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Welcome Spring to BK with Artist-in-Residence / Sacred Music PLUS So much more!

03/17/2015 08:09:17 AM

Mar17

Artist-in-Residence

Gabriel Meyer Halevy ~ A Pioneer of Hebrew Sacred Music

9am  Gabriel Meyer will spend an hour with our Bet Midrash youth talking about his experiences in interfaith peace efforts and teaching new music.

10am Join us for rousing musical services with Hallel with Gabriel Meyer HaLevy including a d'var Torah on the topic of Rosh Chodesh Nisan.


12:30 - 2:30pm Sacred Music Playshop

An experiential Journey of awakening, healing & creativity of your essential & true voice through song, chant, movement, deep listening, sacred sound & interactive meditations inspiring the Divine beauty within us and around us. We will create a safe and playful space to inspire courage, flexibility & presence, drawing from the wellsprings of Kabbalistic, Sufi and other sacred wisdom nectars.

2:30 - 3:30pm  Stories and Songs
Journey with Gabriel from intimate transparency to ecstatic bliss as he shares sacred, original & healing heart songs - multilingual & world fusion music - spiced up by stories of his nomadic experiences as a cultural and interfaith bridge builder for peace.
 

Flory's Flame at the Garden State Film Festival in Atlantic City - Sunday 

Please visit www.bnaikeshet.org/flory for ticket and bus information.

Havana Curveball at the NJ Jewish Film Festival
Sunday, 5:30PM at JCC MetroWest

Bnai Keshet is proud to be a sponsor of the film Hanava Curveball, a film that explores the rocky journey of Mica, a Bar Mitzvah-aged boy as he works on his Mitzvah Project- providing baseball equipment to poor children in Cuba. 

For more information on the film, and to purchase tickets visit 
http://njjff.org/festival-guide-tickets/havana-curveball

When:  Sunday, March 22 at 5:30 PM

Where: JCC MetroWest
Maurice Levin Theater
Leon & Toby Cooperman JCC
760 Northfield Avenue • West Orange, NJ
www.jccmetrowest.org/directions

Our Schedule into Spring!



Wednesday, March 18 (Adar 27)
8:00a Meditation Minyan
1:00p Lunch & Learn 
We'll be discussing Chapter 4--"Innovative Tradition: Jewish Culture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth"--in Volume 2 of Cultures of the Jews.
4:15p Bet Midrash (3rd,4th,5th Grades)
8:00p Israel Through the Eyes of Israeli Literature
Read: Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine (March 11, 18, 25)

Thursday, March 19 (Adar 28)
7:30p Mindfulness in a Jewish Context 
8:00p Board Meeting

Erev Shabbat, March 20 (Adar 29)
7:30a Morning Minyan

Shabbat, March 21: Vayikra (Nisan 1)
9:00a Parshat Hashavua: Diving Deeper taught by Rabbi Ariann
9:00a Bet Midrash
9:00a Introduction to Judaism 
10:00a Shacharit
10:30a Pre-K Holiday Workshop: Passover
11:30a Tot Shabbat
12:30p Artist in Residence - Gabriel Meyer Halevy - Sacred Music 
2:30p Artist in Residence - Gabriel Meyer Halevy - Sacred Music 
4:00p Jewish Meditation Center

Sunday, March 22 (Nisan 2)
9:30a Dalet Family Education
9:30a Hay Family Education
4:00p Women's Rosh Hodesh Group

Monday, March 23 (Nisan 3)
5:30p Bet Midrash (6th & 7th Grade)
6:00p MESH
7:00p Vav Parents' Meeting - Orientation to B'nai Mitzvah Year 

Wednesday, March 25 (Nisan 5)
8:00a Meditation Minyan
4:15p Bet Midrash (3rd,4th,5th Grades)
8:00p Israel Through the Eyes of Israeli Literature
Read: Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine (March 11, 18, 25)

Erev Shabbat, March 27 (Nisan 7)
7:30a Morning Minyan

Shabbat, March 28: Tzav (Nisan 8)
9:00a Introduction to Judaism
9:00a Tikkun Middot
9:00a Bet Midrash
10:00a Shacharit
10:00a Sadie Reynold's Bat Mitzvah
10:30a Pre-K Holiday Workshop: Passover 
11:30a Tot Shabbat
12:30p Conversational Hebrew
4:00p Jewish Meditation Center
7:30p Giving Up Is Hard To Do / Written and Performed by Annie Abbott


 

Happy Birthday!

3/17 Tuesday Asher Myles Levy (11)
3/17 Tuesday Christian Treitler
3/17 Tuesday Lucas Peyser
3/17 Tuesday Samara Fogel
3/17 Tuesday Jaden Ruderman (11)
3/17 Tuesday Elijah Ruderman (11)
3/18 Wednesday Abigail Cohen (15)
3/18 Wednesday Rose Cohen (15)
3/19 Thursday Richard Polton
3/19 Thursday Emily Ratliff
3/20 Friday Samara Lillian Zinman (17)
3/20 Friday Regan Forman Gross
3/20 Friday Anya Cantor (6)
3/20 Friday Danielle Lerner
3/21 Saturday Stuart Brown
3/21 Saturday Emma Wotring (17)
3/21 Saturday Ileen Paley
3/21 Saturday Angel Pollack
3/21 Saturday Ally Schwartzberg (12)
3/21 Saturday Katie O'Brien-Smith (18)
3/22 Sunday Barry Berg
3/22 Sunday Ariella Sklar
3/22 Sunday Rebecca Hotz
3/24 Tuesday Ken Levine
3/24 Tuesday Michaela Leah Deutsch-Dornfeld (14)
3/24 Tuesday Marian Beyda Golan

Passover Reminders

2nd Night Seder at BK
Saturday, April 4th

Celebrate the 2nd Seder at BK this year with friends and family. $40/person; $10/child; $100/max per familyClick for more information and to RSVP.

BK at Habitat for Humanity
Thursday, April 9th

Take off from work, get a babysitter for the kids, reschedule your lunch date...

 

Join us for our annual date in Paterson as we help build a house! We will be schlepping, digging, giggling, hammering together with folks from other congregations

 

... we will meet at Bnai Keshet at 8 am, recite some blessings 

and then caravan to Paterson

 

Bring friends and family (16 and older) and a bagged lunch

 

Questions/RSVP Marian Golan

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BK Congregational Retreat

Sign up now, 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!

Thu, May 1 2025 3 Iyar 5785