Welcome to Temple Shalom
Temple Shalom is a warm and welcoming fully egalitarian community whose diverse members come together to celebrate all that Judaism has to offer. By learning, praying, and celebrating together we have built a community that has been around for over 60 years. And while we still keep the traditions that helped build and sustain the Jewish community in Medford, we have embraced new traditions, so that we can fulfill the needs of not only our members who founded this Synagogue, but also our newer members who will help keep the Jewish community alive for the next 60 years. We invite you to take a look around our web site, to visit us at the temple at any time and to learn about who we are as individuals and as a community. Welcome.
It is forbidden to live in a town that does not have a green garden.
(Jerusalem Talmud, Kiddushin 4:12)
The whole thing began with a little seedling of an idea at a Social Action meeting long ago. We’d build raised beds, tiny hands would sow the seeds, blossoming flowers could be cut and grace the bima on Shabbat. Most importantly, harvested vegetables would donated to the heading Home Shelter in Medford. The children in the Hebrew school voted on a name for the garden. How appropriate that they called it Gan Tzedakah.
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 Jewish Learning for Parents of Young Children
Temple Shalom in Medford is thrilled to be the only synagogue North of Boston to be offering families the opportunity to take part in Ikkarim, Jewish adult learning for parents of young children.
Parenting is awe-inspiring. Beyond the practical issues of how to get your baby or toddler to go to sleep, parenting invokes in all of us deeper questions about meaning, core values, and the world around us.
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See what people are saying about us...
I had lived in Medford for the past 15 years as a single Jewish person and I had been looking for a temple off and on. I knew I wanted something that was conservative, and yet modern. In the past, I visited Temple Shalom along with several other temples in the area. To me, Temple Shalom felt steeped in tradition, proud of its long history in Medford. It still is all that- they have an amazing amount of respect for the elder’s in their community who have created and sustained the temple. However, I also feel that recently Temple Shalom has made a real effort to do more to welcome new members. They engage families from the start, especially those with young children. Many of the "new members" of Temple Shalom are interfaith marriages with young children such as ours, and the Temple embraces this diversity.
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Viewing the TSM calendar on your desktop, google calendar, or iphone
You can subscribe and view the Temple's calendar of events on any application that supports the iCalendar (.ical or .ics) format. This includes google calendar, Outlook, Sunbird, Evolution, windows calendar, iphone, and palm pilot.
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