Congregation Am Tikva

Am Tikva mourns the death of long-time member Paul Rubenstein, who for many years served as the illustrator for Am Tikva newsletters. (See an early example below.) His funeral will be held Friday, June 28, at noon, at Pride of Lynn cemetery. His family will be sitting shiva Friday afternoon and Sunday at 100 Centre Street, #1103, in Brookline. May his memory be for a blessing.

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Join us for a Pride Liberation Seder on June 13. Register by June 10. Details below. Hope to see you there!

Pride Liberation Seder 2024       Pride Liberation Seder Thursday, June 13, 2024 6:00 p.m. followed by a catered meal Temple Israel of Boston 477 Longwood Avenue, Boston The Pride Liberation Seder, originally developed by Am Ti

Join Am Tikva for a festive Purim Persian dinner on March 23. Click below for details.

Purim Dinner and an opportunity to do a huge mitzvah     Happy Purim! Join Am Tikva for a festive meal of Persian food to celebrate Purim! Saturday, March 23, at 6:30 p.m. Molana Restaurant 5 Spring Street, Watertown Costumes encouraged (including the F

Doreen, who was a regular member of Am Tika, urgently needs a kidney. Even if you can't help directly, please share - the more people who know, the more likely it is that the search will be successful. Thank you so much!

Wishing everyone a contemplative yontif and an easy fast! Please join us in person or online for our Kol Nidre service tonight and/or Yizkor/Ne'ilah services and Break-Fast tomorrow. Details and tickets at

Congregation Am Tikva | Serving Boston's LGBT Jewish Community Since 1976 We are pleased to let you know that Am Tikva will be offering High Holy Day services this year in a hybrid format this year! We will be returning to our familiar settings at BU/Wheelock/Hebrew College building at 43 Hawes Street in Brookline. All services will be also be streamed virtually using Zoo...

Begin the new year with Am Tikva this Friday, September 15, at Erev Rosh Hashanah services, followed by a delicious oneg. We hope to see you in person, but also welcome you on Zoom. Info and tickets at

Congregation Am Tikva | Serving Boston's LGBT Jewish Community Since 1976 We are pleased to let you know that Am Tikva will be offering High Holy Day services this year in a hybrid format this year! We will be returning to our familiar settings at BU/Wheelock/Hebrew College building at 43 Hawes Street in Brookline. All services will be also be streamed virtually using Zoo...

Yes, it's almost time for Am Tikva's contemplative and lyrical High Holiday services, with surround-sound shofar-blowing! Please join us in person or virtually for Erev Rosh Hashanah (Friday, September 15); Kol Nidre (Sunday, September 24); Yizkor/Ne'ilah (Monday, September 25); and Break-Fast (Monday, September 25). See https://www.amtikva.org/ for details and tickets.

Join us for a Purim Persian dinner on Tuesday, March 7, at 6:30 p.m., at Molana, 5 Spring Street, Watertown.

Costumes are encouraged (including the FUN kind of masks)!

Please be sure to RSVP to [email protected] by Monday, March 6, so we can reserve sufficient seats.

We will combine the two Purim traditions of exchanging gifts of food and giving charity to the poor by collecting food to give to a soup kitchen.

Happy sixth night of Hanukkah! Because of the weather, tonight's in-person Am Tikva Hanukkah party at 6 p.m. has been switched to Zoom. If you'd like to join us, please comment below or email [email protected] and I can send you the link in a private message. Stay safe and warm!

Enjoy this medley of ”Elton Johnukah” songs as you prepare latkes or sufganiyot for this first night of Hanukkah. Chag sameach!

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We hope this time between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur has been meaningful for you. Please join Am Tikva for our Kol Nidre service and Yizkor Ne'ilah service, which will be held both in person and online, as well as our Break-fast, which will be held in person following Yizkor Ne'ilah. Tickets are available at www.amtikva.org.

Wishing the Am Tikva community far and wide a sweet new year! We hope you'll join us for Erev Rosh Hashanah services on Sunday, September 25, at 8 p.m., either in person (at 43 Hawes Street, Brookline) or online via Zoom. For tickets and info on all our services, go to www.amtikva.org.

We're baaaaaaaaaack! Once again you can join Am Tikva for the High Holidays in person! If you prefer, however, you can still choose to join us virtually.

Tickets are available at https://www.amtikva.org/ for Erev Rosh Hashanah (Sunday, September 25); Kol Nidre (Tuesday, October 4); Yizkor/Ne'ilah (Wednesday, October 5); and Break-Fast (Wednesday, October 5). We'll also be offering Tashlich and a Healing Service. See the website for details.

We ask all participants to wear masks in order to create an environment that is as safe as possible for everyone.

We look forward to seeing you at our joyous and contemplative services!

The World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ) is urging its members around the globe to add a beetroot to their Seder plate this Passover to show solidarity with the people of Ukraine. Ukraine’s most famous national food is borscht, for which the main ingredient is beetroot – making this a symbolic way to express support during the festival. Rabbi Igor Zinkov (of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in London, UK, and Co-Chair of the WUPJ Ukraine Emergency Support) has family in both Ukraine and Russia. He teaches, “The story of Pesach is the story of freedom – and we will all be praying for those in Ukraine to be free this Passover. Many of us feel helpless in the face of what is happening, but millions of homes placing a beetroot on their Seder plates is a powerful symbol of solidarity.”

The Hebrew for beetroot is selek (סלק ,(which resembles the word for retreat, yistalku (יסתלקו .(It is suggested that people eat the beetroot at the point in the Seder after the bitter herbs are consumed and before the main meal, saying the following prayer: “May it be Your will, Eternal God, that all the enemies who might beat us will retreat (yistalku), and we will beat a path to freedom.”

Pesach sameach and shabbat shalom!

Although it had been two years since our last Purim dinner at Molana, for some reason the waitress remembered us.

Remember when these were the kinds of masks we wore for Purim? Well, we're bringing back this tradition, with another Purim/Shabbat dinner at Molana, 5 Spring Street, Watertown, this Friday, March 18, at 6:30 p.m. Costumes encouraged! Please RSVP to [email protected] by Wednesday so we can make an accurate reservation.

If you haven't been to our Yizkor/Ne'ilah service before, Rabbi Harris has been a fixture for Am Tikva for many many years!

Rabbi Susan Harris Brings Her “Whole Heart” to Boston Children’s Hospital As director of spiritual care, Rabbi Susan Harris helps kids and families withstand the trials of hospitalization and advocates for young patients.

Join Am Tikva for our contemplative Kol Nidre and Yizkor/Ne'ilah services and our healing service, co-sponsored with Temple Sinai. Register at https://www.amtikva.org/.

L'shana tova, gut yontif, and a sweet, peaceful, just, healthy, happy new year to all. If you'd like to join us for services throughout the high holidays, go to www.amtikva.org for info.

Although we were all hoping to celebrate the high holidays in person this year, the pandemic has made that ill-advised. But we will still gather for our usual joyous and contemplative services--just virtually. Go to https://www.amtikva.org/ to register for Erev Rosh Hashanah, Tashlich, Kol Nidre, Healing Service and Yizkor/Ne'ilah. We look forward to seeing you!

Congregation Am Tikva | Serving Boston's LGBT Jewish Community Since 1976 We are pleased to let you know that Am Tikva will be offering High Holy Day services this year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all services will be held virtually using Zoom.

Chag sameach! L’shanah ha-ba-ah in person!

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Are you hosting a Zeder (Zoom seder) and willing to invite more guests or are you looking for a Zeder to attend?

Although the COVID-19 plague is still raging and we can’t host an Am Tikva in-person seder, we are matching virtual seder invitations from those who are able to offer them with those who are looking to join a seder.

If you can perform the mitzvah of inviting a “stranger” to your seder, please email [email protected] with the date and time of your seder and how many you could accommodate.

If you are looking to join a seder, please email [email protected] your contact info and we will send you any opportunities.

Please reply by March 23

Chag sameach and. . .
Next year, in person!