Temple Beth Miriam offers a worship experience that is accessible to all – regardless of background or Jewish knowledge, but also seeks to inspire and bring together our community – full of music and joy, making space for contemplation and sharing.

We welcome Shabbat each Friday at 6:30 with guitar, keyboard, soloists and our outstanding Interim Rabbi Joel N. Abraham. 

Saturday morning services are held when we celebrate members of our community becoming Bet Mitzvah.

The High HolyDays are a special time at Beth Miriam. Our community comes together as congregants help to lead worship, bringing together traditional prayers and new music, as we celebrate the New Year and engage together in the Jewish process of t'shuvah (repentance). 

We also gather for other Jewish holidays, with special traditions for each. Our clergy is available for all lifecycle events – celebrations and sorrows.

What You Can Expect at Services...

High Holidays

Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are among the holiest in the Jewish year.  There are hundreds of people in the building and the atmosphere is filled with friendship, renewal, learning, prayer, repentance and reflection. There are many services which you are most welcome to attend even if you are not a member of Beth Miriam during these days and you will be most welcomed on these important days. There will be special High Holiday pages as the holidays approach with a full schedule and description of each service and program.

Guide to the High Holidays: Find more meaning during the Days of Awe

Shabbat

Every Shabbat is different but you can expect a service that is understandable and spiritual. You will not be lost during the service as pages are announced and everything is transliterated (Hebrew in English characters) as well as in Hebrew and translated.

The services are filled with music, as well. Any given Shabbat you may hear keyboard, guitar, perhaps a flute, vocals, and even bongos, tamborines and saxophone. We have even had an accordion and a tuba on the bima! We encourage singing and love when the congregation ‘sings a new song to the Lord.’ Come sing with us!

Visual Tefillah

Beth Miriam has a full Visual Tefillah system for the occasion use of a unique kind of Shabbat service when the congregation uses the liturgy displayed on a screen instead of a prayerbook. It is a unique and wonderfully creative way of worshiping.

Minor Festivals

Hannukah, Purim, and other minor Festivals are celebrated at Beth Miriam each in its own unique way. Purim has the reading of the Megillah and the Purim spiel and carnival. Hannukah has its own song session and family dinner and celebration. Tu Bishvat is an in-school activity, and so forth. Check the calendar for the times and dates of all the events.

Festivals

At each Festival, there will be an experience of some variety based on the Festival's theme. The date will likely be the evening of the last day of the Festival or, in the case of Simchat Torah, the closest Sunday or Wednesday, and may include some kind of text study, some activity related to the Festival, music, and the Yiskor Service.