Community Click

Begin your next shopping spree at PJTC.net! The merchants featured on or Community Click! page will donate a portion of your purchase to the Temple at no cost to you! Visit the new Community Click! page before you start shopping and you won’t regret it!

Event Calendar

Bikkur Cholim / Health and Healing

About the Bikkur Cholim / Health and Healing Committee

The Babylonian Talmud states, “The beginning and the end (of Torah) is the performance of loving kindness.” PJTC holds in high regard the care of its members, both young and old. Through our Bikkur Cholim / Health & Healing Committee, our community embraces those in need of healing and works to promote health and wellness.

Tikkun Olam / Social Justice

Tikkun Olam & Social Justice

Genocide in Darfur

Get your JWW Advocacy Kit!

Green Committee

Protecting the environment is a Mitzvah. Let’s each of us try to take small steps — together we can make a difference in preserving God’s creation!

Got Mitzvot?

Be sure to read the latest got mitzvot? newsletter, now a cooperative effort between the Tikkun Olam / Social Justice Committee and the Louis B. Silver Religious School!

1. Visit Cantor Ruth’s web page to read her messages from The FLAME!

Sisterhood

About Sisterhood

Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center Sisterhood is affiliated with the Pacific Southwest Branch of the Women's League for Conservative Judaism whose goal is the perpetuation of traditional Judaism in the home, the synagogue and the community. Every synagogue member has an opportunity to affiliate with Sisterhood by becoming a dues-paying member.

Rabbi’s Study

Ritual Committee

Got Kashrut?

Read the Ritual Committee’s new pamphlet, “Cooking at Home for the Synagogue When Your Kitchen Isn’t Kosher?”

For news and views on ethical kashrut, including matters related to Agriprocessors, see

1. •Hekhsher Tzedek
   

2. •Uri L'Tzedek

Membership Committee

Community, caring, connections and commitment — that is what PJTC is all about. We are an amazing, vibrant community of all ages, races, and lifestyles. We are the heart of the Jewish community in the Pasadena area. As the Rabbi of PJTC, I am an educator, an advisor, and a counselor, as well as the spiritual leader for both the individual and for the community as a whole. My aim is that our faith enriches our personal life and enhances our contributions to the world around us. I encourage each of us to strengthen and deepen our commitment to Judaism.

I welcome  you to join us as we celebrate together at chaggim (holidays), enjoy our social and educational programs, and as we lift our voices in song and prayer every Shabbat.

Rabbi Joshua

P.S. If you’d like to find out more information about joining our community, please send an email to membership@pjtc.net. We look forward to hearing from you.

Israel Committee

History Project

A Shul with a Pool

Learn about the history of PJTC in PJC: An Experiment in Community Organization, part of the PJTC Eugene Fingerhut Memorial History Project.

1. The Israel Committee of the Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center seeks to coordinate all Israel-related events, whether religious, national, ethical, or political, all revolving about the state of Israel and its relationship to our community and to the world around us. We seek to provide the PJTC community with a place where its members can discuss the issues of the day and can voice their feelings about Israel in a safe and supported environment, although not without controversy!

1. Visit the Rabbi’s Study to read his latest published sermon, messages from The FLAME, podcasts, and more! Listen to the Rabbi’s latest class, The Way into Jewish Mysticism.

Cantor’s Corner

Religious School

Ganeinu (Our Garden) is in bloom again! Join our Mommy (and Daddy) and Me parenting class to make new friends, get great kid-raising tips, celebrate shabbat and holidays, and become part of a community.

Find out more about Louis B. Silver Religious School!

An Invitation to Interfaith Couples and Families

The Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center welcomes interfaith couples and families. We are an open, warm, and vibrant congregation, offering full membership to couples and families where one of the adults is not Jewish. We provide a supportive environment so that all of our families may lead meaningful and rich Jewish lives, raise Jewish children, and contribute to the fabric of our community. Please know that you are most welcome in our PJTC family. To learn more, please contact the Temple Office at (626) 798‑1161 to be put in touch with our Keruv (Outreach) Coordinator, Anita Landau, or our Rabbi, Joshua Levine-Grater.

General Events

Portraits in Literature: The Jews of Poland, An Anthology

Sunday, Jan 29 @ 10:15 AM

2011 National Jewish Book Award Finalist Hava Bromberg Ben-Zvi will discuss her latest book Portraits in Literature: The Jews of Poland, An Anthology and talk with us about her life in literature at our next Author Talk, Bagels and Coffee, Sunday, January 29, 2012, at 10:15 AM at the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center Social Hall.

Shabbat Shirah Dinner, Havdallah and Concert

Saturday, Feb 4 @ 6:00 PM

A Night of Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and Israeli Music Featuring Cantor Ruth Berman Harris and Diego Rubinsztein. Download the flyer!