Sunday, January 14, 2024

This Sunday at Sholem, to commemorate MLK Day, we will have a special screening and assembly. As our long time education director Hershl Hartman was fond of saying, at Sholem, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a Jewish holiday.

A year and a half ago, as we were still coming out of the pandemic, Sholem students Zion Gertz and Iden Stein opted to make a movie of their barmitsve presentations, which was professionally produced. As of yet, we have never screened it for our community. At some later date, we hope to find a time to screen Iden’s presentation.

This Sunday, we will screen Zion’s presentation, What It Means To Be a Black Jew in America. 

In addition to an in-depth, informative, and highly personal presentation, Zion also interviewed three Black Jewish Sholem grads.

Following the screening, we’ll have an MLK Day assembly, featuring Hershl Hartman’s story about the day he met Martin Luther King Jr.

Sunday, January 14, 2024
10 a.m. Doors Open, Coffee & Bagels
10:30 a.m. Presentation
12:15 p.m. MLK Assembly

Guests are welcome!
RSVP to regan@sholem.org

Families interested in learning more about Sholem’s secular Jewish Sunday school and our bar/bas/b’mitsve program may contact ross@sholem.org.
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[Photo:  ‘Leaders of the protest, holding flags from left Bishop James Shannon, Rabbi Abraham Heschel, Dr. Martin Luther King and Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath.’ Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington Cemetery, February 6, 1968. Photo by Charles Del Vecchio/Getty Images]