Note: this page does not include non-holiday, special services
that took place on Shabbat
Please see the Friday or Saturday archives for those.
Added January 2022
Healing Service
In-Person and On Zoom
Sunday, January 30 at 4 p.m.
With Rabbi Symons and Andrea Guthrey
Whether you are simply feeling isolated or hurting from an illness or loss, please join us in-person or online for an interactive time of prayer, silence, music and poetry.
If you feel comfortable being in-person (socially distanced and masked) please do consider coming to the Temple.
Published February and March 2021
Healing Service
Sunday, March 7 at 4 p.m.
Led by Rabbi Symons and Andrea Guthrey
Please join us for this powerful time of introspection and connection through music, poetry, prayer, and silence.
Whether you come for yourself, as you pray for a loved one, as a recent mourner, or as someone seeking a spiritual service, please join us for this moving time together.
Visit www.templedavid.org/athome for the link
Published January 2021
Published January 2021
Online Tu BiSh’vat Seder
Wednesday, January 27 (15 Sh’vat)
at 6:30 p.m.
Please have:
- A fruit whose pit is not edible (e.g., a peach)
- A fruit or nut whose peel/skin is not edible (e.g., a banana or nut)
- A fruit which is fully edible (e.g., a seedless grape)
- A fruit whose pit and peel/skin is not edible (e.g., an avocado)
- White grape juice and purple grape juice
- Something made with a grain
All blessings and readings will be screen-shared
Join Us at www.templedavid.org/athome
Published November 2020
Temple David Online Kristallnacht Observance
Monday, November 9 from 6:45-7 p.m.
Join us on Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, as we mark when Jewish lives in Germany were shattered, a portend of what was to come for all of European Jewry.
The link will be available at www.templedavid.org/athome
City-Wide Online Kristallnacht Commemoration
An Irrepressible Woman:
A Discussion of the Holocaust in France
Tuesday, November 10 at 7 p.m.
Registration Required: www.eventbrite.com/e/118559250911/
In commemoration of the 82nd anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh is partnering with Film Pittsburgh to offer this program. Join us as we come together for a program about the French film An Irrepressible Woman, and the larger themes of the Holocaust in France. Speakers will include:
- Kathryn Spitz Cohan, who will discuss the film An Irrepressible Woman and the themes found therein;
- Jim Lucot, 2020-2021 Holocaust Educator of the Year, who will discuss the history of Kristallnacht;
- Dr. Lauren Apter Bairnsfather, who will moderate and discuss the history of the Holocaust in France, sharing valuable research being done by local historian David Rosenberg;
- Ed Friedman, who will discuss his collection of French artifacts on long-term loan to the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh.
- Attendees are welcome to stay for a talkback after the panel.
We are pleased to be able to offer a free screening of An Irrepressible Woman to all registrants. The ticket price has been subsidized by funding from the Edgar Snyder Kristallnacht Commemoration Fund. Viewing the film is not required to attend this event.
Those who have registered for the event will receive a link to watch the film on November 9 or 10..While this program is free of charge, we appreciate your support.
Click here to donate to Film Pittsburgh
Click here to donate to the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh
is generously supported by Edgar Snyder.
Monroeville Interfaith Ministerium
Online Thanksgiving Gathering
Monday, November 23 at 7 p.m. via Zoom
The Monroeville Interfaith Ministerium invites you to celebrate Thanksgiving as together we “enter” one another’s sacred spaces virtually to hear prayers of thanksgiving, listen to an interfaith choir, and have an opportunity to talk with our neighbors of all faiths.
Visit www.templedavid.org/athome for the link