The Beth El Book Club will meet to discuss Moving Waters by Racelle Rosett. This story collection enters the lives of members of a Reform Jewish community in Hollywood and explores the unexpected role that ancient ritual plays in the lives of these characters living in contemporary Los Angeles.
Pizza and Wine are available for $5.00.
Please contact Nanci at 602.944.3359 ext. 123 or nsiegelmanson@bethelphoenix.com for more information.
To RSVP and for location, contact Melissa at melissasinger123@aol.com or Shula at shulamitappel@gmail.com.
The book is Me Before You by JoJo Moyes.
To RSVP and for location, contact Lois at preschools@gmail.com or 623.240.0869.
Beth El Lunch and Learn is a monthly class where we will nosh and learn about Abraham’s Journey: A Trip Back in Time, A Path to the Future. Join us as we explore Torah, Midrash, and commentaries about our patriarch, Abraham, and the beginning of Judaism. Use what we discover about our ancestors to draw connections to your own spiritual and religious journey!
No need to be present at every session. Come when you can!
Please RSVP to Nanci at 602-944-3359 ext. 123 or nsiegelmanson@bethelphoenix.com.
Meet for dinner, socialize and make new friends. Dinner is separate checks. Please contact Ron Vinnik at 480 991-1625 for current schedule of restaurants and to reserve your place.
The Voice of Israel Concert Thurs., Nov. 19 – 7:30 p.m. Since meeting on Israel’s reality television show, The Voice, Maytal Michaeli and Etzion Mayer have developed both a friendship and artistic relationship that has resulted in beautiful music about Jewish identity and life for young people in Israel.
Valley of the Sun JCC – 12701 N. Scottsdale Rd., Scottsdale 85254
Cost: $15 per person. For tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-voice-of-israel-concert-tickets-17886332502
Sponsored by the Israel Center
for more information email shahare@vosjcc.org.
This year’s Bisbee Film Fest features the film Streit’s Matzo and the American Dream prior to its 2016 national theatrical release.
The film is being shown on Friday, November 20 @ 1pm at the Bisbee Woman’s Club. Tickets are free and can be reserved at www.bisbeefilmfestival.org.
Here is the film synopsis:
The Lower East Side of Manhattan was once home to a huge Jewish immigrant population. In 1925, Aron Streit opened Streit’s Matzo to serve the community. Today, the Lower East Side is rapidly gentrifying, and Streit’s is the only family-owned matzo business left in the US — providing 40 percent of the nation’s matzo. This documentary takes a step back in time, introducing viewers to the fifth generation of the Streit family and their business housed in four, low slung tenement buildings with no loading dock whose employees are part of the “family.” It provides of a vision of the Lower East Side then and now, and shows how this family business struggles to survive in modern New York City and with the decision of whether to move or stay in its ancestral home.
This interactive and upbeat Shabbat celebration for families incorporates fun-spirited melodies and family-themed activities. We’ll share Shabbat dinner, followed by Open Lounge in the Youth Center with games and fun. Come celebrate Shabbat with ruach (spirit) and your congregational family! Dinner $25 per family (two adults & up to 4 children) and/or adults (13+) $10 per person. RSVP needed by Nov. 16.
The J’s fun-filled kids nights allow parents to enjoy special time while their children have fun with friends enjoying dinner, games, a movie and build-your-own sundaes. Grades K-5. Members $20, Non-members: $30. For more information contact 480-483-7121 ext. 1275 or youth@vosjcc.org
Join other Jewish young families for our first Schmooze Young Families event! Couples with children, single parents, foster parents, etc. are all welcome. The event will be a kosher brunch with plenty of fun activities for kids including a clown, balloon making, face painting, parachute games, and much more! Please note that this will take place at the Cactus Park location at the northeast corner of Cactus and Scottsdale Road.
You can RSVP for this event through the Facebook event page or Meetup event page.
This Schmooze event is being generously sponsored by the Dana Cheryl Beitscher Charitable Foundation.