News & Updates

Jewish Life in Maine is thriving and with your contribution on this #givingtuesday2022 we can be sure to cultivate vibrant community for all who seek

With the end of Simchat Torah earlier this week, we’ve come to the close of another High Holiday season. For some of us who work

If you’re looking for a place to celebrate the High Holidays in central Maine, there are many options. Synagogues from Bath to Bangor and Rockland

Join award-winning writer Ariel Levy for the 2022 Lipman Lecture on Sunday, April 24 at 7 p.m. Levy is the author of The Rules Do

For Passover 2022/Nisan 5782, the Center for Small Town Jewish Life is sharing and amplifying Voices of Liberation from Maine. We hope that the poetry

We are thrilled to welcome the remarkable musician and singer Batya Levine to lead us in Havdalah on Saturday, February 26 at 7 p.m. Be

We welcome 5782 with all its complications and promise. As Rabbi Rachel Isaacs, the Center’s executive director says, “In 5782, we need to have the

The works of three Maine Jewish artists adorn our beautiful new Center for Small Town Jewish Life notecards. The cards feature these stunning images (shown

July 2021/Tammuz-Av 5781 Dear Friends of the Center, We are about to enter a shemitah year in the Jewish community, a sabbatical year when we

Join us on Zoom for an evening of fun! We’ll start with some Jewish learning together, and follow it up with interactive games (we’re still

Spring is coming to us in Maine, and we can nearly taste the chance to hang out together in person, safely distanced outside. But…not yet.

Beit Midrash is an annual series that brings together college students and community members for several evenings of study throughout the year. This spring, Beit