West End Synagogue

Join West End's Hebrew School for our annual Candy Seder! We'll be exploring the Passover seder through stories, music, student presentations, and of course, candy! If you're looking for a Hebrew School for the fall, this is the perfect time to visit! Recommended for grades K-4. Please register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUNO5PfvEIvHgpst36rRaj-MDdFRGkYMtr-b6Ttn36HvKPzw/viewform

Mark Slobin presents "Tenement Songs"

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During the 1880-1920 migration of eastern European Jews to the US, the immigrants built an in-house music industry on the Lower East Side that offered pianos and phonographs on the installment plan, commercial Yiddish music records, and hundreds of folios of sheet music, often from Yiddish theater shows, to play at home. Professor Mark Slobin will discuss this music.

Torah on Tuesdays with Susan Schorr (ZOOM ONLY)

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This longstanding Adult Education group meets on Zoom two Tuesdays a month at 7:30pm to study the Torah in English translation, in depth, considering it from the perspectives of literature, sacred text, religious mythology, family lore, psychology, drama, history, pop culture, and more. Please contact the office for Zoom link.

Gali Rabin - The Current Kibbutz Movement (POSTPONED)

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APRIL 3, 2025 - DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES TONIGHT'S GALI RABIN EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED - new date will be announced

In this, the 3rd session of her three presentations, Israeli Emissary ,Gali Rabin, will analyze, "The Current Kibbutz Movement in Israel."

Middah on Monday (ZOOM only)

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Discussion and text study of West End’s Middah (ethical value/character trait) of the month.

Our Middah study group meets on the third Monday of each month, led by Susan Schorr. All WES members are invited to join our study of a selected Middah of the month. Discussions are text-based using materials from both ours and other spiritual traditions, as well as insights from modern authors, pop culture and more. Texts may range from Talmud to Psychology Today, from Maimonides to Leonard Cohen, from modern-day rabbis to classic Broadway.

Torah on Tuesdays with Susan Schorr (ZOOM ONLY)

Read more about Torah on Tuesdays with Susan Schorr (ZOOM ONLY)

This longstanding Adult Education group meets on Zoom two Tuesdays a month at 7:30pm to study the Torah in English translation, in depth, considering it from the perspectives of literature, sacred text, religious mythology, family lore, psychology, drama, history, pop culture, and more. Please contact the office for Zoom link.

Preparing to Leave the Narrow Spaces: Personal and Global. Songs and Stories for Pre-Passover

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Rabbi Lester Bronstein and his wife Cantor Benji Schiller will speak and sing on the theme of “Preparing to Leave the Narrow Places: Personal and Global. Songs and Stories for Pre-Passover.”