B'nai Zion Shreveport Religious School

08/22/2024

Back to things this weekend:
Friday Evening Shabbat Service is
Back to School &
Back from Camp &
Bless the Backpack

This Sunday is our Kickoff for the Red River K'hilah School (the new name for our Religious School shows where we are, and that we are a "K'hilah" - a Community)

If you didn't get an email with details, please contact Barbara or Rabbi Jana or Rabbi David.

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'...

11/05/2021

These Rabbis Wrote Prayers in Honor of the COVID Vaccine Becoming Available for Children:

This piece was originally published on JTA. As of Nov. 2, the CDC recommends vaccination against Covid-19 for anyone ages 5 and up. For more information on where to get the shot, start here. When Rabbi Lisa Gelber heard that the Food and Drug Administration had approved the Pfizer coronavirus vaccin...

09/19/2021

Indoor and outdoor sukkot are built and ready to be decorated. See you at 5 at BZ.

01/17/2021

Learning how to prune trees for Tu BiSh’vat with John Paul Young

01/17/2021

John Paul Young taught us how to trim trees for Tu BiSh’vat

10/04/2020

Let's do the LULAV SHAKE. If you do it in the correct order, there will be a surprise:
https://www.bnaizioncongregation.org/lulav-shake.html

First we did the SHOFAR BLASTER (find it on the B'nai Zion homepage). If you can't come to me, I will come to you! Happy Boothday!

Lulav Shake Rabbi Jana shakes the Lulav for Sukkot with a reward for shaking in the correct order.

09/28/2020

Direct Links to Yom Kippur Services (all shown in Central Time):

Note, the service will say that it is “private” until the starting time shown:

10 AM Morning: https://youtu.be/ohg1Yi5qjts (1:19:41)
12 PM Afternoon: https://youtu.be/jq2qBJokcFk (31:58 min)
3:30 PM Yizkor/Memorial https://youtu.be/q_rRV9B37Lc (32:30 min)
4:30 Concluding Service: https://youtu.be/9OTLlbgDL-A (28 min)

All words for prayers and songs are on screen. Selections are from the Reform Movement's: Union Prayerbook II, Gates of Repentance, and Mishkan HaNefesh.

Music is provided by a virtual choir, some selections from previous years, Adam Philley Rabbi Jana, and Marya Lawrence.

We apologize for complications with accessing our main website. If you want access to the Zoom Study Session at 1:30 ("The Torah of RBG") or the Zoom Havdalah, Shofar Blast, Motzi visit, please send me a private message for the Zoom details.

Note that the services are shorter than when in person (and as of now, it seems that you can fast forward and rewind as soon as the video is available). Times shown above are actual length of each service. Morning and Afternoon service includes Torah reading with special guest readers. The shofar will be blown at the end of the Concluding service, which will be a few hours before Sunset (and we will have the additional Zoom event which will be after there are 3 stars in the sky.)

It is a strange world where the rabbi has to send a Facebook message about YouTube and Zoom Yom Kippur events.

I hope you find our services inspiring and fulfilling. I hope you have a sweet, healthy and safe new year.

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

09/27/2020

May you be inscribed and sealed for a sweet, healthy, and safe new year!

Try Shofar Blaster - choose the Shofar and the blast! Rabbi Jana will blow the shofar for you anywhere and any time!
https://www.bnaizioncongregation.org/shofar-blaster.html

Watch Rabbi Jana sing Kol Nidre for children:
https://youtu.be/NtjjSfd2LmQ

Shofar Blaster Rabbi Jana blows kudu ram and gemsbock shofarot

06/30/2020

Please go to https://www.facebook.com/BnaiZion/ for the B'nai Zion Congregation page.

A Reform Jewish Congregation for over 150 years in Shreveport. A great place for Jewish learning, worship, and friendly gathering.

05/06/2020

Has this happened to you?
(Showing mom how to use Zoom - Hebrew with English subtitles)

Due to a lot of requests im proud to present "Helping mom start a ZOOM meeting" with english subtitles. dont forget to respect and love your perents allways!...