustic concert featuring Cantor Keren and Shir Shalom.

If you are interested in joining the choir for this concert, please reach out to Rachel  rachel@intrinsicvoice.com  or  Cantor Keren jkeren@templeshalom.org.

After the Light is available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Youtube Music, Tidal, and more

Register Here
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Reproductive Justice Initiative Panel & Dinner

Friday, May 9, 2025  - 7:30pm  (Room 101)

Temple Shalom's Reproductive Justice Initiative presents an informative panel with discussion entitled
Shining a Light on Reproductive Justice: An Update on the Current Climate.  They are pleased to host a panel with Rebecca Hart Holder, President, Reproductive Equity Now (REN); Jessie Rossman, ACLU Massachusetts and Chloe Zera, M.D.,  Chief, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, BIDMC.

The moderator will be Temple Shalom member, Karen O'Malley, a Goulston Storrs attorney.

Register Here
 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Shabbat Mind: Mindfulness & Mediation

Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 12:00pm  (Zoom Only) 

Join us for Shabbat Mind, an hour of Shabbat-inspired stillness and reflection led by members of our community. 

Shabbat Mind includes guided imagery, meditation, discussion, and sharing.  Appropriate for all experience and comfort levels.

For more information please email Renee Brant



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Volunteer Day at Temple Shalom

Sunday, May 18, 2025  - 10:00am - 4:00pm

Join us for a day of connection, contribution, and community as we come together for Volunteer Day at Temple Shalom! With activities for all ages and interests, there's something for everyone.

Grounds Beautification with the Garden Club
Join our experts to plant flowers and herbs, and help keep our grounds beautiful. Tools and gloves will be provided. No experience required.

Planting with the Nursery School
Help spruce up the outdoor spaces with planting, and clearing. Perfect for families and little ones!

Usher Training with Allan Cole
Learn the ins and outs of ushering during services and events. A great opportunity for those looking to get more involved.

Temple Clean-Up Crew
Roll up your sleeves and help organize common areas, dust shelves, and tidy up spaces around the building.

AND MUCH MORE....

more information coming soon!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Jewish Heritage Night at Fenway Park 

Monday, May 19, 2025  - 6:45pm  (Fenway Park)

Join Temple Shalom for Jewish Heritage Night at Fenway Park and watch the Red Sox take on the New York Mets!

We have 40 seats together in the bleachers. Tickets are $38.00 each and include a T-shirt with Red Sox written in Hebrew.

Please register to reserve your seats.  Tickets will be distributed via email prior to the game. 

Register Here

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Shabbat Mind: Mindfulness & Mediation

Saturday, June 21, 2025 - 12:00pm  (Room 101 & Zoom) 

Join us for Shabbat Mind, an hour of Shabbat-inspired stillness and reflection led by members of our community. 

Shabbat Mind includes guided imagery, meditation, discussion, and sharing.  Appropriate for all experience and comfort levels.

For more information please email Renee Brant



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
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