Welcome to Congregation Bet Haverim Online
Your
24/7 source for information about Congregation Bet Haverim, located in
Davis, California.
Founded in 1961, Congregation Bet Haverim still counts among its members some of the "first families" who began a Jewish fellowship in Yolo County in order to share simchas, sorrows and faith with friends who felt like family..
Today, Bet Haverim continues in the spirit of our founders by welcoming the full range of diverse Jewish and interfaith families: single parents, singles, multi-cultural and multi-racial families, gays and lesbians, people of all ages and people with special needs.
Contact us for more information about membership.
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The CBH library is now organized with call numbers and there is a database listing the catalogued books. A list of books and other materials from that database is available online. Check it out!
Religious Services This Week
- Friday, May 16
- Kabbalat Shabbat, 8:00 p.m., Sanctuary
- Saturday, May 17
- Torah Study, 9:00 a.m., North Classroom
- Shabbat Service, 10:00 a.m., Sanctuary (Bat Mitzvah of Rachel Singleton)
- See our Calendar for a complete list of upcoming services.
Upcoming Events
Sunday, May 18, 1:00 p.m., CBH Social Hall
The entire community is invited to join Noah Wolfe, on Sunday, May 18th, in a wonderful musical adventure to support Heifer International, an incredible organization that enables people around the world to become self-sufficient through the gift of livestock. For his Bar Mitzvah project, Noah is hoping to raise $5,000 to purchase an ark of animals, 15 different pairs, including goats, heifers, buffaloes, camels and more. So Noah hopes you will join him and a variety of musical friends for an afternoon concert and Pizza at the CBH Social Hall to help him meet his fundraising goal. Come for the pizza, it's free, and stay for the music! Any and all donations will be gratefully accepted. Thank you for supporting this important cause.
A Caring Community: Tikkun Olam
- Repairing the World
- Opportunities to repair the world by performing mitzvot and giving tzedakah are plentiful at Bet Haverim. Ongoing efforts include:
- Social Action Committee - local and Bet Haverim-based initiatives
- Mazon partner synagogue - a Jewish response to hunger, and support of Davis Community Meals
- Biberstein Social Action Fund - benefiting Yolo County non-profits
- Religious School tzedakah program and B'nai Mitzvah projects
- Mitzvah Meals program - feeding the ill and bereaved of our Bet Haverim community
- Support of interfaith and community-wide humanitarian efforts, such as the Celebration of Abraham Dear Sudan, Love, Davis/Woodand and Adopt-a-Social Worker
- Bet Haverim has been selected as a recipient of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism's Irving J. Fain Social Action Award, presented at the URJ Consultation on Conscience, April 15-17, in Washington, DC.
- The award honors the congregation's work in initiating Dear Sudan,
Love Davis/Woodland, and involving the interfaith community of Yolo
County in the group's efforts to educate, advocate and provide relief
for the people of Darfur, Sudan. Bet Haverim members primarily involved
in the group have included Ernie and Hannah Biberstein, Joy Cohan,
Guille Libresco, Meryl Rappaport, Amy Seropian, Kristen Sortais, Hannah
Stein and Linda Sternberg.
The Irving J. Fain Social Action Award grants public recognition to congregations whose programmatic efforts in social action have been exemplary, and which have the potential to serve as an inspiration to other congregations to embark creatively and energetically on the road to justice.
