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

Exercise Connection Registration Begins

Looking for an exercise partner to share your enjoyment of hiking, biking or walking? Let the Bikkur Cholim / Health and Healing Committee know, and we’ll give you a list of other interested Temple members. Choose to exercise with someone who lives close by or join a group. The choice is yours! Register today!

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

Mitzvah Faire

Sunday, May 18

Celebrate Israel at 60 in song and dance and food! Help our religious school students raise money for various non-profit organizations with the mission of improving the lives of others. Join in the Silent Auction, buy from the booths and make some crafts!

Forgetting Labels: A Community Conversation

Monday, May 19

Join Rabbi Grater for an Interactive Congregational Followup Discussion on Religious Identity.

Second Annual Walk for Darfur

Sunday, June 1

Join all of our school families and Temple congregants at the 2nd Annual JWW Walk for Darfur on June 1st, 2008. Help stop the genocide in Darfur. Join the PJTC team!

Shabbaton Under the Stars

Friday, June 13

Save the Date and RSVP!

Tikkun Olam / Social Justice

Genocide in Darfur

Walk for Darfur, June 1!

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

New Talmud Tefillah Service Offered

Saturday, May 17 at 9:00 AM in Knell Chapel

Not sure what the prayers mean? Where they come from? How to say them? When to stand? Sit? Bow??? Join Rabbi Joshua, Rabbinic Intern Adam Stein or Hazzan Sofer as we explore prayer in depth, focusing on different parts of the Shabbat morning service the third Shabbat of each month.

Sisterhood

Join Sisterhood!

Your Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center Sisterhood is affiliated with the Pacific Southwest Region 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?”

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 Action 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.

Meet Our New Rabbinic Intern

For Our Children

Kids Love Shabbat, Too!

Every Shabbat

Knowing the joys that Shabbat can bring comes with experience. Here at PJTC, we’ll provide those opportunities to generate that joy no matter what your age. Read about Shabbat services and activities for children and families with children. We hope you will join us and get that Shabbat feeling.

1. The Israel Action 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. Adam Stein recently received a Masters in Education at the American Jewish University (formerly University of Judaism), and will be entering his fourth year of rabbinical school at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, also at the AJU.
   

2. Adam grew up in Palo Alto and attended synagogue and religious school at Temple Beth Jacob in Redwood City. He has lived in Jerusalem three times, each for a year, including ‘05-’06, which was a part of his rabbinic training. Adam is also an avid photographer and theatre lover, and has a small obsession with Mac computers. He will join PJTC in the fall, and we look forward to his input.

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!

Adult Education Series

The Hows & Whys Series

Weds, Oct 10 – May 28, 7:30pm

Cantor’s Corner

Shabbat Times