Temple Beth-El

Temple Beth-El is an inclusive and welcoming congregation that fulfills the spiritual, educational, and social needs of its members. Temple Beth-El is committed to meaningful and relevant lifelong learning, joyful worship, and fulfillment of mitzvot with a special focus on Tikun Olam. Temple Beth-El is a Center for Jewish Living for its members and... for the general community. Professionally staffed to meet the spiritual, pastoral, and educational needs of every segment of the membership. Socially responsible through a broad range of programs and through fair and honest management of our internal business affairs. Focused on Chesed, lovingkindness, to our members and to our community through programs and services that connect the congregation to its members who may no longer be able to leave their homes often or without assistance. Focused on developing leaders within our membership to sustain the congregation through each generation. Supported and protected financially by the Temple Beth-El Foundation, whose Board of Directors actively works to strengthen the congregations endowment. Housed in an historic and inspirational facility that has adapted to our changing needs. Dedicated to a rolling strategic annually-reviewed long-range planning process to ensure a second century as robust as the first. Founded in Birmingham in December of 1907 as Congregation Beth-El and originally housed on the North Side of Birmingham, Temple Beth-El has grown in strength and spirit for a century, each generation not only nurturing its own needs but providing careful stewardship to carry Beth-El forward into the hands of those of us who would one day make Temple Beth-El our synagogue home. For generations of Jews in the South, Temple Beth-El has provided a home. Through the Great Depression, World Wars, Birminghams civil rights struggles, and the founding of the State of Israel, Temple Beth-Els members stood together and experienced history and life as a community. Today, Temple Beth-El, housed in its historic 1926 Highland ...Read More