5:30 – 6:30 pm – Young Families Program
Come celebrate with us by making ice cream, “camping” under the stars, and making our own Ten Commandments. Activities will be followed by a delicious Young Families dinner at 6:30 pm!
Questions? Contact Louis at lstein@bethelsynagogue.org
7:30 – 8:30 pm – Jewish Summer Camp Send-Off & Kikar Dancing
Are you headed to Jewish Sumer Camp?! Don’t miss our summer camp send-off! Come and make smores and enjoy Kikar dancing outside with fellow campers!
7:30 – 8:30 pm | Session 1 | Learning Center
Jewish Power & Powerlessness after October 7
Led by Rabbi Jeff Schein
8:30 pm – Candle Lighting & Maariv | Fiterman Chapel (also accessible via the CyberShul)
9:00 – 10:00 pm | Session 2 | Fiterman Chapel (also accessible via the CyberShul)
Purity of Arms: The Israel Defense Forces Code of Ethics, Theory & Practice
Led by Rabbi Amy Levin
9:00 – 10:00 pm | Tween Learning | Learning Center
God-Shopping: Who Really Gave Us The Torah
This session for grades 6-8
Led by Louis Stein
9:00 – 10:00 pm | Teen Learning | Youth Lounge
God’s Many Faces and Where We See Them
This session for grades 9-12
Led by Rabbi Matt Goldberg
10:00 – 10:30 pm | Dessert Reception | Ring Lobby
Join us for some Shavuot desserts including cheesecake, ice cream and more!
10:30 – 11:30 pm | Session 3 | Fiterman Chapel (also accessible via the CyberShul)
Israel In The Courts: The Court of World Opinion, The International Court, The Court On High
Led by Professor Oren Gross
*This session generously underwritten by the Richard Kelber & Sharon Van Dyck Education Fund
10:30 – 11:30 pm | Teen Learning | Youth Lounge
You Be The Judge: The Burning Ethical Question of Redeeming Captives
Led by Rabbi Amy Levin
12:00 – 1:00 am | Session 4 | The Schein Home
Is There Only One Holy Land?
Led by Rabbi Alexander Davis
1:30 – 2:30 am | Session 5 | The Schoenberger Home
Longing for, Living in, and Lambasting Israel: Moshe, Rav Hiya and the Spies
Led by Rabba Dalia Davis
3:00 – 4:00 am | Session 6 | The Goldberg Home
Od Lo Avda Tikvatenu: How Hatikvah Became Our People’s Anthem
Led by Rabbi Matt Goldberg
On Shavuot, we welcome Scholar In Residence Rabbi Amy Levin. Rabbi Levin is the President of the Rabbinical Assembly of Israel and is the second woman to be ordained by the Masorti/Conservative Schechter Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem. Rabbi Levin has trained in the Rav Hamachshir program of The Jewish Theological Seminary and the “Consulting for Vital Congregations” program of The Alban Institute, has taught at the Schechter Institute, Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem and The Conservative Yeshiva. Rabbi Levin serves on the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards and the Vaad Hakavod, the Ethics Committee, of the international Rabbinical Assembly. She lives on Hanaton in Israel’s lower Galilee from where she provides consulting services and strategic advising to congregations and clergy through her platform: Tzibur Strategies: for Thriving Sacred Communities and Their Leaders.
4:00 am | Hashkama Minyan in the Fiterman Chapel
9:00 am | Morning Services in the Fiterman Chapel (also accessible via the CyberShul)
12:00 pm | Congregational Kiddush Lunch
5:45 pm | Afternoon Minchah in the Fiterman Chapel (also accessible via the CyberShul)
9:00 am | Morning Services in the Fiterman Chapel (also accessible via the CyberShul) | YIZKOR RECITED
12:00 pm | Congregational Kiddush Lunch
5:45 pm | Afternoon Minchah in the Fiterman Chapel (also accessible via the CyberShul)