Tot Shabbat
Friday, October 1
6pm Services, 6:30pm Dinner
 

Cost for dinner is $5 for members, $7.50 for non-members. Children age six and under are fee.
Reservations are due by September 29 or the cost to attend doubles!
RSVP to Margie. 

This heartwarming Shabbat celebration led by "Miss Patty" Nogg has brought Jewish families from all over the metro area to Beth El for the past several years. Our service provides a wonderful way for grandparents, parents and children of all ages to enjoy welcoming Shabbat in a kid-friendly atmosphere. All services are followed by a special dinner at 6:30 pm, just for our Tot Shabbat families.

 

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Would you like to be a 'Host Family" and host a Tot Shabbat this year?

Would you like to help underwrite the cost of a Tot Shabbat dinner?

Contact Margie if you are interested.

Our Beth El families are singing the praises of our Tot Shabbat program – here’s what they have to say:

“We’ve gone to at least three or four Tot Shabbats in the last few months. We started going because we felt that the babies were old enough now. We like to go to Tot Shabbat because we don’t have to worry about the babies screaming or crying (that’s almost encouraged!) and I really like them seeing all the other kids having such a great time enjoying the service. I think it is important that they see going to synagogue as something that is fun and enjoyable, not a chore. We love the dinners afterward, too - not only because we don’t have to think about what to cook that night, but also because we can meet other families. We sometimes feel we don’t have enough friends with small children, and we have made some good friends going to Tot Shabbat (and reconnected with some old ones!).”
Emily and Gabe Meyer

“We try to attend every Tot Shabbat with the boys (we’ve even hosted one). We enjoy the opportunity to meet other families from the congregation, and it also allows the boys an opportunity to make friends in the Jewish community whom they might not have otherwise met. We all enjoy Miss Patty, and she makes the service special by making it interactive with the kids, and also by talking to them – and not at them — about religion. It is really heartwarming to hear one of the boys start singing a song at home or in the car that they learned from Miss Patty at Tot Shabbat."
Rebecca Ruetsch-Finkelstein and David Finkelstein
 

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Tot Shabbat Photo Gallery

 

Tot Shabbat and Say Shalom to Shabbat - 5/7/10
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Tot Shabbat and Say Shalom to Shabbat - 10/2/09
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Tot Shabbat and Say Shalom to Shabbat - 9/4/09
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