Purim Schpiel Wednesday, Starts at 6:15P with Vegetarian Tacos & Burritos

and now ... The real Schpiel Deal ROCK & ROLL PURIM SCHPIEL 6:15P Dinner (Vegetarian Tacos & Burritos) 7:00P Family Friendly Megilla & Schpiel 8:30P Dessert   Click here to make a donation for all of this year's Purim activities

Next Friday (3/13) at BK

Join us on Friday, March 13th, at 7:30PM as Doni Zasloff and Eric Lindberg, as the duo Nefesh Mountain, share their Bluegrass Shabbat Service that includes songs and prayers that draw from Bluegrass, Old Time, and Celtic influences. Click for more information Join us after the Bluegrass Kabbalat Shabbat, at 8:30PM on Friday, March 13th for a Friday Night Chavurah featuring congregant David Weinstein telling the story of his secret mission to the former Soviet Union as a 22 year old in 1987. Click for more information.

The full two week schedule

Click to read this week's Shabbat Flyer Now   Wednesday, March 4: Taanit Esther, Erev Purim (Adar 13) 8:00a Meditation Minyan 4:15p Bet Midrash (3rd,4th,5th Grades)  6:15p Purim Schpiel 7:30p Race, Justice and Liberation - An Interfaith Bible Study Series at Union Baptist Church Thursday, March 5: Purim (Adar 14) 7:30p Mindfulness in a Jewish Context  Erev Shabbat, March 6: Shushan Purim (Adar 15) 7:30a Morning Minyan Shabbat, March 7: Ki Tisa (Adar 16) 9:00a Tikkun Midot - Kavod/Honor, with Rabbi Elliott 9:00a Bet Midrash 9:00a Introduction to Judiasm 10:00a Post-B'nai Mitzvah Torah Study with Rabbi Daniel Brenner  10:00a Shacharit 10:00a Emma Kugelmass' Bat Mitzvah 10:30a Pre-K Holiday Workshop: Passover 11:30a Tot Shabbat 4:00p Jewish Meditation Center 5:30p St. Paul's Men's Shelter Dinner - Click to volunteer Sunday, March 8 (Adar 17) 4:30p International Women's Day Celebration Monday, March 9 (Adar 18) 5:30p Bet Midrash (6th & 7th Grade) 6:00p MESH 8:00p Shiva Minyan Leader Training   A two-part Shiva Minyon Leader Workshop: Wednesday, March 9th and 16th - Taught by Rabbi Ariann and facilitated by others.   Brush up on leading the service and the role of the leader.   If you're a pro, want to brush-up, or are a burgeoning leader - You are most welcome to join us.   If you think of others who can lead Shiva Minyanim with a little help from friends, please let them or us know.   Wednesday, March 11 (Adar 20) 8:00a Meditation Minyan 4:15p Bet Midrash (3rd,4th,5th Grades) 7:30p Race, Justice and Liberation - An Interfaith Bible Study Series 8:00p Israel Through the Eyes of Israeli Literature   Read: Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine (March 11, 18, 25 - 2015) Thursday, March 12 (Adar 21) 7:30p Mindfulness in a Jewish Context Erev Shabbat, March 13 (Adar 22) 7:30a Morning Minyan 6:30p Kitah Hay Class Dinner - Click NOW to RSVP   7:30p Kabbalat Bluegrass Shabbat with Doni Zasloff & Eric Lindberg 8:30p JEWISH SPIES AND ACTIVISTS IN THE SOVIET UNION with David Weinstein Shabbat, March 14: Vayakhel-Pekudei (Adar 23) 9:00a Bet Midrash 9:00a Torah Study with Jessica Siegel 9:00a Introduction to Judiasm 9:00a Chanting with Melissa Schaffer 10:00a Shacharit 10:00a Gabriel Santiago's Bar Mitzvah 10:30a Pre-K Holiday Workshop: Passover 11:30a Tot Shabbat 12:30p Conversational Hebrew 4:00p Jewish Meditation Center Sunday, March 15 (Adar 24) 9:30a Hay Family Education 11:00a Gimmel Family Education - Museum Trip

Happy Birthday

Yom Huledet   יום הולדת Marina Budhos Tuesday, March 03, 2015 Laurie Waite-Fellner Tuesday, March 03, 2015 Moshe Goldsmith (12) Wednesday, March 04, 2015 Adam Laboz Wednesday, March 04, 2015 Will Harris Novak (13) Wednesday, March 04, 2015 Lauren Alyssa Novak (13) Wednesday, March 04, 2015 Larry Kramer Thursday, March 05, 2015 Jesse Schwimmer Friday, March 06, 2015 Max Bohnel Friday, March 06, 2015 Benjamin Samuel Hertog (14) Friday, March 06, 2015 Diana Jeffrey Friday, March 06, 2015 C. Lynn Carr Friday, March 06, 2015 Andrea Rawicz Friday, March 06, 2015 Anne Gelman Friday, March 06, 2015 Ellen Friedland Saturday, March 07, 2015 Andy Marshall-Petricoff Sunday, March 08, 2015 Michael Hotz Monday, March 09, 2015 Guthrie Joseph Siwinski (10) Monday, March 09, 2015

March 21 at BK Celebrate the first day of Spring with Sacred Music and a friendly dinner

Join us on March 21st for an Artist in Residence weekend with Gabriel Meyer Halevy, a pioneer of Hebrew sacred music.  Click for more information and times. On March 21st, The tradition lives on...Once a year, small dinner parties are held in members‘ homes throughout BK-land, mixing long-time and new members, active and no-so-active, all our generations and demographics. Good food and talk with people you may not know well and others you haven’t connected with for a while. Click to host or be hosted!

Don't Miss these BK Treats

FLORY’S FLAME AT THE GARDEN STATE FILM FESTIVAL Sunday, March 22.  See the documentary Flory’s Flame – The Story of Judeo-Spanish Musician Flory Jagoda and Her Celebration Concert at the Resorts Hotel  and Casino (Horizon Room) in Atlantic City. A charter bus will be leaving at 10 am from the BK parking lot. Click for film and bus ticket information. Join us at Ner Tamid on Saturday, March 28th for a performance of Giving Up is  Hard to Do, an acclaimed production by Annie Abbott, a former BK member. Please click for details and to purchase tickets. Save the Weekend, Friday May, 1st to Sunday, May 3rd!   Come join your BK community at lovely Camp JRF in the Poconos for a retreat that is unique, fun, educational, spiritual, social, and so much more! This will be a wonderful opportunity to spend time with old and new friends in a relaxed atmosphere. Click for more information and to sign-up!