5:30 p.m. Monday, May 13, 2024
Celebrate Israel’s Independence Day, Yom Ha’atzmaut, at Congregation Beth Israel! We’ll enjoy a falafel dinner, followed by a joyful and inspiring film, “On the Map” — about the 1977 Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team’s European Cup win. Narrated by Hall of Famer Bill Walton, and suitable for all ages. All are welcome; rsvp requested (not required) to make sure we order enough food!
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Visual Arts Exhibit
Prints and drawings by CBI member Sarah Bauman will be on display in the CBI foyer and social hall from February 23 through August 2024.
Included in the CBI exhibition are works in several media — pastel, charcoal, graphite, ceramics, and intaglio printmaking, including drypoint, aquatint, mezzotint, etching, and engraving. Sarah’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions and prestigious invitational and juried art shows in galleries across the United States, as well as in synagogues.
Read about Sarah Bauman and her art on Page 4 in the January/February 2024 Shul Shofar
240 HEARTS Project
New Adult Ed Classes
- Biblical Text Study with Mark Packer *
- Jewish Literature with Mark Packer
- Biblical Hebrew with Andrea Shupack
- A Jewish Look at Jesus with Stu Berman
- The Hebrew Prophets with Rabbi Samuels
- Beginning Torah Trope with Andrea Shupack
Click on the document below for full descriptions and how to register.
Feb_Mar 24 Adult Ed _1_Shanah Tovah 5784
Member tickets are included in membership benefits; nonmembers click here for ticket information.
HHD Sechedule 2023Code of Ethics
The URJ is committed to ensuring that our environments are safe, equitable, and inclusive. As part of its ongoing work to create a culture that prioritizes safety and accountability, the URJ encourages every congregation to craft and adopt a congregational ethics code. In 2022, the CBI board approved a Code of Ethics and a Grievance Policy, which have served as models for other congregations in the URJ and beyond. The URJ is recognizing congregations that have completed ethics codes by listing them on the URJ website and providing this special logo for their own websites.
Dec. 25 Movie & Chinese Dinner
MASSA: A Teen Journey Toward Israel and Self Discovery
Congregation Beth Israel and Temple Beth Or in Everett are recipients of a joint grant from the SAMIS Foundation in Seattle for a new Israel studies pilot program, MASSA: A Teen Journey Toward Israel and Self-discovery. We are now registering post B’nei Mitzvah students who are interested in participating.
The program will meet once a month, October 2022 and through May 2024, during regular religious school hours. The curriculum will focus on Israeli history, geography, people and current events, including a significant focus on environmentalism and climate work being done in Israel. Students from both synagogues will hear from guest speakers and have opportunities to study and learn together.
Students who have participated throughout the entire program will have the option of traveling to Israel with the group in July 2024 for a two-week immersive experience.
To register, please compete this form.
Passover 2024
Spring is right around the corner, and that means it’s time to start thinking about Passover. Register for the Congregation Beth Israel 2nd Night Seder here:
Anti-Racist Pledge
Congregation Beth Israel, centered in Bellingham, Washington, stands with Jews all over the world in affirming the principles of equal justice and equal respect underlying the declaration that Black Lives Matter. Believing in the dignity of every individual, we deplore the structural racism that has denied people of color the rights and opportunities enjoyed by their fellow citizens. We strongly support the Constitutional right to peaceful assembly and condemn all forms of violence against peaceful protestors.
Our Bible and our sages, our liturgy and our vision of a just society, teach us the value of every human being. The centuries of defamation and oppression Jews have suffered help us understand the suffering people of color have endured in the United States from the founding of our country to the present day.
Those of us who are white Americans may have wittingly or unwittingly contributed to that suffering. We will work to eradicate any traces of racism in our lives as a congregation and as individuals, and will take any steps within our power to promote the equality our founding documents proclaim as the right of all people.
— Approved by CBI Board of Directors, Nov. 10, 2020