holidays and prayers
Holiday Curriculum
For each Jewish holiday throughout the year, we produce a special program, whether live or virtual, that includes a variety of participatory activities. Depending on the calendar, holiday programs may take place during the school day or may be held outside of school hours. The programs usually include a “wheel” of activity stations that teach an aspect of the holiday through an interactive learning experiences.
SHMA Prayer Services
Prayer Services are an important part of our SHMA Program, because they teach about the nature of prayer and help students make personal connections to the ancient words. They also offer practical application of their Hebrew reading skills. Services provide an opportunity for students in all grades to gather and form their own community. Perhaps most important, Services reinforce the Jewish rhythms of time: daily, weekly and yearly.
Our Services are abbreviated versions of each Service, demonstrating the structure, themes and melodies of any Conservative Service they will experience.
Weekday Minchah (Afternoon) or Maariv (Evening). Wednesday afternoon sessions begin with all students gathering in the Chapel for an afternoon or evening Service, depending on the calendar.
Weekday Shacharit. Sunday mornings begin with a Weekday Shacharit Service, in which the Siddur (Prayer Book) is projected on a screen so that students can better focus on the words and ideas. A laser pointer helps guide the prayers and emphasize themes and ideas.
Shabbat Experience
Once each month, the Sunday morning session is moved to Saturday morning for the SHMA Shabbat Experience. In this session, students incorporate Shabbat friendly activities that reinforce the themes and customs of Shabbat. The program also includes a family worship service.
Fri, January 21 2022
19 Shevat 5782
LIVESTREAMING
Morning minyan and Shabbat Services will be live streamed from our chapel. Please click here for recent services and to view live stream: https://vimeo.com/event/1331069
There are no in-person services due to the high increase of Covid Cases, for your safety all services will be on Zoom or Live Streamed.
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E-Torah
E-Torah from Congregation B’nai Israel
January 21 2022
19 Shevat 5782
Of Commandments and Courage
By now, all of us have heard of the horrific events of last Shabbat in Colleyville, Texas, and the extraordinary courage shown by the rabbi of that small congregation. Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker kept the mentally unstable gunman calm until he could not, and then he threw a chair at the terrorist and ushered his congregants to safety.
Rabbi Cytron-Walker is being properly lauded as a hero. But then, the Jewish Forward decided to print a story two days after the event detailing how the rabbi’s contract was not renewed a few months ago after 16 years of service, and even printed some allegations, leveled without proof, made against the rabbi by a disgruntled congregant who had left the congregation.
The Ten Commandments, which we read this week, are echoed in the book of Leviticus in chapter 19, where one of the verses reads “Do not go about as a talebearer amongst the people”. This is a prohibition of Lashon Hara, gossip and slander-because gossip and slander in our tradition are as deadly as murder. Every time a rabbi leaves a congregation, rumor and innuendo abound, and I assure you such attacks are devastating. That the Jewish Forward would engage in such an act days after this man saved the lives of his parishioners is beyond the pale.
It is tragic that Rabbi Cytron-Walker could survive a deadly attack by a terrorist, only to confront the slanderous gossip of a once great Jewish newspaper.
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Doug Sagal
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