Author: Congregation Beth El

Food Tourah: Shoftim

August 26, 2025

Because life so often happens around food, we’re spending the year exploring the weekly parshiot and finding connections to each week’s Shabbat menu. This week we have the Torah’s 48th …

Food Tourah – Re’eh

August 20, 2025

Because life so often happens around food, we’re spending the year exploring the weekly parshiot and finding connections to each week’s Shabbat menu. This week we have the Torah’s 47th …

A Bittersweet Novel of Israel

August 19, 2025

Lihi Lapid’s bestselling Israeli novel, On Her Own, is now available in English, translated by Sondra Silverston. As the book opens, a terrified eighteen-year-old girl, Nina, is cowering in the stairwell …

Food Tourah: Hukkat

July 2, 2025

Because life so often happens around food, we’re spending the year exploring the weekly parshiot and finding connections to each week’s Shabbat menu. 39 parshiot down, 15 more to go! …

Herzl & Friends: When Zionism Was New

June 10, 2025

When Rachel Cockerell set out to write a history of her very British family, she was amazed to discover that her great-grandfather had played a crucial role in an early …

Zimriyah and Shlichut: A Joyous Combination

June 9, 2025

On Sunday, May 11, our congregation celebrated Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, with a love-filled and voices-lifted program featuring our Religious School students in grades K-5. Our shaliach, Yoel Gleizer, …

Food Tourah: Naso

June 4, 2025

Because life so often happens around food, we’re spending the year exploring the weekly parshiot and finding connections to each week’s Shabbat menu. 35 parshiot down, 19 more to go! …

Trust and Betrayal in Brussels

May 29, 2025

In the 1990s, American playwright and screenwriter Alice Austen was working as a lawyer in Brussels. Some elderly neighbors in her elegant Beaux Arts apartment building befriended her, inviting her regularly …

Food Tourah: Bamidbar

May 28, 2025

Because life so often happens around food, we’re spending the year exploring the weekly parshiot and finding connections to each week’s Shabbat menu. 34 parshiot down, 20 more to go! …

It’s Time to Ensure Israel’s Inclusive Future

April 22, 2025

As the 39th World Jewish Congress Election continues, with voting open until May 4, we asked Mercaz representative Tammy Gottlieb, vice chair of Women of the Wall and member of …