WELCOME TO CONGREGATION BETH EL
Congregation Beth El is a Conservative synagogue whose mission is to create a home for every soul by offering a variety of Jewish experiences to nourish the mind, heart, and spirit, while being a caring Jewish community.
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At Congregation Beth El we gain inspiration, support, and home in a synagogue community that personalizes for each of us what it means to be part of the Jewish People.
Congregation Beth El provides us with the resources we need to live compelling and thoughtful Jewish lives. We can’t be the Jews we aspire to be alone. We need a community filled with peers, with those younger and older than we are, with those of similar and different temperaments and perspectives. Jewish life wisdom teaches us to join together.
We hope you’ll choose to attend one of these sessions so we can visit and reconnect. We want to know how you are and what your interests might be as we plan for post-COVID synagogue life and relationships.
All Shabbat and weekday services will continue to be broadcast live on Livestream, Zoom, and Facebook for those who are not present.
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Thursday, April 16 | Eighth Day of Passover Festival Morning Service and Yizkor Memorial Prayers.
Rabbi Shulman will speak to these questions and offer other Haggadah hints and ideas for Passover. For all that will be different on Seder nights this year, much must remain the same as we celebrate and rejoice in our People’s story of Exodus and liberation. Passover approaches and it’s time to prepare!
As a reminder, all Beth El programming including Viterbi Torah School classes and programs, youth and family programming, Women’s Connection and Men’s Club activities, as well as BEIT and all other affinity programs and food services, are suspended. The synagogue office is also closed. We will inform you when we are able to welcome our students, teens, and congregants back to campus.
On this Shabbat evening, we welcome a few friends from the Congregational Church of La Jolla and their Senior Pastor Timothy Seery and the Rev. Paige Blair-Hubert from St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Del Mar. Our goal is to begin the slow work of creating an inter-faith learning opportunity for our congregations. Reverend Reinhard Krause, the Executive Director, Academy for Judaic, Christian, and Islamic Studies at UCLA, will travel to San Diego to help us understand the purpose and opportunity of developing meaningful interfaith relations. Our guests will join us for our Erev Shabbat service and dinner. We look forward to welcoming them, getting to know them, and exploring how and what we may learn with and about one another.
We are collaborating with Western Service Workers Association to collect and distribute food to needy families in San Diego. Your donations help add warmth and joy to the holiday season.
BEIT learning experiences take place during two time slots. At 6:30 pm choose one from a number of experiences. At 7:45 pm attend the weekly BEIT feature: Rabbi Shulman’s class, a guest lecture or presentation, or a special program.
If you wish to list your family’s memorial names for the first time, submit the recorded names of your loved ones included last year, or would like to make changes or additions to your family’s list of names, please use the link above or call the synagogue office at 858-452-1734 by August 15, 2019Book of Remembrance Form 2019/5780
Do you enjoy the outdoors? Meet up at Lake Hodges Run Trailhead for a fun hike for all ages and skill levels. Those who enjoy a leisurely walk can stroll through the meadows while the more ambitious can hike to the summit of Bernardo Mountain, a minor peak with expansive views.
Enjoy a delicious Israeli dinner, Israeli folk dancing, and personal stories from our Young Israeli Ambassador, Michal Sharon.
6:15pm | Lively Shabbat service with Israeli songs and spirit
7:15pm | Dinner and program
Adults $18 | $10 children 5-12 | under 5 free
Register by May 6 to ensure your spot
Jewish Humor Night
It’s time for some Purim fun as we tell our favorite jokes, funny stories and share a drink and nosh.
American Jewish Identity
Guest Speaker: Rabbi Ed Feinstein
Senior Rabbi, Valley Beth Shalom, Encino, CA
What is the condition of and opportunity for American Jews today? Rabbi Ed Feinstein is an engaging thinker and teacher, well known for asking, and guiding us toward answering, questions about Jewish identity, meaning, and modern society.
Yom Kippur will be observed on Wednesday September 19, 2018.
Volunteers needed, sign up here.
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