Midway Jewish Center

Afternoon Service

The somber but uplifting start to the holiest day of the year.

Morning Service

The MJC community is invited to remember loved ones who have passed on.

All our many friends in the neighborhood, members and non-members, are welcomed to come and remember loved ones who have passed on. For moire info click here

The Afternoon Service

The concluding fifth service of Yom Kippur. Ne'ilah means closing, and its time to get our prayers to heaven before the heavenly gates close (do they ever really close?) for the evening.

We end a long day of prayer, fasting, repentance and connection with God (and pray that our connection with God never ends).

Nazir is a tractate of the Talmud that deals religious zeal bordering on extremism. The Nazirite was one who took a vow to abstain from certain foods (e.g., refraining from grape products) and pleasures, over and above the prohibitions that would fall on an ordinary Jew. What moves people to treat themselves as such? Why is asceticism connected to God? Why was Judaism uncomfortable with such behaviors, even though it permitted such behaviors? What does Nazir teach us about religious extremism today and how we might understand it better? Daf Shevu’i, the Weekly Page,” goes through a page of Talmud a week. The program is open to Midway members and non-members. A working knowledge of Hebrew is helpful but not at all necessary to follow the class which is conducted primarily in English. Discussion is always energetic and relevant to our day, in spite of material that is well over 2500 years old.

Kabbalat Shabbat