B’nai Tikvah Pride: Lisa Zeiler’s Speech, June 14, 2019
B’nai Tikvah was thrilled to welcome our beloved community member and musician Lisa Zeiler to speak to us at our annual Pride Shabbat Service. We hope you are as moved and inspired as we are by her words: I used to have an invisible friend. I remember him being in my earliest memories. His name […]
Tikvah Talk – Feb/March 2019
Enjoy the latest news, service and program information, and community updates from B’nai Tikvah!
Prayer as medicine
Chaverim, As I sit in my office writing, the world outside is literally on fire. The smoke in the air is suffocating, and this from a fire all the way in Chico. The air feels like a fitting backdrop to the state of our world: on fire in every direction. There is immense fear, and […]
A Shabbat of Solidarity
November 2, 2018 / 24 Cheshvan 5779 Dear Friends, Tonight’s 6:30pm Shabbat service, as always, is our monthly family service. Congregants and friends with young children are especially encouraged to attend, and B’nai Tikvah being the kind of synagogue it is, the rest of our community is also welcome. We will also be participating in […]
Paths to healing
Chaverim, The older I get, and the more deeply my heart breaks at the lack of compassion and respectful communication in the world, the more I believe that our healing and survival are going to depend on people learning to talk to each other. Specifically, people who have opposing views of the world need to […]