Reform Minyan

The Reform minyan is a student-run community that brings together undergraduates, graduate students, and members of the Cambridge community for services on Friday evenings throughout the academic year, many Saturday mornings, and on Jewish holidays. Our undergraduate-led services use a mix of English and Hebrew from the Reform Movement's new prayerbook Mishkan T'filah, and feature lively and often guitar-led singing as well as provocative discussions of the weekly Torah portion. Services are preceded by snacks and schmoozing, to give us a chance to hear about each other's weeks and get to know one another better. In addition to services, we also get together for social events, such as Havdalah on Saturday evenings, movie nights, and special shabbat dinners (most weeks, we eat with all of Hillel), and meet together and with our rabbinic advisor to learn from one another. In addition to the organized classes and discussions, you're welcome to contact our rabbinic advisor Lisa Eiduson at

or the minyan organizers to set up one-on-one or small group study on topics of interest to you. We also invite guest speakers, who have included, for example, Cantor Jeff Klepper, the composer of much of the music we use in services. The reform-talk list-serve allows us to communicate about informal, spur-of-the-moment events as well. We'd love for you to get involved--you can contact the Reform minyan organizers at reform@hillel.harvard.edu or just show up at one of our events. If you want to, you could lead services, give a D'var Torah or lead a discussion, host a social event, or whatever else you would like--since the minyan is student-led, you're invited to share your own ideas for things we could be doing. Please don't be shy; send us an e-mail just to introduce yourself. Contact: Jeremy Aron-Dine '10 (arondine@fas)