Friday Night Shabbat Festival
Calling all corners of our community for a soulful, extravagant Shabbat festival experience. Gather with friends, old and new, to recharge your spirit with uplifting prayer, joyful song, (and of course) lots of food!
Friday, May 9
5:00pm: Families with Young Children Shabbat Service
5:30pm: New Member Reception
5:45pm: Families with Young Children Dinner
6:30pm: Musical Kabbalat Shabbat Service
8:00pm: Shabbat Festival Dinner
Pharaoh's Daughter Live:
A Shabbat of Song and Spirit with Basya Schaechter & Ensemble
Friday Night Shabbat Festival, May 9 at 6:30pm
Saturday night May 10th – 8:45pm | Register Here
Pharaoh’s Daughter, Basya Schaechter, comes to Adas Israel for Shabbat and an electrifying Havdallah concert entitled Songs of Desire. In this concert length program Pharaoh's Daughter explores the power of this ancient love trove, by setting rich, evocative, descriptive and enigmatic verses to their signature psychedelic sound that mixes eastern and western influences and deep groove and improvisation. In this project they also translate phrases and choruses into other Romance languages... thus highlighting the universality of love and song. Basya will participate in Kabbalat Shabbat, and her 7 piece world music ensemble joins her for this energizing evening.
Kabbalat Shabbat Service Speakers
Kolot - Learning from Action, Acting from Learning: Cultivating values-based leadership
Friday, May 9, Before the 6:30pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Kolot’s Restart program is a transformative initiative that empowers 15 grassroots leaders from the Gaza Envelope to rebuild and reimagine their communities following the devastating events of October 7. Through regional leadership pods in the Gaza Envelope, northern Israel, and Jerusalem, the program promotes values-based leadership, social entrepreneurship, and cross-sector collaboration. Participants engage in immersive learning and peer exchange, culminating in a 7-day U.S. visit to connect with Jewish leaders across North America. You can read more about last year’s inaugural cohort and their trip to Chicago and Detroit.
Kolot convenes cohorts of diverse Israeli leaders to engage in beit midrash study that mines the broad Jewish tradition to provide inspiration, a language for shared core values, and tools for action, thus allowing them to meet the urgent challenges in advancing a flourishing Jewish and democratic Israel.
