We are a growing Reform congregation that supports a wide range of programs and activities for members of all ages.
We want to build a community based on inclusiveness, where everyone is welcome, regardless of age, marital status, sexual orientation, a Jew by birth or by choice.

Tot Shabbat

Friday, May 18^th
6:00 PM


 
Join us as we sing, dance and learn with our wonderful Tot Shabbat leader, Ira Levin.

March with East End Temple in the:

Celebrate Israel Parade
Sunday, June 3^rd
Meet at 10:30 AM 
RSVP for meeting location 

Join East End Temple and fellow Jews as we walk along 5^th Avenune to pay tribute to Israel in the 48^th annual Celebrate Israel Parade.  The parade theme this year is “Israel Branches Out,” and we will be walking with ARZA to show our support for the Reform movement in Israel.

For questions or to RSVP, please email Jenn Corker.

Cheese Blintz Soufflé
(From Elaine, page 32 of “Welcome to Our Table”)

2 pkgs. frozen cheese blintzes, defrosted
4 eggs
1 ½ C. sour cream
½ C. sugar
1 ½ tsp. vanilla
4 oz. butter or margarine, melted and cooled

Preheat oven to 350° and grease a 13x9˝ baking dish.

Put defrosted blintzes in the baking dish.

Mix remaining ingredients in a blender and then pour the liquid over the blintzes. Bake for about 75 minutes, or until puffy and brown.

On the side, serve applesauce, fresh fruit, or defrosted strawberries in syrup. Use commercially-made blintzes because they tend to be firm and hold together well.

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May/June 2012 Templet
East End Temple Calendar 5772/2011-2012
2011-2012 Religious School Registration Form

For three months beginning Monday, January 9, 2012, East End Temple will serve as the temporary home of the Stein Senior Center while the center’s new home at 204 East 23rd St. is under construction.  Programming runs Monday through Friday from 10:00 AM until mid-afternoon and is open to anyone age 60 and above. Activities include yoga, Yiddish Club, an opera discussion group, tai chi and knitting. Twice a week the center will offer The Spa, which provides dementia specific activities for guests. Most programs, including a catered hot lunch, are free of charge. Click for the full schedule and menu.

Sisterhood Shabbat
and

(formerly known as Synaplex)

Friday, May 18^th

Services begin at 6:15 PM

 

Practically speaking: Teens, Judaism, and Gender
with
Sally Gottesman
Co-Founder and Chair of Moving Traditions 

Each year thousands of teens have a bar or bat mitzvah and a good percentage of them say "now I've graduated from Jewish life." What can be done so that they aren't 7th grade "drop-outs"? How can applying a gender-lens to Judaism and Jewish lives of adolescents help to make Judaism and Jewish learning something that they find meaningful and relevant in their lives? Sally will share insights Moving Traditions has gleaned from its research and its work with thousands of adolescent boys and girls around the country. She will also share with us some experiential exercises the boys and girls do in Rosh Hodesh: Its a Girl Thing! and Shevet Achim: The Brotherhood, so we can experience for ourselves why this is Jewish education that is engaging, meaningful and insightful in a new way.

Interactive programming for all ages!
Click here for a complete schedule of the evening.

Shavuot Experiment
Sunday, May 27^th, 9:00 AM
Join us for a new way to receive Torah on Shavuot.

9:00 AM, at EET: Tikkun Boker Shavuot, special Shavuot study
10:00 AM, in Stuyvesant Square Park: We will take our Torah scroll outside for a special, experiential receiving of Torah, and brief Yizkor opportunity.
10:45 AM, in Stuyvesant Square Park: Shavuot picnic brunch, featuring the Shavuot tradition of dairy foods.

Shavuot (“weeks”) refers to both the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai and the beginning of the summer wheat harvest. This holiday symbolizes the sweetness of the Torah and the “land of milk and honey.” Join us in celebration of this joyous holiday service, one of three festivals of the year when we rejoice receiving Torah.

Shabbat BaGan (in the park) and Tot Shabbat BaGan (in the park)
Friday, June 15^th
6:15 PM

All are welcome to bring family and friends to our first outdoor Shabbat service of the season. We’ll greet Shabbat with an informal 30-minute service in neighboring Stuyvesant Square Park. We will gather at the South End of the park (West of Second Ave.) Some chairs and picnic blankets will be provided; feel free to bring your own. Stuyvesant Square Park has picnic tables. If you’d like to be part of a community picnic following the service, contact Elaine Lavine for more information. In case of rain, the BaGan services will be held in our sanctuary as usual. Tots will join the entire community for the end of the service and picnic.

Future 2012 Shabbat BaGan dates are July 13, August 10 and September 7.

Looking for a good book?  Want more information about Jewish topics?

Check out the collection in the Helene Spring Library at EET. 
Click here to browse all of our titles online.