6:30 pm Sukkot Celebration - "Pizza in the Hut" Join us for dinner in our Sukkah at the Roland Park Community Center, followed by a congregant-led short service in celebrating Sukkot, the biblically mandated Harvest Festival. Our ancestors, far more in tune with the seasons, learned to leverage Nature's gifts. Shaking the lulav and etrog will be […]
5:00 pm Beit Tikvah Annual Meeting Please join us for our annual meeting and pizza. Get an update on our current status, next steps, and the future. Please RSVP to info@beittikvah.org.
10:00 am Rabbi-Led Shabbat Service Rabbi Doug Heifetz leads this Shabbat morning service, Kiddush, and discussion. Was Sarah a Priestess? In our weekly Torah portion, Lech Lecha, we focus on the stories of Abraham and Sarah. While the Torah tells us a great deal about Sarah's role in Abraham's clan, it tells us little about […]
7:00 pm on Zoom - Beit Tikvah Virtual Book Club Join Rabbi Doug Heifetz and other book mavens at the next Virtual Book Club meeting. The book we will discuss is Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi. Here's the description: Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, Yossi Klein Halevi, the Israeli commentator […]
6:30 pm Potluck Dinner & Congregant-Led Service Join us for a potluck dinner, congregant-led service, and discussion. Why Jerusalem? The first references to Jerusalem in Torah are when Abraham buys a grave for Sarah in this week's Parasha -- Chayei Sarah. What deal did Abraham make about Jerusalem? Who broke the deal? What has happened […]
10:00 am Rabbi-Led Shabbat Service Rabbi Doug Heifetz will lead this Shabbat morning service, Kiddush, and discussion. We Read a Scroll on Purim. Why Not on Chanukah? The Chanukah holiday is just around the corner. Did you know that Jewish communities used to publicly read a scroll about Chanukah, similar to the Megillah that Jewish […]
6:30 pm Chanukah Party! Come join us for a Chanukah party! We'll have an evening of singing, menorah lighting, food, and fun. Bring your Chanukiah/menorah and candles for lighting, food for sharing, and dreidels for spinning. Please RSVP to info@beittikvah.org.
6:30 pm Potluck Dinner & Congregant-Led Service Join us for a potluck dinner, congregant-led service, and discussion. The Art of Reconciliation Joseph welcomes the brothers who sold him into slavery, an act of reconciliation far beyond what many of us can conceive in our own lives. Is the lesson really calling us to mend an […]
7:00 pm on Zoom - Beit Tikvah Virtual Book Club Join Rabbi Doug Heifetz and other book mavens at the next Virtual Book Club meeting. The book we will discuss is The Wolf Hunt by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen. Here's the description: Lilach has it all: a beautiful home in the heart of Silicon Valley, a successful […]
10 AM service and Discussion on “Fear and it's management”, kiddush ( dairy/ vegetarian/ vegan) In this week's Torah portion, we read the opening chapters of the Book of Exodus. We will study and discuss why the Egyptians feared the Israelites in Egypt, and how their fear led to an ever-widening persecution that backfired on the Egyptians […]
