Community Kibbitz

Short Avenue Elementary School 12814 Maxella Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Curated small group discussions help you get to know (and love) your fellow secular Jews and Jew-Adjacents.

Politics & Culture: Meet an Asylum Seeker

Short Avenue Elementary School 12814 Maxella Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Our co-chair Mila Marvizon is sponsoring an 18-year-old Honduran asylum seeker who was recently released from immigrant detention.  Come meet him, hear his story, and ask questions.

Politics & Culture: Immigrant Families Together

Casey Revkin Ryan is a West Coast representative of the volunteer network Immigrant Families Together, which is dedicated to reuniting families separated by the White House’s current policies. Their most urgent task is bonding parents out of detention. In the last 16 months, they have freed 84 immigrants (with bonds of $1500 to more than […]

Parent Programs: Facilitated Parenting

Join with a small group of other parents and licensed therapists to discuss the joys and challenges of parenting your little Sholemite/s!

Shvues Assembly

On-line Everywhere, on the Internet, CA, United States

The story of Shvues/Shavuot, taken from the Biblical book of Ruth, is one of the most important for Sholem families. It is a story of human kindness and inclusion, bridging cultural boundaries with love, just like many of our own families. It is also the story of an immigrant joining and enriching a community. You are […]

New Year’s/Rosh Hashanah Festival

Jan & Jerry's house

All are welcome, no charge, RSVP here NewYears5781@sholem.org to receive the private meeting link. Welcome the Jewish New Year with stirring readings, literature, and poetry based in our Jewish heritage and our secular, progressive values. Please have apples and honey on hand to join us in our hope for a sweet new year.

Classes

Jan & Jerry's house
Free

Kol Nidre

Jan & Jerry's house

Kol Nidre is the highlight of the Sholem calendar. Informed by Jewish traditions in music and spoken word, we reflect on our lives and the state of the world through a humanistic and progressive prism. This is a moving opportunity to renew ourselves for the upcoming year; to grieve our losses and reinforce our hopes. $200 Supporter tickets (Each Supporter will […]

Free

Kol Nidre

Jan & Jerry's house
Free

Yom Kippur

Jan & Jerry's house

All are welcome, no charge, RSVP here NewYears5781@sholem.org to receive the private meeting link for our communal discussion of ethics.

Free