Sunday School resumes this
Sunday!
Shabbat
Friday,
January 7th at
Oneg provided by Jeff and Joan
Hart
Saturday
morning service at
Renewal
service at
There will be a Torah Study luncheon led by Stephen
Katz. Please bring a dish to
share.
Martin Luther King Day
Celebrations
January 16th, 5 p.m. at St. Thomas Lutheran Church and 6
p.m. at University Baptist Church
Pastors Annette Hill Briggs, Lyle McKee and
Rabbi Mira Wasserman are planning a program, “Baptists,
Jews & Lutherans; Can We Get Along?”
for Sunday evening, January
16th.
We’ll gather at St.Thomas
at 5 p.m.
for a soup and bread dinner, then head to UBC
at 6 p.m.
for
the program. Pastors and Rabbi will share their religious stories, talk
about relating to believers of other religions and living in a changing
religious culture. We’ll have time for questions and discussion followed by
dessert. Childcare will be provided for kids three and
younger.
January 17th, 10 a.m. at the
Unitarian Universalist Church Team Up to Make a
Difference
This is an opportunity
for people of all ages to remember and re-commit to Dr. King’s teachings,
through music and activism. Members of
Beth Shalom and the Unitarian Universalist Church will gather to commemorate the
legacy of Dr. King and interact in a program of song, theater and social
action. Make it a "Day on" by working on a service project assembling
"goody bags" for children visiting the Family Resource Centers of the Shalom
Center. Congregants of all ages are encouraged to attend. There will be
opportunities for everyone to participate in this meaningful activity. To ask
questions or volunteer, please call or email Debby Allmayer,
SocialAction@bethshalom-bjc.org.
January 17th, 7:30 p.m. at the
Buskirk-Chumley Theater
Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday
Celebration
This community celebration features stirring music
and keynote speaker Constance Curry, civil rights activist, author, and
documentary producer. Rabbi Mira and Wendy Bernstein both serve on the Martin
Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee, and will be participating in the
program.
Beth Shalom
Announcements
Beit Midrash
continues! Back by popular demand:
Talmud Study with Rabbi Mira
Newcomers are very welcome
to join our study group as we continue our exploration of the Tractate of
Blessings. In the world of the
Talmud, wonder and amazement meet discipline and rigor. Wednesday evenings,
The next Gathering will be
January 20th, the program will be led by Harry Geduld with plenty of
video examples to see and hear, on the wonderful topic "Jewish Comedians." The
program will include a delicious lunch prepared for us by Foodworks, the
catering service of Middle Way House. So not only do we get a fine meal but we
also support a worthy cause in the bargain.
Mark your
calendars!
Beth Shalom
will be hosting a Kosher Wine tasting on February 10th, from
Members
Debby
Allmayer will be marking shloshim, the
end of thirty days of mourning her father, Benjamin Nathan Allmayer, Sunday, January 16th at
Ed
Bernstein will have a one man show of
prints and drawings entitled "Chiaroscuro" in the Hope School of Fine Arts
Gallery on the
The Musicology Department
and the
Gene
Byrd is at Beverly Nursing Home
recuperating after a stroke. Visits, calls and cards are welcome, though if you
stop by you may find Gene resting.
Elijah Baron-Caudill,
grandson of members Donna and Daniel
Baron, is now pushing the scales to 6 lbs! His parents, Heather and Shane
Baron-Caudill, are still at Ronald McDonald house in
Thank you to congregants
who have offered their support to Ben Maccaby, serving now in
Social Action
The
Community
Announcements
TONIGHT: IU to
Host Forum on Indian Ocean Tsunami Disaster & Humanitarian Response to
examine the devastating earthquake and tsunami that ravaged the coastlines of
From the Bloomington Muslim
Dialogue Group: On January 20th, Professor Scott C. Alexander, Associate
Professor of Islam at the Catholic Theological Union in