Mishkan Ha'am The Westchester-Riverdale Reconstructionist Group

Dear Mishkan Ha'am family and friends,

 We are pleased to be beginning our second year as your co-presidents and to be working alongside so many caring, thoughtful, fellow spiritual searchers. Mishkan Ha'am continues to be an inspiring and caring community, and we look forward to another exciting year together.

As many of you know, mishkan ha'am means, loosely, "tent of the people," and ours is truly an open tent made of the many gifts of its members: the wisdom, the songs, the stories, the faith, the doubts, the questions, the compassion, the generosity, the energy and the creativity of people of all ages and experiences.  

This coming year we have much to look forward to.  We welcome David Basior with great anticipation for all that he will bring to our community as both rabbinic leader and director of She'arim/Gateways, our religious school. David's calm wisdom, good humor, spiritual openness and inspiring presence has already touched many of us.

Our congregation is run by a number of vibrant committees offering exciting ways to connect with the community and express members' creative input.  Programs for the coming year will include creative havdallahs, chanting services, tot Shabbats, meditation retreats, meaningful holiday observances, adult education seminars, and a number of tikkun olam opportunities for the whole family.  

We appreciate the welcoming, stable home we have found with the First Reformed Church, and look forward to another exciting year together.  It is a pleasure to help lead this participatory Jewish congregation to further express the best of who we are as an authentic, inclusive and ever-evolving spiritual community.