Synagogue Updates

Good morning! 

If you have students in Religious School this morning or just love learning Torah, come study with Michael Elkins along with other TBH-BE community members at 11:00 AM on selective Sundays. In this hevruta style learning you will speak about the greatest, most meaningful Torah stories, concepts, and what they can teach us about ourselves and our daily actions. 

Future class dates: Oct 24 | Nov 7 | Dec...Read more...

Shabbat Shalom,

We hope that Rosh Hashanah was meaningful for you. We appreciate everyone that joined us in person, online and everything in between.  We would love any feedback you have on Rosh Hashanah, this is also our opportunity to make small changes in our High Holiday experience (for example, based off of participant feedback, we reoriented our outdoor viewing tent for the second day of RH and are moving our Teen service...Read more...

L'Shanah Tovah,

As you know, we have numerous service options for the High Holidays this year, from in person indoors, to in person outdoors, to online. Our full, detailed High Holiday schedule is available here. High Holiday Tickets were mailed earlier in the week and you should have them in your mailbox as of today. A more detailed High Holiday Schedule with locations and parking information will be emailed with my Sunday...Read more...

Happy Sunday!

First some logistics: High Holiday Tickets will be mailed at the end of this week/beginning of next week. There will be only one type of ticket for everyone attending (in the past, there were youth and guests and adults, etc) Tickets will be required for all indoor and outdoor services and will be mailed to those eligible members who have made payments on their account (if you have any questions, email me). There...Read more...

Last year, we were pleased to present Brad Aronson, author of Human Kind, as a speaker. I still highly recommend reading the book, and having your family members read it, I found it very inspirational. We are exploring how we can 'systemize" acts of kindness/hesed. How do we get the requests for help, how do we activate our volunteers, what actions should we take?

Here are three examples of how this can play out: 

Thanks to our fabulous challah bakers (sign up to bake here, sign up to receive here), we were able to deliver challah to a family that just moved to the neighborhood. One of our new neighbors is the executive director of another synagogue, we have no expectation that they will join our shul, but they are our neighbors and we were happy to take the opportunity to welcome them. We want to explore how to do this for all new neighbors, Jewish and nonJewish.Read more...