Friday, September 20 Kabbalat Shabbat Services with Cantor Elana Rozenfeld Saturday, September 21 Shabbat Morning Services with Marc Stober
High Holiday Ticket Packets
The High Holiday ticket packets have been mailed. If you have not registered for your member or your extra tickets, please select the appropriate link for you below. Members: Please be sure to log in for the proper discounts.
ELUL Offerings: To Prepare Our Souls for High Holy Days
Online Elul Spirituality Retreat: An email daily Word To Live By, written by Rabbi Plumb, including a spiritual practice and intention for each day. Delivered to your inbox each morning, starting September 1st.
We are looking forward to greeting you, your families and friends in our new social hall on the Campus this coming High Holiday's.
Ushers are needed! If you can volunteer any time please email chuck.diamond@comcast.net with your requests and or availability for Days 1 and 2 on Rosh Hashana, Kol Nidre and Yom Kippur. As we get closer to the Holidays we will get back in touch with you.
Hope you are enjoying your summers! Chuck Diamond, Larry Chafetz, Dave Rubinstein, and Russ Stein
Joint Brookline Selichot
Saturday, September 21st
Early Program at Hebrew Senior Life 1550 Beacon Street. 7:00 – 9 PM Study, Havdalah and Selichot. Early Selichot Service led by Rabbi Jim Morgan.
Late Program at Temple Beth Zion 1566 Beacon Street 9:15 – 10 PM, meditation 10:15 – 11:15 PM, study with Rabbi Or Rose 11:30 – 1 AM, Selichot Service led by Ebn Leader and Cantor Becky Khitrik
Statements Direct to your Inbox!
We will sending statements by email this month with payments reflected through August 31st. If you have any questions, please email internalvp@mishkantefila or call 617-332-7770.
We appreciate your continued support!
Shabbat @ Home
WE ARE LOOKING FOR A FEW HOST FAMILIES FOR SHABBAT @ HOME.
Please open your home to offer a warm and welcoming Shabbat dinner . Hosting a Shabbat dinner will give you the opportunity to meet new people, build new friendships and learn a bit more about one another. We will supply each host with a guest list of people to invite. You can either cook the meal yourself or make it pot luck. We ask that the meal be either vegetarian or kosher style.
If you have any questions and if you would be willing to host, please do not hesitate to reach out to Yael Hurwitz-Lange yael@mishkantefila.org , or the co-chairs: Laurie Brownstein lauriesbrownstein@gmail.com Esther Finkielsztein estherfin@live.
Community Support Pledges 2019-2020 (formerly known as membership dues)
Thanks to you and your on-going support, Congregation Mishkan Tefila is thriving! With your help, our community transitioned into our beautiful new sacred space, and welcomed thousands of people from the greater Boston community to our new home and innovative programs. Our shared vision of creating an exciting new model of American Judaism by being an innovator in the 384 Campus and bringing joyful, inclusive Judaism to the community is now a reality.
Along with the leadership, programming, and support you expect, appreciate, and count on, as Congregation Mishkan Tefila continues to expand our community your generous community support pledge will also make it possible for us to enhance and enrich our offerings. Every contribution, no matter the size, is deeply meaningful and helps make it possible for Congregation Mishkan Tefila to be a full-service congregation and open year-round.
All are welcome to join us to build the campus Sukkah on October 6th. Exact time to be determined. If you are interested in helping out, please contact Zach .
The inaugural Brookline Day was in 2012. We are proud to invite you to our eighth event, Brookline Day 2019! Brookline Day is a large community event that involves many Brookline Town agencies, businesses, partners, and is headed by the Brookline Recreation Department.
This year is going to be our biggest and best year yet! We are planning the best vendors, games, inflatables, trucks, food, face painters, bands, prizes, and special activities, that we can find. This is also the 6th year of our Brookline Day 5K Road Race which was a huge hit back in 2013. Brookline Day 2019 is guaranteed to be a great day of family fun that everyone will enjoy.
Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility (GBPSR) and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War have been selected as Community Partners for the Longwood Symphomy Orchestra's Healing Art of Music Program, to take place at 8 PM, Saturday, October 5 at the New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall in Boston. Proceeds will benefit the organization's" combined efforts to prevent nuclear war and fight climate change. The event will honor atomic bomb survivor Setsuko Thurlow, who accepted the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for her organization's work to abolish nuclear weapons.
For tickets, more information and sponsorship opportunities, scroll to the middle of the home page at GBPSR.org and look for "Longwood Symphony Orchestra", or contact Austin Wertheimer at 617-733-2886 or austin59x@gmail.com When purchasing tickets, enter the code LSOSENIOR.
Campus Security
As part of our ongoing efforts to make our campus community safer, more secure, and more welcoming, the 384 Campus internal security team will begin operating on Shabbat morning, September 21. Community members and guests can expect to be greeted outside the building by trained and equipped volunteers prior to entering our facility. If you have any questions or are interested in joining the team, please contact Jonathan Slutzman .
The ADL forum on Confronting Anti-Semitism 10/27/19 9 AM-12 PM All are welcome to attend and informative session on confronting anti-semitism hosted by the ADL. If you would like to sign up have questions, please click here .
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