B'nai Zion Congregation

03/26/2026

Don’t miss this event. Register to attend.

Organizations involved with this year's event are First Methodist Church Shreveport, Texas Street Arts Series, and the Centenary College Choir.

Register at https://jewishnla.regfox.com/holocaust-remembrance-2026

01/14/2026

How to help the synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi - where the ISJL also has its offices. B’nai Zion is proud to be a founding and continuing part of the ISJL, and we will do whatever it takes to help rebuild the Beth Israel Congregation, and support everyone it serves. Please use the link to help them rebuild.

Thank you to everyone who has reached out to check in on the Beth Israel Congregation community and the ISJL team.

We wanted to share the most direct way to help, which is to contribute to the BIC Rebuilding Fund, which you’ll find at www.bethisraelms.org and in the link section of our profile.

While we appreciate offers of books and Judaica, at this time neither BIC nor ISJL has anywhere to store material items.

We are so grateful for each message of support. Thank you.

12/21/2025

This will be fun. Register and see the movie.

Saturday, January 3 - see Bad Shabbos and enjoy a good Shabbos dinner at the Robinson!

Register at https://jewishnla.regfox.com/bad-shabbos-dinner-and-movie

12/17/2025

Being a light in the darkness. Rabbi Jana in the news about Hanukkah

As Jewish families around the world mark the third night of Hanukkah, congregants at B’nai Zion synagogue in Shreveport are celebrating with heavy hearts following a deadly attack in Sydney, Australia.

12/15/2025

Keeping the hanukkah lights burning for more than 2000 years. Prayers for peace for all.

10/01/2025

May we all be inscribed for a year of sweetness, joy, and peace. May your fasts be meaningful. If you want to join us at services via YouTube, here is a link to the "playlist" of Yom Kippur services:

Services for the High Holy Days led by Rabbi Jana and Adam Philley's High Holy Day Choir at B'nai Zion Congregation in Shreveport, Louisiana.

09/22/2025

Wishing everyone a healthy and sweet new year! Join us for Rosh HaShanah services 7:30pm Central Monday 9/22 and 10am Tuesday 9/23 (in-person and streamed YouTube). Streams are here:

B'nai Zion Congregation is a Reform Jewish synagogue in Shreveport, LA. Go to our website: www.BnaiZionCongregation.org for more information or to make donations.

05/16/2025

NEWS: The woman who had threatened our congregation has been arrested.

05/16/2025

BZ News: Rabbi Yos (from Omer, Israel) and Rabbi David Laor (from Agudath Achim) will join Rabbi Jana at Shabbat Evening service tonight (6pm Central 5/16/25) in-person and on the B'nai Zion YouTube Channel.

08/22/2024

We are ready to get back - this weekend we have a Shabbat Evening Service when we celebrate getting Back to School, Back from Camp, Bless Backpacks.

This Sunday we Kickoff our new Red River K'hilah School. (Red River shows where we are, and "K'hilah" shows that we are a wecloming "Community")

04/22/2024

To all my friends everywhere: As my family always says: We hope you have a zissen and kosher Passover. May this Passover allow us all to be free.

If you want to join the B’nai Zion Congregational Seder, it is streamed on YouTube (6pm Central - no password required):

https://www.youtube.com/live/RHfOYf22Lak?si=IGLzKUNFUo6B2r3E

Here is a link to my haggadah (pdf format- anyone can use it)
https://images.shulcloud.com/5061/uploads/Holidays/Passover/2024BZHaggadah5784.pdf

If you want to attend Passover services (first day and seventh/Yizkor), they are on Zoom 11am Central.)

Links for everything (Zoom access, selling chametz, studying “Song of Songs” on Shabbat, fun stuff and other resources) are on my congregation’s page:
https://www.bnaizioncongregation.org/

Or peek at my website:
https://www.hebrewdoc.com/Holidays/Passover.html

Rabbi Jana leads a family friendly Passover Seder at B'nai Zion Congregation.Use the new Rabbi Jana BZ Haggadah for 2024 / 5784, which can be found on the B'...

03/25/2024

This is how we told the Purim Story in 5784 🤗 All our Schpiels are creative - and I think you’re going to love this one too. (We did not intentionally make it 6:13 long). Thanks to Rabbi Jana, her Hebrew students and teacher, all the animals, and Max’s awesome editing:

A Purim Schpiel of the Book of Esther as told by the pets of Rabbi Jana's Hebrew Classes 5784 / 2024. With appreciation to the students and pets in Rabbi Jan...