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Women's Seder Fills Spirit
On Thursday evening March 22, women from Emanuel Congregation in Chicago and Beth Emet held a joint “pre-Passover” Seder at Beth Emet. The song-filled and spirit- filling Seder was led by Diane Weil, Cantorial Soloist, and Ruth Seidner, Music Director from Emanuel and was attended by fifty four wome . We used the Haggadah created by Emanuel Women on the theme of Preparing Our Hearts for Pesach which included traditional and new prayers, readings and songs.
At the beginning of the Seder, Diane asked “Why is this Seder different from all other Seders?” One of the answers was seen on the Seder plate which contained symbols meaningful to every women in attendance, including an onion representing the layers of women’s lives and the tears we shed in sadness and joy and a kitchen utensil representing the “kitchen” work women do to prepare for Seders and reminding us of our mothers’ and grandmothers’ utensils we use in our own kitchens. We also read well-known and little-known inspiring history and midrash about Jewish women and ate a delicious dinner together.
Highlights / Year in Review
Over 75 community members aged 60 and older joined Andy White and Christine Dunford, artists from the Lookingglass Theatre Company, in a morning of creative programming that brought the extraordinary to the ordinary. The program represented another chapter in the year-long exploration of Torat Chayenu: Our Stories, Our Journeys.
Talented members of Evanston’s Beth Emet synagogue, including seven-time Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer, Paul Wertico, performed at Beth Emet’s Got Talent, Saturday, April 30. Over 250 attendees helped raise nearly $11,000!
Beth Emet members shook their groggers Saturday, March 19, at our annual Megillah reading and Purim Shpiel “That 70’s Shpiel!” Audience members and participants got to experience the best the 70’s had to offer as the Beth Emet Purim band brought the funk and we read together the classic story of Esther, Mordechai and…Haman (booo)!
A most inspiring and unique concert of sacred music Chicago's South Side Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation.
During the weekend of January 7, Beth Emet hosted artist-in-residence, Judith Joseph, a very accomplished local artist, who shared her work and her Jewish journey through art with the Beth Emet community. She also engaged members in a variety of experiences to learn about the rich heritage of Jewish artists in modern art.
Rabbi London, along with Beit Sefer students and many of their parents participated in the act of chidur mitzvah, beautifying our synagogue and school in honor of Rabbi London's installation.
On Erev Simchat Torah, the Sisters of Beth Emet joined in giving testimony of women’s participation in prayer, and the Torah. Women from all stages of life joined in inundating the Israeli government and religious leaders with 10,000 images of women teaching, studying, learning, reading, embracing Torah Scrolls.
