Events & Services
Shabbat Services
Seventh day of Passover: Join us for Shabbat Shacharit (morning services), Hallel, Torah and Haftarah reading, and the Yizkor memorial service, followed by a kosher-for-Passover vegetarian potluck. Please do not bring any leavened products or items containing barley, rye, oats, wheat, or spelt.
Easter Community Dinner
We’ll prepare a festive and abundant Easter meal for the community and serve at St. Peter’s Church in Rockland. Many hands make light work. Please contact the office for volunteer opportunities.
In-Person Morning Minyan
Weekly in-person traditional morning service, mostly in Hebrew, filled with song. Great opportunity to hear the traditional nusach (chanted melodies) and be with the community in prayer. In the sanctuary, no zoom option.
Bet Midrash
The Bet Midrash is a 90-minute session to study a common text both in a chevruta (as partners) and as a group. All are welcome! FMI please contact Rabbi Lorin: rabbi@adasyoshuron.org.
Yom Hashoah Program
Yom HaShoah Ve-Hagevurah — “Day of (Remembrance of) the Holocaust and the Heroism.” Community Observance: On this 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we will observe Yom HaShoah with Midcoast Interfaith Alliance communities. Featuring the Adas Yoshuron choir led by Dana Goldsmith.
Meditation Circle
We live in a society where stress and distress have become the norm. Our Jewish tradition offers us frameworks and tools to choose a different path, a path of more clear-eyed, open-hearted, wise living in relationship with ourselves, each other, and the Divine. Come meditate with Carrie Watkins, a Center for Small Town Jewish Life rabbinical student apprentice. Carrie has been leading meditation circles across Maine over this year. This session combines guided, silent meditation with song, Jewish learning, and time for mindful group reflection. Everyone is welcome, whether you’ve never meditated or have had a rich practice for years.
Yom HaZikaron — 20th Annual Israeli-Palestinian Joint Memorial Service
We will gather to watch and share in this service via livestream at 2:30 p.m. (which is 8:30 p.m. Jerusalem time). This joint Memorial Day ceremony is organized by Combatants for Peace and The Parents Circle Families Forum, the largest Israeli-Palestinian jointly organized peace event. It provides a unique opportunity for Israelis and Palestinians to grieve together. The ceremony occurs yearly on the eve of Yom HaZikaron (Israeli Memorial Day) and brings together Palestinians and Israelis to mourn side by side and model another way forward.
Yom HaZikaron (Israel Memorial Day) Shacharit Service
Join us for a special Shacharit (morning) service, mostly in Hebrew, as we add in additional psalms and memorial prayers, including El maleh rachamim. Great opportunity to hear the traditional nusach (chanted melodies) and be with the community in prayer on this day of remembrance. In person and on Zoom.
Bet Midrash
The Bet Midrash is a 90-minute session to study a common text both in a chevruta (as partners) and as a group. All are welcome! FMI please contact Rabbi Lorin: rabbi@adasyoshuron.org.
Bet Midrash
The Bet Midrash is a 90-minute session to study a common text both in a chevruta (as partners) and as a group. All are welcome! FMI please contact Rabbi Lorin: rabbi@adasyoshuron.org.
In-Person Morning Minyan
Weekly in-person traditional morning service, mostly in Hebrew, filled with song. Great opportunity to hear the traditional nusach (chanted melodies) and be with the community in prayer. In the sanctuary, no zoom option.
Community Passover Seder
Our Community Second Night Passover Seder will take place on Sunday, April 13, at the synagogue. Plans are underway for a beautiful evening together. RSVPs are required. Please let us know if you're coming and what you might like to bring to enhance the catered Ashkenazi-Sephardic meal being prepared by Judy Stein, Richard Aroneau, and a team of chefs. Click on the link below for all the details and to reserve your place! If you prefer, you can RSVP by calling the synagogue office. Advance payment is requested. RSVP here.
Passover First Day Services
Join us for Shacharit (morning services), Hallel, Torah, and T’filat Tal (Prayer for Dew) at the synagogue.
Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Join us for Kabbalat Shabbat services followed by kiddush, and the last chametz before Pesach.
Passover: the Season of Liberation in Times of Authoritarianism
Join Rabbi Lorin as we explore the biblical and historical relationships between Jewish communities and empire, and their lessons and relevance today. In person and on Zoom.
Bet Midrash
The Bet Midrash is a 90-minute session to study a common text both in a chevruta (as partners) and as a group. All are welcome! FMI please contact Rabbi Lorin: rabbi@adasyoshuron.org.
In-Person Morning Minyan
Weekly in-person traditional morning service, mostly in Hebrew, filled with song. Great opportunity to hear the traditional nusach (chanted melodies) and be with the community in prayer. In the sanctuary, no zoom option.
Soup Kitchen
Adas Yoshuron prepares and serves the Soup Kitchen meal at St. Peter's Church in Rockland on the first Sunday of every month. If you'd like to volunteer please contact Soup Kitchen coordinator Linda Garson Smith: lindagarson.smith@gmail.com.
Shabbat Morning Service
Join us for Shabbat services! Note the earlier start time this week.
Livestream of Lipman Lecture with Author Dara Horn
Livestream Video and Discussion
Our Precedented Moment in Jewish History: Jewish Life in America After October 7, with noted author Dara Horn
Join us for the livestream of Colby College’s Annual Lipman Lecture in the Adas Yoshuron Community Room. Dara Horn is the author of six books, including multiple acclaimed novels and the essay collection People Love Dead Jews (Norton 2021). Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, and The Jewish Review of Books, among many other publications, and she is a regular columnist for Tablet.
Charoset Tasting
Join the Hebrew School as they make and taste different charoset recipes! Bring your own or simply join us to taste what we’ve made!
Bet Midrash
The Bet Midrash is a 90-minute session to study a common text both in a chevruta (as partners) and as a group. All are welcome! FMI please contact Rabbi Lorin: rabbi@adasyoshuron.org.
In-Person Morning Minyan
Weekly in-person traditional morning service, mostly in Hebrew, filled with song. Great opportunity to hear the traditional nusach (chanted melodies) and be with the community in prayer. In the sanctuary, no zoom option.
Adas Yoshuron Songbook
Come learn the meanings and melodies of the songs in our services!
Shacharit for Rosh Chodesh Nisan
We welcome the month of Nisan with a morning service including Hallel (Songs of Praise) and Torah reading. In person and on Zoom.
Bet Midrash
The Bet Midrash is a 90-minute session to study a common text both in a chevruta (as partners) and as a group. All are welcome! FMI please contact Rabbi Lorin: rabbi@adasyoshuron.org.
In-Person Morning Minyan
Weekly in-person traditional morning service, mostly in Hebrew, filled with song. Great opportunity to hear the traditional nusach (chanted melodies) and be with the community in prayer. In the sanctuary, no zoom option.
Camden Conference Video and Discussion
Camden Conference Video and Discussion
The Orban Model: Hungary’s “Soft” Authoritarianism with Ambassador John Shattuck, International Legal Scholar; Diplomat; Human Rights Leader; Former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic
Join us at Adas Yoshuron to watch and discuss this presentation from the Camden Conference. All presentations are available at www.camdenconference.org/#2025-camden- conference
Musical Kabbalat Shabbat
Join Rabbi Lorin with Minda Gold, and friends on guitar as we welcome in Shabbat together with song and prayer followed by a dessert oneg.
Bet Midrash
The Bet Midrash is a 90-minute session to study a common text both in a chevruta (as partners) and as a group. All are welcome! FMI please contact Rabbi Lorin: rabbi@adasyoshuron.org.
In-Person Morning Minyan
Weekly in-person traditional morning service, mostly in Hebrew, filled with song. Great opportunity to hear the traditional nusach (chanted melodies) and be with the community in prayer. In the sanctuary, no zoom option.
Movie Night featuring Modi Rosenfeld
Enjoy a lighthearted evening of film! We’ll munch on popcorn and view Modi Rosenfeld’s stand-up comedy special on the big screen in the Community Room.
Books & Bagels
Books & Bagels meets monthly. This month we will discuss The Asking: New and Selected Poems by Jane Hirschfield.
Purim Party
Crafts and Fun 4:30 p.m.; Dinner 5:30 p.m.; Megillah Reading 6:15 p.m.
Join us for another great Purim party! Show up! Wear a costume! Bring hamantaschen and your family recipe for a contest and swap. RSVP to info@adasyoshuron.org by March 10 so we know how much chili to make.
Contact the Programming Committee at programming@adasyoshuron.org if you would like to help decorate, bring a side dish, or if you or someone in the community would like a delivery of delicious hamantaschen and other treats from the Hebrew School.
Bet Midrash
The Bet Midrash is a 90-minute session to study a common text both in a chevruta (as partners) and as a group. All are welcome! FMI please contact Rabbi Lorin: rabbi@adasyoshuron.org.
In-Person Morning Minyan
Weekly in-person traditional morning service, mostly in Hebrew, filled with song. Great opportunity to hear the traditional nusach (chanted melodies) and be with the community in prayer. In the sanctuary, no zoom option.
In-Person Morning Minyan
Weekly in-person traditional morning service, mostly in Hebrew, filled with song. Great opportunity to hear the traditional nusach (chanted melodies) and be with the community in prayer. In the sanctuary, no zoom option.