It Only Took Nine Months...

Finally. We finally found a synagogue out here. Our choice in Virginia was simple...there was only one. We were fortunate that it was one that we liked. We learned a lot from being members at Beth El: we like Reform, we like smaller synagogues and we like them to be understanding of interfaith families (it's hard not to be when 95% of your families are interfaith). We were starting to feel guilty about not belonging to a synagogue since the kids had already missed several months of Sunday School and we were concerned that the kids would be behind. With school starting up again, we were aware that we needed to get on the ball.

We had our choices narrowed down to two: Congregation B-T and Congregation B-J. Mike decided to go to the prospective member brunch at CB-T to check it out (even though we were pretty sure we were going to go with CB-J). Mike really liked this synagogue. It's a smaller (for the area) synagogue with about 500 families and they are sensitive to interfaith families (Mike estimates that about 1/3 of the families are interfaith). They offer Sunday School for all three (but Hannah will only go every other Sunday) and, at first glance, it appears that Jacob may be a little ahead since they are just now learning the Hebrew alphabet. Mike had talked to some others who were coming over from CB-J and said that there is some brouhaha (I love that word) going on over there and they're shopping around. I told Mike that the last thing we need is to be a part of some mess as new members and we decided to become members of CB-T. It's a beautiful facility and they have all of their services on-site. So, the kids will be starting Sunday School on September 9th and I guess there's a big family thing (Bobbi and Ed, you'll be here for it), which is nice. It's nice to have a synagogue again.