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Dayenu Circle

Want to address climate change through education, sustainability, and advocacy work? Attend the next Dayenu Circle (Beth Emet's green team) zoom meeting on Tuesday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. For more information, contact Sharon Smaller, smallersharon@gmail.com    Click here to view

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. ...

Open Geniza

A Geniza is a place to store sacred Jewish documents and objects no longer used by a synagogue. On Thursday, May 2 we will open the Geniza with our Beit Sefer students and add to the cache of sacred materials that Beth Emet does not use.  Please join us for a look into this sacred space. Members are encouraged to bring ...

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

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 ...

Family Picnic in the Park

Let's meet at the Park! We’ll enjoy snacks, singing, and springtime outdoors. Bring your water bottles and a blanket to sit on. Grandparents and friends are invited too!  $5/family. Members register here. Guests register here. Co-sponsored by PJLibrary.

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. ...

Three Minutes a Lengthening

  Join us for a screening of the 2021 documentary Three Minutes: A Lengthening, directed by Bianca Stigler. After the screening, Jesse Rosenberg will lead a discussion of this remarkable film. Stigler's documentary is based on the discovery of 3-minutes of footage which provide an emotionally charged, meditative glimpse into the lives of unsuspecting Jewish citizens of Nasielk, a small Polish ...

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 ...

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 Social Justice Task Force

Social Justice Task Force

We read about the migrant crisis in the U.S. We increasingly see migrants on the streets of Evanston, Wilmette, Chicago, and wherever we travel.  Even when you come to Beth Emet, you often find a family on the corner of Dempster and Ridge, rain or shine, asking for money. You wonder what you can be ...

Hope & Resilience: Celebrate Israel at 76 with Achinoam Nini

In celebration of Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel Independence Day) Israeli musician and internationally acclaimed singer, Achinoam Nini — known simply as Noa — will join the Chicago Jewish community for a celebration of song. Her unique fusion of 1960s folk sounds with her Yemenite roots and the jazz beats of her musical partner, Gil Dor, reflects ...

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. ...

Current Politics with Professor David Zarefsky

A continuing lecture-discussion class on contemporary public issues of interest to Jews as citizens. No fee for members Members Registration Guests PROFESSOR DAVID ZAREFSKY is the Owen L. Coon Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, specializing in argumentation and the analysis and criticism of American political discourse. He is a former president of ...

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 ...

Tzedekah Committee Spring Box Drop off and Exchange

It’s that time of year again for our spring Tzedekah Box drive, a time to accept donations, hand out new boxes, and respond to any questions you may have regarding the tzedakah grant program. Donations may also be made by credit card, e-check or billed to your account. As always, contributions received are used exclusively ...

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 Kovachim

Kovachim

  Calling all singers in grades 3- 12! Bring a friend and come join Cantor Young to learn some fun music for our first choir Shabbat on June 7. Bring a joyful spirit. Music will be provided to all participants. Please click here to sign-up.

Board of Trustees Meeting

Join us for the board's monthly meeting.   For more information please email Jody

Dayenu Circle

This Month's Dayenu Circle Meeting 7:30 Want to address climate change based on Jewish values through education, sustainability, and advocacy work? Attend Dayenu Circle (Beth Emet's green team) monthly Zoom meeting. This will be our final meeting of the spring. We will then take a brief hiatus in June and July and resume regular monthly ...

IDF Soldiers Share Their Experiences in the War Against Hamas

Listen to two Israeli graduate students, who are IDF reserve officers, tell their stories. They returned home to Israel soon after October 7th. They were courageously committed to defending the Jewish people and the land of Israel by serving in the IDF during an extraordinary national emergency. For security reasons, we ask that you not ...

Conversation W/ Rabbi London Surrounding College Campuses

If you have a college-aged student and would like to join for a discussion around events on college campuses with Rabbi London in a safe, judgment-free environment, please sign up below.   Member registration Guest registration (Fee included)

Oneg: Sponsored by the Schachter Family

  On this Erev Shabbat (Friday), Rabbi London will conclude this year’s One Book, One Congregation with a D’var Torah in the book's final section.  Following services, we will have an Oneg and facilitated conversation to delve deeper into the book. Haven’t read the book yet?  No worries!  Come anyways! Register today! so we can ...

Event Series Kabbalat Shabbat Service

Kabbalat Shabbat Service

Welcome to Shabbat, whether in the Sanctuary or online! Tonight, to listen to the service, dial 847-869-4230 and press 7. If you're interested in registering for the post-Shabbat Oneg and discussion on the book “A Letter in the Scroll” by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, please click here.    

D’var Torah: A Letter in the Scroll – Part 4 Oneg & Discussion

Rabbi London will offer her concluding D'var Torah on our One Book One Congregation selection, A Letter in the Scroll, at Kabbalat Shabbat on Friday, May 24. Before the service, there will be a special Oneg sponsored by the Schachter Family in honor of Maya becoming a Kabbalat Mitzvah. After the service, a facilitated book ...

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 ...