TOS Blog

Second Annual Juneteenth Kabbalat Shabbat

Friday, June 18, 2021, 5pm ET

Celebrate the holiday of Juneteenth, cohosted by Reconstructing Judaism and  Be'chol Lashon, featuring Rabbi Sandra Lawson and more.  Cosponsored by 18 Doors, JCC Manhatten, One Table, PJ...Read more...

I’ve loved reading the words of fellow TOS congregants over the last six weeks. And it’s gotten me thinking about the searching—the wandering—that so many of us do to find a place to call our Jewish “home.”

For me, an authentic Jewish home is a community of searchers where I can bring my full Jewish self—that is, a place where my faith and doubts, my hope and my questions (so many questions!)...Read more...

I happened upon the Trust Center, and by extension Temple Ohabei Shalom, shortly after my second son was born. My  two and a half year old son was doing all the things that kids do when a new baby comes home and I knew he needed a higher quality preschool program. From my limited research, I came upon the Trust Center. It was one of the few preschools I could find with early drop off (I’m a teacher) and...Read more...

Fawn and Mike met at Wesleyan over 25 years ago this September and will have been married 22 years this June. Together, they have raised Celeste, who celebrated her Bat Mitzvah at TOS last year and Max, who after discovering a love textual analysis in “You, the Jury” has became a regular at Torah study. 

Max is named after Mike’s grandfather, who was tragically killed during the Holocaust after jumping from the...Read more...

I have been a member of Temple Ohabei Shalom since 1976 when my son needed a Hebrew School with reasonable accommodations for his writing disability. I have a few disabilities: Amniotic band...Read more...