Martha's Vineyard Hebrew Center – your Jewish home on the Island

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Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center

Your Jewish home on the Island

The Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center is the home of Jewish spiritual, cultural, intellectual, and artistic life on Martha’s Vineyard.

We are a welcoming and progressive Jewish congregation supporting one another as we learn, question and grow in the richness of Jewish tradition, Torah and Mitzvot. We strive to apply values of justice, as described by the Prophets, to local and global issues alike.

We seek to promote Jewish and universal values of compassion and human dignity for all.

Israel at War:
Resources, Gatherings, How to Help

“My heart is in anguish.”

Lamentations 1:20

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Special Events

Services

Meditation

Eight Nights of Hanukkah

New Adult Education Class

Letters from the Rabbi

Letter from the Rabbi

November 3, 2023

Dear Friends, I wanted to share with you a few words of Torah. But first, I wanted to invite you to join us for special prayers to free the hostages tonight at our Shabbat service at 5:30. We will be saying traditional prayers for the freeing of hostages, reading the names of those held captive, and studying a traditional text that teaches the utmost importance of the mitzvah of working to free those held captive.

Rabbi Caryn Broitman writes in Moment Magazine

August 22, 2023

The Rabbi appears in every other issue of Moment Magazine as the Reconstructionist Rabbi in their column “Ask the Rabbis.“ Here is a link to that column in the Winter 2023 issue, on the question:“What Jewish Wisdom Would You Offer Today’s Billionaires?”