What's Happening at BJBE

Events

For more detailed information about the events happening at BJBE during the next month, please click on the mid-month mailer (PDF).

Summer Cook-out
Saturday, August 23, 2008
6:00 p.m.
Hosted by the BJBE Outreach Committee at the home of Bonnie and Scott Litch
1624 Birch Rd.
Northbrook, Illinois 60062
RSVP to: baselitch@aol.com

Shabbat Under the Stars at Wood Oaks Park
Friday, July 11 and Friday, August 8

Dinner begins promptly at 6:00 p.m.

Family service begins at 7:00 p.m.

Bring your family and friends as well as chairs and picnic blankets.

Prospective members are free and members who bring prospective members also are free

The cost for dinner is $8.50 for adults, $5 for children, children under 3 are free

For more information, contact the BJBE office at (847) 729-7575.

Project 1201 Update

Project 1201 continues to move forward with ever renewed excitement and energy. Our Architects have completed fifty percent of construction documents and we now anxiously await the next phase of bidding for our new home. This step will also give us a revised timeline of when we can expect to move in! We can hardly wait.

Over the past few months, we have moved to the next level of detail in the plans. We have looked carefully at the Sanctuary and office space and begun an extended conversation with regards to our technical needs for sound, video and lighting. There is so much to consider and so many options available to us.

Perhaps nothing has had more attention paid to it lately than the kitchen. Led ably by congregant Alan Miller, we have laid out a kitchen to meet the needs and to literally nourish us as we fulfill our vision of community.

The Capital Campaign is reaching out in every expanding circles. Our members have now pledged over $7.4 million. We are so very grateful. If you have not yet been contacted, don’t worry, you will be! If you would like to step up immediately to contribute either financially or in any other way, please contact one of our Campaign Chairs, Patti Frazin at (847) 945-6620 pfrazin@gmail.com, or Marc Swatez in the BJBE Office.

We are truly building together for the future.