The TBE Blog is the space where Temple Beth El’s Leadership Team members reflect on relevant topics that are most meaningful to us. Here you will find musings on everything from prayer to politics, music to mysticism and history to current day life. From our iPads, smartphones, and laptops to yours, these are the things that inspire us, keep us up at night, and fuel our own Jewish journeys.
From Social Distance to Social Justice: Bringing Congregants Together
Jill: In the early days of the shutdown in March through May 2020, most Friday nights I found myself logging onto Zoom around 7:30 pm. ...
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New Member TriBE
The New Member TriBE is for congregants who have joined Temple Beth El over the past two years, as well as those who still feel new and seek a deeper, ...
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Shabbat Across Charlotte
Shabbat is a cathedral in time, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel famously said. It is a palace of moments set aside for reflection, study, introspection, family, ...
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Counting Our Blessings and Summer Reading
As I write this article, we are in the midst of counting the S’firat Haomer. So often, we count down – the days to a birthday (especially for ...
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Grateful for Our Community by Jessica Auslander
Our family just celebrated our daughter’s bat mitzvah. It was an amazing milestone for our family for multiple reasons. As I reflected on her journey, I ...
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TriBE Spotlight: The Spice Girls by Beth Lewis
The Spice Girls TriBE is a great group of women, diverse in our stages of life. We all enjoy cooking and baking and sharing our ...
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A Message from Clergy About Israel
Dear Temple Beth El Community and Friends, We write to you with sadness and grave concern as we read and watch the news reports of ...
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Register for a House Meeting
On Tuesday, April 27, Temple Beth El kicked off our 2021 listening campaign, “From Social Distance to Social Justice,” with an hour-long online meeting bringing ...
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Together at Sinai
It was Shavuot 2012. I was in my second year of rabbinic school, and Shavuot was still mostly a mystery to me. I knew the ...
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Find Your TriBE
TriBEs are small groups of Temple Beth El Members that help make our big community feel small. They help every person be a part of ...
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A ChallahDay Note of Gratitude
Over the past two weeks, we marked a year of living through the pandemic, coming together from afar to share a collective challah hug. It ...
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New Social Justice Outreach Coordinator
Temple Beth El is very excited to welcome Nicole Sidman to our staff team as Social Justice Outreach Coordinator. Nicole has been part of our ...
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Celebrate Passover 5781
Crisis breeds creativity. While all of us sitting at our zoom seder tables last year hoped Passover 2021 would look different than Passover 2020, we ...
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Pivoting With Your TriBE by Kelly Markiewitz
PIVOT – The buzz word of 2020. Restaurants were hit hard by the pandemic, many closed either permanently or temporarily. However, many reinvented themselves. They ...
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See Yourself in the Passover Story of Resilience
It’s hard to consider that we have lived through over a year of COVID. Last year at Passover we said, Mah nishtanah halilah ha-zeh: Why ...
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