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Temple Beth-El 2179 Highland Avenue, Birmingham, AL, United StatesA collaborative teen experience for our community's post-B'nai Mitzvah students.
A collaborative teen experience for our community's post-B'nai Mitzvah students.
Celebrate the official opening of the Beth El Civil Rights Experience! Film screening. Sampling of exhibit items on display. Southern bites and drinks! A guest panel including: Reverend Thomas Wilder (Bethel Baptist Church) Rabbi Steven Henkin (Temple Beth El) TK Thorne (Author) Dr. Jonathan Wiesen (UAB) Suzanne Bearman (Temple Beth El) Full tours will be available to book at the Celebration!
Join us to study Torah with Rabbi Wright and Cantor Wittner.
More details coming soon!
Meet us in the sanctuary for Toy Torah procession, followed by storytime and snacks, and playtime in the KidZone. Stay for lunch!
B'Yachad means together and we are excited to welcome children in grades 3-7, together with members of all generations, to our new monthly Family Shabbat service led by Rabbi Matt Dreffin. Each monthly interactive service will feature a different theme to help us connect to our Shabbat prayers and beautiful traditions. Shabbat B'Yachad Family kicks off on October 21! October's Theme is שִׂמְחָה (simchah, joy). All generations are welcome! Led by Rabbi Matt Dreffin. About Rabbi Dreffin: After earning my Masters in Jewish Education and Rabbinical Ordination I was a senior staff member in the Education Division at the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life in Jackson, Mississippi, for nine years. In 2022 I joined T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights to be their Manager of Rabbinic Education. I received the Covenant Foundation’s Pomegranate Prize in 2019, an acknowledgement of the fun-Jew-cational lens I bring to everything I lead—be it a learning session, presentation, or service. I look forward to meeting you all at Shabbat B'Yachad.
Families with children aged 5 and younger are invited to join us at 10:30 am on the 2nd Saturday of every month in the Halpern-Levitt KidZone for a fun and interactive musical Shabbat service, followed by a kid friendly kiddush lunch. November 18 - Jewish Pride Shabbat December 9 - Chanukah Tot Shabbat January 13 - "Princess/Superhero" Tot Shabbat February 10 - Dino Tot Shabbat March 9 - Pre-Purim Pizzaz April 13 - Pre-Passover Tot Shabbat May 11 - Blue and White Shabbat
Gail & Jeffrey Bayer Religious School K-7th Grade Register at: https://ourtemple.shulcloud.com/form/rs-registration-23-24.html
**THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED, DATE TBD** PJ Library Shalom Baby Playdate! For parents and children ages 0-24 mon
Learning with Rabbi Wright. The New Testament narrative presents the ideas, belief systems, trends, and rituals of the “Judaisms” during the late Second Temple period. The narrative also provides details about the development of Rabbinic Judaism, the democratization of Jewish sects, Jewish life under Roman authority, and meaningful Jewish rituals that we continue to observe today. By studying the New Testament, learners will gain greater insight into the origins of first-century “Judaisms” Therefore, the New Testament can expose and help contemporary Jews understand Judaism as practiced today more deeply. For example, New Testament Literature introduces the ritual of giving a boy his name during his circumcision: “Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. Her neighbors and relatives heard that God had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him Zechariah after his father. But his mother said, ‘No, he is to be called John’” (Lk. 1:57-59). Moreover, the New Testament also introduces the ritual of passing around the Kiddish Cup for Shabbat and other Hagim meals: “Then he took a cup, after giving thanks […]