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Makom Calendar -- Join us!
Rosh Hashanah - Sept 11 - 12
Yom Kippur - Sept 20 - 21
Book Club - Oct 4
Rosh Chodesh - Oct 11
Crafts and Conversation - Oct 18
Scroll down for more information.
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The Jewish new year brings High Holidays and a new synagogue membership year.
Rosh Hashanah Friday, Saturday Sept. 11 - 12
Yom Kippur Sunday, Monday Sept. 20 - 21
We will hear the shofar, pray together,
reflect on where we might have missed the mark,
remember our loved ones,
wish each other a sweet new year, and break the fast together.
We will meet at Broadway United Methodist Church for services.
Additional parking is free at nearby Our Lady of St. Carmel church.
-- For Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur tickets: click here.
-- Renew your membership, or join as a new member: click here.
Tickets are $60 for each service, half-price for friends and guests of members. Three tickets gets you all four services. Members don't need tickets.
The ticketed services are: Rosh Hashanah Friday evening and Saturday morning, Yom Kippur Sunday evening and Monday morning.
All other High Holidays events are free: The Monday afternoon Yom Kippur services from Yizkor through the end of the day, as well as the many Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur day activities.
If the ticket price is more than you can comfortably handle, then less will be OK. Please let us know. It is a mitzvah to enable people to observe the holidays.
Hope to see you in the coming year!
And if you choose to join with us and support our congregation by becoming a member, then thank you and welcome!
Scroll down for schedule of High Holiday services and activities,
and for information on free parking at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel church.
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Relationships have tension. Arguments. Anger. Pain. All relationships: romantic, business, family, co workers.
Your feelings get hurt. You push people away. You get hurt and upset. And it feels impossible to fix.
You’ve tried to get the courage to apologize, but you’re embarrassed, angry, can’t find the words. You’re scared your spouse, your neighbor, your closest cousin, won’t forgive you. That they’ll forever be angry with you.
You need a process, a structure, guidance on how to ask for forgiveness. You need community support, accountability.
You need ritual.
Well, the ancient Hebraic calendar has your back, with Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur.
The process is called T’shuva, usually translated as repentance. Which is a helpful translation, but the word really means turning or returning.
Turning to your loved ones, neighbors, coworkers, friends, and asking for forgiveness for any pain you might have caused. (Re)turning to yourself, your loved ones, the InfiniteEternal, to heal relationships that have been broken and wounded.
When we gather in prayer and song, we support each other in doing this often difficult process.
At Makom Shalom Mitziut we take a deep, ceremonial dive into T’shuva. With song and prayer and dance. With tradition and innovation.
Rabbi Menachem offers guidance for doing T’shuva, for returning to balanced relationship, with others, with the InfiniteEternal, with yourself.
We blow the shofar to break down our resistance to doing T’shuva and to break down the walls that we build to protect ourselves, walls that keep us from connecting with others.
We also celebrate. Celebrate the difficult work we’ve done to have good relationships. Celebrate any positive change we make toward right relationship. Celebrate that we are alive to do T’shuva.
Rabbi Menachem is blowing the shofar every day, except Shabbos, to help break down our resistance to doing T'shuva. He is @spiritualityunboxed on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. For one on YouTube: click here.
-- Shalom, v'ahava. Rabbi Menachem
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Our Yom Kippur schedule for this year is as follows.
Services and programs are at Broadway United Methodist Church
3338 N Broadway, Chicago
Led by Rabbi Menachem Cohen and Cantorial Soloist Eli Newell
Sunday evening, Sept. 20
Evening Service Kol Nidre 7:15 pm - 8:30 pm, doors open 6:45.
Monday morning, Sept. 21
Morning Service 9:45 am, doors open 9:15.
Monday afternoon, Sept 21
Bridge programs (see below) 2:00 pm - 4:45 pm
Monday concluding services, Sept 21
Yizkor Service - 5:00 pm
Mincha/Afternoon Service - 5:30 pm
Neilah/Concluding - 6:50 pm
Final Shofar: 7:31 pm
Break the fast potluck buffet: 7:45 pm - 9:00 pm
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Monday afternoon bridge programs, Sept 21
Rabbi Secher's civil rights journey - 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
We meet Rabbi Allen Secher, who answered Dr. King's plea for rabbis to join a famous civil rights action in 1964. They were all arrested, and the civil rights act was submitted to Congress the next day.
Journaling and discussion - 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Ascher Levy leads a discussion and experience about the God-spark within you.
Yizkor memories - 4:20 pm - 4:45 pm
Recalling, sharing your loved ones. May their memories be a blessing.
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Non-member High Holiday ticket donations: $60 per service, $180 for all services. Or donate what you will, our helping you to observe High Holidays is a blessing.
Members: consider bringing family and friends. Members can get half-price tickets for family and friends.
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The summer is almost over and the High Holidays are approaching very quickly.
Makom Shalom Mitziut is not just a shul that provides services. It is a community of caring people.
As a small congregation we rely on volunteers to make the holidays run smoothly.
There are 3 general categories where help is needed
1. Nitty Gritty hands-on help: We need people to warmly greet visitors, check in people, and usher at the door of the sanctuary. Ushering requires passing out prayer books and supplemental readings. Check in requires some computer work and writing. Greeters welcome people and maybe ask how they found us and direct people to sign in. This is a great way to meet people.
2. Food and Fellowship. For Rosh Hashanah Oneg and Yom Kippur break fast we need people to set up tables and take the food donations. Also please stay after and help clean up! Please consider bringing food to donate if you are able. Details of what foods are needed, and rules for acceptable level of kosher, will come in later mailings.
3. Making services interactive: We are open to people doing readings during our services. If you would like to read a part of the service, a prayer from another source, or an original prayer or poem, please let us know by one week before the holiday (Sept 4th, or Sept 13). Readings can be in English or Hebrew.
We would also welcome members and guests reading from Torah.
To inquire about helping, e-mail us at chicagomakom@gmail.com.
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October 4: Book Club
The World to Come by Dara Horn is the story of the theft of a Chagall painting from a museum. The thief is a young Jewish man who is a quiz show writer who believes the painting once hung in his parents' living room in Russia. The theft opens many philosophical questions about the family history of the main character and questions about life in general. He learns that the world we create by our own choices and actions becomes our world to come.
We will meet Sunday morning October 4, 10:30 AM, at a home in the Hollywood Park area of Chicago (near NEIU). Write to Joan Minsky, minsky@aol.com, to RSVP or for more information: chicagomakom@gmail.com
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Our next Rosh Chodesh Affiliation Group meeting will take place via Zoom on Sunday, October 11, at 3:00 pm. It will be close to the beginning of the month of Cheshvan, the only month without any holidays. Cheshvan is a month of reflection.
For more information contact Ascher Levy, ascher1@ameritech.net.
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October 18, Crafts and Conversation
Our Crafts and Conversation affiliation group will meet at a Ravenswood location on Sunday, October 18, at 12:00 noon. This group is led by Wendy Lauter.
Crafts and Conversation is a community crafting circle. Just come and craft whatever you'd like and have a good time.
For more information contact Wendy Lauter, lausho343@gmail.com.
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Shabbat Song Circle and Havdalah
August 22, 2026
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Additional Parking Option for Hi Ho Services
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church has given us permission to park in their church lot, west of their school at 720 W. Belmont. All vehicles must be out of the lot by 11:00 pm, when the tow trucks arrive, as there is no overnight parking. We hope this will make the commute easier for those who drive.
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Shabbat Service in honor of Eliot Weis, September 4
Rabbi Menachem and Leah Shoshana are partnering through their new organization Hazon Eliahu to lead a Friday Shabbat service which will honor Eliot Weis, Z''L. His yahrzeit is this month. It will be outdoors at Loyola Beach Park in Rogers Park, with nearby Beit Yichud serving as an indoors bad weather backup. You can read about it and sign up from this Facebook event: click here.
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Thank You to all who have donated recently
Donations help defray the costs of our programming. Donations can be made in honor of a person or event, and can be made in someone's memory. To make a donation to our congregation click here. Makom Shalom Mitziut is a 501(c)(3) organization and all donations are tax deductible.
| | Become a member of our warm, friendly and caring community. Our congregation is Chicago's original inclusive Renewal synagogue where all are welcome. As a member of our congregation your birthdays, anniversaries and yahrzeits will be noted and acknowledged. Our fiscal year begins and ends in the fall. Memberships can be processed at our web site or through the mail. Any recent payments made for tickets to our High Holiday services will be applied towards memberships. To view our membership page click here. | | |
If any of our readers would like to contribute your essays, stories, opinions, or even poetry, please send your material to ruthkaan@ameritech.net. We will welcome all submissions to our newsletter and publish them.
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The Makom Shalom Mitziut family remembers dates of yahrzeits, birthdays, and important anniversaries. We remember them in the newsletter and at kaddish time during services. This is our way of celebrating your simchas and honoring your deceased loved ones.
If you are a member and have any dates to add to our calendar (and especially if you are a new-ish member) please write to us at chicagomakom@gmail.com .
Or you can write to us to find out what we already have for you.
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September Mishpocha
Birthdays
Brenda Stringer 9-19
Anniversaries
Bob Sallinger and Denise DeBelle 9-5
Marla Brodsky and Ascher Levy 9-7
Yahrzeits
Beatrice “Beatty” Minstein (Solange’s paternal grandmother) 9/4
Phyllis Unger (cousin of Marla Brodsky) 9-8
Sol Marks (father of Ina Marks) 9-17
Elliot Weis (beloved member) 9-16
Benjamin Glass (father of Michael Glass) 9-21
Hal Levy (father of Ascher) -9-23
Hildegarde Ernst (Solange’s maternal grandmother) 9-29
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Hey everybody!! We have a Makom Shalom Mitziut Facebook group, where we post events, discuss spirituality, and just kibbitz. Click the link and join the group to keep in touch and be informed beyond the newsletter. https://www.facebook.com/groups/makomshalommitziut
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Calendar for Makom Shalom Mitziut.
Friday, September 11, 7:15 - 9:30 pm. Rosh Hashanah evening service. Followed by apples and honey. At Broadway United Methodist Church, 3332 N. Broadway, Chicago. Scroll up for additional parking at a nearby church.
Saturday, September 12, 9:45 am - 12:30 pm. Rosh Hashanah morning service. At Broadway United Methodist Church.
Saturday September 12, 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm. Rosh Hashanah afternoon activities. Labyrinth walk at 7430 N. Ridge, and Tashlich at Loyola Park, Greenleaf and Sheridan. See above for details.
Sunday, September 20, 7:15 pm - 8:30 pm. Yom Kippur Kol Nidre service. At Broadway United Methodist Church.
Monday, September 21, 9:45 am - 12:30 pm. Yom Kippur morning service. At Broadway United Methodist Church.
Monday, September 21, 2:00 pm - 4:45 pm. Yom Kippur afternoon programs. Social justice, meditation, remembering our loved ones. At Broadway United Methodist Church.
Monday, September 21, 5:00 pm - 7:31 pm. Yom Kippur afternoon services: Yizkor, Mincha, and Ne'ilah. Hear the shofar and break the fast at 7:31 pm. At Broadway United Methodist Church.
Monday, September 21, 7:45 pm - 9:00 pm. Yom Kippur break-fast meal. At Broadway United Methodist Church.
Sunday, October 4, 10:30 am. Book club. See newsletter above for information.
Sunday, October 11, 3:00 pm. Rosh Chodesh group. Zoom meeting. Contact Ascher Levy, ascher1@ameritech.net.
Sunday, October 18, 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm. Crafts and conversation. Meeting at a Ravenswood location. For more information contact Wendy Lauter, lausho343@gmail.com.
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Feeding the Needy
In these difficult times, as we're trying to normalize after a government shut-down when SNAP benefits were paused, there is a way we can help the needy. Broadway United Methodist Church has some shelves at the front door that serve as a food pantry. Non perishable items that are left on the shelf will be of great help to the community.
Suggested items: canned meat or other protein items (tuna, salmon, chicken), crackers, peanut butter, canned soups and stews, canned fruits and vegetables, canned beans, pasta, rice, olive oil or Canola oil, powdered milk, spices (salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion salt, oregano, etc.), granola bars, applesauce, nuts, instant mashed potatoes.
Items to Skip: items that have to be refrigerated, items with glass packaging, items that need can openers or other special equipment to open (pop-top cans are the best!), items that require too many extra ingredients, items that are expired, items that are homemade or have already been opened.
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All services and events marked "at Makom" or unless otherwise marked are held at Broadway United Methodist Church, 3338 N. Broadway, Chicago.
Parking in the west lot can ONLY be accessed from Buckingham Place. It has limited space. DO NOT use the lot north of the church to avoid a ticket and/or being towed. There is also metered street parking. SpotHero can be a useful tool in this area. The Broadway #36 bus stops at the front door.
If you are sending dues or donations please use our PO BOX address: PO Box 10015, Chicago, IL 60610-0015.
Visit us at MakomShalom-Mitziut.com
ChicagoMakom@gmail.com
and "Like" Makom Shalom on Facebook
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