****TORAH STUDY & SERVICES ON SATURDAY JULY 5th WILL BE ZOOM ONLY****

Please check your e-newsletter or contact the office for the Zoom link.                                                                                                                              admin [at] westendsynagogue.org ((Office email))

Join us for Festival services and Yizkor when we will chant selections from the Book of Ruth. Professor Mel Scult will be giving a short talk about the way the Book of Ruth has been considered from ancient times to the present.

Song-filled, joyful service open to all, featuring our in-house band, and particularly welcoming to children and their families (who help with leadership!). This week, our JFLL Moving Up Ceremony will celebrate our students progressing.

From October through June, a dairy/parve potluck dinner follows the service. (No potluck over the summer).

Unless otherwise noted, this service will always be in person and on Zoom.

Our Middah study group regularly meets on the third Monday* of each month for discussion and text study of West End’s Middah (ethical value/character trait) of the 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.

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.”

****PLEASE NOTE KABBALAT SHABBAT ON FRIDAY MARCH 7th WILL BE ZOOM ONLY****

Led by WES lay leaders this week, while our clergy are at the Reconstructing Judaism Convention.

Our services always invite active participation from our congregation, and include both traditional as well as “reconstructed” interpretations of prayer, song, and Torah. For more information about our Shabbat services, please see https://westendsynagogue.org/shabbat-services.

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.

Following services, join our Communal Tu B'Shevat Seder and honor the New Year for Trees.

Learn about the historical, spiritual and ecological significance of Tu B'Shevat as we move through a Seder and discussion together.