Kehillat Beijing is a lay-led Jewish community active in Beijing since 1979.
We hold Shabbat Services each Friday night and celebrate most holidays as a community.
19/03/2020
Several members are featured in this piece! Leon Fenster, congrats! Roberta Lipson, Ted Plafker, Joshua Kurtzig
He wanted to encapsulate Beijing’s Jewish community Unlike Shanghai or Hong Kong, which received Jews fleeing from World War II, Beijing does not have a robust Jewish history.
29/03/2018
Johan van Hulst, Dutch schoolteacher who saved hundreds of Jewish children during Holocaust, dies at 107 He was credited with saving the children by smuggling them to safe houses. He later became a politician.
26/03/2018
Sign up for our Community Seder on March 31st, the second night of Peach by emailing [email protected] or by scanning below QR Code. Doors open at 6, Seder begins at 6:30, Members (Adults 200 rmb, kids 150 rmb); Non-Members (Adults 300 rmb, kids 150 rmb)
For those interested in the High Holidays schedule:
Wednesday September 20th: Erev Rosh Hashana
Doors open 6pm, Services begin 7pm
Dinner to follow
Thursday September 21: Rosh Hashana
Servcices begin 9:45 am
Tashlich at around noon
Lunch at 12:30
Friday September 22nd: Shabbat Shuva
Kabbalat Shabbat at 7pm followed by dinner
September 22-24: Mini-retreat at the Great Wall
The whole community is welcome, more details to come
Monday September 25: Discussion with Rabbi Jack @ Moishe House
7pm - email [email protected] for details
Friday September 29: Erev Yom Kippur
Pre-fast meal at 4:30pm followed by Kol Nidre at 5:45pm
Friday September 30: Yom Kippur
Services begin at 9:45am
Neilah at 5pm, followed by Havdallah
Break-the-Fast meal at 6:50pm
Email [email protected] to buy tickets and make reservations or with questions or for more information.
08/08/2017
’He should be as well known as Schindler’: Documents reveal Canadian citizen Julius Kuhl as Holocaust hero - The Globe and Mail He lived for decades in relative anonymity in Toronto, where he ran a construction company. But documents shared with The Globe show that Julius Kuhl – who died in 1985 – should have been one of Canada’s most celebrated citizens, a hero of the Holocaust who saved hundreds, perhaps thousands, of live...
05/05/2017
Join us for the Spring Retreat: April 28-30
Over the May Day Weekend we'll head up to Huairou for a weekend of relaxing, fun activities, learning, hiking, some beer drinking, music-making, and laid back family friendly programming.
More details of activities to come in the coming days.
We'll have kabbalat shabbat and dinner together in the capital club as usual on Friday, after which we will leave the city by coach. You are welcome to drive too. The venue (集贤山庄, Jixiang Villa, in Huairou) is just over an hour's drive north of Beijing. If you'd like to arrive earlier on Friday, dinner is also available at the venue.
The cost includes all meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and board. Just 660 rmb.
If you will have difficulty affording this, please write to us. No charge for infants. Small kids: 150rmb for food.
Rsvp to [email protected] and we'll send you a link to pay/sign up.
08/03/2017
It's that time of year again! We won't read you the whole Megillah, but services this week will be followed by our annual Purim Shpiel Stage Spectacular: a tale of intrigue, heroism, and gallantry, brought to life as only the KB Players can do it! Please join us this Friday! Curtains up at 8:30pm following brief services (at 7-7:30pm) and dinner.
23/02/2017
Goodness and kindness win.
Muslims Shatter Fundraising Goals For Vandalized Jewish Cemetery Muslim activists Linda Sarsour and Tarek El-Messidi have started a crowdfunding campaign to support the repair of a St. Louis Jewish cemetery that was vandalized over the weekend.
10/02/2017
Come join us tonight! A fruit and wine fueled evening of celebration!