Groups
TASTY – TAS Temple Youth
TASTY (Temple Ahavat Shalom Temple Youth) is a warm, welcoming, and inclusive community that builds captivating, empowering, and inspiring programming through youth engagement. Our youth groups are designed to provide fun social opportunities for our students while fostering leadership, strengthening Jewish identify, reinforcing values, and creating friendships and memories that last a lifetime.
TAS has a youth group for every age: • Senior TASTY (grades 8-12) • Junior TASTY (grades 6-7) • Club 345 (grades 3-5)
Senior TASTY (8th-12th grade) meets every other Tuesday for Lounge Nights. Lounge Nights are planned and led by an elected board of teens and the Youth Advisor. They range from paint night, trivia, potluck pool parties, and more! Throughout the year there are also events scheduled with other synagogue youth groups, retreats, and overnights.
In addition to our Senior TASTY program, we have Club 345 (grades 3-5) and Junior TASTY (grades 6-7) which are programs that encourage younger students to meet and socialize with their peers. Each of these youth groups provides regular, age-appropriate events and activities that foster socializing with Judaism, social action, and contemporary themes.
Groups
TAS Sisterhood
Sisterhood is a diverse group of women spanning all ages and backgrounds, with varying hobbies and interests who come together for friendship, camaraderie and the opportunity to fulfill ourselves as Jewish women.
Groups
Men of TAS
The Men of Temple Ahavat Shalom (MoTAS) is an auxiliary of Temple Ahavat Shalom
Contact Alyce Caskey and Lynn Miles
Alumni Outreach Co-Chairs
Groups
Alumni Outreach
Thank you for your interest in the TAS Alumni Outreach Program.
This program is set up to keep in touch with our TAS Alums (aged between 18 and 24) as they embark on their new journeys. We keep in touch by sending them celebratory care packages throughout the year. Having children that benefited from this program, we recognize its importance.
We would appreciate the community’s help by remembering the TAS Alumni Program when making honorary and memorial contributions. All donations can be made directly thru this website via the donate page, select “Alumni Outreach Fund” from the drop down menu options.
Lastly, if you have an alum and want him or her to partake in this program, please click here and answer all the pertinent questions so they can be included in our distribution list.
Groups
Book Group
TAS Book Group selections consist of fiction and non-fiction written by Jewish authors or about Jewish subjects. Books are carefully chosen for their literary value and interest to men and women alike.
Meetings take place via Zoom on the second Thursday of the month from September through June. The discussion begins promptly at 7:00 p.m. Two of the sessions; October 9, 2025, and January 8, 2026, will take place at 2:00pm at TAS in the Chapel.
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Sep 11
The Submission
Amy Waldman
Facilitator: Tyree Wieder
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Oct 9 – 2:00pm @ TAS
The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss
Margalit Fox
Facilitator: Laura Graff
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Nov 13
Hotel Cuba
Aaron Hamburger
Facilitator: Phyllis Bass
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Dec 11
Story of a Secret State
Jan Karski
Facilitator: Wendy Alter
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Jan 8 @TAS 2:00PM
Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad
Peter J. Hotez
Facilitator: Hal Bass
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Feb 12
The Wolf Hunt
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Facilitator:
Joyce Edelson -
Mar 12
Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church
Kevin Sack
Facilitator: Cathy Meyers
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April 9
Goyhood
Reuven Fenton
Facilitator:
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May 14
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Tony Horowitz
Facilitator: Cathy Meyers
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June 11
The Little Liar
Mitch Albom
Facilitator: Cheri Neiman
