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In-Person Services at AJ 
All services will be conducted in person at AJ. At this time, all services will be available via Zoom. Please continue to register for Friday evening and Saturday morning services by using the link(s) below, or by using the service sign-up form link in the weekly email. Your registration will help us keep the building secure.

Service Sign-up Form for January 2025

Please familiarize yourself with our March 2024 COVID-19/respiratory illness policies.  We ask that attendees of services and events at AJ review the policies and agree to them.

Midweek Mindfulness!
Thursday Mornings: Moment of Mindfulness (no registration necessary)
Sit and engage in a mindful meditation, deep, healing breathing or gentle movement on Thursday mornings from 9:00 AM to 9:30 AM. Meet us in the Strauss Chapel immediately after minyan breakfast. Come as you are, come from home or work or from minyan. Join your friends or bring a friend for a moment of mindfulness, calm and community! No registration is needed.  

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Film Screening
Monday, January 20 at 10:30 AM at the Hiway Theater in Jenkintown
Please join Congregation Adath Jeshurun for an exciting event in honor and celebration of MLK Day on Monday, January 20. We have rented the Hiway Theater in Jenkintown between 10:30 AM and 2:00 PM. We will screen the powerful and provocative movie, Origin, written by Ava DuVernay, telling the story of a how Isabel Wilkerson researched the global phenomenon of caste systems. Wilkerson looks at antisemitism, African American racism, and the treatment of the Dalits (the untouchables in India) through the prism of caste ultimately identifying eight pillars of caste that illuminate the connections among those three prejudices. After the showing of the movie, we will have an opportunity to discuss her ideas and its implications.   

Tickets: $10.00 per person; Tickets with popcorn and water: $15.00 per person. You MUST register here, and choose in advance whether you want popcorn and water. Actual payment will be collected at the Hiway Theater on the day of the event. This event is open to the community at large.

Jewsday Night at the Movies: An Officer and a Spy (The Dreyfus Affair) (historical drama)
Tuesday, January 28 at 7:30 PM
Once a month this winter/spring, we will come together to watch a Jewishly-
inspired movie. We’ll start by watching the film (popcorn included) and finish the evening with a discussion or Q & A led by Rav Shai. This month, it's An Officer and a Spy. In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young promising officer, is degraded
for spying for Germany, wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil’s Island. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, who is promoted to run the military counter-intelligence unit that tracked him down. But when Picquart discovers that secrets are still being handed over to the Germans, he is drawn into a dangerous labyrinth of deceit and corruption that threatens not just his honor but his life. Starring Jean Dujardin, Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Seigner, and Grégory Gadebois. Directed by Roman Polanski, 2019 (France). Please register here.

Adult Ed Brunch ‘n Learn: “A Constant Tension: The Business of Journalism Confronts Journalistic Ethics
and Jewish Ethics,” with Rabbi and Professor David Teutsch
Sunday, February 9 at 10:00 AM
The free press, one of the bedrock institutions in our American democracy, has been under unprecedented scrutiny and strain in our current political climate, and there is concern that serious, ethical and responsible journalism may be in decline. Rabbi David Teutsch, Professor Emeritus and former President at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and subsequent Director of the Center for Jewish Ethics, will offer his insights into this difficult and controversial topic. He has published and lectured extensively in the areas of Jewish ethics and social responsibility, and he has a keen interest in the interplay between those topics and the standing of professional journalism in our society. Please register here.

Jewsday Night at the Movies: Crossing Delancey (historical drama)
Tuesday, February 18 at 7:30 PM
Once a month this winter/spring, we will come together to watch a Jewishly-inspired movie. We’ll start by watching the film (popcorn included) and finish the evening with a discussion or Q & A led by Rav Shai. This month, it's Crossing Delancey. Thirty-something Isabelle “Izzy” Grossman spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. In between, Izzy builds a glowing reputation at the swank bookstore where she works. While her grandmother plots to find her a romantic match, Izzy is courted by a married, worldly author, Anton, yet can’t seem to shake the down-to-earth appeal of Sam, a pickle vendor. Starring Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Jeroen Krabbé, and Sylvia Miles. 1988 (United States), directed by Joan Micklin Silver. Please register here.