Community Circles
Community Circles
Building community and friendships through shared interests.
Beth Am Community Circles are your place to connect more intentionally with other members around a shared interest or life stage. Community Circles are affinity groups open to members of Congregation Beth Am and coordinated by congregants. Help start the group you are looking for! Beth Am staff is available to help connect members to and/or create a Community Circle. Current Circles include hiking, board games, single adults and parents of young adults.
Community Circles are an opportunity to try something new with other members of the Beth Am community. A Community Circle can be organized around anything; an activity, craft, age and stage in life, cultural interests, Jewish or not. Specific examples could include: hiking, volunteering together, photography, pickleball, wine tasting, celebrating Shabbat together or single parents. If you’re interested in doing it and already have some folks in mind or want help finding others who share your interest, please contact Rabbi Heath Watenmaker.
Community Circle Offerings
Our current Community Circle offerings are listed below. Please reach out to Rabbi Heath Watenmaker with your questions and interest. He will get back to you with more details about the meetings and activities, and add you to your Circle list(s) of interest.
Don’t see a Circle for you? Please share your idea with us for a Community Circle.
We look forward to building community together!
Hiking
Youth Ed Parent Hiking Circle
Meet and chat with other youth ed parents while getting some exercise in the beautiful Los Altos Hills. Please email Rabbi Heath if you are interested.
Additional Hiking Circle
Don't have kids in Youth Ed? Join fellow Beth Am hikers for moderate Sunday morning hikes in the area. Dates, times and hike locales TBD by the Circle. Please email Rabbi Heath if you are interested.
Art & Wine
If you enjoy getting creative and want to share/learn new forms of art with fine (or not so fine) wine, join this Circle of six fellow enthusiasts that will meet monthly or every other month to craft together. Please email Rabbi Heath if you are interested.
Board Games
Come play with us over dessert. We enjoy games such as 6 Nimmt, Concept, Just one, Hanabi and Codenames. If you want to know more, join on every other Tuesday from 7 to 8:30 PM in Room Alef at Beth Am. Email Marcy with questions or to be added to the group.
Parents of tweens and teens.
Connect with other parents of tweens and teens. This group is now forming. Dates and events TBD by the group. Please email Rabbi Heath if you are interested.
The Tahiti Project
(A Community Circle for parents with older teens, young adults in college and beyond)
Coordinated by Jennifer and Nicole, this Community Circle is for those with older kids and adult children whose original connection to Beth Am was through their kids, who want to meet new people, to find a smaller community within Beth Am, and are looking to do an empty nest, post-COVID reset. This fun group’s name “The Tahiti Project” started as a joke about the kinds of activities they might do together — why not a trip to Tahiti?! This Circle is full, but if it sounds like something you’d enjoy, please contact Rabbi Heath and he’ll connect you with others. Who knows where your group might go!
B’Yachad (Together)
This Community Circle is for single adults over 40 years of age. B'Yachad is fun, with unlimited possibilities and easy to participate in. Come join this welcoming group if you are a single member of Congregation Beth Am in your 40’s, 50's or 60's and up for experiences built around socializing, community service, temple, nature and more. If you are not yet part of B'Yachad, but would like to consider joining us or have some questions, contact circle coordinator Zach. He will be happy to include you in this Community Circle.
Fri, March 24 2023
2 Nisan 5783
Upcoming Events
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Friday ,
MarMarch 24 , 2023Erev Shabbat Service
Friday, Mar 24th 6:15p to 7:30p
Our worship services are musical, participatory and informal in spirit; they focus on helping us experience the spiritual renewal, peace, joy and sense of celebration that Shabbat can bring. -
Friday ,
MarMarch 24 , 2023Shabbat Dinner in a Congregant Home
Friday, Mar 24th 8:00p to 10:00p
Enjoy the hospitality of friendly hosts while you relax and enjoy a delicious dinner. -
Saturday ,
MarMarch 25 , 2023Torah Study
Shabbat, Mar 25th 9:00a to 10:00a
On Shabbat morning, join a member of the Beth Am clergy for a session of Torah study. Stay for the Good Book Cafe! -
Saturday ,
MarMarch 25 , 2023Good Book Cafe
Shabbat, Mar 25th 10:00a to 10:20a
Join other Torah Study participants for some discussion and schmoozing. -
Saturday ,
MarMarch 25 , 2023Torah Minyan Shabbat Morning Service
Shabbat, Mar 25th 10:30a to 12:30p
This week, Torah Minyan joins the Bar Mitzvah service in the Sanctuary. -
Saturday ,
MarMarch 25 , 2023Shabbat Morning Service: Bar Mitzvah Eyal
Shabbat, Mar 25th 10:30a to 12:30p
All are welcome and encouraged to join the family of our Bar Mitzvah in worship and celebration. -
Saturday ,
MarMarch 25 , 2023BAJY Sleepover (With Late Night Option) at Beth Am
Shabbat, Mar 25th 5:30p to Sunday, Mar 26th 8:30a
BAJY Sleepover at Beth Am -- just for 6th - 8th Graders! -
Saturday ,
MarMarch 25 , 2023Oneg Israel Presents Israeli Writer and Filmmaker Etgar Keret
Motzei Shabbat, Mar 25th 8:15p to 9:30p
“A brilliant writer…completely unlike any writer I know. The voice of the next generation.” —Salman Rushdie -
Sunday ,
MarMarch 26 , 2023Slow Torah: Lay-Led Torah Study Class
Sunday, Mar 26th 9:00a to 10:00a
Slow Torah is a lay-led class that continues the Beth Am tradition of studying the Torah verse by verse. -
Sunday ,
MarMarch 26 , 2023CANCELLED THIS MONTH: Parent Circle
Sunday, Mar 26th 9:00a to 11:00a
Parent Circle is cancelled this month.