Events / Announcements

Enjoy a ruah-filled davening experience with musical accompaniment beginning June 18th every Friday night at 5:45 p.m. through September 3.

Airfare has been reduced to Uganda! Right now, the new cost is $2027. Make your next great mitzvah in the African Diaspora! You are invited to join other Beth El leaders and congregants this December in working with Uganda’s small but thriving indigenous Jewish community, the Abayudaya. We will be visiting their main village of Nabugoye, located in a verdant mountainous area in eastern Uganda. (more…)

This 10 week session provides a young family community with a parent education component in a safe, supportive, and nurturing Jewish environment. Class offers Participants:

• Opportunity to meet other Jewish families
• Trained Instructor facilitation
• Instant support system
• Open forum to share parenting celebrations and challenges
• Safe and social play place for your young children
• Exciting ways to integrate Judaism into your family and MUCH more!!!

Classes to be held at B’nai Emet Synagogue (Our temporary home during Beth El construction)

Fall session classes begin October 5th and 7th and will run for 10 weeks:

Tuesday:
0-6 Months 11:30-12:15
Thursday:
15-24 Months 9:30-10:45
6-14 Months 11:00-12:00
0-12 Months 5:45-6:45

Cost: $120.00 for 10 week session ($60 for each additional child.) Complimentary sibling care available for children 16 months-pre kindergarten is available upon request. Rolling admissions will be accepted throughout the year based on space availability.

Instructors: Amy Paster and Michelle Yousha

Please download and return this form or call the Beth El Aleph School Preschool at 952-920-4169 for more information or to register.

Shabbat, September 25, 2010

Shabbat Services, with Kiddush in the Sukkah
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

“Greening Judaism: A Sukkot Conversation Between Pirkei Avot, Rabbi Joseph Soliveitchik and the movie ‘Avatar’” Following Shabbat Services
With Rabbi Jeffery Schein, Director of the Center for Jewish Education at Cleveland’s Siegal College

“Hop Through the Hood” (Birth – 10 years)
12:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Neighborhood Sukkah Hop, brought to you by the Young Families Group. We will depart following morning services. A light lunch will be served. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

“Shake, Rattle & Stroll” (5th through 8th grades)
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Sukkah Expedition brought to you by the B’resheet and Kadimah youth groups. Don’t miss it!

82nd Annual Sukkah Square Dance
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
“I haven’t laughed this hard in years – what a blast!” (Deb Oberman after last year’s dance). Swingin’ party of adults, with hoe-down Havdallah, square dance instruction from a professional caller, western style appetizers and comfort beverages. Grab a partner or come by yourself and join in the fun! Don’t miss it!

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Sukkat Shalom: Moslem-Jewish Interfaith Gathering
9:00 a.m. Minyan followed by Breakfast
Welcome members of Brooklyn Park’s Anjuman-e-Asghari Mosque to Beth El’s sukkah. Participants will gather for services at 9:00 a.m. and stay for breakfast (10:00 a.m.), study and have opportunity for informal conversation to build bridges of peace in our “Sukkah of Peace.”

Paintball and Bonfire / Hanging in the Sukkah (9-12th grades)
2:45 p.m.– 9:00 p.m.
Paintball was a huge “hit” so why not try it again. Come for 3hrs. of paintball play. Just like Minnesota baseball went outdoors this year. BERUSY paintball is moving outdoors as well. This includes 100 paintballs, mask, paintball gun, and air. Bring some extra money for additional paintballs. Please be on time to leave. $10 for BERUSY Members, $15 for Non Members. Come to paintball and then hangout in the Sukkah, or just join us at 8pm in the sukkah. Start the year off right by getting to know all your friends in BERUSY. There will be food!

This year, we are offering 6 knishes in ready-to-bake pans for $8.00.  Potato and rice knishes (parve) available! To order the best knishes in the Twin Cities, call Nancy Kaplan at 952-217-5412 or send the order form (located on the book cart in the Ring Lobby and your check made payable to Beth El Women’s League to Nancy Kaplan at 972- Picket Drive, Eden Prairie, MN 55347.

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