How can we use the month leading up to Rosh Hashanah to prepare ourselves for the work of the High Holiday season? Join Rabbi Rebecca Richman for a session that will guide us through traditions, rituals, and spiritual practices that we might take on during the Hebrew month of Elul (which starts the night after
Reflect on the year just lived. Clear pathways for your heart and soul to lead the way into the New Year. Hebrew chant, meditation, and gentle energy movement. Led by Leah Weisman. PLEASE NOTE: Links to services and events are not posted on the GJC website. Rather, daily and weekly schedules with links are emailed
Phill Goldberg and Rabbi Elyse Wechterman will share their love of shofar blowing and why it is meaningful to them and then provide lessons and coaching for those who would like to take on this mitzvah this year. Please have a shofar ready and some paper and pens for taking a few "notes." No prior
Please join the Germantown Jewish Centre Men's Club for a book talk with author Rabbi Howard Avruhm Addison. Rava said: When assessing one’s life…the Heavenly Tribunal will ask… did you glimpse redemption? (BT Shabbat 31a) The Jewish view of history rests on three pillars: Creation, Revelation, and Redemption. Arguably Redemption stands pre-eminent among the three.
Our weekly gatherings follow the Jewish Studio Process, integrating spiritual practice, learning, and creative process. Creating alongside one another, we use materials (everything from tissue paper and oil pastels to acrylic paint and found objects) to explore questions and insights from a given text. We honor studio rules (such as “no comment”) to ensure that
Curious to learn more about and spend more time immersed in the Jewish Studio Process? Join us for a deep dive into the process, centered around the themes of Elul and the High Holiday season. Bring whatever materials you have at home (crayons, watercolors, scrap paper, recycled items, etc). You do not have to be
Join Rabbi Zeff each week online via Zoom for study of the Torah portion and how the medieval commentators understood it. The intent is to have some brief learning about the lens that the ancients brought to Torah, how they understood it, and how that can be helpful for our own lives. All texts will
What can we learn from the ideal and actual behavior of the High Priest on Yom Kippur as described in early Rabbinic texts? We still celebrate the intense moment of the High Priest entering the Holy of Holies in the Temple and uttering the unpronounceable name in the Yom Kippur Musaf, even though there have
Come for a delightful and beautiful walk through the Wissahickon! This is the fourth year the Women of GJC are organizing this early fall event. Meet outside at Cedars House Café (200 W. Northwestern Ave.) Space is limited; please RSVP to Dena Lake at denareva@comcast.net. Masks are required.
GJC’s Jewish book reading group meets monthly, reading and discussing 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 and the link to access the Zoom meeting, please contact Nan Myers. September's book is "Paris
