Just as chanting and meditating on Shabbat has filled our hearts and carried us through the week, we will use those tools to celebrate each week's Omer gate from the Tree of Life. Receive gifts of enhanced awareness and guidance to be felt throughout your whole week. This is the perfect time to begin practices
It is unavoidable that the pandemic through which we are all living would make us confront our mortality. It is uncomfortable for us to think about the end of our lives, but Jewish tradition urges us to devote some time to consider what will happen when we die, both for our own sake and for the
Join Rabbi Fredi Cooper to study and read closely Jewish texts. In addition to the biblical text, midrashic texts are introduced when they extend the understanding of the texts encountered. All are welcome. To join via computer, smartphone, or tablet: https://zoom.us/j/855551798 To join via telephone: Call 646-558-8656 and enter Meeting ID: 855-551-798
Join GJC's Israel Programming and Women of GJC for a special program to celebrate Yom ha-Atzma'ut! Liraz Cohen, founder of Fashionating by Liri and leader of the NY-Israel Fash&Tech community, will join us for a program via Zoom: "From the Kibbutz to the Big City Tel-Aviv: The History of Israeli Fashion." The presentation tells the
Please join us - it's good to connect! GJC's family retreat community is hosting a virtual Family Havdalah via Zoom, led by Mike Gross, Penina Kelberg, and their children. It will be a chance for kids and parents to be in community, even virtually, as we mark the transition from Shabbat. Come light your candle
What sets Jewish humor apart from other styles of humor, and what connects Israeli humor to Jewish humor? Who are the pioneers of Israeli humor, and what makes Israel humor so sharp and dark? Israeli comic and TV personality Yair Nitzani speaks about the making of Israeli comedy, the impact of the military on Israeli
Join Rabbi Zeff each week online via Zoom for study of the Torah portion and how the ancient rabbis understood it, based on Rabbi Reuven Hammer's A Year with the Sages. The intent is to have some brief learning about the lens that the ancients brought to Torah, how they understood it, and how that
Help celebrate the 10th anniversary of GJC's Family Retreat! This year's Family Retreat organizers have found creative ways to be together in community virtually, and hope you can join in the fun! Rock-star davenning leaders Chana Rothman and Rabbi Tamara Cohen kick off the weekend leading a Family Kabbalat Shabbat service. To access via smartphone,
Continue the Family Retreat's 10th anniversary celebration! GJC's family retreat community offers a chance for kids and parents to be in community as we mark the transition from Shabbat. Light your candle at home along with us!l This week's Family Havdalah is led by Abby Weinberg, Rabbi Nathan Martin, and their children. Zoom link
Pirkei Avot is a rich collection of rabbinic sayings from the era of the Mishnah (around 0-200 CE). There is a tradition that, each Shabbat between Passover and Shavuot, we study one of the six chapters, working our way through the collection. Join us for this centuries-old Jewish tradition that we practice at GJC with
Mondays, 7:00-8:00 PM Facilitated by Andrea Jacobs The challenges and opportunities of living alone have rarely been so profound. Join us to create a community of support and exploration through conversation, creative expression and witness. Andrea has a background in peer support group facilitation and coaching. She uses arts, movement, and music for healing and
Join the Germantown Jewish Centre City Group and Rabbi Richman for an exploration of "Shavuot Fundamentals," the underlying textual, historical, and traditional roots of the approaching holiday. To access via smartphone, tablet, or computer: Use this Zoom link. To access via telephone: Call in to 646-558-8656, and use meeting ID 81214998565 with password 443954.
GJC’s Jewish Book Reading Group reads fiction and nonfiction books of Jewish interest written mostly, but not solely, by Jewish writers and chosen by the group. Volunteer group members lead the discussion. For more information, please contact Nan Myers. The book for May is The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks. To access via smartphone, tablet,
Register Here Tuesdays, 6:00-7:00 PM Facilitated by Naomi R. Klayman, PhD, Social Communication and Beth R. Rosenbaum, LCSW, Psychotherapist Healthcare Professional includes anyone who provides direct care or facilitates access to care for patients and their caregivers. The goal will be to provide you with a few moments to take a deep breath and unload
Tuesdays, 7:30-8:30 PM Facilitated by Adina Abramowitz, President, Consulting for Change A support group for leaders of nonprofits. Leaders include Executive Directors, Program Managers, Financial Managers, and anyone who manages people and/or budgets. Adina has provided consulting and executive coaching to nonprofit organizations and their leaders since 1997. Her practice focused on community development organizations
Wednesdays, 4:00-5:00 PM Facilitated by Rabbi Fredi Cooper, EdD and Irene McHenry, PhD Support group for GJC congregants who have health conditions that make them feel especially vulnerable during this current time. Fredi Cooper is a retired rabbi, teacher, therapist, mother, wife and friend, and mentor. Her passion both inside and outside of the Jewish
The Zohar, the heart of Kabbalah, is the source of the Tikkun Leil Shavuot, the all-night study session before we receive the Torah on Shavuot. In preparation for understanding what this session was actually about, we’ll do a brief introduction to Zohar and the Sefirot (the inner aspects of the Divine) and then examine a
Facilitated by Ann Itzkowitz, MA and Richard S. Stern, PhD A support group for sharing stories and strategies about the joys and challenges of parenting and caring for adolescents when spending so much time at home. We’ll explore the challenges of work versus family life boundaries, discipline, family fun and activities, chores, moods, emotional climate,
HAZAK programs are planned for our seniors (age 55+) and are geared to both reflect common interests and get us to “stretch” to try new activities as well. This well-attended book group meets monthly all year long on the second Wednesday of the month to discuss great books over tea and nosh. May's book selection
Please join us - it's good to connect! GJC's family retreat community is hosting a virtual Family Havdalah via Zoom. It will be a chance for kids and parents to be in community, even virtually, as we mark the transition from Shabbat. Come light your candle with us! This week the Family Havdalah is led
Without A, B & O, the Red Cross can't save anyone. You are the #MissingType they need! Make your appointment early, as blood drive participant slots have been filling up quickly! We encourage you to use Rapid Pass (www.redcrossblood.org/rapidpass); this will help cut down the time people are waiting together to be checked in*. Don't
Mazal tov to the Confirmation class of 2020! If you need the Zoom link for the Confirmation Presentation, please contact Education Director Ben Rotenberg for class links at educator@germantownjewishcentre.org.
Register Here Mondays, 2:30-3:15 PM Facilitated by Linda Hahn and Rabbi Dayle Friedman A supportive setting for participants to express, explore, better understand, and gain more perspective on the feelings and reactions around care and responsibility for aging parents. We gather now, in light of increased stress due to the added health risks and increased
The United States’ role in saving Europe’s intellectual elite from the Nazis is often told as a tale of triumph, which in many ways it was. America welcomed Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi, Hannah Arendt and Herbert Marcuse, Rudolf Carnap, and Richard Courant, among hundreds of other physicists, philosophers, mathematicians, historians, chemists, and linguists who
Online, Monday and Thursday mornings from 8:30-9:30 AM via Zoom. Song, learning, and creative practice all in one! Newspapers, magazines, anything from your recycling bin, or any art supplies you may have around the house is all you need. Join by smartphone, computer, or tablet: Use this Zoom link. Join by telephone: Call 646- 558-
Shavuot is the time when we remember the story of the giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai. But how did Moses feel about going all the way up the mountain to get the Torah? And how did he teach it to the people? Join Rabbi Adam and some puppet friends for the story, along
No matter where we find ourselves physically, the holiday of Shavuot connects us to each other and to our ancestors as we commemorate and relive revelation of Torah. This year, we will gather virtually for GJC’s annual Tikkun Leyl Shavuot (traditionally an all-night Torah study). The theme for our learning this year is “Connecting in
If you would like to join via Zoom, please email Lawrence Charap for the link and login information. If you need a Kol Haneshamah prayerbook, please click here for a PDF version.
Rabbi Zeff will be leading the Shavuot Day 2 service with Yizkor from the Charry Sanctuary this week, along with a Memorial Plaque Dedication. If your practice allows, please tune in! To listen on our audio livestream: click HERE Note: The GJC building will not be open to the public this Shabbat.
Join us every night through Tuesday, July 28. In this time where time seems to blur and it's difficult to remember which day it is, we will count our way to Tisha b'Av. We invite you to join us. For the Zoom log-in, please contact Pesha Leichter at pesha27@gmail.com
We are living in a city in which sirens continue to blare, broken glass continues to coat the streets, curfews are being imposed, the National Guard is active, and cities across the country vibrate with fear and anger. It is a frightening and unsettling time for all of us, but thank God we do not
We’ll bring this tumultuous week to a close by entering into the peace of Shabbat with Kol Zimrah, lifting up the voices and reflections of LGBTQ members of our community. Join via smartphone, computer, or tablet: zoom link Join via telephone: Call 646-876-9923, use meeting ID: 227420988 To listen on our audio livestream: click HERE To
PRIDE Shabbat with Gwynn Kessler,Swarthmore College, Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Director of the Beit Midrash On Saturday morning, Rabbi Richman will lead our Shabbat service. The service will follow the usual structure of the Charry service, with additional readings and teachings about LGBTQ liberation. Gwynn Kessler will share a d'var Torah