Programs Throughout the Year

High Holiday Family Services   This service is geared for families with young children- infants, toddlers, preschoolers through second graders. The service is about 30 minutes in length with lots of music from our songleader and a story from the Rabbi.
      
Monthly Shabbat Family Services - Services include the junior choir leading us in song.
      
Monthly Tot Shabbat Services -Services with lively Torah stories from our rabbis and music with our talented songleader.
      
Sukkot - Service to which children bring “gaily decorated baskets of fruit” and members shake the lulav, smell the etrog, and visit our congregational sukkah.   
    
Simchat Torah - Service with a joyous congregational Torah-carrying and flag-waving procession. Kindergarten students and students who are new to our religious school are consecrated during this service.
      
Hanukkah - Party including educational games, entertainment and, of course, lighting hanukkiot, and eating latkes.
      
Purim carnival - Run by our Youth Groups, featuring games and prizes for kids and, of course, hamantashen.
      
Purim - Service that has to be seen to be believed!
      
Passover - Second-night congregational Seder led by our rabbis and songleader.
      
Shavuot - Service during which a Torah scroll is completely unrolled and held by congregational leaders as young people who have become B’nai Mitzvah in the past year read from the Torah.
    
Religious School Family Programs - Our religious school offers at least one family program for each grade level, and an optional second-grade family class. School Family Programs.  

Congregational Retreat - The annual congregational retreat in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin is a very popular program that helps foster real closeness among member families. We gather together at Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute for a weekend of informal study and educational activities on a specific topic. Special activities are developed for the children.