On Friday evening, March 29 following services at 8:00 pm, Temple Sha'arey Shalom, 78 South Springfield Avenue, Springfield, will host New Jersey native and former Kansas Poet Laureate Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, who will read from and discuss her new novel, Miriam's Well: A Modern Day Exodus, about finding our purpose, place, and people. The novel speaks to the role of Midrash in our lives, telling the story of a modern-day Miriam who, while seeking her own promised land, discovers how to turn the chaos and despair of our times into music, meals, and miracles. In addition to a reading from the novel, Caryn will talk about Midrash, finding new meaning in our most sacred stories, and what she sees in the story of the Exodus about how we can cultivate more of the promised land in our lives.Mirriam-Goldberg is the author or over 20 books of poetry, fiction, and memoir. Founder of Transformative Language Arts at Goddard College, where she teaches, she leads writing workshops and presents talks and readings widely. More at http://carynmirriamgoldberg.com/
Admission is free. For more information, please call the temple at (973) 379-5387.
Admission is free. For more information, please call the temple at (973) 379-5387.
March 8, 2019: Services @ 7:30pm
Rabbi Israel S. (Sy) Dresner was Temple Sha'arey Shalom’s first full-time rabbi. He was one of the most active Jewish religious leaders in America in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. He was once known as the Most Arrested Rabbi in America and continues to be known as the Most Jailed Rabbi in America. As a result of Rabbi Dresner’s close relationship with the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Dr. King spoke at Temple Sha'arey Shalom twice, in 1963 and 1966.