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Hoshanah Rabbah, Shemini Atzeret Service, Simchat Torah and so much more!

10/13/2014 12:24:08 PM

Oct13

Did you miss any of Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur services?  Listen to them now!

Read the Shabbat Flyer Now!

Join Us at the Roabst

Join us on November 15th at 7pm for the Roabst of Larry Drill. A fun time featuring Lower East Side specialties and lots of laughs. Please click for more information tickets and tributes.

 

Monday, October 13: Chol Hamoed Sukkot (Tishrei 19)
5:30p Bet Midrash (6th & 7th Grade)
6:00p MESH
 


Wednesday, October 15: Hoshana Rabah (Tishrei 21)
7:30a Hoshana Rabbah 

The Original Ancient Tribal Earthy Rain Dance Jewish Ritual!

The Essential Hoshana Raba!

Hoshana Raba is the place where the deeply traditional meets the profoundly environmental, all framed perfectly for the neo-Hasidic spiritual seeker.

This year we will jump right in with the most essential elements of this hidden Jewish gem: an ultra-brief shachrit, a powerful final shake of the lulav, full and throaty Hallel, seven sefira laden – Torah circling hoshanot, concluded with beating of the willow branches and a shaking free of even the last dust of sin and spiritual distraction.  All this in under the blue sky and under an hour!

Celebrate the last day of Sukkot! Davven! Make a minyan!

Pitka Tova! – May you have a good sticky note added to your year in the book of life.

Thursday, October 16: Shmini Atzeret (Tishrei 22)
9:00a Shemini Atzeret Service

6:00p Simchat Torah Celebration
Come celebrate Simchat Torah!

Have some pizza, then clean your hands and dance with the Torahs! $10/Family for Pizza
 
Marty Fogel and his ensemble, “Thread of Blue,” will provide live music for spirited singing, dancing with the Torahs, unrolling and reading the scrolls. CLICK TO RSVP for Pizza

Erev Shabbat, October 17: Simchat Torah (Tishrei 23)
7:30a Morning Minyan
 
Shabbat, October 18: Bereshit (Tishrei 24)
9:00a Bet Midrash (Vav NO Bet Midrash for Vav ) Everyone else has Bet Midrash

9:00a Anti-Semitism and Poetry (First session)

Martin Golan will lead a discussion about some of the most famous and influential poets of the 20th century who were unapologetic anti-Semites. Most prominent are probably Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot, who espoused anti-Semitic sentiments in their lives and work.

We’ll read aloud and discuss some of Eliot and Pound’s most famous works, and talk about their anti-Semitism. How should one respond to this?

10:00a Shacharit
10:00a Emily Barkin's Bat Mitzvah
12:45p BK Reads (after Kiddush) in the Red Gables library.
 
Jacob’s Folly, Rebecca Miller                                                                                 
Jacob’s Folly is an ingenious, saucy book, brimful of sparkling, unexpected characters, that takes on desire, faith, love, acting—and reincarnation. In eighteenth-century Paris, Jacob Cerf is a Jew, a peddler of knives, saltcellars, and snuffboxes. Despite a disastrous teenage marriage, he is determined to raise himself up in life, by whatever means he can. More than two hundred years later, Jacob is amazed to find himself reincarnated as a fly in the Long Island suburbs of twenty-first-century America, his new life twisted in ways he could never have imagined. But even the tiniest of insects can influence the turning of the world, and thanks to his arrival, the lives of a reliable volunteer fireman and a young Orthodox Jewish woman nursing a secret ambition will never be the same. 

4:00p Jewish Meditation Center
Sunday, October 19 (Tishrei 25)
9:30a Vav Family Education
2:00p Golda's Balcony at NJPAC -- Advance tickets needed - Contact Carol Schlitt
7:30p Lilith Salon at the Home of Lauren & Peter Meyer, 12 S Mountain Ave Apt 28 Montclair
 
In the summer edition of Lilith, there’s a modern midrash (story) Lot’s Wife, based on the Biblical tale (You remember – she’s turned into a pillar of salt.) The original story is quite disturbing. The modern tale is the author, Michal Lemberger’s attempt to create a different version.
 
We’ll all benefit from reading the original, as well as the story in Lilith. The original text is in the Book of Genesis, parshat Vayera, chapter 19 (lines 1 – 30.) The story, Lot’s Wife, is found in the summer edition of Lilith, Volume 39 #2.  I think if we read both versions, we’ll have a fascinating discussion, comparing and contrasting!
 


Monday, October 20 (Tishrei 26)
5:30p Bet Midrash (6th & 7th Grade)
6:00p MESH

Wednesday, October 22 (Tishrei 28)
8:00a Meditation Minyan
1:00p Lunch & Learn

We will be resuming our Lunch & Learn sessions with Rabbi Ariann. Our focus this year will be Volume 2 of David Biale's Cultures of the Jews. We will discuss the first chapter on October 22nd.


4:15p Bet Midrash (3rd,4th,5th Grades)

8:00p Coffee & Conversation for Prospective Members

Coffee & Conversation for Prospective MembersLooking for a Dynamic Synagogue
with a Progressive & Creative Religious School
 
Come meet Bnai Keshet,
a diverse & welcoming community!
 
Please join Rabbi Elliott Tepperman &
Rabbi Ariann Weitzman, Assistant Rabbi and Director of Congregational Learning
for Coffee & Conversation

Thursday, October 23 (Tishrei 29)
7:30p Women's Rosh Hodesh Group 

Erev Shabbat, October 24 (Tishrei 30)
7:30a Morning Minyan
5:30p Gan/Alef Class Dinner
5:30p Kinder Keshet
 
First Kinder Keshet and Pot-Luck Dinner of 5775!
Join us for fun Shabbat activities and a tasty pot-luck dinner (or pay $18 to have your contribution catered) (parve/dairy-no nuts)  RSVP NEEDED
 

Shabbat, October 25: Noach (Cheshvan 1)
9:00a Parent Association - Bet Midrash
9:00a Bet Midrash
9:00a Tikkun Middot with Rabbi Elliott

An introduction to Tikkun Middot. Visit the Tikkun Middot page for more information.

10:00a Shacharit
12:30p Conversational Hebrew
4:00p Jewish Meditation Center
5:00p Zayin Family Ed Retreat
 

Sunday, October 26 (Cheshvan 2)
4:00p Family Folk Concert With Joel Henry Stein 
Tickets:
$20 Adults | $15 Children under 12
(Tickets are not being sold by Bnai Keshet)
 
 
BK will host Los Angeles folksinger Joel Henry Stein at a family afternoon concert open to the public.  Stein plays a unique blend of traditional Americana, bluegrass, African American spirituals, Appalachian gospel, protest songs, and Hebrew psalms, prayers, and folk songs.  He has been described by Citysearch.com as “Led Zeppelin and Bob Dylan rolled into one, making rockin' folk music that picks you up and takes you on a journey to Woody Guthrie-land, with stops in Velvet Underground-ville.”  The Houston Chronicle says he “flirts with many musical styles, flitting energetically and effortlessly from Dylan's poetic storytelling to Bowie's epic lyricism to Ben Folds Five's sassy piano-driven jaunts and all points in between.”
 
Stein, who will be stopping through Montclair on an East Coast tour, is known for getting both kids and adults enthusiastically participating in rousing sing-alongs of traditional folk songs.  For this concert, Stein has partnered with B’nai Keshet in hopes of creating a musical, multi-cultural, ecumenical experience involving not only the general public but local churches and mosques as well.  “Folk music is a great way to build community and foster peace,” says Stein.
 
From 2005-2007, Stein directed the B'nai Keshet choir, played guitar and sang at Friday night services, and occasionally even led Sabbath services when the temple’s rabbis were out of town.

Coming up on November 7th

Kabbalat Shabbat with Mama Doni at 7:30PM

Celebrate a very musical Shabbat with BK member Mama Doni and her band.

 

 

 

Tue, October 28 2025 6 Cheshvan 5786