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Shir
at HaLev (“Song of the Heart”) musical Kabbalat Shabbat service
Third Friday of each month.
Come for bagels and coffee, and help build and decorate our fabulous (indoor - ah, New York life) sukkah! Crafts wil be available for all ages to make our sukkah beautiful. All are welcome!
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Jewish Family Life and Learning (JFLL)
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A bi-monthly program on Saturday afternoons offering a fun, hands-on Jewish experience. Jewish holidays, values and rituals are taught through visual art, drama, cooking and music. Kids not only learn about Judaism but they LIVE it!
First Friday at WES
Kabbalat Shabbat Service and Potluck Dinner
6:00 - 7:00 PM service, dinner following
Hazzan Ayelet Porzecanski leads "Shabbat Unplugged", an intimate celebration of Shabbat; the long exhale at the end of the week, on the second Friday of each month at 6:30-7:30pm. (Click image to hear Yom Zeh M'chubad)
Rabbi Burton Visotzky will speak at WES on October 17 at 7PM on his book: Aphrodite and the Rabbis: How the Jews Adapted Roman Culture to Create Judaism as We Know It.
Burton Visotzky, Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the author of ten other books, has been featured on Bill Moyers' "Genesis" and Christiane Amanpour's "Back to the Beginning."
HaMinyan is West End's lay-led, often experimental and always interesting service. HaMinyan takes place at 8:00 pm on the fifth Friday of the month, whenever a fifth Friday occurs. (There is no 6:30pm service on those dates.)
For more information, visit our page What is Reconstructionism?
or
Enjoy this brief, entertaining video introducing the Reconstructionist approach to Judaism.
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with Rabbi Georgette