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

Topic: Anthropology and Religion

Join us for Shabbat services led by Cantorial Soloist Amber Ikeman, followed by a potluck (no meat, no shellfish).

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

Rabbi Mike will lead a community seder in Helena at Touchmark on Saddle Drive, in the Forum on the 3nd floor. Doors open at 5:30, seder begins at 6pm. Vegetarian potluck. RSVP to janetilene@gmail.com by Tuesday April 9th.

Passover with its Seders is the most observed of all the Jewish holidays. On Saturday, April 20th at 9:30AM, join Rabbi Mike and the Torah Study regulars as we dig into the Haggadah and Passover deeply. Here are some questions to be answered: "Who first started calling the holiday Passover? What makes matza matza? What the real reason behind Elijah's cup? Why does Maxwell House Coffee published the most popular Haggadah of all time? And (drum roll please....) what the funniest Pesach story you ever heard? Please bring your favorite haggadah.

More details coming soon.

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

For this month, we are reading Mark Sullivan’s gripping historical novel, “Beneath the Scarlet Sky”. Mark will be our guest speaker for our Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration on May 1.

Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the USA Today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours.

Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and girls—but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior.

In an attempt to protect him, Pino’s parents force him to enlist as a German soldier—a move they think will keep him out of combat. But after Pino is injured, he is recruited at the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver for Adolf Hitler’s left hand in Italy, General Hans Leyers, one of the Third Reich’s most mysterious and powerful commanders.

Now, with the opportunity to spy for the Allies inside the German High Command, Pino endures the horrors of the war and the Nazi occupation by fighting in secret, his courage bolstered by his love for Anna and for the life he dreams they will one day share.

Topic: Art and Religion

Bozeman’s fifth annual Jewish Film Festival kicks off on May 1st at 7pm with the award-winning short film The Driver is Red and local author/speaker Mark Sullivan.

To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, Sullivan will speak about his book Beneath a Scarlet Sky. Based on a true story, the book is about an Italian teenager who helps Jews escape the Nazis by guiding them over the mountains in northern Italy. Later, he is forced to enlist in the German army and becomes a spy for the Allies while working for a German general. The novel is a USA Today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller, and Sullivan has been recognized by the New York Times for his works. It is soon to be made into a film by Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland.

The Driver is Red is a short, animated film that tells the story of an Israeli Secret Service operative’s hunt in 1960 Argentina for an escaped Nazi war criminal. The film was invited to 97 film festivals last year and won more than 30 awards.

The Jewish Film Festival is organized and sponsored by Congregation Beth Shalom, along with MSU’s Jewish Student Association, MSU Diversity and Inclusion Student Commons, and Bozeman Film Society. The following films will be shown at the Procrastinator Theater in the Strand Union Building on the MSU campus at 7pm: The Driver is Red on May 1, Shoelaces on June 13, The Tobacconist on June 20, The Last Supper on June 26, Red Cow on July 3, and The Light of Hope on July 17. For descriptions of all films, visit https://bethshalombozeman.org/community/#specialevents.

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

Join us for Shabbat services led by Rabbi Lotker and Cantorial Soloist Amber Ikeman, followed by an Israeli-style potluck (no meat, no shellfish) in honor of Israeli Independence Day.

Join us for Shabbat services led by Cantorial Soloist Amber Ikeman.

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

Nominated for eight Israeli Academy Awards including Best Film, “Shoelaces” is a wholly engaging, tender family dramedy about the knotty relationship between an aging, irascible mechanic and the exuberant special-needs son he abandoned long before. With his ex-wife's untimely demise, Reuven (Doval'e Glickman, in an Israeli Academy Award-winning role) is suddenly thrust into the position of caring for his now-grown son, whom he first considers placing in a group home. The transition is fraught with difficulty for both, as Reuven wrestles with the obligations of parenting a child with disabilities, while thirty- something Gadi (Nevo Kimchi) grieves the loss of the mother who nurtured and shielded him. Adjusting to their new circumstances, Gadi lends a hand in his father’s Jerusalem auto repair shop and befriends the locals at a neighborhood café. Reuven vows to atone for past shortcomings, over time warming to Gadi's boundless optimism, infectious laugh and seemingly infinite capacity for love. Their co-dependent bond will be tested by tribulations that prompt complicated ethical and legal questions with profound ramifications.

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The Jewish Film Festival is organized and sponsored by Congregation Beth Shalom, along with MSU’s Jewish Student Association, MSU Diversity and Inclusion Student Commons, and Bozeman Film Society. The following films will be shown at the Procrastinator Theater in the Strand Union Building on the MSU campus at 7pm: The Driver is Red on May 1, Shoelaces on June 13, The Tobacconist on June 20, The Last Supper on June 26, Red Cow on July 3, and The Light of Hope on July 17. For descriptions of all films, visit https://bethshalombozeman.org/community/#specialevents.

A coming-of-age narrative set against the backdrop of impending war, “The Tobacconist” walks the line between the personal and the political with varying
degrees of confidence. This story of a young country boy who takes a job in a Viennese
tobacconist in 1937 is at its best when it distills the growing fascist threat through his journey to manhood. Attempts to mine deeper psychological territory through his dreams — which he begins to register after befriending shop customer Sigmund Freud — are less successful.

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The Jewish Film Festival is organized and sponsored by Congregation Beth Shalom, along with MSU’s Jewish Student Association, MSU Diversity and Inclusion Student Commons, and Bozeman Film Society. The following films will be shown at the Procrastinator Theater in the Strand Union Building on the MSU campus at 7pm: The Driver is Red on May 1, Shoelaces on June 13, The Tobacconist on June 20, The Last Supper on June 26, Red Cow on July 3, and The Light of Hope on July 17. For descriptions of all films, visit https://bethshalombozeman.org/community/#specialevents.

Annual board retreat, open to any affiliates who would like to attend.

German Film about a Jewish family in Germany as Hitler comes to power...interesting comparison to today’s rise of populist leaders in various countries...plays to the family dynamics as we see how each of the family members feel about Hitler and the future.

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

“Red Cow” “is a coming-of-age film that takes place in the days leading up to the assassination of Rabin and depicts the life of Benny, 16, orphaned from mother at birth and the only child of Joshua - a religious, right-wing extremist, in those critical junctures when she is forming her sexual, religious and political awareness.

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The Jewish Film Festival is organized and sponsored by Congregation Beth Shalom, along with MSU’s Jewish Student Association, MSU Diversity and Inclusion Student Commons, and Bozeman Film Society. The following films will be shown at the Procrastinator Theater in the Strand Union Building on the MSU campus at 7pm: The Driver is Red on May 1, Shoelaces on June 13, The Tobacconist on June 20, The Last Supper on June 26, Red Cow on July 3, and The Light of Hope on July 17. For descriptions of all films, visit https://bethshalombozeman.org/community/#specialevents.

Based on the true story of Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011) and her female co-workers who saved the lives of almost 600 infants in World War II. In the early 1940's, refugees from all over Europe seek shelter in South Western France, escaping persecution from the Nazis and from Franco's regime in Spain. Among them, there are countless women, some of them pregnant, and their little children. The camps are in horrendous shape with refugees holding out with no protection from the cold. With no further ado, young Red Cross nurse Elisabeth Eidenbenz breathes new life into an old villa. By transforming it into a birth clinic she saves the lives of mothers and children from certain death. Despite all hardship, the villa becomes a safe haven resounding with the children's laughter. But soon threats from without and within take shape: Authorities in Nazi-occupied France demand that she hand over all Jewish refugees and their children, while Elisabeth's deputy Victoria sides with the Résistance partisans – a worthy cause but one that puts at stake the lives of everyone in the maternity clinic.

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The Jewish Film Festival is organized and sponsored by Congregation Beth Shalom, along with MSU’s Jewish Student Association, MSU Diversity and Inclusion Student Commons, and Bozeman Film Society. The following films will be shown at the Procrastinator Theater in the Strand Union Building on the MSU campus at 7pm: The Driver is Red on May 1, Shoelaces on June 13, The Tobacconist on June 20, The Last Supper on June 26, Red Cow on July 3, and The Light of Hope on July 17. For descriptions of all films, visit https://bethshalombozeman.org/community/#specialevents.

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

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

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

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

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.

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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

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

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

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