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  • 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 […]

  • Unofficial, in-person, physically-distanced picnic

    Farragut Elementary School 10820 Farragut Dr., Culver City, CA, United States

    Following the online event at 12 noon. Please bring your own lunch, a blanket or folding chairs, and face masks. Veterans Memorial Park Questions? Write to newyear5781@sholem.org

  • Kol Nidre

    Jan & Jerry's house
    Free

  • Sam Nordon’s Bar Mitsve Ceremony

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    Jan & Jerry's house

    Sholem student Sam Nordon will become a Bar Mitsve in Sholem’s first virtual ceremony! Sam will present "Jews and the Comic Book Industry," the research project he worked on with his […]

    Free

  • Gil Maruvada’s Bar Mitsve Ceremony

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    Jan & Jerry's house

    All are welcome for Sholem’s second virtual Bar Mitsve ceremony! Please join us for Gil Maruvada's presentation, "Artificial Intelligence or Stupidity: Jewish and Indian Perspectives on Synthetic Life”   Sholem’s […]

    Free

  • Rosh Hashanah (9/7) in the Park

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    Rancho Park-Cheviot Hills. Picnic Area #1 (behind the swimming pool) 2551 Motor Ave. (One block south of Pico), Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Welcome the Jewish New Year with stirring readings, literature, and poetry based in our Jewish heritage and our secular, progressive values. Please B.Y.O. picnic, challah, apples, honey, and have a […]

  • Kol Nidre (9/15) Virtual Observance

    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 […]

    $50

  • Isaiah Edward Griffin Bar Mitsve Ceremony, Dec.4, 4pm

    All are invited for our community's next Bar Mitsve ceremony, which will take place via Zoom.    Isaiah Edward Griffin's Bar Mitsvepresents "The Virtual Reality of Jewish Community" Saturday, Dec. […]

    Free

  • Hanuka/Khanike Assembly & Carnival (11:30am)

    Sholem's celebration recognizes the roots of Hanukkah as a winter solstice festival.  We celebrate Hanukkah in honor of the Maccabees and a freedom struggle for an oppressed people.  We also seek […]

  • MLK Day (at Sunday school)

    THIS SUNDAY we commemorate a holiday Hershl Hartman, our Education Director, is fond of saying is as important a Jewish holiday as anything else on the calendar: Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Adults are warmly […]

  • Rosh Hashanah In the Park, Los Angeles

    Clover Park 2600 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA, United States

    Join Sholem's secular Rosh Hashanah in Los Angeles - a Jewish New Year event for families of all backgrounds. Community and tradition, outdoors!

  • Sholem’s Kol Nidre 2025 – Los Angeles, Jewish High Holy Days

    Morgan-Wixson Theater 2627 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA, United States

    This secular Jewish High Holy Days celebration features spectacular music, inspiring leadership, transcendent chorus, and seamless production—like a fabulous variety show informed by Jewish traditions in music and spoken word.

  • Yom Kippur In the Park, Santa Monica

    Clover Park 2600 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA, United States

    A Secular Yom Kippur celebration in Los Angeles. Join us for a meaningful reflection without traditional religious requirements.

  • “The December Dilemma” Group Discussion

    Beginning at 10:30 a.m., there will be an Adult Activity for Sholem parents and community members. Longtime Sholem members Laurie Braude and Lois Bostwick will facilitate a community discussion on "The […]

  • Annual Purim Carnival

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    All are welcome to our Purim festivities! We'll be doing our usual pantomime reading of Sholem's Super-Colossal Purim Mishmash shpil, adapted from Megiles Ester by Hershl Hartman. As is our […]

  • Sholem Model Secular Seder – Passover 2026

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    Farragut Elementary School 10820 Farragut Dr., Culver City, CA, United States

    Sholem's non-religious cultural celebration of Passover acknowledges the holiday’s origins as a spring festival and honors the tradition of “Exodus” as a symbolic tale of freedom. This popular communal event […]