Shavuot – 2025

Shavuot Services Schedule

Sunday, June 1
4:45 AM Sunrise Shaharit on the roof led by TBA Clergy

8:15 AM Hashkama Minyan in Dorff Nelson Chapel

9:30 AM Combined services led by Library Minyan in Ganzberg Sanctuary and on YouTube

8:00 PM Evening Minyan in Pilch and on Zoom 

Monday, June 2

9:15 AM Clergy-led Shavuot Service in Ganzberg Sanctuary and on YouTube

9:30 AM Library Minyan in Dorff Nelson Chapel

11:00 AM (approx.) Yizkor in both locations

8:15 PM Evening Minyan in Pilch and on Zoom

Sunday, June 1

5:30 PM Composting with the Clergy
Come learn about how our community is “getting our hands dirty” in the hevruta of caring for our world

6:00 PM Bookplate signing
(for anyone who purchased, or would like to purchase a book – link below)

6:30 PM Minha, and Shavuot Dinner (by reservation)

7:40 PM Ma’ariv

8:00 PM Plenary session with Sarah Hurwitz in discussion of her new book: “As a Jew: Reclaiming our Story from Those who Blame, Shame and Try to Erase Us”

9:15PM All night learning begins through tracks “learn about hevruta,” “learn from hevruta,” take a break from hevruta,” and “Beit Midrash”

4:45 AM Sunrise Shaharit

   

There are many prayer opportunities at Temple Beth Am from our Daily Minyan and weekly Shabbat services to Holiday and Life Cycle celebrations.

Schedule of All Night Learning Sessions: June 11

8:00 PM

Plenary session with Sarah Hurwitz in discussion of her new book: “As a Jew: Reclaiming our Story from Those who Blame, Shame and Try to Erase Us”

9:15 PM

Learn about hevruta

Learn from hevruta

Take a break from hevruta

Beit Midrash

11:15 PM

Yenta Podcast*: How Torah Impacts Our Creativity, Comedy and Writing– Raye Schiller & Dr. Sara Glass, Dorff Nelson Chapel
*no recording taking place
Jewish Surnames Around the World: Diversity and Unity – Dr. Sarah Benor, Hersch Hall
Dismantling Racism from the Inside Out – Yehuda Webster, Ganzberg Sanctuary/Zoom
Is It Kosher for a Jew to Attend a Bullfight? – Rabbi Jonathan Bernhard, Pilch Hall
Torah of Bikkur Holim: There are Jewish chaplains? – Rabbi Chaim Singer-Frankes & Rabbi Dena Trugman, Adelson Hall

12:00 AM

Keynote Plenary: Who Holds Those Who Hold the Weight of the World? 
Rabbi Adam Kligfeld & Rabbi Sharon Brous, Ballroom

1:45 AM

Mikvah: Rituals to Sustain Us Rachel Marcus & Liana Wertman, Lainer Library
Drawing People In: Fences, Boundaries & Fusions of Space/Community Rabbi Dr. Candice Levy, Dorff Nelson Chapel
Forever in our Torah Era Rabbi Liora Alban, Hersch Hall

2:45 AM

Radical Rabbinic Hope: Stories of Our Sages During Times of Tumult – Rabbi Joseph Shamash, Hersch Hall

3:45 AM

Coming Together in Holy Community – Rabbis Rebecca Schatz & Morris Panitz, Dorff Nelson Chapel

4:45 AM

Sunrise Shaharit on Pilch Roof