The Aspen Jewish Congregation and Mountain Minyan invite you to Shabbat services led by Rabbi Shira and the Mountain Minyan musicians. After services, enjoy a delicious dinner while relaxing with the community.

Services 6:00-7:00
Dinner 7:00-8:30

Childcare provided.

Finish out the week with cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and a thoughtful, fun, substantive, and even sometimes raucous ode to Queen Vashti. Reviled as a villain and celebrated as a rebel, ignored by history and valorized by feminists, Vashti is at once an enigma and a Rorschach test. Learn and discuss not only her story, but also how artists, commentators, and laypeople have interpreted it over the millennia.

Childcare provided.

The Aspen Jewish Congregation and Mountain Minyan invite you to Shabbat services led by Rabbi Jessica and the Mountain Minyan musicians. After services, enjoy a delicious dinner while relaxing with the community. 

Services 6:00-7:00
Dinner 7:00-8:30

Childcare provided.

Finish out the week with cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and a thoughtful, fun, substantive, and even sometimes raucous ode to the Tu B’Shvat seder. Tu B’Shvat is the birthday of the trees, and in this land of the Aspen, we will celebrate the trees in our lives, and the fruits emerging at this first hint of Spring, through song, conversation, and of course, eating.

Childcare provided.

Led by Rabbi Aaron Weininger, long time AGSW attendee and the first openly gay student admitted to the Jewish Theological Seminary Rabbinical School. The Aspen Jewish Congregation, Rabbi Shira, and the Mountain Minyan music team invite you to a celebration of Shabbat and each other. Bring in the weekend with song, reflection, and joy, followed by kiddush – plenty of good eats.

4:45 – 5:45pm
Cocktails, conversation, community, and learning.

6:00pm
Musical Shabbat services with music and wisdom followed by kiddush – plenty of good eats.

The Aspen Jewish Congregation, Rabbi Shira, and the Mountain Minyan music team invite you to a celebration of Shabbat and each other. Bring in the weekend with song, reflection, and joy. After services, enjoy a healthy, seated dinner from Stew Pot, while relaxing with friends old and new.

Services 6:00-7:00
Dinner 7:00-8:30

Childcare provided.

Finish out the week with hot toddies, snacks and a thoughtful, fun, substantive, and even sometimes raucous discussion of the topic of how we should care for the ill? Do we have a responsibility to care for the sick, or is it something we do out of a spirit of generosity? (And why does that question matter?) Most of us have cared for people who are ill; all of us are or will be ill. We will talk about our own experiences and build strength for the future.

Childcare provided.

Mountain Minyan invites you to cross-country ski, build a snowman, make s’mores, hang around the fire-pit, and bring in the new week and the new year at a New Year’s Eve pre-game party. This event is at a private home adjacent to ski trails. Indoor/outdoor.

Childcare provided.

The Aspen Jewish Congregation, Rabbi Shira and the Mountain Minyan music team invite you to a celebration of all the miracles--in those days and in this time. Bring your Chanukah Menorah and candles for the communal candle-lighting (we will have many extras), then bring in Shabbat with song, reflection, and joy. After services, enjoy a latke bar dinner + Chanukah cheese board + Sephardic donut dessert, while relaxing with the community.

Services 6:00-7:00
Latke Bar 7:00-8:30

Childcare provided.

Finish out the week with cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and a thoughtful, fun, substantive, and even sometimes raucous discussion of the finer points of Chanukah, the holiday of Or (light) in the Choshech (night-darkness). We may reflexively think of light as “good” and darkness as “bad” or “scary,” something to avoid. But think deeper; maybe these are unhelpful, false or even dangerous binaries. How can we find goodness everywhere?

Childcare provided.

Ski by for a slopeside Chanukah party like none other! Each hour will feature a different activity. There will be Sufganiyot (jelly doughnuts) and hot chocolate, dreidel spinning and prizes, grilled food, and beats by Sammy Steen.

Sufganiyot (jelly doughnuts) and hot chocolate 11am-12pm
Dreidel spinning and prizes 12pm-1pm
Grilled burgers and hotdogs (veggie options available) 1pm-2pm

Let the festival of lights commence! The town of Basalt celebrates with a public lighting of the Chanukah menorah, led by Rabbi Shira. Afterwards, join AJC and Mountain Minyan for some singing, dreidel-spinning, and sufganiyot at Sure Thing Burger.

Musical, uplifting, reflective, Shabbat services. Join Rabbi Shira, Rabbinical Student Dan Yolles, Annie Aqua & other musicians for an hour of singing, learning, celebrating, and just being together. Then join us for Kiddush and family-style dinner.

Services 6:00-7:00
Dinner 7:00-8:15

Childcare provided.

Finish out the week with craft cocktails, yummy hors d'oeuvres, and a thoughtful, fun, substantive, and even sometimes raucous discussion of the finer points of the week's Torah portion. This week: Vayetze, Rachel, and Leah. These two sisters spend little time talking to each other, but lots of time saying bad things about each other. Is that healthy?

Childcare provided.

The next Mountain Minyan shabbat service will soon be here. Get in the spirit with a cross country ski/walk around the golf course. Meet at the Aspen Golf Club (outside and to the left of the clubhouse, where you get into the trails) to stretch your muscles and spend reflective, preparatory time with Rabbi Shira and a group of friends, old and new. If the weather is bad, we will move to an indoor location for casual coffee and conversation. Please rsvp so we can contact you if there’s a change in plans.

Musical, uplifting, reflective, Shabbat services. Join Rabbi Shira, Dan Yolles, Annie Aqua & other musicians for an hour of singing, learning, celebrating, and just being together. Then join for Kiddush and family-style dinner from Mod’s Thai House.

Services 6:00-7:00
Dinner 7:00-8:15

Babysitting provided.

Finish out the week with craft cocktails, cheese from France, and a thoughtful, fun, substantive, and even sometimes raucous discussion of the finer points of the week's Torah portion. This week: Lech-Lecha, Abraham, and Sarah. Why did they leave home and journey into the unknown? What did they do when they found the world on fire? What should we do?

Babysitting provided.

Shabbat will soon be here! Meet at the base of Smuggler to stretch your muscles and spend reflective, preparatory time with Rabbi Shira and a group of friends, old and new. If the weather is bad, we will move to an indoor location for casual coffee and conversation.

Selichot may not be one of the most popular of Jewish celebrations, but it’s one of the most beautiful. It includes most of the traditional music from the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services + conversation and learning about how to prepare for the holidays. Rabbi Shira, Rabbi Kolby Morris-Dahary + the Mountain Minyan music team will take you through the full emotional experience of the high holy days, as Selichot asks us to reflect and think about the year to come.

Musical, uplifting, reflective, Shabbat services. Join Rabbi Shira, Rabbi Kolby Morris-Dahary + the Mountain Minyan music team for an hour of singing, learning, celebrating, and just being in community.

Should we care more about a Jew in need in Ukraine than a non-Jew in need in Aspen? Have some lunch and go deeper than all the soundbites and posturing to look at a multiplicity of voices on the Jewish approach to justice. Keep Shabbat going a little longer with community and conversation.

Musical, uplifting, reflective, Shabbat services. Join Rabbi Shira, Ami Yares + other musicians for an hour of singing, learning, celebrating, and just being in community.

We live in the sixth mass extinction in the history of life on earth. We are not only its witnesses but also its cause. What are possible responses to this truth? Can we imagine another way to live? What can we learn from Torah to help us renew our relationship with one another and the earth? Lead by Rabbi Rachel Timoner, with a focus on Leviticus 25 and 26.

We are seeing an epidemic of loneliness, social isolation, anxiety, and depression among adolescents and people of all ages. How might we understand the causes of this suffering, and what can we learn from the Torah that can help us to heal ourselves, our loved ones, and our society? With Rabbi Rachel Timoner, we will look at a number of Torah passages, with a focus on Deuteronomy 15.

The Psalms are the poems of the Bible and they are also the poems of our spiritual lives. We live in uncertain, often frightening times. Psalm 121 invites us to consider one way we might steady ourselves and regain hope, with Rabbi Rachel Timoner & Rabbi Marc Gellman.

Shabbat continues…with a talking donkey? Yes! Along with a delicious lunch and some great conversation about the week’s Torah portion, plus more singing. Keep Shabbat rest going for a little longer with Rabbi Shira + the Mountain Minyan music team.

Welcome Rabbi Marc Gellman with musical, uplifting, reflective, Shabbat services. Rabbi Gellman and Rabbi Shira, Rabbi Kolby Morris-Dahan, and musicians Eric Alterman and Dan Yolles for an hour of singing, learning, celebrating, and just being in community.

The Mountain Minyan Kumzitz. Bring some joy into the world with song and learning. The Mountain Minyan music team will play, you will sing along (or just listen), all the while sitting in one of the most beautiful locations in Aspen. Learn a little bit of Torah, but more than anything else, just relax into the physical and spiritual beauty of the space and the Sounds.

Musical, uplifting, joyous Shabbat services with Mountain Minyan and Aspen Jewish Congregation. Join Rabbi Shira, Rabbi Kolby Morris-Dahan, and musicians Amalia Adiv, Eric Alterman, and Dan Yolles for an hour of singing, learning, celebrating, and just being in community.

Being outside. Talking about our orienting principles for life. Singing. Eating ice cream. Unrolling the Torah and finding our favorite stories.

What more could you want from your community? Rabbi Shira, along with the Mountain Minyan Music team, will lead this celebration of the harvest holiday of Shavuot, which begins on Saturday night, June 4.