Summer is often times seen as a time to take a vacation from religion, however ours is not a pediatric faith, and just because school is out and the High Holy Days won’t be celebrated until the fall doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be engaged in Jewish life and Torah study. It gives me great pleasure to share with you a list that our newest teacher, Bill (who grew up at CBOI), sent home with his 4th grade students at the end of religious school year. To round out his eight suggestions for ways to be involved in yiddishkiet on these long summer days, I’ll add; come to our weekly Talmud class and make an appointment to come see your Rabbi. We could sit together and learn or debate Jewish philosophy or just catch up with what’s going on in our busy lives. I have an open-door policy and I’m always interested to hear from you.
DO SOMETHING JEWISH THIS SUMMER
Visit a Museum
- Philadelphia-American Jewish HistoryMuseum
- New York – Jewish Heritage Museum of Tolerance, The Jewish Museum
- Washington DC – Holocaust Museum, B’nai B’rith Museum
- Amherst, MA – Yiddish Center
Shop for something Jewish at our own Brothers of Israel Gift Shop or perhaps Judaica Plaza in Lakewood, NJ
Have a Shabbat Picnic – make small challah roll sandwiches, drink Kedem juice, make Kiddush and Motzi [our gift shop stocks Shabbat travel candlesticks]
Read a Jewish book together (from your library or a book store) [or borrow one from the synagogue library]
Watch a Jewish movie together. Some examples: Exodus, Cast a Giant Shadow, Yentl, Fiddler on the Roof, or an Israeli movie
Come to Shabbat Services [our fabulous annual Shabbat Under the Stars will be Friday night, August 19th]
Observe Tisha B’Av – fast (part of the day), come to services [visit the Garden of Reflection 9-11 Memorial in Yardley with us]
Review Hebrew and Prophets study sheets.
Hope you’re having a wonderful Jewish summer. Having just come back from the Congregation’s pilgrimage to Israel, I know I am.
Rabbi Shalom Plotkin
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