Beit Tikvah

Rosh Hashanah 1st Day
2024-10-03 10:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York)
Rosh Hashanah 1st Day
10:00 am Rosh Hashanah Morning Service
12:30 pm Kiddush at Beit Tikvah
1:00 pm At Lake Roland:

Potluck Lunch – Vegan/vegetarian/dairy dishes only. (Please list ingredients)
Tashlich & Art Project – Tashlich involves the casting of bread or stones into a natural body of water in a participatory, communal ceremony on the Rosh Hashanah holiday. Through this act, each participant distances herself or himself from past sins and harmful patterns, for the sake of a fresh start to the new year. This year for Tashlich we will create individual eco-friendly art that we can both cast into the water as part of the communal gathering, and also bring home. Our creative process will help us step boldly into the new year, with more inspiration and fewer obstacles from the past.

Please send your Reservation Form to beittikvahoffice@gmail.com by Monday, September 30, 2024.
For forms and more information, see our High Holy Days 2024 webpage.

Rosh Hashanah 2nd Day
2024-10-04 12:00 - 14:00
Rosh Hashanah 2nd Day
12:00 pm noon – Discussion at The Charmery, 6807 York Road, Baltimore, MD 21212:

Reflections on the ‘Al Het’ Prayer – Wrongs and rights on a personal level and societal level.

Please RSVP separately for this event to beittikvahoffice@gmail.com by Monday, September 30, 2024.
For more information, see our High Holy Days 2024 webpage.

Yom Kippur - Kol Nidre
2024-10-11 18:00 - 20:30
Yom Kippur – Kol Nidre
6:00 pm Observance of Yom Kippur Begins

Individual lighting of memorial candles in the reception area.
Meditative music and private reflection in the sanctuary.

6:30 pm Kol Nidre Service

Please be in the sanctuary by 6:25 pm. Doors then will be closed and will reopen at the conclusion of the Kol Nidre prayer.

Please send your Reservation Form to beittikvahoffice@gmail.com by Monday, September 30, 2024.
For forms and more information, see our High Holy Days 2024 webpage.

Yom Kippur
2024-10-12 10:00 - 20:00
Yom Kippur
10:00 am – Morning Service
12:00 pm – Yizkor (Memorial) Service
2:00 pm – Discussion period
4:45 pm – Afternoon Service and Ne’ilah (Closing) Service (Includes personal prayer time at the Ark)
6:45 pm – Final sounding of the shofar
Break-the-Fast Meal following conclusion of services (Reservations required)

Please send your Reservation Form to beittikvahoffice@gmail.com by Monday, September 30, 2024.
For forms and more information, see our High Holy Days 2024 webpage.

Sukkot Celebration - "Pizza in the Hut"
2024-10-18 18:30 - 20:30
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 part of the celebration.
Pizza will be served in our “hut”! Please bring a dairy, vegan or vegetarian side dish or dessert to share.
Please RSVP to info@beittikvah.org (so we know how much pizza to order).

Beit Tikvah Annual Meeting
2024-10-27 17:00 - 19:00
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.

Rabbi-Led Shabbat Service
2024-11-09 10:00 - 13:00
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 her background. We will explore the scholarly theory that she was, in fact, a pagan priestess. What were her influences? What sort of power did she wield? How can she inspire us to draw strength and inspiration from unlikely sources?

Please bring a dairy, vegan, or vegetarian dish to share for the Community Kiddush/lunch.
Please RSVP to info@beittikvah.org.

Beit Tikvah Virtual Book Club
2024-11-18 19:00 - 21:00
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 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 and award-winning author of Like Dreamers, directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative book, empathizing with Palestinian suffering and longing for reconciliation as he explores how the conflict looks through Israeli eyes.
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor is one Israeli’s powerful attempt to reach beyond the wall that separates Israelis and Palestinians and into the hearts of “the enemy.” In a series of letters, Yossi Klein Halevi explains what motivated him to leave his native New York in his twenties and move to Israel to participate in the drama of the renewal of a Jewish homeland, which he is committed to see succeed as a morally responsible, democratic state in the Middle East.
This is the first attempt by an Israeli author to directly address his Palestinian neighbors and describe how the conflict appears through Israeli eyes. Halevi untangles the ideological and emotional knot that has defined the conflict for nearly a century. In lyrical, evocative language, he unravels the complex strands of faith, pride, anger and anguish he feels as a Jew living in Israel, using history and personal experience as his guide.
Halevi’s letters speak not only to his Palestinian neighbor, but to all concerned global citizens, helping us understand the painful choices confronting Israelis and Palestinians that will ultimately help determine the fate of the region.

RSVP to info@beittikvah.org to get the Zoom link for the discussion!

Potluck Dinner & Congregant-Led Service
2024-11-22 18:30 - 20:30
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 since then? Can we make a new deal? If so, to what end?
Please bring a dairy, vegan, or vegetarian dish to share at the potluck dinner.
Please RSVP to info@beittikvah.org.

Rabbi-Led Shabbat Service
2024-12-14 10:00 - 13:00
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 communities read on Purim? Let’s learn more about this ancient text, The Scroll of Antiochus. If we were to create a Chanukah scroll to be read today, what would it say? What are the key narrative details of the holiday and its meaning for us now?

Please bring a dairy, vegan, or vegetarian dish to share for the Community Kiddush/lunch.
Please RSVP to info@beittikvah.org.

Chanukah Party!
2024-12-27 18:30 - 21:00
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.

Potluck Dinner & Congregant-Led Service
2025-01-03 18:30 - 20:30
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?
RSVP : Treasurer@beittikvah.org

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?
RSVP : Treasurer@beittikvah.org

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.
RSVP : Treasurer@beittikvah.org

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?
RSVP : Treasurer@beittikvah.org

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/
Please RSVP to treasurer@beittikvah.org

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.
RSVP info@beittikvah.org

Pot-Luck and Congregant Led Service
2025-07-18 18:30 - 20:30
6:30 PM Community Pot-Luck and short Congregant Led Service
