God’s Image in Every Human Being - Rosh Hashanah 5780 Sermon
10/01/2019 04:22:43 PM
by Rabbi Jonathan Biatch
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L’shanah tovah.
Last month, the world of literature lost Toni Morrison, acclaimed and award-winning author and teacher. She once offered this bit of wisdom to her students: “If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”
To me, actualizing this vision is a privilege, and this is the thesis for my remarks this morning.
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Rabbis and African American pastors were once engaged in a lively discussion about the systemic racism that has characterized American life for more than 400 years, ever since the first slave trader’s ship left what is today Ghana, for its destination on the Virginia colony shore.
The discussion took many turns, but they were avoiding one significant question, which finally came forth from one of the rabbis:
“Jews and African Americans have a long history of working together. It’s been an up and down relationship, to be sure. But what can we do together to improve the situation?”
The response from a 30-something African American pastor, Pastor Richard, was immediate.
“Those who know how to drive, should drive. Those who know how to lead, should lead. African Americans need access to ideas: Share them with us! You need to use your white privilege for this purpose. You also need to use your Jewish privilege.” That same pastor, earlier in the evening, had decried the violence stemming from the police shootings of black youth and from black-on-black crime. He despaired and he even remarked, “Black lives matter when they matter to black people.”
Another black pastor, Pastor Edward, someone who had been in the pulpit for more than 30 years, changed the discourse. He said, “White rabbis can't lead the movement, and need to acknowledge that the African Americans must be in the forefront. White people make too many assumptions about what the African American community needs.”
I wanted to relate this brief exchange because it may provide direction to Jews and Blacks who should be engaged together, at all times, in the struggle against racism.
That conversation took place about six weeks ago in a synagogue auditorium in Montgomery, Alabama, where, along with forty-nine other Reform rabbis, I spent a concentrated period studying the grim and problematical history of the Black experience in our country. From the active years of the international slave trade to the most recent police shootings of young African Americans: For many of us our eyes were opened even further to the realities of inequity and inequality in America.
Being in Montgomery and speaking to African American leaders enabled us not simply to hear about the persecution of the African Americans. Many of us rose to new and different levels of empathy:
We gleaned information from The Legacy Museum, located in the same slave warehouse -- and cell-like rooms -- in which families and individuals were kept while they were being bought and sold.
We learned through the museum’s permanent exhibit, about the sad and distressing history of 400 years of African American life.
We observed the greedy nature of the slave trade through notices in an auctioneer’s catalogue about their ‘merchandise’. Here is a sample listing:
There was an ad about someone named Tilla, which read: “about 16 years old, of a fine family, and very large people. Good in the house or the field, quick to learn, humble, obedient, and valuable servant. Has neither fault nor blemish that the proprietor knows, ought to command a high price”;
We viewed newsreel footage of southern bigots from the 1930’s to the 1980’s defending and expressing pride about their prejudices;
And we spoke to African Americans who were present in the 1950’s and 1960’s, and lived through the era of Jim Crow.
Museums and monuments dedicated to the Holocaust, like the ones our Beth El travelers experienced in Eastern Europe last May, or that many of have seen in Jerusalem, Berlin, Washington, Skokie, and others, teach – on a visceral level – the enormity, the grotesqueness, and the pain of the Holocaust; we know of the impact that those places have on non-Jewish visitors.
And in the same way, for most of the rabbis on our group, our experiences in Montgomery and Selma last month had a similar emotional impact on us. As individuals and as a group, we are now much more dedicated to addressing the problem of race and bringing about justice and reconciliation between the white and black communities in our country.
Such a reconciliation is far off, yet the more we defer our work, the longer it will take. But since we at Temple Beth El have a Brit Olam Action Team dedicated to racial justice and reconciliation, our synagogue now must prepare to take the next steps to make a difference in our local community. I am an ally in this, our common struggle. I hope you will join me as well as the dedicated members of our Brit Olam action team.
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It is essential that we approach this issue mindful of the texts of our tradition firmly in mind. Throughout its history, our people has developed a sophisticated set of values and commandments about how we treat other people, and we must be familiar and comfortable with them.
This morning we read from the book of Genesis, about the origins of humanity. That creation story revealed more than the substance of creation. Our ancestors brought forth a basic set of instructions on how people should relate to people.
The opening of Chapter Five of Genesis reads:
“When God created humanity, God made humanity in the likeness of God; male and female, God created them; when they were created, God blessed them; and God called them ‘adam’”, (which I am translating as ‘earth creatures’, because of the dust of the earth from which humanity was created.)[1]
So, these are four basic truths about the human being:
that we are created as beings filled with Divine knowledge and impact;
that we include a myriad of genders;
that we as a species are special, unique, and sacred;
and that each human shares a common name and fate: we are all earth dwellers: we are all human.
Merely knowing these truths is a privilege. And the Midrash relates that this distinction – that we are aware of this privilege – confers upon us special responsibility.
This is not “white privilege”, nor is it “Jewish privilege”. This is a notion of “human privilege”. And since our human privilege is a gift, we should not underestimate the value of the privilege, or the magnitude of this responsibility.
Indeed, let us be proud of these four truths about humanity each time we step outside and intervene in the life of the world. We are all one species – people – with much diversity … and many commonalities. And as my midrash states, we each have divinity within; we each are human regardless of our gender identities; we are sacred beings both within ourselves and to others; and we share a common human identity as earth-dwellers, responsible for this planet and making us all family.
There are those who would refute and disparage these values. But the Jewish community inspired and created them; they are Integral. And. Essential. Parts. of who we are.
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There are other texts to learn, however, texts germane to the African American experience. So, here are some basic history from those texts. They may seem elementary, but we need to start from a common level of knowledge if we want to root out prejudice and reverse the effects of the pervasive inequality in our country.
From the beginning of the slave trade in 1619, 12 million people from Africa were effectively kidnapped and placed on boats to the West. One estimate was that perhaps 40% of them never even arrived at our shores.
In 1808, Congress outlawed citizens’ participation in international trading of slaves. But Congress turned a blind eye to the domestic slave markets. They remained legal.
From 1848-1860, 164 businesses in Montgomery, Alabama, were licensed to buy and sell slaves. The city’s location on the Alabama River – with its eventual opening at the Gulf of Mexico – made this city and port a natural locus for the slave trade.
After end of the Civil War, slavery was abolished in law. But in practice, very little changed regarding social attitudes toward slaves. Southern state legislatures came to enact laws that segregated black and white communities from one another. And the constitutionality of this practice was oddly upheld by seven of nine of the US Supreme Court justices in the 1896 ruling, Plessy v Ferguson. The ruling gave license to segregated facilities if they were equal in quality. That was, of course, rarely the case.
By 1898, 73% of the revenue of the state of Alabama came from ‘Convict Leasing’, a system of prisoner labor provided to private parties, such as plantation owners and corporations. The issue of race emerges because the so-called ‘convicts’ who were leased, were often in prison under false arrests or trumped-up charges.
From 1910 to 1940, six million southern Blacks migrated North, finding homes in cities where the racial strife was less intense. But persecution was not limited to the South. States like Nebraska, Nevada, and even my home state of California approved anti-miscegenation laws and imposed other social disabilities upon African Americans.[2]
It is one matter to learn these and hundreds of other realities through historical resources. It is entirely different to stand in a former slave warehouse in Montgomery and absorb salient facts about the persecution of a people within the boundaries of our “free” nation.
It is unique to stand on the stoop of the Montgomery parsonage of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, and to see the dent in the concrete porch made by a 1956 pipe bomb.
It is a solemn experience to walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and remember those who died and were injured on Bloody Sunday, 1965.
It is breathtaking to see monuments dedicated to the victims of slave kidnapping and lynching, and visit historic sites preserved to help us recall the terrors of this era.
It is heartbreaking to hear the story of a Jewish merchant in 1965 Selma, who tried to bring his son to see the Brown Chapel, the operational nerve center for the Montgomery marches. This pair of would-be visitors were turned away from the church because the street was filled with police cars, end to end, like barricades restraining the Blacks in their housing projects and keeping visitors out. (The father, by the way, said to his son, “We better get home and hunker down,” not realizing the privilege in that statement, the privilege, that is, of being able to leave and hunker down.)
There is so much we yet don't know. We can learn from various resources and we may develop relationships, but sometimes our Jewish myopia – especially when it comes to the sufferings that we experienced throughout our history – could blind us to the needs of others.
We understand our lives, our family, our friendship networks, our desires, our sins, our accomplishments, our failures. Yet, despite our keen ability to empathize with those who suffer, sometimes we know very little of the needs of others, of their sufferings, their longings, or their difficult pathways through life.
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My friends,
We have a major task before us if we wish to reverse the systemic racism that has plagued our nation, and to repair the inequities in our land due to race. The report from our national partners at the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism is that dialogue between the African American and Jewish American communities is today not broad or deep enough to be transformative. Here in Madison, my impression is that we’re still getting only our toes wet. And nationally, the specter of alleged and real antisemitism constitutes the Damoclean sword that hangs above these two communities.
For many years, American Jews and Blacks have jointly sought ways of working together in the struggle against persecution and bigotry. But the time is more pressing now – as some of our nation’s leaders express prejudices against both Jewish and Black communities – that we become the right kind of allies in the struggle for human equality.
For us, this is the moment of using our human privilege for good.
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What does it feel like to be Jewish in America today? Proud and out? Assimilative and restrained? Victimized by pervasive antisemitism? Unfettered, and able to wear one’s kippah if one so chooses? We feel a myriad of emotions as American Jews, who, on one day, can be subject to politicians who use us as a political wedge, and who, in the next breath, can cheer for yet another Jewish Nobel laureate or celebrity who says the right truth to the right person in power.
And what does it feel like to be black in America today? That, I don’t know.
Can I, a cisgender male member of the Jewish tribe, dripping with privilege only because of the accident of my birth; who passes for white every time I enter the public sphere; how can I possibly claim to know the indignities of people of color in our nation, a nation that, over time, imported 12 million human slaves – carelessly losing some on the way – and whose countrymen and women offloaded them just as easily as modern cargo ships dock and disgorge their freight?
But we must try to understand more. As much as we know, there are tons of things that we do not yet know.
Very few of us can easily comprehend the humiliation and the degradation of slavery. More of us, perhaps, can empathize with prejudice based on one's connection to their people. But the way to be an ally is to try to know these things.
On this Yom Hadin – this day of judgment, this New Year’s Day – we must discover three realities that Mahatma Gandhi spoke of when naming his movement Satyagraha: there must be clarity in our thinking about these matters; truth in our speaking about them; and authenticity in our actions to change the world for the better.[3]
Let us work diligently in the struggle for equality. Let us tell our African American brothers and sisters that we can be loyal and energetic allies. And let us integrate into our souls those words of Toni Morrison, that “If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”
This is my wish and my prayer for us in this new year ahead. May we go from strength to strength. L’shanah Tovah.
[1] Genesis 5:1-2
[2] A smattering of state laws from this very period of exodus of black Americans from the South to the North:
Alabama, 1952: “No cards, dominoes, checkers, pool, or billiards to be played in mixed race groups.”
Nebraska, 1943: “Marriages between a white individual and someone deemed 1/8 black, Chinese, or Japanese, will result in the dissolution of the marriage.”
Nevada, 1929: “No one, including priests and ministers, will perform mixed race marriages; it is a gross misdemeanor.”
And California, my home state, 1949: “No marriage may take place between whites and blacks [A different term was used: negroes], Mongolians, members of the Malay race, or mulattos.”
[3] Reading Gandhi, Surjit Kaur Jolly, Concept Publishing Company, 2006 India, page 91
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Saturday ,
SepSeptember 14 , 2024Stella Friedman Bat Mitzvah
Saturday, Sep 14th 10:30 am to 1:00 pm
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Friday ,
SepSeptember 20 , 2024Shabbat Midor Lador
Friday, Sep 20th 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
A musical service for the whole Temple family, featuring Les Goldsmith and the Promised Band.
Engage with us!
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Sunday ,
AugAugust 27 , 2023High Holy Day Food Drive
Sunday, Aug 27th (All day)
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Tuesday ,
SepSeptember 26 , 2023Religious Practices Committee meeting
Tuesday, Sep 26th 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Religious Practices Committee meeting (RPC) -
Wednesday ,
SepSeptember 27 , 2023Environment and Climate Change Action Team Meeting
Wednesday, Sep 27th 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
August 23, 2023 meeting is canceled. Join our action team as we make plans to engage the congregation in activities that raise awareness about environmental issues. -
Thursday ,
SepSeptember 28 , 2023Music Committee Meeting
Thursday, Sep 28th 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
For more information on the Music Committee, contact Cantor Jacob Niemi. -
Friday ,
SepSeptember 29 , 2023Sukkot Dinner in the Sukkah
Friday, Sep 29th 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Join us following Shabbat and Sukkot worship celebration as we enjoy the mitzvah of eating inside the sukkah. -
Sunday ,
OctOctober 1 , 2023Sunday School for Adults
Sunday, Oct 1st 9:30 am to 10:30 am
This monthly course is an opportunity for parents and guardians of Religious School students who missed having a formal Jewish education to have a parallel learning experience while their students are in Religious School. -
Sunday ,
OctOctober 1 , 2023Tots and Tunes
Sunday, Oct 1st 10:45 am to 11:45 am
This song and craft program for families with children ages 0–5 is open to the entire Madison Jewish community. -
Sunday ,
OctOctober 1 , 2023Young Families Pizza in the Hut and Sukkah Decorating Party
Sunday, Oct 1st 11:45 am to 1:00 pm
Help decorate the sukkah, get up close and personal with a real lulav and etrog, and enjoy a pizza lunch with friends! -
Sunday ,
OctOctober 1 , 2023Support Group for Those Whose Lives Have Been Touched by Mental Health Issues
Sunday, Oct 1st 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
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Sunday ,
OctOctober 1 , 2023Tables Across Borders
Sunday, Oct 1st 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Please join us for a multicultural community dinner cooked by Bakht Mohammad, an evacuee from Afghanistan who, with the help of Jewish Social Services of Madison, has started his own catering business, Afghan Kabul. -
Monday ,
OctOctober 2 , 2023Stichin' in the Sukkah
Monday, Oct 2nd 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Join us with your needlework or craft projects, and bring a dish to pass so we can fulfill the obligation of eating in the sukkah while we stitch and schmooze and enjoy a beautiful evening outside. -
Tuesday ,
OctOctober 3 , 2023Food-A-Rama Cooking and Preparation
Tuesday, Oct 3rd 8:30 am to 1:30 pm
Food-A-Rama is back in person this year! Sign up now to volunteer and help make it happen! -
Wednesday ,
OctOctober 4 , 2023Food-A-Rama Cooking and Preparation
Wednesday, Oct 4th 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
Food-A-Rama is back in person this year! Sign up now to volunteer and help make it happen! -
Wednesday ,
OctOctober 4 , 2023Singles Creating Community Dinner
Wednesday, Oct 4th 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
This is a dinner gathering for the Singles Creating Community group. -
Wednesday ,
OctOctober 4 , 2023MJND Pizza in the Hut
Wednesday, Oct 4th 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Come join Madison’s Jews Next Dor (20s & 30s group) for some pizza and schmoozing in the sukkah at Temple Beth El. -
Thursday ,
OctOctober 5 , 2023New Member Sukkah Schmooze
Thursday, Oct 5th 5:45 pm to 7:00 pm
New members are invited to meet the staff, clergy, board of trustees, and committee chairs—and one another—at this casual get-together in the TBE sukkah. -
Thursday ,
OctOctober 5 , 2023House Committee Meeting
Thursday, Oct 5th 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
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Thursday ,
OctOctober 5 , 2023Social Action Committee Meeting
Thursday, Oct 5th 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Social Action Committee meetings are held at 7:00 pm on the first Thursday of most months at Temple Beth El. -
Thursday ,
OctOctober 5 , 2023Men's Club Book Group
Thursday, Oct 5th 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
The Men's Club Book Group will meet via Zoom to discuss "Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are" by Robert Plomin. -
Friday ,
OctOctober 6 , 2023Photo and Dinner for Consecration Families
Friday, Oct 6th 5:15 pm to 6:00 pm
Families of the students celebrating their consecration this year are invited to join one another for a light dinner before our Shabbat worship and Simchat Torah celebration. -
Friday ,
OctOctober 6 , 2023Simchat Torah Congregational Dinner
Friday, Oct 6th 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Join us for a special Shabbat dinner in celebration of Shabbat and Simchat Torah. -
Sunday ,
OctOctober 8 , 2023Youth Day
Sunday, Oct 8th 11:45 am to 1:00 pm
Join us for youth day activities with JEWniors, our social group for 3rd–5th graders, and MuTTY, which brings Jewish 6th–8th graders together to build relationships and create fun and relaxed Jewish spaces. -
Tuesday ,
OctOctober 10 , 2023Board Meeting
Tuesday, Oct 10th 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
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Thursday ,
OctOctober 12 , 2023Milton House Museum Underground Railroad Station
Thursday, Oct 12th 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Join us for a guided tour of the Milton House Museum, the last certified Underground Railroad station in Wisconsin that can be toured, followed by a catered lunch together in the museum's private meeting room to share our reaction to the experience. -
Thursday ,
OctOctober 12 , 2023Food-A-Rama Cooking and Preparation
Thursday, Oct 12th 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Food-A-Rama is back in person this year! Sign up now to volunteer and help make it happen! -
Sunday ,
OctOctober 15 , 2023Thanksgiving Food Drive for Goodman Community Center
Sunday, Oct 15th (All day)
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Sunday ,
OctOctober 15 , 2023Food-A-Rama Cooking and Preparation
Sunday, Oct 15th 12:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Food-A-Rama is back in person this year! Sign up now to volunteer and help make it happen! -
Sunday ,
OctOctober 15 , 2023Cancer Support Group
Sunday, Oct 15th 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
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Tuesday ,
OctOctober 17 , 2023Serving Meals at the Catholic Multicultural Center
Tuesday, Oct 17th 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
As the Catholic Multicultural Center resumes daily in-person dinners, join fellow TBE volunteers on the third Tuesday of each month to help serve dinner and clean up. -
Thursday ,
OctOctober 19 , 2023Why? Because Israel Matters!
Thursday, Oct 19th 7:00 pm to 8:15 pm
Join Rabbi Biatch for this series to learn about and discuss the ongoing democracy movement in Israel and issues critical to the relationship between Israeli and Diaspora Jewish communities, the Reform movement, and other liberal streams of Judaism. Come and be part of the discussion, because Israel matters. -
Sunday ,
OctOctober 22 , 2023Cook Meals for Healing House
Sunday, Oct 22nd 5:00 pm to 5:15 pm
Volunteers are asked to assist by cooking and dropping off meals at 5:00 pm each day at Healing House. -
Monday ,
OctOctober 23 , 2023Tour of Literacy Network
Monday, Oct 23rd 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm
Join the TBE Social Action Committee for a tour of Literacy Network, where we'll speak with the organization's new executive director, Robin Ryan, and learn about the impact of helping adult learners in our community. -
Monday ,
OctOctober 23 , 2023Cook Meals for Healing House
Monday, Oct 23rd 5:00 pm to 5:15 pm
Volunteers are asked to assist by cooking and dropping off meals at 5:00 pm each day at Healing House. -
Monday ,
OctOctober 23 , 2023Fiber Arts Schmooze
Monday, Oct 23rd 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Join friends at TBE for an evening of knitting, crocheting, stitching, and friendship! -
Tuesday ,
OctOctober 24 , 2023Cook Meals for Healing House
Tuesday, Oct 24th 5:00 pm to 5:15 pm
Volunteers are asked to assist by cooking and dropping off meals at 5:00 pm each day at Healing House. -
Tuesday ,
OctOctober 24 , 2023Religious Practices Committee meeting
Tuesday, Oct 24th 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Religious Practices Committee meeting (RPC) -
Wednesday ,
OctOctober 25 , 2023Cook Meals for Healing House
Wednesday, Oct 25th 5:00 pm to 5:15 pm
Volunteers are asked to assist by cooking and dropping off meals at 5:00 pm each day at Healing House. -
Wednesday ,
OctOctober 25 , 2023Environment and Climate Change Action Team Meeting
Wednesday, Oct 25th 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
August 23, 2023 meeting is canceled. Join our action team as we make plans to engage the congregation in activities that raise awareness about environmental issues. -
Thursday ,
OctOctober 26 , 2023Cook Meals for Healing House
Thursday, Oct 26th 5:00 pm to 5:15 pm
Volunteers are asked to assist by cooking and dropping off meals at 5:00 pm each day at Healing House. -
Thursday ,
OctOctober 26 , 2023Music Committee Meeting
Thursday, Oct 26th 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
For more information on the Music Committee, contact Cantor Jacob Niemi. -
Friday ,
OctOctober 27 , 2023Singles Creating Community Coffee Klatch
Friday, Oct 27th 9:00 am to 10:30 am
This is a breakfast gathering for the Singles Creating Community group. -
Friday ,
OctOctober 27 , 2023Cook Meals for Healing House
Friday, Oct 27th 5:00 pm to 5:15 pm
Volunteers are asked to assist by cooking and dropping off meals at 5:00 pm each day at Healing House. -
Saturday ,
OctOctober 28 , 2023Cook Meals for Healing House
Saturday, Oct 28th 5:00 pm to 5:15 pm
Volunteers are asked to assist by cooking and dropping off meals at 5:00 pm each day at Healing House. -
Saturday ,
OctOctober 28 , 2023Trivia Night
Saturday, Oct 28th 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Join us for a night of fun and friendly competition! -
Thursday ,
NovNovember 2 , 2023House Committee Meeting
Thursday, Nov 2nd 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
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Thursday ,
NovNovember 2 , 2023Social Action Committee Meeting
Thursday, Nov 2nd 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Social Action Committee meetings are held at 7:00 pm on the first Thursday of most months at Temple Beth El. -
Friday ,
NovNovember 3 , 2023Likrat Shabbat Family Dinner
Friday, Nov 3rd 5:15 pm to 6:00 pm
Register for dinner preceding our Likrat Shabbat service on the first Friday of the month, November–May. -
Sunday ,
NovNovember 5 , 2023Sunday School for Adults
Sunday, Nov 5th 9:30 am to 10:30 am
This monthly course is an opportunity for parents and guardians of Religious School students who missed having a formal Jewish education to have a parallel learning experience while their students are in Religious School. -
Sunday ,
NovNovember 5 , 2023Tots and Tunes
Sunday, Nov 5th 10:45 am to 11:45 am
This song and craft program for families with children ages 0–5 is open to the entire Madison Jewish community. -
Sunday ,
NovNovember 5 , 2023Food-A-Rama Cooking and Preparation
Sunday, Nov 5th 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Food-A-Rama is back in person this year! Sign up now to volunteer and help make it happen! -
Sunday ,
NovNovember 5 , 2023Support Group for Those Whose Lives Have Been Touched by Mental Health Issues
Sunday, Nov 5th 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
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Monday ,
NovNovember 6 , 2023Food-A-Rama Cooking and Preparation
Monday, Nov 6th 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Food-A-Rama is back in person this year! Sign up now to volunteer and help make it happen! -
Tuesday ,
NovNovember 7 , 2023Food-A-Rama
Tuesday, Nov 7th 10:30 am to 2:00 pm
Enjoy delicious deli-style lunches for dine-in, pickup, or delivery. Quantities are limited, so order now! -
Wednesday ,
NovNovember 8 , 2023Singles Creating Community Dinner
Wednesday, Nov 8th 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Join the Singles Creating Community group for dinner. -
Thursday ,
NovNovember 9 , 2023Planning Your Own Civil Rights Trip
Thursday, Nov 9th 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Four TBE members who have planned and completed a Civil Rights trip will share their experience and offer recommendations to help you plan and prepare for your own trip that follows the footsteps of Martin Luther King Jr. from Atlanta to Montgomery, Selma, Birmingham, and Memphis. -
Saturday ,
NovNovember 11 , 2023Swarsensky Memorial Weekend Torah Study with Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann
Saturday, Nov 11th 9:30 am to 11:30 am
Our 2023 Swarsensky scholar, Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann of Mishkan Chicago, will lead us through the portion of the week, Chayei Sarah. Her study session is titled "Chayei Sarah—Burying Our Grudges Along with Our Dead." -
Sunday ,
NovNovember 12 , 2023Swarsensky Memorial Weekend Keynote Lecture and Discussion: "Growing our Sense of Us"
Sunday, Nov 12th 9:45 am to 12:00 pm
Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann, this year's Swarsensky scholar, will talk about the crucible of Jewish life she's seen at Mishkan Chicago, a spiritual community founded in 2011. She'll help our community name the issues that are hard for us to discuss, create space for sharing, and offer a way forward through the issues that appear to divide us. -
Tuesday ,
NovNovember 14 , 2023Board Meeting
Tuesday, Nov 14th 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
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Friday ,
NovNovember 17 , 2023Singles Creating Community Coffee Klatch
Friday, Nov 17th 9:00 am to 10:30 am
Join the Singles Creating Community group for breakfast. -
Sunday ,
NovNovember 19 , 2023B'nai Mitzvah Orientation
Sunday, Nov 19th 11:45 am to 2:30 pm
Students who will become b’nai mitzvah between September 1, 2024, and August 31, 2025, are invited with their parents/guardians to this orientation. -
Sunday ,
NovNovember 19 , 2023Cancer Support Group
Sunday, Nov 19th 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
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Monday ,
NovNovember 20 , 2023Fiber Arts Schmooze
Monday, Nov 20th 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Join friends at TBE for an evening of knitting, crocheting, stitching, and friendship! -
Tuesday ,
NovNovember 21 , 2023Serving Meals at the Catholic Multicultural Center
Tuesday, Nov 21st 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
As the Catholic Multicultural Center resumes daily in-person dinners, join fellow TBE volunteers on the third Tuesday of each month to help serve dinner and clean up. -
Wednesday ,
NovNovember 22 , 2023Temple Office Closes at 2:00 pm
Wednesday, Nov 22nd 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
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Wednesday ,
NovNovember 22 , 2023Environment and Climate Change Action Team Meeting
Wednesday, Nov 22nd 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
August 23, 2023 meeting is canceled. Join our action team as we make plans to engage the congregation in activities that raise awareness about environmental issues. -
Thursday ,
NovNovember 23 , 2023Temple Office is Closed
Thursday, Nov 23rd 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
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Tuesday ,
NovNovember 28 , 2023Religious Practices Committee meeting
Tuesday, Nov 28th 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Religious Practices Committee meeting (RPC) -
Thursday ,
NovNovember 30 , 2023Kesher Israel Committee Meeting
Thursday, Nov 30th 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Kesher Israel Committee meets every six weeks on Zoom. -
Friday ,
DecDecember 1 , 2023Likrat Shabbat Family Dinner
Friday, Dec 1st 5:15 pm to 6:00 pm
Register for dinner preceding our Likrat Shabbat service on the first Friday of the month, November–May. -
Sunday ,
DecDecember 3 , 2023Sunday School for Adults
Sunday, Dec 3rd 9:30 am to 10:30 am
This monthly course is an opportunity for parents and guardians of Religious School students who missed having a formal Jewish education to have a parallel learning experience while their students are in Religious School. -
Sunday ,
DecDecember 3 , 2023Tots and Tunes
Sunday, Dec 3rd 10:45 am to 11:45 am
This song and craft program for families with children ages 0–5 is open to the entire Madison Jewish community. -
Sunday ,
DecDecember 3 , 2023Support Group for Those Whose Lives Have Been Touched by Mental Health Issues
Sunday, Dec 3rd 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
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Sunday ,
DecDecember 3 , 2023Jewish Questions, Jewish Answers
Sunday, Dec 3rd 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Rabbi Jonathan Biatch will offer a three-part series exploring Jewish identity and the questions that come along with it. -
Thursday ,
DecDecember 7 , 2023House Committee Meeting
Thursday, Dec 7th 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
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Thursday ,
DecDecember 7 , 2023Social Action Committee Meeting
Thursday, Dec 7th 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Social Action Committee meetings are held at 7:00 pm on the first Thursday of most months at Temple Beth El. -
Friday ,
DecDecember 8 , 2023Congregational Shabbat and Hanukkah Dinner
Friday, Dec 8th 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Join us as we welcome Shabbat and Hanukkah together as a community with a tasty dinner. -
Sunday ,
DecDecember 10 , 2023Youth Day
Sunday, Dec 10th 11:45 am to 1:00 pm
Join us for youth day activities with JEWniors, our social group for 3rd–5th graders, and MuTTY, which brings Jewish 6th–8th graders together to build relationships and create fun and relaxed Jewish spaces. -
Sunday ,
DecDecember 10 , 2023Jewish Questions, Jewish Answers
Sunday, Dec 10th 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Rabbi Jonathan Biatch will offer a three-part series exploring Jewish identity and the questions that come along with it. -
Sunday ,
DecDecember 10 , 2023A Whole Latke Fun: Young Families Hanukkah Party
Sunday, Dec 10th 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
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Tuesday ,
DecDecember 12 , 2023Board Meeting
Tuesday, Dec 12th 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
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Friday ,
DecDecember 15 , 2023Singles Creating Community Coffee Klatch
Friday, Dec 15th 9:00 am to 10:30 am
Join the Singles Creating Community group for breakfast. -
Sunday ,
DecDecember 17 , 2023Jewish Questions, Jewish Answers
Sunday, Dec 17th 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Rabbi Jonathan Biatch will offer a three-part series exploring Jewish identity and the questions that come along with it. -
Sunday ,
DecDecember 17 , 2023Cancer Support Group
Sunday, Dec 17th 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
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Monday ,
DecDecember 18 , 2023Fiber Arts Schmooze
Monday, Dec 18th 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Join friends at TBE for an evening of knitting, crocheting, stitching, and friendship! -
Tuesday ,
DecDecember 19 , 2023Serving Meals at the Catholic Multicultural Center
Tuesday, Dec 19th 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
As the Catholic Multicultural Center resumes daily in-person dinners, join fellow TBE volunteers on the third Tuesday of each month to help serve dinner and clean up. -
Thursday ,
DecDecember 21 , 2023Why? Because Israel Matters!
Thursday, Dec 21st 7:00 pm to 8:15 pm
Join Rabbi Biatch for this series to learn about and discuss the ongoing democracy movement in Israel and issues critical to the relationship between Israeli and Diaspora Jewish communities, the Reform movement, and other liberal streams of Judaism. Come and be part of the discussion, because Israel matters. -
Tuesday ,
DecDecember 26 , 2023Religious Practices Committee meeting
Tuesday, Dec 26th 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Religious Practices Committee meeting (RPC) -
Wednesday ,
DecDecember 27 , 2023CANCELED: Environment and Climate Change Action Team Meeting
Wednesday, Dec 27th 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Join our action team as we make plans to engage the congregation in activities that raise awareness about environmental issues. -
Thursday ,
DecDecember 28 , 2023Music Committee Meeting
Thursday, Dec 28th 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
For more information on the Music Committee, contact Cantor Jacob Niemi. -
Thursday ,
JanJanuary 4 , 2024Social Action Committee Meeting
Thursday, Jan 4th 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Social Action Committee meetings are held at 7:00 pm on the first Thursday of most months at Temple Beth El. -
Friday ,
JanJanuary 5 , 2024Likrat Shabbat Family Dinner
Friday, Jan 5th 5:15 pm to 6:00 pm
Register for dinner preceding our Likrat Shabbat service on the first Friday of the month, November–May. -
Sunday ,
JanJanuary 7 , 2024Support Group for Those Whose Lives Have Been Touched by Mental Health Issues
Sunday, Jan 7th 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
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Tuesday ,
JanJanuary 9 , 2024Board Meeting
Tuesday, Jan 9th 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
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Thursday ,
JanJanuary 11 , 2024Atidaynu, "Our Future": Emerging TBE Leaders
Thursday, Jan 11th 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Leadership training to inspire and develop emerging TBE leaders. -
Thursday ,
JanJanuary 11 , 2024Kesher Israel Committee Meeting
Thursday, Jan 11th 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Kesher Israel Committee meets every six weeks on Zoom. -
Monday ,
JanJanuary 15 , 2024Fiber Arts Schmooze
Monday, Jan 15th 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Join friends at TBE for an evening of knitting, crocheting, stitching, and friendship! -
Tuesday ,
JanJanuary 16 , 2024Serving Meals at the Catholic Multicultural Center
Tuesday, Jan 16th 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
As the Catholic Multicultural Center resumes daily in-person dinners, join fellow TBE volunteers on the third Tuesday of each month to help serve dinner and clean up. -
Wednesday ,
JanJanuary 17 , 2024Past Presidents’ Council
Wednesday, Jan 17th 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
A meeting of the past presidents of Temple Beth El. -
Sunday ,
JanJanuary 21 , 2024Mishpacha Moments Tu Bishvat Seder
Sunday, Jan 21st 11:45 am to 1:15 pm
Learn about the different types of trees and the fruit they bear, and join us for a planting project, as we celebrate the birthday of the trees. -
Sunday ,
JanJanuary 21 , 2024Cancer Support Group
Sunday, Jan 21st 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm