Events
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. | ||
02 / 12
8:00 pm
 Birthright has now taken 160,000 young people from 52 nations on a ten day trip to Israel. Just to give some perspective on this statistic --More people go on Birthright each year than have a Bar or Bat Mitzvah. Six months ago Rabbi Brenner took on the job of Vice President of Education at the Birthright Israel Foundation. Now his task is to develop educational programming for the 110,000 plus U.S. based participants. It has raised a ton of questions: What should the relationship of young people in the U.S. be to Israel? What relationship should they have to Jewish life in the Diaspora? Are those two things in tension with one another? What does Reconstructionism have to say about all of this? | ||
02 / 13
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02 / 14
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 / 15
7:30 am
Prayers and camaraderie to prepare for Shabbat every Friday at 7:30 AM 6:15 pm
 Rich Kuperman will be our guest this month. He is the Coordinator of Volunteer Services for the Jewish Family Service of MetroWest New Jersey. Rich comes to JFS with an extensive and diverse résumé of volunteer leadership roles within both the Jewish and secular communities. He will cover for us the importance of volunteering and receiving volunteer services, Friend Advocate program, Friendly Visiting program, Telephone Reassurance program, Care Link program, and a Q and A game about intergenerational relationships. Rich assures us we will not be bored! All interested adults are warmly invited. Prior RSVP required for dinner. | ||
02 / 16
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 / 17
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02 / 18
7:30 pm
 Lydia Aizenberg has been giving tours of the "green line," "the fence," and what she calls "limboland" for Givat Haviva, Jewish - Arab Center for Peace in the Galilee, for the past decade. She will speak about the ongoing evolution of the Galilee as evidenced by Barta'a, a city split in half by the green line, closed off by Jordan in 1948, and then reopened in 1967. It now finds itself half in Palestinian Territory and half in Israel, where one can find Jewish Settlers and Palestinians living side by side. Come with your curiosity for a veteran Israeli activist and freelance journalist. | ||
02 / 19
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02 / 21
9:30 am
For parents and their infants, toddlers and/or preschoolers. BK Play Group meets Tuesdays at 10:00 AM. For more information, contact Naomi Cohen at naomic@comcast.net. | ||
02 / 22
7:30 am
Prayers and camaraderie to prepare for Shabbat every Friday at 7:30 AM | ||
02 / 23
10:00 am
Please join the Bnai Keshet community for a special participatory Shabbat morning service during which we welcome our newer members and celebrate the growth of our community! Everyone is welcome! During our Meet & Greet Kiddush, newer members (and anyone simply looking to be reacquainted) will nosh and schmooze with BK's founding families, long time members and lots of other friendly people, all of whom are eager to get to know you better! | ||
02 / 24
2:00 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. You can meet Manny electronically at: You Tube. All interested congregants are welcome to attend. | ||
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02 / 28
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 / 29
7:30 am
Prayers and camaraderie to prepare for Shabbat every Friday at 7:30 AM | ||
03 / 1
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. 10:00 am
As part of Rabbi Elliott's Spring series, The Challenge of Prayer, a number of services will be dedicated to exploring alternative modes of prayer. All of our explorations will be related to the course readings and are intended to help bring some the theory down-to-earth. Hopefully they will be opportunities for us to explore different modes of prayer, some new and some very old, that will deepen our communities spiritual practice. | ||
03 / 2
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03 / 3
8:00 pm
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At our February meeting, we looked at the distribution of American Jews along denominational, age, marriage, educational, income and many other lines. This month we'll explore the over 70 nontraditional Jewish groups that currently are meeting for discussion, worship and other aspects of Jewish life. These, mostly young, adult groups involve a large number of Jews. They do not join any of the established denominations but still maintain Jewish community in a variety of ways. Join us to discuss this uniquely American phenomenon. For more information, or to be added to our e-mail list, contact the BK office. | ||
03 / 4
7:45 pm
For those with beginner's knowledge, this class will help you brush up on your reading skills and get more into vocabulary and meaning. 8-10 sessions; Tuesday nights, 7:30 PM at BK. Suggested donation: $50. Contact the BK office to enroll. | ||
03 / 5
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03 / 6
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. | ||
03 / 7
7:30 am
Prayers and camaraderie to prepare for Shabbat every Friday at 7:30 AM 6:15 pm
We will have guests from Adat Shalom, a Reconstructionist congregation in Bethesda, MD. They are taking a Reconstructionist Heritage Tour, first visiting the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and talking with President Dan Ehrenkrantz. They will join us for dinner and services. Jane Susswein and others will talk about the JRF. In the morning they will leave for New York, and services and a talk at the SAJ. $12 per person. RSVP to the BK office by Wednesday 3/5. All are invited. 7:45 pm
 A delegation of four Ugandan coffee farmers representing the interfaith Peace Kawomera Cooperative will share their story of building peace through fair trade. Joab ("JJ") Keki visited BK last year, leading us in Abayudayan (Ugandan Jewish) melodies of the tehilim that brought the room to a standstill. We are honored to have him join us again, this time with his fellow co-op members and partners from Thanksgiving Coffee. BK has been brewing Mirembe Kawomera Delicious Peace Kosher Fair Trade Certified Coffee for over a year. In stock and always fresh. Available through the BK office or contact Lori Ziliotto. | ||
03 / 8
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 Bat Mitzvah. 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) | ||
