Joliet Jewish Congregation

About

Friday Night Services: 7:00 PM
Saturday Morning Services: 9:00 AM

Story

We are an unaffiliated traditional synagogue mixing Conservative and Reform ideology. Our current rabbi, Charles Rubovits, is of the Conservative movement. We welcome all families of the Jewish faith as well as interfaith families.

Mission

•To maintain a Synagogue for the purpose of worship in accordance with the best patterns of both traditional and liberal Judaism.

•Celebrate as a community, Jewish holidays and Life Cycle events by encouraging congregational participation.

•To impart to our children and adults, a thorough knowledge of both past and contemporary Jewish life through education and Torah study.

•To look upon and treat the Synagogue as the primary repository of Jewish values and as the basic institution for the enrichment and the enhancement of spiritual and social Jewish values.

•To make effectual in our daily lives, by precept and by example, those principles and aspiration which constitute the substance of our Jewish heritage.

•To apply the social values of the Jewish ethic to the larger areas of communal and national affairs.