elcome to Sinogogue – the website of Kehillat Beijing, a lay-led Jewish community active in Beijing since 1979. We hold Shabbat Services each Friday night and celebrate most holidays as a community. Most services are accompanied by a seudah or festive meal. We also run the Ahavat Yitzhak religious school. You can find information about our activities, including Shabbat and holiday service times and locations, on this site. To get email updates about community activities, join our email list. If you have a specific question or request that this site doesn’t answer, send us a message. And please join us on Friday night!
The Purimshpiel is on Friday, February 26, 2010 (part of the Purim Family Dinner)
We NEED volunteers. Please contact me ASAP.
We will (try to) have 3 rehearsals—
2 before Chinese New Year and then one the week of Purim.
To volunteer contact Lauren at: l.lindheimer@gmail.com
Calling all Actors and Actresses!
Young & Old, Good & Bad
Leading Roles, Supporting Roles
It’s time for the annual Kehillat Beijing Purimshpiel
Don’t miss this opportunity to join the fun.
Ted has come up with another amazing theme and now we need to cast the roles……
Feeling Royal? King Ahashveroso is your role.
Perhaps you’d prefer Esther, Vashti or Mordechai?
Or let loose your inner evil and be Haman.
Please let me know if we can count of you!
We NEED volunteers.
We will (try to) have 3 rehearsals—
2 before Chinese New Year and then one the week of Purim.
To volunteer contact Lauren at: l.lindheimer@gmail.com
The Purimshpiel is on Friday, February 26, 2010.
Hi Everyone, I’m setting up the next Service Roster, February – May. If you can lead services or give a dvar torah on the weekly portion during this time, please e-mail me at ritual@sinogogue.org with your availability during this period and put “service roster” in the subject line. To set up the roster efficiently what I need from volunteers is all the time you will be in Beijing (or if you prefer, the dates you won’t be in Beijing/won’t be available). Then I’ll slot everyone in and send it around. I’m sorry, but it really doesn’t work if people give me a date or two they have chosen — we wind up with too many overlaps and too many gaps. Please do let me know, so I can send around the new roster. Debbi
Welcome back to all!
Sunday school will begin at 9:30 PROMPTLY. Please remember to bring your folders, and your eagerness to learn.
Special thanks to Michael and Josh Kurtzig, for organizing last week’s class in my absence. Although the last-minute change to the school calendar was posted to the sinogogue.org website, I failed to notify everyone by email. To those families who brought their children to school, thank you, and please accept my apologies.
Recently, parents have been stepping-up and planning social activities around Sunday School. It is a lovely tradition and we invite and encourage everyone to participate. Two weeks ago Amy and Elita Gendler invited all back to their home following school to enjoy swimming and pizza. Last Sunday Shelly Wesler invited the parents to enjoy coffee and cake at her home during class. It was lovely time getting to know one another better and finding out a little more about each family. Sundays are the perfect time to hang out with friends, so if you have an idea, please take the initiative and make it happen—and watch our community bonds strengthen and grow!