• Songs and Spirit for Israel

    Temple Emanu-El Stern Chapel

    Join together for an evening of music, hope, and community with local Israeli singers and Cantors Vicky Glikin and Leslie Niren. We’ll light the Hanukkah candles and have the opportunity to support Nir Yitzhak kibbutz, Israel home of Aya Margalit, Jewish Agency community sh’licha for Temple Emanu-El.

    Israel and the War in Gaza with Paul Liptz

    Online on Zoom

    This Lunch 'n' Learn Israel session will look at events preceding the attack on Jewish towns and kibbutzim on October 7. An analysis of Hamas in the context of Islamic fundamentalism and the failures of the Israeli army to take advantage of intelligence warnings enable us to better understand the tragic events of the last...

    Zionism 101 with Muki Jankelowitz

    Online on Zoom

    This Israel Lunch 'n' Learn session will seek to clarify what exactly Zionism is by exploring some of the different questions that have animated Zionist thinkers: Is Zionism a continuation of Jewish history or a revolution against it? Is the establishment of the Jewish State a sufficient condition for a Jewish Renaissance, or only a...

  • Zionism Today with Rabbi Michael Marmur, Ph.D.

    Online on Zoom

    This lunch and learn session will focus on how we see ourselves as Zionist Jews in the contemporary landscape, how we move through our own struggles with Israel, Zionism and what’s happening across the world.

    Unraveling Israel’s Story Through “Beauty Queen of Jerusalem”

    Join Cantor Leslie Niren and Rabbi Michael Lewis in a 4-part adult learning series about bestselling novel turned hit TV show, "The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem." This period drama tells the story of three generations of a Sephardic family in Jerusalem against the backdrop of resistance to the Ottoman regime and later to the British...

    Soul Singing for Israel

    Temple Emanu-El Stern Chapel

    Connect to the land and the people of Israel from afar through music, breath, meditation, and community. We will pray for healing, peace (shalom) and wholeness (sh’leimut), sending hope and positive energy to ourselves, to all we know who are suffering, and to our brothers and sisters in Israel. Come as you are and leave...

  • Judaism Unfiltered: Israel with Sh’licha Aya Margalit

    Temple Emanu-El Linz Hall

    Join Rabbi Michael Lewis, Temple shlicha, Aya Margalit and your ATiD 20s and 30s community for a conversation about the current conflict in Israel. A taco dinner will be included.

  • Artzenu: Learning with Maya Yehezkel

    Temple Emanu-El Barbara Zale Center for Living History

    Join Temple Sh'lichah, Aya Margalit, as we learn with Maya, who some of us got to know as the tour guide on the recent Temple leadership mission to Israel, who will join us on Zoom from her home in Israel. Maya expresses her love of Israel and the pain of the war through her works...