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Join in a special South Bay Jewish community Shavuot experience that promises to be extraordinary! This on-line virtual event will be held Thursday, May 28th from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. This year’s theme of Shavuot is “Straight from Sinai: Sources of Comfort During a Trying Time.” Temple Menorah, Temple Shalom of the South Bay, Congregation […]
Friday, May 22, 2020 /28 Iyar, 5780 Parashat B’midbar Numbers 1:1−4:20 Dear Friends, This week, we begin a new book of Torah, a new chapter in the history of the Jewish people. Parashat Bamidbar literally means “in the desert.” So many of us have been feeling as though we are traversing through the Midbar these […]
Marthe Cohn’s Documentary Screening and Mazel Tov to Marthe Cohn on Her 100th Birthday!! Join Temple Beth El via Zoom for a screening of Chichinette, The Accidental Spy, TBE member Marthe Cohn’s documentary about her life as a French-Jew working as a spy in Nazi Germany, who has shared her story around the globe. The […]
Egalitarian Society, Jewish-Style The parsha of Bamidbar is generally read on the Shabbat before Shavuot, z’man matan torateinu, “the time of the giving of our law,” the revelation at Sinai. So the Sages, believing that nothing is coincidental, searched for some connection between the two. To find one is not easy. There is nothing in the […]
Z’man Matan Torah, The Gift of Interpreting Torah Cantor Ilan Davidson cantor@bethelsp.org In ancient, more orthodox days of Judaism, when somebody wanted to understand what the Torah was teaching, they would ask the Rabbi. The Rabbi would then provide them “the” answer, and they would go home, satisfied (or perhaps not) that they were “told” […]
Counting Upwards Rabbi Cassi Kail rabbikail@bethelsp.org From weekly Shabbat candle lightings with the family to virtual play dates, daily dance parties, long walks, journaling and Peloton workouts, each of us has come up with ways to cope with the Covid-19 crisis. Each of us has found activities that center us, distract us, and give us […]
Seeing Seasons Change… Mostly Racheli Morris, Director of Education TBEeducator@bethelsp.org Having lived in Boston, Massachusetts and grown up in the far north of Israel on the Golan, I have had the blessing of seeing seasons change. Mostly, in Boston, after a blizzard, you come outside like you are Noah after the flood. We are all […]
Zooming into Shavuot? Eric Imley & Gale Swartz, Co-Presidents eimley@yahoo.com swartzplace@gmail.com For the past many days, we have seen a message in our Facebook feeds, when we log on in the mornings, that Rabbi Kail has been Live on Facebook commemorating the Counting the Omer. The ancient tradition of marking the days between Passover and […]
New-Website-News Post #7 Temple Beth El’s website is celebrating its second anniversary! Like many toddlers, it has gone through some rough and tumble times, none perhaps more tumultuous than the present coronavirus pandemic, although it is fair to say that this is nothing compared to the impact these recent events have had upon all of […]
