American Jewish Culture
American Jews share a common popular culture that includes art, music, literature, film, and food traditions. Our different series will explore and celebrate the many contributions of American Jews to the overall culture of America.
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Jewish Food
Jewish foods and their traditions have made a lasting contribution to American cuisine. We celebrated Deli Night at Temple Shalom by screening a film and eating delicious deli food, courtesy of Cindi’s Deli. Our two 2023-2024 series, Traditions in the Kitchen and Modern Jewish Cooking, explored the heart of American Jewish food. Our 2024-2025 series explored Israeli food traditions from spices and dips to bourekas!
Traditions in the Kitchen Israeli-Style!
Sessions are at 1:00pm in the Temple Shalom Kitchen. Adults and teens 16+ welcome to attend!
$15/session
January 12: Emma Darling-Spice Up Your Kitchen Discovering Israeli Aromatics
February 2: Karen Stock: Savory Secrets of Jerusalem’s Kitchen Main Dishes (Session Full)
February 23: Renee Roth: Dipping into Tradition-Fresh Takes on Israeli Dips & Salads
March 9: Barbara Guskin: Bourekas-A Culinary Delight
Jewish Music
American Jews have composed and performed many styles of music that have shaped the American experience. In fact, an astonishing percentage of musical performers and composers that we all know are Jewish and they have drawn on the musical traditions of Judaism.
We began the 2024-2025 season with Alissa Roca singing Jewish and contemporary music, followed by a return engagement of our favorite Jewish and country-singing star Joe Buchanan for Veterans Day Shabbat. February 1st, we welcomed award-winning Brothers in Song, a male chamber ensemble comprised of choral music educators from the North Texas Metroplex. May 3rd, Eric Hunker, a Tulsa, Oklahoma based singer-songwriter, will perform at Temple Shalom.
