BHC Dinner Dance Celebrates Eileen Regen, Alice and Leslie Dreier - SOLD OUT!
Jul
8

BHC Dinner Dance Celebrates Eileen Regen, Alice and Leslie Dreier - SOLD OUT!

BHC Dinner Dance Celebrates Eileen Regen, Alice and Leslie Dreier

Sold Out!


(You can still make a donation.. see button below)

Tuesday July 8, 2025 | 5:30 - 9:00 pm

Enjoy a signature cocktail, a buffet dinner, and a sweet summer evening of dancing to jazz and Motown with friends

Your ticket includes: Wines, beers, signature cocktails, Hors d’oeuvres, Polynesian Palooza buffet, dessert bar

Attire: Party casual

For over a decade, Leslie was president of the congregation while Alice has been a board member and tireless volunteer beautifying our sanctuary with flowers from her fabulous garden. 

For her part, Eileen has served as a Board member for twenty plus years, leading hospitality, advertising, and the newsletters. When she stepped down it took five people to replace her!

Our honorees this year have done so much in such a quiet and elegant way with so little fanfare.  It is our honor to acknowledge all they have done for BHC.  The proceeds from our gala go to the BHC general fund.

Dinner committee: Lucy Goodhart & Gordon Bennett, Nancy & Geoffrey Fages, Dave & Dorothy Goldstone, Gail Robinson & Martin Kessel

For more information, contact Nancy: email or call

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Books of Jewish Interest
Jul
9

Books of Jewish Interest

A Girl Named Carrie by Jerrie Marcus Smith, Nancy Fages, discussion leader

Jerrie Marcus Smith remembers her great aunt Carrie as a humorless woman who always wore black and who, Jerrie says, “scared me to death.” Only as an adult did Jerrie grasp the impact of Carrie Marcus Neiman. Along with her brother, Herbert Marcus Sr., and her husband A.L. Neiman, Carrie co-founded in 1907 the famed Neiman Marcus department store in Dallas, Texas.


Carrie played an integral role in the store’s success, despite having three strikes against her: she was a woman, she was Jewish, and (after her husband’s illicit relationship with a second-floor saleswoman) she was divorced. Yet with impeccable taste and exemplary manners, she traveled as a buyer to New York in the 1920s (without a man!) and, as Jerrie says, “was nobody’s pushover.”


Carrie was self-taught and never attended college. Her only pregnancy ended in miscarriage; she worked at Neiman Marcus until her death at age 66. Yet through memories shared by her father, the late Neiman Marcus legend Stanley Marcus, as well as through spellbinding interviews with long retired salespeople, Jerrie has felt inextricably tied to Carrie. Each recollection of Aunt Carrie, each remembrance, each detail melted away Jerrie’s childhood fear of the stern woman in black, leaving in its place a colorful portrait of a person to be admired, to be loved and—perhaps most of all—to be shared.
 

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Books of Jewish Interest
Jul
9

Books of Jewish Interest

You Need a Schoolhouse by Stephanie Deutsch, Gail Robinson and Stephanie Deutsch, discussion leaders

Booker T. Washington, the founder of Tuskegee Institute, and Julius Rosenwald, the president of Sears, Roebuck, and Company, first met in 1911 at a Chicago luncheon. By charting the lives of these two men both before and after the meeting, Stephanie Deutsch offers a fascinating glimpse into the partnership that would bring thousands of modern schoolhouses to African American communities in the rural South in the era leading up to the civil rights movement. Trim and vital at just shy of fifty, Rosenwald was the extraordinarily rich chairman of one of the nation’s largest businesses, interested in using his fortune to do good not just in his own Jewish community but also to promote the well-being of African Americans. 

Washington, though widely admired, had weathered severe crises both public and private in his fifty-six years. He had dined with President Theodore Roosevelt and drunk tea with Queen Victoria, but he had also been assaulted on a street in New York City. He had suffered personal heartbreak, years of overwork, and the discouraging knowledge that, despite his optimism and considerable success, conditions for African Americans were not improving as he had assumed they would. From within his own community, Washington faced the bitter charge of accommodationism that haunts his legacy to this day. Despite their differences, the two men would work together well and their collaboration would lead to the building of five thousand schoolhouses. By the time segregation ended, the “Rosenwald Schools” that sprang from this unlikely partnership were educating one third of the South’s African American children. These schoolhouses represent a significant step in the ongoing endeavor to bring high quality education to every child in the United States—an ideal that remains to be realized even today.


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White Mountain Jewish Film Festival
Jul
10

White Mountain Jewish Film Festival

Movie Times - All Films:
Box Office Opens: 5:30 PM | Patio Opens: 6:00 PM | Guest Speaker: 6:30 PM | Film: 7:00PM  

Tickets are sold at the door or Purchase online (coming soon)
General Admission:  $10.00 | BHC and JFNH Members:  $9.00 |  Season Pass (5 Films): $40.00


July 10 - Shoshana (2023)

Inspired by real events, SHOSHANA is a political thriller set in the 1930s in Tel Aviv, a brand new European, Jewish city being built on the shores of the Mediterranean.

Thomas Wilkin (Douglas Booth) is in love with the city and with Shoshana Borochov (Irina Starshenbaum). Through their relationship the film explores the way extremism and violence pushes people apart, forcing people to choose one side or the other.



Watch the Trailer here.





Guest Speaker: Rick Winston – Film Historian

Rick Winston was the co-owner of Montpelier’s Savoy Theater for 29 years, and was Programming Director for the Green Mountain Film Festival for 14 years.

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Friday Morning Walking Series
Jul
11

Friday Morning Walking Series

Catch up with old friends and meet new ones during Walking Fridays again this summer. Detailed directions to each meeting point will follow the week before each walk.   

The first walk will be on Friday, July 11th. We will meet at 9:30 AM at Bretzfelder Park.

 

Directions: From the center of Bethlehem, follow Route 302 West to Prospect Street. Turn right.  Bretzfelder Park is approximately 1 mile down Prospect, on the left.

The hike is approximately 1½ miles, with some gradual ups and downs. Please bring water and bug spray. Wear comfortable walking shoes or hiking boots. Bring hiking poles if you use them.

 

Everyone is invited back to Sharon and Barry’s house after the hike for some snacks!!

Please let us know if you are coming. We don’t want to leave you behind!

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Sounds in the Sanctuary
Jul
18

Sounds in the Sanctuary

Bernard Rose, Piano

Sunghae Anna Lim, Violin

J.S. Bach – Sonata for Violin and Keyboard in F minor

Ravel – Sonata for Violin and Piano

Debussy – Suite Bergomasque

Prokofiev – Sonata for Violin and Piano in D Major


Season Pass (4 concerts): $60 for BHC members, $75 general public (may be purchased at the door, cash or check only)

Tickets available at the door on concert days: $20 members, $25 General Admission (cash or check only)

As all of you are well aware, ticket sales only contribute about 25% of the cost of bringing in our performers.  We rely on the generous support of our patrons.  We thank those of you who have already contributed to the Sounds in the Sanctuary 2025 season.  Donate here

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Friday Morning Walking Series
Jul
25

Friday Morning Walking Series

Catch up with old friends and meet new ones during Walking Fridays again this summer.

Detailed directions to each meeting point will follow the week before each walk.   

 Please bring water and bug spray. Wear comfortable walking shoes or hiking boots. Bring hiking poles if you use them.

 

Everyone is invited back to Sharon and Barry’s house after the hike for some snacks!!

Please let us know if you are coming. We don’t want to leave you behind!

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White Mountain Jewish Film Festival
Jul
31

White Mountain Jewish Film Festival

Movie Times - All Films:
Box Office Opens: 5:30 PM | Patio Opens: 6:00 PM | Guest Speaker: 6:30 PM | Film: 7:00PM  

Tickets are sold at the door or Purchase online (coming soon)
General Admission:  $10.00 | BHC and JFNH Members:  $9.00 |  Season Pass (5 Films): $40.00


July 31 -Janis Ian: Breaking the Silence”(2024)

In the mid-60s, Janis Ian, a teenage singer-songwriter from New Jersey scores a hit ("Society's Child," 1966) about an interracial relationship. The song launches her illustrious career but also ignites controversy, and she plunges into an emotional tailspin–only to emerge from the ashes with an even bigger hit ("At Seventeen," 1975) about body shaming.

For the next six decades, Janis overcame homophobia, record industry misogyny, and a life-threatening illness to produce an indelible body of work that continues to draw large audiences around the globe.

         Watch the Trailer here:


Guest Speaker: Peter Cunningham, Photographer

Peter has been a professional photographer for over 30 years.  His teachers include Baptist fisherman Lester Tate, dancer Martha Myers, French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, Zen Master Bernie Glassman and singer-songwriterJanis Ian.

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 Friday Morning Walking Series
Aug
1
to Aug 8

Friday Morning Walking Series

  • Bethlehem, NH, 03574 United States (map)
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Catch up with old friends and meet new ones during Walking Fridays again this summer.

Detailed directions to each meeting point will follow the week before each walk.   

 Please bring water and bug spray. Wear comfortable walking shoes or hiking boots. Bring hiking poles if you use them.

 

Everyone is invited back to Sharon and Barry’s house after the hike for some snacks!!

Please let us know if you are coming. We don’t want to leave you behind!

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Sounds in the Sanctuary
Aug
1

Sounds in the Sanctuary

August 1

Halcyon Chorale

The Sacred Veil

The most recent collaboration between composer Eric Whitacre and poet/lyricist Charles Anthony Silvestri, “The Sacred Veil” is based on the experiences of Silvestri and his wife, Julie, who died of ovarian cancer at age 36 in 2005, leaving two young children. Including texts from Silvestri, Whitacre and Julie herself, the intimate, compelling score tells a story of courtship, love, loss, and the search for solace.
Season Pass (4 concerts): $60 for BHC members, $75 general public (may be purchased at the door, cash or check only)

Tickets available at the door on concert days: $20 members, $25 General Admission (cash or check only)

As all of you are well aware, ticket sales only contribute about 25% of the cost of bringing in our performers.  We rely on the generous support of our patrons.  We thank those of you who have already contributed to the Sounds in the Sanctuary 2025 season.  Donate here

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Books of Jewish Interest
Aug
6

Books of Jewish Interest

The Joy of Costco by David and Susan Schwartz, Melissa Potter, discussion leader

Join David & Susan Schwartz on a whirlwind tour of Costco warehouses around the globe. They are two of Costco's biggest fans, yet live in one of NYC's smallest apartments. Since 2016, they have been to over 250 of Costco's 850+ warehouses, plus gotten behind-the-scenes looks at depots, packaging facilities, vendors, meatpacking plants, and even a pre-opening party.

Travelling over 240,000 miles, they have visited at least one warehouse in 47 US states and 13 other countries, including Australia, Canada, China, France, Iceland, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, South Korea, Taiwan, and the UK. They celebrated the launch of this book with a Yonkers to Yorba Linda Costco Road Trip, stopping to visit their favorite retailer along the way.

Topics are covered in a whimsical A to Z format, using Q&A to cover topics ranging from Cashews and Chicken to Hot Dogs and Hawaii, targeted to delight the more than 128 million Costco members and over 300,000 dedicated Costco employees. There is a Prologue that describes how the authors came to write the book, and an introduction that provides a brief narrative history of Costco and its predecessor companies.

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White Mountain Jewish Film Festival
Aug
7

White Mountain Jewish Film Festival

Movie Times - All Films:
Box Office Opens: 5:30 PM | Patio Opens: 6:00 PM | Guest Speaker: 6:30 PM | Film: 7:00PM  

Tickets are sold at the door or Purchase online (coming soon)
General Admission:  $10.00 | BHC and JFNH Members:  $9.00 |  Season Pass (5 Films): $40.00


August 7 - “Midas Man” – (2024)

Brian Epstein, a man who lived a thousand lives in a few short years, a visionary who transformed music history. From running a Liverpool record store to shaping the sound of a generation,

Epstein's journey is a rollercoaster of ambition, passion, and relentless pursuit of greatness. Jacob Fortune-Lloyd stars as the mastermind behind The Beatles' meteoric rise, navigating a whirlwind of unprecedented fame, cultural revolution, and personal demons. But behind the glitz and glamour lies a man seeking acceptance and love in a world not ready.

 Watch the trailer here

Guest Speaker: Erik Taros, Beatles Historian


Beatles & Rock 'n' Roll Historian, Film Maker and Archivist Erik Taros is an original generation Beatles fan who has been seriously researching and collecting rare music media since the mid-seventies.

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Sounds in the Sanctuary
Aug
15

Sounds in the Sanctuary

“A Tribute to the Mautner and Robinson Families”

Sponsored by Dorothea Mautner in honor of her husband, Henry Mautner

A performance in the style of a Viennese salon, including works by Bach, Mozart, and Schubert, featuring:

Dr. Andrus Madsen, pianoforte

Anastasia Robinson, soprano

Gary Robinson, guitar

Tickets available at the door on concert days: $20 members, $25 General Admission (cash or check only)

As all of you are well aware, ticket sales only contribute about 25% of the cost of bringing in our performers.  We rely on the generous support of our patrons.  We thank those of you who have already contributed to the Sounds in the Sanctuary 2025 season.  Donate here

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Books of Jewish Interest
Aug
20

Books of Jewish Interest

The Merchant Princes by Leon Harris, Lucy Goodhart, discussion leader

Focusing on one city and family per chapter, Harris reveals the fascinating stories of America's great Jewish storekeeping families--the Rosenwalds of Chicago, Riches of Atlanta, Marcuses of Dallas, and Goldsmiths of Memphis, among others--telling how they progressed from ordinary peddlers to the creators of sumptuous retail emporiums. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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White Mountain Jewish Film Festival
Aug
21

White Mountain Jewish Film Festival

Movie Times - All Films:
Box Office Opens: 5:30 PM | Patio Opens: 6:00 PM | Guest Speaker: 6:30 PM | Film: 7:00PM  

Tickets are sold at the door or Purchase online (coming soon)
General Admission:  $10.00 | BHC and JFNH Members:  $9.00 |  Season Pass (5 Films): $40.00


August 21 - Daniel – (1983)

A '60s graduate student (Timothy Hutton) recalls his parents (Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse), executed in the '50s for selling atomic secrets. The film, directed by Sidney Lumet, is based on E. L. Doctorow’s novel inspired by the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for espionage.

 Watch the trailer here

Guest Speakers: Robert and Ellen Meeropol with Rick Winston

Robert Meeropol is the younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.

Ellen Meeropol is the author of five novels (The Lost Women of Azalea Court, Her Sister's Tattoo, Kinship of Clover, On Hurricane Island, and House Arrest) and the guest editor for the anthology, Dreams for a Broken World.

Rick Winston – Film Historian Rick Winston was the co-owner of Montpelier’s Savoy Theater for 29 years, and was Programming Director for the Green Mountain Film Festival for 14 year

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Friday Morning Walking Series
Aug
22

Friday Morning Walking Series

Catch up with old friends and meet new ones during Walking Fridays again this summer.

Detailed directions to each meeting point will follow the week before each walk.   

 Please bring water and bug spray. Wear comfortable walking shoes or hiking boots. Bring hiking poles if you use them.

 

Everyone is invited back to Sharon and Barry’s house after the hike for some snacks!!

Please let us know if you are coming. We don’t want to leave you behind!

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Sounds in the Sanctuary
Aug
29

Sounds in the Sanctuary

Amit Peled, cello

Martin Labazevitch, piano

Weinberg – Cello Sonata No. 2

Chopin – Cello Sonata in G minor

Tickets available at the door on concert days: $20 members, $25 General Admission (cash or check only)

As all of you are well aware, ticket sales only contribute about 25% of the cost of bringing in our performers.  We rely on the generous support of our patrons.  We thank those of you who have already contributed to the Sounds in the Sanctuary 2025 season.  Donate here

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White Mountain Jewish Film Festival
Sep
4

White Mountain Jewish Film Festival

Movie Times - All Films:
Box Office Opens: 5:30 PM | Patio Opens: 6:00 PM | Guest Speaker: 6:30 PM | Film: 7:00PM  

Tickets are sold at the door or Purchase online (coming soon)
General Admission:  $10.00 | BHC and JFNH Members:  $9.00 |  Season Pass (5 Films): $40.00


September 4 - Treasure – (2024)

Ruth,(Lena Dunham) a neurotic businesswoman from New York, takes her father Edek(Stephen Fry), a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor on a journey to Poland to make sense of her family's past. Edek's hesitation to confront his past and his often odd demeanor cause more than just one dispute between him and his daughter. The trip unfolds into a story that encapsulates the emotion of discovery and drama with humor. Based on the best-selling autobiographical novel TOO MANY MEN by New York-based writer Lily Brett. 

Watch the trailer here

 Watch the trailer here

Guest Speaker: Lori Lefkowitz - Ruderman Professor and Director of the Jewish Studies Program and Director of the Humanities Center at Northeastern University. 

She is the author of In Scripture: The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identity, which was named a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Women’s Studies. Her awards include a Fulbright professorship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an academic fellowship at the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis, a Woodrow Wilson dissertation fellowship in the Women’s Studies Division, and a Golda Meir post-doctoral fellowship at Hebrew University.

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Apr
6

Tahara Training

Tahara, preparing the body by the Chevra Kaddisha for its final rest, is a simple, yet dignified ritual that includes cleansing, ritually washing, and dressing the deceased's body.

Learn to perform this Chesed Shel Emet (true act of kindness).

Ruth Chevion provides Taharah training as performed by a Chevra Kadisha.

Ruth recommends obtaining this useful reference book:  To Midwife a Soul: Guidelines for Performing Tahara by Richard A. Light.

Request more information or register here

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Feb
12

Tu B’ish Vat Seder

Registration link, modest shopping list and printed materials to follow. Led by Rabbi Kirshbaum who insists that Tu b"Shvat is one' of the two most important annual Jewish holidays we could be celebrating at this time.

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Virtual Conversation: "Living Jewish Art"—The Life and Work of Itshak Holtz, with BHC member Aliza Holtz
Jan
9

Virtual Conversation: "Living Jewish Art"—The Life and Work of Itshak Holtz, with BHC member Aliza Holtz

Explore diverse aspects of artist Itshak Holtz’s life and work with those who knew him, accompanied by a slideshow of some of his finest work, in a Zoom conversation hosted by the Museum at Eldridge Street, to be streamed on Thursday, January 9, 2025 at 6:00 pm.

The colors he used are from an Impressionist palette: the shaded pinks and beiges of Jerusalem’s ancient stones, the perfection of its azure skies, the verdancy of its trees and grasses dappled by sunlight. Holtz’s greatest power was in recreating the everyday life and scenes that he loved, his almost mystical ability to invoke the neshama - the inner spiritual soul of the scene and its characters.
— —Sylvia Axelrod Herskowitz, Director Emerita, Yeshiva University Museum

Richard McBee, noted expert on Jewish art and author of Living Jewish Art: The Work of Itshak Holtz (Abbeville Press, 2024) will discuss the artist’s career in conversation with Sylvia Herskowitz, director emerita of Yeshiva University Museum, and BHC member and artist-photographer Dr. Aliza Holtz, daughter of Itshak Holtz. 

The online discussion accompanies Abbeville Press’ publication of Living Jewish Art: The Work of Itshak Holtz (Hardcover, Dec. 10th), the first comprehensive book on the foremost painter of contemporary Jewish life.

From the beginning of his artistic career, Holtz was drawn to depict the life of the Orthodox communities of which he himself was a part, in both New York and Jerusalem. This lavishly illustrated volume surveys Holtz’s incomparable paintings, drawings, and prints of Jewish life. Organized by subject matter, it presents his scenes of worship, celebration, work, and everyday life, as well as his landscapes and portraits

A beautiful volume that will be cherished by Holtz’s admirers and collectors, it also makes a handsome Hanukkah gift for this holiday season.

Learn more about the webinar and register here.  

Learn more about Living Jewish Art: The Work of Itshak Hotz here.

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Jan
1

Eighth Night of Chanukah

Festivities at Bethlehem Town Hall feature the Sue Friedman menorah, traditional and silly songs, and good company. Snow, stars, cold, less cold - we will be there.

One Zoom link is good for the entire holiday. Request the Zoom link here.

Download the song book here.

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Dec
31

Seventh Night of Chanukah

Festivities at Bethlehem Town Hall feature the Sue Friedman menorah, traditional and silly songs, and good company. Snow, stars, cold, less cold - we will be there.

One Zoom link is good for the entire holiday. Request the Zoom link here.

Download the song book here.

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Dec
30

Sixth Night of Chanukah

Festivities at Bethlehem Town Hall feature the Sue Friedman menorah, traditional and silly songs, and good company. Snow, stars, cold, less cold - we will be there.

One Zoom link is good for the entire holiday. Request the Zoom link here.

Download the song book here.

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Dec
29

Fifth Night of Chanukah

Festivities at Bethlehem Town Hall feature the Sue Friedman menorah, traditional and silly songs, and good company. Snow, stars, cold, less cold - we will be there.

One Zoom link is good for the entire holiday. Request the Zoom link here.

Download the song book here.

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Dec
28

Fourth Night of Chanukah

Festivities at Bethlehem Town Hall feature the Sue Friedman menorah, traditional and silly songs, and good company. Snow, stars, cold, less cold - we will be there.

One Zoom link is good for the entire holiday. Request the Zoom link here.

Download the song book here.

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Dec
26

Second Night of Chanukah

Festivities at Bethlehem Town Hall feature the Sue Friedman menorah, silly, silly songs, and good company. Snow, stars, cold, less cold - we will be there.

One Zoom link is good for the entire holiday. Request the Zoom link here.

Download the song book here.

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Dec
25

First Night of Chanukah

Festivities at Bethlehem Town Hall feature the Sue Friedman menorah, traditional and silly songs, and good company.

Donuts and hot drinks to celebrate the first candle.

Snow, stars, cold, less cold - we will be there.

One Zoom link is good for the entire holiday. Request the Zoom link here.

Download the song book here.

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Dec
15

BHC Annual Zoom-only Members Meeting

We look forward to seeing all of our members at BHC’s virtual, Zoom-only annual meeting. You don't even have to leave your home.

  • Hear from your BHC board members and committee chairs about what was done in 2024 and what’s coming in 2025.

  • Members vote to approve our annual budget

  • Ask questions and make recommendations.

Please help create our community's future and attend. Bring your favorite variety of bagels and lox, or whatever you prefer for Sunday brunch. No worries about the weather or waiting in buffet lines this year.

If you are not currently a member or friend, but would be interested in seeing what we do, we would love to include you among our guests for the annual meeting!  

Members will receive their Zoom link by email. Guests may request a Zoom link here

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Sep
12

CPR and AED Training

Nina Chandler, NREMT, AHA BLS Heartsaver, FA CPR Instructor returns to BHC to help us refresh our emergency response skills, and teach new attendees lo perform CPR and use BHC’s Automated External Defibrillator (AED) equipment.

During this CPR class, students can expect to learn the proper techniques for administering CPR and using an AED, as well as how to recognize the signs of a heart attack or stroke.

Ms. Chandler will demonstrate the proper steps and then help us practice and refine our skills.

The class is limited to 10 students. The fee is $100; financial aid is available.

Find details on event and register here.

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