Shalom!

🏳️‍🌈 Pride Shabbat 🏳️‍🌈 ⏰ Friday, June 20 at 7:30 pm Join Rabbi Jillian Cameron and song leader Max Winer as we welcome Shabbat together through soulful song, prayer, creative teachings, and communal connection. Interested in sponsoring an aspect of a Shabbat service to celebrate a simcha (joyful occasion) or honor a loved one? Find the link to sponsor in our "Pride Menu" at our link in bio! And join us before Shabbat at 6:30 pm for a Pizza Party (which will include gluten free options)! 🏳️‍🌈 Pride Shabbat ⏰ Friday, June 20 🍕 at 6:30 pm 🕯️🕯️ at 7:30 pm 📍 at Beth Chayim Chadashim synagogue Not able to join us in person? Register to attend on Zoom in our "Pride Menu" at our link in bio! #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #PrideShabbat #Pride #PrideMonth #Pride2025 #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #JewishLA #LosAngeles

🏳️‍🌈👏 Theatre lovers! Check out this Pride Month event! 👏🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 Isn’t it Queer? Sondheim Unplugged 🏳️‍🌈 Sunday, June 29, 4 pm Sondheim Unplugged at 54 Below in NYC will celebrate Pride month with a “Company” made up entirely of LGBTQ+ performers, and stream it live. Theater lovers will meet in the BCC sanctuary to watch the show live, on a video projection. 🎶 Watching Sondheim Unplugged at 54 Below in NYC celebrating Pride month. ⏰ Sunday, June 29 at 4 pm 📍 at Beth Chayim Chadashim synagogue ✍️ Use the "Pride Menu" at our link in bio to sign up! #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #Pride #PrideMonth #Pride2025 #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #JewishLA #LosAngeles

🪷 Saturday, June 21 at 4 pm 🪷 Join us for a special Sound Bath and Havdalah experience led by Rev. Sunshine Daye! Bring your yoga mat and a blanket (and a pillow, if you really want to get cosy) and settle in for a sensory experience like no other whilst we bid adieu to Shabbat and bless the separation of the holy from the not-yet-holy. 🪷 Sound Bath experience and Havdalah ⏰ Saturday, June 21 at 4 pm 📍 Beth Chayim Chadashim, 6090 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035 ✍️ bit.ly/BCCJuneHavdalah As we deal with a fraught social and political climate, caring for our LGBTQIA+ Jewish selves becomes a political statement, as well as a sacred duty. Please take this opportunity to rest and recharge--granting you strength for the week ahead. RSVP at bit.ly/BCCJuneHavdalah #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #JewishLA #LosAngeles #Pride #Pride2025 #PrideMonth #SoundBath #SoundBathExperience #Havdalah

🏳️‍🌈 Another great opportunity to represent the world's first LGBTQIA+ synagogue at Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 🌴 BCC @ SaMo Pride 🌴 Saturday, June 21, 2 pm – 7 pm Help us staff our booth at Santa Monica Pride on the Promenade. Hours are 2 – 7 pm in 2-hour shifts. Our booth will be on the Third Street Promenade, exact location TBD. There will be live music, Pride-themed treats, activities, and more. If you can’t staff the booth, feel free to drop by and say hello! 🌴 Represent BCC at Santa Monica Pride ⏰ Saturday, June 21 with shifts from 2 - 4 pm, 4 - 6 pm, and 6 - 7 pm. ✍️ Use the "Pride Menu" at our link in bio to sign up! #PRIDE #Pride2025 #PrideMonth #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #JewishLA #SaMo #SantaMonicaPride #SaMoPride #SaMoPride2025

Shavuot begins today at sunset! All of us at BCC wish you a Happy Shavuot! #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #JewishLA #LosAngeles #Shavuot #Shavuos

Shavua Tov! PRIDE MONTH STARTS TOMORROW! Check out everything BCC has on offer for PRIDE MONTH! 🏳️‍🌈🏃‍♀️ Sunday June 1: Loud and proud! We're going to march in WeHo Pride! We'll gather at 10:30 am and then at 11 am attend the Interfaith Pride Worship Service. After that we'll march in the parade together with our friends from Congregation Kol Ami! 🕯️🕯️ Friday, June 20: #TGIS at 7:30 pm join us as we celebrate PRIDE Shabbat at the world's first LGBTQIA+ synagogue (we've been around for over 50 years now!). 🏳️‍🌈🏄‍♀️ Saturday, June 21: We're going to be in a booth at SaMo Pride starting at 2 pm and concluding at 7 pm! Join us as we spread the word about our historic, inclusive community! 🧘‍♀️🍷 Saturday, June 21: It's time for a sensory experience like no other! Join us at 4 pm at BCC for a healing Sound Bath and a Havdalah service! 🏳️‍🌈🎶 Sunday, June 29: Let's all get together and watch the livestream of "Isn't it Queer? Sondheim Unplugged celebrates PRIDE" at BCC at 4 pm! All events can be found on our PRIDE menu here, along with some helpful resources and other ways to show your pride this month: conta.cc/43DUkTk (PSST! You can also find it at our link in bio!) See you at PRIDE! #Pride #PrideMonth #Pride2025 #WeHoPride #WeHoPride2025 #SaMoPride #SaMoPride2025 #PrideShabbat #SoundBath #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #JewishLA #LosAngeles

Today was our final day together and we made our way from Montgomery to Atlanta. On our way we stopped at the Tuskegee Army Flying Training site and then crossed the Georgia border and into Eastern Standard time! From there we drove to Atlanta while watching Driving Miss Daisy. We visited Municipal Market for lunch and then went over to Martin Luther King Jr.’s home and burial site and wandered around his neighborhood. It had been an extraordinary trip and I am grateful to have been able to join, learn, laugh and deepen connections with everyone. A true pleasure and honor. Tonight we are attending Shabbat services at Bet Haverim, a queer sibling synagogue, here in Atlanta. Shabbat Shalom to one and all! See you next week back in LA! Rabbi Jillian

SEE YOU SUNDAY 🏳️‍🌈 WeHo Pride 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 Sunday, June 1 🏳️‍🌈 10:30 am - Meet up & Interfaith Pride Worship 🏳️‍🌈 Then, we march. ⬇️ More details below ⬇️ Sunday, June 1 at 10:30 am we will gather. Then - Interfaith Pride Worship at WeHo Pride. Corner of Santa Monica Blvd & La Cienega Blvd. Before the parade begins, join Rabbi Jillian Cameron and clergy from LAQuICC (Los Angeles Queer Interfaith Clergy Council) for a short Pride Service full of music, poetry and pride! Afterwards join BCC with our friends from Congregation Kol Ami as we march with Pride along the historic parade route of Santa Monica Boulevard. We will be among more than 100 groups in this year's celebration, building on the entertainment-driven spectacle of Pride, with floats, marchers, special guests, live performances, and more! RSVP to march with BCC on our website! #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #WeHo #WeHoPride #Pride2025 #PrideMonth #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #JewishLA #LosAngeles

Join BCC member Michael Main and song-leader Myles Cohen tonight at 7:30 pm to bring in Shabbat through soulful song, prayer, creative teachings and communal connection. 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

On Thursday, we continued our time in Montgomery and visited the incredible Legacy Museum created by the Equal Justice Initiative. From there we went to the Rosa Parks Museum and then to the Montgomery Public Library where we met with Dr. Valda Harris Montgomery who lived a few doors down from Martin Luther King Jr. when she was growing up. Her story was powerful and beautifully told. We were grateful for her time and she now has a BCC mug as a token of our appreciation. We ended the day with a lovely group dinner! One more day together!

What can you look forward to at BCC this week? ✡️ Friday, May 30 at 7:30 pm: Shabbat Evening Service. In person and on Zoom. To register for Zoom, please see the BCC calendar. 🏳️‍🌈 Sunday, June 1 at 10:30 am: WeHo Pride Parade and Interfaith service. In person only. To RSVP, please see the BCC website. 🧀 Sunday, June 1 at 7 pm: Shavuot. In person and livestreamed on the BCC website. To RSVP, please see the BCC website. 🚫 Monday, June 2: ALL DAY: BCC Office is closed in observance of Shavuot. 📖 Tuesday, June 3 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 #Pride #Pride2025 #PrideMonth #WeHoPride2025 #Shavuot #Shavuos

🏳️‍🌈 WeHo Pride 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 Sunday, June 1 🏳️‍🌈 10:30 am - Meet up & Interfaith Pride Worship 🏳️‍🌈 Then, we march. ⬇️ More details below ⬇️ Sunday, June 1 at 10:30 am we will gather. Then - Interfaith Pride Worship at WeHo Pride. Corner of Santa Monica Blvd & La Cienega Blvd. Before the parade begins, join Rabbi Jillian Cameron and clergy from LAQuICC (Los Angeles Queer Interfaith Clergy Council) for a short Pride Service full of music, poetry and pride! Afterwards join BCC with our friends from Congregation Kol Ami as we march with Pride along the historic parade route of Santa Monica Boulevard. We will be among more than 100 groups in this year's celebration, building on the entertainment-driven spectacle of Pride, with floats, marchers, special guests, live performances, and more! RSVP to march with BCC on our website! #WeHo #WeHoPride #Pride2025 #PrideMonth #BCC #BethChayimChadashim #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #GayJews #LesbianJews #TransJews #QueerJews #JewishLA #LosAngeles