Shalom!

✨Reminder!✨ . BCC's Pride Month Membership Special is still going on! Be sure to get in on this special offer while it's still available! . By applying for membership during the month of June, your membership pledge will be reduced 50% for your first year of membership. . Don't wait! For more information and to sign up, check out our link in bio! . . . . #pride #pride🌈 #pride2022 #pridemonth #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #gayjews #lesbianjews #transjews #queerjews #jewishla #losangeles #reformsynagogue

Coming up this Thursday at 12 PM: Creating Community, Making History: 50 Years of Beth Chayim Chadashim. Register at bit.ly/bcc50history . This conversation will explore the history of Beth Chayim Chadashim, founded as the first synagogue by and for gay and lesbian Jews, 50 years ago in Los Angeles. The presenters will discuss factors that led to the formation of the congregation and its accomplishments and challenges in the early years. What impact did BCC have on queer Jews in other parts of the U.S. and world? How has the congregation developed over these 50 years and what lies ahead? . Register at bit.ly/bcc50history ! . . . . #bethchayimchadashim #bcc #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #pride #pride🌈 #pridemonth #pride2022 #gayjews #lesbianjews #transjews #queerjews #lgbthistory #gayhistory #lesbianhistory #transhistory #queerhistory #jewishla #losangeles

Tomorrow at noon join us for a BCC Lunch and Learn! . Leeav Sofer, founder of klezmer rock band Mostly Kosher will discuss the band's second album "This World is Yours" and new family programming. . Register at our link in bio! . . . . #leeavsofer #mostlykosher #klezmer #klezmerrock #bcc #bethchayimchadashim #lgbt #lgbtqia #gayjews #lesbianjews #transjews #queerjews

Have you signed up yet? BCC's Pride Membership Special is only during Pride Month! Join us now and help support the world's oldest LGBTQIA+ synagogue! . Get more information at our link in bio! . . . . #pride #pride2022 #pride🌈 #pridemonth #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #gayjews #lesbianjews #transjews #queerjews #jewishla #losangeles #reformsynagogue

Join Climate Tzedek, a new RAC-CA campaign that works with local and statewide partners to build Jewish, interfaith, and multiracial political power to implement just solutions to the climate crisis. Climate change is here and it affects all of us! Register for the RAC-CA Climate Tzedek Campaign Kick-off TONIGHT, 7-8:15 pm. . Register at RAC.org/CA22Launch . . . . #climatejustice #climatetzedek #rac #religiousactioncenter #californiareligiousactioncenter #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #gayjews #lesbianjews #transjews #queerjews #bcc #bethchayimchadashim #jewishla

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Pride Membership Special! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ . By applying for membership during the month of June, your membership pledge will be reduced 50% for your first year of membership. Note: this special offer is available to individuals who have not been BCC members during the past 5 years, and is not applicable for student or affiliate memberships. . Check our link in bio for more information! . . . . #bcc #bethchayimchadashim #pride #pride2022 #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #gayjews #lesbianjews #transjews #queerjews #jewishla #losangeles #jewishcommunity

This Sunday (June 12 at 5 pm) join the Sha'ar Zahav community, Rabbi Jillian Cameron, and Cantor Juval Porat for a Community Pride Seder! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ . Each year during Pride Month, members of Sha’ar Zahav in San Francisco come together to commemorate our emancipation from oppression, to celebrate our freedom, and to re-commit to our activism, remembering that none of us are free until all of us are free. We read from a Pride Haggadah and discuss the items on a seder plate that represent our history. This year, we will celebrate Community Pride Seder online, together with community members, LGBTQ Jewish clergy, as well as civic and interfaith leaders. Rabbi Jillian Cameron and Cantor Juval Porat will be participating! . Register at the Pride Menu link in bio! . . . . #communityseder #shaarzahav #prideseder #pride #pride2022 #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #gayjews #lesbianjews #transjews #queerjews #bcc #bethchayimchadashim

It's that wonderful time of the year again! PRIDE at BCC! Check out all of our exciting offerings! ✡🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✡✨ . This coming Friday (June 3rd) is Pride Shabbat at BCC! Join us in song and celebration for Shabbat evening service on Friday at 8 PM, preceded by a Yizkor service at 7:30 PM. . Next, we have Pride + Shavuot FEST (June 4th, 10 AM) for children, youths, and their families! Join us with the whole family for Pride & Shavuot songs, crafts, games, sweet treats, and Drag Queen Story Hour! Pride+ShavuotFEST will get you into the festive spirit to celebrate our pride in the values taught by the Torah and pride in being exactly how God made us to be, all across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum. Register ASAP so we can make sure we have enough supplies for everyone! We'll be gathering outdoors & masked in the BCC parking lot. . Following that, we have our Shavuot celebration (June 4th at 6 PM)! Celebrate the holiday of Revelation at Mount Sinai together with our friends at Temple Isaiah! Enjoy a dairy snack (vegan options are available), opportunities to study with BCC’s and Temple Isaiah’s clergy, Torah, music social action and the joy of being in community. You can attend virtually or in-person, but we definitely recommend in-person because free pizza and cheesecake (vegan options available). 🍕🧀🍕🧀 . Next, WeHo Pride (June 5th, 10 AM)! Pride is BACK – and BCC is joining the celebration! Join BCC in West Hollywood’s Pride parade! It’s a great way to spend the day and share your Pride with the entire community – and you’ll get to meet future BCC members along the route! We’ll have a BCC 50th Anniversary banner and t-shirts for you to wear while you march. Please bring your own signs, too. We’ll meet on Crescent Heights Blvd. just north of Santa Monica, beginning at 10 AM. Pro tips: Wear comfortable shoes, UV protection – sunscreen, hat, sunglasses – and bring some water. . And there's more! Check out the full menu at our link in bio! https://conta.cc/3GicigS . . . #pride #pride🌈 #wehopride #pride2022 #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #gayjews #lesbianjews #transjews #queerjews #veganjews #shavuot #shavuos #cheesecake #vegancheesecake #jewishla @templeisaiahla @jewishvegla

This year, BCC counts the omer by combining the tradition of the Kabbalists (Jewish mystics) who imbued each week with a different attribute of God, and the seven letters of LGBTQIA, attributes of our community, thereby marrying tradition with the present. . Counting the Omer week 7: A - Malchut/Sovereignty . The 7th and final week as we count up to Shavuot: the week of Malchut. The definition of Malchut is sovereignty. It reflects the culmination the stage of coming into reality. We strive to become who we are fully, shedding doubt throughout the weeks of counting, as we get farther away from bondage and closer and closer to revelation. In this final week, we take responsibility for who we are unafraid and with pride! As a community let us strive to understand and embrace all those in our midst as we create space for everyone to be who they are. With this in mind, check out this Hey Alma article: https://www.heyalma.com/notes-from-an-asexual-jew/ . . . . #asexual #asexualjews #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #gayjews #lesbianjews #transjews #queerjews #asexuality #malchut #sfirathaomer #countingtheomer #sovereignty #jewish #jewishla #losangeles #bcc #bethchayimchadashim

Tasty Saffron challot! Shabbat shalom! 🌺 🌈 💛 . . . . . . . #challah #jewishbaking #jewishla #shabbatshalom #tgis #tgif #gutshabbos #gutshabbes #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #gayjews #lesbianjews #transjews #queerjews @mal_loi @annamcb24

Praised as a “A brave, honest, engrossing and unflinching documentary”, join us tonight for a free screening (first 10 attendees) of Jonathan Agassi Saved my Life. Comment below to reserve your spot! #lgbtfilm #israel #jonathanagassi #jonathanagassisavedmylife #queercinema

RAC-CA’s new campaign, Climate Tzedek, will work with local and statewide partners to build Jewish, interfaith, and multiracial political power to implement just solutions to the climate crisis. Climate change affects all of us, and while it is about the future, it is also already here. Now is the time to put it at the center of Jewish and congregational life, and to respond to this physical, spiritual, and political challenge. This campaign will integrate our work on the national Every Voice, Every Vote campaign to get out the vote and fight voter suppression. Register here to join the RAC-CA Climate Tzedek Campaign Kickoff on June 9th, 7-8:15pm: rac.org/CA22Launch.