Cleveland Jewish Collective

This week's question: Did CJC make its logo rainbow just for Pride month?

✨🏳️‍🌈 NO! We're gay all year round! 🏳️‍🌈✨

🔗 https://www.clevelandjewishcollective.org/who-we-are/

People often ask us questions about whether they belong at CJC, so we thought we'd answer these questions in our FAQ series. Check back every Friday for more answers to your FAQs! (And feel free to ask us questions - we may feature them in an upcoming post!)

🌈 🎶 Join us next Friday for PRIDE Shabbes Dinner & Tish! 🎶 🌈
We'll welcome in shabbes together with candlelighting and a couple songs and poems. After dinner, we'll have a Tish, an Ashkenazi tradition of shabbes singing

📅 Friday, June 12
⏰ 6:30pm
📍 Sulphur Springs Picnic Area
♿ wheelchair accessible

🎶 If you would like to lead or teach a song - please do! It doesn't have to be Jewish, but it should be something that is fairly simple and easy for people to pick up. 🌈 In honor of Pride Month, q***r, trans, camp, joyful, and liberatory, songs are encouraged! ✨

🥯 Some people in our community are Gluten Free, Dairy Free, or allergic to nuts, apples, or purple nightshades – please keep these dietary needs in mind as you decide what to bring, so that everyone has at least one thing they can eat. Please list ingredients so that people know what they are able to eat.

✨📚 Join Us Next Week! 📚✨

The next book for the CJC & JVP Book Group will be "Perfect Victims" by Mohammed El-Kurd – an incisive critique of global narratives around Palestinian suffering and why the demand for “perfect victims” harms justice.

The book is available at the library in audio, ebook, and print. Mention “CJC-JVP Book Club” at Mac’s Backs Books in Cleveland Heights and they'll give you a 20% Discount!

Start reading now and join our conversation on June 10th. Meet us in the Cleveland Museum of Art's atrium at 7pm — we will have snacks!

📚CJC & JVP Book Group
📍Cleveland Museum of Art- Atrium
🗓️Wednesday, June 10th
⏰7:00 pm
♿ wheelchair accessible

Considering joining CJC?

Our doors are open to everyone, whether you give $0 or $3,600 per year. We hope you’ll invest in our future by contributing what is meaningful, significant & affordable to you.

🔗 Learn more at www.clevelandjewishcollective.org/join-us/

What does it mean to be a member?
🔵 Commitment to Community - take at least one action a year to help CJC run
🟢 Financial Contributions - pay what you can to help sustain the community
🟠 Voice and Vote - members vote on key decisions
🔴 Receive pastoral care - emotional support for whatever's going on in your life
🟣 Free or reduced rate for life cycle officiation
🔵 Take a spiritual & political stance

Not sure that membership is right for you? Become a friend!

What does it mean to be a friend?
🔵 Show your support through a financial contribution
🟢 Receive updates about what’s going on at CJC
🟠 Reduced rate for life cycle officiation
🔴 Take a spiritual & political stance

We are committed to providing a spiritual and communal home for those of us who have not been able to find one elsewhere, and we affirm the beauty and strength of diverse community.

We hope you will join us!

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Join CJC at Pride on Saturday! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 We'll be hanging out all afternoon! Meet up with us after the march in Mall C. We'll be hanging out under the trees on the east side of Mall C (the side next to city hall). There is a strip of grass with trees, on the other side of the sidewalk from the stage and vendors. Look for our CJC banner and come chill with us!

We encourage you to take public transit if possible, there won't be much parking nearby.

Happy Pride ✊ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

🚨🚨 LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER!🚨🚨 We've got 2 awesome events with Nariya Cleveland this week!

✨✨Nariya Live in Studio Wednesday evening! ✨✨
The live audience taping of Anan Va'Arafel (Psalms 97:2-3) is a culmination and celebration of Nariya Cleveland’s work in building vibrant Jewish singing community in Cleveland. ✨✨
🗓️ Wednesday, June 3rd
⏰ Doors open 6:15, close at 7pm for recording
📍 Heights Theater, Cleveland Heights
♿ wheelchair accessible
🔗 Free tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/nariya-live-recording

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Join us on Friday for our monthly Kabbalat Shabbat & Dinner with Nariya Cleveland! ✨✨If you're staying for dinner, make sure to register by Tuesday, June 2nd at 5pm✨✨
🗓️ Friday, June 5th
⏰ 5pm kids dinner + face paint | 6pm service | 7:15 dinner
📍 NEW LOCATION: Heights Theater, Cleveland Heights
♿ wheelchair accessible
🔗 https://events.humanitix.com/june-2026-nariya-cle

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Join CJC at Pride! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 We'll be hanging out all afternoon! Meet up with us after the march in Mall C. We'll be hanging out under the trees on the east side of Mall C (the side next to city hall). There is a strip of grass with trees, on the other side of the sidewalk from the stage and vendors. Look for our CJC banner and come chill with us!

We encourage you to take public transit if possible, there won't be much parking nearby.

Join us on Friday, June 5th for our monthly Kabbalat Shabbat & Dinner with Nariya Cleveland! ✨✨If you're staying for dinner, make sure to register by Tuesday, June 2nd at 5pm✨✨ 🔗 https://events.humanitix.com/june-2026-nariya-cle

Join us to raise your voice, catch your breath, and move your body as we create a circle of sound to welcome Shabbat. People of all backgrounds and ages welcome!

🐣 NEW - we are adding a pasta dinner for kids and their families beforehand at 5pm. During dinner, kids will also be able to get glitter, face paint, and glow sticks in preparation for Kabbalat Shabbat. We will have childcare from 5-7:30 but ask that caretakers help be responsible for their children during the kids' dinner and the service.

🗓️ Friday, June 5th
⏰ 5pm kids dinner + face paint | 6pm service | 7:15 dinner
📍 NEW LOCATION: Heights Theater, Cleveland Heights
♿ wheelchair accessible

We are moving locations for May & June in order to prioritize an accessible space while the Beth El elevator is out of service.

Co-sponsored by Cleveland Jewish Collective, Kol HaLev, and Mitsui Collective.

Contact Rabbi Micah Shapiro ([email protected]) with any questions or to join the musical leadership team.

✨✨Join us for this special event next week! ✨✨ The live audience taping of Anan Va'Arafel (Psalms 97:2-3) is a culmination and celebration of Nariya Cleveland’s work in building vibrant Jewish singing community in Cleveland. ✨✨

Anan Va'Arafel is part of Rabbi Micah Shapiro's third album, Nariya — a live journey through Kabbalat Shabbat that features the 50 person Nariya Cleveland community chorus, the Cleveland based Nariya Ensemble, and special guest Jewish singers and musicians from across the country.

🗓️ Wednesday, June 3rd
⏰ 6:15-9pm
📍 Heights Theater, Cleveland Heights
🔗 Free tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/nariya-live-recording