Pride Shabbat + Oneg hosted by JCOGS Rainbow Coalition
Join the JCOGS community for a special Pride Shabbat to celebrate the courage, visibility, and sacred contributions of Jewish LGBTQ+ voices throughout history and today. During the service, we will honor remarkable Jewish LGBTQ+ individuals through stories, readings, reflection, and song, affirming the holiness of being fully seen and fully ourselves within Jewish community.
All are welcome for an evening of warmth, pride, learning, and community.
This meaningful evening is being lovingly organized by members of the JCOGS Rainbow Coalition, who will also host a festive community oneg following services.
Those interested in supporting or participating in Pride Shabbat are warmly invited to be in touch with Judith Wine: wine.judith@jcogs.org
Tot Shabbat at UVJC Kol haEmek
Tot Shabbat!
Tot Shabbat for Jewish children ages birth to 6 years. Everyone is welcome.
Book Discussion with Rabbi Jim Glazier: The Boston Girl
Anita Diamant’s historical novel tracing the life of Addie Baum from Boston’s immigrant community to sharing her story with her granddaughter.
Shavuot On The Mountain
Come celebrate Shavuot and Shabbat with joy, fresh air, and community connection! Our 12th annual multigenerational pilgrimage hike to the Mountain Chapel on Mt. Mansfield is one of Living Tree Alliance’s most cherished traditions. Together we’ll take in Vermont’s springtime beauty, share meaningful moments, and welcome the holiday with music and creativity.
Shavuot on the Farm
Celebrate Shavuot—the festival of first fruits and the giving of Torah—with a special weekend at Living Tree Alliance.
Menashe
Third in a four part Sunday Series:
Movie & Discussion with Rabbi Jim Glazier:
A widowed Hasidic father struggles to raise his son within community expectations.
Light refreshments will be served Rabbi James S. Glazier is a retired rabbi who served as the spiritual leader of Temple sinai in South Burlington, Vermont, for 37 years. He and his wife Meg have been members of JCOGS since 2018.
Building a Sacred Relationship with the Divine
The next Creating Spiritual Journeys session entitled, Building a Sacred Relationship with the Divine will be on Sunday, May 17, 10:30-12:30. This workshop combines an exploration of Jewish sources with partners (Hevruta) and group discussion, followed by making our own art as a response to what we learned. For those who really don't want to make art, you can creatively express yourself through writing. Register here.
Come and try it out! For those who need financial help, please contact Rabbi Tobie.
Shoresh
Join us for our monthly Shoresh gathering at JCOGS! Join us for singing/movement with Rabbi David, and Katie Yoskowitz, followed by a hands-on activity, ending with blessings over challah/grape juice followed by a lite nosh.
Raise the Roof
Raise the Roof is back for 2026! Come and celebrate Spring with the Lamoille Community House at our annual fundraiser at Stowe Cider. TICKETS NOW ON SALE– with prices for every pocketbook! Get yours today and celebrate at the event of the season!
Songful Shabbat
SoulSong Shabbat is where secular sit-around-the-firepit singing energy meets Shabbat soul—led by local musician Brian Leven along with Rabbi David. Expect fresh sounds, good vibes, and a little spiritual lift.
Interfaith Movie Night -Just Mercy at the Stowe Cinema
Just Mercy is a 2019 American biographical legal drama film co-written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Michael B. Jordan as Bryan Stevenson and Jamie Foxx as Walter McMillian, together with Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson, Rafe Spall, and Brie Larson. It explores the work of Bryan Stevenson, a young defense attorney representing poor black prisoners on death row in the Southern U.S.
Sing with L'Chaim!
The song is a spell we weave together. Come find Jewish community and sing songs of wholeness, solidarity, joy, resistance, and love! BYO dessert potluck! Nourish our bodies, nourish our souls!
Come out to sing hope, resistance, prayer and community.
Shttl: Yiddish Film Screening
"Shttl" documents a day in the life of a traditional Jewish shtetl on the Ukrainian border, 24 hours before the Nazis invade their territory.
The film features an international cast headlined by Brooklyn-based actor Moshe Lobel (The Vigil) and award-winning veteran actor Saul Rubinek (Hunters, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Warehouse 13, Unforgiven). "Shttl" has proven to be a phenomenon, running for eighteen weeks (and counting) in New York City theaters and screening to sold-out crowds across America and around the world!
In the words of film critic Danielle Solzman, "Shttl" is "one of the all-time great films about Jewish life in Eastern Europe."
Register
Earth Day Shabbat
Join JCOGS for a warm, inviting, Shabbat in community + Oneg
hosted by the Green Team
Statewide Summit
Join Jewish Communities of Vermont (JCVT) for the 2026 Statewide Summit, a statewide gathering bringing people together from across Vermont for a day of learning, creativity, and connection in Jewish community. Set against the beauty of Stowe, this Summit welcomes participants of all ages and backgrounds for a vibrant Sunday experience grounded in Jewish culture, ideas, and relationship.
Marom Band Israeli-themed Musical Shabbat
Join Rabbi David, JCOGS, for Shabbat and observe Yom Haatzmaut - Israeli Independence Day with some Israeli and Shabbat music.
Noa Ibson, senior at Harwood, will share about her personal experience studying in Israel during the fall semester.
Oneg by Linda Kopper, with Middle Eastern additions + Special Talk by Noa Ibson
Shoah Stories from Vermont
All welcome to come bear witness and remember.
Monday, April 13th 7-8:30 pm.
Registration required. Click here to register.
Second in a four part Sunday series: Book Discussion with Rabbi Jim Glazier: "The Jew Store"
"The Jew Store" is Stella Suberman's memoir of her Jewish family's move to a small Tennessee town in the 1920s.
Living Each Day with Intentionality
Over 8 monthly sessions, we will explore how Torah (Jewish wisdom) frames time as a sacred dimension of Jewish life, engaging classical and modern sources to examine how days, seasons, and cycles shape consciousness, community, and covenant. Together we will consider how marking time with awareness can nurture balance, resilience, and joy.
Creating Soulful Journeys will help us cultivate our Jewish joy at the Summit!
Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration
The Jewish Community of Greater Stowe gathers with our interfaith partners to commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. This program will include traditional memorial prayers, readings, and candle lighting. We will gather in the foyer, creating a more intimate space for remembrance. From darkness to light, we affirm our resilience in the face of historic evil as we move into Shabbat. Services will follow in the sanctuary, with music and an oneg to conclude the evening.
Passover Community Seder
Kosher-for-Passover vegetarian or dairy dishes are welcome! Matzoh ball soup will be provided. Regular and gluten-free matzoh will be available.
Craftivism in Action
Eve Jacobs-Carnahan shares stories from her project,
Knit Democracy Together. Registration
Sugar and Schmooze
See an old-school sugar operation, sample fresh syrup, and enjoy music, food, crafts and and a community pageant to welcome the coming of spring
All are welcome! Please register
Overcoming Obstacles to Inner Joy
Join Rabbi Tobie Weisman in an art and Torah filled workshop using the Studio Arts Project method
Shoresh
Join JCOGS for our monthly Shoresh gatherig at JCOGS! Join us for singing/movement with Rabbi David, followed by a hands-on activity, ending with blessings over challah/grape juice followed by a lite nosh.
Anne Frank: A History for Today
“Anne Frank: A History for Today” is a student peer-led exhibit appearing in three Vermont schools this year.
