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Passover
Celebrate Passover with music by Cantor Young.
Congregational Highlights
This year as a congregation we are reading, “A Letter in the Scroll” by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. On Friday, March 29 Rabbi London shared a D’var Torah on the third …
A Day in the Life of Shushan “With a little help from our friends,” we took a “magical mystery tour” of a Beatles-filled Purim spiel. Everyone had a “ticket to …
Israel
On Sunday, March 17 was the first of a two-part series on Daniel Sokatch’s Book, Can We Talk About Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted. The second …
Music
Cantor Young’s newest composition, Da L’cha, is set to a Naomi Shemer poem based on words from Rabbi Nachman of Breslov.
Social Justice
Planned Parenthood and the Instituto del Progresso Latino are gathering and assembling toiletries to be given to people using the Shower Up service. Planned Parenthood delivers the articles to the …
In February 2024 the Evanston Interfaith Clergy held a two-day forum entitled, Learning Together: An Interfaith Approach to the War in Gaza, presented by Dr. David Myers and Hussein Ibish. …
Our sixth graders led meaningful Shabbat services with Cantor Young on Friday evening. Rabbi London and parents joined us on Shabbat morning for a day filled with prayer, laughter, learning, …
People of all ages came together for a powerful experience that incorporated prayer, spirituality and yoga. Together more than $9,000 was raised to help the hostage families fund with advocacy …
News
Let Freedom Read! Banned Books Week is October 1 – 7, 2023 Whether it’s Toni Morrison’s Beloved that opened your heart in high school English class or Michelle Alexander’s New …
When Evanston clergy came together in 1984 to found the city’s first overnight shelter, Rabbi Peter Knobel z”l was at the forefront of the effort. The shelter became the cornerstone …
Yom Kippur, September 25 from 9:00 – 5:00 pm More than 2,500 Jewish individuals and families rely on the Ark’s pantries in Chicago and Northbrook for access to kosher food, …