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Learning Trust from Jenny, by Rena L

10/13/2017 02:29:19 PM

Oct13

Over the course of the Days of Awe, different members of our community taught us about people in their lives who embody certain middot, or character traits. As part of our communal study of Musar, or character development, we are focusing on trust, or ?????? this month. These are the words that Rena Leinberger shared about her friend, Jenny Conrad.                         ...Read more...

Learning Silence from Sam Ciofalo, by Sasha Stim-Fogel

10/13/2017 02:18:03 PM

Oct13

Over the course of the Days of Awe, different members of our community taught us about people in their lives who embody certain middot, or character traits. As part of our communal study of Musar, or character development, we are focusing on Silence, or ?????, this month. These are the words that Sasha Stim-Fogel shared about her step-father, Sam Ciofalo.                       ...Read more...

Learning Friendship from Naomi Freeman, by Marnie Klein

10/13/2017 02:09:11 PM

Oct13

Over the course of the Days of Awe, different members of our community taught us about people in their lives who embody certain middot, or character traits. As part of our communal study of Musar, or character development, we are focusing on Friendship, or ?????? this month. These are the words that Marnie Klein shared about her mother, Naomi Freeman.               ...Read more...

Sukkot!

10/04/2017 10:52:01 AM

Oct4

Now, after the formal grandeur of the Days of Awe, comes Sukkot, possibly the most fabulous holiday on the Jewish calendar. 

Here at BHA, we of course have our huge community celebration of Open to the Sky, but there is more to the holiday!

Our friends at BimBam have put together a great video over view of the holiday, and there are more details below, after the video. 

Sukkot...Read more...

Position Open: Administrative Professional

08/14/2017 08:47:23 AM

Aug14

Beacon Hebrew Alliance is a creative, spiritual Jewish community in need of a great administrative professional for 25-30 hours a week, with flexible scheduling.

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The Life you can Save this Sunday

05/02/2017 02:09:27 PM

May2

Every so often, my wife Alison and I get phone calls from people who fear for their lives. 

They are leukemia patients, usually young, with kids at home, facing a terrifying reality. We do our best to support and guide and comfort them, as others supported and guided and comforted us when Alison was sick and that terror was ours.

A big part of how Alison survived her illness was that transfusable blood was...Read more...

Voice of the Prophets

01/11/2017 05:00:00 AM

Jan11

Sometimes, during times of upheaval, a prophet emerges to speak truth.

At an earlier convulsive moment in American politics, Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel spoke the truth of their time and of all time. They spoke of Divine Love in the face of human shortcomings and called on this great nation to lives of justice and righteousness, worthy of the One who loves us. 

This week, we remember...Read more...

The trigger or the barrel

01/04/2017 07:36:00 AM

Jan4

In one of the greatest rock songs of all time, the Clash asks, 

"When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come? 
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun?"

Those have always seemed like the options - violent resistance or acquiescence. Hold the trigger or face the barrel. 

In so many ways, our political and spiritual future rests on...Read more...

Hanukkah 5777/2016

11/28/2016 10:12:00 AM

Nov28

The turkey is finished, the scarves are out - it must mean that Hanukkah is right around the corner. Here's some of what we have going on here!

Here is some more information on the history and philosophy of Hanukkah, and here are some resources for the whole family. 

Hanukkah at BHA: We'll be having our community pre-Hanukkah party this year on December 18 from noon to 2 PM! Dreydl spinning, latke eating and...Read more...

we fight to win, not to process fear

11/22/2016 05:09:00 AM

Nov22

This Thanksgiving, we might not personally have everything that we want.   We might be painfully aware of how this nation has fallen short of its values of liberty and justice for all.    Looking to January 20 and beyond, many of us fear that those values will be attacked from the very officials who are sworn to defend them.   It can tempting to be overwhelmed, to despair, to...Read more...
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