Past Events

In 2021, 82 percent of American Jews said antisemitism had risen over the last five years, while only 44 percent of the general public believed that to be the case. How can we account for this striking difference? Antisemitism is sometimes called “the oldest hatred,” and this talk will show how religious and racial prejudice shaped Jewish experience over millennia and came to unite diverse Jewish people around the world. Topics will include the origins of Jewish stereotypes, how antisemitism…

image fromreformjudaism.org Join us for the first of our Third Friday Shabbat Potluck Dinners on January 19. This month we will be including a special Tu B’Shevat seder along with our Shabbat meal. Space is limited, so all attendees MUST RSVP with the form at the bottom of this post. Please plan to bring a vegetarian (dairy or parve) dish to share. A Tu B’Shevat seder is divided into four sections that represent the four seasons and the four Spiritual Realms. As with the…

If you have trouble remembering the Hebrew letters, or if you haven't really learned them at all, art can be a fun way to improve your reading skills. As you draw the letters with precision, you will get to know each one intimately. After you've built art out of a word, you'll recognize it anywhere. In this workshop we will start with some warm ups before jumping into lettering. We will practice writing each of the letters in the aleph…

Kabbalat Shabbat service followed by kiddush and oneg.

Our Potluck Shabbat dinner and Tu B'shvat Seder was a great success in January, and we are looking forward to getting together again on the Third Friday in February. This month, we will be having our dinner on the night after Purim Katan, so the twin themes for the dinner will be Shushan (Persia) and Joy. The rabbis tell us that when the month of Adar comes in, Joy increases. This is why we add an extra month of Adar…

In January we had our first Hebrew Calligraphy and Art Workshop in which we created posters for an eastern wall in our home so that we would know which way to face when praying. Along the way, we learned a little bit from the Sefer Yetzira -- a primary kabbalistic work that tells about how the letters of the Hebrew Aleph Bet were used to create the universe, and we learned a bit about the basic strokes involved in creating…