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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 May 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.

Orange County Community Scholar Program (CSP)
Congregation Adath Jeshurun, dedicated to the Jewish value of learning for its own sake (Torah lishmah), is excited to announce a partnership with the Orange County Community Scholar Program (CSP). As a partner with CSP, we’ll join a small group of synagogues enjoying the best Jewish learning available. AJ has the distinction of being the first Pennsylvania synagogue to partner with CSP. You can see the CSP offerings for the current month here. Please note that times on CSP web pages are Pacific Time unless noted otherwise. If you register and can’t attend, a link will be sent to you after the event to a recording. There is also an archive of classes that you can view here.

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.  

AJ Adult Ed with Rabbi Sharon Brous
Thursday, May 8 at 8:00 PM
Join us on Thursday evening, May 8 at 8:00 PM when we’ll welcome Rabbi Sharon Brous via Zoom. Acclaimed as one of the most influential rabbis in America by Newsweek/The Daily Beast and the Jerusalem Post, Rabbi Brous is a well-known author, educator, commentator, and senior and founding rabbi of IKAR, a leading-edge synagogue and Jewish community in Los Angeles. Rabbi Brous will be joining us for a conversation with Rav Shai about the themes in her recent book, The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend
Our Broken Hearts and World. Expanded from one of her most impactful sermons, her book delves into the power of community in an era marked by loneliness, social alienation and ideological extremism, and makes the case that our deepest spiritual work is finding our way to one other — in celebration, sorrow, and solidarity. Rabbi Brous’s programs are extremely popular and highly sought-after, and we’re proud and excited to host her at AJ. Please register here.

Celebration of the Covenant
Friday, May 9 and Saturday, May 10
Please join us on Shabbat Aharei Mot/Kedoshim as we celebrate and recognize the newest additions to the Jewish people: Theo Fisher (Elior Tsuriel ben Avraham v’Sarah), Yudy Lantigua (Yehudit bat Avraham v’Sarah), Vance Ragland (Yitro ben Avraham v’Sarah), and Julianne Remus (Eliana bat Avraham v’Sarah). Services begin Friday evening at 6:15 PM and Saturday morning at 9:30 AM. Following services on Saturday morning, there will be a congregational lunch open to everyone for which we request you register. Please use the May Online Service Registration Form or call the office at 215.635.6611.

L'olam Screening of Feeding Tomorrow
Tuesday, May 13 at 7:45 PM 
Join us on Tuesday, May 13 following evening Minyan.  We will be screening the film, Feeding Tomorrow. In this documentary, farmers, nutritionists, and educators work to transform a broken food system. Fighting ecosystem destruction, climate change, inequality and health epidemics, these innovators build a regenerative and resilient system in their local communities. The film will be followed by a discussion about sustainable farming and eating led by Judith Rosenberg, Produce Manager and Manager of Farmer Relations at Riverwards Produce in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia. Please register here.

Healing Service/Bereavement Support
Wednesday, May 14 at 7:30 PM (no registration necessary)                     
Please note change of date!        
Hazzan Glantz will lead a service that includes healing prayers that may be familiar, steeped in our ancient liturgy, as well as more contemporary and current inclusions. It will include support for bereavement. Feel free to contact Rav Hazzan Glantz in advance with any questions. Following evening minyan at 7:30 PM at AJ. No registration necessary.

Kabbalat Shabbat with Strings Attached
Friday, May 16 at 6:15 PM
Unplug from a busy week with an acoustic Shabbat service led by Rav Hazzan Howard Glantz with familiar tunes that will put a smile on your face and a song in your heart. For all ages, from babies to bubbies. Bring your friends for this relaxed, casual, and enjoyable service! Then stay for Oneg Shabbat (lite dinner bites and gathering with friends). Register using the Service Sign-up Form for May 2025. 6:15 PM

Have You Visited AJ's Community Bulletin Board?
We have launched a new page on our website called "AJ Community Bulletin Board." In blog format, we'll be letting you know about things we think may be of interest to you. You'll find non-AJ events that are happening in the Philadelphia community and beyond, thoughts from Rav Shai, content concerning Israel, etc. Check it out here!

Wed, April 30 2025 2 Iyyar 5785