Events
01 / 12
10:00 am
We gather in our beautiful sanctuary every Saturday at 10:00 a.m. for Shabbat Morning Services which include prayers, songs, and discussion of the weekly Torah portion. After services there is a kiddush for meeting and greeting - and, of course, eating. | ||
01 / 13
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01 / 14
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01 / 15
7:00 pm
At the corner of Midland and Portland Avenue. For more information, please contact Tom Jeszeck. | ||
01 / 16
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01 / 17
9:30 am
For parents and their infants, toddlers and/or preschoolers. BK Play Group meets Thursdays, 9:30 - 11:00 AM. For more information, contact Naomi Cohen. | ||
01 / 18
7:30 am
Prayers and camaraderie to prepare for Shabbat every Friday at 7:30 am 6:15 pm
End: 7:45 pm
BK member Jonathan Grupper gives a behind-the-scenes look at the making of You: Staying Young, the documentary he produced for the Discovery Health Channel based on best-selling authors Dr. Mehmet Oz and Dr. Michael Roizen's latest self help book. He'll share the tips to healthy living and healthy aging that he learned, and he'll describe the creative process of turning ideas into stories worth watching. Jonathan is an award-winning documentary producer, writer and director whose work has appeared on cable and broadcast television internationally. All interested adults are warmly invited. $12.00 per person for dinner. RSVP by noon on Wednesday, 1/16. | ||
01 / 19
10:00 am
We gather in our beautiful sanctuary every Saturday at 10:00 a.m. for Shabbat Morning Services which include prayers, songs, and discussion of the weekly Torah portion. After services there is a kiddush for meeting and greeting - and, of course, eating. 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
For 8th, 9th, and 10th grade girls. (also meets 2/2) - For more information contact Education Director Amy SaNogueira, or Rabbinic Intern Daria Jacobs-Velde. | ||
01 / 20
10:30 am
End: 12:30 pm
Please join us for an introduction into how we can create a lasting endowment that benefits all of the congregants of Bnai Keshet. Barry Nove, the Director of Development at JRF will advise us on how we can make our synagogue a financially healthy institution. As our synagogue continues to grow, we will need an established endowment at Bnai Keshet, which will help off-set the many costs associated with the great programming that is offered to adults, teens and our children. The bagels, danish, coffee, and juice are on us. RSVP to the BK office. Check out JRF's new Planned Giving website at http://www.jrfplannedgiving.org/. 7:00 pm
Rabbi Goldsmith is Professor of Yiddish and Jewish Studies at Queens College and Rabbi of M'vakshe Derech, the Reconstructionist shul in Scarsdale. He was a long time student of both Mordechai Kaplan and Joshua Heschel, and wrote an introduction to Dynamic Judaism, a collection of writings by Kaplan. His views on liturgy, services, prayer, and Reconstructionism are eye-opening and refreshing. All interested congregants are welcome to attend. You can meet Manny electronically at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jkO1Ys0rtU. | ||
01 / 21
Montclair African American Clergy Association's Martin Luther King Day Service at Emanuel AME Church
12:00 pm
Noon at Emanuel AME Church, 15 Hartley St., Montclair. Those who attended last year will attest to the awesome singing. Parking is available at Mt. Carmel Church across the street from the AME Church. | ||
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01 / 24
9:30 am
For parents and their infants, toddlers and/or preschoolers. BK Play Group meets Thursdays, 9:30 - 11:00 AM. For more information, contact Naomi Cohen. | ||
01 / 25
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01 / 26
10:00 am
We gather in our beautiful sanctuary every Saturday at 10:00 a.m. for Shabbat Morning Services which include prayers, songs, and discussion of the weekly Torah portion. After services there is a kiddush for meeting and greeting - and, of course, eating. 12:30 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Larry Bush has been a creative force in the American Jewish community as an author, essayist, visual artist and magazine editor for nearly three decades. He edits Jewish Currents, was a speechwriter for a dozen years for Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, the late leader of Reform Judaism in America, and also served for thirteen years as the founding editor of the JRF magazine, Reconstructionism Today. He was the editor and commentator on the millennium edition of Leo Rosten's classic The Joys of Yiddish. Bush's newest book explores the generational factors that led baby-boomers down the path of spirituality. Join us for a stimulating morning | ||
01 / 27
10:30 am
Please RSVP to Julie Raskin if you plan to attend. "The title of this moving, well-crafted book refers to a tree in the backyard of a home in Ramala. The home is currently owned by Dalia, a Jewish woman whose family of Holocaust survivors emigrated from Bulgaria. But before Israel gained its independence in 1948, the house was owned by the Palestinian family of Bashir, who meets Dalia when he returns to see his family home after the Six-Day War of 1967. 3:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
 Black Gold is a movie about the exploitation of coffee growers and the environmental degradation which occurs during coffee production. It is free and open to BK members and anyone from the community. There will be Fair Trade coffee and teas available for purchase. See the Black Gold Movie Trailer at YouTube. | ||
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01 / 31
9:30 am
For parents and their infants, toddlers and/or preschoolers. BK Play Group meets Thursdays, 9:30 - 11:00 AM. For more information, contact Naomi Cohen. | ||
02 / 1
7:30 am
Prayers and camaraderie to prepare for Shabbat every Friday at 7:30 am 6:30 pm
 If as Maimonides wrote, each of us must write a scroll of the Torah for ourselves, how do we as LGBT Reconstructionist Jews and our families truly make the Torah our own? Please join the Pride Havurah for Shabbat dinner and lively discussion as we explore this question. Dinner begins at 6:30 PM, child care and supervised activities begin at 6:45 PM through the end of Kabbalat Keshet services. Our discussion begins at 7:00 PM (children are welcome to attend and participate in the discussion). Prior RSVP required for dinner. | ||
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02 / 3
2:30 pm
End: 4:30 pm
 This is a free workshop open to any congregation in the greater Montclair area. It will help houses of worship develop a more efficient and sustainable energy plan. Please tell your friends from other congregations. This workshop is sponsored by the BK Greening Synagogue Project. For more information about GreenFaith, visit their website at www.greenfaith.org. | ||
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02 / 7
9:30 am
For parents and their infants, toddlers and/or preschoolers. BK Play Group meets Thursdays, 9:30 - 11:00 AM. For more information, contact Naomi Cohen. | ||
02 / 8
7:30 am
Prayers and camaraderie to prepare for Shabbat every Friday at 7:30 AM 6:15 pm
 If you are thinking about summer camp for your kids this season, or reminiscing about your own summers long past, or just looking for a musical Shabbat service with lots of ruach (spirit), join us as Camp JRF comes to BK. Experience a taste of Shabbat as celebrated at Camp JRF, the residential summer camp of the Reconstructionist Movement, listed as one of the Top Ten Summer Camps in the Jan/Feb issue of Jewish Living Magazine. Lively musical services led by Rabbis Jeff Eisenstat and Elliott Tepperman and Rabbinic intern Ezra Weinberg. Meet campers and counselors; learn about camp; sing and dance. All are welcome and encouraged to attend. Dinner to follow services. RSVP to the BK office for Shabbat dinner. Click on the attachment below to see our flyer. | ||
02 / 9
10:00 am
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Tot Shabbat (0-4 years) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Simchat Shabbat (K-2nd grade) 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Junior Congregation (3rd-6th grade) 10:00 am
We gather in our beautiful sanctuary every Saturday at 10:00 a.m. for Shabbat Morning Services which include prayers, songs, and discussion of the weekly Torah portion. After services there is a kiddush for meeting and greeting - and, of course, eating. Please join us this week as we celebrate a Bar Mitzvah. | ||
02 / 10
10:30 am
For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful, and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. For sixty years they have been left alone, neglected and half-forgotten in a backwater of history. Now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end: once again the tides of history threaten to sweep them up and carry them off into the unknown. | ||
02 / 11
8:00 pm
 "It's the 21st century. Do you know where your children are?" We'll explore the makeup of American Jews by denomination, age, affiliation, income, occupation, etc., and a comparison of American Jews to each other and to the American population as a whole will be discussed. We will use several non-denominational surveys for the data and attempt to determine directions and trends in contemporary Jewish life. We'll also look into some of the alternative Jewish activities of young Jews who wish to retain Jewish identity without any specific religious or organizational affiliation. All are welcome. For more info or to be added to our email list contact the BK office. | ||
