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Temple Beth Torah
Member,
Union
for Reform Judaism
Serving Centreville, Chantilly,
Clifton,
Fairfax, Herndon, Reston, Oakton,
Gainesville, Manassas and
the Northern Virginia Jewish Community
P.O. Box 2020
Centreville, Virginia 20122
Tel: (703) 263-2252
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Welcome
Welcome to Temple Beth Torah. We are a growing Reform
congregation
serving the Northern Virginia communities
of Centreville, Chantilly, Clifton, Fairfax, Gainesville, Herndon
Manassas, and Oakton.
We are a community that builds friendships, promotes
discussions, has fun, believes in learning,
nurtures faith, supports community service, is a place prayer, and
provides an education program for young
children, teens, and adults. We are also one of the region’s
fastest growing communities of interfaith families.
Please take a tour of our website, call us with your
questions, and stop by for a visit.
This website will provide you with information about joining us for the
High Holidays, membership,
and our religious school program.
Upcoming
TBT Events
TBT Members are strongly encouraged to attend the
annual membership meeting on May 18, 2008, 12:30 - 2 pm at the Goddard
School. Find out information about your congregation. Approve the new
board. Your input is important!
Pizza and babysitting will be provided
Membership
Temple
Beth Torah offers membership options tailored for
families,
couples, single parent family and for single.
After reading about Temple Beth Torah, if you would like to discuss our
membership options please talk with
our Membership
Committee Chair. To learn more about our membership dues
structure,
please click here.
Beth Torah dedicates
a recovered Torah
The
first Torah to be owned by Temple Beth Torah has
been purchased! We were proud and excited
to hold our Torah dedication ceremony on Sunday, May 15
at St. John’s Episcopal Church.
This
particular Torah traveled halfway around the world
to be dedicated to Temple Beth Torah.
Rabbi
Youlus, an expert "sofer" who restored our new
Torah, said that he had recovered this Torah from a monastery in
southern Russia.
When he was first given the scroll by a Catholic priest there, Youlus
said he was not sure if it could be restored.
But, after six months of work that required rewriting 45 percent of the
text, Youlus was able to renew the fire-damaged scroll...
Read
the
full article published by Times Community
Newspapers about
our Torah and the ceremony here
or at Times
Community Newspapers.
Pictured:
Members and guests of Beth Torah in a ceremonial tradition parade
around the synagogue in honor of the new Torah.
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