Calendar - B'nai Israel Congregation

Sun	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
1Av 23	2Av 24 2:00pm Summer Learning with JTS—A Wandering People: Jewish Journeys, Real and Imagined	3Av 25	4Av 26 7:15am In-Person/Virtual Morning Minyan	5Av 27	6Av 28 6:15pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service 7:57pm Candle Lighting	7Av 29 Shabbat Mevarchim Re'eh 10:30am Outdoor Summer Tot Shabbat 10:45am Summer Speaker Series: A Look at Zohar with Rabbi Jim Michaels 8:39pm Havdalah
8Av 30 Rosh Chodesh Elul 8:00pm Project Zug	9Elul 1 Rosh Chodesh Elul 2:00pm Summer Learning with JTS—A Wandering People: Jewish Journeys, Real and Imagined 7:45pm Day School Parent Dessert Social	10Elul 2	11Elul 3 7:15am In-Person/Virtual Morning Minyan 8:00pm BAF/BASONOVA Zoom Lecture: From Sanctuary to Synagogue with Robert Stieglitz, Rutgers University	12Elul 4	13Elul 5 6:15pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service 7:48pm Candle Lighting	14Elul 6 Shoftim 10:45am Summer Speaker Series: Intergenerational Programs Fuel Connections with Rachel Lanman 8:30pm Havdalah
15Elul 7	16Elul 8 2:00pm Summer Learning with JTS—A Wandering People: Jewish Journeys, Real and Imagined	17Elul 9	18Elul 10 7:15am In-Person/Virtual Morning Minyan	19Elul 11	20Elul 12 6:15pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service 7:39pm Candle Lighting	21Elul 13 Ki Teitzei 10:45am Summer Speaker Series: My Experience with “Student to Student” with Noah Lenkin 11:00am Outdoor Summer Tot Shabbat 8:21pm Havdalah
22Elul 14	23Elul 15 2:00pm Summer Learning with JTS—A Wandering People: Jewish Journeys, Real and Imagined 7:00pm Jonah: Repairing Ourselves, Repairing the World with Rabbi Mitchell Berkowitz	24Elul 16 7:30pm Demystifying the Rosh Hashanah Musaf Service with Cantor Sarah Bolts	25Elul 17 7:15am In-Person/Virtual Morning Minyan	26Elul 18	27Elul 19 6:15pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service 7:29pm Candle Lighting	28Elul 20 Selichot - 1st Saturday Ki Tavo 8:10pm Havdalah 9:15pm Selihot: The Official Start to the High Holiday Season
29Elul 21 Selichot - 1st Night 10:30am Oxon Hill Cemetery Memorial Service 11:30am Meals for Interfaith Works Women’s Shelter	30Elul 22 Selichot	31Elul 23 Selichot 7:00pm The Seasonal Sounds of the High Holidays with Cantor Josh Perlman	1Elul 24 Selichot 7:15am In-Person/Virtual Morning Minyan 7:30pm Unetane Tokef: The Israeli Version with Netta Asner-Minster on Zoom	2Elul 25 Selichot	3Elul 26 Selichot 6:15pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service 7:18pm Candle Lighting	4Elul 27 Nitzavim 9:00am Labor on the Bima Shabbat 8:00pm Havdalah

Sunday, August 29, 2021 • 21 Elul 5781

10:30am	11:30am		Oxon Hill Cemetery Memorial Service The service will be conducted by Rabbi Michael Safra and Cantor Josh Perlman.
11:30am	1:00pm		Meals for Interfaith Works Women’s Shelter Help us provide lunch for the residents of the Interfaith Works Women’s Shelter in Rockville. Items can be purchased or prepared in your home. Cosponsored by Men’s Club and Sisterhood.

Monday, August 30, 2021 • 22 Elul 5781

Tuesday, August 31, 2021 • 23 Elul 5781

7:00pm

8:00pm

The Seasonal Sounds of the High Holidays with Cantor Josh Perlman

In-Person & Zoom

The prayer services of the High Holidays are enhanced with piyyutim (liturgical poems) and special additions, while other aspects of the liturgy remain unchanged. However, the melodies and tunes are different, and they help to ground us in this season. Join Cantor Josh to hear these different melodies, and how they are used with familiar prayers.

Wednesday, September 1, 2021 • 24 Elul 5781

7:15am	8:00am		In-Person/Virtual Morning Minyan To attend this service, please contact Allison to reserve your space.
7:30pm	8:30pm		Unetane Tokef: The Israeli Version with Netta Asner-Minster on Zoom This sacred prayer and its melody may be familiar, but you may not know about an Israeli version. In this workshop, Netta Asner-Minster, our congregational shlicha, will share the Israeli version of this prayer and teach about its connection to the Yom Kippur War, and how it has reached contemporary television series, including HBO’s Valley of Tears.

Thursday, September 2, 2021 • 25 Elul 5781

Friday, September 3, 2021 • 26 Elul 5781

6:15pm	7:15pm		Kabbalat Shabbat Service https://zoom.us/j/788352437
7:18pm			Candle Lighting

Shabbat, September 4, 2021 • 27 Elul 5781

Parshat Nitzavim

9:00am

12:00pm

Labor on the Bima Shabbat

Since 1998, JUFJ has worked to put “labor” back into Labor Day by engaging our local Jewish communities in a collective conversation about our texts, our historical experiences, and the challenges facing workers today.