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Advancing the Dream in 2016: Going Back is Not an Option!

Joint Interfaith Service to commemorate [Martin Luther] King's vision, encourage local and immediate participation through word and song." Sponsored by the Montclair African American Clergy Association, the Montclair Clergy Association, the Montclair NAACP and the Montclair 4th Ward Collaborative. Pastor Jevon Caldwell-Gross, of St. Mark's United Methodist Church, will serve as the event's keynote speaker.   The service will take place in Union Baptist Church, 14 Midland Ave., on Monday, Jan. 18, at 12 p.m. The service is free and open to the public.

Further down in the email ...... Donate blood at BK   Congregational Dinners   Keshet Community Training

What's Happening at BK

Shabbat Morning - This Week

Adult Bet Midrash class: Shiva etiquette: listen and tread lightly 9:00am Anat Levin Katzir, expert in Israel education, will speak at the synagogue’s Kaplan Minyan on “LGBTQ Issues in Israel.” The Kaplan Minyan begins at 10:30am in Red Gables. Shabbat Morning Services in the sanctuary 10:00am

Tuesday, January 12 (Shevat 2) 8:00a BK Office Closed 6:30p Teens Wednesday, January 13 (Shevat 3) 8:00a Meditation Minyan 4:15p Bet Midrash (3rd to 5th Grades) Thursday, January 14 (Shevat 4) 7:30p Chevra Chinuch Meeting Erev Shabbat, January 15 (Shevat 5) 7:30a Morning Minyan Shabbat, January 16: Bo (Shevat 6) No Youth Bet Midrash 9:00a Shiva etiquette: listen and tread lightly 10:00a Shacharit 10:30a Kaplan Minyan 4:00p Jewish Meditation Center Monday, January 18 (Shevat 8) 10:00a Akiva-Lev Tepperman Bar Mitzvah Please note that the parking lot will be closed and on street parking is limited. Please consider car pools and walking No Bet Midrash 6:00p MESH Tuesday, January 19 (Shevat 9) 8:00a BK Office Closed 6:30p Teens Wednesday, January 20 (Shevat 10) 8:00a Meditation Minyan 4:15p Bet Midrash (3rd to 5th Grades) Thursday, January 21 (Shevat 11) 8:00p Board Meeting Erev Shabbat, January 22 (Shevat 12) 7:30a Morning Minyan 8:00p Scholar in Residence - Rabbi David Jaffe Shabbat, January 23: Beshalach (Shevat 13) No Gimmel Bet Midrash No Vav Bet Midrash 9:00a Scholar in Residence - Rabbi David Jaffe 9:00a Bet Midrash 10:00a Shacharit 10:30a Pre-K Holiday Workshop: Tu B'Shevat 11:00a Scholar in Residence - Rabbi David Jaffe 12:30p Conversational Hebrew 4:00p Jewish Meditation Center Sunday, January 24 (Shevat 14) 9:30a Vav Family Education 9:30a Gimmel Family Education 10:00a Scholar in Residence - Rabbi David Jaffe Monday, January 25: Tu B'Shvat (Shevat 15) 5:30p Bet Midrash (6th to 8th Grade)  6:00p MESH 8:00p Tikkun Middot Continuing Tuesday, January 26 (Shevat 16) 8:00a BK Office Closed Wednesday, January 27 (Shevat 17) 8:00a Meditation Minyan 4:15p Bet Midrash (3rd to 5th Grades) Erev Shabbat, January 29 (Shevat 19) 7:30a Morning Minyan 8:00p Men Who Cook & Other Things Come to a men's night out at BK to see a screening of Deli Man. Shabbat, January 30: Yitro (Shevat 20) 9:00a Fundamentals of Prayer with Rabbi Elliott 9:00a Bet Midrash 10:00a Zayin Class Shabbat 10:00a Shacharit 10:30a Pre-K Holiday Workshop: Tu B'Shevat 4:00p Jewish Meditation Center 5:30p Bet Havdalah Dinner  Sunday, January 31 (Shevat 21) 1:00p Keshet Community Training - Registration Required 1:00p 2016 New York Day of Learning     Read the Shabbat Flyer Now

Time to sign up for Congregational Dinners!

for cocktails, dinner and dessert             save the date!  mark your calendars now! 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.    Leave the matchmaking to us for a unique BK evening.   How does this work?     Fill out this form and we'll do the rest!

Yom Huledet 1/12   Tuesday   Debbie Levy 1/13   Wednesday   Anna Kupferman (12) 1/14   Thursday   Kevin L. Fried 1/14   Thursday   Joshua Sanders 1/14   Thursday   Jeffrey Weiss 1/14   Thursday   Amanda Daveen Zinman (15) 1/14   Thursday   Aya Izraely-Levi 1/14   Thursday   Kent Lerner 1/15   Friday   Miriam Hannah Paley-Waldman (12) 1/16   Saturday   Asher Zakkai Skeen (9) 1/16   Saturday   Marc Gidal 1/16   Saturday   Ethan  Stein (10) 1/17   Sunday   Sharon Pollack 1/17   Sunday   Minal Rosenblum (14)

Donate Blood at BK Wednesday, February Wednesday, February 10th 2:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Sign up to donate blood at: www.Tinyurl.com/BnaiKeshet

Keshet Community Training

Community members, teachers, youth group leaders, and others who work with youth, are invited to join us on Sunday, January 31st from 1-3:30pm for Keshet Community Training at Bnai Keshet.     Click for more information and to register for the training   Keshet is a national grassroots organization that works for the full equality and inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Jews in Jewish life. This training is made possible by a grant from Jewish Federation Metrowest.