The ShulCloud Member Portal is now live. The Member Portal enables you to pay invoices, enroll in programs, manage your yahrzeits, view the member directory and more. You will receive an auto-generated email from ShulCloud tomorrow, July…
What is your full name?Nathan (Nate) Abraham Cohen Where were you born?Arlington (VA) What is the date of your Bar Mitzvah?6/20/2020 How long have you been in our Religious School? What is your favorite subject?Since kindergarten. Favorite…
Our esteemed leader of the past 19 years – Rabbi Lia Bass – will be leaving Congregation Etz Hayim as of June 30, 2020. Though we remain physically separated at this time, we plan to send her…
The Congregation Etz Hayim Board of Directors and Rabbinic Search Committee are thrilled to inform the congregation that CEH has signed a contract with Rabbi Natan Freller, a recent graduate of the Conservative Movement’s west coast seminary,…
A few weeks ago I mentioned to you that I was going to do a Tikun Leil Shavuot on May 28, from 6-8pm. My plan was to share texts from Abraham Joshua Heschel relating to Revelation and…
What is your full name?Jonah Nathan Goldin Ascoli Where were you born?Fairfax County, VA What is the date of your Bar Mitzvah?May 23, 2020, or 29 Iyar 5780 How long have you been in our Religious School?…
This week we read two portions in the Torah, B’Har and B’Hukotai. Parashat B’Har focuses mostly on the laws of the Sabbatical and the Jubilee years. Parashat B’Hukotai focuses on the God’s promise to the Israelites that if they obey God’s commandments, their lives…
I have shared with you my vigilance during this pandemic. All that I hear are the dire predictions of the economic downturn we will experience as this crisis is over. What does Judaism ask of us as…
On May 12, 2020, congregant Ken Ackerman led a book talk about “Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time.” “Founder” is a rich, detailed, and intimate biography of Meyer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the…
During this time of the counting of the omer, our tradition teaches that we mourn the death of 24000 students of Rabbi Akivah, from a mysterious plague. We are now in the 34th day of the count, and…