Beth Israel Congregation, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Today 7:30PM [Chapel] Evening Minyan, Austin St. entrance.
Wednesday No BIRS
Wednesday The Synagogue Office will close at 12 p.m. today.
Wednesday 6:00PM [2010 Youth Lounge] Teen Kol Nidre Service for 8th - 12th graders (service preceded by brief movie)
Wednesday 6:30PM [Sanctuary] Kol Nidre Service. Please show ticket to security guard.Tickets are provided to all members of Beth Israel congregation. Free tickets are available to new residents of Washtenaw County, one year fellows of the Frankel Center, undergraduate students with Letter of Reciprocity from any Jewish congregation, graduate students with proof of being a full time student. Others may pre-purchase tickets which are $130 per person for all services of Erev and Yom Kippur. The synagogue office is open Monday, Oct. 6 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., and on Tuesday, Oct. 7 9 a.m. - 12 noon. Due to security reasons, no person may be admitted to services who has not been given a ticket, and who therefore is not on the security list.
Wednesday 6:30PM [2010 Large Room] 4th - 7th grade Kol Nidre Service
Wednesday 6:30PM [Room 4] Unsupervised playroom for parent(2)and preschoolers during Kol Nidre service.
Thursday 8:00AM [Sanctuary] Yom Kippur Services
Thursday 4:00PM [Sanctuary] Yom Kippur Study Session
Thursday 6:00PM [Sanctuary] Neila Service, followed by Break the Fast snack at 7:40 p.m.
Sunday 9:30AM Sukkah Set-up. Volunteers needed to set up the area's largest Sukkah. Yes, bring your electrical tools. Men and Women are welcome.
Tuesday October 14 9:30AM [Sanctuary] Sukkot Shaharit Service. Hallel with Lulav and Etrog. 10:30 a.m. Young children's "Sukkot Experience" in the Sukkah with Rabbi Dobrusin. Lulov and Etrog procession. Sukkot luncheon (free) in the Sukkah.
Wednesday October 15 9:30AM [Sanctuary] Sukkot Morning Service. Use of Lulav and Etrog during Hallel service, and during Lulav and Etrog processional.
Wednesday October 15 5:30PM Tot Sukkot Dinner in the Sukkah. RSVP $18.00 per family.
Saturday October 18 4:00PM TEEN SHABBAT SHMOOZE: All teenagers are invited to join Rabbi Dobrusin and Rabbi Blumenthal for a monthly get together at Rabbi Dobrusin’s home. Over Shabbat afternoon snacks and after some “shmoozing” (time to talk with each other), we’ll have an opportunity for discussions some of the issues facing us today.
Sunday October 19 7:45PM [Large Social Hall] Howard N. Lupovitch, Ph.D. "Between the Cross and the Crescent" A Comparison of Jewish Life under Islam and Christianity. Refreshments provided. Free.

New Residents - Free High Holiday Tickets - Reduced Membership Dues for 35 Year Olds and Under.

New Residents of Washtenaw County who have arrived since Yom Kippur 2007 are eligible for free high holiday tickets. Email execdir@bethisrael-aa.org.

$300 Membership Dues for new members under the age of 35, for the first year, including High Holiday tickets. Email office@bethisrael-aa.org for membership packet, or download forms from our webpages.

K'vod Habriot

Beth Israel Congregation is proud to join faith communities throughout our country in taking a stand against torture as part of Torture Awareness Month. Our Congregation is now a member of K'vod Habriot, a Jewish Human Rights Network.
Follow this link to Rabbi Dobrusin's sermon of June 7, 2008.

Presentations on Postville, Iowa

On July 5th both Michael Appel and Bob Savit, a member of the Ann Arbor Orthodox Minyan, spoke about the situation in Postville, Iowa regarding the serious financial crisis being faced by the families of former workers of the Agriprocessors plant. Please click below to read both presentations:

Michal Appel's D'var Torah

Bob Savit's Postville, Iowa Presentation

Statement of Support

Beth Israel Congregation affirms our continued wholehearted support for all efforts undertaken by the governments of Israel and the Palestinian people to produce a lasting and secure peace based upon the "two state solution". We pray that these efforts will lead these two peoples further down the path of peace. We support all efforts by Israel and her neighbors to produce a cessation of violence and to lay the framework for peace through negotiation and appropriate compromise in an atmosphere of mutual respect and recognition. May we see the day when all people in the Middle East and throughout the world will live in security and peace.

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Schedule of Services

Fridays, 6:00 p.m.

Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.

Sundays, 5:00 p.m.

Mon-Thurs, 7:30 p.m.

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