WELCOME TO BNAI KESHET

99 South Fullerton Avenue
Montclair, New Jersey
Shalom and welcome to Bnai Keshet, a spirited, friendly Reconstructionist Synagogue serving the greater Essex County area. At Bnai Keshet a diverse group of people come together to form a warm, spiritually invigorating and intellectually rigorous Jewish community.
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JRF NY/NJ Evening of Celebration Honoring Linda Jum & Ellen Kolba
Eldridge Street Synagogue on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Enjoy a concert of World Jewish music which spans cultures and continents with Avram Pengas.The night will honor leaders of our congregations, the Reconstructionist movement, and the global community with the Moreh Derech Award for "The Ones Who Show Us the Path." Those honored include BK's own Ellen Kolba and Linda C Jum. Linda will be honored with the Yehudit Award for Creativity and Service.
For details or to make your reservation, call 212.870.2483 or email events@jrf.org
Nicholas Wade, Author of The Faith Instinct
(Penguin Press, 2009), which traces the evolution and cultural development of religion. Mr. Wade was born in 1942 in Aylesbury, England and educated at Eton and at King’s College, Cambridge. He received a B.A. degree in Natural Sciences in 1964.
Dinner, Discussion and Documentary: “Killing Kasztner,” NJ Jewish Film Festival
by arranging for a train to transport them to Switzerland. He did thi
s by negotiating with the Nazis including face to face meetings with Adolph Eichmann. In the 1950’s he fought a vicious libel battle in a trial in which he was portrayed as a Nazi collaborator and found guilty. After the trial he was assassinated.
Over time it was acknowledged that the Jewish Agency worked with Kasztner and he was exonerated by Israel’s Supreme Court.
His granddaughter made this film to shed a contemporary light on the subject that has condemned the family for generations.
Shabbat Guest Barbara Ribakove Gordon of the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry
In 1982, a handful of dedicated men and women met in Barbara Ribakove Gordon’s New York apartment to organize the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry (NACOEJ). Today, under her leadership, NACOEJ has some 50,000 supporters and a record of having rescued thousands of Ethiopian Jews from famine, civil war and persecution.
Ah Farbrengen! Get Together with Story Tellers, Singers, Musicians...
Jewish Visiers? Was Esther Blue? with Rabbi Burton Visotzky and Siona Benjamin
In eleventh-century North Africa, Jews and Muslims enjoyed a period of remarkable harmony. In Egypt, the vizier to the Caliph was a Jew; while in the Kingdom of Grenada, the vizier was a rabbi! Across North Africa, Jews traded, studied, and lived in a “Golden Age.” Rabbi Burt Visotzky will tell the story of those halcyon days, known primarily through the discovery a century ago of the Cairo Genizah—a cache of books, letters, and documents describing the lives and loves of the common Jews in vivid detail. His most recent book A Delightful Compendium of Consolation, is a historical novel depicting this era in the Medieval Mediterranean. TORAH READERS - We are looking for those who are able to read and those who would like a refresher course
o you, please contact us immediately: Roberta Elliott and Nathan Goldwasser. We're very interested in widening the circle of readers to help make our synagogue more inclusive. To that end, we will be making assignments well in advance, so you have time to prepare, and even read directly from the Torah, if you choose, though reading from the Humash is more than acceptable! If you need a review class, please see below.Celebrate by Sponsoring a Kiddush!!!
"BK KIDDUSH FOR SHMENDRICKS"; a calendar which shows the available dates; and an easy to complete online request form.
Don't forget to click on the Blog, which has a delightful posting entitled, "What's a Kiddush Have to do With It?"

