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Please check our Beit Ahavah calendar for a complete listing of upcoming services, Shabbat schedule and events. Additional community events and material shared on our social media page here. To join our mailing list, please contact us at beitahavah@gmail.com. Welcome!
B'nei Mitzvah Journey Class
Thursdays during the school year, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. -- Check calendar for dates. We are taking new students!
This exciting robust group of 6th-8th graders meets and studies with Rabbi Riqi to create a cohesive, supportive cohort exploring what does it mean to become B’nei Mitzvah (Bar/Bat/Bet Mitzvah) and empowered to be responsible as a Jewish young person, doing Tikkun Olam (repair of the world), and what are Jewish ways we can celebrate emerging from childhood and crossing over into Teenage-hood. Everyone is encouraged to be involved in other areas of Jewish communal life, and no two celebrations will be alike. Our focus is not on the “what” but on the “why and what is on the inside.” Whether a musical celebration in our state of the art historic sanctuary, or a DIY backyard service, we focus on being a blessing with the tools of our tradition to thrive personally, apply our passions, and heal the world. Prior Hebrew or Jewish knowledge is not a pre-requisite. Class includes veggie pizza dinner. Read more about BnM at Beit Ahavah at beitahavah.org/teens-tweens, and please speak with Rabbi Riqi to join or help with this amazing group of young people.
Vashti's Palace: Purim @Beit Ahavah
Sunday, March 1, 2026, 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Register HERE. Down in Floho a.k.a. Shushan, we’re inviting you to keep on dancing, protesting and celebrating in Vashti’s Palace @Beit Ahavah, 130 Pine Street — A Vashti Megillah, Shpiel, Hamantaschen Bake-Off, Costume Contest, Justice Fair & Ecstatic Dance Party in Vashti’s Palace
3:00 p.m. A Vashti Megillah reading & Purim Shpiel, Vashti Poems and Purim Sing-a-long – led by Rabbah Riqi, Lūx Onigman, Rachel Koppelman with teen, adult and community participation.
4:00 p.m. Hamantaschen Bake-Off – Register your entries here for the judges. Kookie Cookie prizes.
4:15 p.m. The Ecstatic Dancy Party at Vashti’s Palace you’ve been waiting for with DJ Bibi.
- Costume Contest & Justice Fair – games and Purim mitzvahs – all ages welcome.
- Mordechai-mocktails and Vashtinis available, inspired by HamantaschBack Kitchen.
- Teen lounge open
- Mit$vah Money Raffle for justice organizations
- Queen Vashti, Queen Esther, and all the Queer Queens Social Justice Awards will be announced.
Tickets and proceeds will benefit Beit Ahavah for generations to come. Generous support from Harold Grinspoon Foundation Teen & Family grants.
A Happy Freiliche Joyous Purim of Transformation! See you soon!
A Musical Debbie Friedman Tribute Service - new date
Friday, March 6, 2026, 6:45 p.m.
Register HERE.
We bring beautiful new and old melodies from a wealth of cultures, traditions and contemporary Jewish folk musicians, to lift our hearts in prayerand song. All ages are welcome!
🍲🍽️ An early Shabbat dinner vegetarian potluck starts at 6:00 p.m. before services! Dinner potluck sign up sheet is here.
🏠 Livestream available here.
Major funding by Harold Grinspoon Foundation Teen grant. 🎶 For more info contact beitahavah@gmail.com.
Shabbat Shalom! 💟
Magevet Shabbat Shirah! ✨🎶
Friday, April 17, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
Register HERE.
Beit Ahavah invites you to a very special Musical Kabbalat Shabbat Service & Concert Reception
with musical guests MAGEVET – Yale’s Jewish, Hebrew, and Israeli A Cappella group!
Friday, April 17, 2026, 6:30 p.m. (doors open 6;00 p.m.)
To host 1-3+ Yale student singers for the night or help prepare an early Shabbat dinner for them at the temple, please email info@beitahavah.org.
Shabbat Shalom!
Welcome! 🫓🪶 This will be a joyous, heimish, participatory, musical and meaningful Seder led by our rabbah, Rabbah Riqi Kosovske, and president Peter Nabut, joined by Rev. Marisa Egerstrom, musicians, poets and friends. The Seder includes a potluck Passover vegetarian/dairy meal,* and lots of community involvement.
“Kol Dichfin Yaitai v’Yaichol, כָּל דִכְפִין יֵיתֵי וְיֵיכֹל Let all who are hungry come and eat!”
– from HaLachma Anya in the Haggadah (Seder prayer book)
- Suggested donation $18 – $36 – $54 per person (kids are free) to cover a portion of the significant costs associated with running a Community Seder. Additional donations are welcome to cover costs so that no one will be turned away. Pay as much as you can afford. All welcome!
- Registration deadline: Sunday, March 29. Register here.
- * A Sign-Up sheet for the Passover Potluck Meal, Seder Items & Volunteer tasks will be sent to you upon registration.
- Bring: One item that represents “freedom” to you. 🫓🪶
- Optional: You can bring your personal/family ritual Seder table items.
"Standing Together at Sinai” Shavuot Tikkun Evening of Expressive Learning, Celebration & Cheesecake
Thursday, May 21, 2026, 6:00-8:30 p.m. in person folllwed by virtual URJ Small Congregations Late & All-Night Tikkun Leil Shavuot “It’s Torah O’clock Somewhere”
Shavuot Leil Tikkun – A night of learning deep and engaging Torah, wrapping ourselves in the Torah, study sessions, and a cheesecake/blintzes potluck celebration. Teens and B’nei Mitzvah invited to participate and will also have a teen-hangout room upstairs.
The URJ Small Congregations Tikkun is a late night virtual program 8 a.m. ET to 9 a.m. ET, with multiple study session options each hour on creative topics led by Reform rabbis across the country up late at night to teach us and learn! (Rabbi Riqi is on at 1 a.m. ET!) Link to register is here.
Generous support from Harold Grinspoon Foundation.
Tot Shabbat Family Service & Tot Sha-potluck is the magical musical hour welcoming the Sabbath and holidays, especially for families with young kids 0-9, led by Marlene Rachelle with Rabbah Riqi.
Pizza provided, with a vegetarian/dairy potluck (no nuts). Welcome newcomers, grandparents, older siblings, extended families, dragons, dragon-rabbis, bunnies, friends and intergenerational community members!
Please register here. Free and donations are encouraged.
Generous support by Harold Grinspoon Foundation and co-sponsored by JCC Springfield | PJ Library of Western MA.
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