How are religious communities reacting to living through a pandemic? How is it making us think differently about what it means to be a congregation, how we forge connections, and how we relate to the divine? And how should it make us act differently on our commitments to advocate for equity and justice at a
Prayer is for every day, and GJC supports a weekday minyan service. The Rabbi gives a short teaching at the end of each service to provide food for thought for the day. The minyan provides a relaxed and welcoming environment in which to pray, to learn prayer skills, and, for those in mourning, to recite
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
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
