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  • Intro

     
    Every day is a celebration of creation. Every hour holds beginnings and endings, passages and milestones, comings and goings, recoveries and illnesses, births and deaths. Judaism recognizes the significant and ordinary events of every day, week, month, year, and lifetime with prayer, with ritual, with study, and with community.


     

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  • Birth


    Our tradition teaches that there are three partners in the creation of life: the father, the mother and the Holy One of Blessing.  We celebrate with these ceremonies:

    Brit Milah - Welcoming a Boy into the Covenant

    Brit Bat - Welcoming a Girl into the Covenant


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  • Bar/Bat Mitzvah


    Becoming Bar or Bat Mitzvah is a wonderful and joyous occasion, not only for the young person and his or her family, but for the entire community.  It connects us to the Jewish past, but is also a gateway to a young persons future.  Becoming a young Jewish adult is a momentous event, a joyful rite of passage, a simcha  in the deepest sense of the word.

     

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  • Weddings


    Weddings are a time of unparalleled joy in the life of two individuals who have chosen to make a lifetime commitment to one another.  At Temple Beth-El our mission is to increase your joy, and to minimize the "Oy!"

     

     

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  • Funerals


    Temple families receive support that recognizes the sanctity and dignity of human life in all its stages.

    When a life nears its end, our Rabbi consoles and guides the ill, the aged, and their loved ones.

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  • Jewish Outreach Institute Blog

  • JOI at the JCCA Biennial