Rosh Hashana/Rosheshone in the Park
2024-10-03
The Sholem Community’s holiday observances draw from Jewish history, folk traditions, contemporary readings, and social justice themes. Our secular humanistic adaptations of Jewish holidays are creative and imbued with a sense of relevance to the concerns of our modern times.
Welcome the Jewish New Year with stirring readings, literature, and poetry based in our Jewish heritage and our secular, progressive values.
Please plan to bring your own picnic lunch and a dessert to share.
Apples and honey will be provided.
Free to attend – donations appreciated.
11:00 a.m. at Clover Park
2600 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica CA 90405

Sunday School + CA Ballot Measures Forum with Mona Field
2024-10-06
CA Ballot Measures Forum
w/ Mona Field, Professor Emerita, Political Science

We are delighted to have longtime Sholem member Mona Field back to lead one of her always popular and informative pre-election forums. Mona will help explain the measures and share who is supporting and opposing each. Participants are welcome to bring their sample ballots, political junk mail, thoughts and questions so we may analyze our choices together.
Mona is past President of the Board of the League of Women Voters of Greater Los Angeles and Professor Emerita of Political Science. She literally wrote the textbook on California politics, California Government and Politics Today, now in its 15th edition.
This will be a nonpartisan conversation – NOT about candidates.
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Come at 10am for bagels & coffee
Program 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

Short Avenue Elementary School
12814 Maxella Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90066
(Plenty of free street parking)
FREE to Attend – All are welcome!

Questions: info@sholem.org

Kol Nidre (Erev Yom Kippur)
2024-10-11 | Robert Frost Auditorium, 4401 Elenda Street, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Kol Nidre (Erev Yom Kippur)
Friday, October 11, 2024
7:00-9:00 pm (PT)
Doors open 6:30 pm
Co-sponsored by SoCal Arbeter Ring/Workers Circle
Presented at the Robert Frost Auditorium
4401 Elenda Street, Culver City, CA, 90230
(see below for important parking info)
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.
CLICK HERE for tickets
and to submit names for In Memoriam and Yizker
The deadline to submit for the IN MEMORIAM slide show is Monday 10/7, end of day. We are unable to accept In Memoriam requests after that date.
YIZKER is free and names may be submitted electronically until Thursday, 10/10. You will also be able to submit Yizker names in person from approximately 6:30pm – 7:00pm on Friday, 10/11 at the Robert Frost Auditorium. Submitted names of loved ones who have passed during this year will be read from the podium during the observance.
A SPECIAL APPEAL:
Due to extenuating circumstances, our Kol Nidre this year is taking place at an elegant and spacious but more expensive venue. If you can, please help us cover the unexpected increase with a $200 SUPPORTER ticket. Supporter tickets include $80 for admission, a tax receipt for a $120 donation, and the option to receive special thanks in Sholem’s newsletter.
CLICK HERE for tickets or scan this QR CODE:

(No one turned away for lack of funds. Please email rachel.braude@verizon.net for assistance.)

PARKING INFORMATION: Please do not park in the immediate surrounding neighborhoods.
To avoid citations, free self-parking is available in these designated parking lots:​

Corner of Elenda and Farragut – South of the Robert Frost Auditorium. Between the Culver City Middle School and Farragut Elementary.
Huron Gate – From Elenda, head west on Braddock. Entrance is on the south of Braddock.
Harter Gate – From Elenda, head west on Braddock. Pass Huron and go south on Harter. Parking is on your left.
Overflow parking – South East corner of Culver Blvd. and Elenda St. North of Robert Frost Auditorium.

Yom Kippur/Yonkiper in the Park
2024-10-12
The Sholem Community’s holiday observances draw from Jewish history, folk traditions, contemporary readings, and social justice themes. Our secular humanistic adaptations of Jewish holidays are creative and imbued with a sense of relevance to the concerns of our modern times.
Join us at the park for a friendly discussion of ethics in our daily lives.
Free to attend – donations appreciated.
11:00 a.m. at Clover Park
2600 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica CA 90405

Sunday School
2024-10-13, 2024-10-27, 2024-11-03, 2024-11-10, 2024-11-17, 2024-11-24, 2024-12-08, 2025-01-12 and 5 more dates

Sunday School - Sukkot/Sukis Assembly
2024-10-20
The Sholem Community’s holiday observances draw from Jewish history, folk traditions, contemporary readings, and social justice themes. Our secular humanistic adaptations of Jewish holidays are creative and imbued with a sense of relevance to the concerns of our modern times.
This last holiday of the New Year festival cycle once celebrated the harvest. Today at Sholem, we focus on food justice and sustainability.

Thanksgiving Break- No Sunday School
2024-12-01

Sunday School - Khanike Assembly
2024-12-15

Winter Break- No Sunday School
2024-12-22 - 2025-01-05

Sunday School - MLK Day Assembly/Event
2025-01-19

Sunday School - Tu Bishvat Assembly/Event
2025-02-09

Presidents' Day Break- No Sunday School
2025-02-16

Sunday School + Jewish Dance with Bruce Bierman
2025-03-09
Sholem is delighted to welcome Bruce Bierman for two Joy of Jewish Dance workshops – one for adults and one for kids.

Sunday, March 9, 2025
10:00 a.m. Check-in, bagels & coffee
10:30-11:30 a.m. Dance for adults
11:45 a.m. -12:30 p.m. Dance for children

NOTE for visiting families: Sholem’s non-religious Jewish Sunday school will be in session for the first hour while the adult programming is taking place. Families with children 4 years and up are welcome to sit in on a class. Please contact Sholem principal Ross Helford for more info: ross@sholem.org.

The Joy of Jewish Dance — a smorgasbord of global Jewish music, moves and grooves including: the ancient hand gestures and steps of traditional Yemenite dance, the dancing shoulders of the Ethiopian Jews, soulful Hasidic nigun dancing, mad hot Klezmer and the choreographic gems of classic Israeli Folk dance. This participatory dance celebration welcomes all bodies and invites all backgrounds to learn the moves of the ancestors to the grooves of your own imagination.

Bruce Bierman is the co-artistic director of the award-winning Yiddish Theatre Ensemble of Berkeley and is a leading presenter of Jewish dance throughout California. Among his extensive credits, Bruce was a lead dancer and teaching artist with the acclaimed Aman Folk Ensemble of Los Angeles and a regular at the Skirball Museum with Mostly Kosher and John Anson Ford Theater with the L.A. Jewish Symphony.
Click here for a short video introducing you to Bruce:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH2Uh7fxSQw&t=1s

Sunday School - Purim Carnival
2025-03-16

Sunday School - Field Trip Day
2025-03-30

Model Secular Seder (Pre-Passover, Saturday 4/5)
2025-04-05 11:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Farragut Elementary School, 10820 Farragut Dr., Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Model Secular Seder
Community Potluck Luncheon
SATURDAY, April 5, 2025
(1 week before Passover holiday begins)
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 readings from Sholem’s secular family Hagada, a potluck luncheon, singing & musical accompaniment, with plenty of opportunities for children to participate.
11:00 a.m. Doors Open
Please arrive by 11:30 with your food. This will give us time to organize the potluck buffet, find our tables places, and get everyone seated.
12:00-2:30 p.m. Program
The program will begin promptly at noon.
Veterans Memorial Building
Rotunda Room
4117 Overland Avenue, Culver City, CA 90230
Suggested donation is $18 per person (children 12 yrs & under free) to help cover costs including venue rental. You may contribute at the Seder with cash, or we will have a QR code to scan.
Step 1) CLICK HERE
to reserve your seat(s)
Step 2) CLICK HERE
to choose your potluck item(s)
Please feel free to share this notice and invite family & friends.
ALL ARE WELCOME!

Sholem’s SECULAR Hagada
Click here to download a PDF
For questions regarding the Seder, please email rachel.braude@verizon.net or call/text 310-291-7379.
We look forward to a wonderful, freylekh (festive) Sholem Community Potluck Seder. Hope to see you there!

No Sunday School (the day after Seder)
2025-04-06

Spring Break- No Sunday School
2025-04-13
