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About Shir Ami
Shir Ami is a Reform congregation comprising of over 900 families, couples and individuals in Newtown, Pennsylvania, where it has become a center for Jewish life in the Bucks County area. Our congregation has achieved remarkable growth and made great strides in the few years since our founding in 1976. Our professional staff has grown to include a Senior and Assistant Rabbi, Cantor, Executive Director, Director of Education, Youth Director and Program Director—Bar/Bat Mitzvah Coordinator.
Our beautiful  synagogue building has also grown to meet the pace of a rapidly expanding program of spiritual, educational, and communal activities for every member of every synagogue family. We take pride in our educational programs for preschool children, younger students and adults as well as our first-rate youth, outreach and young families programming. Our "Fifty-Something," Men's Club, Sisterhood and Youth groups respond to the needs of seniors, men and women of all ages and children from third grade up through high school and college. We are most particularly proud of being one of the first congregations to be a certified "Lehiyot" congregation—approved as fully-accessible and responsive to the needs of our "special" congregants.
Our worship services are varied and directed at the spiritual needs of many different individuals and groups within the congregation, always seeking to educate our congregants to become more comfortable with prayer. We are a "traditional-leaning" Reform congregation which loves to sing, has strong volunteer Adult and Youth Choirs and enjoys a creative interplay between the new and the old, the familiar and the innovative.
At Shir Ami, we are blessed with a high level of congregant activism and involvement and are ably led by a dedicated cadre of volunteer leaders. We aim always to forge a warm and personal connection with all members of our "holy community" and are particularly concerned to reach out to those who may be overlooked in other Jewish and communal settings.
In publishing this "web page," it is our hope to stay in closer contact with members of our congregation, provide a link to home for our college students, introduce ourselves to others in our area and across the country and to serve as a gateway for further Jewish learning.
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