Additional Activities for Yom Kippur Spend your day exploring these other activities Yoga with Melissa Feldman, HHP Meditation Re-explore the streams of Tashlich Jonah and the Great Fish Presented by the Puppet Company at Glen Echo Park
Rachel Herman Year Started with Machane TBA: 2020 (but grew up with TBANS and Machne TBA through graduation!) Professional work: Junior at University of Maryland studying Elementary Education Favorite Pastime: Listening to music with friends, running, and going on walks Favorite ice cream flavor: Butter Pecan and Cotton Candy
Shoftim – 5780 Deuteronomy 16:18 – 21:9 Don’t let the lack of a narrative story or the densely packed compilation of laws and commandments fool you, parashat Shoftim, is all about balance. Balance of power that is. “Tzedek, tzedek, tirdof … Justice, justice you shall pursue!” declares Moses near the beginning of our portion. [Deut. […]
Re’eh – 5780 Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17 This week’s Torah Portion, Parshat Re’eh tells us “If there is a needy person among you, one of your kin in any of your settlements in the land that the Eternal your God is giving you, do not harden your heart and shut your hand against your needy kin. Rather […]
Va’Etchanan – 5780 Deuteronomy 3:23 – 7:11 This week’s parasha contains some of the biggest moments of Torah: a recap of the Ten Commandments, the Shema and the V’Ahavta are all here! Usually, rabbis can’t stop writing about the various layers of wisdom woven throughout these passages, and I am no exception. However, this year, […]
Devarim – 5780 Deuteronomy 1:1 – 3:22 George Bernard Shaw once quipped: “For those who can’t do, teach.” Since the moment he first uttered these words (if not earlier), many westerners have judged teachers as those who failed to succeed at their chosen professions – as if teaching itself was not a noble and […]
EASY ACCESS TO FORMS Below you will find links to all necessary forms used to monitor children’s participation in Temple Beth Ami Nursery School. Required Health Forms Health Inventory Immunization Certificate Click here for Maryland State Vaccination Requirements for TBANS Children Blood Lead Testing Certificate Emergency Form Additional Health Forms – Complete if applicable […]
Mattot/Masei – 5780 Numbers 30:2 – 36:13 The moment had arrived. Assembled near the Eastern bank of the Jordan river, their forty years of wandering almost complete, our ancestors began preparations to finally enter and settle the Promised Land. What a surprise it must have been for Moses when a delegation from Reuben and Gad, […]
