Upcoming Events
Lunch and Learn with Rabbi Burg
TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2012
Topic: Shabbat & the Possibility of Transformation
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
THESE LUNCH SESSIONS WILL CONTINUE ON THE SECOND TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH
All are welcome - Please bring a dairy bag lunch
Location: Tydings & Rosenberg, LLP (Richard Rosenthal’s office)
26th Floor, 100 E. Pratt St.
On-street parking is very limited. Garage parking available for a fee
Please RSVP to office1@bethambaltimore.org.
UPCOMING DATES AND TOPICS:
4/10/2012: Who Knows Four? The Deeper Meaning of Pesah.
5/8/2012: Shavuot
6/12/2012: Tisha B’Av
Join The PJ Library and your local Baltimore Synagogues for “PJ on the Town”
Connect with families at places you know and love
Discover what is Jewish about your favorite cultural institutions
Meet members, educators & clergy from local synagogues
All events will take place on Sundays at different locations:
February 26, March 11, April 29 and June 3
(June 3rd is co-sponsored by Beth Am Synagogue)
For more information, locations & times, email Rabbi Miriam Burg at mburg@cjebaltimore.org or contact The Louise D. & Morton J. Macks Center for Jewish Education at 410-735-5000.
People’s Talmud
SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2012
1:00 pm (Following Kiddush Lunch)
Guest Speakers:
Nick Attias: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey from Perry Hall to Pikesville
Isabel Cranz- From Germany to Beth Am by Doctorial Candidate on Judiac Studies at Hopkins
Upcoming dates: April 7 and May 5, 2012
Beth Am Chix Upcoming Events
BETH AM CHIX GOES TO THE AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL SHOW
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2012
10:30 am
Join the Beth Am chix for one of the finest craft shows in the country the American Craft Council Show at the Baltimore Convention Center.
Gather for bagels and coffee at Jessica Lunkin’s home at 8:30 am and then caravan to the show. At 10:30, Beth Am Chix member and jewelry designer Shana Kroiz’s booth (#1400) will give us a ‘craft chat’ about her jewelry, her artistic process and her insights into the craft show.
Feel fee to meet us at either Jessica’s home or the show. Please indicate in your RSVP where you will meet us so there will be plenty of bagels, etc.
RSVP to Jessica Lunken by February 20th.
JOIN US AT AMAZING GLAZE IN MOUNT WASHINGTON!
SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2012
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Gather, gab and glaze from 3:00-5:00 p.m. at Amazing Glaze in Mount Washington! In preparation for Passover, glaze a seder plate or mezzuzah or glaze an in-stock item. RSVP by February 22 if you intend to make Judaica so it can be ordered for you. $10 studio fee per person; $25 seder plates; $9 mezzuzah. Bring fingerfood or wine to share. RSVP to elinmd620@aol.com
JOIN US AS WE GO TO THE (JEWISH) FLIX!
SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2012
3:00 pm
Buy your tickets early for the Baltimore Jewish Film Festival’s showing of David, a winner of the Special Jury Award at the 2011 Napa Valley Film Festival. To read about the film or purchase tickets ($10), go to: www.baltimorejff.com Depending on interest, a post-film critique will follow at Sushi Edo in Owings Mills. For more information, contact Robin Rose Samuels, robinrs@verizon.net
“A Stranger with a Camera”: An Evening with Jewish Photographic Documentarian, Jono David
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2012
7:30 pm
Travel the world with photojournalist Jono David, who will bring his photographs and stories of Jewish communities in
exotic places to Beth Am.
Jono David has devoted the last 25 years to documenting Jewish life, synagogues, and culture in such far-flung places as the Amazon, the jungles of Suriname, the Konkan Coast of India, in Cuba and Serbia. Last year he photographed the Beth Am sanctuary as part of this documentary history. Join us for a fascinating, and visually stunning, journey of discovery.
Celebrate Purim at Beth Am
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2012 in the Beth Am Social Hall
6:00 pm Bring your own dairy/fish dinner
7:00 pm Megillah Reading
Costume Parade
Purimspiel: ‘Purim’s Complaint”
The children will perform songs with Rabbi Gludt to kick off the spiel.
COME ONE! COME ALL!
SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2012
10:00 am - 12:00 pm in the Beth Am Social Hall
Purim Carnival
Cost: $5.00 per child
Join us in celebrating the fun and joy of Purim!
The Carnival will include games, sand art, masks to decorate, prizes and tons of fun for all families. Homemade hamentaschen and other snacks will also be available.
Please come and join the Beth Am community in celebrating this joyous holiday!
Families with children in Religious School need to pick thier children up earlier than usual.
A YEAR OF ACTIVITIES…. GO BETH AM GO…GET ACTIVE….
April 15, 1 PM
Baltimore County walk around Robert E Lee Park.
April 22, 1 PM rain date
Meet at Robert E Lee on bridge and we will walk thru to Falls Road corridor. 1- 2 hour walk
May 6, 1 PM
Warm up bike ride on the NCR
May 13, 1 PM
rain date
Meet at Monkton Station for 10-20 mile warm up ride
June 3
Pearlstone 5 K walk or run on Pearlstone grounds.. Details to be announced
Perfect for young families
July 8, 1 PM
Kayaking for beginners Ultimate Sports Hammerman Beach
August 5,
Hadassah 8 K run or 5 K walk meet at Goucher. Details to be announced
September 30
Tour de Port
Contacts: Wendy Schelew 443 253 1792 wendyschelew@gmail.com
Fred Gelin 410 935 9004 fredgel1@aol.com
Scholar-In-Residence-Weekend with Dr. Marc Michael Epstein
FRIDAY - SUNDAY, MARCH 23 - 25, 2012
FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2012
6:00 pm Services
7:00 pm Dinner (salmon)
$18 per Adult (Free for pre-paid BAYITT members)
$12 for children 6 - 12 yrs
Children 5 yrs and under FREE
$60 maximum per household
Babysitting provided with RESERVATION
RSVP to office1@bethambaltimore.org by 3/16/2012
SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2012
8:45 am Torah Study
9:30 am Sanctuary Service
1:15 pm (following Kiddush Luncheon) Text Study: Radical Hassidic Words for the Post-Religious Age
SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 2012
10:30 am - 12:00 noon
Light Breakfast followed by Discussion: Art, Narrative and Religious Imagination in the Passover Haggadah
For details on all three programs, please click here