Welcome to Temple Beth Or

Our warm, compassionate, vibrant, spirited, inclusive, and participatory Reform Jewish community is religiously and geographically diverse, serving Washington’s northern Puget Sound. Browse our website, attend a service or event, and join us!

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Welcome to Temple Beth Or

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Our Congregational Priorities

K'hilah/Mishpachah (community & family)

Nurturing our interactive, multigenerational extended family

Torah

Lifelong learning, searching for meaning, and seeking comfort and healing

Avodah

Worship and celebration through the observance of meaningful, creative, and traditional rituals

Tikkun Olam

Transforming ourselves and our world through tzedakah (fairness), social justice, and g’milut chasadim acts of loving kindness

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10 Week Equity Challenge

The Temple Beth Or 10-Week Equity Challenge is a powerful opportunity for shared learning, action, and growth. The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force invites you to explore and develop a deeper understanding of how inequity and racism affect our lives and our community.

Weekly options for learning are being emailed to participants, and are also posted on our website. Members who would like to participate can contact the office or Sonia Siegel Vexler for more info.
Move-Your-Tuchus a Thon
TBO statement: Black Lives Matter

Temple Beth Or joined more than 600 Jewish organizations to make a statement that Black Lives Matter. Jewish tradition teaches us that justice is not something that will be bestowed upon us, it is something that we need to pursue, and that the pursuit is itself sacred work. We’ll show up for each other every time one of us is targeted because of our differences, and reject any effort to use fear to divide us against each other.

Read the full statement here.
Service Bulletin and Online Prayer Book
We are introducing several support tools for our virtual worship services to enhance your experience at home including: greeters from our Board, bulletins, and a flip-book prayer book to use during our more formal worship services.

Bulletin

Service bulletins will be attached to the ORbits email. They will include our misheberach–healing list, yahrzeit–memorial list, and community events. Some weeks, especially for our informal services, we will include song lyrics in the bulletin. You may want to print your bulletin in advance or choose to access on another device during the service.

Flip-Book Prayer Book

For our more formal services we will use a flip-book version of our regular prayer book, Mishkan T’filah. The most comfortable way to use the flip-book is to access it on a different screen from the screen you are using for Zoom. For example, access Zoom on your desktop computer and access the flip-book prayer book on your phone or tablet.
- Access the flip-book prayer book here: https://www.ccarnet.org/publications/mishkan-tfilah-for-shabbat/
- Instructions on ‘how to use flip book’ here: https://www.ccarnet.org/publications/how-to-use-flip-books/
- If you already own a copy of Mishkan T’filah, the page numbers will be announced.