Archive: May 2023

Silent Auction

Posted on May 21, 2023

Sunday, May 21 @ 12:00 am – 3:00 pm – Click on the category below to learn more about the items, register and place your bid. If you have trouble navigating or registering, contact our Executive Director, Nancy Holab Nevins at nhnevins@amyisrael.org Please note that you will be required to set up an account in order to place a bid. This account is not the […]

Silent Auction All Items

Posted on May 21, 2023

Sunday, May 21 @ 12:00 am – 3:00 pm – Click on the items below to learn more about them, register and place your bid. If you have trouble navigating or registering, contact our Executive Director, Nancy Holab Nevins at nhnevins@amyisrael.org Please note that you will be required to set up an account in order to place a bid. This account is not the same […]

Am Yisrael Community Picnic

Posted on May 21, 2023

Sunday, May 21 @ 12:00 pm – In person on our synagogue grounds, starting at 12:00 p.m. Join us as we celebrate our entire community with a picnic.  Activities for all ages, food for purchase, a fun way to spend time as a community and to enjoy the weather! Rain or shine…outdoors, weather permitting, indoors if the weather doesn’t cooperate. We will […]

Close Out “Sale” – Buy It Now

Posted on May 21, 2023

Sunday, May 21 – Monday, May 22 @ 8:00 pm – The following items are still available on a “buy it now” basis.  Last chance for some great items. Click on the item to buy it now. The sale ends at 8:00 p.m. on Mon. May 22. https://www.amyisrael.org/product/porchlight-theatre-tickets-4-to-earnest-shackleton-loves-me/ https://www.amyisrael.org/product/white-sox-tickets-2-wed-may-31-vs-angels-2/ https://www.amyisrael.org/product/learn-to-play-canasta-3/ https://www.amyisrael.org/product/chinese-letter-opener-and-magnifying-glass-2/   https://www.amyisrael.org/product/wilson-reading-system-lessons-5-taught-by-natasha-bodansky-2/ https://www.amyisrael.org/product/lovely-gold-necklace/ https://www.amyisrael.org/product/sports-items-2/ https://www.amyisrael.org/product/wedgwood-frog-service-plate/ https://www.amyisrael.org/product/german-pitcher-bembel-and-two-matching-glasses-2/ https://www.amyisrael.org/product/childrens-art-activity-with-sheila-serota-2/ https://www.amyisrael.org/product/edinburgh-crystal-vase/ https://www.amyisrael.org/product/residential-real-estate-closing-2/ https://www.amyisrael.org/product/seder-plate-2/ https://www.amyisrael.org/product/chanukiah-and-dreidel-2/ https://www.amyisrael.org/product/royal-worcester-plate-set-of-two-2/

“Doing Jewish – in Ghana” facilitated by Howard Schickler

Posted on June 5, 2023

Monday, June 5 @ 6:30 pm – via Zoom.  Visit our secure website to access the link. Howard Schickler will be facilitating a viewing of the 2016 film “Doing Jewish: A Story from Ghana”. Howard will be gathering materials about the emergence and re-emrgence of Judaism among the peoples of Africa and their efforts to create ties to other Jews worldwide. If […]

SJS Transportation Information and Survey

Posted on July 18, 2023

Tuesday, July 18 – Tuesday, July 25 @ 12:00 am – Some members of the congregation have expressed additional interest in helping others beyond what the congregation is already doing. A specific need has been identified to help our own community. Some of the SJS families are having trouble providing transportation for their children to SJS on Wednesdays for the 4:15 p.m. start time. We are […]

Special Shabbat for Cantor Rosenblatt and to honor our Search Committee

Posted on July 21, 2023

Friday, July 21 – Saturday, July 22 @ 6:00 pm – 12:00 pm – We are blessed to have two amazing Cantors leading our davenning for the next year.  This great opportunity lends itself to many diverse services and programs.  We will begin by welcoming Cantor Rosenblatt as she leads our Shabbat services and Sunday minyan on July 21, 22 and 23.   In addition to welcoming Cantor Rosenblatt, we […]

WNAY Welcome Tea for Cantor Rosenblatt-CHANGE OF VENUE

Posted on July 30, 2023

Sunday, July 30 @ 1:30 pm – Please note that the venue will now be the Gerbie residence, 90 Meadowview in Northfield, at the corner of Meadowview and Winnetka Rd.

Islamic Antisemitism: Its Origins, Nature, and Contemporary Consequences facilitated by Howard Schickler via zoom

Posted on August 1, 2023

Tuesday, August 1 @ 6:30 pm – Howard Schickler will be hosting a group viewing of the seminar “Islamic Antisemitism: Its Origins, Nature, and Contemporary Consequences”. The session addresses the question of how the Jews’ relatively safe position under Islamic rule, as an inferior, but non-threatening people, degenerated into one where Jews were widely viewed as mortal enemies involved in an existential […]

Join us at Beth Shalom Bnai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation NO SERVICES IN OUR BUILDING THIS DAY

Posted on August 12, 2023

Saturday, August 12 @ 10:30 am – We haven’t shared Shabbat with our friends at Beth Shalom B’nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation since before the pandemic. Happily we will do so again at their synagogue at 6601 S. Kedzie Avenue in Chicago. Services begin at 10:30 a.m. We will not hold services at Am Yisrael that morning. Specific details will be forthcoming […]