Baltimore Interfaith Hospitality Network (BIHN) volunteers have been hard at work rebuilding the organization since suspending operations in March. Now armed with a strategic plan, communications tools, a broader and more diverse board, and nearly sufficient funds to hire a new executive director, BIHN is getting closer to reestablishing services. BIHN wants to thank Congregation Beit Tikvah volunteers for all of your support. If you can consider a contribution to BIHN at this time, please contact Janet Felsten, BT's network coordinator. Please visit www.baltimoreihn.org for additional information and to sign up for the e-newsletter.

We co-host at Roland Park Presbyterian Church, 4801 Roland Avenue, offering hospitality and home cooked meals to the (maximum of four) homeless families in the Network. Slots available include:

Dinner Host 5-7:30 (bring and share dinner w/guests)

Evening Host 7-9pm (doing activities w/the children, bringing a movie, instruments, art projects, etc. or just visiting with folks, being present if needed)

Overnight Host from 8:30pm to 6:30 am (staying overnight on air mattress, putting out take-along breakfast foods)

Let's put some energy into Tikkun Olam!

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The Green Space 5768

Check out Hannah Lamson Freedman! Our 13 year old member is featured in the Baltimore Messenger trying to raise awareness about Earth Hour activities. Earth Hour is March 29, and Hannah is asking all Baltimoreans to resist using electricity from 8-9 p.m.Read all about it by clicking here.

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Clean Green for Pesach! Learn to clean everyday dirt & remove hametz without harmful toxins! Presentation by Loren Lavoy of Green Clean USA Inc. Sunday, March 30, 2008 from 10 a.m. - 12 noon at the home of:
Michele Lax - 11910 Minor Jones Drive, Owings Mills, MD 21117

RSVP by March 14th bjen@pearlstonecenter.org or 410-429-4400, ex. 300.

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" Social Justice Film Night "Kilowatt Ours", Saturday, February 23 at 7:30 p.m. Discussion Moderators: Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin (Baltimore Jewish Environmental Network) and Brad Heavner (State Director of Environment Maryland). RSVP to tikkunolam@beittikvah.org or 410-464-9402. Click here for more details.

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Are you interested in environmental issues? Want to educate your children about being green? Join Beit Tikvah families by participating in:

The Baltimore Jewish Environmental Network's Greenlight Chanukah campaign.

Get your FREE CFL BULBS in honor of The Festival of Lights! Purchase them at Home Depot and Costco, or online at www.environmentallights.com and enter discount code GLH5 for a 5% discount.

Visit the Baltimore Jewish Environmental Network's website at www.bjen.org.

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Thanks for Wendy Matt and Marjorie Davis, who have stepped forward as volunteers to represent Congregation Beit Tikvah at the Baltimore Synagogues Social Action Task Force.

The Green Space 5767

In 5767, the focus of the JRF Omer Study was on Sustainability (balancing environmental, social, economic and spiritual life in our congregations and larger communities). To see the commentaries from Beit Tikvah (Omer Teachings: Saving Trees and Heal the Heart; Lie on the Earth) and from other rabbis, hazzanim (cantors), educators and members of JRF congregations visit http://www4.jrf.org/omer.

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