Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us to unwind from your week with uplifting music, inspiring words, community connection, and some nosh!
5:30 - Wine, Cheese, and Kabbalat Shabbat songs
6:00 - Friday Night Shabbat Service
7:00 - Oneg (more food!)

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

The panel will discuss the topic of Holy Sites.

Gallatin Valley Interfaith Association will present a short prayer service in honor of World Interfaith Harmony Week. Representatives from each faith tradition will share short prayers, poems, and songs. Please join Rabbi Kula and Cantorial Soloist Amber for this special event inviting peace and harmony into our world.

Come join us for Shabbat dinner at Backcountry Burger (125 W Main) at 6pm (they've got lots of options, including vegetarian and gluten free). After dinner we'll head over to the Ellen Theatre to see Intermountain Opera's production of "Kiss Me, Kate," which our Cantorial Soloist Amber Ikeman will perform in. The show begins at 7:30pm. Tickets are expected to sell out, so grab yours here: https://boxoffice.diamondticketing.com/intermountainopera/events.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Regularly scheduled board meeting, open to any affiliates who would like to attend.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us to unwind from your week with uplifting music, inspiring words, community connection, and some nosh!
5:30 - Wine, Cheese, and Kabbalat Shabbat songs
6:00 - Friday Night Shabbat Service
7:00 - Potluck Dinner (no meat or shellfish, please)

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Congregation Beth Shalom joins up with Pilgrim Congregational church and the UU Fellowship of Bozeman on the fourth Thursday of every month to help serve food at Fork and Spoon (formerly Community Cafe).

By relying on volunteers, Fork and Spoon provides meals six nights a week to customers who are encouraged to pay what they can.

Volunteer shifts last from 4:30 pm to about 7:30 pm, and the duties can include serving food, plating food, washing dishes, and other random duties.

Please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094fa4ac22a20-community

Join us for an evening of great conversation and food. We will be discussing "Rashi's Daughters, Book 1- Joheved" by Maggie Anton. Please bring a dish to share for Shabbat dinner. The theme is "medieval French cuisine" to go with our book if you're feeling creative.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

The panel will discuss gene editing and ethics, with Dr. Kristen Intemann.

Please join Beth Shalom and MSU's Jewish Student Association for a special presentation by Rabbi Irwin Kula of CLAL (Center for Learning and Leadership). 

Our desires for love, happiness, truth, goodness, creativity, self-awareness etc. define our lives. These desires are never fully and finally realized. These desires, these yearnings drive us, disappoint us, push us, frustrate us, elevate us, distort us, damage us, propel us, energize us and inspire us. How can our yearnings become sources of wisdom to help us know ourselves better, live more fearlessly and joyfully, act more ethically and  purposefully, and love more passionately and unconditionally?

Rabbi Irwin Kula is a disruptive spiritual innovator and rogue thinker. A 7th generation rabbi, he is Co-President of Clal–The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership a do-tank committed to making Jewish a Public Good. A thought leader on the intersection of innovation, religion, and human flourishing, Irwin has worked with leaders from the Dalai Lama to Queen Noor and with organizations, foundations, and businesses in the United States and around the world to inspire people to live with greater passion, purpose, creativity and compassion.

Named one of the leaders shaping the American spiritual landscape, he received the 2008 Walter Cronkite Faith and Freedom Award for his work “toward equality, liberty and a truly inter–religious community” and has been listed in Newsweek for many years as one of America’s “most influential rabbis.” He is the Co-founder and Executive Editor of The Wisdom Daily.

A popular commentator in both new and traditional media, Irwin is the author of the award-winning book, Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life (2006), creator of the acclaimed film, Time for a New God (2004), and the Public TV series Simple Wisdom (2003), and is co-founder with Craig Hatkoff and Clay Christensen of the Disruptor Foundation.

Join us to officially install Mark Kula as Beth Shalom’s new Rabbi. Rabbi Irwin Kula, Co-President of The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL), recognized as one of the leaders shaping the American spiritual landscape, will officiate at our Shabbat service and Purim celebration, followed by a catered dinner hosted Beth Shalom. "The Sanctuary” open bar with live music and Purim festivities kicks off at 8pm. Give a “l’chaim” toast to our Rabbi with a “Kula-tini”!

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Congregation Beth Shalom joins up with Pilgrim Congregational church and the UU Fellowship of Bozeman on the fourth Thursday of every month to help serve food at Fork and Spoon (formerly Community Cafe).

By relying on volunteers, Fork and Spoon provides meals six nights a week to customers who are encouraged to pay what they can.

Volunteer shifts last from 4:30 pm to about 7:30 pm, and the duties can include serving food, plating food, washing dishes, and other random duties.

Please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094fa4ac22a20-community

Join us to unwind from your week with uplifting music, inspiring words, community connection, and some nosh!
5:30 - Wine, Cheese, and Kabbalat Shabbat Songs
6:00 - Friday Night Shabbat Service
7:00 - Oneg (more food!)

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

The panel will discuss Lessons from the Holocaust.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Details to come!

Regularly scheduled board meeting, open to any affiliates who would like to attend.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Congregation Beth Shalom joins up with Pilgrim Congregational church and the UU Fellowship of Bozeman on the fourth Thursday of every month to help serve food at Fork and Spoon (formerly Community Cafe).

By relying on volunteers, Fork and Spoon provides meals six nights a week to customers who are encouraged to pay what they can.

Volunteer shifts last from 4:30 pm to about 7:30 pm, and the duties can include serving food, plating food, washing dishes, and other random duties.

Please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094fa4ac22a20-community

Join us to unwind from your week with uplifting music, inspiring words, community connection, and some nosh!
5:30 - Wine, Cheese, and Kabbalat Shabbat Songs
6:00 - Friday Night Shabbat Service
7:00 - Potluck Dinner (no meat or shellfish, please)

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Topic: "Holy Humor"

Join us to unwind from your week with uplifting music, inspiring words, community connection, and some nosh!
5:30 - Wine, Cheese, and Kabbalat Shabbat Songs
6:00 - Friday Night Shabbat Service
7:00 - Oneg (more food!)

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Regularly scheduled board meeting, open to any affiliates who would like to attend.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Directed by Isaac Cherem Mexico, 2018
Drama
Spanish (with English subtitles) 95 minutes

"Leona" is an intimate, insightful, and moving film that tells the story of a young Jewish woman from Mexico City who finds herself torn between her family and her forbidden love. Ripe with all the drama and interpersonal conflicts of a Jane Austen novel, watching her negotiate the labyrinth of familial pressure, religious precedent, and her own burgeoning sentiment is both painful and beautiful – there are no easy choices to be made and the viewer travels back and forth with her as she struggles with her heart to take the best path.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Directed by Matt Ratner

Starring Ben Schwartz and Billy Crystal
USA, 2019
Comedy
English
91 minutes

Things are not going according to plan for Scott (Ben Schwartz), a stand-up comedian begrudgingly returning to Long Island after striking out on the Los Angeles comedy scene. He’s humiliated to move back in with his family and haunted by what could have been with Becky (Eloise Mumford), the hometown girlfriend he abruptly left for the West Coast. Wracked with doubt and facing the prospect of a soul-crushing “real” job, Ben finds an unexpected connection with Marty (Billy Crystal), a local dermatologist and charming barfly with a penchant for karaoke. Scott learns that Marty’s larger-than-life personality and alcoholism mask past disappointments of his own. As their unlikely friendship evolves, Marty and Scott find the strength to start confronting their long-simmering regrets.

Congregation Beth Shalom joins up with Pilgrim Congregational church and the UU Fellowship of Bozeman on the fourth Thursday of every month to help serve food at Fork and Spoon (formerly Community Cafe).

By relying on volunteers, Fork and Spoon provides meals six nights a week to customers who are encouraged to pay what they can.

Volunteer shifts last from 4:30 pm to about 7:30 pm, and the duties can include serving food, plating food, washing dishes, and other random duties.

Please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094fa4ac22a20-community

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

"Religion's Influence on Me" with Dr. Ron Hellings

Directed by Barnabás Tóth Hungary, 2019
Drama
Hungarian (with English subtitles) 83 minutes

Having survived the camps, 42-year old Aldo lives a solitary life as a doctor in Budapest. 16-year old Klara lives reluctantly with her great-aunt, holding on to hope that her father and mother will return. She meets Aldo, and soon the two of them find something in each other that has long been absent in their lives.

As they grow closer and closer, the joy in both of their lives slowly returns. But as the Soviet Empire rises to power in Hungary, their pure and loving father-daughter relationship is misunderstood and frowned upon.

A lyrical story of the healing power of love in the midst of conflict, loss and trauma, Those Who Remained reveals the healing process of Holocaust survivors through the eyes of a young girl in post-World War II Hungary.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Directed by Dror Zahavi Germany, 2019
Drama
English, German

106 minutes

When a world famous conductor tries to create an Israeli-Palestinian orchestra, it takes all his skill and resources to overcome the discord and get them to play in harmony, rising to a tense and emotional finale.

When world-famous conductor Eduard Sporck (Peter Simonischek, Toni Erdmann) accepts the job to create an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra, he is quickly drawn into a tempest of sheer unsolvable problems. Having grown up in a state of war, suppression or constant risk of terrorist attacks, the young musicians from both sides are far from able to form a team. Lined up behind the two best violinists – the emancipated Palestinian Layla and the handsome Israeli Ron – they form two parties who deeply mistrust each other, on and off-stage alike. Will Sporck succeed and make the young people forget their hatred, at least for the three weeks until the concert? With the first glimmer of hope, however, the political opponents of the orchestra show them how strong they are...

Loosely inspired by Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Academy-Award nominated director Dror Zahavi (“Alexander Penn”, “Everything for my Father”) directs this gripping drama as a constantly growing ‘crescendo’, rising the tension and conflicts until the last frame. Lead actor Peter Simonischek (“Toni Erdmann”) stars next to a highly convincing selection of up-and-coming actors like Daniel Donskoy (“Victoria”) and Sabrina Amali (“4

Blocks”). A remarkable theatrical movie and contribution to the world-wide efforts towards understanding, humanity and peace.

Join us to unwind from your week with uplifting music, inspiring words, community connection, and some nosh! We are thrilled to partner with Hadassah Montana, who will be part of our service and host our oneg. We also warmly welcome the Bernard family to celebrate the birth and naming of their daughter, Opal.

5:30 - Wine, Cheese, and Kabbalat Shabbat Songs
6:00 - Friday Night Shabbat Service
7:00 - Oneg (more food!)

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Directed by Oren Rudavsky USA, 2018
Documentary
English

74 minutes

Aron is 88 years old, Eazek is 94 and Claudine is 89. Over seventy years ago, although they lost their entire families, they survived the holocaust and resettled in New York City. Now they are sharing their stories in a unique program led by a drama therapist with high-school students in Brooklyn. The hope is that this sharing will sensitize the students and give some closure to the adult survivors after all these years. The Witness Theater workshop they participate in culminates in the performance of a play based on Survivor stories.

The film that has emerged uses a mix of cinema verite, archival footage, interviews, animation and staged recreations of stories to blend past and present, using the Witness Theatre program as a vehicle for telling the survivors’ remarkable stories. Scenes from the program’s weekly creative workshops and final performance are interspersed with scenes of the survivors at home, all within the structure of a dramatic arc that traces survivors’ lives before, during and after the war.

The result is a story that, told in the present, imparts insights into the effect of the past on multiple generations of Jews, while also illustrating the power and importance of transmitting experience from one generation to the next.

As the last generation of Holocaust survivors lives out their final years, the number of individuals who are physically and mentally able to “bear witness” dwindles and the question of what happens to their stories and their experience remains.

Congregation Beth Shalom joins up with Pilgrim Congregational church and the UU Fellowship of Bozeman on the fourth Thursday of every month to help serve food at Fork and Spoon (formerly Community Cafe).

By relying on volunteers, Fork and Spoon provides meals six nights a week to customers who are encouraged to pay what they can.

Volunteer shifts last from 4:30 pm to about 7:30 pm, and the duties can include serving food, plating food, washing dishes, and other random duties.

Please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094fa4ac22a20-community

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

"Religion's Influence on Me" with Dr. Ron Hellings

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

A Film by Sam Pollard USA, 2018

Language: English 

Genre: Documentary 

100 minutes

Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me is the first major film documentary to examine Davis’ vast talent and his journey for identity through the shifting tides of civil rights and racial progress during 20th-century America.

Sammy Davis, Jr. had the kind of career that was indisputably legendary, so vast and multi-faceted that it was dizzying in its scope and scale. And yet, his life was complex, complicated and contradictory. Davis strove to achieve the American Dream in a time of racial prejudice and shifting political territory. He was the veteran of increasingly outdated show business traditions trying to stay relevant; he frequently found himself bracketed by the bigotry of white America and the distaste of black America; he was the most public black figure to embrace Judaism, thereby yoking his identity to another persecuted minority.

Featuring new interviews with such luminaries as Billy Crystal, Norman Lear, Jerry Lewis, Whoopi Goldberg and Kim Novak, with never-before-seen photographs from Davis’ vast personal collection and excerpts from his electric performances in television, film and concert, Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me explores the life and art of a uniquely gifted entertainer whose trajectory blazed across the major flashpoints of American society from the Depression through the 1980s.

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Directed by Joseph Madmony and Boaz Yehonatan Yacov

Israel, 2018
Drama
Hebrew (with English subtitles)

104 minutes
Menachem, a former frontman for a rock band, is now religious, and a father to a six-year-old. When his daughter is diagnosed with cancer, he must find a creative solution to fund the expensive treatments. He reunites his band for one last tour. The journey to save his daughter exposes old wounds and allows him to reconnect with his secular past. Menachem understands that only a new connection to his past and to his music can pave the road to his own redemption.

Congregation Beth Shalom joins up with Pilgrim Congregational church and the UU Fellowship of Bozeman on the fourth Thursday of every month to help serve food at Fork and Spoon (formerly Community Cafe).

By relying on volunteers, Fork and Spoon provides meals six nights a week to customers who are encouraged to pay what they can.

Volunteer shifts last from 4:30 pm to about 7:30 pm, and the duties can include serving food, plating food, washing dishes, and other random duties.

Please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094fa4ac22a20-community

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

"Religion's Influence on Me" with Dr. Ron Hellings

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Congregation Beth Shalom joins up with Pilgrim Congregational church and the UU Fellowship of Bozeman on the fourth Thursday of every month to help serve food at Fork and Spoon (formerly Community Cafe).

By relying on volunteers, Fork and Spoon provides meals six nights a week to customers who are encouraged to pay what they can.

Volunteer shifts last from 4:30 pm to about 7:30 pm, and the duties can include serving food, plating food, washing dishes, and other random duties.

Please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094fa4ac22a20-community

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

"Religion's Influence on Me" with Dr. Ron Hellings

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

In the Fall of 2019, Congregation Beth Shalom was awarded a $36,000 grant from FEMA & the Department of Homeland Security, which will fund three years of security costs for the temple. As part of this grant, the temple is hosting two security training classes per year, which will be given by TACTIC, a highly regarded, Bozeman security company (www.tacticmt.com), for staff and affiliates of our congregation. These sessions are tailored for religious organizations and include role-playing in scenarios that religious organizations sometimes face. They are focused on empowerment and deterrence, and we highly recommend that each affiliate attends at least one session. We need everyone to care about keeping the temple safe and secure in this day and age. You must be an affiliate of the temple to participate. If you have already attended one of these sessions, you may sign up as a silent observer.

To sign-up for one of the 2020 security training sessions, click the link below:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0D4EA5AC2EA1FF2-tactic

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Congregation Beth Shalom joins up with Pilgrim Congregational church and the UU Fellowship of Bozeman on the fourth Thursday of every month to help serve food at Fork and Spoon (formerly Community Cafe).

By relying on volunteers, Fork and Spoon provides meals six nights a week to customers who are encouraged to pay what they can.

Volunteer shifts last from 4:30 pm to about 7:30 pm, and the duties can include serving food, plating food, washing dishes, and other random duties.

Please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094fa4ac22a20-community

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

"Religion's Influence on Me" with Dr. Ron Hellings

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Congregation Beth Shalom joins up with Pilgrim Congregational church and the UU Fellowship of Bozeman on the fourth Thursday of every month to help serve food at Fork and Spoon (formerly Community Cafe).

By relying on volunteers, Fork and Spoon provides meals six nights a week to customers who are encouraged to pay what they can.

Volunteer shifts last from 4:30 pm to about 7:30 pm, and the duties can include serving food, plating food, washing dishes, and other random duties.

Please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094fa4ac22a20-community

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

"Religion's Influence on Me" with Dr. Ron Hellings

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Congregation Beth Shalom joins up with Pilgrim Congregational church and the UU Fellowship of Bozeman on the fourth Thursday of every month to help serve food at Fork and Spoon (formerly Community Cafe).

By relying on volunteers, Fork and Spoon provides meals six nights a week to customers who are encouraged to pay what they can.

Volunteer shifts last from 4:30 pm to about 7:30 pm, and the duties can include serving food, plating food, washing dishes, and other random duties.

Please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094fa4ac22a20-community

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

"Religion's Influence on Me" with Dr. Ron Hellings

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Congregation Beth Shalom joins up with Pilgrim Congregational church and the UU Fellowship of Bozeman on the fourth Thursday of every month to help serve food at Fork and Spoon (formerly Community Cafe).

By relying on volunteers, Fork and Spoon provides meals six nights a week to customers who are encouraged to pay what they can.

Volunteer shifts last from 4:30 pm to about 7:30 pm, and the duties can include serving food, plating food, washing dishes, and other random duties.

Please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094fa4ac22a20-community

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

"Religion's Influence on Me" with Dr. Ron Hellings

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Congregation Beth Shalom joins up with Pilgrim Congregational church and the UU Fellowship of Bozeman on the fourth Thursday of every month to help serve food at Fork and Spoon (formerly Community Cafe).

By relying on volunteers, Fork and Spoon provides meals six nights a week to customers who are encouraged to pay what they can.

Volunteer shifts last from 4:30 pm to about 7:30 pm, and the duties can include serving food, plating food, washing dishes, and other random duties.

Please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094fa4ac22a20-community

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

"Religion's Influence on Me" with Dr. Ron Hellings

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.

Join us for bagels, coffee, and good conversation.