Upcoming Events
August 2019
Honoring MZ’s Tzedek (Justice) Volunteers
Pulpit Guest: Jennifer Ho, Commissioner, Minnesota Housing who will speak on: “Ending Homelessness in the State of Minnesota” This special Shabbat will honor and recognize the social justice efforts that you make happen across our congregation. If you have participated in any social justice work through Project HOME/June Shelter, Women of Mount Zion Temple, Brotherhood, the Tzedek Committee, youth group, or the Religious School, we want to celebrate your important work and reflect together about what else we can do…
Find out more »September 2019
Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen-Goshen
Israel Book Group — 7 p.m. Monday, September 9, at Mount Zion We will be discussing the psychological thriller Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen-Goshen. “Riveting…Propulsive…Waking Lions yokes a crime story to thorny ethical issues in ways reminiscent of Donna Tartt and Richard Price.” —Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal.
Find out more »Mussar Small Group
One event on June 19, 2019 at 10:30 am
One event on July 10, 2019 at 10:30 am
One event on July 24, 2019 at 10:30 am
One event on August 7, 2019 at 10:30 am
One event on August 21, 2019 at 10:30 am
One event on September 11, 2019 at 10:30 am
This small group is for prior students of Mussar to continue their practice with a group of like minded individuals. The group will be self lead. Each participant will take a middah to lead a discussion on. The intent is to learn from each other, no pressure. We will meet in the Sisterhood lounge roughly every other Wednesday this summer.
Find out more »Open House and Brunch
If you are seeking a welcoming and vibrant Jewish spiritual home, we invite you to learn more about Mount Zion at our free Open House and Brunch for unaffiliated Jews in the Twin Cities area. Visitors will have a chance to meet the clergy, lay leaders, and Temple members, tour the building, and get a taste of the various organizations and activities in which Mount Zion members are involved. A continental breakfast will be served. Childcare will be available. Complimentary…
Find out more »November 2019
A Simple Story, by Israel’s Nobel laureate in literature, S.Y. Agnon
Israel Book Group 7 p.m. Monday November 4 at Mount Zion. We will be discussing A Simple Story, by Israel’s Nobel laureate in literature, S.Y. Agnon. Set in the Jewish Eastern European life now vanished, A Simple Story is a story of love unrequited, marriage, melancholy and madness. Through these travails, the protagonists of the tale achieve a greater awakening. "Agnon's achievement is to have combined gentle mockery of the myriad characters he brings so engagingly to life with staunch…
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