Month: June 2020

by L. Mark Stone Bet Ha’am is an incredibly vibrant community and, like many other non-profits these days, we are facing serious challenges to our long-term financial health. First, however, I want to say a heartfelt “thank you!” to our immediate past treasurer, Tom Rosen, for the incredible amount of hard work over the years … Read more

I’ve been coming to Bet Ha’am since I was in second grade, and I’ve had some quite fun and memorable experiences since. I arrived in my second grade class, and I can vividly remember walking in and knowing nobody but getting into a good few conversations on my first day. I remember that we were … Read more

By Rabbi Jared H. Saks Friends, as I’m writing this it is the eighth day of protests across our country following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer while his colleagues stood idly by. By my count, today is also the seventy-seventh day since we closed our synagogue building to the public … Read more

by Rachel Lefkowitz, Synagogue Administrator Back in March, I called a friend who is not able to leave the house. “There are so many places I can go!” she said. “Sometimes I go to the bedroom, other times to the living room or kitchen.” By now this is a tired joke, but at the time, … Read more

By Sam Spinrad, Religious School Director COVID-19 forced our religious school to move online.  It delayed Bar and Bat Mitzvah ceremonies, cancelled our Montreal trip, and took the ice cream from our end-of-year celebration.  We tried to conduct tefillah, classes, and assemblies as close to normally as possible.  As the school year ended, I could … Read more

by Lynn Urbach, President Our Bet Ha’am Annual Meeting was just a couple of weeks ago. We probably broke any previous attendance record—we had sixty-three log-ins to our first virtual annual meeting, and eighty-nine people voted! If you attended the meeting and read the committee reports, then most of this article will be a review. … Read more