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We welcome you and your interest in Beth Shalom B’nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation (House of Peace for the Children of the Ancient Ethiopian Hebrews). As stated in Psalm 133:1, “…how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!”
High Holy Days
This years Holy Days are on the following dates. We hope that you will join us - all are welcome. Donations are appreciated.
Pesach/Passover
Erev Pesach
Monday, March 25, 2013
Seder begins at 7:00p.m.
1st Day Pesach
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 – Service at 10:30a.m.
7th Day Pesach
Monday, April 1, 2013 – Service at 10:30a.m.
Lag B’Omer
33rd Day of Counting the Omer
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Shavuot
Erev Shavuot
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 – Service at 7:00 p.m.
Shavuot
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 – Service at 10:30 a.m.
Tishe’ah B’Av
9th Day of Av
Tuesday, July 15, 2013
Rosh Hashanah
Erev Rosh Hashana
Thursday, September 5, 2013 – Service at 7:00p.m.
Rosh Hashana
Friday, September 6, 2013 – Service at 10:30a.m.
Yom Kippur
Erev Yom Kippur/Kol Nidre
Friday, September 13, 2013 – Service at 7:00p.m.
Yom Kippur
Saturday, September 14, 2013 – Service at 10:00a.m.
Sukkot
Erev Sukkot
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 – Service at 7:00p.m.
1st Day Sukkot
Thursday, September 19, 2013 – Service at 10:30a.m.
Yizkor Shemini Atzeret
8th Day of Assembly
Thursday, September 26, 2013 – Service at 10:30a.m.
Hanukkah
1st Night
Thursday, November 28, 2013
8th Night
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Celebrating 95 Years!!!
You’re invited to join
Beth Shalom B’nai Zaken E.H.C.
as we Celebrate 95 Years!!
“L’DOR V’DOR”
from Generation to Generation
Erev Shabbat Services -7:00 pm
Shabbat Services -10:30 am
Afternoon Service -4:00 pm
95th Anniversary Banquet
Aaron Freeman, Master of Ceremonies
Rabbi Capers Funnye and Be’chol Lashon
Rabbi Capers is also the Associate Director of Be’chol Lashon (In Every Tongue) whose mission is to grow and strengthen the Jewish people through ethnic, cultural, and racial inclusiveness. They advocate for the diversity that has characterized the Jewish people throughout history, and through contemporary forces including intermarriage, conversion and adoption. They foster an expanding Jewish community that embraces its differences. For more information on Be’chol Lashon please click here.
Israel at the White House
Monday December 10, 2007
By: Rabbi Capers Shmuel Funnye
Beth Shalom B’nai Zaken E.H.C.
Chicago, Illinois
Monday December 10, 2007 was a water-shed day for the Israelite community in the Unites States. My wife Rabbinit Miriam and I attended a reception at the White House in honor of Chanukah. I was very surprised when I received a call from Jeremy Katz, the White House Deputy-Chief-of-Staff for Jewish affairs. We talked about my attending a private meeting with President Bush. In light of the fact that December was Human Rights Month, President Bush wanted to conduct a panel discussion on religious oppression. Read the rest of this entry »
In the New York Times
New York Times
Black Rabbi Reaches Out to Mainstream of His Faith
By: NIKO KOPPEL
Photo by: Sally Ryan for The New York Times
Published: March 16, 2008
CHICAGO — Having grown up in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Capers C. Funnye Jr. was encouraged by his pastor to follow in his footsteps. Instead, he became a rabbi. Read More
New York Times
Obama’s Rabbi
By ZEV CHAFETS
Photo by: Alec Soth/Magnum, for The New York Times
Published: April 2, 2009
Rabbi Capers Funnye celebrated Martin Luther King Day this year in New York City at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, a mainstream Reform congregation, in the company of about 700 fellow Jews — many of them black. The organizers of the event had reached out to four of New York’s Black Jewish synagogues in the hope of promoting Jewish diversity, and they weren’t disappointed.
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