Beloved Community Shabbat Services
Step into Shabbat. Enter into prayer that sings and songs that pray. Join us for an open, inclusive, joyful Kabbalat Shabbat service led by JCC Harlem Rabbi-In-Residence Mira Rivera. All are welcome, whether this is your first time celebrating Shabbat or your one hundredth. This service is designed for adults but welcomes community members of all ages—potluck dinner to follow services.
Beloved Community Shabbat Services
Step into Shabbat. Enter into prayer that sings and songs that pray. Join us for an open, inclusive, joyful Kabbalat Shabbat service led by JCC Harlem Rabbi-In-Residence Mira Rivera. All are welcome, whether this is your first time celebrating Shabbat or your one hundredth. This service is designed for adults but welcomes community members of all ages—potluck dinner to follow services.
Beloved Community Shabbat Services
Step into Shabbat. Enter into prayer that sings and songs that pray. Join us for an open, inclusive, joyful Kabbalat Shabbat service led by JCC Harlem Rabbi-In-Residence Mira Rivera. All are welcome, whether this is your first time celebrating Shabbat or your one hundredth. This service is designed for adults but welcomes community members of all ages—potluck dinner to follow services.
Beloved Community Shabbat Services
Step into Shabbat. Enter into prayer that sings and songs that pray. Join us for an open, inclusive, joyful Kabbalat Shabbat service led by JCC Harlem Rabbi-In-Residence Mira Rivera. All are welcome, whether this is your first time celebrating Shabbat or your one hundredth. This service is designed for adults but welcomes community members of all ages—potluck dinner to follow services.
Beloved Community Shabbat Services
Step into Shabbat. Enter into prayer that sings and songs that pray. Join us for an open, inclusive, joyful Kabbalat Shabbat service led by JCC Harlem Rabbi-In-Residence Mira Rivera. All are welcome, whether this is your first time celebrating Shabbat or your one hundredth. This service is designed for adults but welcomes community members of all ages—potluck dinner to follow services.
Beloved Community Yom Kippur Neilah Services with Rabbi Mira Rivera and Sara Sherman
Join us for a family-friendly final Yom Kippur service, where we will imagine the symbolic ‘closing of the gates to heaven’ as we say goodbye to Yom Kippur. By the light of (electric) candles, we will sing tuneful, wordless melodies as the lights go low, and close out with hatikvah, the song of hope of our people.
Beloved Community Yom Kippur Services with Rabbi Mira Rivera and Sara Sherman
Yom Kippur is a day of introspection and atoning for what we’ve done wrong and agreeing in community to do better in the year ahead. Services will be a mix of English inspiration and traditional Hebrew prayers, and will include a reading of the Torah and Haftorah, a Yizkor to remember loved ones who no longer walk with us on earth, the solemn Unetaneh Tokef and the Vidui as we contemplate the ways that we can do better in our individual and collective lives. Musical direction by Jerome Korman will help set the tone, while participants follow along with words projected on a large screen. No previous knowledge of Hebrew is required.
Beloved Community Kol Nidre Services with Rabbi Mira Rivera and Sara Sherman
Join us for warm, welcoming, come-as-you-are services led by JCC Harlem Rabbi-In-Residence Mira Rivera and community leader and music educator Sara Sherman. Yom Kippur is a time of introspection and atoning for what we’ve done wrong and agreeing in community to do better in the year ahead. Experience the haunting strains of the Kol Nidre prayer, which invites us to enter in introspection.
Beloved Community Rosh Hashanah Day 2 Services with Rabbi Mira Rivera
Rosh Hashanah is a time of joy at the beginning of the new year as well as introspection, as we help one another become our best selves–in the community. Take a journey of the soul with us. Let the liturgy into the cracks. Uncover the wisdom held in the Torah where our matriarchs and patriarchs unravel and stumble through the mystery of life. Hear the sound of the shofar (the horn of a ram or other animal). Services will be followed by a community kiddush.
Community Tashlich at Morningside Park Pond with Rabbi Mira Rivera and Sara Sherman
Join the JCC Harlem community for a meaningful and family-friendly tashlich service in Morningside Park by the 114th Street pond. Together, we will share in song and symbolically cast off the mistakes of the previous year by tossing pebbles into the water.
Beloved Community Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Service with Rabbi Mira Rivera and Sara Sherman | JCC Harlem
Rosh Hashanah is a time of joy at the beginning of the new year as well as introspection, as we help one another become our best selves–in the community. Take a journey of the soul with us. Let the liturgy into the cracks. Uncover the wisdom held in the Torah where our matriarchs and patriarchs unravel and stumble through the mystery of life. Services will be a mix of English inspiration and traditional Hebrew prayers and will include a reading of the Torah and the sounding of the Shofar. Musical direction by Jerome Korman will help set the tone, while participants follow along with words projected on a large screen. No previous knowledge of Hebrew is required. Services will be followed by a community kiddush.
Beloved Community Erev Rosh Hashanah Service with Rabbi Mira Rivera and Sara Sherman
Enter 5785, the Jewish New Year on Shabbat with a niggun, a wordless but tuneful melody, along with liturgy associated with this time of the season. Explore the themes of return, repair, and renewal. Come in the spirit of Beloved Community. Meet, reacquaint, connect. Experience new fruits, vegetables, and other symbols of the new year. Come as you are.
Chautauqua Institution - Interfaith Lecture Series with Rabbi Mira Rivera
To learn more about this lecture, please check the Chautauqua Institution website.
[IN PERSON] Beloved Community@JCC Harlem, Saturday Morning Spout Shabbat
Bring your little ones for morning Shabbat prayers of movement, art, and singing - and a little nosh. Learn the basics of Jewish ritual, and celebrate family.
Age Range: birth to 8 years old
[IN PERSON] Beloved Community @ JCC Harlem Kabbalat Shabbat and Evening Service
Step into Shabbat. Sing/pray. Savor silence. Shelter in Shekhinah (Divine Presence) in your shechunah (neighborhood). Enter into prayer that sings, and songs that pray. With Jerome Korman on keyboard.
The "Beloved Community" phrase was first used by Josiah Royce, a theologian founder of The Fellowship of Reconciliation. Then Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King brought "beloved community" to the national consciousness.