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  • <span class="slider_title"> Our Vision </span> <span class="slider_description">The Temple Beth David Family aspires to be an inclusive, caring Jewish community that guides people of all ages on a path of spiritual growth, empowers each of us to engage with Jewish tradition, and inspires us to bring meaning to our lives.</span>
  • <a href=" " target=""> <span class="slider_title"> Our Mission </span> </a> <span class="slider_description">We welcome and affirm all who wish to be part of a warm, diverse Jewish home, and be the spark that ignites lasting and meaningful connections.</span>
  • <a href=" " target=""> <span class="slider_title"> Our Mission </span> </a> <span class="slider_description">We nurture a love of Torah and instill a vibrant culture of learning for all ages and stages of life to help people grow in Jewish understanding and practice.</span>
  • <span class="slider_title"> Our Mission </span> <span class="slider_description">Come together in moments of holiness through Shabbat and holiday celebrations, uplifting prayer, and lifecycle ceremonies that give voice to the full range of human emotion and experience.</span>
  • <span class="slider_title"> Our Mission </span> <span class="slider_description">We join together to fulfill the Jewish vision of social justice by working together to bring goodness and healing to our community, the greater Boston area, our nation and our world.</span>
  • <span class="slider_title"> Our Mission </span> <span class="slider_description">We create strong partnerships among congregants, lay leaders, clergy and staff so that we can shape an innovative congregation committed to a relevant expression of Judaism for all generations.</span>
  • <span class="slider_title"> Our Core Pillars </span> <span class="slider_description">Engage in the Study of Torah; Unite in Prayer and Seek Relationship with God; Pursue Tikkun Olam (Repair of the World); Strengthen Jewish Community and Support for Israel; Enhance Jewish Family Life</span>
  • <span class="slider_title"> Inclusion </span> <span class="slider_description">Temple Beth David aims to make our synagogue an increasingly welcoming Jewish home by embracing all people and extending kavod – honor to people with different needs and abilities.</span>

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Temple Beth David Westwood, MA

We foster an inclusive, caring, vibrant Reform Jewish community that brings Jewish tradition, values, and spirituality to our lives. The temple’s rabbi, staff, and lay leaders offer a variety of meaningful religious, educational, and social programs for our 260+ member families. 

Member engagement continues to flourish as we strengthen our connections to each other, to Judaism, and to our Jewish values. 

We welcome all kinds of families: singles and couples, children and adults, LGBTQ+, interfaith, Jews by choice, and those seeking to learn more about Judaism. 

We look forward to connecting with you and welcoming you to our temple community!

 

Shorashim Religious School

 

Learn more about our mission and goals for our students and families, our Grades K-6 Program, and our 7-12 Teen Program. Questions about Shorashim? Contact Rabbi Naftali Hirsch, Director of Congregational Learning - rabbinaftali@templebethdavid.net

Shalom Corner Early Learning Center

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Learn more about our early learning center here 
Enrollment for 2025-26 is now open!

Some openings for preschool and preK are still available for 2024-25.

 

 

FridayFri, 17 JanJanuary, 2025

Scholar Marc Dollinger, Ph.D.

Friday, Jan 17th 6:30p to 8:00pDr. Marc Dollinger holds the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility at San Francisco State University. He has served as research fellow at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Religion as well as the Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College, where he coordinated the program in Jewish Studies. Professor Dollinger is author of four scholarly books in American Jewish history, most recently Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing The Alliance in the 1960s. He has published entries in the Encyclopedia Judaica, the Encyclopedia of Antisemitism, and the Encyclopedia of African American Education. His next project, an academic memoir titled Laundering Antisemitism: Identity Politics, Ethnic Studies, and the University, Indiana University Press, traces his experiences as an identified Jewish (and Zionist) professor in the current political climate. Dr. Dollinger currently serves on the executive board of the Union for Reform Judaism. He is also board president of URJ Camp Newman. Professor Dollinger is a past president of both the Jewish Community High School of the Bay and Brandeis Hillel Day School. He also currently serves on the boards of the American Jewish Historical Society where he chairs the academic council and the Judah Magnes Museum Foundation. He sat on the California advisory committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, was named Volunteer of the Year by the SF Jewish Community Federation, and was awarded the San Francisco JCRC’s Courageous Leader award. Professor Dollinger has spoken about his research with the CEO of the NAACP on CNN as well as the CNN-podcast “Silence Is Not An Option,” the NFL Network, ESPN, and Germany’s National Public Radio. Just for fun, Dr. Dollinger helped actress Helen Hunt learn about her Jewish roots on the prime-time NBC show, “Who Do You Think You Are?”

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FridayFri, 24 JanJanuary, 2025

 
 
Shabbat Babayit (Shabbat in the Home)

Friday, Jan 24th 6:00p to 8:00pShabbat BaBayit (Shabbat in the Home) is back once again! We invite temple members to open their homes as hosts or to sign up as participants. All ages are welcome! Gather together in the home of fellow members of our temple community to celebrate Shabbat. Click above for more information and to RSVP by January 17th.

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SundaySun, 26 JanJanuary, 2025

 
 
K-6 Shorashim

Sunday, Jan 26th 9:30a to 11:30a

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