Worship
Shabbat
Holidays
Shabbat Services
- Every Friday night at 8:00 pm at BCC - Join the BCC clergy
and occasional lay leader for shabbat services. Check the calendar for special events and
guest speakers.
- Pre-shabbat dinner - 1st Friday
of the month, a self-pay dinner at 6:30pm at the Thai House.
- Family Shabbat
- Usually 3rd Shabbat Friday evening of each month.
The service starts with dinner at 6:15 pm. The service will
end at 7:15 pm followed by our regular Shabbat Friday evening
service. Please RSVP to bcc@bcc-la.org for the paid dinner
($10 adults, $5 children)
- Ruach Chayim/ Musical Shabbat - Usually the last Friday
of the month. Welcome Shabbat with drum, song and
spirit. Israeli Dancing after services.
- Project Caring - 2nd Saturday at 11 am
(at Country
Villa Wilshire) BCC's oldest mitzvah (over
20 years) brings a Saturday morning service to residents of Country
Villa Wilshire. Service lasts about 45 minutes.
No experience needed - just a desire to share songs and Shabbat
joy with those who cannot go out to synagogue.
- Traditional Egalitarian
Minyan - 3rd Saturday at 10 am at BCC - Followed
by kiddush and potluck vegetarian lunch. All are welcome.
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Special
Event Shabbats
Telephone Minyan and Torah Study
Use
your phone to join weekly Torah Study every
Thursday from 4-5pm
and monthly Kabbalat Shabbat Services (2nd
Friday of the month), and other special
events with the Telephone Minyan.
Founded by a group of BCC members who wanted
to stay connected to their community, the
Telephone Minyan provides member led telephone
study and services that cater especially
to those with health or mobility challenges.
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To receive the call in information or if you have questions,
feel free to contact Bracha Yael for more information
at bracha18@ca.rr.com or leave a message at the
BCC office.
Let us keep you connected with your loving
BCC community. As always, please let us
know immediately if you are ill or housebound,
we want to know! BCC@BCC-LA.ORG, 323-931-7023.
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Special Musical Shabbat
Ruach Chayim (Spirit of Life)
“Shabbat is a palace in time”
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
7pm refreshments and schmooze
8pm Kabbalat Shabbat service
9:30 Israeli dancing
Usually the last Friday of each month - returning fall 07. Join
us at BCC to welcome Shabbat with drum, with song,
with open heart.
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BCC is known for the spiritual and musical way in which we share
and experience Judaism. We are introducing a new service format
once a month, Ruach Chayim. This service is a soothing, participatory,
spiritual welcoming of Shabbat in the BCC tradition, in a new
way. Allow the music of drum, guitar, clarinet, and voice to transport
you. We invite you to bring friends, neighbors, associates, co-workers,
and anyone in your life who would enjoy entering the “palace”
of Shabbat.
Marking our days - Do you have a special Shabbat?
Do you have a special event in you life
that you would like to honor? Have you always wanted to light
Shabbat candles at services? Contact the temple office if you
would like to participate in services (at least two weeks in advance).
Please be aware this is a first come first serve basis.
Oneg, Kiddish, and Flower Sponsorships Sponsoring Friday night
oneg, flowers or Kiddish is a great way to celebrate a lifecycle
event, commemorate a yahrzeit, or mark any special occasion.
Either download a form or pick one
up at BCC and send it in today. A form will also be included in
the next issue of G’vanim. You can call the BCC office at
323-931-7023 or email us.
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Holidays
Yom Hashoah
Sunday, May 4, 4-5pm
Please join in commemorating the Yom Hashoah
with a moving program of music, poetry, and paintings.
Witness the world premiere of “Through Children’s
Eyes,” a view of the Holocaust as seen through
the poetry and drawings of children who were interned
in the camps. The work has been adapted and written
by Cantor Mark Saltzman with music commissioned from
award winning composer, David Shukiar. Performed by
Cantor Saltzman, Cantor Ida Rae Cahana, Rachel Smith-Weinstein,
pianist Lisa Edwards, cellist, John Walz, and clarinetist,
Gary Gould.
Also included is “Through My Mother’s Eyes,”
a personal memoir of the world renowned artist Alice
Lok Cahana, a survivor of Auschwitz, who will be participating
in the performance. This dramatic performance incorporates
Yiddish, Hebrew and Russian music of the period and
will be performed by Cantor Ida Rae Cahana, actress
Gretchen Johnson, pianist Lisa Sylvester and Gary Gould.
Please come help in fully honoring and bearing witness
to the impact and consequences of the Holocaust, and
to hope for a brighter future. At Plummer Park - Fiesta
Hall 7377 Santa Monica Blvd. West Hollywood, CA 90046.
Admission is Free. Reception & candlelight ceremony
at Babi Yar Memorial immediately following. This event
is co-sponsored by The City of West Los Angeles and
Congregation Kol Ami.
Sunday, June 8
6:30 pm - Yizkor
7 pm - Festival service led by Rabbi Edwards &
Barry Wendell
8:30 pm - Standing at Sinai
Study all night
What is your piece of Torah? Find out on
Shavuot all night! According to the midrash, every
Jew possesses a unique piece of the Torah. Thus, until
every Jewish soul is included, the Jewish people and
the Torah remain incomplete. What is your piece of
Torah?
After a yizkor (memorial) and festival service,
we’ll gather for the LA Premier of a new dramatic
presentation and learning piece by BCC’s own Jeff
Bernhardt. Many of us remember Jeff’s powerful, post
9/11 Selichot drama “Who shall Live?” which premiered
at BCC in 2002. Jeff’s new piece - Standing at Sinai
- is a dramatic presentation designed to trigger a
conversation about our individual and communal relationships
to Torah and to God. We will follow it up with guided
break-out discussions and activities.
As always we invite you to all or part of
the evening. As always, there will be those of us
who stay all night, following the tradition of a full
night of learning in celebration and preparation for
"receiving the Torah," bringing our pieces
of Torah for the magnificent quilt of Torah still
being woven by the Jewish people.
Please bring dairy/vegetarian refreshments
to share.
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