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What’s New:
NEW: Automatic
Credit Card Payments are now available. You can now elect to have your credit
card charged on a regular basis of weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, monthly,
quarterly, semi-annually, or annually. This optional feature allows you to
donate on a regular basis or to spread out your donation over a period of time.
To elect this option please download, print and send to B'nai Israel
Congregation by mail or fax the
Automatic Credit Card Billing Authorization Form.
B'nai Israel Congregation is now accepting Credit Card
Payment via secure server from an e-mailed invoice Pledge Statement. Credit
cards can also be used to pay for a donation via telephone by calling
the office. You can now call the office and make a pledge and with a valid
e-mail address and your donation Pledge invoice will be mailed to you with the
ability to pay online at your convenience.
Custom "Yahrzeit Lists" can be
made for you out to the year 2199. For a minimum contribution of $36.00
you can have a custom list of dates in a PDF sent to your email address.
See a sample by
Clicking Here. Please send in the information to the Shul office via email
or by using the donation Form on this website with as much information as
possible along with your correct email address and we will send you your custom
list as a PDF file. We will need the name/s of the deceased, date of death
(English or Hebrew), your name, your relationship to the deceased
Lifetime Memberships are Now Available. Please see the Membership page for more
information.
B’nai Israel Congregation
Cemetery Announces Project Visitation Patterned after Project Bikkur,
a program launched by the Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts
• If you are unable to visit the B’nai Israel Cemetery, a
Congregational representative will visit the Cemetery on the Yahrzeit, birthday,
holiday, or on a designated date and recite the traditional memorial prayer.
• We will be happy to leave a stone on the monument, a rose ($36) and or a
floral basket ($70). A minimum 14-day notice is required for this service. A
minimum donation of $25 would be appreciated for utilizing this service.
Please call our office (410-732-5454) for Project Visitation.
THE B’NAI ISRAEL CONGREGATION NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT AND HELP.
Please consider making a special donation to our cemetery fund to help us
maintain the hallowed grounds.
Pictures Page: Please visit the Pictures Page. The link as located at the top of
every page just under the Hebrew inscription. If you have pictures you want
placed on the web site, please contact the webmaster at:
webmaster@bnaiisraelcongregation.org.
Pictures of the B'nai Israel Cemetery are on the
B'nai Israel Cemetery page.
Donations:
Please consider making a donation
to B'nai Israel Congregation. It is quick and easy when using our
Donation Form and online payment via Google Checkout
to use your credit card of choice. Plus once you have established your
Google Checkout Account,
its as easy as one, two, three whenever you want to pay for a donation, an
Aliyah, Hagbah, Gelilah, P'tikhah, Kiddush,
membership, High Holiday seats or any other function concerning B'nai Israel
Congregation. Plus many online stores use Google Checkout, and all of your
charitable donations records are available on your Google Account.
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Online
Rental Form now available, located on
the Membership Page.
Online Membership Application is
now available:
Online Membership Form
B'nai Israel Occasion Cards are
now available.
A great way to always have the
perfect card ready for any occasion--for Birthdays, Thank You, Congratulations,
Welcomes, Sympathies, Get Wells, Simchas, etc. Cost is $5 per card or 6 cards
for $25, including the envelope. Please contact the shul office at 410-732-5454
to order these cards.
Sisterhood
B'nai Israel's newly-formed Sisterhood: For further information, contact Sonia Shemer at:
h.shemer@verizon.net.
Educational Offerings
Tuesday evenings, Rabbi Yuter offers a
class on The Gospel According to the Jews: What We Can Learn from Christian
Scripture. What can a Jew learn by studying the world of Christian
Scripture? Lots! In this course, you will learn to appreciate the origins of
Judaism. Students will read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John from the New Testament
as four different Christianities. Each will reveal a different photo of Judaism
during the period when the Mishnah was being composed. Analyses parallel
developments in the Mishnah and New Testament. We will use the method of
literary , historical and philosophical scholarship, with both Hebrew and Greek
backgrounds
Rabbi Yuter also offers a class entitled
Introduction to Judaism, a Study of All We Want to Know about Judaism But
Never Got to Ask on Wednesdays — both at 12:15 PM and again at 7:15 PM.
Major topics will include: Story of Judaism, World View, Way of Life and
Community of Judaism, Judaism as a Coherent System, and Modern and Contemporary
Judaism.
All of these classes are free and open to
the public.
Dear Friend,
B'nai Israel is a unique Congregation —
we've been in the same aging building for 135 years, we stand alone as the only
Baltimore congregation located downtown, and, unfortunately unlike other shuls,
we're not blessed with having any financial angels among our membership.
Yet we've learned to become the backdrop
to a creative array of Jewish educational, spiritual, and social programs. We're
also proud to have the largest Modern Orthodox Young Adult Group in Baltimore.
In addition, B'nai Israel regularly plays
host to those visiting for business, pleasure and health reasons and provides a
welcoming, supportive atmosphere and comfortable religious services for Jews of
all backgrounds.
Our membership dues $200 for a single
person $300 for married couple, ages 21 and younger are free, are among the
lowest in the metropolitan area.
We are aware that you may be a member of another Baltimore congregation, so
perhaps you might wish to consider becoming an Associate Member or a Friend of B'nai Israel for only $125.
We are now offering a "Lifetime Membership". Please see the Membership page for
more details or call the shul office.
You have helped us in the past by joining
and being a part our historic congregation; we anxiously await your membership
renewal. Please help us maintain our services and programs, don't let us down.
Sincerely,
Frank Boches
Co-President
B'nai Israel Congregation
Gas
Coop
B'nai Israel is now a member of the
Greater Baltimore Jewish Organizations Gas Utility Deregulation Cooperative
("Cooperative"). The purpose of the Cooperative is to leverage the purchasing
power of the individual member organizations as one cooperative in obtaining
utility services from qualified vendors as a result of the implementation of gas
utility deregulation. Some 25 large and smaller Jewish synagogues, schools, and
organizations are a part of the coop. Hopefully; this will lower our utility
bill.
Kiddush
Sponsors Needed
Every Shabbat B'nai Israel is pleased and
proud to offer its congregants a very lavish and filling Kiddush at the end of
services. Unfortunately, this has become somewhat of a financial drain on the
Congregation as we rely on generous sponsors to fund the Kiddush and in recent
weeks sponsors have been lacking. As a result, the Congregation has wound up
serving as the sponsor. Please help us continue the tradition of offering a nice
Kiddush each Shabbat by becoming a Kiddush sponsor—perhaps for a Yahrzeit,
anniversary, birthday, special occasion, etc. Call our office or email to become
a sponsor.
To sponsor a Kiddush please use the rental hall form located at:
Rental Hall Form.
Listserv
Please help us develop a listserv so that
we can communicate with you faster and at the same time save on rising Postal
costs. If you have a computer with email or access to email, please provide us
with your email address at
shul@jewishdowntown.org.
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