Join the BAS Green Hiking Club at Teatown Lakes Reservation.Bring hiking boots, water and a walking stick.Email Judy Zingher to let her know you're coming and to find out about future hikes.Rain Date: Tuesday, December 31“Forest bathing”… Relief from the built environment… Exploring our beautiful spots in Westchester. We hope you'll join us as we […]
Join the BAS Green Hiking Club at Tarrytown Lakes, Eastview.Meet at the parking lot on Rte. 100C at exit from Saw Mill River Pkwy, opposite the spillway. Bring hiking boots, water and a walking stick.Email Judy Zingher to let her know you're coming and to find out about future hikes.Rain Date: Friday, January 10 at 10:00 […]
Kulanu,' meaning 'all of us' in Hebrew, captures the feeling of togetherness that we experience on Friday night when we join as a community to pray, eat, and schmooze.Our rabbi and cantor “tweak” our already-family-friendly Shabbat eve service to accommodate young children and parents. Lots of singing, and freedom to get up and wander around!Following […]
On Sunday mornings on which Hebrew School is in session, Roz Schulman will lead a study of the Book of Genesis from Abraham through Joseph. The group will read and discuss the text, its literary merit, its story and historicity, its place in the Biblical canon, etc. and the perspectives of classical and modern commentators. […]
BAS member and Non-member families: please join us with your young children.This month's theme is Shabbat!Shorashim is a free monthly Sunday morning program for babies to pre-k and their parents from 10:30-11:30am in the Simcha Room. The program brings to life a different Jewish holiday or theme with age-appropriate cooking projects, arts & crafts, stories, […]
For 4th-12th graders in room 7 from 11-11:30am--New band members welcome! Bring your instrument. Click here for more info.
Bet Am Shalom and Cinematheque, our popular and stimulating film series, returns with Back to the Fatherland.A documentary film by Katharina Rohrer and Gil LevanonWhy would any Jew want to leave Israel to go back to the countries that once tortured and exterminated their ancestors?Why have so many young Israelis left the dream of living […]
Join the BAS Green Hiking Club at Old Croton Aqueduct Dobbs Ferry northward.Meet at Ardsley Ave. W, Irvington, between Bertha Place and Hancock Place. Bring hiking boots, water and a walking stick.Email Judy Zingher to let her know you're coming and to find out about future hikes.Rain Date: Thursday, January 16 at 1:30 PM“Forest bathing”… Relief from the […]
Join our BAS community to help local immigrant families by preparing 100+ “Meals in a Jar” on MLK Day. Please donate barley, dried split peas, white rice or dried lentils to the bin in the BAS lobby by 1/15.Help assemble these jars at Bet Am Shalom. All ages welcome!!! Assemble jars, decorate bags, make rugelach, learn and […]
Join the BAS Green Hiking Club at Kensico Dam at Plaza.Meet at parking lot near children's playground, NW corner of plaza. Bring hiking boots, water and a walking stick.Email Judy Zingher to let her know you're coming and to find out about future hikes.Rain Date: Wednesday, January 22 at 1:30 PM“Forest bathing”… Relief from the built environment… Exploring our […]
On Sunday mornings on which Hebrew School is in session, Roz Schulman will lead a study of the Book of Genesis from Abraham through Joseph. The group will read and discuss the text, its literary merit, its story and historicity, its place in the Biblical canon, etc. and the perspectives of classical and modern commentators. […]
6th graders and parents will attend a program on the B’nei Mitzvah Process at BAS, Jewish values, and ethical wills.9am Parents go to Simcha Room and students go to class. Students will join their parents from 10:25-11:30am.This program will include a discussion with Abby Reiken on the Jewish values you want to hand down to […]
Shameela Azizi, an expert tailor and dressmaker who makes custom clothes, alterations and items for the home such as drapes and upholstery, is coming to Bet Am Shalom to meet with congregants for their sewing needs. Shameela is also the mom of the family from Afghanistan being resettled by Bet Am Shalom and Woodlands Community Temple […]
Join other families with children at our regular Shabbat services and Kiddush lunch, so parents and children can get to know each other better! Come any time in the morning and build connections with the BAS community. As always, children are welcome in the sanctuary.Click here for upcoming dates.Questions?
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! Midnight Run brings clothing, food, and a little dignified companionship to homeless people living on the streets of Manhattan. Bet Am Shalom is one of many Westchester houses of worship and civic groups that sign up for routes and dates. We generally participate once every quarter, on a Saturday night. Preparations will start at 7:30 […]
Join member Carol Japha as she discusses the life and work of Vasily Grossman (1905-1964), a Russian-Jewish writer whose masterwork, Life and Fate, has been called 'a twentieth-century War and Peace.'The work wasn’t published until decades after his death, as the Soviet authorities censored and then silenced Grossman for his uncompromising focus on Jewish experience […]