Every minute, 20 people are forced to flee their homes. Join WCJA and Refugee Advocates for Refugee Shabbat this Friday at the Jewish Religious Center -- all welcome! Home-cooked dinner at 7pm, followed by a speaker who will share her firsthand account working with refugees in Greece.

Join WCJA for a special dinner event with four Israeli residents from Afula-Gilboa Israel, an interfaith coalition discussing religion, politics and their personal perspectives on the intersection of secular, Jewish Muslim, and modern Orthodox life in Israel.

WCJA's annual Hannukah Party and latke-fest is happening this Sunday, December 2nd, kicking off the start of Hannukah 2018! Festivities will include dreidel, gelt, gift-wrapping, candle-lighting, and of course, many, many latkes. Bring yourself, your friends, and an appetite--all are welcome!

The first years are cooking Shabbat dinner this week. Come help cook!

Day-long Winter Meditation Retreat Join students, faculty, and staff as we settle into presence and stillness through the practice of meditation. A perfect way to spend a day of Winter Study and to feel renewed and reconnected. Time/location: Thursday, Jan. 10. From 10 am - 4:00 pm at the Jewish Religious Center (24 Stetson Court). Sitting meditation periods (40 minutes in…

Help WCJA bake/braid challah Thurs 3-7pm at the JRC! Plain, chocolate, & cinnamon mini-loaves and new "challah bites." Proceeds go to food insecurity orgs. You can taste-test and reserve loaves to pick up fresh! Come when you can.

Join students, faculty, and staff
 as we settle into presence and stillness through the practice of meditation. A perfect way to spend a day of Winter Study and to feel renewed and reconnected.

To celebrate the Jewish holiday of the trees, join us for a service celebrating environmental awareness, justice, and gratitude. We will have S N A C K S !

What kind of change work are you called to do in this world? How can you show up as your best self? Over the course of 6 Wednesdays, we will explore these questions, plus motivation, choice, & gratitude. Interested? Email Rabbi Seth @ smw4!

What kind of change work are you called to do in this world? How can you show up as your best self? Over the course of 6 sessions, through personal and small group reflection, we will explore motivation, choice, gratitude, and rest.

Explore the practice of prayer during our series of experiential Shabbat service workshops, built from scratch each week! Your feedback will help shape WCJA's new prayer book for use in our weekly Shabbat services for years to come.

This weekend is our last Challah for Hunger bake of the year! Help us make dough Sat night 9-10:30pm, or braid dough with local families as part of a PJ Library program Sun 10am-noon at JRC. Or buy challah Mon lunch at Paresky!

Join us to bake challah, traditional Jewish braided loaves, to raise $$ to combat food insecurity locally. No experience necessary - we'll teach! Come anytime 6-10pm at the Jewish Religious Center. Click for more info on Challah for Hunger.

Join us to bake challah, traditional Jewish braided loaves, to raise $ to combat food insecurity. No experience necessary - we'll teach! Come anytime 6-9pm at the Jewish Religious Center. Click for more info on Challah for Hunger.

Join us to make dough for challah, traditional Jewish braided loaves, to raise $ to combat food insecurity. No experience necessary - we'll teach! Come anytime 7-9pm at the Jewish Religious Center. Click for more info on Challah for Hunger.

Join us to braid and bake challah, traditional Jewish braided loaves, to raise $ to combat food insecurity. No experience necessary - we'll teach! Come anytime 9-noon at the Jewish Religious Center.

Are you new to meditation or Zen Buddhist practice?

Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, offers an opportunity to engage our own experience with how we process loss and grief; our connection to our ancestors; and what would it mean to release and heal. All are welcome at this unique event!

Join Rabbi Becky Silverstein (he/him), Co-Director of the Trans Halakha Project and faculty at SVARA, for two learning opportunities: Rituals and Blessings for Trans Lives & Trans and Jewish Lunch & Learn at the Jewish Religious Center.

Join Rabbi Becky Silverstein (he/him), Co-Director of the Trans Halakha Project and faculty at SVARA, for two learning opportunities: Rituals and Blessings for Trans Lives & Trans and Jewish Lunch & Learn at the Jewish Religious Center.

As current war in Gaza continues, a member of the Israel Policy Forum will examine obstacles to peace in a briefing that will be rooted in the organization's commitment to a lasting peace for Israelis and Palestinians.

Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band, one of the world's preeminent klezmer ensembles, will lead a concert and musical havdalah ceremony, the ritual to end the Jewish Shabbat, at the Williams College JRC. Everyone is welcome!