Shabbat Fridays in October
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We’re welcoming Shabbat all month long with Friday night services and a dairy dessert potluck Oneg.
We’re welcoming Shabbat all month long with Friday night services and a dairy dessert potluck Oneg. Bring a dish, bring a friend, or just bring your spirit — there’s a seat waiting for you.
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Shabbat Fridays in October
Fridays, October 3 at 6:00 PM (Community Potluck) & October 10, 17, 24 & 31 at 7:00 PM
Meaningful services 
Singing 
Dairy dessert potluck Oneg after each service
Congregation Bayt Shalom 
All are welcome — come as you are..
Congregation Bayt Shalom
Established in 1975, Congregation Bayt Shalom strives to meet the diverse needs of Jewish people in eastern North Carolina. We are associated with both the Reform and Conservative Jewish movements.
Congregation Bayt Shalom is your connection to Judaism and Jewish community in eastern North Carolina. We would be pleased to welcome you to our family. We are an active congregation with meaningful worship services, a vibrant religious school, stimulating adult education programs, a lively Sisterhood and social activities, with a commitment to tikkun olam.
The congregation's Rabbi and Spiritual Leader is Rabbi Dawn Rose, PhD
Rabbi Rose's phone number is 917-673-2226.
Her email address is ravdawnrose@yahoo.com
Located at:
4351 East 10th Street
Greenville NC
Rabbi Rose's Reflections
Who Sees and Who Responds
One of the difficult things about hunger and malnutrition is that it happens mostly at home. Families generally live in separate homes or apartments or trailers. We see them go in and out but we don’t see what goes on inside. Many of us in this congregation live in neighborhoods that every one assumes are stable and free from food insecurity. But we also know that fortunes change. Our Food Bank is appropriately discrete and, except for volunteers, people who don’t need it aren’t there to see who does.
So how are we supposed to know? Who actually sees ‘food insecurity’?
Our Religious School kids and parents see. By law, schools have been providing breakfast and lunch. (We should all pray this Federally assisted program isn’t defunded!). Because that program is just weekdays, many school additionally make bags of food available for kids to take home for the weekend. RS students and parents see all that and know. That is why, way before this present crisis began, the RS kids voted this year to dedicate their tzedakah monies and energy to purchasing and packing weekend food bags for those kids.
Now, the kids and their families know about and are responding to the growing crisis as well. Our Sunday tzedakah buckets--that used to be filled with coins and one dollar bills--now have fewer coins and a lot of 5 dollar bills. Yasher koach—good job and may you grow from strength to strength—kids, teachers, and families!
We are also joining with the Sisterhood, during their Annual Chanukah Sale (stay tunned for more details!) to pack lunch bags for the local homeless shelter. Yasha Koach Sisterhood! CBS is stepping up!
And Yasher koach—to the many congregants who have contributed to our Virtual Food Bank Drive. The donations have been tremendous. This drive fulfills one of the best ways of giving according to our tradition—where both the giver and receiver never know the other. Even if the rest of us do not actually see the need, the right people will receive.
One of the most powerful aspects of this Drive is that it enables us to respond as a Jewish Community. What an important, concrete expression of solidarity with churches and mosques and temples and all the other organizations—and schools—in Greenville and beyond!
We should be proud of our teachers and parents and Sisterhood and Social Action Committee, contributors, Leadership and the whole congregation. Yasha Koach! Each and every one. Good job, and may we all grow together, from strength to strength.
Adult Education Classes
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Introduction to Judaism -- Ongoing For Prospective Converts and Jews Who Would Like a Beginning Class Day and Time Nego. Please speak to Rabbi Rose if interested. The Kabbalah Club – Ongoing A hamish evening of Jewish teachings, readings, discussions and maybe meditations for fellow travelers. Come as you are, when you can--bring an open heart and nosherei*. Begins Oct. 23. Adult Hebrew: Alef Bet, Prayers, Songs--for Beginners, Refreshers and In-Betweeners Open to Everyone: Wednesdays, 8pm -talk to Rabbi Rose COMING UP – Walter Pores, Holocaust Survivor, speaks with the Sunday morning Religious School. All are welcome to join us. Date: Tba. |
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Donations
All size gifts help to sustain the synagogue. Donations to the synagogue are always deeply appreciated.
We gratefully accept credit card donations and dues payments using this link:
https://baytshalom.shulcloud.com/payment.php
We also accept checks made out to Congregation Bayt Shalom and mailed to
Congregation Bayt Shalom, PO Box 2713, Greenville, 27836 – Attn Treasurer