Temple Beth El

Temple Beth El continues to be an active community with some new exciting things happening. For now our page will be updated sporadically as we search for someone to act as administrator. In the meantime you can follow us on the internet by checking out our website at www.templebetheloneonta.org. You can reach us by writing to Temple Beth El, P O Box 383, Oneonta, NY 13820 or calling the synagogue and leaving a message at 607-432-5522. Someone will reply as quickly as possible.

Temple Beth El Offering Conservative Jewish worship since 1935

Yom HaShoah

2021 #WeRemember Campaign for International Holocaust Remembrance Day Learn more at http://wjc.org/werememberThe World Jewish Congress launched the Campaign five years ago with the goal of ensuring that the lessons ...

Temple Beth El joins with The Jewish Community Relations Council of New York who is appalled and angered by the death of George Floyd at the hands of officers in the Minneapolis Police Department. Our sorrow is further compounded by the recent killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, another act of ugly and violent racism. 56 years after the historic signing of the Civil Rights Act, hopes for equal rights for Blacks and other communities of color have been dashed again by blatant acts of bigotry and bloodshed.

We stand in partnership with our sisters and brothers in the Black community, and in all communities of color, as we collectively strive to stamp out racism and prejudice in all of its forms from our society. We in the Jewish community know all too painfully the end result of unchecked hatred.

In that spirit, we commit ourselves to the Biblical call of “Justice, justice shall [we] pursue,” and the imperative of achieving a peaceful, just and equal society for all.

Cheryl Fishbein, President, JCRCNY
Michael S. Miller, Executive Vice President and CEO, JCRCNY
Stephanie Bauer, President, Temple Beth El
Rabbi and Cantor George Hirschfeld

“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” Elie Wiesel