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According to our minhag (custom) at B’ShERT, we will once again be livestreaming our holiday services for those congregants and community members who are unable to join us in person. This year, our livestream will appear on our YouTube channel (also embedded above) and will be linked from our Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram pages (as well as the front page of the website). Our broadcasts continue with Kol Nidre at 7:30 pm Tuesday evening, October 8th.

The practice of livestreaming holiday services from B’ShERT began in 2012 (when the Ditmas Park branch of the congregation was still known as Temple Beth Emeth v’Ohr Progressive Shaari Zedek). Longtime congregant Werner Friedlander z”l was housebound and concerned that he would not be able to observe the mitzvah of listening to the sound of the shofar on the holiday. He called Rabbi Hoover to ask if she would call him on Rosh Hashanah and “phone in” a shofar blowing for his benefit. While she was happy to oblige, she thought that other congregants might also want the option of tuning in for services, so she asked her husband and congregational tech maven Mike Rose to set up a video stream.

If you have problems accessing the stream, please let us know! You can email tech@bshert.org or call the office and we’ll try to correct the issue.

Friday, September 27^th – 10:00 am – Tot Shabbat for children 5 years old or younger and their caregiver.

7:00 pm – Torah Study – This week’s Torah portion is Nitzavim (Deuteronomy 29:9-30:20).  If you would like to read this portion beforehand, please go to:

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0529.htm#9

8:00 pm – Shabbat Service

Saturday, September 28^th – 9:45 am – Religious school.

9:45 am –B’Yachad: Adults in discussion together.

11:00 am – Shabbat Services.

Sunday, September 29^th – 8:00 pm. Erev Rosh Hashanah

Monday, September 30^th – 10:00 am. Rosh Hashanah Service.

1:30 pm – Children’s Service.

2:30 pm (approx.) – Tashlich—we will walk together to the pond in Prospect Park to symbolically throw our sins away.

Tuesday, October 1^st – 10:00 am.  Rosh Hashanah Service.

1:30 pm – Tashlich—we will drive to the Salt Marsh Nature Center, 3301 Avenue U, to symbolically throw our sins away.

Friday, October 4^th – 10:00 am – Tot Shabbat for children 5 years old or younger and their caregiver.

6:30 pm – Dairy Potluck – Temple provides pizza and pasta, you bring a dairy side dish or dessert.

8:00 pm – Shabbat Service with Torah Service.

Saturday, October 5^th – 9:45 am – Religious school

9:45 am – Torah study – This week’s Torah portion is Vayeilech (Deuteronomy 31:1-30).  If you would like to read the Torah portion beforehand, go to:

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0531.htm#1

11:00 am – Shabbat Services.

Rosh Hashanah Food Drive – Beginning on Rosh Hashanah bags will be available for you to take home and fill with unexpired, non-perishable food to be given to Our Lady of Refuge Church Food Pantry (with a portion going to our “Little Pantry”).  Bags can be returned to the Temple anytime through Sukkot.

Remember the Little Free Pantry—On the Church Avenue side of the building is our Little Free Pantry, built by the b’nei mitzvah class a couple of years ago. We stock it with food and toiletry items for members of the greater community to take if they need them. Items placed in the pantry are almost always gone within a few hours, so there is always room for more. Please bring non-perishable, desirable, unopened, unexpired food or new, packaged toiletry items (diapers, wipes, shampoos and soaps, toothpaste, mouthwash, sanitary pads and tampons, etc.) when you think of it. You may put items directly in the pantry or leave them in Rabbi’s office. Thank you!

Our August 18th joint program with GSBC (the congregation that holds services in our sanctuary most Sundays) was a great success! Thanks to Wells Abellard for putting together this wonderful video commemorating the day.