Join our community in exploring the themes of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot. Using the Jewish Studio Process, we will ready our souls, minds, and creative selves for this season of transformation. The process we use integrates spiritual grounding, text study, and creative process (using any materials you have at home to explore and
REGISTER HERE! How do we teach our children to appreciate the diversity of the world? By starting from the very beginning…in the Garden of Eden with a chatty bird, a thoughtful snake, and a very ambitious fish! The ancient rabbis taught that the earth was created with a wide diversity of creatures by design, each with
On erev Rosh ha-Shanah, in the first moments of the new year, when everything is possible and all ways are open to us, this service offers a chance to come together in self-reflection as the melodies of the High Holidays, as well as melodies from around the world, weave themselves through our hearts, our minds,
Join Rabbi Rebecca Richman in person, outdoors in GJC's Sukkah for a Rosh ha-Shanah Day 1 beit midrash text study. Masks are required! In the Haftarah reading on the First Day of Rosh Hashanah, we learn the story of Hannah. Distraught by her barrenness, she turns to God in prayer. Hannah, considered one of Torah’s
This Tashlich will be an opportunity for community building and reflection - both through the traditional, water-based ritual and through new pathways for personal and communal teshuva. Our focus will be on everyday acts, decisions, and moments of inaction when we have taken the opportunity to make a difference or let it slip by. We
Join Rabbi Rebecca Richman in person, outdoors in GJC's Sukkah for a Rosh ha-Shanah Day 2 beit midrash text study. Masks are required! Join Rabbi Richman for a text study inspired by and building on her sermon about safrut, sacred scribal arts. What are some of the halakhot (laws) that guide ongoing scribal practice, what
JOIN TEAM GJC IN OUR HIGH HOLIDAYS VIRTUAL FOOD DRIVE! CLICK HERE TO PARTICIPATE! "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead This year, in partnership with Philabundance, GJC is hosting a virtual food drive to raise
JOIN TEAM GJC IN OUR HIGH HOLIDAYS VIRTUAL FOOD DRIVE! CLICK HERE TO PARTICIPATE! "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead This year, in partnership with Philabundance, GJC is hosting a virtual food drive to raise
JOIN TEAM GJC IN OUR HIGH HOLIDAYS VIRTUAL FOOD DRIVE! CLICK HERE TO PARTICIPATE! "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead This year, in partnership with Philabundance, GJC is hosting a virtual food drive to raise
