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Project Overview Video: Why Redesign the Sanctuary? (Call office for password) Rabbi Eric Woodward asks:
A sanctuary redesign means rethinking how we use BEKI’s sanctuary. The room was designed in the late 1950s for a formal, hierarchical style of worship. The rabbi and cantor led services on a high stage, like performers, with congregants seated like a passive audience. A redesign means creating a sanctuary that reflects our 21st-century values of warmth and inclusiveness, egalitarianism and engagement. It means enhancing our volunteer-led services, in which we are all participants, not audience members. It means a design that expresses our BEKI values and helps us live those values more fully. The overarching goals involve making our sanctuary:
For more about the thinking behind the redesign, please see the messages from Rabbi Eric Woodward and Immediate Past President Yaron Lew. What’s the Latest?02/13/2023 Video: Why Redesign the Sanctuary? (Call office for password) 01/2023 BEKI Bulletin article – January 2023 03/28/2022 Preliminary sketches (Call office for password) |
Sections Message From the Rabbi “Doing Nothing is Not an Option” Design Concepts Frequently Asked Questions Project Updates Sanctuary Photos of Yesterday Redesign Committee Carole Bass, co-chair Fundraising Committee Implementation Committee |
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Produce a design that has the support of the congregation and Board of Directors and is ready to implement. |