Congregation Beth El

Welcome to our Daily Morning Minyan. For a PDF of the Siddur Sim Shalom for Weekdays this week's Torah portion from Humash Etz Hayim, please go to https://www.cbe.org/beth-el-live-services.html.

Welcome to our Daily Morning Minyan. For a PDF of the Siddur Sim Shalom for Weekdays, please go to https://www.cbe.org/beth-el-live-services.html.

Shabbat Shalom! Welcome to our Shabbat Service Morning. For a PDF of Siddur Lev Shalem for Shabbat morning and this week's Torah portion from Humash Etz Hayim, please go to https://www.cbe.org/beth-el-live-services.html.

Shabbat Shalom! Our weekly Shabbat Services provide respite for joy and renewal as we strive for routine and meaning during this pandemic and difficult times. Join us for Kabbalat Shabbat Service at 6:15 pm and Shabbat Morning Service at 9:30 am on Facebook Live on this page or via Zoom, at https://www.cbe.org/beth-el-live-services.html. #kabbalatshabbat #shabbatshalom #shabbatservices #jewishwisdom #torahreading #sandiegojewishcommunity #jewishinsandiego #jewishcommunity #Jewishcommunities

Join us this Thursday for BEIT Adult Jewish Learning at https://www.cbe.org/adultjewishlearning. How have Jewish writers used memories of trauma to confront race violence in the United States? In this session, Amelia Glaser will discuss her work on Yiddish poetry about racial injustice in the 1930s, and will introduce a few little-known Yiddish writers who connected pogroms the rise of Hitler to anti-Black violence in the US.

Let’s get creative together! We will gather on Zoom for a virtual painting class. Together, we'll paint a beautiful Fall tree to decorate our Thanksgiving tables, or any room in our homes. ORDER YOUR KITS BY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5 at https://www.cbe.org/event/family-canvas-crafternoon.html. Rabbi Shulman will share insights from Jewish tradition about trees as nature enters into autumn slumber. Just as you came and found trees planted by others, teaches the Midrash, you must plant for your children. Trees symbolize generational renewal and the blessings of this world for which we give thanks in our annual season of thanksgiving. An artist from Art Beat San Diego will lead our session and will cater the program to artists of all ages. Paint kits will be delivered to your homes prior to the event.

Join Child Psychiatrist Dr. Abigail Gewirtz on Sunday, October 25 at 10:00 a.m. for an essential conversation for anxious parents and worried kids. Dr. Gewirtz is the author of When the World Feels Like a Scary Place, an urgent and necessary book that brings solutions to a problem that is only going to get worse, how bad things happening in the world affect our children, and how we can raise engaged and confident kids in spite of them. Join us at https://www.cbe.org//when-the-world-feels-like-a-scary-pla.

In our BEIT theme this fall, Judaism Revealed, we’ll unmask all sorts of Jewish ideas, customs, mysteries, and cultural expressions. BEIT learning experiences take place during two time slots. Join us on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. beginning this Thursday, October 15. Choose one from a number of experiences. At 7:45 p.m. attend the weekly BEIT feature: Rabbi Shulman’s class, a guest lecture or presentation, or a special program. View our fall schedule, register, and join us online at https://www.cbe.org/adultjewishlearning.

Celebrate Simhat Torah with your synagogue family. We will read Torah, sing and dance, and journey through 7 homes, one for each Hakafah, to learn about family traditions and personal reflections from each of the homes we visit. Together we will rejoice in the holiday of Simhat Torah.

Join us this Thursday, October 8 at 7:00 p.m. on Zoom at https://www.cbe.org/event/sukkot-symposium-.html. Guest Speaker Dr. Michael Berenbaum is the Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust and a Professor of Jewish Studies at the American Jewish University. The author and editor of 20 books, he was also the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica. He was Project Director overseeing the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the first Director of its Research Institute and later served as President and CEO of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which took the testimony of 52,000 Holocaust survivors in 32 languages and 57 countries. His work in film has won Emmy Awards and Academy Awards.

This year, we will welcome the new Jewish year very differently than we ever have before as we move our High Holy Day services online. We will honor important annual traditions and share in some original elements as we consider our world and our lives this New Year. Avinu Malkeinu, renew us for a year of goodness and life. Please enjoy this video featuring our Ba’al Tefillah David Lipsitz. Thank you for being a vital part of our synagogue family. Your virtual and personal participation binds us together as a sacred synagogue community. We wish you a sweet and good New Year!

Join us for a series of open and thought-provoking virtual conversations and learning. Register to attend at https://www.cbe.org/form/Israelseries. Israel today is the center of Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews, due to their mass immigration from Muslim countries during the 20th century. The session will emphasize the differences and similarities among these large Jewish groups, exploring their history, customs and cultures in their countries of origin and in Israel. Presented by the World Zionist Organization, Department of Diaspora Affairs.

Whether it be online or in person, school will shortly be in session. Many children in San Diego will begin the school year without necessary school supplies. Help us make a difference to them and their families. We will be collecting school supplies in collaboration with Western Service Workers Association - an organization serving San Diego's working poor. Since our campus is closed for collections this year, we have created a Target registry based on the needs provided to us by Western Service Workers Association. To donate please visit https://www.cbe.org/event/tikkun-back-to-school-drive.html. We will also be accepting financial contributions. For more information, please contact [email protected].

We will observe Tisha B’Av on Zoom with prayer and reflection on Wednesday evening July 29, 2020 at 8:30 p.m. During the Evening Service for Tisha B’Av we recite the Bible’s Book of Lamentations, Eikhah. We will also consider the meanings of this occasion for today. On the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av we recall tragic events in Jewish history whose legacy have shaped our identity and values. Tisha B’Av is a full or partial day of fasting and introspection observed with emotion as we transform trauma into wisdom through ritual and conversation. For Zoom details, please go to https://www.cbe.org//observing-tisha-bav---the-ninth-of-av.

A highlight of every summer is the chance to read and reflect. Join Rabbi Shulman for reading and discussion. On Thursday, July 23 at 7:00pm we’ll explore the theme of mystery by reading and discussing S.Y. Agnon’s short story, The Fable of the Goat. For Zoom link and details please go to https://www.cbe.org//summer-reading-integrity-dignity-and-#.

On Tuesday, July 21 at 5:00pm let’s get together to visit informally. Come chat with Rabbi Shulman and Rabbi Libman for a few minutes, or for the entire hour. We look forward to catching up with you and sharing some quiet summertime together. Join us when convenient. Click on the Zoom link to say hi at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87806708439.

We will be providing a full dinner for the hotel residents on Wednesday, June 24th and welcome your help! For details and to sign up please go to https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0d49abab2aa6fb6-hotel. Hotel Vouchers 4 All is a 501(c)3 organization that was started by local activists Tasha Williamson and Amie Zamudio who realized there was a need to obtain hotel rooms and provide services for our most vulnerable citizens. The grassroots team provides Emergency Shelter in hotel rooms to practice safe social distancing for our unhoused neighbors in San Diego. They currently help house and support over 50 people. A handful of dedicated volunteers do everything they can to support the hotel residents and have reached out to local groups and organizations to provide dinner for 45 people, including 10 children.