Chautauqua Institution – A Tale of Two Stories (2)

We welcome everyone to our Shabbat morning services at 9:30am PT, no matter their level of observance, experience, or familiarity with Hebrew. Daven with us in person at Shalhevet, or join us virtually on YouTube or Zoom. Childcare is available during Services for kids ages 2-5. Stay afterward for our kosher, vegetarian community lunch. 8/29/2026 Archer Mekor Sroka 10/10/2026 Myla Vener 10/17/2026 Ayla Morchower 10/24/2026 Samuel Ethan & Joshua Gabriel Goldstein 11/7/2026 Lucille (Luci) Halpern-Fingerhut 11/14/2026 Henry Posalski 11/28/2026 Ezekiel Mataan Brous-Weber 12/5/2026 Samuel Rafael Marquit 12/19/2026 Finch Rhodes

Ki Tavo offers a theology of reward and punishment, of cause and effect, but lived experience teaches us that the world does not work so neatly. What becomes possible when we read the parashah forwards and backwards, not only as protest against injustice, but also as a guide to rebuilding a shattered world?

Part genealogical detective story, part gripping history, part contemporary reporting on war-torn territories, The Wanderers – A Story of Exile, Survival, and Unexpected Love in the Shadow of World War II, chronicles Daniela’s journey to unearth this past and reveal its echoes in still-contested lands from Ukraine to Israel.

Watch the full playlist (click here) –Welcome and High Holy Day Overview – Rabbi Sharon Brous (click here) –The Prayer of Humility – Rabbi Deborah Silver (click here) –The Prayers of Accountability – Rabbi Morris Panitz (click here) –The Joy of V’ye’etayu – Rabbi Hannah Jensen (click here) Join our rabbis for a launch of the High Holy Day season. They covered all the basics (What if I’m coming to services for the first time? Wait, another Amidah?) alongside the bigger questions (Remind me why we’re doing all this? Is teshuvah really possible?), and did their best to connect, elucidate and elaborate in about an hour.