Sholem Community

CA Ballot Measures Forum w/ Mona Field, LWV
2022-10-16 10:30 - 23:59 (America/Los_Angeles) | Short Avenue Elementary School, 12814 Maxella Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90066, United States
Abortion, gambling, and electric cars: Are you ready to vote on these and more issues?

Participants are welcome to bring their sample ballots, political junk mail, thoughts and questions so we may analyze these things together.
Led by Mona Field, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Co-President of the Board of the League of Women Voters. Mona literally wrote the textbook on California politics, California Government and Politics Today, now in its 15th edition.
Come at 10am for bagels & coffee
Program 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

FREE to Attend – All are welcome!
In person OUTDOORS at Short Avenue Elementary School
This will be a nonpartisan conversation – NOT focused on either party’s primary, not about the candidates but rather about the ballot measures.

Sholem Sunday School
2022-10-23 10:00 - 12:30, 2022-10-30 10:00 - 12:30, 2022-11-06 10:00 - 12:30, 2022-11-13 10:00 - 12:30, 2022-11-20 10:00 - 12:30, 2022-12-04 10:00 - 12:30, 2022-12-11 10:00 - 12:30, 2023-01-22 10:00 - 12:30 and 6 more dates
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 10am – 12:30pm
VOV (9th-12th) class meets 11:15am – 1:30pm
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.

Mindful Awareness: Practices for Daily Living (10:30am)
2022-11-06
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 that will nurture connection within and all around. We will calm the mind and inspire the heart.
Bringing your own lawn chair is highly recommended for maximum comfort. Headphones that work with your phone are also suggested.
Bagels & Coffee at 10am
Outdoors at Short Avenue Elementary

Marilyn McLaughlin MFA, RSMT Unified Mindfulness L2 Coach has been an arts and wellness practitioner for 30 years. For more information about her customized multidisciplinary wellness programs for individuals and groups, visit: allbodiesmove.com.

OPEN HOUSE (10am Bagels & Coffee, 10:30 Program)
2022-11-13
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 is today. We will also have an overview of our school, curriculum, didactic approach, bmitsve program*, teen/belfer program, and our multigenerational community offerings.
Sholem Open House
Sunday, November 13
10:00 a.m. Bagels, Juice & Coffee
10:30-11:30 a.m. Program
(Linger afterwards for further schmoozing.)
Help spread the word. Invite friends.
All are welcome!
Questions: ross@sholem.org
* While the adults are engaged with the Open house, Sholem dad (and former student/barmitsve) David Goldberg will be meeting with our Hey class. The students will consider which pressing societal needs most capture their attention and decide on one for their bmitsve social action project.
[Image from the Peretz Centre for Jewish Culture]

No Sunday school (Thanksgiving)
2022-11-27

Hanuka/Khanike Assembly & Carnival (11:30am)
2022-12-11 11:30 - 13:00
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 our own meaningful ways of observing the “Jewish Festival of Lights” – celebrating the uniqueness of our Jewish identity and our interconnectivity with all humans (at this time when so many cultures light lights in the darkest of winter.)
10:00 a.m. Students to their Classes
Bagels & Coffee available for Adults
11:00 a.m. Hankuka/Khanike Assembly
(approximately 30-40 min)
11:30/11::45 a.m. Carnival
games, craft, dreydl and othter activities
led by staff from Camp Gilboa
12:30-1:00 p.m. Wrap up
Belfer following candle dedication at Hanuka Assembly 2019 [photo by Regan Kibbee]

No Sunday school (Winter break)
2022-12-18, 2022-12-25 - 2023-01-01

Classes resume (Sunday school)
2023-01-08

MLK Day Assembly & Singalong (noon)
2023-01-15
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 invited to join our students in the outside gathering area at noon for a Civil Rights songs hootenanny/singalong.
We will also be listening to audio clips of some heroes of the Civil Rights movement, as well as exploring the strong Jewish involvement in the movement, why the specificity of Jewish history gives us as Jews a strong moral calling to support the civil rights of ALL PEOPLE, and to fight the scourge of racism with the totality of our beings.

Sunday, January 15
10:00am Bagels & Coffee
10:20am Classes (students)
+ schmoozing (adults)
12:00pm Assembly & Singalong
Sholem Sunday School
Meets on the campus of:
Short Avenue Elementary School
12814 Maxella Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90066
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.

MLK Day (at Sunday school)
2023-01-15 10:00 - 12:30

Tu Bishvat assembly (noon)
2023-02-05

Tu BiShvat (at Sunday school)
2023-02-05 10:00 - 12:30

No Sunday School (Presidents’ Day)
2023-02-19

Purim carnival (Sunday School)
2023-03-05 10:00 - 12:30
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 be hosting a carnival booth. Kids (and adults) are encouraged to wear a costume!
THIS Sunday, March 5
10 a.m. Students: Set-up booths & rehearse pantomime
Adults: Schmoozing, bagels & coffee
11 a.m. Assembly with Megile reading
11:30ish-12:45 p.m. Purim carnival
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS:
Megile (megillah) readers!
Hamantashen bringers!
Cleaner-uppers!
If you can pitch in, RSVP to ross@sholem.org

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 10am – 12:30pm
VOV (9th-12th) class meets 11:15am – 1:30pm
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.

Sholem Sunday School
2023-03-26 10:00 - 12:30
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 10am – 12:30pm
VOV (9th-12th) class meets 11:15am – 1:30pm
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.

Jordan and Coral's Secular Bar/Bas Mitsve Ceremony
2023-04-01 10:30 - 14:00
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 secular living and Coral the Jewish influences in Frank Herbert’s Dune.
Saturday, April 1, 2023
10:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Museum of Latin American Art (MOOLA)
628 Alamitos Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90802

CLICK HERE to RSVP by March 7th
Due to the nature of the event, only guests who have RSVP’d by this date will be included.
* If you have difficulty seeing the RSVP fields at bottom of evite page, try opening link in a different browser, or contact regan@sholem.org.
About Sholem’s Secular B’Mitsve Program…
The bar/bas mitsve candidate chooses a topic for in-depth research and/or significant thought. Then, working with their advisor, the student prepares an approximately 20-minute presentation on this topic and how it reflects the aspects of Jewish heritage and identity that are most meaningful to them at this point in their life.
To learn more, click here.
