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. […]
Sholemites and guests are invited to our Purim carnival! We'll be doing our usual pantomime reading of Sholem's Super-Colossal Purim Mishmash shpil, adapted from megiles ester by Hershl Hartman, our Education Director. As is our tradition, our Sunday school […]
Event Date: October 4, 2022 7:00PM Tickets available online through October 3. In Memoriam program tributes close September 28. Yizker available through October 3. Tickets will be available at the […]
Welcome the Jewish New Year with stirring readings, literature, and poetry based in our Jewish heritage and our secular, progressive values. Bring a picnic for your family and, if you […]
Kol Nidre, the evening that initiates Yom Kippur, is a highlight of the Sholem calendar. Informed by Jewish traditions in music and in spoken word, we reflect on our lives […]
Join us at the park for a discussion of ethics in our daily lives. FREE and family-friendly! Donations welcome - suggested contribution $5-10 per adult. Clover Park, BBQ Group Area […]
Sholem Sunday School Meets on the campus of: Short Avenue Elementary School 12814 Maxella Ave Los Angeles, CA 9006 ALEF/BEYS (preK-2nd), GIML (3rd/4th), DALED (5th/6th), and HEY (7th/8th) classes meet […]
Join us as Mona Field, Co-President of the Los Angeles League of Women Voters, helps us understand all 12 statewide measures (and some local propositions) on the November 3, 2020 ballot.
Mona will discuss the pros and cons of a diverse set of issues: property taxes, rent control, parolee voting, sentence changes for some crimes, approving or rejecting cash bail, funding for stem cell research, reinstituting affirmative action, allowing some 17-year-olds to vote, governing kidney dialysis clinics, special workplace rules for app-based companies like Uber and Lyft, and new consumer privacy rules.
Be sure to have handy your sample ballot, mail ballot, and other materials for reference.
Mona Field is a notable expert in the area of state and local politics. In addition to her role with the League, she is professor emeritus, political science at Glendale Community College and author of "California Government and Politics Today (15th Edition)."
Marilyn McLaughlin, parent of two Sholem school graduates, returns to share a unique approach to mindfulness that is both quiet and interactive, in stillness and in motion. Learn a few simple techniques […]
Our School Principal, Ross Helford, will lead a discussion with current and prospective families about the importance, urgency, and value of a secular Jewish education – including its history and what it […]
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 […]
Sholem Sunday School Meets on the campus of: Short Avenue Elementary School 12814 Maxella Ave Los Angeles, CA 9006 ALEF/BEYS (preK-2nd), GIML (3rd/4th), DALED (5th/6th), and HEY (7th/8th) classes meet […]
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 […]
Sholem Sunday School Meets on the campus of: Short Avenue Elementary School 12814 Maxella Ave Los Angeles, CA 9006 ALEF/BEYS (preK-2nd), GIML (3rd/4th), DALED (5th/6th), and HEY (7th/8th) classes meet […]
All are welcome for 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, our Education Director. As is our tradition, our Sunday school classes will each […]
RSVP* by March 7 Required Hosted by the Leeds and Southers Families Jordan and Coral's Secular Bar/Bas Mitsve Ceremony (Luncheon to follow) Jordan will discuss the importance of community in […]
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 communal event will feature […]
Sholem Sunday School Meets on the campus of: Short Avenue Elementary School 12814 Maxella Ave Los Angeles, CA 90066 ALEF/BEYS (preK-2nd), GIML (3rd/4th), DALED (5th/6th), and HEY (7th/8th) classes meet […]
Are you culturally Jewish but not religious? Would you like your children (or grandchildren) to connect with their Jewish identity? Do you have an intercultural family? Sholem's secular Sunday school […]
SATURDAY, Sep. 16, 2023 at 11:00 am Clover Park, 2600 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405 (Group BBQ Area #1) Welcome the Jewish New Year with stirring readings, literature, […]
Are you culturally Jewish but not religious? Would you like your children (or grandchildren) to connect with their Jewish identity? Do you have an intercultural family? Sholem's secular Sunday school […]
Kol Nidre (Erev Yom Kippur) Sunday, September 24, 2023 at 7:00 -9:00 pm (PT) - Doors open at 6:30pm Morgan-Wixson Theatre 2627 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica 90405 In-Person, Indoors Kol Nidre, […]
Yom Kippur/Yonkiper Monday, September 25, 2023 at 11:00 am (PT) Clover Park, 2600 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405 (Group BBQ Area #1) Join us at the park for […]