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MINYAN
SERVICE
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About the Minyan Service
Minyan Volunteers Needed
Monthly Worship Schedule
CBI Artists Win Awards for Digital Minyan Art
About the Minyan Service
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Congregant Terri Fine (right) reads Torah at a Minyan service while congregant
Sydney Wexler (left) officiates. |
Every Shabbat at 10:00 a.m. lay members of the congregation lead an informal service open to all in the Foster Family Chapel. Called the Minyan Service, it
features prayer, singing and Torah discussion in a relaxed
and friendly setting. There is no Minyan membership
and all are welcome to worship and participate. Families looking for an intimate, haimish and more informal setting are very welcome to celebrate a clergy-led Bar/Bat Mitzvah in a Minyan service."
Congregant volunteers take turns leading the Minyan Service,
reading Torah and delivering a Torah commentary
(D'var Torah). People who have never read from
the Torah or delivered a D'var Torah are invited
and welcomed to do so in this supportive environment and community atmosphere.
The three volunteers who coordinate the Minyan service
have developed a training program to encourage participation by experienced and
inexperienced alike.
Several times a year, Minyan worshipers share
a potluck luncheon, and at Chanukah they enjoy a white-elephant gift exchange.
The Minyan Service has a long history at Beth
Israel. If you are new to CBI and/or new to Judaism you will find a warm welcome here. Participants number about 50 worshipers.
Minyan Volunteers Needed
Please consider volunteering to read Torah, Haftarah or give the D'var in our friendly, supportive lay-lead Shabbat Morning Minyan Service. Do it to celebrate a simcha, or just because you've always wanted to, but haven't had the opportunity. Cantor Bernstein is happy to coach anyone who wants to learn how to chant.
Contact 858-535-1111, ext. 3116.
The three volunteer coordinators of the Minyan service welcome your inquiries. To be added to the Minyan participants' email list, or volunteer for a D'var, contact at 858-573-0445. , 858-535-111, ext. 0, is the service's leader coordinator. , 858-455-7788, is the Torah reader coordinator.
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CBI Artists Win Awards For Digital Minyan Art
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| Joe Nalven's image captures
the warmth of minyan service and the inspirational quality symbolized in the
mysticism of light. |
Congregants Joe Nalven and Steve Gould won awards at the Let There Be Light contest for digital fine artists held at St. Marks United Methodist Church. Both artists' work is now hanging in the Foster Family Chapel at Congregation Beth Israel.
Joe Nalven, whose artwork is at left, is the co-author of "Going Digital: The Practice and Vision of Digital Artists." He is the editor of the Digital Art Guild webzine: www.digitalartguild.com.
Joe has worked on several digital art pieces that have illuminated the magic of CBI's Minyan service. This particular print merges two photographs that capture the full vertical length of the falling light inside the chapel. The image captures the warmth of minyan service and the inspirational quality symbolized in the mysticism of light.
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| Steve Gould's artwork merges three photographs to capture the essence
of worship at the Saturday morning Minyan in particular, and at CBI in general. |
CBI congregant Steve Gould, whose artwork is at right, is a member of numerous
fine art groups in San Diego, including the Photo Arts Group, the Digital Art
Guild, the Del Mar Arts Center, and the San Diego Underwater Photographic Society.
This piece, created for
the Let There Be Light Exhibition, merges three photographs to capture the essence
of worship at the Saturday morning Minyan in particular, and at CBI in general.
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| Digital artist Joe Nalven |
Digital artist Steve Gould |
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