Jul 28, 2025 | Temple Event, Upcoming Temple Event
Starlight Shabbat Summer Bash 2025
A fun-filled evening of celebration, community, and connection for all ages.
🌟 Friday, August 29, 2025
📍 Temple Adat Elohim
Event Schedule
- 💫 Tot Shabbat Service
🕔 5:00 PM–5:30 PM
A joyful, kid-friendly Shabbat experience for preschool-age children.
- 💫 BBQ Bash
🕠 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Hot dogs, chips, popsicles, and margaritas for adults – all complimentary!
- 💫 Starlight Shabbat Service
🕖 7:00 PM
Celebrate the final Starlight Shabbat of the season with the TAE Chorale and Band of Milk & Honey.
📢 PARKING & SHUTTLE SERVICE
Parking at TAE is limited. We encourage you to leave on-campus spots for those with accessibility needs and park at our designated parking lot (please check your email for the exact location), where a free shuttle service will be available.
Our shuttles will run every 5–10 minutes from 4:30 – 10:00 PM between TAE and the designated location. Park, hop on, and ride in comfort!
🎉 While the Kids Play… Explore What’s New at TAE!
- TOUR our newly upgraded Administrative Building and playground.
- MEET our new Executive Director, Gideon Manzur.
- CHAT with clergy in the Clergy Corner.
- LEARN how to get involved through volunteering.
- EXPLORE our new Neighborhood Connections initiative.
- DISCOVER what our TAE Sisterhood, Havurot, and Social Action groups are all about.
🙌 This event is FREE for all, including food and drinks!
🌟 If you plan to attend any part of the event, RSVP by Monday, August 25, to help us plan food and seating: RSVP Here >>
💙 Experience what makes TAE so special and see what’s new, what’s next, and how you belong.
Jun 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
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Jun 19, 2025 | Temple Event
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Pictured from left to right: Mark Saltzman, Librettist, Phedon Papamichael, Director, and David Shukiar, Composer
Pictured from left to right: Harry Patranamis, Director, and David Shukiar, Composer
🎬 Through Children’s Eyes: Exclusive Premiere Screening
🕓 Sunday, November 9, 2025 | 4:00 PM
📍Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, Scherr Forum Theater
Join us for the premiere of Through Children’s Eyes—a moving documentary concert that brings to life the poetry and drawings of children imprisoned in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp.
Set to an original score by Cantor David Shukiar and filmed on location in Terezin and the historic Attic Theatre, this film is a tribute to the creativity, resilience, and spirit of young lives lost too soon.
✨ Stay after the screening for a behind-the-scenes conversation with:
- Cantor David Shukiar, Composer
- Mark Saltzman, Librettist
- Steven Shapiro, Executive Producer
They will lead an in-depth discussion exploring the extraordinary journey behind the film, from the emotional path that led them to Terezin, to the unexpected miracles that opened doors once thought closed, and the deeply personal process of transforming children’s words and drawings into music.
This behind-the-scenes conversation offers a rare glimpse into a project born of remembrance, reverence, and hope.
👉 Learn more about the film or watch the trailer here >>
🎟️ Exclusive TAE Presale – Now through August 1!
Tickets are available to the TAE community through August 1. Use code: TAE.
How to Order Tickets:
- BOX OFFICE
- Cost: $33, no fees
- By phone: 805‑449‑2787
- Hours: Open Tuesday–Sunday, 10:00 AM–5:00 PM
💙TAE receives $25 for every ticket sold—your purchase directly supports our community.
This is more than a film screening—it’s a call to remember, to reflect, and to honor the enduring power of art and memory. Join us, and bear witness Through Children’s Eyes.
🎬 Through Children’s Eyes: Exclusive Premiere Screening
🎥 Sunday, November 9, 2025
🕓 4:00 PM
📍 Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, Scherr Forum Theater
Join us for the premiere of Through Children’s Eyes—a moving documentary concert that brings to life the poetry and drawings of children imprisoned in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp.
Set to an original score by Cantor David Shukiar and filmed on location in Terezin and the historic Attic Theatre, this film is a tribute to the creativity, resilience, and spirit of young lives lost too soon.
✨ Stay after the screening for a behind-the-scenes conversation with: ✨
- Cantor David Shukiar, Composer
- Mark Saltzman, Librettist
- Steven Shapiro, Executive Producer
Experience an in-depth discussion exploring the extraordinary journey behind the film, from the emotional path that led them to Terezin, to the unexpected miracles that opened doors once thought closed, and the deeply personal process of transforming children’s words and drawings into music.
This behind-the-scenes conversation offers a rare glimpse into a project born of remembrance, reverence, and hope.
👉 Learn more about the film
🎟️ Exclusive TAE Presale – Now through August 1!
How to Order Tickets:
🌟 Box Office ($33, no fees)
- Cost: $33, no fees
- By phone: 805‑449‑2787
- Hours: Open Tuesday–Sunday, 10:00 AM–5:00 PM
🌟 Ticketmaster
💙TAE receives $25 for every ticket sold—your purchase directly supports our community.
This is more than a film screening—it’s a call to remember, to reflect, and to honor the enduring power of art and memory. Join us, and bear witness Through Children’s Eyes.
Experience the power of the film — watch the trailer. 👇
Pictured from left to right: Mark Saltzman, Librettist, Phedon Papamichael, Director, and David Shukiar, Composer
Pictured from left to right: Harry Patranamis, Director, and David Shukiar, Composer
Jun 18, 2025 | Rabbi Diamond's Corner
We watch with deep concern and aching hearts as our brothers and sisters in Israel continue to face threats and attacks from the Iranian regime. At the same time, many of us feel pride and gratitude for Israel’s strength, resilience, and extraordinary achievements in confronting these existential dangers.
Since its founding in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has promoted a revolutionary ideology that blends Shi’a religious doctrine with political extremism. At the heart of this worldview is a deep opposition toward both the United States, labeled by Iran’s leaders as the “Great Satan,” and Israel, the “Little Satan.” But this hostility goes beyond national borders. It extends to the values we cherish: secular democracy, gender equality, freedom of expression, religious pluralism, and the dignity of every individual.
Iran’s leaders have long claimed that the United States and Israel represent corrupt and oppressive systems that stand in the way of divine justice and Islamic sovereignty, particularly in the Holy Land. Iran is not alone. Other Islamist movements in the region, including Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas, al-Qaeda, and ISIS, though diverse in theology and tactics, share a vision in which violence against Israel, the West, and their allies is framed as a sacred mission.
This ideology is not just anti-Israel. It is anti-freedom. It views the values we live by, such as education, human rights, tolerance, and the rule of law, as threats to be extinguished. For more than a century, this clash of values has simmered across the region. Time and again, Israel has stood on the front line of the global struggle between religious extremism and democratic ideals.
Our hope and prayer is that the weakening of Iran’s regime and its proxies will not only strengthen the security of Israel and the United States but also empower moderate voices within the Muslim world. There are countless individuals, communities, and nations striving for a future of coexistence, peace, and mutual respect. We must support them and help elevate their efforts.
As we hold our Israeli family in our hearts, let us also renew our commitment to the values that define us: defenders of human dignity, seekers of peace, and unwavering believers in the power of hope.
