Videos, Recordings, Writings, Photos

Videos

To view a past service, go to the live-streaming page, click the Play button, and then click on “Previous Broadcasts.”

• High Holiday sermons and talks 2023 (locate links by following instructions above):
  • Rosh Hashanah Day 1: President’s message starts at 36:30, Rabbi’s sermon starts at 1:15:00
  • Rosh Hashanah Day 2: Cantor’s sermon starts at 1:50:30
• Is Your Home Someone’s Workplace? Domestic Workers Rights and Your Responsibilities as an Employer. (May 4,2023)
• Precious Legacies: Our Ritual Objects and Their Stories
• Rob Leikind, Director of American Jewish Committee (June 27, 2022)
• Anita Diamant (May 1,2022)
• Dr. Len Saxe (Feb. 5,2022)
• The Ongoing Journey: Rectifying Institutional Racism in the Arts: Janie Cohen, Director of the Fleming Museum of Art in Burlington, VT (Jan. 8, 2022)
• Sharing My Experience as the Rabbi of Brunswick, GA, Home of Ahmaud Arbery: Rabbi Rachael Bregman (Jan. 22, 2022)
• Videos from L’Hitra’ot to Lorel, 2021
• Beth El Education Journey (2021)
• Habitat for Humanity build in 2017 (Beth El is discussed starting at 1:00)
• Webinar: Greening your home heating and cooling
• Webinar: Greening your home electricity

Audio recordings

• High Holiday recordings provided by Cantor Vera Broekhuysen
  • Shacharit Bar’chu 
  • Shacharit-Uvcheins  (Chasidic)
  • Hu Eloykeinu for Musaf K’dushah (Lubavitcher, via Raskin, adapted Broekhuysen)
  • Hayom Harat Olam for Musaf (Hohenemser) 
  • V’ye’etayu for Musaf (Israeli)
  • Ki Hinei Kachomer for Kol Nidre
  • Leich b’simchah (“Go forth in joy!”), a song for N’ilah
• “Ken Supiénse,” a Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) answer to “Echad Mi Yodeia” (“Who knows one?”) provided by Cantor Vera Broekhuysen for Passover 2023
• Recordings by Cantor Emerita Lorel Zar-Kessler:
  • Songs and prayers, Kabbalat Shabbat, Shabbat Rinah, niggunim, songs for the seder
  • Trope lessons

Writings and talks

Rabbi Josh Breindel

• Bereshit: Hearts Stretched to Breaking — D’var Torah following terrorist attack in Israel
• Rosh Hashanah sermon 2023 (video; sermon starts at 1:25)
• “The Path of Blessing” — during the month of Elul, remembering G-d’s charge to care for the earth (JewishBoston.com)
• Rosh Hashanah sermon 2022 (video)
• Yom Kippur sermon 2022 (video)
• Erev Rosh Hashanah sermon 2021
• Rosh Hashanah sermon 2021
• Kol Nidre sermon 2021
• Yom Kippur sermon 2021

Cantor Vera Broekhuysen

• Rosh Hashanah 2023 d’var

President Michelle Fineblum

• Rosh Hashanah 2023 President’s Message

Photos

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For Hanukkat Banim and Siyyum group photos, go to the member area of the Beth El website.

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• Chanukah 2019

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