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Event Series Sunday Morning Minyan

Sunday Morning Minyan

For the next few Sundays, the Sunday Morning Minyan will be meeting around town! To find out where this week’s Minyan is meeting, please email Jonathan Hartman-Seeskin. The Minyan will return to Beth Emet on Sunday, January 14. Join us on Sundays to daven (pray) the weekday Shacharit (morning) service!  First-timers are encouraged! Please note ...

Event Series Kahal Potluck Lunch

Kahal Potluck Lunch

If you are able to attend on Saturday morning, please consider bringing a vegetarian, nut-free dish or lunch item for all to enjoy. Please also take a moment to jot down a list of ingredients that can be displayed with your dish for the benefit of those with food allergies. Instead of a potluck item, ...

Event Series Sunday Morning Minyan

Sunday Morning Minyan

For the next few Sundays, the Sunday Morning Minyan will be meeting around town! To find out where this week’s Minyan is meeting, please email Jonathan Hartman-Seeskin. The Minyan will return to Beth Emet on Sunday, January 14. Join us on Sundays to daven (pray) the weekday Shacharit (morning) service!  First-timers are encouraged! Please note ...

Event Series Social Justice Task Force

Social Justice Task Force

The Social Justice Committee centers around the values of Tikkun Olam, repairing the world, and gemilut chasadim (acts of loving kindness), through a hands-on, interactive, and committee-based approach. There are so many ways to get involved and help to support those suffering as a result of policies of injustice and marginalization. if you are interested in being ...

Social Justice Task Force; Presentation by The Aux

This month's Social Justice Task Force meeting will include a presentation by The Aux, a new Evanston commercial hub dedicated to racial equity and wellness. Led by a co-developer team of Black Evanston women, in partnership with The Growing Season, they are transforming a vacant potato factory into a beautiful and vibrant space that will ...

Event Series Hebrew 1 with Bluma Stoller

Hebrew 1 with Nancy Fink

Can you open a Siddur and participate in the Synagogue service? Do you want to read the prayers in Hebrew? For learners with no or limited Hebrew language background. This class focuses on mastery of the hebrew alphabet in order to read and understand Hebrew words and phrases in the prayer book and modern usage. ...

Event Series Sunday Morning Minyan

Sunday Morning Minyan

The Sunday Morning Minyan meets in the Beit Midrash at Beth Emet. Join us on Sundays to daven (pray) the weekday Shacharit (morning) service!  First-timers are encouraged! Please note, we will continue to Zoom as well for virtual participation. The Minyan offers an intimate opportunity to pray with the Beth Emet community. The service explores ...

Suffering, Salvation, and Human Rights” – A Conversation with Rabbi Noa Sattath, Executive Director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel

This Sunday we welcome Rabbi Noa Sattath (virtually) as she shares the important work of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, especially over the past few months, as well as discuss suffering, salvation, and human rights in Israel. Rabbi Sattath is the Executive Director of ACRI, the oldest and most influential civil and human ...

Event Series Hebrew 3 with Dorit Flatt

Hebrew 3 with Dorit Flatt

Hebrew 3 is for learners able to sound out and print Hebrew words. This class will explore the grammar and vocabulary of modern Hebrew through a variety of reading, writing, and speaking activities. Member fee $250; non-member fee $300. (five-student minimum for this class, scholarships are available) Non-Members Register Here Members Register Here DORIT FLATT ...

Event Series Hebrew 2 with Bluma

Hebrew 2 with Bluma

Hebrew 2 is for learners seeking more meaningful participation at services. This class provides opportunities to improve your Hebrew reading fluency while exploring the structure, themes, and key Hebrew vocabulary of the Shabbat morning worship service and its individual prayers. Hebrew 2 also includes basic elements of Hebrew grammar. Member fee $250; non-member fee $300 ...

Event Series Hebrew 1 with Bluma Stoller

Hebrew 1 with Nancy Fink

Can you open a Siddur and participate in the Synagogue service? Do you want to read the prayers in Hebrew? For learners with no or limited Hebrew language background. This class focuses on mastery of the hebrew alphabet in order to read and understand Hebrew words and phrases in the prayer book and modern usage. ...

War Poetry: A Memoir in Verse – D’var Torah by Poet Liturgist Alden Solovy

Since the October 7th invasion and massacre in Israel and the resulting war with Hamas, Poet Liturgist, and Beth Emet community member Alden Solovy has captured his thoughts and emotions in song and verse. He has written nearly 35 new works (and counting) resulting from this difficult time. Alden will draw from his new works to ...

Winter Family Fun

Imagine a Saturday afternoon, mid-January. "There's nothing to do.....I'm so bored!" Come to Beth Emet for games, crafts, cooking, havdalah, snacks and fun! $5.00/family and $5.00/family, and a donation of new kids sweatshirt or sweatpants size 6-8 for ESCCA. Co-sponsored by PJLibrary Non-Members Register Here Member Register Here

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Event Series Sunday Morning Minyan

Sunday Morning Minyan

The Sunday Morning Minyan meets in the Beit Midrash at Beth Emet. Join us on Sundays to daven (pray) the weekday Shacharit (morning) service!  First-timers are encouraged! Please note, we will continue to Zoom as well for virtual participation. The Minyan offers an intimate opportunity to pray with the Beth Emet community. The service explores ...

Event Series Hebrew 3 with Dorit Flatt

Hebrew 3 with Dorit Flatt

Hebrew 3 is for learners able to sound out and print Hebrew words. This class will explore the grammar and vocabulary of modern Hebrew through a variety of reading, writing, and speaking activities. Member fee $250; non-member fee $300. (five-student minimum for this class, scholarships are available) Non-Members Register Here Members Register Here DORIT FLATT ...

Jewish Disabilities Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion Program featuring the Israel ParaSport Center (Ramat Gan Israel) Highlighting Caroline Tabib, an International Table Tennis Champion

Our Beit Sefer students in grades 2 and up as well as all Beth Emet adults are invited to meet Israeli Caroline Tabib, who was born with a congenital paraplegia and went from a child with little chance of survival to a Paralympian living life without limits. We will learn about the ParaSport Center and ...

Event Series Hebrew 2 with Bluma

Hebrew 2 with Bluma

Hebrew 2 is for learners seeking more meaningful participation at services. This class provides opportunities to improve your Hebrew reading fluency while exploring the structure, themes, and key Hebrew vocabulary of the Shabbat morning worship service and its individual prayers. Hebrew 2 also includes basic elements of Hebrew grammar. Member fee $250; non-member fee $300 ...

Jamberry with Nicole Jaworski (Co-Sponsored by JBaby)

Join us for joyful, collaborative music-making with Nicole Jaworski and Jamberry Music! In this class, you and your little one will bond with each other and make new friends while we sing, dance, play, pretend and experiment with instruments. Class is geared to kids 6 months to 2.5 years old and siblings are welcome to ...

Adult Self-Defense

Tuesdays January 23, 30, February 6, and 13, 2024 | 5-6 pm Thanks to our partners at StandStrong, JCC Chicago is offering FREE self defense classes. Classes are for those who are ages 18 year and older. The 4-Week Self-Defense program is a weekly class focused on keeping participants active and teaching self-defense skills to ...

Dayenu Circle Meeting

Attend the next Dayenu Circle Zoom meeting. We will be discussing some goals for the coming year including Earth Day 2024! For more information, contact Sharon Smaller.