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Chanukah Latke Party, Potluck, Sing-Along, & Open Mic

Friday, December 27th, 2024, starting at 5:30PM!

✨Come and join us to celebrate Chanukah and bring More Light to the world! 🎶🎤🕎

Bring a vegetable/fish dish to share, come and eat latkes and donuts .. and sing, and rejoice with Aron Bederson, Judy Buchman, Rabbi Jill, and Steven Silverstein at the Piano! Anyone wishing to perform (in person only) at the open Mic, please email Rabbi Jill before 12/20. Co-Producer Helaine Witt will bring us wonderful comedic talent. Latkes and all the extras sponsored by Stan Kravitz.

Community Menorah Lighting Ceremony

Thursday, December 26th, 2024, 5pm

Join us at Father Fagan Park for a Community Menorah Lighting Ceremony on the second night of Chanukah! Let’s come together to sing, bless, and celebrate freedom, light, and joy! Led by @rabbijill ✨💫

All are welcome 🕎

AT Current Announcements

Continuing & Ongoing Events

Shabbat and Holiday Services and Programs

7 PM Fridays: Service followed by Oneg Shabbat (Food and Schmooze)
10:30 AM Saturdays: Chavurah-Style Service, Torah Discussion in English & Oneg Shabbat (Food and Schmooze)
3rd Saturdays 10:30 AM: Torah Reading & Breakfast: Opportunities to chant Torah portions.
Sponsor an Oneg Shabbat or a Musical Service, in honor of: Birthdays, Anniversaries, Births, Graduations or any Simcha.
We have services on all the major Jewish holidays.
Learner's service in conjunction with Shabbat Across America and Canada.

More about Shabbat and Holidays on the Prayer page.

Education for Adults and Children

Bar/Bat Mitzvah registration ongoing.
Adult Torah Study: Join us Wednesdays 7:30-9:30 PM, studying the Torah, Prophets, and Writings in English with Rabbi Jill at 96th Street. You are invited to join us by phone or in person. Please contact us for more details concerning what we are currently studying.
Conversion and Adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah training.
One day Hebrew review class in conjunction with Read Hebrew America and Canada.

More about education on the Learning page.

This Years' Highlights

M I S S I S S I P P I S U M M E R

A play which highlights the Jewish role in the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1960s.

Monday, November 4th, 2024, 7:30 PM

A full production with 11 actors and Bob Greenberg as the Rabbi. Written and directed by Art Feinglass, based on his personal experiences.

Originally produced by the Seattle Jewish Theater Company.

Production underwritten by Barbara Bova. Talkback after the show with a Wine & Cheese Tasting provided by Veritas Studio Wines and sponsored by Marjorie Conn.

Tickets $40, AEA/SAG-AFTRA Members: $30.

Buy Tickets Online, or by phone: 212-245-6975, or at the door.

More about “Mississippi Summer”

Based on historical events, Mississippi Summer tells a story of the 1960s civil rights movement. The play focuses on the friendship between Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (aka SNCC), who launched the black power movement, and the young Jewish volunteers from New York, who joined the struggle against racism and segregation.

The play is based on the personal experiences and the journal he kept at the time of playwright Art Feinglass, who was a young civil rights worker with SNCC in Jackson, Mississippi in 1965, where he and his fellow workers were beaten and jailed by police for their part in the struggle for civil rights.

Written and directed by Actors’ Temple supporter Art Feinglass, “Mississippi Summer,” looks at the role of Jews in the battle against racism and segregation in the 1960’s South. The play focuses on two young Jewish volunteers who traveled to Mississippi in 1965 to fight for civil rights, the Jewish lawyer who defended them and the heroic local rabbi who played a key role in the struggle.

"This is my Covenant which you shall Keep" (a play)

JOIN US THIS WEEK✨

SHABBAT: This Friday, August 2nd, 2024, 6:30 PM

Service, Reading of a PLAY: THIS IS MY COVENANT WHICH YOU SHALL KEEP, and Oneg Shabbat.

Service at 6:30 in Person and on Zoom; Play at 8 PM in Person only because of Actors’ Equity Union Rules.

🎭 Michael is estranged from his Orthodox parents, but when his sister invites him to her son’s circumcision, tensions from the past intrude. A new play about Jewish families, Anti Semitism, and much more, written by Y. Zach Greenberger, Directed by Jack Feldstein, produced by Tiara Fielding, with a cast playing 10 characters.

All Are Welcome!

"The Oath" (a play)

LOOKING AHEAD ✨

SHABBAT: Friday, August 23rd & 30th, 2024, 6:30 PM

Service, PLAY: THE OATH, by Clara Grusq, and Oneg Shabbat.

🎭 Two best friends confront a pivotal night that will forever alter their friendship and probe the philosophical depths of what it means to be Jewish amid the terrible decisions the Holocaust caused. The play incorporates a Yiddish singer, live violin, and mandolin.

All Are Welcome!

A Very Special Musical Presentation: "The Grip of Evil/The Endurance of Hope"

Friday, May 3rd, 2024, 6:30 PM

A Cantata by composer Leslie Steinweiss, in commemoration of Yom Hashoah, with a chamber ensemble of violin, clarinet/flute, cello, and piano, and singers Aron Bederson and Rabbi Jill Hausman, conducted by the composer, Service at 6:30, Cantata at 8 PM. Don't miss this unique musical event.