Sunday Breakfasts
$5 members/$6 non-members

All are welcome.

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Minyan Schedule

Please consider attending a Minyan service. Our Sunday morning Minyan services are at 8:30 AM.  Your attendance is very much appreciated.

Rabbi's Corner

The bigger question for our community is, are we truly welcoming to all families that define themselves as Jewish and who seek connection to the community. Rosabeth Moss Kanter in her book “Evolve: Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow” put it best, “Community is an idea not a geographic location. A community exists because many people think it does and define themselves as part of it.”
Jewish kids and their families in Greater Boston and its suburbs are increasingly multiracial, headed by same sex and adoptive parents, single parents and even grandparents, and inclusive of individuals with a wide variety of special physical and mental health needs.
We have become a rainbow of different families all living side by side. The challenge we face together is building a vibrant community through our diversity, our openness, and our determination to accept all families into our big tent.
The great teacher, scholar and founder of the Maimonides School, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, speaking at the Conference of Jewish Communal Service in Boston in May of 1976 framed it beautifully.
“Each individual possesses something unique, rare, which is unknown to others; each individual has a unique message to communicate, a special color to add to the communal spectrum,” he said.
As Dorothy said, “there’s no place like home” to feel the warmth of support and being nurtured by those around us. Somewhere over the rainbow could be right here.

Mark Sokoll is president and CEO of the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston and rabbi of Temple B’nai Israel in Revere.