Virtual Shabbat Service, 7:30 pm Our Erev Shabbat service in the comfort of your own home! Grab your computer and candles, and we'll join together for choir-led music and candle-lighting in virtual community. Services will be hosted on Facebook Live and Zoom.
If the technology works, we will visit a “kumsitz” at Havurah Hadash in Ashland, Oregon during part of our gathering. We can join in song with a vibrant community. Some of you may have been with Rabbi David and his wife, Debra, when they came to TBH to tell stories, sing, and lead a morning service. Let’s find our way together as we experience Shabbat during challenging times.
We continue to live through the pandemic and all the fear and anxiety that brings. Now, we are now confronted with anger and action, as protests nationwide bring renewed attention to racial justice and police action in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. And, we continue to receive messages of division and discord from the government, including the use of sacred space and sacred text as mere props for a photo op. When things are difficult, one thing we can do is turn to one another. This Sunday, June 7 at 7:00 p.m. join Rabbi Seth for an evening of healing and sharing as we create the brave space to share with one another our feelings in the moment, and offer up thoughts about what we can do as sacred community.
Salon @ Home Dinner Reservations Due! Friday, June 12, 6:00 pm
Dinner Reservations are due by Tuesday, June 9 at 5:00 pm. TBH’s Shabbat Salon returns with Salon@Home! While we can not be physically together, we can still share in food and conversation at the TBH Shabbat Salon. Dinner provided by Nineveh is available for pre-order, and you can pick it up at TBH on Friday afternoon.
Erev Shabbat services will be at 6:00 p.m., after which we can eat together and hear from our featured presenters, Irina Gendelman and Jeff Birkenstein from St. Martin’s University. Speaker begins at 7:00. You do not need to purchase a meal to attend, please join for all or part. Consider being a “Salon Sponsor” for $100. Includes 2 meals, challah, and bottle of wine.
Note: - Meals will be vegetarian and come complete and pre-packaged - While the meal is still subsidized, because of some increased costs, we will need to apply a “pandemic surcharge” to the cost of the meals, each will be $18. - Meals will be available for pick up. For inquiries about delivery availability, please contact the office at tbh@bethhatfiloh.org.
See the menu and order dinner on our event page! Zoom information to follow.
COMING UP AT TBH
Stop, Pop and Go Friday, June 12, 4:30 - 5:30 pm
The summer lunch program for the Thurston County Food Bank (TCFB) needs the help of TBH. This year, TCFB’s summer lunch program will be expanded to serve 400-500 children a day! One of the lunches served is peanut butter and jelly (PB&J) sandwiches. TBH is going to help restock summer lunch shelves with jams and jellies, as they are in great need for jars or squeeze bottles of strawberry or grape jams or jellies.
On Friday, June 12, there will be a TBH Zoom Salon with services from 6-7 p.m. and then the Salon will start thereafter. Some of you have ordered dinner from Nineveh and will be driving by TBH to pick dinner starting at 5:00 pm. Bernie Friedman, Emily Chadwick and Elie Halpern will be masked, gloved and in the TBH parking lot from 4:30 to 5:30 if you would be kind enough to drive to TBH and to Stop, Pop your trunk or rear door, so we can remove any strawberry or grape jams or jellies that you are willing to donate to the Food Bank, and then Go on your way. We hope to collect 600 grape or strawberry jams or jellies in jars or squeeze bottles. We can also arrange to pick up strawberry or grape jam and/or jellies from your house if you cannot make it to TBH on June 12. Contact Elie Halpern at 360 357 8160 or email Elie at ehalpern7379@gmail.com.
Annual Meeting Sunday, June 14, 10:00 am
Our Annual Meeting will take place via Zoom. Members in good standing received a ballot via email last week--please don't forget to vote! If you did not receive a ballot but believe you should have, please contact Kayla at tbh@bethhatfiloh.org. During the one-hour meeting, we’ll seek input related to congregational life during the pandemic. We’ll explore questions including: What do you miss about physically being together? What do you appreciate about congregational life via Zoom? How do you envision our re-entry, as the pandemic winds down? Are there things we are doing now that you’d like to bring with us, even when we can meet physically? Read our Annual Report here.
Zoom information will be emailed separately to all members in good standing. If you are unsure about your membership, please take this opportunity to check your ShulCloud account or email Kayla at tbh@bethhatfiloh.org.
Membership Renewals Due Tuesday, July 1
Please keep an eye out in your email inbox in the coming weeks for membership renewal forms! Membership cycles follow the fiscal year, so pledges will be due to the TBH office on July 1st. Interested in becoming a new member? Visit https://www.bethhatfiloh.org/temple-membership
CHRONICLING OUR SHARED EXPERIENCE
Call For Submissions!
This section of the weekly is dedicated to sharing member creativity and experiences during this time of separation! If you have a recipe, piece of art, poem, short story, photo, etc. that you would like to share, send it to tbh@bethhatfiloh.org. If we receive enough submissions, we hope to compile them after this crisis has passed.
Photo of Baking by Rabbi Seth
AROUND THE CONGREGATION
Yahrzeits
Sidney Barshter Joseph Asher Kenneth Astman Robert Brockman Martin Kalikow Melvin Jay Swartz Zilla Gale Myron Youdin Hal Carmel Harold Lemay Anne Goldberg Tenenbaum RA Greene
Reconstructionist Movement: Standing Up for Racial Justice and Against Racial Violence
Read the statement from the Reconstructionist Movement here.
TBH COVID-19 Webpage
Please check out our webpage dedicated to COVID-19 updates and additional resources here.
TBH Office Closure
The physical office is closed, though staff members are still working remotely. For assistance, please email tbh@bethhatfiloh.org.
Providing Communal Support
The following support services have been offered by our wonderfully generous TBH members: home delivery, grocery shopping, prescription pick-up, email and phone chats, safe-distance walking companion, navigating healthcare, tech support, end of life consultation, mental health support, and more! To take advantage of these support services, email Kayla at tbh@bethhatfiloh.org.
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