Sunday school
2024-05-05, 2024-05-12, 2024-05-19
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.

Sunday School - 1st day of 2024-25 school year
2024-09-08
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.

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

Sunday School
2024-09-15, 2024-09-29, 2024-10-13, 2024-10-27, 2024-11-03, 2024-11-10, 2024-11-17, 2024-11-24 and 6 more dates

Sunday School - Open House
2024-09-22 | Short Avenue Elementary School, 12814 Maxella Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90066, United States
Our School Principal, Ross Helford, will discuss the importance, urgency, and value of a secular Jewish education. We will also have an overview of our school, curriculum, philosophy and classes, as well as our bmitsve program, teen/belfer program, and our multigenerational community offerings.
The presentation will be followed by a tour of classes, and then an opportunity for some community building amongst adults.
Sholem Open House
Sunday, September 22
10:00 a.m. Bagels, Juice & Coffee
10:30-11:30 a.m. Program
Help spread the word. Invite friends.
All are welcome!
Questions: ross@sholem.org

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 - 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
