Tikkun Olam

Beit Tikvah members are committed to repairing the world and look for opportunities to engage the Baltimore area community. Watch this space which will be updated as more information comes available about this year's activities, including our work with the Baltimore Interfaith Hospitality Network.

Join us in the traditional giving of food during Purim & Pesach. Pick up a grocery bag at services, and return it before Pesach filled with non-perishable foods. Also available at services will be donation envelopes for MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger

Baltimore Interfaith Hospitality Network

IF YOU WANT TO BE TRAINED TO VOLUNTEER: Contact Janet Felsten, Beit Tikvah's BIHN Coordinator, to get on the list for the next date.

BIHN is on temporary break from hosting as it reorganizes its day shelter arrangements.

We co-host at Roland Park Presbyterian Church, 4801 Roland Avenue, offering hospitality and home cooked meals to the (maximum of four) homeless families in the Network. Slots available include:

Dinner Host 5-7:30 (bring and share dinner w/guests)

Evening Host 7-9pm (doing activities w/the children, bringing a movie, instruments, art projects, etc. or just visiting with folks, being present if needed)

Overnight Host from 8:30pm to 6:30 am (staying overnight on air mattress, putting out take-along breakfast foods)

Let's put some energy into Tikkun Olam!

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The Green Space 5768

Check out Hannah Lamson Freedman! Our 13 year old member is featured in the Baltimore Messenger trying to raise awareness about Earth Hour activities. Earth Hour is March 29, and Hannah is asking all Baltimoreans to resist using electricity from 8-9 p.m.Read all about it by clicking here.

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Clean Green for Pesach! Learn to clean everyday dirt & remove hametz without harmful toxins! Presentation by Loren Lavoy of Green Clean USA Inc. Sunday, March 30, 2008 from 10 a.m. - 12 noon at the home of:
Michele Lax - 11910 Minor Jones Drive, Owings Mills, MD 21117

RSVP by March 14th bjen@pearlstonecenter.org or 410-429-4400, ex. 300.

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" Social Justice Film Night "Kilowatt Ours", Saturday, February 23 at 7:30 p.m. Discussion Moderators: Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin (Baltimore Jewish Environmental Network) and Brad Heavner (State Director of Environment Maryland). RSVP to tikkunolam@beittikvah.org or 410-464-9402. Click here for more details.

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Are you interested in environmental issues? Want to educate your children about being green? Join Beit Tikvah families by participating in:

The Baltimore Jewish Environmental Network's Greenlight Chanukah campaign.

Get your FREE CFL BULBS in honor of The Festival of Lights! Purchase them at Home Depot and Costco, or online at www.environmentallights.com and enter discount code GLH5 for a 5% discount.

Visit the Baltimore Jewish Environmental Network's website at www.bjen.org.

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Thanks for Wendy Matt and Marjorie Davis, who have stepped forward as volunteers to represent Congregation Beit Tikvah at the Baltimore Synagogues Social Action Task Force.

The Green Space 5767

In 5767, the focus of the JRF Omer Study was on Sustainability (balancing environmental, social, economic and spiritual life in our congregations and larger communities). To see the commentaries from Beit Tikvah (Omer Teachings: Saving Trees and Heal the Heart; Lie on the Earth) and from other rabbis, hazzanim (cantors), educators and members of JRF congregations visit http://www4.jrf.org/omer.

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