Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel

Playgroup with a Purpose
2025-11-26 09:00 - 10:30, 2025-11-19 09:00 - 10:30 (America/New_York)

Preschool Half Day
2025-11-26 08:00 - 12:00

Toddler Time
2025-11-25 09:00 - 11:00, 2025-11-18 09:00 - 11:00
Join us for a fun weekly session of music, play, and discovery for parents/caregivers and their toddlers!
Children ages 12 months – 24 months
Tuesday mornings, Sept. 9 through Dec. 16
9:15am-10:15am OR 10:30am-11:30am
$280
Contact Lauren Byers for more information.

Preschool
2025-11-25 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-24 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-21 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-20 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-19 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-18 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-17 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-14 08:00 - 17:00

Religious School
2025-11-23 09:00 - 11:30, 2025-11-18 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-11-16 09:00 - 11:30

IFPO Turkey Drive Collection
2025-11-23 08:30 - 11:30
TSTI is once again partnering with the IFPO to ensure that our food-insecure neighbors enjoy a Thanksgiving meal with their loved ones.
Please drop off frozen, never-thawed turkeys, as well as fully packed, reusable bags of designated groceries. (Click here for full list.)
Drop off at TSTI:
Sunday November 23
8:30 – 11:30 a.m. sharp

Shabbat Speaker: Rabbi Joe Black
2025-11-21 18:00 - 20:30
Shabbat Speaker: Rabbi Joe Black
“The Spirituality of Creativity”
November 21, 2025
6:00 pm Service
Dinner will Follow
Dinner: $36 for TSTI members; $45 for non-members
Where does the spark of creativity begin?
How does the act of creating connect us to the One who created us?
Through the lens of Jewish wisdom and personal reflection, Rabbi Black invites us on a journey into the sacred heart of creativity. Blending teaching, story, original music, and poetry, he will explore how inspiration becomes a bridge between the human and the divine — a reminder that every act of creation echoes the voice of the Creator.
You must register here.

Shabbat Service
2025-11-21 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-11-14 18:00 - 19:00

Board Meeting
2025-11-20 19:30 - 21:00

Exec Meeting
2025-11-20 18:30 - 19:30

iEngage: Together and Apart
2025-11-19 10:30 - 12:00
A series from the Shalom Hartman Institute of Israel
Today we face new challenges to our unity including nationalism, antisemitism, dual loyalty, and identity politics. We will explore what it means to be a member of the Jewish people, the core values that animate Jewish peoplehood, and the contemporary challenges to Jewish unity.
Select Wednesdays, September 3 – December 17
10:30am-12pm
On ZOOM
Instructor: Rabbi Cohen
Fee: $100 members; $125 non-members
Contact Tracy Horwitz for more information.

Hebrew High
2025-11-18 18:30 - 20:30

Standing Together’s Speaking Tour
2025-11-17 19:00 - 21:00
Standing Together’s Alon-Lee Green and Sally Abed to Speak in northern NJ!
Standing Together is a grassroots Jewish-Arab movement fighting for peace, equality, and social justice for Jews and Palestinians in Israel-Palestine. Standing Together works on a wide range of issues, including real security, adequate housing, quality education, good healthcare, a livable climate, a decent salary, the ability to age with dignity and most critically these past two years, peace and an end to the occupation.
As long-time leaders of Standing Together, Alon-Lee Green and Sally Abed are uniquely positioned to speak about how they work to create a shared home for all – not by erasing differences but through true partnership based on shared interests. They will share their work and vision with us in this particularly uncertain moment in time.
When: Monday, November 17, at 7pm
Where: Bnai Keshet, 99 South Fullerton Ave, Montclair, NJ
Register Here
Co-Sponsors:
Bnai Keshet, Montclair, NJ
Bethany Baptist Church, NJ
Congregation Beth Hatikvah, NJ
Congregation Shomrei Emunah, NJ
Montclair Friends Meeting, NJ
St Luke’s Episcopal Church, NJ
Temple B’nai Abraham, NJ
Temple B’nai Jeshurun, NJ
Temple Emanu-El, Westfield, NJ
Temple Ner Tamid, Bloomfield, NJ
Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel, NJ
Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, National organization
Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair, NJ
Seating is limited! Register soon! Note that each attendee must register individually.
Registration Link
Alon-Lee Green
Alon-Lee Green is the National Co-Director of Standing Together and a Jewish citizen of Israel. A life-long activist, Green began agitating for social change as the teenage founder of Israel’s first National Waiters’ Union. He was also a prominent leader in Israel’s 2011 “Social Protest” movement campaigning against economic inequality and a key advisor to long-time progressive Knesset [Parliament] member Dov Khenin. In 2015, he co-founded “Standing Together” and has since led the movement through numerous campaigns against war and occupation, and for peace, equality, and social justice. Alongside his Standing Together’s Co-Director Rula Daood, he was recently featured as one of TIME magazine’s 100 emerging global leaders of 2024.

Sally Abed
Sally Abed is a member of the national leadership of Standing Together, the Jewish-Arab grassroots movement that mobilizes people around issues of peace, equality and social justice. In recent years, she has become a prominent progressive Palestinian voice in Israel. In February 2024, Sally was elected to Haifa’s city council as the first Palestinian woman to ever lead a joint slate in Israel. Sally is a recurring guest on the Promised Podcast and the Co-host of the new NIF and ALLMEP podcast Groundwork – a mini series about Palestinians and Jews refusing to accept the status quo and working together for change and the new Podcast by Standing Together “The Long Answer” – a deep dive into the hardest questions around Israel-Palestine.

8th Grade
2025-11-17 18:30 - 20:30

RS: Seventh Grade
2025-11-17 16:00 - 18:00

Dinner, Film & Discussion
2025-11-16 18:00 - 21:30
The 2024 documentary Breaking Silence chronicles the life and career of singer-songwriter Janis Ian. $15 TSTI member; $20 non-TSTI Member.
Sunday, November 16
6:00 p.m. – Dinner
6:30 p.m. – Film
8:30 p.m. – Discussion with the film’s director and producer Varda Bar-Kar
Co-sponsored by Adult Education Committee and PrimeConnection

Tot Shabbat
2025-11-15 09:00 - 11:00

STISY Retreat
2025-11-14 - 2025-11-16
