Beit Tikvah

Congregant-led Shabbat Service, Kiddush & Discussion with Dr. Barry Gitlen
2019-04-13 09:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
“Magic, Mystery, and the Ecology of Exodus” Dr. Barry Gittlen, Baltimore Hebrew Institute at Towson University

Please bring a vegetarian nosh to share at the Kiddush.

2019 Reconstructionist Day of Learning and Celebration
2019-03-31 14:45 - 19:30 | Oseh Shalom, 7515 Olive Branch Way, Laurel, Maryland, 20707
Please join us on Sunday, March 31 at Oseh Shalom for a day of learning with scholar S. Tamar Kamionkowski, Ph.D., followed by a program of honor and buffet dinner. For more information and to register, please click here.

Jewish Vegan Cooking Demo
2019-03-23 19:00 - 21:30
JEWISH VEGAN COOKING DEMO
By Marcia Schveibinz
Saturday, March 23, 2019, at 7pm Congregation Beit Tikvah
Corner Community Center
5802 Roland Ave, Baltimore, MD 21210
Learn to prepare vegan hamentashen and a variety of fillings.
Marcia will also give ideas for vegan Passover dishes. Each attendee will receive a
copy of Vegan Passover Recipes by Chef Nancy Berkoff, RD. Free for Beit Tikvah, Vegetarian Resource Group, Baltimore Vegan Drinks, and Jewish Veg members. $5 donation suggested for others. Please let us know if you are coming at https://www.facebook.com/events/347058466085887/
Or email vrg@vrg.org
Marcy Schveibinz became interested in food and nutrition when growing up in Buffalo, NY with her Dad who became a “health nut,” and started eating “whole wheat bagels” which weren’t easy to get in the ’70s! Marcy has a degree in nutrition from Buffalo State College. She is a national board certified health and wellness coach and did her training through the Mayo clinic. She has two vegan children.
Vegetarianism is not eating meat, fish, or fowl. Vegans are vegetarians who also don’t eat dairy, eggs, or other animal products.
In Genesis 1:29, God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed bearing herb, which is upon the surface of the entire earth, and every tree that has seed bearing fruit; it will be yours for food.
We were instructed in the first conversation with a human to eat plants, not animals (that is being vegan). Isaiah revisited these instructions in the most iconic verse of his written prophecy. In imagining the Messianic era, Isaiah wrote: “ ‘The wolf and the lamb shall dwell together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,’ saith the LORD.”
Thousands of years ago, Isaiah realized that the trailhead on the path to peaceful coexistence is found in our stomachs, in our dietary choices.
According to the Jewish Veg society, “The prohibition on killing animals for food remained in place for 1,000 years. Only after the Flood … did God permit meat-eating for the first time, and even then only with severe restrictions and deep reservations. None other than Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, one of the founders of Modern Orthodoxy, described meat-eating as the most reluctantly granted permission in all the Torah:”
For more information on the Jewish vegan cooking demo, call (410) 366-8343.
For more information on Beit Tikvah, visit https://beittikvah.org/
For more information on vegan nutrition, see https://www.vrg.org/nutshell/vegan

Surprise Discoveries of Jewish Ancestry- The Story of Our Journeys
2019-01-25 18:30 - 21:00, 2019-01-25 18:30 - 20:30
The evening begins with a vegetarian potluck dinner at 6:30pm. Hear the amazing stories told by two men in our congregation, and how they came to discover their Judaism. Learn through their stories how it changed their family dynamic and personal identities.

Shabbat Morning Service, Study and Kiddush
2019-01-12 09:30
9:30 AM – noon Shabbat morning service led by Rabbi Doug Heifitz followed by kiddush and discussion: The Midwives & Resistance: a study from Exodus.
Carmen Garcia Bob, LT NC USNR , is graduating as MSN RN with honors from Frostburg State. To celebrate, she will sponsor the Kiddush.
