Shalom!

What can you look forward to at BCC this week? ✡️ Friday, May 2 at 7:30 pm: Shabbat Evening Service. In person and on Zoom. To register for Zoom, please see the BCC calendar. ✨ Sunday, May 4 at 3 pm: the 2025 BCC Vision Awards. In person only, though the awards ceremony will be live streamed. Please contact the BCC office for more information at bcc@bcc-la.org 📖 Tuesday, May 6 at 7 pm: Torah Study. On Zoom only. To register for Zoom, please see the BCC calendar. #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #JewishLA #LosAngeles

🌾 Counting the Omer & Making the Omer Count 🌾 The omer is the 49 days period between the second day of Passover and the holiday of Shavuot. On the 2nd day of Passover, an omer (measurement of grain) of barley was brought as an offering to Adonai for the season’s bounty, and then seven weeks or 49 days were counted until the wheat harvest would begin. Leviticus 23 commands us to count each day. We get to choose how. This year we are highlighting the issues that our community cares about each week of the Omer and offering options for action and organizations that focus on this work. From our Passover celebration of freedom and liberation to Shavuot, the celebration of the revelation of Torah, let us count these days and weeks together and instill them with purpose, meaning and intention. For the third week of the Omer we are focusing on organizations that advocate for body autonomy: ❤️ The National Council of Jewish Women - https://www.ncjwla.org/ ❤️ Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism - https://rac.org/ ❤️ Planned Parenthood - https://www.plannedparenthood.org/ Take the time to learn about these organizations and the important work they do putting our shared values into action. *** #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #CountingTheOmer #SfiratHaOmer #BodilyAutonomy #ReproductiveRights #ReproductiveHealth #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #TransJews #QueerJews #NonbinaryJews #GayJews #LesbianJews #JewishLA

Shavua Tov! ⏰ There's still time to get your tickets! ... but that ends TOMORROW! Ticket registration closes for the 2025 BCC Vision Awards TOMORROW! We are pleased to invite you to join us on Sunday, May 4th at Beth Chayim Chadashim for the 2025 BCC Vision Awards! 📍 6090 W Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035 ⌚ 3 pm – Event Begins | 3:15 – Awards Ceremony | 4:30 – Honorees’ Reception ✅ https://bit.ly/BCCVisionAwards2025 For tickets, sponsorships, & donations go to https://bit.ly/BCCVisionAwards2025 BCC’s Annual Vision Awards was established 40 years ago to recognize and honor leaders who have made major contributions towards tikkun olam – repairing the world. This year we are honoring ✨ Rabbi Jillian R. Cameron with the Harriet Perl Tzedek Justice Award ✨ Aviyah Farkas with the Rabbi Erwin & Agnes Herman Humanitarian Award ✨ Ronnie Wexler with the Rabbi Erwin & Agnes Herman Humanitarian Award To learn more about our honorees, visit: https://www.bcc-la.org/visionawards2025/ The word “vision” captures that ability to think about, imagine, and plan for the future. Taking in what others pass by, envisioning the world as it can be, working against the odds with dedication and passion to make the world a better place – these are the qualities we celebrate with the BCC Vision Awards. These are the qualities found in our honorees – we invite you to contribute generously to honor these remarkable people and ensure BCC can carry on their legacy for generations to come. We look forward to seeing you on Sunday, May 4th. https://bit.ly/BCCVisionAwards2025

Join us at BCC on Wednesday, May 14th for "Voices from the Shadows: LGBTQ Experiences During the Nazi Era" Eric Marcus, founder and host of the award-winning Making Gay History podcast provides an introduction to MGH’s current 12-episode series on the experiences of LGBTQ people during the rise of the Nazi regime, World War II, and the Holocaust. Drawing on extensive research conducted for this first-of-its-kind audio documentary, Eric will share clips from archival interviews that bring this painful, often hidden history to life through the voices of the people who lived it. Journalist and author Eric Marcus is the founder and host of the award-winning “Making Gay History” podcast, which mines his decades-old audio archive of rare interviews to bring LGBTQ history to life through the voices of the people who lived it. He is also co-producer of “Those Who Were There,” a podcast drawn from Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. He is the author and co-author of a dozen books, including the #1 NY Times bestselling autobiography of Olympic Diving Champion Greg Louganis, and was a founding board member of the American LGBTQ+ Museum. (For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Marcus.) Register at oneinstitute.org/may-14-2025-voices-from-the-shadows-lgbtq-experiences-during-the-nazi-era/ #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #OneInstitute #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #LGBTQHistory #GayHistory #LesbianHistory @oneinstitutela

Join us this Sunday, April 27 at 7:30 pm for a moving and thought-provoking evening as Temple Beth Am hosts a private showing of (Re)Defining Zionism: Portraits and Perspectives from a Post-October 7 Israel: a powerful photo exhibit by artist and TBA member Shlomit Levy Bard. Enjoy heavy appetizers, an open bar, and a live musical performance as we gather to explore the diverse personal stories and faces that make up modern Israeli identity. Shlomit’s portraits, captured in the months following October 7, give voice to Israelis across different faiths, regions and walks of life. This is a chance to reflect, engage and connect through art. This event will take place at UCLA Hillel. The $18 ticket prices will go toward the catering for the event, but any further donations will go the artist. Register at tbala.shulcloud.com/form/redefining-zionism-ucla.html #RedefiningZionism #UCLA #UCLAHillel #Hillel #TempleBethAm #JewishLA #LosAngeles

What can you look forward to at BCC this week? 🍕 Friday, April 25 at 6:30 pm: Pre-Shabbat Pizza Party. In person only. To RSVP, please see the BCC weekly email. ✡️ Friday, April 25 at 7:30 pm: Shabbat Evening Service. In person and on Zoom. To register for Zoom, please see the BCC calendar. 📚 Sunday, April 27 at 10 am: BCC Books & Bagels. On Zoom only. To register for Zoom, contact Larry Nathenson at larrynath@aol.com 🇮🇱 Sunday, April 27 at 7:30 pm: (Re)defining Zionism at UCLA Hillel. In person only; this event does not take place at BCC. To register, please see the BCC calendar. 📖 Tuesday, April 29 at 7 pm: Torah Study. On Zoom only. To register for Zoom, please see the BCC calendar. #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #JewishLA #LosAngeles

Today we mark Yom HaShoah--Holocaust Remembrance Day. "The full name of the day commemorating the victims of the Holocaust is “Yom Hashoah Ve-Hagevurah” — literally the “Day of (Remembrance of) the Holocaust and the Heroism.” It is marked on the 27th day in the month of Nisan — a week after the seventh day of Passover, and a week before Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day for Israel’s fallen soldiers)." - My Jewish Learning Learn more about Yom HaShoah at myjewishlearning.com/article/yom-hashoah-holocaust-memorial-day/ #YomHaShoah #HolocaustRemembranceDay #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #JewishLA #LosAngeles

Happy Birthday to BCC's own, beloved Rabbi Jillian Cameron! Share your birthday wishes for Rabbi Cameron in the comments below! #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #JewishLA #LosAngeles

Join us for a moving and thought-provoking evening as Temple Beth Am hosts a private showing of (Re)Defining Zionism: Portraits and Perspectives from a Post-October 7 Israel: a powerful photo exhibit by artist and TBA member Shlomit Levy Bard. Enjoy heavy appetizers, an open bar, and a live musical performance as we gather to explore the diverse personal stories and faces that make up modern Israeli identity. Shlomit’s portraits, captured in the months following October 7, give voice to Israelis across different faiths, regions and walks of life. This is a chance to reflect, engage and connect through art. This event will take place at UCLA Hillel. The $18 ticket prices will go toward the catering for the event, but any further donations will go the artist. Register at tbala.shulcloud.com/form/redefining-zionism-ucla.html #RedefiningZionism #October7 #TempleBethAmLosAngeles #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #Hillel #UCLAHillel #UCLA #LosAngeles

🌾 Counting the Omer & Making the Omer Count 🌾 The omer is the 49 days period between the second day of Passover and the holiday of Shavuot. On the 2nd day of Passover, an omer (measurement of grain) of barley was brought as an offering to Adonai for the season’s bounty, and then seven weeks or 49 days were counted until the wheat harvest would begin. Leviticus 23 commands us to count each day. We get to choose how. This year we are highlighting the issues that our community cares about each week of the Omer and offering options for action and organizations that focus on this work. From our Passover celebration of freedom and liberation to Shavuot, the celebration of the revelation of Torah, let us count these days and weeks together and instill them with purpose, meaning and intention. For the second week of the Omer we are focusing on organizations that are meeting the support needed after the LA Wildfires: 🌱 The Jewish Library Project - bcc-la.org/the-jewish-library-project/ 🌱 JFed Wildfire Crisis Relief - jewishla.org/wildfire-crisis-relief/ 🌱 Habitat for Humanity - habitatla.org/how-to-apply/disaster-relief/ 🌱 LA Works - laworks.com/2025fires Take the time to learn about these organizations and the important work they do putting our shared values into action. *** #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #CountingTheOmer #SfiratHaOmer #LosAngelesWildfires #PalisadesFire #EatonFire #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #TransJews #QueerJews #NonbinaryJews #GayJews #LesbianJews #JewishLA

BCC wishes a Happy Easter to all who celebrate! #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #InterfaithJews #Interfaith #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #LosAngels

Join Cantorial Soloist Raymond Zachary and Rabbinic Intern Ian Perry tonight at 7:30 pm to bring in Shabbat through soulful song, prayer, creative teachings and communal connection. This Shabbat will also feature a drash by Rabbinic Intern Ian Perry. You can join us here on Facebook Live, the BCC website, or on Zoom. To register for the Zoom, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYoduuvpj0pGtKmDkXRJwIl4tpjOv5ojBDI