Celebrate Rosh Chodesh monthly with the women of Temple Beth Hillel.
For information click here!

It is a joy, and a mitzvah, to bring a new Torah to our community; a mitzvah, because the last of the 613 commandments is to actually create a Torah. Now is the first time in nearly fifty years that we are getting a Torah. It is important that every TBH family be involved. For a single dollar, you can sponsor a letter and be recorded in the History Scroll which will be kept near the Torah in the Ark.

A benefit of Temple Beth Hillel membership is that you can be written on the scroll at this level. Anyone can be recorded at the Word ($18), Name ($54), Verse ($180), Story ($360), Parasha ($500) or Book ($1,000) level. Details are in this brochure.

Rabbi Jeffrey Glickman

Click here for a VIDEO of TBH receiving the B'Nai Jacob Torah

The Journal Inquirer has a great picture gallery of the festivities April 3. 
Click here to see them! 

Here is an open letter from Lance Chernack
thanking all for their efforts in acqiring the new Torah
and some thoughts for the future.

INVOLVEMENT

A Message from: Stanley J. Goldberg Religious Practice Committee Chairperson

Our lives are busy. Parents with their children, jobs & careers, meetings and general social events. Children with school, teachers and school activities. And hopefully family activities are included.

WHEN will we all have time to be involved with our Jewish religion and our Temple???

Yes, I know we have our wonderful Religious school. Parents drop their children off so they receive their religious education a few hours a week. BUT what about the parents and the rest of us??

I have a suggestion, how about a Friday night Sabbath service and Oneg! Oh I am not asking for you to come to every Sabbath service although that is what

G-d would want --- How about once a month or twice a year?

We have Sabbath Service on Friday nights and Saturday mornings. OUR main service is Friday night. This starts on the evening that G-d wants all of us to set aside our daily activities, duties, and obligations. This is His and our day of rest. We all need to get away from all of the clamors & rigors of the work week. This is our time to bring our inner-self into balance. What a treat!

A Sabbath service and Oneg may be your answer. We all gather in our vestibule before` we go into the Sanctuary and talk like old friends even new members feel welcomed. Then at 7:45pm we gather in the sanctuary as the canter sings Sabbath songs. Now the Rabbi and the congregation offer Sabbath greeting to each other with "Shabbat Shalom" which means good Sabbath. Prayers are said both in Hebrew and English. Prayers are said for the Sabbath, but also, prays for the healing of the sick and prayers to remember our dear departed ones are also said. The service is not all prayers, we have readings from the Torah, our holy scriptures, and interpretations and explanations by our beloved Rabbi.

This service is finished around 9:00 PM. After services comes a very special event the "ONEG", "THE SABBATH DELITE". Here is where the congregation gathers in the social hall for the kiddish with wine and juice and challah. We also have other refreshments like cheese, cookies and fruit. Now this does not happen just like that. It is the policy of our Temple that at the beginning of the fiscal year that ONE Friday a year a group of four families are assigned to host the ONEG. If one or more can not do the Friday night they signed up for or were assigned they are responsible to exchange or find someone to replace them. People doing "the Oneg" is as part of our service and we of RPC want you to be at these services. We have such a wonderful collection of warm and caring people----SOooo come try it --you just might like it!!!