Sholem Community

Sunday school
2024-03-10, 2024-03-03, 2024-02-25, 2024-02-11, 2024-02-04, 2024-01-21, 2024-01-14, 2024-01-07 (America/Los_Angeles) and 9 more dates
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 engages children 4-17 years old in an exploration of Jewish identity, history, culture and traditions of social justice.
Classes meet 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
at Short Avenue Elementary School
(12814 Maxella Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90066)
most Sunday mornings during the school year.

All prospective families are welcome to come check out a class.
We offer rolling admissions.
Click here for more information about our school
Contact our principal Ross Helford ross@sholem.org, so he may plan to greet you.

Presidents Day - No Sunday school
2024-02-18

Sunday school (Tu Bishvat)
2024-01-28

MLK Day screening and assembly
2024-01-14 | Short Avenue Elementary School, 12814 Maxella Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90066, United States
Sunday, January 14, 2024
This Sunday at Sholem, to commemorate MLK Day, we will have a special screening and assembly. As our long time education director Hershl Hartman was fond of saying, at Sholem, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a Jewish holiday.
A year and a half ago, as we were still coming out of the pandemic, Sholem students Zion Gertz and Iden Stein opted to make a movie of their barmitsve presentations, which was professionally produced. As of yet, we have never screened it for our community. At some later date, we hope to find a time to screen Iden’s presentation.
This Sunday, we will screen Zion’s presentation, What It Means To Be a Black Jew in America.
In addition to an in-depth, informative, and highly personal presentation, Zion also interviewed three Black Jewish Sholem grads.
Following the screening, we’ll have an MLK Day assembly, featuring Hershl Hartman’s story about the day he met Martin Luther King Jr.
Sunday, January 14, 2024
10 a.m. Doors Open, Coffee & Bagels
10:30 a.m. Presentation
12:15 p.m. MLK Assembly
Guests are welcome!
RSVP to regan@sholem.org
Families interested in learning more about Sholem’s secular Jewish Sunday school and our bar/bas/b’mitsve program may contact ross@sholem.org.
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[Photo: ‘Leaders of the protest, holding flags from left Bishop James Shannon, Rabbi Abraham Heschel, Dr. Martin Luther King and Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath.’ Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington Cemetery, February 6, 1968. Photo by Charles Del Vecchio/Getty Images]

Winter Break - No Sunday school
2023-12-31, 2023-12-24, 2023-12-17

Holiday Carnival & Puppet Show
2023-12-03
What do Yiddish comedy, hip hop, puppetry, and a story about love during a pandemic have in common? They’re the main ingredients in The Girl and the Water Carrier, a 40 minute musical with puppetry for all ages!
This show will be happening during Sunday Sunday school hours. We will be starting the morning with a Khanike/Hanuka carnival including dreydl making, a sports activity with our friends from Camp Gilboa, and more!
The puppet show will be free for Sholem students. All members and guests are welcome.
You can find out more about The Girl and the Water Carrier by clicking on this link.
Sunday, December 3, 2023
Ben Gown presents a Puppet Theater Production of
The Girl and the Water Carrier
10:30 a.m. Khanike/Hanaka carnival
Bagels, cream cheese, coffee & juice

11:30 a.m. Puppet show
Tickets: $15
14-17 years: $10
13 years & under: $5
Sholem students: Free
Click here or scan below to buy tickets

Thanksgiving Break - No Sunday school
2023-11-26

Sunday school - Sukot Assembly
2023-10-01

Yom Kippur / Yonkiper in the Park
2023-09-25 11:00 - 23:59 | Clover Park, 2600 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA, 90405, United States
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 a family-friendly event including discussion of ethics in our daily lives.
For more information about Sholem’s holiday observances, visit
www.sholem.org/holidays
or email info@sholem.org.

Kol Nidre / Erev Yom Kippur
2023-09-24 18:30 - 21:00
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, 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 and the state of the world through a humanistic and progressive prism. A moving opportunity to renew ourselves for the upcoming year; to grieve our losses and enable our hopes.
Purchase your tickets now! We are in a smaller theatre than in years past. Seating is limited an may sell out.
(Any remaining tickets will be $100 at the door.)
Yizker messages may be submitted until Thursday, 9/21.
You will also be able to submit Yizker messages in person from approximately 5:45PM until 6:30PM on Sunday, 9/24 at the Morgan-Wixson Theater.
Click here for tickets
*No one turned away due to lack of funds.
Email rachel.braude@verizon.net and we will figure something out.

Sunday school
2023-09-24 10:00 - 12:30 | Short Avenue Elementary School, 12814 Maxella Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90066, United States

Sunday School + Annual Board Meeting at 10:30am
2023-09-17 10:00 - 12:30 | Short Avenue Elementary School, 12814 Maxella Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90066, United States
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 engages children 4-17 years old in an exploration of Jewish identity, history, culture and traditions of social justice.
Classes meet 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
at Short Avenue Elementary School
(12814 Maxella Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90066)
most Sunday mornings during the school year.

All prospective families are welcome to come check out a class.
We offer rolling admissions.
Click here for more information about our school
Contact our principal Ross Helford ross@sholem.org, so he may plan to greet you.

The Board of Directors of the Sholem Community will hold its annual meeting next Sunday, September 17 at 10:30 a.m. at Short Avenue Elementary School. The main order of business is to elect 3 or more Directors.
Sheila McCoy, Brian Reiff and Dan Savage have been nominated and additional Board members are needed. Any paid up member of the Sholem Community is eligible.
To pay for 2023-2024 membership CLICK HERE
Please send nominations to Hugo Furth, Secretary at hsf@furth.us.
Nominations will be accepted on the 17th as well.
The Board will also hold an election for board officers. (Officers fulfill specific roles such as treasurer, secretary, etc.)
This meeting is open to all members of the community.
