Prepare Spiritually for Shavuot with Yiscah Smith: Teachings & Meditations from the Piaseczner Rebbe Join co-sponsors East Bank Havurah, Congregation Beit Tikvah, and Chevrei Tzedek Congregation in welcoming Yiscah Smith as our scholar-in-residence to help us prepare for Shavuot. Yiscah Smith is a thought leader, spiritual activist, and agent of change who addresses the spiritual […]
Prepare Spiritually for Shavuot with Yiscah Smith: Teachings & Meditations from the Piaseczner Rebbe Join co-sponsors East Bank Havurah, Congregation Beit Tikvah, and Chevrei Tzedek Congregation in welcoming Yiscah Smith as our scholar-in-residence to help us prepare for Shavuot. Yiscah Smith is a thought leader, spiritual activist, and agent of change who addresses the spiritual […]
4:30 pm Beit Tikvah Community Meeting Join us at the Roland Park Community Center on Sunday, June 23 at 4:30 pm for a conversation about future plans at Beit Tikvah. Please RSVP to info@beittikvah.org by 12:00 Noon on Sunday, June 23rd to let us know if you wish to attend the meeting in person or on […]
10:00 am Rabbi-Led Shabbat Service To Bigotry, No Sanction: Jewish Celebration of American Independence Join Rabbi Doug Heifetz for this Shabbat morning service and a study session in the spirit of the 4th of July. We will read some of the writings of the earliest Jewish Americans in the era of independence. Their writings show a […]
7:00 pm on Zoom - Beit Tikvah Book Club Join us at our next Book Club meeting led by Rabbi Doug Heifetz. The book is To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico, by Stanley Hordes. Here's a description: In 1981, while working as New Mexico State Historian, Stanley M. […]
6:30 pm Potluck Dinner & Congregant-Led Service Bring a friend to tonight's service or maybe make new friends here. We’ll have a potluck dinner at 6:30 pm, followed by a short congregant-led service, then a discussion of this week’s Torah portion, Parshat Chukat. Please bring a dairy, vegan, or vegetarian dish to share. July 11 […]
10:00 am Rabbi Doug Heifetz Leads Shabbat Service If Our Animals Could Talk This week's Torah portion, Parshat Balak, includes the only example in the Torah of an animal who speaks in human language. For a brief moment, a donkey speaks to the prophet Balaam. What does a speaking animal add to the story? What about […]
10:00 am Rabbi Doug Heifetz Leads Shabbat Service The Cycle of Love, Grief, and Renewal At this time of year, the Jewish holiday cycle leads us through a very mournful holiday, Tisha B'Av, followed immediately by the Tu B'Av holiday, a festival of romantic love. What are the historic roots of the holidays? More importantly, […]
6:30 pm Potluck Dinner & Congregant-Led Service Join us for a Potluck Dinner and then a short service for Parsha Shoftim followed by a discussion of a core tenet of Judaism: Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue. Torah exhorts us to judge with “righteous judgment.” We mere mortals do not have super-powers, like in the DC or Marvel Universe, […]
8:00 pm on Zoom - Beit Tikvah Book Club Join Rabbi Doug Heifetz and others at the next Book Club meeting. The book we will discuss is Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union. Here's the description: For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven […]
