Brattleboro Area Jewish Community Congregation Shir Heharim

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Brattleboro Area Jewish Community Congregation Shir Heharim

Shir Heharim (BAJC) fosters Jewish pride and identity by participating together in religious, spiritual, educational, social and cultural experiences.

We welcome anyone interested in participating and learning. Welcome to Brattleboro Area Jewish Community, Congregation Shir Heharim. We are a Reform congregation located in Brattleboro, Vermont. In Hebrew, “Shir Heharim” means Song of the Mountains, symbolic of our commitment to practice and celebrate Judaism with creativity. Who are we? We are newly-weds and empty-nesters, toddlers and elders, doubters and the devout. We are teachers and students. We are the non-Jewish partners and the newcomers to Judaism; we're those revisiting the comfort of our childhood rituals and those searching for something that might have been missing since then. We welcome our guests and celebrate our simchas, we visit our sick and we mourn with our bereaved, we stand with the State of Israel and we care for our planet. We are more than a synagogue, we’re a community. Brattleboro Area Jewish Community...

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09/16/2026

YOM KIPPUR 5787

Sunday, September 20, 6 PM - Kol Nidre
Monday, September 21, 9:30 AM - 2PM -
Morning Service & Yizkor
Afternoon services start at 5 PM

Membership in BAJC is not required, but registration for services is necessary. Please go to https://bajcvermont.org/high-holidays-2026-5787/ for details on services and registration.

All services are held at All Souls Church/West Village Meetinghouse, 29 South Street, Brattleboro.

08/31/2026

The New Year 5787 and the Days of Awe are almost here.
Rosh HaShanah starts Friday evening, September 11. If you are looking for a warm and vibrant community with which to celebrate the High Holy Days, you would be welcome at BAJC. You can access full details here: https://bajcvermont.org/high-holidays-2026-5787/

08/25/2026

Celebrate the High Holidays with BAJC. Schedule & registration details on our website at this link: https://bajcvermont.org/high-holidays-2026-5787/

08/12/2026

Tomorrow we celebrate the new moon of Elul, completing our passage through the portal of grief opened by Tisha B'Av. We begin the powerful work of tshuvah-atonement, and return to balance, peace and right relationship with ourselves, friends and family, Spirit and community. May our tender and open hearts bring us to ever higher levels of compassion, empathy and healing, leading us to ever more joy, ease and wholeness.

07/23/2026

Tisha B'Av comes during the hottest time of the summer, when the land of Israel is parched and dry. While remembering the destruction of the first and second temples in Jerusalem and the suffering of our people, we are also provided the opportunity to acknowledge the suffering of all peoples and the Earth itself.

Excerpt from "Lament to Action" by Rabbi Annie Lewis (Read full Lament at https://ritualwell.org/ritual/lament-action/)

Help us to turn our lament into action,
Help us to return to our best selves
as a community, as a country, as a human family,
Help us to turn to one another,
to our ancestors, to the generations to come,
to turn up the volume
to turn out by the millions
to turn this country and this planet around,
toward justice and righteousness,
toward dignity and life.

07/17/2026

Shabbat Shalom

How good it is to let go gently
To cease our frantic planning and creating
Our endless striving toward places
We do not need to be.

How joyful it is to step through
a portal in time
Arrive at the shore of eternity.
Where beginning and ending merge
Yesterday and tomorrow become only today.

Where Shehinah, the Divine Presence,
Shelters us beneath her wings
Offering us the sacred gifts
Of silence and rest.

In this place we return
To the day of our creation,
To the awe and wonder of being
As we were created to be.

Blessed are you, Source of Life,
who sanctifies Shabbat.

By Martha Hurwitz

07/03/2026

Shabbat Shalom

Sky turning from blue to ruby to sapphire,
at last the moment has arrived,
this is the turning point,
outside, the day turns to night and
within, within, our souls turn to
embrace the sweetness that is Shabbat.
I light the Shabbat candles
and ignite the fire of my soul.
I say the bracha
and hear the voice within respond.
I feel my soul gates open
to let the Sabbath in.
And the darkness of evening
becomes the light of Shabbat,
and from the inner stillness,
my soul begins to dance.
by Ariel Neshama Lee

06/15/2026

COMING SOON .... A Bissel Borscht Belt
Saturday, June 27; 7:30 PM at Vermont Jazz Center

Get your 1950’s resort wear ready! Kinetic Theory Theatre will be bringing you back to a simpler place and time. A Bissel Borscht Belt is a fun-filled tribute to the Catskills variety shows of yesteryear that truly shaped modern American entertainment. This interactive performance experience filled with live Klezmer music, dancing, comedy, juggling, acrobatics, Yiddish language and culture, schtick, spiel, kvetching, and cursing will have you kibbitzing, kvelling, and getting verklempt from all the meshuggaas! In other words, you’ll have a blast and won’t want to miss it! Complete details at https://bajcvermont.org/a-bissel-borscht-belt-yiddish-vaudeville-extravaganza/

06/08/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Kirtan Kabbalat Shabbat last Friday at All Souls Church. What a beautiful and spiritually uplifting evening!

06/02/2026

SHEMOT SHELAH KIRTAN SHABBAT
Friday, June 5, at 6 PM
All Souls Church, 32 South Street
Brattleboro

Shemot Shelah is a Jewish kirtan band offering Hebrew call-and-response chanting with feminine and non-binary names for the Divine. Call-and-response chants allow for anyone to participate, regardless of background or familiarity with Hebrew. Chant sheets are prepared in advance with Hebrew, transliterated Hebrew, and English translations to ensure that all feel empowered to sing.

There is no charge to attend, but advance registration is necessary at this link: https://forms.gle/eEMrA1BES1eEGPoW7

Address

151 Greenleaf Street
Brattleboro, VT
05301

Telephone

(802) 257-1959

Website

http://www.bajcvermont.org/

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