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February 24, 2025
By Salo Zelermyer. As part of our partnership with Kibbutz Nir Oz – the special community shattered by the terrorist attacks on October 7 – for the 9 Shabbatot leading …
February 7, 2025
By Eric Gartman. The tenuous hostage-exchange and ceasefire deal in place between Israel and Hamas marks a pause in the longest and bloodiest eruption of violence that began on October …
October 29, 2024
During Yom Kippur, our Beth El community heard the heartbreaking story from Kibbutz Nir Oz family member Carmit Palty Katzir. Carmit’s father Rami, 79, was killed on October 7th. Hamas terrorists took …
October 8, 2024
Beth El took part in the Jewish world’s one-year commemorations of October 7, 2023 – both in its public mourning and in its dancing. Our clergy and members gathered with …
March 25, 2024
By Salo Zelermyer. Since October 7, 2023, the question many of us have been asking is: “What can we do to help?” Some of us have traveled to Israel to …
February 12, 2024
By Rabbi Deborah Megdal. What makes a conversation around Israel “erupt”? I’ve been thinking about this question since a friend shared that her workplace has been, in her words, “erupting …
December 25, 2023
By Education Director Elisha Rothschild Frumkin. I love Israel. I always have. Even though no one in my family had ever visited in person – save my eccentric great uncle …
December 19, 2023
By Beth El Preschool Director Lauren Hirt. Within the walls of Beth El Preschool (BEPS), we have shielded our littlest learners from the news. They are too young to understand …
December 11, 2023
By Hazzan Asa Fradkin. A trip to Israel is a magical thing. I still remember my first trip at the age of 19, when I was able to get onto …
November 30, 2023
By Rabbi Greg Harris. I am emotionally exhausted. Since October 7, I have been glued to news reports, imagining the unimaginable experience of being held hostage in a Hamas terror …
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