BEIT AHAVAH wishes you a joyous Festival of Lights A freiliche Happy Chanukah SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 5:45 – 7:30 p.m. Spread the Light: Community Chanukah event with Chinese food & movies! Co-sponsored by CBI, Beit Ahavah, Lander-Grinspoon Academy and PJ Library! https://www.facebook.com/events/359558124380728/ Chanukah is a time to experience light in the darkness — let’s come together as a whole Jewish community Upper […]
A Program of Yiddish Music of Labor, Love, and Loss, from the early 20th century Join us for an emotional and moving walk down the pathways of our shared past history. Laurie Israel, a versatile Hilltown Musician, will be performing a benefit show for Beit Ahavah, the Reform Synagogue of Greater Northampton in Florence, Massachusetts, on Saturday, November 19, 2016, […]
Continue your celebration of the High Holydays with us in the Sukkah at Beit Ahavah: Sunday, October 16, 1st Night Sukkot Dinner in the Beit Ahavah Sukkah, 5:00 p.m. Friday, October 21, “Refuge & Refugee” Sukkot Shabbat Early Evening Service at 6:00–7:30 p.m. Saturday, October 22, Shabbat Morning Jewish Renewal Service in the Sukkah led by Rabbi Riqi and Randy Furash Stewart, 10:00 a.m.–Noon […]
Upcoming Events at Beit Ahavah and Around the Valley Services and events are held at 130 Pine Street, Florence, unless otherwise noted. High Holydays 5777 are around the corner! Click for More Info Sunday, September 18, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Apple-picking for Families with young children (ages 0-6), at Art in the Orchard, 82 Park Hill Rd, Easthampton. Help spread […]
It may still be snowing outside, but one sign of spring, the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival, has begun. The festival screens films in locations throughout the Valley through April 14. The festival organizers explain that they are “… proud to present 24 outstanding films from 14 countries, including the United States, Israel, France, Germany, United Kingdom, South Africa and […]
Beit Ahavah’s Tzedek Tzedek (Social Justice) Committee is sponsoring a “Soup for Syria” event on Sunday, March 13, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Our rabbi Riqi Kosovske began her sabbatical a few weeks ago. A rabbi is often granted a sabbatical leave after six or seven years of service to the congregation. The leave provides the rabbi an opportunity to seek spiritual and physical reinvigoration. It is a time for a rabbi to pursue spiritual nourishment and a change in perspective, to deepen […]