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Covid-19 Policy Update

3/4/2022

Dear Members,

We hope you are doing well and are staying safe and healthy. Since Covid19 started almost two years ago, living in a world impacted by Covid19 has caused many changes in the way we live.  As a sacred community, the leadership of Congregation B’nai Zion has worked hard to guide our communal policies and practices mindful of health and safety using the values of our tradition and the recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local governmental authorities.  As conditions changed, we changed our policies.  Now, again, as infection and vaccination rates have improved, we are again revising our policies. 

Moving forward, when you enter the synagogue, B’nai Zion expects our members and guests to:
 
1. Affirm and uphold the underlying Jewish values of protecting the health and well-being of ourselves and others.
2. If you prefer to wear a mask and maintain social distancing, please feel comfortable in your practice.
3. If you do not wear a mask, please be mindful of the comfort level of others and respect their personal space.
4. Select seating that respects the social distancing practices of others in attendance.
5. If you are not feeling well, please stay home and join our live stream.
6. Respect and accept the practices of fellow attendees, even if they differ from yours.
 
We will continue to provide masks and hand sanitizer for the use of anyone entering our building and continue providing live streamed access to our religious services and synagogue-based programs. 

In addition to these changes, the Board of Directors has also opened up in-house food service which will also be in compliance with the CDC and local government authorities. We are currently working on plans for in person meals and will communicate those plans when they are finalized.

We trust that this revised policy will allow all of our members to feel safe and comfortable attending and participating in Congregation B’nai Zion’s activities. Should you have any questions or concerns please contact one of us.
 
Sincerely,
 

Felicia Rubin, President
Bill Carvajal, VP, Chair Ritual Committee

 

B'nai Zion Service Schedule

Join Us In Person or Virtually

 

Friday, Kabbalat Shabbat Service 6:00 PM
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A free digital copy of Siddur Sim Shalom for Friday Night is available for download at 
www.rabbinicalassembly.org

Saturday, Torah Study 9:00 AM
Saturday, Shabbat Morning Service 9:30 AM
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Sunday Morning Minyan 9:00 AM
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Monday Evening Minyan 6:00 PM
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B'nai Zion expects our members and guests to affirm and uphold the
underlying Jewish values of protecting the health and well-being of ourselves and others. Click the link below to view B'nai Zion Covid-19 Policy. If
you are not feeling well, please stay home and join our live-stream.

Click here to view B'nai Zion Covid-19 Policy

 

 Zoom Programming Schedule 

 
Zoom with Rabbi (On-line Programs) You can download the Zoom application in the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store. It can be used on any smart phone or tablet. Once you have the app, you can open it, select join and put in the 9-digit code. For laptop or desktop, you can go to the web addresses. 
 
CBZ Monday Zoom Programming
9:00 AM  MST – Not your typical Mountain Standard Time event
– partly because it is MDT and mostly because on Monday, Sunday and Thursday mornings Rabbi Rosenberg invites you to join him for Tefilla, prayer.  We will pray together and then schmooze over breakfast. You provide your own food in the comfort of your home. Please click here or go to  https://zoom.us/j/509426785 on Sunday, Monday and Thursday at 9:00 AM for this program.


 
CBZ Thursday Zoom Programming
9:00 AM  MST – Not your typical Mountain Standard Time event – partly because it is MDT and mostly because on Monday, Sunday and Thursday mornings Rabbi Rosenberg invites you to join him for Tefilla, prayer.  We will pray together and then schmooze over breakfast. You provide your own food in the comfort of your home. Please click here or go to https://zoom.us/j/509426785  on Sunday, Monday and Thursday at 9:00 AM for this program.
 

Once again this year, Congregation B’nai Zion is a sponsoring partner of the ScholarStream program. Below is a link for our members to use and register without cost. There will be seven ScholarStream series this year, spanning August 2022 to May 2023.

Registration Link:

https://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/civicrm/event/register?id=1545&reset=1

Please enter the coupon code: BnaiZion5783 on the registration page under “Event Fees,” then click “Apply.” That will allow you to register for each of the series at no cost. Please note that the coupon code is case sensitive.
 
Once you register you will receive the Zoom link for each series in a reminder email sent about a week in advance of each series, and again on the morning of each session. The deadline to register for a given session is 10 AM ET on the morning of the session.   


Below please find a full description of the topics and teachers for Series 6: Living our Values: Social Justice and Social Action


March 22nd - What They Say is Just - Changing Law and the People who Live It - An Examination of the Story of the Daughters of Zelophechad and What It Teaches about Changing Legal Interpretation, Rabbi Cheryl Peretz, Associate Dean, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies

March 29th - Love Your Neighbor As Yourself: What do classical Jewish sources think we owe to others, and what does the feeling of love have to do with it?
Dr. Sarah Wolf, Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, The Jewish Theological Seminary

Series 7: Counting the Days & Making Every Day Count

April 19th - Yom Hashoah, Rabbi Dikla Druckman Sherzer, Spiritual Leader of the Masorti Congregation, Kehillat Magen Avraham in Omer, Israel

April 26th - Yom Haatzmaut, Rabbi Nava Meiersdorf, Rabbi at the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center

May 3rd - Lag BaOmer: Mystical Reflections on the Omer, Dr. Eitan Fishbane, Professor of Jewish Thought, The Jewish Theological Seminary

May 10th - Multi-Sensory Experience of receiving Torah, Rabbi Cheryl Peretz, Associate Dean, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies

Upcoming Events and Programs

Please see our Special Events page for information about coming events, weekly menus from our meals to go, and other programs! 

 

Thu, March 23 2023 1 Nisan 5783