Shalom!

Shavua Tov! Don't forget to join us tomorrow on Zoom for a Civil Rights Conversation with Rabbi Jonathan Miller Sunday, May 18, 2 pm Rabbi Jonathan Miller will be offering some insights about working in Birmingham, Alabama and his experiences as a rabbi in the south. This event will take place on Zoom. Registration information can be found on the BCC calendar at bcc-la.org #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #JewishLA #AmericanSouth #SouthernJews #CivilRights

Today is Lag B'Omer! From MyJewishLearning: "Lag Ba’omer is a minor holiday that occurs on the 33rd day of the Omer, the 49-day period between Passover and Shavuot. A break from the semi-mourning of the Omer, key aspects of Lag Ba’omer include holding Jewish weddings (it’s the one day during the Omer when Jewish law permits them), lighting bonfires and getting haircuts." Learn more at myjewishlearning.com/article/lag-baomer/ #LagBaOmer #LagBOmer #SfiratHaOmer #CountingTheOmer #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #JewishLA #LosAngeles

What can you look forward to at BCC this week? 🍕 Friday, May 16 at 6:30 pm: Pre-Shabbat Pizza Party. In person only. To RSVP, please see the BCC weekly email. ✡️ Friday, May 16 at 7:30 pm: Shabbat Evening Service. In person and on Zoom. To register for Zoom, please see the BCC website. ✅ Sunday, May 18 at 2 pm: Civil Rights Conversation with Rabbi Jonathan Miller. On Zoom only. To register for Zoom, please see the BCC calendar. 📖 Tuesday, May 20 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

Join us on Friday, May 16 as we welcome our new members into our community! At 6:30 pm our pre-Shabbat pizza party begins and then at 7:30 pm the Kabbalat Shabbat service begins! The service will be led by Rabbi Jillian Cameron and BCC member Robin Berkovitz! #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #JewishLA #LosAngeles

Civil Rights Conversation with Rabbi Jonathan Miller Sunday, May 18, 2 pm Rabbi Jonathan Miller will be offering some insights about working in Birmingham, Alabama and his experiences as a rabbi in the south. This event will take place on Zoom. Register on the BCC calendar! #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #JewishLA #AmericanSouth #SouthernJews #CivilRights

Our Passover-themed Trivia Night "(More Than) 4 Questions" during the NuRoots Collective Escape festival was a success! Hard to believe it's already been a whole month! We had 🍷 Manischewitz Jello Shots ✡️ K for P bar-style food ⁉️ Delightful Queer-Jewish trivia And... ✨So much fun!✨ What was your favorite part of the Trivia Night? @nurootsla #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #JewishLA #LosAngeles

Join us as we celebrate Shavuot with worship, study and dairy treats with our friends from Temple Akiba. Coming up on Sunday, June 1 at 7 pm! #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #TempleAkibaOfCulverCity #Shavuot #Shavuos #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #ReformJews

Join us on Friday, May 16 as we welcome our new members into our community! At 6:30 pm our pre-Shabbat pizza party begins and then at 7:30 pm the Kabbalat Shabbat service begins! The service will be led by Rabbi Jillian Cameron and BCC member Robin Berkovitz! #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #JewishLA #LosAngeles

Join us at BCC on Wednesday, May 14th at 7 pm 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/ @oneinstitutela #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayHistory #LesbianHistory #TransHistory #QueerHistory #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 fifth week of the Omer we are focusing on organizations that work to combat hunger and food insecurity: 🥯 Mazon - https://mazon.org/ 🥯 World Central Kitchen - https://wck.org/ 🥯 SOVA - https://www.jfsla.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 #FoodInsecurity #Hunger #GlobalHunger #FightingHunger #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #TransJews #QueerJews #NonbinaryJews #GayJews #LesbianJews #JewishLA

Civil Rights Conversation with Rabbi Jonathan Miller Sunday, May 18, 2 pm Rabbi Jonathan Miller will be offering some insights about working in Birmingham, Alabama and his experiences as a rabbi in the south. This event will take place on Zoom. You can register for this event on the BCC calendar. #CivilRights #CivilRightsMovement #SouthernJews #AmericanSouth #BirminghamAlabama #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews

Shavua Tov! ... And we're already looking forward to next Shabbos! Join us on Friday, May 16 as we welcome our new members into our community! At 6:30 pm our pre-Shabbat pizza party begins and then at 7:30 pm the Kabbalat Shabbat service begins! #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #JewishLA #LosAngeles