Voices of Bet Torah
01/25/2023 11:30:00 AM
From a Jewish holiday to a secular holiday, specifically from the fifth day of Hanukkah (12/22) through New Year’s Day, 42 members of the Bet Torah community shared the joy and excitement of experiencing Israel together.
“Watching parents bring their children to a place so near and dear to their hearts and the hearts of the Jewish people, and connecting their personal family story to the story of all of the generations, is moving...Read more...
In the News
01/25/2023 11:00:00 AM
Founded in 1923, Hillel International can trace its roots to Edward Chauncey Baldwin, a Christian professor of Biblical literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who was dismayed at how little his Jewish students knew about the Hebrew bible. After bringing this to the attention...Read more...
In the News
01/25/2023 11:00:00 AM
(Reposted from the Forward)
The spiritual gap between humans and machines has gotten slightly smaller as a New York rabbi has turned to an unconventional source for help writing a recent sermon: an artificial intelligence chatbot.
In an address to the Jewish Center of the Hamptons congregation, a video of which was uploaded to Vimeo on Jan. 1, Rabbi Joshua Franklin warned that his speech was plagiarized and...Read more...
Staff Spotlight - Alexa Baer
01/18/2023 11:00:00 AM
“I love working in a synagogue,” Alexa Baer proclaimed. The expression on her face fully matched the enthusiasm of her statement as she ticked off some of the perks of working in the office at Bet Torah.
“Not only do I get paid time off on the Jewish holidays,...Read more...
Upcoming Community Events
01/18/2023 11:00:00 AM
This event is part of series presented by the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center. All events are on zoom and start at 7pm. You can register for other events at the links below.
Julie Sherman is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Helen Sherman, born...Read more...
Voices of Bet Torah
01/18/2023 11:00:00 AM
Alan Bergman firmly believes that tales from a family’s past can link present and future generations to forefathers and foremothers and help progeny find their place in family history. This story was shared with Alan by his late father, Walter.
My paternal grandparents, Max and Pauline, were immigrants from the Galicia region of Eastern Europe. They arrived on these shores about 1913, met on the Lower East Side,...Read more...
Voices of Bet Torah
01/11/2023 11:00:00 AM
Amy Melman has very generously shared her poem, “Upon the Hey Class Studying the Chumash and Asking: ‘Why Don’t They Just Use a Period?’” This was originally published in the Fall 2014 issue of Poetica Magazine: Contemporary Jewish Writing.
Upon the Hey Class Studying the Chumash and Asking:
"Why Don't They Just Use a...Read more...
D'vrei Torah
01/11/2023 11:00:00 AM
This D’var Torah was crafted and written by Mike Gordon for Parashat Miketz - Rosh Chodesh - Chanukah, 5783.
In hockey and soccer, when a player scores 3 goals, that’s a hat trick. We have triples in baseball, 3-point field goals in football, and the 3-point shot in basketball. In the Jewish world, today is a three point hat trick, triple field goal from outside the 3-point line. Today is Shabbat,...Read more...
Upcoming Community Events
01/11/2023 11:00:00 AM
Sessions brought to Westchester county by the Shalom Hartman Institute. The session on January 19th is titled, "Being on the Inside: Boundaries and Belonging." The event will be held at Shaarei Tikvah, 46 Fox Meadow Rd, Scarsdale, NY and starts at 7 PM. Please register at the link below.
In our fragmented world, how can the synagogue be a nexus of community and connection? At a time of radical individuality, what is the value of...Read more...
Zoom with film icon Lee Grant for a behind-the-scenes account of "In the Heat of the Night"
12/18/2022 01:58:59 PM
A Hanukkah Playlist
12/12/2022 08:35:00 AM
The Experiences of a Maccabiah Mom
10/05/2022 10:46:18 AM
My Experience with Matan
10/05/2022 10:37:46 AM
ReSET Westchester
10/05/2022 10:29:11 AM
The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
09/15/2022 05:38:08 PM
RBG: MAY HER MEMORY BE A REVOLUTION: Tuesday, Sept. 13, 3:00 p.m. - 3:45 pm (EDT)
09/01/2022 01:31:58 PM
ROE V. WADE: Reproductive Freedom as a Jewish Value
07/13/2022 07:44:58 AM
Interview: Lisa Barr, author of Woman on Fire
07/13/2022 07:21:38 AM
Curator Talk: “The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do” – A new exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Thursday, July 7.
07/03/2022 07:28:25 AM
Take a deeper look at the Museum’s newest exhibition, The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do, a presentation of Holocaust history told through personal stories, objects, photographs, and film. At a time when Jewish heritage is becoming more precious as antisemitism rises, the exhibition reminds visitors about the extremes of hatred, as well as the ability of the Jewish people to endure.
Members of the exhibition’s...Read more...
Take a virtual walking tour of Odessa – Sunday, July 10.
07/01/2022 04:21:44 PM
Explore the rich Jewish past of Ukraine's largest port city.
Sponsored by the Museum of Jewish Heritage.
During the tour, you’ll see the Main City Synagogue and the Odessa Palestine committee building. You will also visit the monument to Isaac Babel, the Odessa-born writer who made Jewish Odessa world-famous, and learn about Leon Trotsky’s time in the city. Although focused on the 19th...Read more...