May 2020

June 2020 Voice of Truth

May 28, 2020 by miketrose • Features

Dear B’ShERT Community,

We’re pleased to tell you that the June 2020 edition of the Voice of Truth is now available online.

Click or copy here: https://pubsecure.lucidpress.com/2020-06-VoT/

The Voice of Truth team is now on hiatus until the September issue. Yours truly plans to take a break from VoT editing duties by reading novels and tackling a number of writing and editing projects. (The irony does not escape me.) The deadline for the September issue is August 20th; I’ll give you plenty of notice. If you’re inspired, feel free to send your submissions earlier. As always, direct all submissions to news@bshert.org. You may also reach out to me directly at a1editor@bshert.org.

I wish everyone a peaceful, enjoyable and healthy summer. I look forward to seeing many of you on Zoom and, perhaps in the not-too-distant future, back in our beloved Temple building.

Best,

Adrienne Knoll and the Voice of Truth team

“Being B’ShERT”, Your New Blog!

May 27, 2020 by emma • Being B'ShERT

Welcome to our newly minted B’ShERT blog, “Being B’ShERT”!

I had the pleasure of joining Rabbi Heidi recently on B’Yachad and, over Zoom, I was struck by the amazing camaraderie within our community and the STORIES.

Stories that go back decades.

The same day, I led a Youth Group event about storytelling in the time of COVID. (I love stories, as you can see, and I look for them wherever I go, or in this case, wherever I stay.)

I had the pleasure of brainstorming story ideas with our teen community, hours after hearing from our adult community, and the net result was that, in one day, I heard the stories of a Jewish community spanning 8 decades in age.

I can’t be the only one to have this privilege! We all deserve to share and hear the incredible stories of the B’ShERT community.

This is the space for us to do that.

We’d love to hear from you. This blog can be a place to share your accounts of quarantine life, your memories of Brooklyn, this Temple’s rich history, or things that are making you laugh right now.

What we will end up with is a multi-generational, ongoing account of how we lived before, during, and after this pandemic.

Mike, Adrienne and I are looking forward to your submissions! Please send them to blog@bshert.org.

Till soon,

Emma Tattenbaum-Fine

Digital Media and Youth Outreach Coordinator for B’ShERT

Another Saturday Night… Participant Details

May 11, 2020 by miketrose • Planning

Hello talented people!

This is your home page for participating in the Another Saturday Night… B’ShERT telethon event on 6/6/20. Everything you need to know is either here or in the email you received from Pam Glantzman. If something isn’t clear please let us know.

Technical Guide for Participants

See the email from Pam for signin times. Please go to the Green Room first. When you are cued by Pam et al, click the Stream Room link and LEAVE the Green Room too.

Green Room Link • Stream Room Link

Show Schedule (please join the green room when requested by Pam in her email)

Help in an emergency: Pam • Mike • Yvette

A message from the President of B’ShERT

May 3, 2020 by miketrose • Features

Dear B’ShERT Family,

Our thoughts are with you as you care for yourselves and your families during this difficult and uncertain period. It feels like we’re in the wilderness, wondering how long we must wait to reach the promised land of being face to face in our beloved building. During this unprecedented period, however, we’ve still managed to be active and present in your lives. Our dedicated and creative clergy, staff, supporters and congregants have ensured that B’ShERT is here for you to provide spiritual, educational, and social opportunities to benefit all of us.

While sheltering at home, many people have attended our Zoom/Facebook Live Shabbat services, Seders, Passover and Yizkor services, B’Yachad discussion sessions, Torah Study, religious school classes and numerous meetings. We’ve mourned together at virtual funerals and shiva. I am encouraged by how many of you have been attending these meaningful gatherings and hope that your needs for spiritual and community connections are being fulfilled.

I realize that many of you are facing financial difficulties and uncertainties. B’ShERT is experiencing much of the same. We are losing significant income from our Banquet Hall and Aim High early childhood rentals. We’ve had to cancel our fundraising activities, including the Journal Luncheon (which we are postponing). These are critical sources of revenue that support Temple programs, operating costs, and building repairs.

If you are able, please make a donation to B’ShERT to help sustain us during this difficult time. Please support our warm house of Jewish tradition, our open and inclusive spiritual community, as we strive to strengthen ourselves, each other, and the community as a whole — not just during this challenging period but for the brighter days ahead.

If you or someone in your circle is in need of support, feel free to contact Rabbi Hoover, or Faye Levine Guskin (fayelg47@gmail.com), a retired community social worker, who will gladly refer you to community resources.

Sincerely,

Eric Platt, President