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Shabbat & Chanukah Celebration! Friday, December 19, 2025 5pm potluck 6pm Chanukah lighting 6:30pm Kabbalat Shabbat Hybrid (In person & Zoom) Dear Makor Family & Friends, As you know, on the 1st night of Chanukah, as we were planning on gathering with our loved ones to celebrate the Jewish "Festival of Lights"...

  The Society of Jewish Science Torah Class & Kabbalat Shabbat Friday, 11/28/25 - Starting at 5pm! On Zoom only! Makor Torah Class  Time: 5pm to 6pm Parshat Vayetzei 2025 This week's Torah portion, "Vayetze," means "And he left" and it is found in Genesis 28:10.  We begin with Jacob fleeing his home...

The Society of Jewish Science Torah Class & Kabbalat Shabbat Friday, 11/21/25 - Starting at 5pm! Hybrid (In person and on Zoom) Makor Torah Class  Time: 5pm to 6pm Please use the Kabbalat Shabbat Zoom link to attend the Torah Class. Parshah Toldot This week’s Torah portion, "Toldot," means "generations" or “history” and...

High Holidays 2025/5786  Celebrate the High Holidays among family, friends, and community! All are welcome as we connect to the Divine Significance of the New Year! All services will be in person and on Zoom! Schedule of High Holiday Services (Rosh Hashanah) Monday, September 22 from 7:00pm-9:00pm Tuesday, September 23 from 10:00am-12:00pm Schedule of...

Come join us this Tuesday evening, June 11th, at 6:30pm as we mark the beginning of the festival of Shavuot. This holiday marks the anniversary of the seven week period, after Passover, when we received the Torah on Mount Sinai. That is why Shavuot is also called Zeman Matan...

This week’s Torah portion is “Metzora,” which is often mistranslated as “leper” and found in Leviticus Chapter 14.  We’re continuing with the teaching about people, clothing, and homes that are afflicted with tzara’at (a skin disease or infection).  Tzara’at is the physical result of a...

Society of Jewish Science Kabbalat Shabbat Friday, April 12, 2024 - 7:00PM (Hybrid Service - in person/Zoom) Parshah Tazria This week’s Torah portion Tazria, which means “conceives”, is found in Leviticus 12:1–13:59. Here we continue discussing the laws of “tumah v’taharah”, ritual impurity and purity. The parshah begins by explaining that...

Chag Sameach Pesach 5784 Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 6:30PM (In person only)   Makor’s Society of Jewish Science Invites you to attend “A Taste of Israel” Passover Seder on the Second night of Passover, Tuesday evening, April 23rd, 2024 - 6:30 PM Limited seating RSVP to rabbiyymatous@hushmail.com Light Dairy Foods will be served Please let us know...

Invites you to the wonderful and marvelous musical - Oy Father ...

  Society of Jewish Science Kabbalat Shabbat Friday, March 29, 2024 - 7:00PM (Hybrid Service - in person/Zoom)   This week we continue with Parshah “Tzav” which means “command, instruct, to give direction” and it is found in Leviticus 6:2. Here, G-d tells Moses to instruct Aaron and his sons regarding...