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Smoothies in the Sukkah
Beth TzedecBeth Tzedec and PJ Library are teaming up for our annual Sukkot celebration! Join us for crafts, stories, songs and delicious smoothies. Click here to register.
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October 7 Commemoration: Community Gathering for Reflection & Resilience
Beth TzedecJoin us for a powerful and meaningful gathering to honour the lives lost and forever changed by the tragic events of October 7. The evening will also include the screening of The New Jew: Days of War. This free event is presented in partnership with Calgary Jewish Federation, Beth Tzedec Calgary Jewish Film Festival and...
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Pizza in the Hut
Beth TzedecJoin a delicious celebration of Sukkot at our annual "Pizza in the Hut" event! Embracing the festive spirit of Sukkot, we invite you to gather as a community to share a pizza feast in our beautifully decorated sukkah. Registration closes Friday, October 3.
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Simchat Torah Celebration
Beth Tzedec6:00pm Service | 7:00pm Reception Share a sweet and joyous celebration as we mark the conclusion of the annual Torah reading cycle with a Simchat Torah event and reception. With a special activity for kids, we'll rejoice together as we conclude the annual cycle of Torah readings and embark on a new year of learning,...
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Featured Judaism 201
Judaism 201
Beth TzedecReady to go deeper in your Jewish learning? Judaism 201 is an adult education series with Rabbi Russ designed for those who want to explore the richness of our heritage and religious tradition. This year’s program will guide learners through some of Judaism’s most fascinating texts and practices, including Sefer Yetzirah (The Book of Formation),...
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What’s Rabbi Reading? The Beth Tzedec Book Club
Masala Art 2515 90 Ave SW #123, Calgary, Alberta, CanadaJoin us each month at Masala Art for lively conversation, good company, and great food as we explore Jewish literature together. The Beth Tzedec Book Club is open to all who love reading and discussing stories, history, and ideas through a Jewish lens. Our October session will feature Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and...
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FeaturedThe Blond Boy from the Casbah
Beth TzedecFrance 2024 | Director: Alexandre Arcady | French & Arabic with English subtitles | 126 minutes Drama Antoine, a celebrated filmmaker, travels back to his birthplace, Algiers, with his young son to present his latest film: an account of his childhood in mid-20th century Algeria during the country's civil war. As he wanders through the...
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FeaturedAmong Neighbors
Beth TzedecUSA/Poland 2025 | Director: Yoav Potash | English & Polish with English subtitles | 100 minutes Documentary - USA Today, in an era where difficult truths about the past are being silenced by a right-wing Polish government that seeks to deny any Polish complicity in the Holocaust, Among Neighbors investigates the story of a small,...
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FeaturedLabors of Love: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Szold
Beth TzedecUSA 2025 | Director: Abby Ginzberg | English & Hebrew with English subtitles | 79 minutes Documentary A visionary leader, humanitarian, and one of history’s most influential, yet under-recognized, American Jewish women, Henrietta Szold left an enduring legacy that continues to reverberate to this day. After visiting Palestine in 1909, she founded Hadassah, a Jewish...
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FeaturedThe Ring
Beth TzedecIsrael 2024 | Directors: Adir Miller, Doror Paz & Yoav Paz | Hebrew, English & Hungarian with English subtitles | 122 minutes Dramedy Arnon Noble is a religious man with a strong bond to his mother, a Holocaust survivor. He usually drives her to school lectures where she tells the students how she saved the...
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What’s Rabbi Reading? The Beth Tzedec Book Club
Masala Art 2515 90 Ave SW #123, Calgary, Alberta, CanadaJoin us each month at Masala Art for lively conversation, good company, and great food as we explore Jewish literature together. The Beth Tzedec Book Club is open to all who love reading and discussing stories, history, and ideas through a Jewish lens. Our November book selection will be announced soon! Upcoming books to be...
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Featured Judaism 201
Judaism 201
Beth TzedecReady to go deeper in your Jewish learning? Judaism 201 is an adult education series with Rabbi Russ designed for those who want to explore the richness of our heritage and religious tradition. This year’s program will guide learners through some of Judaism’s most fascinating texts and practices, including Sefer Yetzirah (The Book of Formation),...
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FeaturedAlways Together
Beth TzedecIsrael 2025 Director: Paz Schwartz Hebrew with English subtitles 72 minutes Documentary Displaced from their homes in the kibbutzim and villages along Israel’s southern border with Gaza following the October 7th massacre, the twelfth graders of Nofei HaBsor, the regional high school, face an uncertain future. Scattered across the country and longing to be with...
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Featured Family Shabbat DinnerFamily Shabbat Dinner
Beth TzedecBring your whole family together for an unforgettable Friday night filled with music, laughter, and community spirit. This month, we'll be joined by our friends at PJ Library, who will be leading us in a special Shabbat craft! At 5:30pm, jump into an interactive Shabbat service with singing, games, and stories that will have kids...
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Seudah Shelishit: Exploring Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer
Beth TzedecPirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer (The Chapters of Rabbi Eliezer) is one of the most imaginative and wide-ranging works of rabbinic literature—a Talmudic-era collection of midrashim that retells and expands upon the Torah’s stories, from the creation of the world to Miriam’s leprosy in the Book of Numbers. Within its pages you’ll find Jewish ethics, ancient customs,...
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FeaturedThe Sea
Beth TzedecIsrael 2025 | Director: Shai Carmeli-Pollak | Arabic & Hebrew with English subtitles | 93 minutes Drama Khaled, a 12-year-old boy from a Palestinian village, gets the chance to fulfill a dream and see the sea for the first time in his life on a school trip. But when they reach a military checkpoint, the...