Join Rabbi Olitzky for a traditional Kabbalat Shabbat service. Click here for the link.

To attend services virtually, join the Bar Mitzvah service in the Sanctuary via Livestream or the tent service via Zoom.

Bring a blanket or chairs to sit on, wear your masks, and prepare to celebrate Shabbat with song, prayers, and active participation with Ira Levin. This service, held in the parking lot, is designed with all ages in mind. Attendance is by prior sign-up only.

Just for teens, join us on April 18 for a virtual Meet the Israelis event where you'll talk to real people, hear real opinions, and engage in real dialogue. Click here for more information.

Join Congregation Beth El and other SOMA houses of worship for this virtual service. Click here for more information.

Join the discussion on Richard Rothstein's groundbreaking book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History Of How Our Government Segregated America. Read the book or watch the 18-minute film "Segregated By Design," based on the book. David Troutt, law professor and director of the Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity at Rutgers Law School-Newark, will join us to speak about the legacy of housing discrimination in New Jersey. Click here to RSVP

Join world-renowned theologian Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson for a lecture titled, “Too Important to Leave to the Believers: Judaism as World Wisdom.” Rabbi Artson serves as the Vice President of American Jewish University and Abner & Roslyn Goldstine Dean’s Chair of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. Click here for the Zoom link.

Join Historian Marion Kaplan for a lecture on the fascinating experience of Jewish refugees to Portugal as they fled Hitler’s regime. Kaplan, a professor at NYU and three-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award, is the author of Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal. Read the Introduction and first chapter of her book for free here. Q&A will follow the presentation. Click here for more information and the Zoom link.

Mazal tov to Liam Kent-Pomeranz and proud parents Jason Kent and James Pomeranz on Liam becoming a Bar Mitzvah this Shabbat, April 17. Click here to read more from Liam.

7:45 am: Morning Minyan

10:30 am: Pre-Shabbat Family Singalong with Rabbi Olitzky

8:15 pm: Kabbalat Shabbat led by Rabbi Olitzky

8:30 am: Morning Minyan

11:00 am: Sunday Brunch and Schmooze

4:00 pm: SOMA Interfaith Holocaust Service

7:45 am: Morning Minyan followed by learning with Rabbi Marder at approximately 8:30 am

8:00 pm: Social Justice Book Group

7:45 am: Morning Minyan

9:30 am: Midrash in the Morning led by Rabbi Rachel Marder

7:45 am: Morning Minyan

You are invited to join us for a unique opportunity to understand the needs of our congregation and to prepare for work in a multi-faith, multi-racial coalition to create meaningful social change in Essex County with New Jersey Together.  

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Rachel Klinghoffer Marcus & Shayna Schmidt