Member Area

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• Member directory
• Registration and signup forms
• Guides and instructions
• Subscription links for email groups

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Please register below to access the members-only area of the Beth El website. Registrations must be approved — you’ll receive an email with login instructions once registration is complete.

This “members only” section of our website is your resource for exchanging ideas, finding helpful information, signing up to read Torah, submitting an event for the home page, and downloading important forms and guidelines. This section will continue to evolve and expand based on the needs and suggestions of our members. Please direct any suggestions or comments to Sheila Goldberg or Alice Waugh.

Links with an asterisk* are on the public portion of the Beth El website; everything else is accessible only to members.

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Event Planning and Publicity

• Planning and Publicizing Events at Beth El
• Event Publicity Form (required for all events)
• Checklist for Event Planning
• Publicity Contacts

Forms

• Event Submission Form (required for all events)
• Torah reader signup sheet
• Photo release form
• Yahrzeit nameplate order form
• Form for selling chametz at Passover (use one of the following):
  • Online form
  • PDF form (print, fill out, and return to Beth El, or scan and email to templeadmin@bethelsudbury.org)

Guides

• Planning and publicizing events at Beth El (see related documents under “Event Planning” above)
• Kiddush guidelines
• Bar/bat mitzvah family guide
• Inclusion guide for bar/bat mitzvahs
• Community Catering guide
• High Holidays parking director guide
• High Holidays usher guide

Members, Staff, Committees

• Member and staff directory (as of November 2022 — this will download directly to your device)
• Beth El org chart
  • Lay leadership team*
  • Professional staff*
  • Education staff*
  • Administrative staff*
• Committee and group descriptions*
  • Committee and group rosters
  • Tikkun Olam group contacts*
• Updates and minutes:
  • Board of Directors meeting minutes
  • Gender-Neutral Bathroom Committee updates
  • Ritual Committee updates
  • Annual Meeting minutes

Videos

• What is Ableism and How Can We Navigate it Jewishly? — Nov. 19, 2023 (more info)
• Trio Sefardi — Nov. 6, 2023 (more info)
• Introduction to LGBTQ+ Equality and Belonging for Loved Ones and Allies — Oct. 29, 2023 (more info)
• Immigration stories by Beth El members: HIAS Weekend, February 2023 

Miscellaneous

• D’var Torahs and personal prayers, High Holidays 2022
• Hanukkat Banim and Siyyum class pictures
• “Precious Legacies: Ritual Objects and Their Stories” (video)
• Charoset recipes from around the world
• Family Passover recipes
• Refugee stories of Congregation Beth El members (March 2021)
• Beth El library catalogue
• Congregation Beth El bylaws

Email listservs

To sign up for one of our email listservs, click on the appropriate link below.

• Bboards — A place for members to share information, ask for referrals (plumbers, doctors, etc.) and offer free items.
• Sanctuary — For discussions and possible actions in support of immigrants and refugees to our country.
• Yachad (“Together”) — A place for members who are concerned about current societal issues as they intersect with ethical Judaism to share opinions, information and notices of events. 
• GreenTeam — Enables Beth El members to share information on Beth El’s climate actions, possible climate actions in our own lives, and upcoming climate learning and advocacy events.
• Antiracism Working Group — For learning, reflection, sharing information and taking action to dismantle racism within and beyond the Jewish community.

All lists support sending a daily digest instead of individual messages. If you’d like to change your subscription to daily digest mode instead of individual messages, you can do so via email. These links will automatically create an email with the correct subject — open the link and then just hit “send”:

• Turn digest off
• Turn digest on (mime)
• Turn digest on (plain)