American Sign Language is still a new language—only a few hundred years old. But signed communication has been a part of human culture for thousands of years. Come explore how, over the course of Jewish history, sign language came to be understood (and sometimes misunderstood)—opening new channels of communication between hearing Jews and Deaf Jews. With ASL interpretation; no RSVP required; kosher dairy brunch […]

At the 10th Annual MetroWest Tikkun Leil Shavuot Event Judaism has long thrived as a pluralistic religion–preserving even the sharpest of disagreements in the Talmud and canonizing in the Hebrew Bible multiple, even divergent, understandings of what it means to live a holy life. Resolving serious questions by offering answers that offend our fellow Jews however has led to moments of public discord. What […]

For as long as there have been humans, we have been differently abled from one another. Come explore texts from different times and places when different rabbis and Jewish laypeople made revolutionary decisions about the treatment of people with disabilities. In assessing these parts of our history, we will learn more about what the evolving Jewish tradition teaches us about our responsibilities towards individuals […]

Rabbi Jonah Rank will be delivering the Shabbat morning sermon at Kehillat Shalom on Saturday, June 22, 2024. Services begin at 9:45 AM and meet in the chapel at Ezra-Habonim, the Niles Township Jewish Congregation.