Shalom Montana! Shabbat is the best day of the week!  Let’s join together for Shabbat Across Montana, Friday, July 17, 6:00-6:30 pm to welcome Shabbat together.  All are welcome to enjoy melody, message and meaningful community. We are blessed to have vibrant Jewish life in Montana. Rabbis Laurie Franklin, Mark Kula, Francine Roston, Ed Stafman, Allen Secher, Rabbinic Student Erik Uriarte, and Cantorial Soloist Amber Ikeman lead prayer and learning for this first state-wide Shabbat internet celebration.

In Pirkei Avot-Ethics of Our Ancestors, the Rabbis taught some two thousand years ago: When we come together for a sacred purpose, we endure. The Sabbath is a sacred call. Share in nostalgic candle lighting, comforting healing prayers, inspirational teaching, uplifting Kiddush and fulfilling Motzi. 

Shabbat across Montana on July 17 at 6:00pm is the time to unite for Shabbat in theses challenging times. A Zoom Link will be sent out by the participating communities or by contacting any of the leaders listed. The link will be secure as each attendee will be admitted to the Zoom session.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us to unwind from your week with uplifting music, inspiring words, and community connection. Contact us for the link to join via Zoom.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us to unwind from your week with uplifting music, inspiring words, and community connection. Contact us for the link to join on Zoom.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

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

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for Talmud Study on Rosh Hodesh (new month of Elul) and upcoming High Holidays. Contact us for the link to join on Zoom or the phone number to dial in.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

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

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.

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.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

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.

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.

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 good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

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

Shorashim ("Roots") is a unique collaboration of local Palestinians and Israelis building a grassroots model for coexistence. MSU and Beth Shalom invite you to join with Roots activists, one Palestinian and one Israeli, as they share their personal, interconnected stories and present the groundbreaking and challenging grassroots work of our initiative. Learn more at https://www.friendsofroots.net/.

Join Beth Shalom's team for the Crop Walk to help end hunger. For more information, visit https://www.crophungerwalk.org/bozemanmt/.

Join us for a mitzvah project packing groceries for seniors at the Food Bank. Senior Groceries is a federal program which provides nutritious foods to senior households with an income at or below 130% of the federal poverty threshold. Each eligible senior is provided with extra groceries each month and includes staple food items such as canned fruit and vegetables, grains, dairy products, proteins, cereal, and juice. The bags are distributed once a month to qualifying seniors, they can pick them up or have the delivered. 

We need a group of 12-15 volunteers to pack food bags to go into our monthly senior boxes. We will form assembly lines to put cans and soft goods into bags. We will be encouraging volunteers to keep 6 feet distance and require everyone to wear a mask, wash hands and wear gloves. Children ages 7 and up are welcome. 

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 a Shabbat service as part of a virtual Hadassah Montana retreat.

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.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

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.

Join us to unwind from your week with uplifting music, inspiring words, and community connection.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

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

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us to unwind from your week with uplifting music, inspiring words, and community connection.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

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 good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

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

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

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 good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

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

Join us to unwind from your week with uplifting music, inspiring words, and community connection.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

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, and community connection.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

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

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us to unwind from your week with uplifting music, inspiring words, and community connection.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

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 good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us to unwind from your week with uplifting music, inspiring words, and community connection.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

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

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

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 good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

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

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

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 good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

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

Join us to unwind from your week with uplifting music, inspiring words, and community connection.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

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 good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us to unwind from your week with uplifting music, inspiring words, and community connection.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

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, and community connection.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

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 good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.

Join us for good conversation on the Torah portion of the week. Torah study will be live streamed via Zoom until further notice. Please feel contact us to receive the link and password.