Field trips, writing workshops, meditation, music, leadership training, Torah study, and of course the chance to hang out with friends are just a few things that give Beth Emet’s younger generation a chance to engage with our community.
BESSY is our peer-led high school youth group. Through regular, teen-planned events, BESSY provides a Jewish social space and a platform to engage Jewishly with social action and justice. Each year, BESSY helps organize and run the Purim Carnival. BESSY events range from hosting a coffee house from seeing improv at the Second City to crafting nights! The relationships built in BESSY go beyond the strictly social to encourage and build the leaders. The BESSY Leadership Board is an all-teen board supported by the Beth Emet Lifelong Learning Team. BESSY board meets every two weeks to plan activities.
Our middle school youth group provides 6th – 8th graders opportunities for fun, semi-structured social spaces that meet adolescents at one of their greatest periods of change and growth. Our lifelong learning team works to create events during the school year that give middle schoolers an opportunity to connect socially with their Beit Sefer and Beth Emet community. Events include activities such as Olympics- themed games, cookie decorating, or exploring Evanston.
L’Taken is a social justice program hosted by the URJ’s Religious Action Center. Reform Jewish Teens from all over the country gather in Washington, DC for a weekend of learning about justice issues that are important for teens, exploring DC, and the opportunity to lobby to their representatives in Congress.
Read more about L’Taken: What is L’Taken? | Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
