New on the Web

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!

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.

General Events

The Case for Israel: Democracy’s Outpost

Sunday, July 12, 7:30 PM

The Israel Committee hosts a screening of the film “The Case for Israel: Democracy’s Outpost.” Hosted by Alan Dershowitz, this documentary presents a vigorous case for Israel—for its basic right to exist, to protect its citizens from terrorism, and to defend its borders from hostile enemies.

Poetry, Jazz and Wine

Saturday, July 18, 7:00 PM

PJTC’s gifted poets Jennifer Factor, Franci Levine-Grater, Barbara Levinson and Zahava Sweet will share their poems under a canopy of stars.

Women’s Book Club

Wednesday, July 22, 7:30 PM

Please join PJTC Women’s Book Club on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 7:30 PM in the PJTC Library for Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay.

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 Judy’s web page to read her messages from The FLAME and for some new music recommendations!

Religious Services

Sisterhood

About Sisterhood

Your 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, Hows and Whys.
   

2. Now you can post a comment about the Rabbi’s monthly column in The FLAME!

1. Be sure to see the new, improved Calendar of Religious Services for the latest dates and times for all of our Religious Services. Now including Hebrew calendar dates, candle lighting and Havdalah times, and torah portions!

Cantor’s Corner

Shabbat Times

Religious School

Kindershule, the Shabbat service for young children and their families is back for three more Saturday mornings. It’s a bright and musical way to daven Shabbat the Kindershule way with Andrea.

Find out more about Louis B. Silver Religious School!

Adult Education Summer School

1. Jewish Meditation for a Calming Summer
   Six Thursdays, Thursday, June 4 through Thursday, July 9