Sunday, June 30 – Sunday, July 7 @ All Day – Family Promise is a national organization that leverages local resources (faith communities/congregations and non profit organizations) to provide temporary housing to unhoused families as they transition to permanent housing. Family Promise North Shore is based in Evanston and works with approximately 30 congregations in the North Shore, including Am Yisrael and five other synagogues. We […]
Sunday, June 30 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm – Please join your Am Yisrael family for a kid-friendly picnic at Clarkson Park, 1950 Willow Road, Northfield! Bring your own basket of food and feel free to invite your non-member friends. Am Yisrael Clergy and Staff are looking forward to spending time with you in a social setting. Kindly RSVP: http://evite.me/mKAnZpTAmJ Special Notes: Please bring […]
Sunday, July 14 @ 10:00 am – Join us to officially welcome Cantor Rosenblatt as our Cantor. We will have a creative and musical morning minyan followed by brunch. Please note the change in time from our usual minyan. We will begin at 10:00 a.m. We ask for advance registration so we can plan accordingly.
Thursday, July 18 @ 7:30 pm – Since the Hamas attacks of October 7, U.S. news coverage of issues critical to Jewish communities — the explosion of domestic anti-Semitism, perspectives on the Hamas incursion and related war in Gaza, and protests on U.S. campuses and elsewhere — have often been rife with skewed or biased perspectives marked by incomplete information or lacking […]
Sunday, July 21 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm – Please join your Am Yisrael family for a kid-friendly ice cream social at Am Yisrael on Sunday, July 21, from 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.! Let’s cool off and socialize with some ice cream. Please feel free to invite your non-member friends. Your Am Yisrael Clergy and Staff are looking forward to spending time with […]
Saturday, July 27 @ 9:30 am – Testimony of Yoni Viloga, Kibbutz Mefalsim – in person Shabbat morning, July 27. Services start at 9:30 a.m. Join us to bear witness to the massacre as a community, listening to a brave survivor’s firsthand account helping hide his neighbors on his kibbutz.
Monday, July 29 – Thursday, August 15 @ 12:00 am – Click anywhere on the flyer below to place your order.
Monday, July 29 @ 6:30 pm – via ZOOM, facilitated by Howard Schickler Our next stop on our Random Walk is the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1902. If you are interested in receiving supplemental materials related to this topic, please let Howard know by clicking here. hschickler@sbcglobal.net The price of Kosher meat rose overnight by 50% and the women of […]
Friday, August 9 @ 5:15 pm – 6:00 pm – Please join your Am Yisrael family for an ice cream truck event at the synagogue. Let’s cool off, socialize, reconnect with fellow congregants and SJS families, meet new friends, and bring in Shabbat with some delicious ice cream and songs. Everyone is welcome, and Shabbat service attendees are encouraged to come a few minutes early […]
Monday, August 12 @ 7:30 pm – Tisha B’Av commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem and the subsequent exile of the Jews from the Land of Israel. The day also commemorates other tragedies which occurred on the same day. It is a fast day and is regarded as the saddest day on the Jewish calendar. Due to […]