Join the CBI Millennials (under 40-ish) Club for Wine, Cheese and Dessert at the home of Amanda Robins and Daniel Zagnoli. Wine and cheese will be provided — please bring a dessert to share! For their address, please text or call Amanda or Daniel at (610) 888-3550 or (484) 788-1045.
Last year more than 70,000 people died of drug overdose in the United States, many of them very young people. Life expectancy in America is getting shorter because of substance abuse, in contrast to world trends. In times such as these, how do we talk to children and adolescents about drugs and alcohol?
In this interactive discussion, addiction researcher and mental health advocate Ahuva Scharff, PhD, will discuss substance abuse with parents, give tips on how to talk with kids of different ages, and will answer questions about substance abuse.
Dr. Scharff is an internationally recognized speaker and author on the topics of addiction recovery and mental health. She serves as Science and Research Chair on the board of Rock to Recovery, a music therapy-based addiction and trauma treatment group. She is writing a book on the power of music therapy with Rock to Recovery founder Wesley Geer. Previously, she was the Senior Addiction
Research Fellow and Director of Addiction Research for Cliffside Malibu, an addiction treatment center based in Malibu, Calif. Her research centers around using complementary health and contemplative practices to improve treatment outcomes among addicts
and the mentally ill.
Dr. Scharff is coauthor of the Amazon.com best-selling book, Ending Addiction for Good and the award-winning poetry book, Meeting
God at Midnight. She regularly travels the world speaking, teaching and advocating for compassionate health practices that destigmatize mental health problems.
Congregation Beth Israel offers enrichment sessions on a variety of topics for parents and CBI community members during Kesher Sunday classes on selected dates. Information: (360) 733-8890 or kesher@bethisraelbellingham.org
Registration for Taste of Kalsman is now open!! Mark your calendars for March 29-30, 2019!
Taste of Kalsman is a two day, one night retreat for 1st-4th graders to experience all that Camp Kalsman has to offer. Click the link below for more details.
Taste of Kalsman campers will live in our comfortable cabins with our all-star staff. Staff will accompany campers as they create masterpieces in arts and crafts, sample our sports activities, and celebrate a camp Shabbat.
It is sure to be an amazing time! Learn more and register today (space is limited!) by clicking here: campkalsman.org/event/taste-of-kalsman/
If your new camper is interested in registering for a 2019 summer program after their amazing Taste of Kalsman weekend, $100 of their retreat cost will be discounted from their Summer 2019 camp tuition (first-time campers only)! Sessions for summer 2019 are filling up — read more about camp here.
Lifelong learning is a central tenet of Judaism and we are finally thrilled to offer you various courses which we hope will pique your interest. Whether you are a veteran adult ed student or a newcomer, we look forward to engaging with you in Torah and the Jewish tradition and making new friends in the process.
You are encouraged to register ahead of time in order that we may provide appropriate materials and to ensure that a class will not be cancelled.
— Rabbi Joshua Samuels
Scroll through (or download) the pamphlet below
Ed BookletBeth Israel has formed its own Shabbat Dinner Crowd — a flash mob Shabbat dinner experience — based on a successful format operating in Seattle.
How it works:
You’ll get an email the Sunday before the third and fifth Fridays of the month, seeking a dinner host. Someone volunteers a location and guests supply the food (a main dish or a side, enough to feed your family). The dinner is casual — buffet style, paper plates and jeans are fine. Just come and enjoy. Dinners can be meat, dairy, or vegetarian. Hosts, please let everyone know what the kashrut status of the meal is.
It’s simple — if you can host, post a note to the e-mail list for your community. If you can attend, then reply to the dinner post so everyone knows.
Want to be part of the dinner crowd, but didn’t receive an email? Sign up here. Have friends who aren’t Beth Israel members, who want to participate? Invite them (and let webmaster@bethisraelbellingham.org know)! They can signup online.
Any other questions? Call Melissa Schapiro, (360) 738-7182, or email webmaster@bethisraelbellingham.org
Let’s keep this rolling by having someone host every time!
