Upcoming events.
Support a New Neighbor for the Holidays!“Adopt” a Refugee Family!
Imagine being a refugee and arriving in a strange country and not having everything that you need to live. To help our new neighbors who recently were resettled in Cleveland, Park is partnering again this year with US Together, one of Cleveland’s active refugee resettlement agencies, to help new families in our community have a brighter holiday season. To learn more about US Together, please visit its website at http://ustogether.us
A Deeper Dive into Current Israel Issues
The war in Israel is in the forefront of all of our minds. Our brothers and sisters in Israel are relying on us to help defend our homeland in the public eye. Join us for this series to hear differing views and become more knowledgeable and engaged about issues facing Israel today.
Women's Rosh Chodesh Book Group
spending vacation time with his niece, Masie, and nephew, Grant. But in terms of caretaking or relating to two children, no matter how adorable, Patrick is, honestly overwhelmed. So, when tragedy strikes, and Masie and Grant lose their mother, and their father has a health crisis of his own, Patrick finds himself in the role of primary guardian. Despite having a set of “Guncle Rules” ready to go, Patrick has no idea what to expect with a life-style not so suited to a six and nine year old. Quickly realizing that parenting is not so easily solved by tricks and jokes, Patrick’s eyes are opened to a sense of responsibility, and he realizes that sometimes, even being larger than life means you are unfailingly human.
Authentic Israel Volunteer Trip
In response to the October 7th attacks, Israelis of all backgrounds have united around a collective volunteering effort in support of the displaced border communities and the security services’ mission.
With Authentic Israel we will tap into this national volunteering drive - for the people of Israel, in the land of Israel, while the needs are greatest. Together we will volunteer 4-6 hours a day, bear witness, and stand in solidarity with the people of Israel.
Cleveland Kosher Food Pantry
All volunteers ages 6 & up are needed to help at the Cleveland Kosher Food Pantry to pack bags of produce and other grocery items for people in need in the Jewish and general communities. Great family mitzvah project! A limited number of volunteers are needed, so register soon.
Volunteer through the Park website, Weekly Wrap, or by emailing Ellen Petler at epetler@parksyn.org
Sponsored by Park’s Social Action Committee
Journey Center for Safety & Healing
Love to cook and bake? Park has begun a new monthly mitzvah project to prepare a healthy and delicious Sunday dinner for the mothers and children residing at the Journey Center for Safety & Healing, a shelter for families affected by domestic violence, and we need YOU to help! While the 20 mothers and 25 children receive meals every day, they normally don’t get Sunday dinner. Park wants to fill that gap!
Progressive Insurance Art Collection
Join the Gesher Group for a 90-minute guided tour of the Progressive Art Collection that will focus on the large-scale, site-specific artworks that Toby Lewis originally commissioned for the opening of Progressive’s first campus headquarters. This is the last opportunity to see these works together since they will soon be moved to other Progressive locations. The tour will also feature a visit to some outstanding “greatest hits” artworks from the collection’s history. Artists featured on the tour include Andy Warhol, Petah Coyne, Jon Kessler, Kara Walker, and Beverly Semmes. For more information about the collection, visit www.progressiveartcollection.com.
Journey Center for Safety & Healing
Love to cook and bake? Park has begun a new monthly mitzvah project to prepare a healthy and delicious Sunday dinner for the mothers and children residing at the Journey Center for Safety & Healing, a shelter for families affected by domestic violence, and we need YOU to help! While the 20 mothers and 25 children receive meals every day, they normally don’t get Sunday dinner. Park wants to fill that gap!
Journey Center for Safety & Healing
Love to cook and bake? Park has begun a new monthly mitzvah project to prepare a healthy and delicious Sunday dinner for the mothers and children residing at the Journey Center for Safety & Healing, a shelter for families affected by domestic violence, and we need YOU to help! While the 20 mothers and 25 children receive meals every day, they normally don’t get Sunday dinner. Park wants to fill that gap!
A Deeper Dive into Current Israel Issues
The war in Israel is in the forefront of all of our minds. Our brothers and sisters in Israel are relying on us to help defend our homeland in the public eye. Join us for this series to hear differing views and become more knowledgeable and engaged about issues facing Israel today.
Operation Warm-up
Please donate the following items for people in need in our community:
New or clean, gently-used warm hats, glove/mittens, and scarves for children and adults
A Deeper Dive into Current Israel Issues
The war in Israel is in the forefront of all of our minds. Our brothers and sisters in Israel are relying on us to help defend our homeland in the public eye. Join us for this series to hear differing views and become more knowledgeable and engaged about issues facing Israel today.
Mahj & Mingle
Fun for all women! Bring your own mahj rules and set, if you own one. Please let us know if you need instruction, if you are coming with a group, or if you would like to teach!
A Deeper Dive into Current Israel Issues
The war in Israel is in the forefront of all of our minds. Our brothers and sisters in Israel are relying on us to help defend our homeland in the public eye. Join us for this series to hear differing views and become more knowledgeable and engaged about issues facing Israel today.
Pink Shabbat
Please join us for Pink Shabbat on November 2nd in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. During services, Park member, Alana Spilman, will share her personal journey as a breast cancer survivor followed by a kiddush luncheon, where we will hear from local doctors. Those who have been touched by breast cancer are invited to participate in our service by doing an Aliyah or reading a prayer. This year we will also memorialize loved ones lost to breast cancer in our program. If you would like to include a name in our program or participate in the service, please contact Rabbi Marcus’ office.
Party in the Sukkah
Join us for dinner, entertainment & crafts!
Complimentary event for families.
This is to "all parents and children 0 to 13."
If you're not sure whether your family fits in age wise.
Don't worry, you're invited!
Sisters in the Sukkah
Discover how a global league of extraordinary artists harnesses the arts as a tool for healing, and empowers youth impacted by illnesses, disabilities, and complex mental health or medical needs. Learn how founder Lisa Kollins developed this innovative initiative that uses visual arts and storytelling to increase self-esteem, foster resilience, create connections and inspire hope for kids and teens across the country and beyond. Join the fun, moving and meaningful discussion as we consider how young people want to make the world a better place - and how we do too.
Journey Center for Safety & Healing
Love to cook and bake? Park has begun a new monthly mitzvah project to prepare a healthy and delicious Sunday dinner for the mothers and children residing at the Journey Center for Safety & Healing, a shelter for families affected by domestic violence, and we need YOU to help! While the 20 mothers and 25 children receive meals every day, they normally don’t get Sunday dinner. Park wants to fill that gap!
Sukkah Decorating & More!
Park members and friends of all ages—Come help decorate Park’s Sukkah to make it colorful and beautiful! Bring your kids and grandkids to string vegetables, beads, and other items to hang from the ceiling of the Sukkah, make paper chains and color pictures to hang on the walls. Enjoy fall snacks while you work. Please bring fall vegetables—gourds, small pumpkins, dried corn—to add to the Sukkah’s beauty.
Women's Rosh Chodesh Book Group
Join us to discuss an epic, multigenerational story of two rival Jewish dynasties originally from Baghdad – the Sassoons and the Kadoories - that flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as 20th century China moved into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Kaufman.
Selichot Institute
Save the date for the Selichot Institute. More information to follow.
Judging the Judges: A Conversation on the Importance of our Courts & Voting Judicial Elections
If you are ever called to jury duty, have a legal claim or must serve as a witness, that is most likely to happen in one of our state or municipal courts. And if you or a family member must be in court, you will want to know that the judge is well versed in the law, even tempered, and fair and impartial to both sides. Ohio voters have the chance to help bring well qualified candidates to the bench, and keep them there, by voting in judicial elections.
Judaica & Jewish Art from the Jewish Museum of New York
Don’t miss taking a docent-guided tour with Barbara Gross, Park member and CMA docent, of Judaica and other Jewish art from the Jewish Museum of New York’s renowned collection that is being exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The pieces in the exhibit represent the diversity and creativity of Jewish cultures throughout the world and time. Included are silver Torah ornaments from Italy, France and Georgia, a rare German festival lamp, and spice boxes from Ukraine and the U.S., and much more. We will try to arrange carpools to the CMA for anyone in need of transportation.
Embodied Teshuvah: Aligning Intention & Action
Join the Mitsui Collective, in partnership with Park Synagogue’s women’s groups, to prepare for the High Holidays. Yoshi Silverstein and Ariana Starkman will give an introduction to embodied Jewish learning and practice that can help us move through the world more fully in alignment with our core values, beliefs, and intentions. In preparation for the high holidays, this session will help set us up for the season’s themes of reflection and realignment. We will enjoy light movement, facilitated breathwork, relationship building, and personal reflection to prepare us to enter the New Year.
Journey Center for Safety & Healing
Love to cook and bake? Park has begun a new monthly mitzvah project to prepare a healthy and delicious Sunday dinner for the mothers and children residing at the Journey Center for Safety & Healing, a shelter for families affected by domestic violence, and we need YOU to help! While the 20 mothers and 25 children receive meals every day, they normally don’t get Sunday dinner. Park wants to fill that gap!
Fall Foliage Walk
Join a Penitentiary Glen naturalist for a morning program at this beautiful Lake Metroparks site in Kirtland that was once the summer home of the Halle family. The group will tour the Nature Center and hear about the history of the property when the Halle family lived there. We will then take an easy 45-minute walk on paved or compacted gravel trails around the park. The walk will end with a self-guided tour of the Wildlife Center Yard. Participants must be able to walk at a moderate pace for 45-minutes, including stairs and a hill.
Mahj & Mingle (NEW SUMMER LOCATION) (Copy)
Fun for all women! Bring your own mahj rules and set, if you own one. Please let us know if you need instruction, if you are coming with a group, or if you would like to teach!
Parkapalooza
Park Syagogue wants to thank you for being part of our family! We are so grateful for your continued spport - let’s celebrate with music, food, and summer fun!
Mahj & Mingle (NEW SUMMER LOCATION)
Fun for all women! Bring your own mahj rules and set, if you own one. Please let us know if you need instruction, if you are coming with a group, or if you would like to teach!
Journey Center for Safety & Healing
Love to cook and bake? Park has begun a new monthly mitzvah project to prepare a healthy and delicious Sunday dinner for the mothers and children residing at the Journey Center for Safety & Healing, a shelter for families affected by domestic violence, and we need YOU to help! While the 20 mothers and 25 children receive meals every day, they normally don’t get Sunday dinner. Park wants to fill that gap!
ALL Together in August!
Come for a great summer event with our friends from Cory United Methodist Church and to welcome their new pastor! Enjoy a live rocking jam session with your favorite rock & roll and Motown classics! Fun for all ages! Stay cool with ice cream treats and cookies! Non-dairy frozen treats will be available by advance notice for anyone who can’t eat ice cream.
Women's Rosh Chodesh Book Group
According to Confucius, “an educated woman is a worthless woman,” but Tan Yunxian—born into an elite family--- is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine. Yet things change radically for Yunxian when she is sent into an arranged marriage. How might a woman like Yunxian break free of these traditions and lead a life of such importance that many of her remedies are still used five centuries later?
Shabbat Speaker: Samantha Baskind
Samantha Baskind, Park Member, is a Professor of Art History at Cleveland State University and the author of six books, including “The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture.”
FROM ISRAEL NOW
The terrible events of October 7 and their aftermath continue to be an omnipresent element of our life.