Led by Rabbi Emily and/or Cantor Melissa, our services offer a grounding, uplifting, and prayerful way to celebrate Shabbat. Our services always invite active participation from our congregation, and include both traditional as well as “reconstructed” interpretations of prayer, song, and Torah.
This service is both in person and on Zoom. (For Zoom link, please check your e-newsletter or admin [at] westendsynagogue.org (contact Joan).)
A five-session class on Sacred Objects in Judaism, led by member, Susan Schorr.
The Jewish sacred objects around us: how did each evolve over millennia, and what age-old and modern processes join today to create them? This class will look at the history, religious underpinnings, physical craftsmanship, and beauty of the objects we use and see weekly (and sometimes annually) yet may have taken for granted and not really seen.
Attend as many classes as you like. Each is a "stand-alone" class.
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.
THIS MONTH: BECHIRA - Decision Points. This added session is a continuation of the earlier Monday session this month.
Discussion and text study of West End’s Middah (ethical value/character trait) of the month.
All WES members are invited to join our study of West End’s Middah (ethical value/character trait) of the month.
This Month: Nichuta/Calmness
Make your hearts like a lake, with a calm still surface, and great depths of kindness.
~ Lao Tzu
Monthly, third Monday of each 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. Led by Susan Schorr.
Come usher in Shabbat with meditation followed by a wine tasting kiddish.
Forced Out: Experiencing Loss of Homes and Country
As we begin Judaism’s day of communal mourning, we invite you to join us for our joint West End/SAJ service including readings and other materials focused on the experience of being forced from home and exiled from country.
At West End Synagogue
No Shabbat service at WES today, Please join us at 8:00pm for our SELICHOT SERVICE.
Join us for a clergy and lay-led service featuring many of our LGBTQ+ members' writings, musical gifts, leyning, reconstructed liturgy, and more! A festive kiddush will follow and all are welcome to celebrate!
