First Friday Family Fun

Past Sessions
Friday, February 2, 2024 • 23 Shevat 5784 - 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Friday, December 1, 2023 • 18 Kislev 5784 - 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Friday, November 3, 2023 • 19 Cheshvan 5784 - 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Usher in Shabbat with joy and community fun! On the first Friday of the month, when we don't have services, bring a covered dish for a potluck dinner, along with games, conversation, and music.

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Sat, July 27 2024
21 Tammuz 5784

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Saturday ,
JulJuly 27 , 2024

Bruce Bat Mitzvah
Shabbat, Jul 27th 10:00a to 12:00p

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Wednesday ,
JulJuly 31 , 2024

Book Club: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
Wednesday, Jul 31st 10:30a to 11:30a
Join us to discuss this month's choice: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town’s white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us.
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Saturday ,
AugAugust 3 , 2024

Shabbat Shacharit
Shabbat, Aug 3rd 10:00a to 11:00a
10-10:30 informal singing, learning new tunes 10:30-11:30 Shacharit
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Friday ,
AugAugust 9 , 2024

Shabbat Services
Friday, Aug 9th 7:30p to 8:30p
Erev Shabbat Services most Friday nights at 7:30 in the sanctuary
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Sunday ,
AugAugust 11 , 2024

Open House
Sunday, Aug 11th 12:00p to 2:00p
Come one and all - old members, new members, prospective members, neighbors who just want to get to know us. As always, we provide yard games and a bouncy house, along with burgers and dogs (including vegan options). We ask you to bring something to share. We recommend if your last name begins with an A-I, please bring Desserts If your last name begins with an J-Q please bring Drinks If your last name begins with a R-Z please bring Sides. We will have Religious School reps and congregational Board members there throughout the day with membership forms and school registration and answers to any questions about our community!
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Tuesday ,
AugAugust 13 , 2024

Tisha B'Av Commemoration and BreakFast
Tuesday, Aug 13th 7:00p to 9:00p
Join us on Tisha B'Av for a solemn commemoration of our people's historical tragedies, followed by a potluck of mourning and comfort foods. Please bring a meatless or pescatarian dish to share.
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Friday ,
AugAugust 16 , 2024

Shabbat Services
Friday, Aug 16th 7:30p to 8:30p
Erev Shabbat Services most Friday nights at 7:30 in the sanctuary
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Sunday ,
AugAugust 18 , 2024

First Day of Religious School!
Sunday, Aug 18th 9:30a to 12:00p
Hebrew and Judaics education for our K-7th grade
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Friday ,
AugAugust 23 , 2024

Tot Shabbat
Friday, Aug 23rd 5:30p to 6:00p
Our families with children 5 and under are invited to join us for a short Shabbat program, with singing, a story, and of course Challah and Grape Juice!
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Friday ,
AugAugust 23 , 2024

Family Shabbat
Friday, Aug 23rd 7:00p to 8:00p
Join us for a fun and festive Shabbat Service, led by the Religious School!
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