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Program Menu
About WBI
Women of Beth Israel is about women coming together to discuss and share their lives, careers, values and journeys. New CBI members receive their first year membership in Women of Beth Israel at no cost! Century Club members at the Sponsor, Benefactor and Pillar levels have a complimentary membership in Women of Beth Israel.
Women of Beth Israel Proudly Sponsors:
Cafe Beth Israel
Open Sundays during Religious School, 9:00 to 11:30 a.m.
Relax in the social hall and enjoy bagels, cream cheese and coffee, television, newspapers, wifi and CBI library books.
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Gifts
The loving gift of candlesticks and/or Kiddush cups are presented to each Bar/Bat Mitzvah, and made possible by our membership dues and donations.
Ushers at Shabbat Services
All members of WBI are welcome and encouraged to volunteer to usher at Friday Shabbat services. It's a great way to serve and to meet others. Contact Sheila Bliss to sign up.
Fountain Beautification
 Women of Beth Israel is proud to have contributed the funds to purchase this fountain as part of a temple beautification project led by Executive Director Lesley Mills. The fountain replaces a cork tree that was destroyed by a storm.
Oneg Flowers
Women of Beth Israel provides the lovely flowers on the tables at all the Friday night onegs.
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Wednesday, February 22, 7:00 p.m.
Before becoming a Torah scribe, Julie Seltzer worked as a teacher at a Jewish day school and as a baker at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Connecticut. Each week she bakes a challah in a different shape, inspired by the Torah portion of the week. In this hands-on workshop, we, too, will make our own expressive food art based on the week’s Torah portion (or another portion of our choosing). Taking an aspect of the text or one of the Torah portion’s themes, we will shape challah dough to create edible art that each participant will be able to take home.
Fee (for materials): Beth Israel Members $5; Nonmembers $10; Because we will be working with bread dough for the take home challah, only those who are registered and prepaid by Wednesday, February 15 can be accommodated. RSVP and pay online. For information contact Program Director Bonnie Graff, 858 535-1111, ext. 3800.
Sponsored by Women of Beth Israel (WBI) with Adult Learners Network (ALEINU)
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Celebrating 150 Show-Stopping Years
Saturday, February 25, 7:00 p.m.
Join us in a musical celebration of 150 years of two great American institutions: Broadway and Beth Israel. Special guests Cantor William “Billy” Tiep, Cantor of Temple Solel and Joey Landwehr, Artistic Director of J* Company at the JCC, will join Rabbi/Cantor Arlene Bernstein, Heidi Gantwerk, Andrew Mayer and friends “on stage.” The program will highlight some of Broadway’s most famous and beautiful melodies from the past century and a half. A dessert reception will follow the concert.
$18 Members; $25 Nonmembers; $10 Students RSVP and pay online at least one week in advance. For information contact Program Director Bonnie Graff at
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, or 858 535-1111, ext. 3800.
Download flyer here.
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Monday, March 26, 6:00 p.m. (women only)
All women in the community are invited to attend our Seder, led by Rabbi/Cantor Arlene Bernstein and Rabbi Lenore Bohm. Bring your mother, daughters, sisters, nieces, aunts, and grandmothers, but don’t forget your BFF’s (best female friends). Our rabbis will help us reflect on freedom from a woman’s perspective. Special guests will again share their personal stories of freedom.
This special evening will be a time to come together with other women in the community to share in the time-honored rituals of the Passover holiday while perhaps creating some new ones as well.
A light meal will accompany the Seder. $20 for Beth Israel members; $30 for Non-members; $10 for Guests under 18. RSVP a must by Wednesday, March 21 online, or to Program Director Bonnie Graff at
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or 858-535-1111, ext. 3800.
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Friday, July 13; Dinner Following the 6:15 p.m. Service
Join your fellow congregants in honoring Women of Beth Israel at this outdoor Shabbat service. A congregational potlick dinner will follow.
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Ongoing Women of Beth Israel Events
Volunteer at Rachel's Women's Center
2nd Sundays, 5:00 p.m.
Help the women at this temporary downtown shelter in two ways:
1. Prepare and serve dinner to 30 homeless women. It is easy, fun and very rewarding. Wait until you feel the hugs and enjoy the smiles of our supper guests.
2. Donate toiletries, unused cosmetics, underwear and socks for the women. Collection baskets are at all WBI events and in the Beth Israel lobby. Needed everyday for over 120-150 women: small size toiletries, sunscreen, chap stick/lip balm, hair brushes, toopaste, toothbrushes, travel water bottles, new socks and ladies underwear.
For more information contact Valerie Leman at wbirhouse@gmail.com, or 858 535-1111 ext. 3800.
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Clergy-Led Friday Evening Services
Lay-Led Informal Minyan Service
Clergy-Led Shabbat Morning and Afternoon Services
