Shinshinim alumni together in Jerusalem

Thursday evening all alumni Shinshinim over the past 9 years gathered together in Jerusalem! Debbie Spiegel and lay leader Avra Rosen along with counterparts at Leo Baeck Day School, Miriam Glaser and Cindy Opler welcomed many of our alumni.…
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To Early for Optimism?

By Rabbi Dow Marmur. The election campaign in Israel is going from national to regional to global. The national manifests itself in customary campaign rhetoric, often in bad taste, such as Netanyahu’s ad using children in a nursery school…

What a meaningful accomplishment for all of our students.

By Lindi Rivers. It brings our congregational family so much nachus to experience our young members becoming Bar or Bat Mitzvah.  In the weeks before the date arrives, our B’not Mitzvah, Samantha and Elyse Herman, begin their final “polishing”…
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Enemies as Collaborators?

By Rabbi Dow Marmur. Retired general Yoav Galant didn’t become chief of staff in 2011 because of an alleged land grab near his home. He’s back now as a politician and aspiring minister of defense in Moshe Kahlon’s new party Kulanu. Not…

Brotherhood Havdallah/Film event

Saturday, February 7, 2015 7:00 p.m. It was not their war, but they made it their fight! In 1948 Israel was under attack. They had some planes, but what Israel needed was pilots. Jews and non-Jews from the Diaspora answered the call, all…

Judaica Shop: January and February 2015

Monday to Thursday 10:00 - 12:00 Sunday 9:30 - 12:30 New items in the Judaica Shop Magen David pendants Hamsah on a chain Challah Boards Challah Knives Challah Cover Tallitot Kiddush Cups If you cannot shop…

HBT Mitzvah Club’s Challah For the Homeless!

Sunday, February 22, 2015 Both 11:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. start times, end before 1:30 p.m. (If you are enrolled in Kef, please come for the 12:30 'start') Help us make some deliciously sweet dessert challot for Ve'ahavta! This hands-on…

An Evening or Two or Three with our Shinshinim

Aviv Naftali and Tal Yitzhaki (or as we call them Tel Aviv!) Mondays, February 23-March 9, 2015 7:30 p.m. And now we can say – Back to Blossom (and now for good!) … Or at least for the rest of the year. Before Chanukah we left for…

Bake a cupcake, feed the hungry!

Tuesday, February 3, 2015 7:00-9:00 p.m. Join Shammai as HBTeens and friends bake to feed those in need. Paired with the baking of the actual cupcakes is the fun of intense cupcake decorating. We know that taste is just half of the fun…

After the Israeli Election: What Will Get Israelis Enthused About the Peace Process Again

Jim Lederman, journalist Tuesday, February 10, 2015 7:30 p.m. US Secretary of State John Kerry and the Europeans have made it clear that they expect that after a new Israeli coalition government is formed, Israel's first order of business…

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