Welcome to
TEMPLE AHAVAT SHALOM
1575 Curlew Road
Palm Harbor, FL 34683
727-785-8811
FAX: 727-785-8822
Temple Ahavat Shalom is an inclusive Reform Jewish Community filled with warmth, joy and purpose. Our Temple is a second home for our members, a place where people of all ages can relate comfortably with one another in an atmosphere of sensitivity and caring.
At Temple Ahavat Shalom we are dedicated to ensuring the continuity of Judaism as a force for good in the world and to enhancing our spiritual lives through religious services, cultural celebrations, and social activities. We educate our children and adults both in the classroom and through activities in the greater Jewish and general communities.
Temple Ahavat Shalom serves the Jewish communities in Dunedin, Clearwater, Palm Harbor, Belleair, Tarpon Springs, Holiday, New Port Richey, Port Richey, Hudson, West Tampa, Lutz, and Odessa.
We warmly welcome all who wish to participate in Jewish worship, study, and fellowship.
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The honor is all ours…
Temple to celebrate
Rabbi Klein’s
25th anniversary
For 25 years Rabbi Klein has been our spiritual and moral compass, guided us through life cycle events, nurtured our congregation’s Jewish education, consoled and encouraged congregants, represented us in the community and firmly established Temple Ahavat Shalom as our second home. Now, as Rabbi Gary Klein marks his 25th anniversary as our spiritual leader, it is time for us to say thank you with a gala celebration of his accomplishments Nov. 16 and 17. The weekend’s events will begin with a special Friday evening service honoring the Rabbi and his family; followed by an oneg to highlight the occasion. Then, on Saturday night, we will continue with a dinner celebrating the Rabbi’s 25 years of dedication to his congregation in the Great Room of Ruth Eckerd Hall.
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by Jonathan Segal The year 70 BCE, the most valuable place to the Jewish people was destroyed. The second temple and everything that came along with it was demolished, leaving the Jewish people without a religious center in the world. Although the temple was destroyed, the west wall of the complex remained standing and to this day this wall is remembered as the greatest physical evidence of prosperous Jewish life before the Common Era. Today, the Western Wall stands for many things and for many people. To some people the wall stands for history, loss, or victory while to others [...]
Shavuot is not the first holiday that comes to mind when someone asks me about Jewish holidays. When I’m asked about my faith, I usually talk about Shabbat services and dinner with my family, regaling them with stories about my family’s obsession with making the utmost of the roast chicken we have every Shabbat (it’s an Olympic sport in my family). Yet as we approach Shavuot, more and more I think it exemplifies much of the best that Judaism has to offer. On Shavuot we celebrate the handing down of the Ten Commandments to Moses at Mt. Sinai with a [...]
It was just a year ago when I had the opportunity to be part of the listening campaign of the Campaign for Youth Engagement with the WRJ District Presidents during their annual retreat to Kutz Camp. Last year these women shared their unique and powerful stories about a time when an interaction with a young person influenced their lives.
by Cantor Deborah Katchko Gray In the new home of the National Museum of American Jewish History, a Women Cantors’ Network postcard shares space in a display case with one of Bella Abzug’s hats. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined such a pairing. Likewise, in early 1982, neither could I have imagined the founding of the Women Cantors’ Network. During the spring of 1981, as one of only two women cantors serving Conservative congregations, I attended the Cantors Assembly convention. A fourth generation cantor, I’d previously attended the convention with my father when I was a college [...]
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