A beautiful Sukkah being built by BCRC members. Kids enjoying thes Chanuka party, which included creative face painting. The Fundraising Committee offers goods at the BCRC store.	BCRC Calendar New Rabbi Beth Chaverim Reform Congregation, the only Reform Jewish Congregation in Loudoun County, is proud to announce our first permanent spiritual leader, Rabbi Jesse Gallop. Rabbi Gallop is a native of Minneapolis, MN and comes to us with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Science from the University of Denver and a Master of Arts degree in Hebrew Literature from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR). His achievements have been recognized with awards for academic excellence and leadership in the university community. Rabbi Gallop received the 2007 Rabbi Jill Kreitman Prize for exceptional achievement in history studies at HUC-JIR; he was the University of Denver's Outstanding Sophomore Man of the Year for 2000. Rabbi Gallop has held social work positions as chaplain for the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York and as a director of youth programs in Israel, Florida and Puerto Rico. He has been teaching and supervising Jewish education at the elementary, upper grades, family, and adult levels in Denver, Minneapolis, Brooklyn and Ashburn. Over the last three years at HUC-JIR, then-Student Rabbi Gallop traveled regularly to Northern VA to serve as Beth Chaverim Reform Congregation's worship leader, educator, and pastoral counselor. Rabbi Gallop was ordained May 4, 2008 and will be joining the congregation as our permanent Rabbi on July 1st. Download Press Release (PDF) Friends Jewish Film Festival in May We invite you to attend our First International Jewish Film Festival. Our diverse selections include the unlikely friendship between two first-time New York City school teachers who smartly and comedically tackle the complex issues of prejudice and multicultural diversity, "Guess Who's Coming to Shabbat Dinner," performances by first class musicians from the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and the political and cultural issues that get raised when they travel to foreign concert sites, and a documentary about six legendary American Jewish comics and what it means to be Jewish, female, and the dream of making it in show business. Download Showtime Information and Ticket Order Form

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