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
Join ECP teacher Anna Goldberg (and her puppet Baruch!) for a 30-minute, child-centric Shabbat service for children age 0-6 and their families. Each service highlights themes from the Shabbat liturgy, weekly Torah portion and upcoming holiday. Come along for singing, praying, storytelling, and more!
As the daylight dwindles and the weather cools, let us turn inward to the warmth of our community. Each week until mid-March we will mark havdalah as a community. Havdalah is a short ritual that marks the end of Shabbat, our day of rest. Through blessing, song, and story, we will dwell together in the
The announcement on August 13th of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates sent shockwaves through the political world of the Middle East. Join us over Zoom to hear these experts from Israel explain the varied contours of this significant change in Israel's international relations and how it might affect
As we come to the end of this tumultuous season and wait for the results, join Rabbi Adam Zeff and Nina Peskin for a time of calm, reflection, meditation, and chanting to center our hearts. PLEASE NOTE: Links to services and events are not posted below. Rather, daily and weekly schedules with links are emailed
Tikkun Olam Coordinating Team is proud to present the first session of the FACING SYSTEMIC RACISM Series. Through reading, presentations, and discussion, we hope to elucidate many layers of systemic racism, and better understand how to begin to make changes in our well-intentioned communities of GJC and West Mt Airy. We hope to address inequity
Please join us in welcoming Rabbi Golan Ben-Chorin, grandson of Rabbi Elias Charry, as this year’s Rabbi Elias Charry Memorial Scholar-in-Residence. Rabbi Ben-Chorin, a third-generation Israeli Reform spiritual leader and Doctor of Education, brings to his work an experiential, musical, and "midrashic” approach to learning and prayer. In serving Reform communities in Israel, the United
As the daylight dwindles and the weather cools, let us turn inward to the warmth of our community. Each week until mid-March we will mark havdalah as a community. Havdalah is a short ritual that marks the end of Shabbat, our day of rest. Through blessing, song, and story, we will dwell together in the
Please join us in welcoming Rabbi Golan Ben-Chorin, grandson of Rabbi Elias Charry, as this year’s Rabbi Elias Charry Memorial Scholar-in-Residence. Rabbi Ben-Chorin, a third-generation Israeli Reform spiritual leader and Doctor of Education, brings to his work an experiential, musical, and “midrashic” approach to learning and prayer. In serving Reform communities in Israel, the United
Please contact Education Director Abigail Weinberg at educator@germantownjewishcentre.org for more information.
