February 28-March 1, 2020
After a five-year hiatus, Beth Emet’s Community Retreat is back and better than ever! Spend a relaxing weekend with friends and family in beautiful Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, celebrating Shabb...
Sunday, January 19 | 12:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend, this year's Beth Emet's annual family service even...
We are grateful to those who have already supported this year's Mitzvah Appeal Campaign!
It’s a mitzvah to support our synagogue. Now more than ever.
We all share the commitment to care for o...
Beth Emet is a diverse, multigenerational Reform community with a dynamic approach to Judaism. Our congregation seeks to create a spiritually vibrant, socially conscious, intellectually challenging, and deeply caring environment firmly rooted in Jewish tradition and values.
Sunday, January 19 | 12:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend, this year's Beth Emet's annual family service even...
Monday, January 20 | 11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church (516 Church Street, Evanston)
On Martin Luther King’s National Day of Service, Walk for Warmth will raise funds for operating the Emergen...
Beth Emet’s Soup Kitchen is a well-oiled machine, weekly feeding 70 to 120 of the area’s working poor and homeless. The Soup Kitchen, under the leaders...
February 28-March 1, 2020
After a five-year hiatus, Beth Emet’s Community Retreat is back and better than ever! Spend a relaxing weekend with friends and family in beautiful Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, celebrating Shabb...
Thinking about keeping your slate clean after Yom Kippur? Want a Jewish way to deepen your focus on your speech, behavior, and ideas? Looking to connect to people in meaningful ways? You may be looking for tikkun m...
Wednesday, February 16 at 1:00 p.m.
Join the discussion at our monthly book club! The next book is “Book of the Unknown Americans” by Christina Henriquez. Books are available for pick up at Beth Emet. No need to RSVP...
with Rabbi Andrea London
Fridays, February 14-June 12 | 9:30 a.m. - 10:35 a.m. (No class March 6, April 10, and May 15)
There are many ways to interpret Torah and the nuances of meaning that are often overlooked. We will cont...
Thursdays, January 16, February 27, March 19, April 23 | 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Participants study as a small group of adults studies to become b’nei mitzvah together at Beth Emet. Requirements for Adult B’nei Mitzvah at Beth Emet...
with Yvette Alt Miller
Thursday, January 30 | 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Whether you’re an expert baker or a challah newbie, this evening is for you! Learn how to make and braid challah and explore the meaning and mysticism behind this i...
with David Gottlieb
Fridays, February 14 and 21 | 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Sigmund Freud and Theodor Herzl lived on the same block in Vienna for two years in the early 1900s. Yet these men, so deeply influenced by
European cultur...
Movie and discussion, led by Bekki Kaplan and Shlomit Hoch
Saturday, February 1 | 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Rebecca Abarnabel, a single daughter born into an Orthodox Jewish family, is tired of the lifestyle that her father, Reuven...
with Alan Teller
Sunday, February 23, 9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Distinct from Yiddish theater, Jewish vaudeville had its own flavor. Alan Teller grew up with a larger-than-life grandfather in the business — a guy who pulled quarters ...
with Claire Suffrin
Fridays, February 28 and March 6 | 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
This course will explore different aspects of the relationship between religion and literature in contemporary novels and poetry. We’ll consider exa...
with Rabbi Allan Kensky
Fridays, January 24 and 31 | 9:45 – 11:15 a.m.
This small book of the Bible, written in the aftermath of the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE, expresses the anguish of the people at the calamity that ...
with Yvette Alt Miller
Thursday, January 23 | 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Shabbat dinner includes some beautiful but puzzling rituals. Why do we make a blessing over wine? Why hide the challah under a cloth? This multi-sensory workshop ex...
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