Friday Night Services (see note regarding Summer Services schedule below)

Temple Beth El offers various Friday Shabbat service experiences to satisfy the varied and diverse needs of our congregation and community. The service experiences rotate through the weeks of each month as follows:

First Friday: 7 p.m. Family service - a contemporary service combining prayer and music in a format that appeals to young and old. This service features our Junior choir, and also typically provides an opportunity for one of our religious school classes to share a part of their learning with the congregation. We also use this service to bless those celebrating a birthday anytime during the month.

Second Friday: 8 p.m. Choir service - traditional service combining prayer and music; featuring our adult choir, while also inviting congregational participation.

Third Friday: 8 p.m. Torah service - traditional service combining prayer and music, and including reading from the weekly Torah parsha. This oftentimes also includes a brief and informal congregational discussion based upon the weekly parsha .

Fourth Friday: 6:15 p.m. Kabbalat (welcoming) Shabbat - a highly participative service, during which the entire congregation prays and chants successively through the liturgy with minimal interruptions. The service typically concludes by 7:15 p.m., allowing people to then relax and/or dine afterward.

Fifth Friday: 7:00 p.m. T.G.I.S. ( Thank God It's Shabbat) - an energetic and uplifting service that is almost exclusively musical, in which the congregation joyously sings and dances to the musical leadership of an ensemble featuring our Rabbi (guitar), Cantor and Temple Educator (vocals), as well as several other congregants who accompany on keyboard, percussion, guitar, clarinet, trumpet and more. Note that these services do not take place every month and sometimes deviate from the 5th Friday. It is suggested you contact the temple office to confirm the time of the Fifth Friday service.

Summer Services: Starting July 3rd and running through August 21, our Friday Shabbat services begin at 7:30 p.m. and are led by members of our congregation. Conducted in the great room, these lay-led services provide an intimate, diverse, rewarding, creative and educational opportunity to pray together.

Saturday Morning Services

Our Saturday Shabbat service begins at 10:30 a.m.. While these services often celebrate one or more of our youth becoming bar and/or bat mitzvah, they are open to the public and all are welcome to attend and join in prayer.