The City Congregation celebrates Shabbat at The 14th Street Y, 344 E. 14th St., between 1st and 2nd Ave.
KidSchool and Adult Perspectives meet at 15 West 86th St. (SAJ), in Manhattan, between Central Park West and Columbus, unless otherwise noted. KidSchool is scheduled from 3:00pm - 5:15pm. Snack begins at 2:45. Adult Perspectives is held from 3:30pm - 4:45pm.
High Holiday services are held at the Desmond Tutu Center, 180 10th Avenue, between 20th and 21st Streets in Manhattan. Board Meetings are generally held on the second Monday of the month at 7:00pm. Call the office for the location.
All dates and programs are subject to change. To confirm events and for more information, contact the office at 212-213-1002 or info@citycongregation.org or visit www.citycongregation.org.
Monday, Sept. 6 Labor Day
Wednesday, Sept. 8 Erev Rosh Hashanah
Thursday, Sept. 9 Rosh Hashanah Service and Children's Program, followed by lunch. Tutu, 10:30am
Sunday, Sept. 12 Open House, SAJ, 1:30pm, with childcare
KidSchool, SAJ, 2:45pm Parents go to classes with kids for the beginning of the session.
KidSchool Parents Get-To-Know-Each-Other, SAJ, 4pm
Monday, Sept. 13 Board Meeting
Friday, Sept. 17 Kol Nidre, Tutu, 7:30pm
Saturday, Sept. 18 Yom Kippur Service and Children's Program, followed by break-the-fast. Tutu, 10:30am
Wednesday, Sept. 22 Sukkot - starts in the evening
Friday, Sept. 24 Shabbat - Service and Cultural Program at 7:30pm followed by Pot-Luck Dessert I'm Right, You're Right, He's Right Too: Multiple Perspectives in Jewish Humor and Folklore. Presented by Steve Zeitlin of City Lore. This program is funded in part by the New York Council For The Humanities.
Sunday, Sept. 26 Open House, 1:30pm, with childcare
KidSchool Committee Meeting, 1:30pm
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Year Two Back-to-Work Discussion for Students, Parents & Mentors, 1:30pm
Mentor Training Session, 2:45pm - 3:30pm
KidSchool, 2:45pm
Adult Perspectives, SAJ, 3:30pm Tevye And Golda Go To A Therapist: A Study of Harmonious Conjugal Antagonism. Presented by Rabbi Peter Schweitzer.
Sunday, Oct. 3 Open House, 1:30pm, with childcare
KidSchool, 2:45pm
Adult Perspectives, SAJ, 3:30pm Defending The Detainees: A Personal Account from a Guantanamo Lawyer. Presented by TCC member Jonathan Hafetz, a civil and human rights attorney with the National Security Project of the American Civil Liberties, and author of The Guantanamo Lawyers.
Monday, Oct. 4 Board Meeting
Monday, Oct. 11 Columbus Day
Friday, Oct. 15 Shabbat - Service and Catered Dinner at 6:30pm, Cultural Program at 8:15pm Where Lehman Brothers And Goldman Sachs Come From: The Journey From Pack Peddler To International Banker. Presented by Kenneth Libo, author of Lots of Lehmans: The Family of Mayer Lehman of Lehman Brothers. This program is funded in part by the New York Council For The Humanities.
Sunday, Oct. 17 New Member Brunch, 11:30am
Sunday, Oct. 24
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Year Two Hero/Role Model Workshop for Students, Parents & Mentors, 1:30pm, childcare available
Bar/Bat Mitzvah parent sharing session during Kehilla Circle time
KidSchool, 2:45pm
Adult Perspectives, SAJ, 3:30pm HUNGER: A Global Problem - A Local Challenge - What is Our Responsibility? What can we do ourselves and how can we formulate an action plan as a congregation? Representatives of organizations that work in this area will serve as resources.
Tuesday, Nov. 2 Election Day
Friday Nov. 5 Shabbat - Service and Catered Dinner at 6:30pm, Cultural Program at 8:15pm "Remember The Sabbath And Keep It": What Does Shabbat Mean To Us As Secular And Cultural Jews? Presented by Rabbi Peter Schweitzer.
Sunday, Nov. 7 Daylight Savings Time ends NY Marathon
Monday, Nov. 8 Board Meeting
Sunday, Nov. 14
KidSchool, 2:45pm
Adult Perspectives, SAJ, 3:30pm Talking About The Holocaust To Our Children: When Do We Start? What Do We Say? Presented by Elizabeth Edelstein, Director of Education at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, along with TCC members who will share their own experiences learning about the Holocaust and now talking about it with their own children.
Friday, Nov. 19 Shabbat - Service and Cultural Program at 7:30pm followed by Pot-Luck Dessert This I Believe: City Congregation Members Join the Conversation - Round Two. Moderated by Carol Sternhell, TCC member and professor at the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
Sunday, Nov. 21 Bar/Bat Mitzvah Year One Parent Orientation. Year One Students will meet with Rabbi Schweitzer, 1:30pm
KidSchool Committee Meeting, 1:30pm
KidSchool, 2:45pm
Adult Perspectives, SAJ, 3:30pm The Last Jewish Virgin: Jewish Myth Meets Jewish Reality. TCC member Janice Eidus will read from and discuss her playful, provocative, sensual, and suspenseful new novel, The Last Jewish Virgin: A Novel of Fate.
Thursday, Nov. 25 Thanksgiving
Wednesday, Dec. 1 First Night of Chanukah
Friday, Dec. 3 Chanukah Service, Menorah Lighting and Catered Dinner at 6:30pm followed by Game Night at 8:15pm. Music by the TCC Choir. Following dinner it's GAME NIGHT!
Sunday, Dec. 5 KidSchool Chanukah Celebration 3:00pm Students go directly to their classes. No Kehilla Circle. 4:00pm KidSchool Chanukah Celebration and Party. Guests are welcome.
Monday, Dec. 13 Board Meeting
Sunday, Dec. 12 (Note: Change in date from Dec. 19) KidSchool, 2:45pm
Adult Perspectives, SAJ, 3:30pm Four Crak! Three Bam! Eight Dot! What's the Deal About Mah Jongg and the Jews? Attend a screening of the documentary Mah-Jongg, The Tiles That Bind, with co-director and producer Bari Pearlman.
Saturday, Dec. 25 Christmas
Friday, Dec. 31 New Year's Eve
Sunday, Jan. 2 New Year's Brunch at the home of Rabbi Peter Schweitzer & Myrna Baron
Friday, Jan. 7 Shabbat - Service and Catered Dinner at 6:30pm, Cultural Program at 8:15pm The Three Moses: Maimonides (1135-1204), Mendelssohn (I1729-1786), and Montefiore (1774-1885). Presented by Rabbi Peter Schweitzer.
Sunday, Jan. 9 Meeting for Bar/Bat Mitzvah Year One Students, Parents and Mentors, 12:45pm
KidSchool, 2:45pm
Book Sale, 2:45pm
Adult Perspectives, SAJ, 3:30pm Secular Jews And Spirituality: A Contradiction In Terms?
Is it really true that people who pray live longer? If so, what are
the implications for us if we don't believe in prayer? Is there a
secular alternative? Presented by Rabbi Peter Schweitzer. (Originally scheduled on Feb. 6)
Friday, Jan. 21 Shabbat - Service and Cultural Program at 7:30pm followed by Pot-Luck Dessert People Of The Libretto: 1960 to the Present. Presented by TCC members Jack Lechner, Peter Mones, Trudy Elins, Michelle Lang Zalph, Anne Shonbrun and Dan Wyman, accompanied on the piano by musical director Louise Moed. Also featuring a special musical number by some TCC KidSchool students. (This program will be repeated on Sunday, January 23.)
Bar/Bat Mitzvah parent sharing session during Kehilla Circle time
KidSchool, 2:45pm
Adult Perspectives, SAJ, 3:30pm People Of The Libretto: 1960 to the Present. Presented by TCC members Jack Lechner, Peter Mones, Trudy Elins, Michelle Lang Zalph, Anne Shonbrun and Dan Wyman, accompanied on the piano by musical director Louise Moed. Also featuring a special musical number by some TCC KidSchool students. (This program is a repeat of the one on Friday, January 21.)
Friday, Feb. 4 Shabbat - Service and Catered Dinner at 6:30pm, Cultural Program at 8:15pm Jewish Sing-A-Long with TCC member Michelle Lang Zalph
Sunday, Feb. 6 KidSchool, 2:45pm
No Adult Perspectives Program on Secular Jews and Spirituality has been rescheduled for Sunday, Jan. 9
Sunday, Feb. 13 KidSchool, 2:45pm
Adult Perspectives, SAJ, 3:30pm Journeys Into Small And Disappearing Jewish Communities: A Photo Essay. Presented by Chrystie Sherman, who has been exploring the anomalies of Jewish survival in places as varied as the Former Soviet Union, Cuba, Central Asia, India, the Caucuses, and North Africa.
Monday, Feb. 14 Board Meeting
Monday, Feb. 21 Presidents Day
Sunday, Feb. 27 Social Outing - US Military Band Concert at Brooklyn College, 2pm, Free
Friday, March 4 Shabbat - Service and Cultural Program at 7:30pm followed by Pot-Luck Dessert The Hebrew Actors Union: Caretakers of Yiddish Theatre. Presented by David Freeland, author of Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan's Lost Places of Leisure.
Sunday, March 6 Bar/Bat Mitzvah Year One Family Values Workshop for Students, Parents & Mentors, 1:30pm, childcare available
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Parent sharing session during Kehilla Circle time, 3:00 - 3:30pm
KidSchool, 2:45pm
Adult Perspectives, SAJ, 3:30pm And A Time To Die: How Do We Make Decisions for Our Loved Ones? How Can We Take Control of Our Own End of Life Process? Presented by Nancy Dubler, Consultant for Ethics, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, and former director of bioethics at Montefiore Medical Center.
Sunday, March 13 Daylight Savings Time begins
Monday, March 14 Board Meeting
Friday, March 18 Shabbat - Service and Catered Dinner at 6:30pm, Cultural Program at 8:15pm Purim Celebration and Costume Ball! Annual tribute to A Woman of Valor. Plus a fun Purim program.
Saturday, March 19 Purim - starts at sunset
Sunday, March 20 KidSchool Committee Meeting, 1:30pm
KidSchool Purim Celebration 3:00pm Students go directly to their classes. No Kehilla Circle. No snack. 4:00pm KidSchool Purim Celebration and Party. Guests are welcome.
Sunday, March 27 KidSchool, 2:45pm
Adult Perspectives, SAJ, 3:30pm Jews And Journalism: Where We Fit, How We Are Depicted, and What Does the Future Hold? A panel presentation of TCC members. Moderated by Carol Sternhell, TCC member and professor at the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
Friday, April 1 Shabbat - Service and Cultural Program at 7:30pm followed by Pot-Luck Dessert Commemoration Of The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: The 100th Anniversary. Memorial program with readings and music and presentation by Richard Greenwald, author of The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York. This program is funded in part by the New York Council For The Humanities.
Sunday, April 3 Walking Tour of Jewish Harlem, led by TCC member Marty Shore
Sunday, April 10 Open House, 1:30pm, with childcare
KidSchool Committee Meeting, 1:30pm
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Parent sharing session during Kehilla Circle time, 3:00 - 3:30pm
KidSchool, 2:45pm
Model Seder for younger classes
KidSchool Parents Feedback Discussion, 3:30pm re-scheduled from May 15
[Jewish Survival Strategies: The Secret to Our Continuity. How have the Jewish people managed to survive for some 3000 years? Rabbi Peter Schweitzer will explore the ways we have re-invented ourselves and adapted our practices and beliefs in each generation including our own secular, cultural, and humanistic approach.] re-scheduled to May 15
Monday, April 11 Board Meeting
Saturday, April 16 Congregational Passover Seder
Monday, April 18 Passover - First Seder
Sunday, April 24 Easter
Friday, April 29 Shabbat - Service and Cultural Program at 7:30pm followed by Pot-Luck Dessert Yom Hashoa / Holocaust Commemoration. With music from the TCC Choir. Sam Magavern, author of Primo Levi's Universe, will talk on Primo Levi's View Of The World: Tragic, Comic, Darwinist, Magical, Secular, Jewish, and How it Evolved. Co-sponsored with The Generation After / Holocaust Survivors USA.
Saturday, April 30 Yom HaShoa - Holocaust Memorial - starts at sunset
Sunday, May 1 Open House, 1:30pm, with childcare
KidSchool, 2:45pm
TCC Town Hall Meeting and Book Sale, 3:30pm
Friday, May 6 Shabbat - Service and Catered Dinner at 6:30pm, Cultural Program at 8:15pm Jews and Rock and Roll: From Behind the Scenes to Out in Front on the Stage. Presented by TCC member Susan Ryan.
Sunday, May 8 Yom HaAtzmaut - Israel Independence Day - starts at sunset Mother's Day
Monday, May 9 Board Meeting
Friday, May 13 TCC Soiree
Sunday, May 15 AIDS Walk
Open House, 1:30pm, with childcare
KidSchool, 2:45pm
Adult Perspectives, SAJ, 3:30pm, Sanctuary Jewish Survival Strategies: The Secret to Our Continuity.
How have the Jewish people managed to survive for some 3000 years?
Rabbi Peter Schweitzer will explore the ways we have re-invented
ourselves and adapted our practices and beliefs in each generation
including our own secular, cultural, and humanistic approach. re-scheduled from April 10
[KidSchool Parents Feedback Discussion, 3:30pm] re-scheduled to April 10
Friday, May 20 Shabbat - Service and Cultural Program at 7:30pm followed by Pot-Luck Dessert Everyone Has a Once Upon a Time: Stories That Make You Care As well As Laugh. Presented by storyteller Roslyn Bresnick-Perry.
Sunday, May 22 Outing to Philadelphia to see National Museum of American Jewish History. Visit the museum's new building and opening exhibit that will be displaying items from the collection donated by Rabbi Peter Schweitzer.
Monday, May 30 Memorial Day
Friday, June 3 Shabbat - Service and Cultural Program at 7:30pm followed by Pot-Luck Dessert Shavuot Celebration: In Honor of Our Collective Literature. Faces Of Jewish Humor: The Saga of the Shlemiel and the Shlimazel. Presented by Ruth Adler, professor of Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature at Baruch College, CUNY. This program is funded in part by the New York Council For The Humanities.
Sunday, June 5 Open House, 1:30pm, with childcare
Final Session of KidSchool 3:00pm Students and Parents go directly to their classes. No Kehilla Circle. 4:00pm End-of-Year Celebration and Pizza Party
Tuesday, June 7 Shavuot - starts at sunset
Monday, June 13 Board Meeting
Friday, June 17 Shabbat - Service and Catered Dinner at 6:30pm, Cultural Program at 8:15pm End-Of-Year Celebration And KidSchool Graduation Our annual tribute to our special volunteers, board members, and leaders of the congregation. Celebrate the Graduation of our KidSchool students. Plus Jewish Trivia.