Your Temple Beth El Family wishes you
a joyous Hanukkah celebration.
Upcoming Programs
Hanukkah Latke Party
Sponsored by TBE Sisterhood
Saturday, December 8
6:00 p.m. Dinner
7:30 p.m. Havdalah Service
Featuring the TBE Youth Choir and the Moody Jews
Delicious homemade latkes, salads, desserts
No host bar and soft drinks
$18/adults; $9/children ages 3-12; Free for children under 3
Space is limited! Reservations are required!
Please mail checks to Ellie Zamos. Checks made payable to TBE Sisterhood.
Contact Ellie Zamos with questions.
Hanukkah at Terranea
Wednesday, December 5
6:30 p.m.
Terranea Resort
100 Terranea Way, RPV
Join Temple Beth El, our TBE Youth & Teen Choirs and the Moody Jews as we celebrate Hanukkah.
Make reservations for dinner at any of the hotel’s restaurants following the candle lighting and enjoy complimentary childcare at the Terranea Kid’s Club.
ROMEOs and Jewliettes
(Retired Old Men Eating Out)
Tomorrow
Wednesday, November 28
12:30 p.m.
Think Cafe
302 W. 5th Street, San Pedro
All are welcome, TBE membership not required. There are no dues, just the opportunity to meet and eat regularly with a group of like-minded people. For more information, please contact Irv Siegelman.
The Exciting Complexity of Life, Death, and In-Between: Medical Ethics and Jewish Law A Three-Session Adult Learning Series with Rabbi Douglas Kohn
Class continues on Thursdays
November 29 and December 6
6:00 p.m.
Bring Your Own Dinner
Dessert & Beverages Provided
What is life, itself, when does it begin, and what are our ethical obligations to life and our bodies? When is death, itself, can we hasten it or forfend against it? These questions, and more, have spurred Jewish thinking and legal decision-making from the time of the early rabbinic sages to the present, and still warrant profound consideration.
Rabbi Kohn has addressed these issues for a decade in sessions and seminars around the country and around the world, stemming in part from his own episode with cancer, and from writing/editing two volumes, Life, Faith and Cancer and Broken Fragments: Jewish Experiences of Alzheimer’s Disease through Diagnosis, Adaptation and Moving On.
Sisterhood Camperships and the Bill Gren Campership Fund are available to our TBE Torah School students who need financial assistance to attend a Jewish summer camp. Please email or write a note to request these scholarships.
For Sisterhood Camperships, please contact Susan Goldstein.
For the Bill Gren Campership Fund, please contact Linda Gren.
First-time campers can receive scholarship grants up to $1000 from One Happy Camper. Click here for the website.
Please remember that URJ Camp Newman will match ALL
TBE Scholarship Money dollar for dollar.
URJ Six Points Camps will match up to their cap.
Help TBE’s Caring Community
Caring for one another is our obligation as Jews. By responding to the calls of our fellow TBE members is a way for each of us to reply “Hineini” here I am.
The Caring Committee reaches out to congregants when there has been a death in the family, when a ride is needed for a medical procedure, or a meal after a hospital stay. But Without You, We Are One Volunteer Short!
The Caring Community invites you to help us realize our goal of having every congregant be a member of our Caring Community. The Caring Community is an unusual committee, because to be a “member,” you only need to be a member of TBE. When we are made aware of a congregant in need you will receive an email from a Caring Community chair, asking for your help. Please respond if you can, when we perform a mitzvah for others, we strengthen them, our entire community and ourselves.
To join the committee or for more information, please contact Gail Burch.
Torah School Needs Volunteers
Do you love children and want to have some fun?
We NEED YOU in the front office during Torah School days!
Shop online & raise money for our Torah School at the same time!
Temple Beth El will earn money for every purchase you make at Amazon.com. This can only happen if you use our special link, so we get the credit for your purchase. We raised over $1100 for our Torah School last year!
Religous Action Center of Reform Judaism (RAC)
Civic Engagement
Every Congregation Counts
Every Vote Counts
Please click here for an abbreviated introduction to the RAC’s Civic Engagement initiative that we will be working on through November.
The TBE Social Justice Committee is working to use the three pillars to engage the TBE community.
Copy and Print Services Now Available at TBE
Get your copying and printing done with people you know and trust.. for half the cost!
Temple Beth El has a new copy machine and you can use it! 30¢ for color copies and 5¢ for black & white.
TBE is delighted to partner with the
Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) to bring opportunities for Jewish study right to your inbox. Five days a week, the URJ publishes Ten Minutes of Torah, a daily email.
Sign up today. Be sure to include our congregation’s name and location. It only takes 10 minutes to get started on a lifetime of Jewish learning. Begin today!
If you would like to assist and be on the Oneg Committee, please contact Reva Skoll.
Participation is only once every 6 or 7 weeks.
Please contact Reva Skoll with questions and to sign up.
Sisterhood Gift Shop
The Gift Shop is open after services Fridays
and on select Sundays when there is Torah School!
Tribute Card
Send a Tribute Card to recognize an event of someone who is important to you! The Sisterhood will send your wishes – on marriage, birth, b’nai mitzvah, bereavement, get well, and more – for $3.50 per card.
Hanukkah begins 
Join Temple Beth El, our TBE Youth & Teen Choirs and the Moody Jews as we celebrate Hanukkah.
Sunday, January 27 – Cooking with Eliot Swartz
Help TBE’s Caring Community
Torah School Needs Volunteers
Torah Study
We need volunteers!
