Leadership

A message from our president, Vivian Tseng

Shalom.  Welcome to our house.  Come in; sit down with us in our light-filled sanctuary as we face each other in affirmation of our community in worship.  Share in our joy as we welcome Shabbat with prayer and song.  Stand up and join hands with us as we dance in happiness to attend the Sabbath bride.

At Beth El, we show up.  Whether it’s studying Buber alongside your son or daughter in their B’nai  Mitzvah Torah class or chanting from the Torah or making an extra cheese strata for tomorrow’s oneg, we find meaning in the doing.  Congregational life at Beth El is active and participatory; it encompasses rousing singing that shakes the rafters of a packed sanctuary on Yom Kippur night, congregational learning activities in small and large groups, and meditative amidah (silent) prayers in our Gan Hadorot (Garden of the Generations). We move chairs and tables together to transform the sanctuary into a banquet hall for celebrations, into a medical clinic, or into a Friday evening ‘rebbe’s table.’

Come to Beth El because we will educate your children in Judaism, join you in your prayer for healing, mourn with you for the loss of a loved one, and celebrate the marriage of your son or daughter under the huppah.  But most of all, come to Beth El secure in the knowledge that you will find yourself here because at Beth El, you will find the conditions for your encounter with God.