Beit Tikvah

Potluck Dinner & Congregant-Led Service
2025-01-03 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
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 awesome rift without an act of reciprocity? This, from a God with a long memory of slights and failures? At the start of this new year, we look at how our lives may improve when there is a path to reconnection.
Please bring a dairy, vegan, or vegetarian dish to share at the potluck dinner.
Please RSVP to info@beittikvah.org.

Beit Tikvah Virtual Book Club
2025-01-13 19:00 - 20:00
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 husband and stable marriage, and a teenage son, Adam, with whom she has always felt a particular closeness. Israeli immigrants, the family has now lived in the U.S. long enough that they consider it home. But after a brutal attack on a local synagogue shakes their sense of safety, Adam enrolls in a self-defense class taught by a former Israeli Special Forces officer. There, for the first time, he finds a sense of confidence and belonging.
Then, tragedy strikes again when an African American boy dies at a house party, apparently from a drug overdose. Though he was a high school classmate, Adam claims not to know him. Yet rumors begin to circulate that the death was not accidental, and that Adam and his new friends had a history with Jamal. As more details surface and racial tensions in the community are ignited, Lilach begins to question everything she thought she knew about her son. Could her worst fears be possible? Could her quiet, reclusive child have had something to do with Jamal’s death?
Praised for “instilling emotional depth into a thriller plot” (New York Times Book Review on Waking Lions), Ayelet Gundar-Goshen once again brings together taut, page-turning suspense, superb writing, and razor-sharp insight into the fault lines of race, identity, and privilege and the dark secrets we hide from those we love most.
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84890769767

Shabbat Service for Parshat Shemot led by Rabbi Doug
2025-01-18 10:00 - 12:00
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 themselves. How does fear lead to injustice nowadays? How can we counter it?
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Rabbi Led Shabbat Service
2025-02-01 10:00 - 13:00
10 AM Rabbi Douglas Heifetz Led-Service, 11:15 AM Kiddush (dairy, vegetarian or vegan), 12 PM Discussion “Progress Report: ‘He’s Got Potential’ How Does Moses’ Leadership Grow After a Shaky Start?”
This week we read the weekly Torah portion of Bo, in the middle of the Exodus narrative. Over time, we see Moses grow as a towering figure of leadership, but he doesn’t start off that way. What’s holding him back at first? Why does he eventually step up? How does he overcome his jitters (and other major challenges)? What sorts of support does he receive? How can his story inspire us in our journey, including difficult steps in our lives and helping others face their challenges?
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Congregant Led Service and Pot-Luck
2025-02-14 18:30 - 21:00
6:30 PM Pot-Luck ( dairy/ vegetarian/ vegan) and 7:30 PM Congregant Led Service focusing on Reproductive Shabbat
This Valentine’s Day let’s make sure no one is penalized for who they love due to lack of bodily autonomy.
We also review the intersection of Tu B’Shvat and Reproductive Freedom.
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Rabbi Led Service
2025-03-01 10:00 - 13:00
10 AM Rabbi Douglas Heifetz Led-Service, 11:15 AM Community Kiddush – please bring a healthy nosh to share (dairy, vegetarian or vegan), 12 PM Discussion “Fantastic Creatures & Where to Find Them (on the Ark of the Tablets, that is)”
Our weekly Torah portion, Terumah, focuses on the details of the mishkan (portable shrine) which our Israelite ancestors were to construct. At the center of the mishkan was the Ark containing the tablets of law. On the cover of the Ark stood statues of two Cherubim, mythical winged creatures, facing each other. God would speak to the Israelites from between the Cherubim. What was the origin of these two creatures, and why were they so central for Israel and humanity? In contrast with the Cherubim, who faced each other, the Roman god Janus had two faces that faced away from each other. What’s the connection between the Israelite Cherubim and the Roman god, if any? What lessons do all of these mythological beings hold for us today?
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Purim celebration and Pot-Luck
2025-03-15 18:30 - 21:00
6:30 pm Community Potluck – please bring a healthy nosh to share (dairy, vegetarian or vegan), Megillah Reading, and Purim celebration with a focus on Esther – the Power of One Speaking Truth to Power
https://www.meetup.com/congregation-beit-tikvah/events/306528223/
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1st night Passover Sedar
2025-04-12 18:30 - 20:00
6:30 PM 1st night Passover Sedar at BSFS, 3310 E. Baltimore Street

Passover Shabbat Sedar including chocolate desserts
2025-04-18 18:30 - 22:00
Discussion Theme: Resisting Pharaoh- How can I have impact?
Community Pot-luck – Dairy/Vegetarian/Vegan healthy food options welcome, No Chametz, please. Limited seating.
Please RSVP to treasurer@beittikvah.org

Pot-Luck and Congregant Led Service
2025-04-25 18:30 - 20:30

Environmental Shabbat with Chevrei Tzedek
2025-05-03 10:00 - 12:00
10 AM at Edward A. Myerberg Center 3101 Fallstaff Road, Baltimore 21209.

ZOOM Book Review The Cost of Free Land
2025-05-12 19:00 - 21:00
Growing up, Rebecca Clarren heard stories about her tenacious immigrant family’s origins on a 160-acre homestead in South Dakota. Despite tough years on a merciless prairie, the Sinykins became an American immigrant success story. What none of Clarren’s ancestors ever mentioned was that their land had been cruelly taken from the Lakota by the United States government. In The Cost of Free Land, Clarren melds investigative reporting with personal family history to reveal the intertwined stories of her Jewish family and the Lakota.
What does it mean to survive oppression only to perpetuate and benefit from the oppression of others? By shining a light on the people and families tangled up in America’s difficult history, The Cost of Free Land invites readers to consider their own culpability and what, now, can be done.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84081741415

Pot-Luck and Congregant Led Service
2025-05-16 18:30 - 20:30
Pot-Luck (Dairy, Vegetarian or Vegan including pizza as 5/16 is National Pizza Party Day) and Congregant Led Service. Since 5/17 is Armed Forces Day, Janet Burtnick will lead the discussion honoring Jews in the US Military.

Dessert & Shavuot Discussion
2025-06-01 19:30 - 21:30
dessert & Shavuot discussion (weather permitting on the covered portico overlooking the lovely garden), conversation on How Do We Relate To Torah When We Can’t Hear G-d

Zoom service with Rabbi Heifetz
2025-06-06 19:00 - 21:00
New online Zoom service with Rabbi Heifetz

Guest Lead-Services, with Kiddush and discussion
2025-06-14 10:00 - 12:00
Cantor/Chaplain Nancy R. Ginsberg will guest lead Services with Kiddush and discussion, including pride Shout-out

Beit Tikvah Social
2025-06-22 18:00 - 19:30
BT social during @ RPCC outdoor concert ( singer Angela Taylor) 6-7:30 PM
(feel free to bring dairy/vegetarian/vegan options to share or not)

Pot-Luck and Congregant Led Service
2025-06-27 18:30 - 20:30
6:30 PM Community Pot-Luck (please bring healthy Dairy/Vegetarian/Vegan contribution) and Congregant Led Service (mainly in English).
We are having a Welcoming Shabbat for Pride and Juneteenth. Our discussion for Parsha Korach is how do we chose our leaders and how that matters in the context of Mishpatim –the social legislation in Exodus on the laws of Welcoming the Strangers.
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Pot-Luck and Congregant Led Service
2025-07-18 18:30 - 20:30
6:30 PM Community Pot-Luck and short Congregant Led Service

Zoom Service led by Rabbi Heifetz
2025-07-25 19:30 - 21:00
New online Zoom service with Rabbi Heifetz
Rest Stop, or Journey’s End?
Why did some of the tribes of Israel stop their journey before crossing into the Promised Land? How do we know when it’s time to revise or release a goal?
Join at: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82007502820

Beit Tikvah Social
2025-07-27 18:00 - 19:30
BT social @ RPCC outdoor concert by fantastic musician Seth Kibel, 6-7:30 PM

Rabbi Douglas Heifetz Lead-Service, Kiddush and Discussion
2025-08-02 10:00 - 12:30
Rabbi Douglas Heifetz Lead-Service, Kiddush (please bring healthy Dairy/Vegetarian/Vegan contribution) and Discussion: From Shiraz to Sinai: Persian Jewish Voices in Poetic Form
The recent peak of hostilities between Israel and Iran can easily blind us to the glorious culture of the Persian (Iranian) Jewish community. Thus, it’s a perfect time to read and discuss some of the best of ancient Persian Jewish poetry, with themes of love, mysticism, and moral searching.
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Community Pot-Luck and Congregant Led Service
2025-08-15 18:30 - 21:00
6:30 PM Community Pot-Luck and Congregant Led Service

Zoom Service led by Rabbi Heifetz
2025-08-22 19:30 - 21:00
This Is Your Wake-Up CallThe contemplative month of Elul begins in just a few days. It arrives like an alarm—quiet, but insistent. These are the 40 days traditionally set aside for soul-searching and inner growth, a sacred countdown toward the High Holidays.
In the opening words of this week’s Torah portion, Re’eh, the great sage the Vilna Gaon hears a personal summons: to take responsibility, to trust in something greater than ourselves, and to believe in the power to begin again—not yesterday, not tomorrow, but today.
Let’s explore what it means to act now—to stop waiting for the world to change, and to hear the ticking clock of teshuvah before the gates begin to close.
Join at: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82007502820

Rabbi Douglas Heifetz Led-Service, Community Kiddush and Discussion: "Don't Blow It - Just Listen"
2025-09-06 10:00 - 13:00
The shofar, or ram’s horn, is the key symbol of the High Holiday season and the preceding month of Elul. Yet, there’s a curious distinction in tradition: we are never commanded to play or blow the shofar. Instead, we are called to hear its sound. What’s the significance of this? And how does it open the gateway into a new year?

Book Club Zoom: "The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy"
2025-09-14 14:00 - 17:00
“Adam Nimoy has written about the challenges growing up with his famous father and about their estrangement later in life. The fact that Leonard and Adam found a way to rebuild their relationship should resonate with anyone who struggles with difficult family dynamics.”—George Takei
https://www.meetup.com/the-baltimore-jewish-book-club/events/

Rosh Hashana Theme: "Gardens of Hope": Planting and Nurturing for Resilience' Erev Rosh Hashanah Service followed by Dessert Reception
2025-09-22 19:00 - 21:00
Erev Rosh Hashanah Service followed by Dessert Reception
High Holidays – IN PERSON and on Zoom —No one turned away due to financial challenges but RESERVATIONS REQUIRED for SECURITY
RSVP: info@beittikvah.org

Rosh Hashana Theme: 'Gardens of Hope: Planting and Nurturing for Resilience' Service, Community Potluck and Art Project
2025-09-23 10:00 - 16:00
Rosh Hashanah Service, followed by Kiddush and pot luck luncheon, art project, and Tashlich at the stream near Whole Foods.
‘Gardens of Hope: Planting and Nurturing for Resilience’. Community Pot-Luck and Art Project:This brief, reflective art ritual invites participants to symbolically “release” what they no longer want to carry into the new year, and to plant intentions for resilience and growth—guided by our High Holiday communal theme. Participants will decorate cards (or seed paper) with watercolor, words, or natural materials, representing something they are ready to let go of or something they hope to nurture this year. The artwork will be released during Tashlich or taken home to compost or plant
Followed by Tashlich at stream next to Whole Foods
High Holidays – IN PERSON and on Zoom —No one turned away due to financial challenges but RESERVATIONS REQUIRED for SECURITY
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Rosh Hashana Continued with community pot-luck and discussion 'Compassion, resilience and Jewish law' and short Mincha
2025-09-24 10:00 - 13:00
Discussion on ‘Resilience, Compassion and Jewish Law’ with pot-luck lunch and short Minchah (afternoon) service.
High Holidays – IN PERSON and on Zoom —No one turned away due to financial challenges but RESERVATIONS REQUIRED for SECURITY
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Yom Kippur Service: Resilience, Compassion and Jewish law.
2025-10-01 18:00 - 20:00
Kol Nidre Service. Please be seated by 5:50 pm.
High Holidays – IN PERSON and on Zoom —No one turned away due to financial challenges but RESERVATIONS REQUIRED for SECURITY
RSVP: info@beittikvah.org
