Register Here Mondays, 8:30-9:30 PM Facilitated by Susan Swartz and Dan Livney, Psychologist and PsyD A weekly support group for parents and caregivers of young children to share challenges, brainstorm creative solutions and receive guidance from our facilitators. Susan Swartz founded and ran First Teachers @ Home, offering educational and parenting classes for low-income families
This midday and midweek virtual gathering will give us space to spiritually ground ourselves as we pray for healing within our families, networks, communities, and larger world. We will integrate some of the minhah service prayers with chant, poetry, reflection, and quiet. All are welcome. Video: Use this Zoom link on your smartphone or computer
Socialize and study rabbinic legends about the Torah! Video: Use this Zoom link on your smartphone or computer. Audio: Call 1-929-436-2866, Meeting ID 839-225-558
Rabbi Zeff will be leading a service from the Charry Sanctuary this week with Shabbat prayers and songs. As part of the service, the rabbi will also be teaching a text study. If your Shabbat practice allows, please tune in! PLEASE NOTE: Links to services and events are not posted on the GJC website. Rather,
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! https://us04web.zoom.us/j/581668185 Meeting ID 581-668-185
One of the ways the Hebrew word shalvah can be defined is "equanimity." Equanimity is being aware of what's happening, challenges and all, and meeting it with open awareness. Equanimity is maintaining your center while things are uncertain and unstable. We cultivate equanimity in meditation by sitting and returning to open awareness of all we are feeling again and again. Likewise, in
Rabbi Zeff will be leading a service from the Charry Sanctuary this week with Shabbat prayers and songs. If your Shabbat practice allows, please listen along from home! To listen on our audio live stream: Go to our homepage at www.germantownjewishcentre.org or click on this Mixlr link. Note: The GJC building will not be open to
Beginning at 8:15 PM on Saturday, March 28 and running through 9:00 PM on Monday, March 30, you can bid on over 100 auction items from one-of-a-kind adventures to amazing restaurants to treasures like Superbowl tickets or a Torneau watch! All of the funds we raise together will support GJC in its efforts to serve
Many of us are unexpectedly in the position of leading a seder, and may want a refresher. Please join us for "How to Lead a Seder," where you'll hear ideas from Rabbi Zeff and others, have an opportunity to share your own ideas, and explore ways that allow us to celebrate Pesah in a different
Learn about the tradition of reading Shir HaShirim during Passover and delve into some of the themes of the text. Explore the narrative of the love between God and the people of Israel, and consider the resonance of the text as we ready ourselves for Passover. This is an online class via Zoom; the link
