Joyce Spartonos With the New Year celebration already behind us (where does the time go?), the Sun Lakes Jewish Congregation is continuing its regularly-scheduled monthly services on the second Friday of every month at 7 p.m. at the Chapel in Sun Lakes. We are a Reform Congregation that offers something for everyone. You name it,…
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Generals, October 2019
High Holidays schedule for Sun Lakes Jewish Congregation
Doris Codkind, Publicity The Sun Lakes Jewish Community begins the High Holidays with the celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the New Year of 5780, and culminates on Yom Kippur. SLJC is an active congregation with members of all ages who come from various communities in the area. Tradition and prayer are woven into our services by…
Generals, October 2019
We’re back – Chapel Center Treasure Sale – October 18 and 19
0Barbara Reiss What Fun! It’s the Chapel Center’s 13th Annual Treasure Sale. We are at 9240 N. Sun Lakes Blvd., Phase 1, across the street from the clubhouse in Sun Lakes. The dates are Friday, October 18, from 7:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m., and Saturday, October 19, from 7:00 a.m. until noon. The Treasure Sale…
Generals, September 2019
Chapel Center Treasure Sale-October 18, 19
What Fun! It’s the Chapel Center’s 13th Annual Treasure Sale. We are at 9240 N. Sun Lakes Blvd., Phase 1, across the street from the clubhouse in Sun Lakes. The dates are Friday, October 18, from 7:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. and Saturday, October 19, from 7:00 a.m. until noon. The Treasure Sale will have…
Features, September 2019
Jewish New Year 5780
September is the exciting time of the year when many things begin anew! It’s the beginning of football season, the return of “snowbirds” to Arizona, the first hint of cooler weather, AND the start of Jewish New Year, 5780! Resuming on September 13, Sun Lakes Jewish Congregation invites everyone to attend our regular monthly Friday…
Religion, July 2019
SLJC’s Twilight Service
Summer is here, and so are the special Twilight Services that are held by Sun Lakes Jewish Congregation each summer! These shorter, informal services will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on the second Friday during the months of July and August! Everyone is welcome to attend! Stay tuned for the upcoming announcement of…
Religion, June 2019
Special healing service June 14
A special healing service! Sun Lakes Jewish Congregation invites everyone to attend its annual Healing Service on June 14 at 7:00 p.m. at the Sun Lakes Chapel near Riggs and Sun Lakes Blvd. This beautiful and meaningful service, led by Rabbi Irwin Wiener and Cantor Ronda Polesky, will be unique because it will not include…
Religion, May 2019
All about Sun Lakes Jewish Congregation
Sun Lakes Jewish Congregation, a long-established Reform congregation that is conveniently located in Sun Lakes, strives to meet the needs of all generations within the East Valley. What makes SLJC unique are our monthly services that blend beautiful and liturgy with meaningful prayer and rituals. During our services on Friday night, May 10, we will…
Religion, May 2019
To mourn, to remember – Holocaust remembrance
Rabbi Irwin Wiener, D.D. The German Jewish Political Theorist, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), wrote during the trial of Adolph Eichmann in Israel: “It was as though in those last minutes he (Eichmann) was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us – the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of…
Religion, April 2019
SLJC to host Congregational Passover Seder April 20
Commemorating the story of Exodus that recounts the freedom of the Israelites from slavery in Ancient Egypt, Sun Lakes Jewish Congregation will host a Congregational Passover Seder that will be held on April 20, the second night of Passover, at the Palo Verde Country Club! Everyone is invited! Bring your kids, grandkids, friends and neighbors…