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Civil Rights Experience Shabbat 2025


Celebrate the Beth El Civil Rights Experience

Join us Friday, May 2nd, at 5:45 p.m. for a musical Kabbalat Shabbat service featuring our amazing Davening team. Services will be followed by a delicious spring-time dinner! 

Menu: 
Caesar Salad
Lemon Pasta with Flaked Salmon and Roasted Asparagus Tips
Italian Roasted Vegetables
Strawberry Shortcake
Garlic & Regular Challah


The celebration continues at our Saturday morning Shabbat services, beginning at 9:30 a.m., during which we will honor donors, committee members, and others who have brought the Civil Rights Experience to life! Special honors will be given to Marc Rice, winner of the first annual Tzedek Tirdof (Pursuing Justice) Award, and Susan Lapidus, winner of the first annual Ambassador Award.

The Rev. Thomas Wilder, senior pastor of the historic Bethel Baptist Church will give a guest D'var and a celebratory Kiddush luncheon will follow. Throughout the weekend, you'll be able to view a special exhibit on loan, designed by student interns from the Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium; "As Goes Birmingham, So Goes the Country: Birmingham and the 1963 Battle for Civil Rights." 

 

You can use this form to register for dinner on May 2nd and to become a sponsor for Civil Rights Experience Shabbat. Help us celebrate this year's award winners and all who have made this project possible!


Want to learn more about the Beth El Civil Rights Experience? Visit templebethelexperience.org


Become a Sponsor! 

Support the Civil Rights Experience and honor this year's award winners and honorees. You can use the form below to become a sponsor for this year's event. Scroll to the bottom if you wish to purchase dinner tickets separately from sponsorship. If you are purchasing a sponsorship at the sustainer or champion level you automatically receive 2 dinner tickets.

SUSTAINER: $500 (includes 2 dinner tickets)
CHAMPION: $180 (includes 2 dinner tickets)
ADVOCATE: $54 (dinner tickets purchased separately)
CHAI: $18 (dinner tickets purchased separately)

 

Adult dinner tickets are $25/each. 
 
Childrens' dinner tickets (12 and under) are $10 each. 
 
Tue, March 25 2025 25 Adar 5785