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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Keeping in Touch
Visit our News page for the latest news and
information about the congregation.
You can also subscribe to our
monthly e-newsletter,
e-tone to stay informed about our
upcoming activities and events.
You read about the newest addition to the Bet Haverim Family in the Rabbi's monthly column in the June e-tone. View it here in The Rabbi's Corner.
Religious Services This Week
- Friday, July 4
- Tot Shabbat and Family Shabbat Service, 6:00 p.m.
- Saturday, July 5
- Torah Study, 9:00 a.m., North Classroom
- Shabbat Service, 10:00 a.m., Sanctuary
- See our Calendar for a complete list of upcoming services.
Upcoming Events
NOTE: There is no Shabbat picnic on July 4th.
Share Shabbat this Summer!
Join us every Friday evening for a "Bring your own vegetarian/dairy"
picnic dinner in the Redwood Grove from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. We
will share in celebrating Shabbat at 6:00 p.m. as a community. We
look forward to seeing you there. Questions: Contact Stephanie Moss
at sgmoss@gmail.com or Orit
Kalman at
oritkalman@sbcglobal.net.
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.
