Monday Mornings With Rabbi Alan Ullman

Class dates:  March 2, 9, 23 & 30; April 6 & 13

What Is Faith? Come and explore with us as we turn our questions upside down and our answers inside out!

There will be two sections of the class this semester:

Section 1     8:00 - 9:30 a.m. - Space available in this section

Section 2     10:00 - 11:30 a.m. -Limited space available in this section

Registration process: First come, first served

A minimum of 10 students is required for each section and there will be no more than 22 students in each section.

Wednesday, January 21, 9:00 a.m. - registration opened to Temple Shir Tikva members only.  To register you must call/see someone in the temple office to reserve your spot with a check or credit card.  Office phone # is 508-358-9992.  Your space can not be reserved without payment.

Monday, February 9, 9:00 a.m. - registration opens to Non-Temple Shir Tikva members.  To register you must call/see someone in the temple office to reserve your spot with a check or credit card.  Office phone # is 508-358-9992.  Your space can not be reserved without payment.

Registration for all will close on February 20, 2015

Class fees:

TST Members:    $54, Non-Members:    $118

To sponsor/support another student's participation in the class, please consider an additional donation to your class fee.

Should you need financial assistance, please call Susan Altman for a confidential conversation; we want all students who want to participate to be registered for the class.

Please call the office if you have questions, 508-358-9992.

Saturday, January 31, 2015

Please join us for a great night of community and laughs!  The night includes a Chinese food buffet dinner, drinks (beer and wine) and dessert followed by some top notch comedians.  This has always proven to be a very fun, great adult night out at the temple.  (Must be at least 21 years old.) 

Join us for "Ruchi G'viati--My Soul, My Body," our Jewish Mind-Body Spirituality experience. Together we will learn timeless strategies drawn from Jewish tradition for caring for your mind, body and soul. This dynamic series of workshops is based on music, contemplative meditation, Torah study, psychological thought and gentle Yoga.

• Wear comfortable clothing
• Come prepared to remove your shoes
• Bring a yoga mat (mats will be provided for those need them)
• Bring friends, old and new
• Bring frayed nerves in need of healing
• Bring open minds and hearts, eager to learn, share and sing

Facilitated by Cantor Hollis Schachner, Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger and Holly Friedman Glick, LICSW, RYT 

Join us for our next Sisterhood book club! We are reading A Guide for the Perplexed by Dara Horn.

Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented an application that records everything its users do. When an Egyptian library invites her to visit as a consultant, her jealous sister Judith persuades her to go. A century earlier, another traveler arrives in Egypt: Solomon Schechter, a Cambridge professor hunting for a medieval archive hidden in a Cairo synagogue. Both he and Josie are haunted by the work of the medieval philosopher Moses Maimonides.  An engrossing adventure that intertwines stories from Genesis, medieval philosophy, and the digital frontier, A Guide for the Perplexed is a novel of profound inner meaning and astonishing imagination.

Join us for wine, dessert and a lively discussion, whether you finish the book or not. 

• Donald Schuler and Joan Blair, on the engagement of their son, Steven Schuler to Serena Shulman
• Peter and Nancy Gossels, on the engagement of their son, Daniel Gossels to Jackie Chae

• Lisa Schreiber,  on the death of her father, David Botvin
• Joan Friedman,  on the death of her father, Arthur Friedman

Sunday, March 8, 1-4 p.m.

Seder Plate Class at Danforth

Create and decorate beautiful Seder plates. You will form the plate out of clay and paint it. The Danforth then glazes and fires the plates and you can pick them up the week before Passover.

Workshops are limited to 10 adult/child pairs, and work best for children ages 5 and above.

Cost: Danforth Members: $25, non-members: $25

Click here to register 

SAVE THE DATE!

Sunday, May 31, 2015, noon- 7 p.m.

Prowse Farm, 5 Blue Hill River Road, Canton

Bringing the Community Together for Israel

Join us for a festive afternoon filled with music, art, dance, fun, food and activities for all ages.  

Sign up at celebrateisraelboston.com to receive event updates!

The Site Is Up. The Box Office is Open!

Whether it was meeting an Indian singer who was so excited to do a concert with a cantor, or the joy of the Irish Consul of Boston when we talked about Saints and Tzadiks, there are many incredible stories to tell about this year's festival. Over the next few weeks, we'll be sharing more details and anecdotes with you.

Click here to find out more information and to buy tickets

10 - 11 a.m.

The JCC Early Learning Center is located at 141 Boston Post Road, at Temple Shir Tikva.

The JCC Early Learning Center, Wayland is holding open houses for parents of toddlers and preschool age children.

Parents can meet the educators and the school's director, tour the classrooms and register for the Fall 2015 school year.  The school accepts children ages 15 months to 5 years and is one of five schools in the Boston area operated by the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston. Program offers part day with full week and part week options, school year and summer programs as well as early drop-off, extended day and afternoon enrichment programs. Everyone is welcome. The JCC proudly welcomes interfaith families and people of all abilities, cultural backgrounds and sexual orientations.

For more information contact 508-358-5331, wayland-elc@jccgb.org or visit bostonjcc.org/earlylearning. 

Sunday, February 1, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Meet the camp director and staff and learn how JCC Grossman Camp is a place to be active, a place to make friends and a place for building skills and community.

Varied activities give campers ages 4.5 to 15 years old a sense of the world around them-and supportive, experienced staff encourage exploration and growth in this vibrant Jewish camping environment. Located on 75 acres of the Hale Reservation in Westwood.

Bus transportation available from more than 40 communities throughout Greater Boston. Extended day available in Newton (at the Leventhal-Sidman JCC). Financial assistance is available.   

No charge for open house. Everyone welcome. A program of the Ryna Greenbaum JCC Center for the Arts.

For more information, visit bostonjcc.org/grossman or call 617-244-5124.