Join Rabbi Mike this Friday for his final Erev Shabbat service. He will be speaking about the most significant things he's learned being a rabbi. An oneg will follow.

We will be reading the Book of Ruth, the traditional reading for the holiday of Shavuot that begins at sunset Saturday. The Book of Ruth also plays an important role in our Sunday morning Adult Ed discussion.

Come spend some time Sunday, June 9th beginning at 10:30 AM to explore some of the most unusual stories in the Bible. We will be reading from Genesis, the Book of Ruth (the traditional text to read on this day of Shavuot), The Book of Samuel and even the beginning of the New Testament in the Gospel of Matthew. Individually, each of these stories is a bit bizarre and strange - together they weave an amazing story about redemption and salvation.

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.

For their bat mitzvah project, Nomi Friedman and Maya Keefer are organizing a 5k to benefit GVLT. Sign up here by searching "Run for the Trails, Bozeman MT": https://runsignup.com/.

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.

Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history.

When Helen is summoned by a former student to view a cache of newly discovered seventeenth-century Jewish documents, she enlists the help of Aaron Levy, an American graduate student as impatient as he is charming, and embarks on one last project: to determine the identity of the documents' scribe, the elusive "Aleph."

Electrifying and ambitious, The Weight of Ink is about women separated by centuries—and the choices and sacrifices they must make in order to reconcile the life of the heart and mind.

Please bring a dish to share.

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.

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

Just some Jews hanging out and enjoying great local beer. Our new rabbi, Mark Kula, will be joining us.

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

Our book club will be reading International Bestseller "Judas" by Amos Oz. Oz is one of Israel's leading authors and passed away last year.

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.

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.

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