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All HaMakom Services and Events
Take Place at
Unitarian Universalist Congregation
107 W. Barcelona @ Galisteo
Santa Fe, NM 87505
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Happening at HaMakom
We are a welcoming community in Santa Fe that draws from both the Renewal and Conservative Jewish traditions.
Friday evening, January 30 at 6:30 PM
Kabbalat Shabbat service and potluck dinner
Shabbat service every Saturday morning at 10 AM followed by community potluck lunch
Jewish Mindfulness Meditation and Hebrew Chanting
12:00-1:15 Thursdays in the library at UU. see details below
First ever New Mexico Jewish Community Day at the State Legislature, Wednesday February 4, 2026,
9:00 AM -4:30 PM, Main program 1:30 PM -3:30 PM
see details below
Tuesday, February 10 at 7 PM MST, IN PERSON
HaMakom Continuing Education Presents
Arrays, presented by Phil Lecuyer see details below
Purim Observance, Tuesday morning, March 3, 10 AM
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Kabbalat Shabbat Service and Community Dinner
Friday evening, January 30 at 6:30 PM
*Service and Dinner In The Fellowship Hall
*note different location in the UU building
We celebrate Shabbat Shirah, the “Sabbath of Song,” when we read the story in the Torah about our ancestors singing at the shores of the Red Sea, having just escaped slavery and the armies of Pharaoh. While our Friday evenings are always filled with music, the music for this Shabbat will be especially joyous, featuring uplifting melodies and harmonies that echo the Song at the Sea and invite everyone to raise their voices in celebration.
Led by Rabbi Jack Shlachter and Hazzan Cindy Freedman.
Bring a delicious food offering for our community potluck dinner following service.
We'll have a bowl at our services this Shabbat where people can ceremoniously place the dog tags, ribbons, and other reminders of the hostages who have now all been returned after more than two years.
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Shabbat Morning Service
Saturday, January 31 at 10 AM
Dynamic Musical Shacharit and Interactive Torah Study
Parashat Beshallach
Read This Week's Torah Portion
Hear Shirat HaYam, the Song of the Sea chanted
Service Led By Rabbi Jack Shlachter
and Hazzan Cindy Freedman
Shabbat Morning Livestream On Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88958779072?pwd=NkxkTktHeEk0K1BHV0hFK2JRNTJqZz09
Kiddush Potluck Lunch following service
Bring a delicious vegetarian or fish offering that will serve at least 10 people. We'll provide the bagels and lox!
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During the winter months, if there is snow on a Shabbat morning please check your email to see if services have been designated online only.
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FRAGRANCE FREE, PLEASE!
Respecting the health and well-being of our members, please refrain from wearing scented body oils and fragrances when attending services. Todah rabah.
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HaMakom Continuing Education Presents
Arrays
Phil Lucuyer, presenter
Tuesday, February 10 at 7 PM MST
IN PERSON at Unitarian Congregation
This talk, excerpted from a lecture given at St. John's College last fall, is an exercise in pattern recognition. Rather than being an argument, it is a structured suggestion. A text from Genesis (chapter 11: 22-32), one from the Talmud (Chagigah 14b), and paintings by Cezanne and Rembrandt will be discussed in terms of a pattern they share. Also, brief remarks about the four-letter Name of God will be offered.
Mr.LeCuyer, after completing his undergraduate degree, studied for three more years at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He has been a member of the St. John's College faculty since 1972. In 1990 he became a convert and has been part of the Jewish community in Santa Fe since that time.
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Jewish Mindfulness Meditation and Hebrew Chanting
Led by
Gabrielle Maisels
Hazzan Cindy Freedman
Thursdays at Noon
12:00-1:15 PM
Location: Library at UU
Many Jews are unaware that Judaism, similar to other religious and spiritual traditions, has a long history of meditative and spiritual practices. Jewish Mindfulness Meditation shares the basic mindfulness/heartfulness skills used in most meditation practice, such as, skills that calm and stabilize the mind, develop compassion for self and others, patience, and non-judgment. These skills help to increase our capacities to meet life with greater acceptance, strength, faith, wisdom, joy and love. It can be a practice for increasing both inner peace and inner power.
Hebrew and English chanting and the singing of niggunim (wordless melodies) are also powerful spiritual practices that offer paths to deepen the experience of connecting to ones soul, spirit, and the Divine Presence.
We meet from 12:00 noon -1:15 in person in the library at UU.
All are welcome. No meditation or chanting experience is required and participants do not have to be Jewish. There is no fee but donation to HaMakom of $18 or more per month is suggested. Come with your curiosity, questions and yearnings.
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HaMakom Book Club
Currently Reading
Hostage, by Eli Sharabi.
In a raw and unflinching memoir, Eli Sharabi, a survivor of 491 days in Hamas captivity, recounts the harrowing ordeal of his abduction from Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7th, 2023, the loss of his wife and daughters, and his unyielding resolve to survive.
“I refuse to let myself drown in pain. I am surviving. I am a hostage. In the heart of Gaza. A stranger in a strange land. In the home of a Hamas-supporting family. And I'm getting out of here. I have to. I’m getting out of here. I’m coming home.”—Eli Sharabi
Book discussion on Monday, February 9 at 4 PM MST on Zoom
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We Remember Them
Yahrzeits
Arnold Bockar
father of Susan Goldstein
David Sussman
husband of Barbara Sussman, father of Aviva Sussman
Ethel Scharfstein
mother of Deborah Avren
Leslie Davis
wife of Bill Lazar, sister-in-law of Marge Lazar
Donate to honor the memory of departed loved ones and support HaMakom.
The observance of Yahrzeit is a sacred mark of reverence for the beloved departed; remembering them imparts a dimension of sanctity to our lives as we join together to recite Kaddish at services. Our noble tradition also invites us to kindle a memorial candle at home, and to make a memorial offering in honor of the person who is being remembered.
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Jewish New Mexico
Inclusion in this section does not represent
an endorsement by HaMakom
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Come hear about the Jews of Guatemala
at the Travel Bug in Santa Fe
839 Paseo de Peralta
Saturday, January 31, at 5 PM
Rabbi Jack Shlachter
It's Mayan, Not Yours! Leading Congregation Adat Israel, in Guatemala City for the Jewish High Holidays
The Jewish community of Guatemala is small by world standards; Jewish population for the entire country of 18 million people is estimated to be under 1000 or a mere 0.006%. Rabbi Jack Shlachter will describe his experiences leading a small, non-Orthodox congregation in Guatemala City for the Jewish High Holidays in 2025 as well as a first-time traveler 's impressions of Guatemala.
Rabbi Jack Shlachter is a physicist and ordained rabbi whose long career at Los Alamos National Laboratory provided him with the luxury of galavanting around the world to lead small congregations for the Jewish High Holidays. His travels have taken him to Vienna, Beijing, Warsaw, Bangkok, and most recently, Guatemala City. When home in New Mexico, Rabbi Jack serves as rabbi for the Los Alamos Jewish Center as well as congregation HaMakom in Santa Fe.
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