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Lifelong Learning Update
North Shore Synagogue’s Lifelong Learning Committee is proud to announce that it will be offering and sharing a broad range of Jewish cultural events and learning opportunities. Click here for Ten Minutes of Torah, a daily email from the URJ. Articles of interest More than a third of people in Hungary and Poland have ‘extensive’ antisemitic […]
Journey into the new year with (Jewish) holidays (Rabbi Shalhevet)
Like a few other cultures, our Jewish calendar is a lunar one, following the cycle of the moon. It still consists of 12 months, but because each cycle of the moon is 29.5 days long, every month is either 29 or 30 days, sometimes not the same each year. It makes the year only 355 […]
What Brings You Here? (Beth Bucheister)
The President’s note is purposeful if it provides information that , once read, is beneficial to congregants. The note needs to express the indebtedness of our staff, including our Rabbi, Executive Director, teachers, maintenance and office staff. The President’s note should highlight past and upcoming important synagogue events, fundraising efforts, school achievements, and our ability […]
Mental Health Awareness Month (Rabbi Shalhevet)
Almost everything I see these days is telling me that time is running out. The school superintendent is sending emails such as “it’s hard to believe there’s only 6 more weeks of the school year!” The principal is sending messages saying “hurry to buy those black dress slacks for the end of the year concert! […]
March-April Nursery School News
It may have been very cold outside but it’s been a wonderful winter at school. The children learned about what animals and people do in the winter. We learned some hibernate, some migrate and some adapt. We had a blast during hibernation day. We all wore our pajamas and went on a bear hunt. We […]
Judaism and Race (Rabbi Shalhevet)
I remember hearing in college, from Professor Jyl Lynn Felman, that race is fluid. I remember thinking that was an insane statement. You couldn’t change your race, I argued. I couldn’t decide I was Black any more than a dove could choose to become a tiger. The class discussed for quite some time the definition […]
Tu B’Shevat and Dr King (Rabbi Shalhevet)
Tu B’Shevat this year falls on January 17th. This year it shares its date with Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Here in America, Tu B’shevat makes no sense. I admit it. It’s the New Year of the trees, when we celebrate the beginning of the blossoming of the buds, the young sprouts first emerging from […]
Why Are You A Member of A Synagogue? (Rabbi Shalhevet)
August 14, 2023 by nssadmin • Blog, Uncategorized
“Why are you a member of a synagogue?” It’s a different question than “Why do you join a synagogue,” right? Most people – and I am generalizing here – join a synagogue in order to receive something from it: education for a child, a B’nei Mitzvah, a wedding, funeral, or other lifecycle event, or sometimes, […]