Thinking of Joining?
If you have any questions, please click here to contact membership chair, Stephanie Shell.
Thank you for considering membership in Mishkan Shalom. An affiliate of the Reconstructionist movement, we are a synagogue dedicated to repair of the world through prayer, study and acts of caring.
At Mishkan Shalom, you’ll find a spiritual home with profound and dynamic services, life cycle events, Jewish cultural celebrations, a vibrant congregational school and a shared commitment to social justice. We are grounded in Jewish values as written in our Statement of Principles.
With your membership, along with a strong and supportive community, you will find a fabulous rabbinic team in our Senior Rabbi, Linda Holtzman, and our Rabbinic Director of Spiritual Development, Rabbi Yael Levy.
They are supported in our religious school by our amazing leadership team of Rivka Jarosh and Jennifer Nates. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer our Coordinator of Spiritual Life for Youth and Children provides intergenerational programming, including an extraordinarily active and growing teen group.
This year, under the direction of Gabby Kaplan-Mayer, we are launching Celebrations!, a program designed to serve families with special needs children.
We will also officially launch Ruach HaMidbar, a series of programs developing Jewish Mindfulness at Mishkan with special Shabbat services, projects, retreats …and more. Our community is rich in diversity – in Jewish observance, family structure, ethnicity, religious heritage, politics, and household geography and economics.
At Mishkan Shalom, our lay and rabbinic staff and your fellow congregants will honor your individuality and where you are in your personal journey to find meaning in Judaism.
We hope you take the time to get to know us and warmly invite you to our synagogue’s dynamic services, cultural programs, classes and special events in the coming year.
Each year we offer a range of classes through our Lifelong Learning Program. This year topics include Jewish Mindfulness Practice, Understanding Islam and Muslims through History and Scripture, Staying Connected to your Teen and many others. Members and non-members alike participate in classes which are offered are varying days and times.
We invite you to contact the Mishkan Office (office@mishkan.org) or one of our membership co-chairs (Stephanie Shell at sjshell@comcast.net or Elise Kraemer at elisekraemer@verizon.net) to arrange for a tour of the synagogue and to meet with any of our staff or one of our membership committee members.
We want to make sure you have every opportunity to get to know us and for us to get to know you as you consider your membership. Click below for membership forms.
