Hebrew 2 with Bluma
2024-05-12 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-05-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago)
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 (five-student minimum for this class)
Interested? Contact Marci Dickman

Hebrew 3 with Dorit Flatt
2024-05-12 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-05-05 11:00 - 12:00
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 is the daughter of Holocaust survivors and grew up in Tel-Aviv, Israel. After completing her IDF service in the paratrooper unit, she studied elementary education at Seminar Levinsky in Tel-Aviv. She holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Michigan, and taught Hebrew language, literature, and religious studies in Michigan for twenty-five years.

Mitzvah Corps
2024-05-12 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-05-05 10:30 - 12:00

Gesher
2024-05-12 10:30 - 12:00, 2024-05-05 10:30 - 12:00

Beit Sefer
2024-05-12 09:30 - 12:00, 2024-05-09 16:15 - 18:15, 2024-05-05 09:30 - 12:00

Sunday Morning Minyan
2024-05-12 09:00 - 10:00, 2024-05-05 09:00 - 10:00
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 our ritual, liturgical, and musical traditions in a welcoming setting for people new to prayer while providing a deeper connection for people with more experience.
Participants are encouraged to wear a tallit and tefillin.

Mother's Day
2024-05-12

Kahal Shabbat Morning Services
2024-05-11 09:30 - 11:30, 2024-05-04 09:30 - 11:30
Whether in-person or online participate in worship by signing up for an honor via the online honor form.

Kabbalat Shabbat Services: Commemorating Yom Ha’Atzmaut (Israel’s Independence Day)
2024-05-10 18:30 - 20:00
This year we will observe Yom Ha’Atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) on Friday, May 10 and Tuesday, May 14. Given how difficult this year has been with the war between Israel and Gaza and attacks on Israel from Hezbollah and Iran, Cantor Young and Rabbi London invited some of our Israeli colleagues to send us a video about how they are marking Yom Ha’Atzmaut this year. We will air that video during Kabbalat Shabbat services on Friday, May 10. We will welcome Shabbat at 5:45 pm with a delicious Oneg before services, featuring the flavors of Israel that give a taste of unexpected and familiar favorites. On the actual day of Yom Ha’atzmaut, May 14, Beth Emet is cosponsoring a musical event at (give details). Noa is not only a fine Israeli musician, but her performances are soulful and heartfelt and will help us reflect on this moment.
Cantor Young and Rabbi London will also share their thoughts and some prayers via video as they will be out of town on May 10.

Yom Haatzmaut Oneg: Sponsored by Israel Committee
2024-05-10 17:45 - 18:30
This Oneg will be in honor of Yom HaAtzmaut, Sponsored by the generous donors of the Israel Committee.
This year we will observe Yom Ha’Atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) on Friday, May 10 and Tuesday, May 14. Given how difficult this year has been with the war between Israel and Gaza and attacks on Israel from Hezbollah and Iran, Cantor Young and Rabbi London invited some of our Israeli colleagues to send us a video about how they are marking Yom Ha’Atzmaut this year. We will air that video during Kabbalat Shabbat services on Friday, May 10. Cantor Young and Rabbi London will also share their thoughts and some prayers via video as they will be out of town on May 10. We will welcome Shabbat at 5:45 pm with a delicious Oneg before services, featuring the flavors of Israel that give a taste of unexpected and familiar favorites. On the actual day of Yom Ha’atzmaut, May 14, Beth Emet is cosponsoring a musical event at (give details). Noa is not only a fine Israeli musician, but her performances are soulful and heartfelt and will help us reflect on this moment.

Three Minutes a Lengthening
2024-05-09 19:00 - 21:00
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 village, in 1938, just before the onset of World War II.

Members Register Here

Hebrew 1 with Nancy Fink
2024-05-09 10:00 - 11:00
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. Hebrew 1 also connects Hebrew vocabulary with Jewish life, ritual, tradition, and Israel.
Member fee $250; non-member fee $300
(five-student minimum for this class; Scholarships are available)
Non-Members Register Here
Members Register Here
NANCY FINK is a Beth Emet congregant who abandoned a budding career as an urban planner to pursue her love of all things Jewish, especially Hebrew. She has worked at Beth Emet’s school community since 1983 as a teacher, mentor, administrator, and is currently the Assistant Principal of Beit Sefer, the K-6 school.

Choir Rehearsal
2024-05-08 19:00 - 21:00
Join the Beth Emet choir practices, leading to a culminating shabbat on June 7th.

Soup Kitchen
2024-05-08 18:00 - 19:00

Jamberry with Nicole Jaworski (Co-Sponsored by JBaby)
2024-05-07 09:30 - 10:15
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 join!

Register here

Shiur B'Internet
2024-05-06 19:00 - 20:00
Please email Melinda if you are interested in learning more.

Family Picnic in the Park
2024-05-05 09:30 - 11:00
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.

Kahal Potluck Lunch
2024-05-04 12:00 - 13:00
If you are able to attend on Saturday morning, please consider bringing a vegetarian, nut-free dish or lunch item for all to enjoy. The potluck will take place in the Sanctuary and on LiveControl. 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, feel free to donate to help offset the cost of purchasing food.

Kabbalat Shabbat Service
2024-05-03 18:30 - 20:00
Welcome Shabbat whether in the Sanctuary or online! Tonight. To listen to the service dial 847-869-4230 and press 7.

Oneg: Sponsored by David & Bonnie Turner.
2024-05-03 17:45 - 18:30
David & Bonnie Turner in memory of his brother, Howard Turner, will be sponsoring this Oneg before services begin.

If you are interested in participating please join us before services begin at 5:45pm for refreshments and schmooze with your fellow congregants.

A Close Look at Torah with Rabbi Andrea London
2024-05-03 09:30 - 10:45
There are many ways to interpret Torah and its nuances of meaning that are often overlooked. We will continue our learning from last year, reading and interpreting the text of the Book of Deuteronomy line by line. New learners are always welcome.
No Fee for members; non-members fee is $130
Non-Members Register Here
Members Register Here

Open Geniza
2024-05-02 17:00 - 17:30
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 worn-out prayerbooks, Torah commentaries, or text study sheets on religious topics to be buried in this ceremony. Feel free to drop them off in the front office during regular business hours all week. Click to learn more about Geniza Burial or to check what qualifies to be buried.
