Shabbat Services
Shabbat at B'nai Tikvah
Every week, in person and also streaming, B'nai Tikvah welcomes Shabbat with joy, community and shared inspirational wisdom. Understanding that Shabbat means something different for everyone, we offer a variety of styles of services as well as alternative programming.
Kabbalat Shabbat Services
Friday evening services generally begin at 6 pm. Multiple times a year, we hold special celebrations for our Religious School or greater community, speakers programs and themed services that may have a different start time. We aim to create a feeling of extended family. Before and after services there is a time of socializing and during the service we light candles, make kiddush and motzei on challah, and share personal blessings.
ZOOM: Meeting ID: 844 4705 9779 / Passcode: 183618
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Shabbat Morning Services
Shabbat mornings provide a time of more in-depth spiritual exploration, study, discussion and celebration. Our services begin at 10 am in person and online. During the school year, our Religious School students join the congregation for the morning service. Students then move to the classrooms for learning while adults remain in the Sanctuary. Typically, services finish before noon and the community joins together to enjoy a light Kiddush lunch.
Services streamed on LiveControl and YouTube.
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*(We will specify in This Coming Shabbat & Chai Lights emails when services are changed and streamed on Zoom). ZOOM: Meeting ID: 844 4705 9779 / Passcode: 183618
Alternative Shabbat Offerings
Friday Night Live!
Join us for a family-friendly, in-person Kabbalat Shabbat in the synagogue. The service will begin with together time in the sanctuary, welcoming Shabbat with songs and prayers, then kids will have their own special story track in the chapel before reuniting with the adults for a post-services oneg. For those who can not come in person, join us online.
Starbucks Shabbat
Enjoy a cup of coffee while discussing various topics ranging from the weekly parsha to current events. This informal group meets weekly on Zoom at 9 am. No RSVPs are needed; come regularly or just pop in on the occasional Shabbat.
Zoom Link | Meeting ID: 844 4705 9779 | Passcode: 183618
Soul Stroll: Shabbat Walk in the Woods
(3rd Shabbat of the Month)
Looking for another path in your journey through Judaism? Join B'nai Tikvah for a refreshing Shabbat alternative program. Walk with the fall foliage, the winter snow, the spring flowers, and summer streams. Strolls happen the 3rd Shabbat of the month.
Please CLICK HERE to email our Soul Stroll organizer, Janice Halpern.
Additional Shabbat Offerings
In addition to the regular Shabbat programming above, from time to time, we present additional periodic opportunities to engage on Shabbat.
Social Action Shabbatot
Social Action Shabbatot inform and engage our community in one of the pillars of our tradition, Tikkun Olam (repairing a broken world). Speakers and speical programs provide insight to issues that affect us all.
Shabbat Morning Study
Throughout the year, we offer study opportunities before services or at kiddush afterwards. Recent programs have included learning about "Pioneers of Zionist Thought" and "Medieval Jewish Poetry"; both taught by our member Marvin Wolfert.
Sat, April 19 2025
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Upcoming Events
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Saturday ,
AprApril 19 , 2025Passover Day 8 - Evening Services with abridged Yizkor on ZOOM
Shabbat, Apr 19th 7:30p to 9:00p
Passover Day 8 - Evening Services with abridged Yizkor on ZOOM -
Sunday ,
AprApril 20 , 2025Passover Day 8 - Morning Services with Yizkor
Sunday, Apr 20th 10:00a to 1:00p
Passover Day 8 - Morning Services with Yizkor -
Monday ,
AprApril 21 , 2025
Monday, Apr 21st 5:30p to 7:00p
A committed activist and top leader of the Masorti/Conservative Movement in Israel and around the world, Co-Chairwoman of MERCAZ Olami, Emily Levy-Shochat, joins us for a conversation about how our voices as American Jews can help protect Israel’s future as a Jewish and democratic state, while also strengthening the Jewish people and pluralism worldwide. Overall, Emily will speak about the situation in Israel, the challenges facing Israeli society since October 7th and explain why the Zionist Congress is such a powerful tool, the only tangible democratic tool Diaspora Jews have. As the former long-time Chairwoman of the Masorti Movement in Israel, the former Vice Chairwoman of KKL/JNF and Chairwoman of its Environment and Science Committee (dealing particularly with combating climate change in Israel), and a member of the board at the Association of Ethiopian Jews in Israel, Emily can speak so passionately and knowledgably about the national institutions of the Jewish people – WZO, the Jewish Agency, and KKL/JNF – and why these democratic institutions (that is, voting in elections for the World Zionist Congress) that belong to Jews around the world are so crucial for the future not only of Masorti Judaism in Israel, but for Conservative/Masorti Judaism and its values around the world as well as the future of Israel, Israeli society, and the Jewish people as a whole. A light dinner will be served. -
Wednesday ,
AprApril 23 , 2025
Wednesday, Apr 23rd 12:00p to 1:00p
In this six-week course, we will examine six women who lived in the time of the Talmud, whom the rabbis labeled as a shrew, a primadonna, a black widow, and so on. But was that all that they were? Was that all the rabbis thought of them? Or is there more to the story, hidden in the margins? Based on the acclaimed work of scholar GIla Fine, we will uncover the secret lives of these six remarkable women. -
Wednesday ,
AprApril 23 , 2025
Wednesday, Apr 23rd 7:00p to 9:00p
Social Action Team Meeting -
Wednesday ,
AprApril 23 , 2025Community Yom Hashoah Event
Wednesday, Apr 23rd 7:00p to 9:00p
Community Yom Hashoah Event -
Thursday ,
AprApril 24 , 2025Social Action & JALSA: Immigration Talk
Thursday, Apr 24th 5:00p to 6:30p
Social Action & JALSA: Immigration Talk
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