Events
We invite you to join us for our annual Partnership Seder with our friends from Breakers Covenant Church/Bethel Community Transformation Center. This special Passover seder is rooted in community, justice, and freedom.
Please register for the event here.
Join us for in-person Shabbat services! We'll celebrate this months birthdays and anniversaries in our community. Following services, we'll enjoy kiddush and lunch!
Join the Downtown Synagogue, Dor Hadash, and Congregation T’Chiyah for our annual Purim celebration! We can’t wait to celebrate all night, starting with a family Purim carnival and ending with a community megillah reading!
5:30pm - 7:30pm - Family Purim Carnival
We encourage families attending the Purim Carnival to bring hamantaschen from home for a hamantaschen exchange (please make sure hamantaschen are nut and sesame free).
7:30pm - 9:30pm - Megillah Reading
We'll celebrate with activities, food and drinks, and a costume contest. This event is open to the community. Register here.
Join the Shabbat Together team for a beautiful, alternative Shabbat prayer experience in the round filled with song, chanting, and energy, infused with intention, and designed especially for young adults.
After the service, join us for a delicious Shabbat dinner and all the schmoozing your heart desires! Our partners at Repair the World Detroit will also facilitate some interactive learning and discussion to engage with during dinner.
Due to the generosity of donors, subsidized tickets are available for $12 per person. Advance registration is required as space is limited: https://jlive.app/events/6956 Please note that this event is intended for young adults ages 21-40.
What to expect:
- Young adult crowd
- Awesome alternative service
- Delicious (vegetarian!) food
- Exceptional company
-Appetizers & drinks available at 6:30pm, services will begin promptly at 7:00pm.
In partnership with:
•Congregation Shaarey Zedek
•Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue
•Moishe House Royal Oak
•Temple Israel
•Temple Kol Ami
•The Well
•Repair The World Detroit
Join us for in-person Shabbat services! We'll celebrate this months birthdays and anniversaries in our community. Following services, we'll enjoy kiddush and lunch!
Join us for an intimate evening of hors d'oeuvres, drinks and music by artist and IADS supporter Ethan Daniel Davidson.
Ethan Daniel Davidson is one of Detroit’s finest singer songwriters; lyrically and musically expressive. His golden voice is woven through lyrics, haunted and confessional, like a man seeking penance. His talent is highlighted by collaborations with some of Detroit’s finest musicians and troubadours. It is apparent his world travels have informed his music and his style. His songs are vivid memories of experiences: rooms that smell of old books, smoke from oil lamps, and bohemian escapades. All the fears, beliefs, lies, secrets and desires accumulated, observed and turned into emotional verse that blurs the line between personal and universal. Davidson creates an intimacy and connection with his audience that is deepened by the timeless nature of his storytelling. He will be joined by Pete Ballard on pedal steel, Jordan Schug on stand up bass, Rob Avsharian on drums, and Warren Defever on keyboard.
Registration for this event is required. Please register here: https://jlive.app/events/6531
Join Adamah Detroit, Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, Repair the World Detroit, Congregation T’chiyah, and The Well as we celebrate the Jewish New Year of the trees at our annual Tu B’Shvat Seder! The theme this year is “Seeds of Knowledge: Planting for the Future,” which we’ll be exploring throughout the evening with our newly updated 2024 Tu B’Shvat Haggadah. Community leaders will lead us through the seder while adding wisdom from their respective organizations. Space is limited for this event, so make sure you register in advance here!
Join us for our Annual Meeting where we will vote in our new Board members and discuss other synagogue business. Following the Annual Meeting, we'll celebrate Hanukkah together over a vegetarian potluck dinner, a game of dreidel, entertainment, and activities for kids. Please bring a vegetarian dish to share - IADS will bring the latkes! We will conclude the evening with the flame throwing menorah.
Please RSVP for this event here.
Join the Downtown Synagogue for the Jewish Connections Tour at the DIA.
Hebrew writing on artworks at the DIA? Nazi-looted art rescued by the Monuments Men at the DIA? Jewish figures in the Detroit Industry murals at the DIA?
This new, in-person experience highlights works of art at the DIA with Jewish connections. Discover Jewish artists, confiscated paintings, Torah stories, community ties, and more. This is a tour you will remember.
This tour costs $20 and can be paid in cash or via a check made out to the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan. Please make sure to bring your payment with you to the tour. We are currently at capacity for this event. To get added to the waiting list, click here.
Join us for in-person Shabbat services! We'll celebrate this months birthdays and anniversaries in our community. Following services, we'll enjoy kiddush and lunch!
As we come to the end of Shloshim, the first 30 days of our mourning for Sam, join us as we honor her by gathering for prayer, study, and a service project. Please register for this event here.
We know Shabbat to be a time for healing and re-centering ourselves before the week to come, something we're all in need of lately. Join Downtown Synagogue and The Well to kick back and relax as we enjoy a classic, musical Kabbalat Shabbat service and vegetarian dinner that will leave you feeling refreshed and connected to community.
What to Expect:
6:30-6:55 PM - Appetizers, schmoozing, intention-setting
7:00-7:55 PM - Musical Kabbalat Shabbat service
8:00-9:00 PM - Vegetarian Shabbat dinner and sparkling conversation
Register here:
https://jlive.app/events/5920
Join our very own Rabbi Silverman at the 7th annual Limmud Michigan, a day-long festival of learning and experience. For more information and to register, click here.
Join us for our annual Simchat Torah service and celebration featuring Torah reading, dancing in the streets, food, and drinks!
Register for the event here.
Join us at Eden Gardens to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot and Shabbat! Please find the evening’s schedule below:
5:30 PM - Sukkah Building
6:00 PM - Dinner and Crafts
7:30 PM - Kabbalat Shabbat
Register for the event here.
In 2020, the Downtown Synagogue launched a comprehensive campaign to Reimagine the Downtown Synagogue and renovate the building to become the hub for Jewish life in Detroit. Join us for a panel discussion followed by tours of the newly renovated space where we will explore the history and future of the Synagogue’s building.
Register for the event here.
To learn more, view the schedule of services, and register for our High Holy Day services, please click here.
Join the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue and Repair the World Detroit for an evening of community building, learning, and gardening!
Please register here: https://jlive.app/events/5159
9pm: Forgiving Ourselves: The Beginning of Repentance with Ellen Yashinsky Chute
10pm: Selichot Service
Ellen Yashinsky Chute, LMSW, ACSW is the president of Empowerment Partners. She is a clinical social worker who provides psychotherapy to individuals, couples, and families, as well as consultation in the workplace. Ellen was the Director of Behavioral Health Services and Chief Community Outreach Officer at Jewish Family Service of Metro Detroit, where she worked for 24 years and was honored with the prestigious Berman Award for Outstanding Professional Service in 2010. She was an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work for more than twenty years. Ellen is the author of the book, What Drives You? and the What Drives You? podcast. The podcast and regular blog posts can be found on her website, ellenychute.com.
Join us for our weekly gardening day at Eden Gardens!
Program Schedule:
11:00am: Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
12:00pm: Open House begins
12:30pm: Performance by 7Layers
All day: Food, music, building tours, activities for children, and more!
10am Tot Shabbat
10:30am Shabbat Morning Services
Followed by a special kiddush lunch
Join us for our first in-person Shabbat morning services back in the building! We'll celebrate being back in the building as well as this months birthdays and anniversaries in our community. Following services, we'll enjoy a special kiddush lunch and dessert!
Kiddush this week is sponsored in honor of Jordan Friedberg-Swope's naming by Rena & Larry Friedberg
Join us for our first Shabbat back in the building! We will celebrate the homecoming of the Torahs alongside Friday night services and Shabbat dinner.
Join us for our weekly gardening day at Eden Gardens!
Join us for our weekly gardening day at Eden Gardens!
Join us for our weekly gardening day at Eden Gardens!
Join us for our weekly gardening day at Eden Gardens!
Join us for in-person Shabbat services! We'll celebrate this months birthdays and anniversaries in our community. Following services, we'll enjoy a vegetarian potluck. IADS will bring the cake!
Congregation B'nai Moshe hosts the local Conservative congregations for this year's Tisha B'Av observance.
Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, marks the destruction of the first and second Temples, as well as a variety of other tragedies throughout Jewish history.
This special service is marked by somber melodies, the chanting of the Book of Lamentations, and other liturgical poems.
Maariv and the reading of the Book of Eicha (Lamentations) will be in-person at 9:45pm at Congregation B'nai Moshe and also viewable on zoom.
For more information and the zoom link, click here.
Join the Downtown Synagogue, Detroit Jews for Justice, Congregation T’Chiyah and Congregation Shir Tikvah, in-person, for a community screening of "40 Days of Teshuvah", a short film about bringing Jewish spiritual practice into the fight for racial justice. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Yehudah Webster (featured prominently in the film) and Rabbi David Jaffe of the IOWA project. After viewing the film, we’ll engage in a meaningful discussion around our racial justice work, and expand on ways to bring spiritual tools from the film into our liberation work.
For more information and to register, click here.
Join us for our weekly gardening day at Eden Gardens!
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