Welcome to the Congregation Beth Chaim Men's Club website. Our mission is to deepen the connections our members have with the congregation and the broader community through social interaction, educational activities, cultural events and more. Explore this site and contact us with any questions or suggestions you may have.
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UPCOMING PROGRAMS...

Men's Club Programs & Events
Most events use our on-line registration system. For others, registration forms can be downloaded as PDFs to complete manually. For further information and additional upcoming events see the Calendar page.

Next Men's Club Breakfast -- February 1, 2026, 09:30 AM Join us for our Monthly Breakfast. We often have an interesting speaker and we always have bagels, lox, coffee, and camaraderie. See the Calendar page for details. Email Richard Nocks for more information. Hover here for a list of upcoming Breakfasts. Upcoming Breakfasts
February 1, 2026
March 1, 2026
April 19, 2026
May 3, 2026 Please click here to RSVP.

Upcoming Men's Club Breakfast Speakers and Topics
Feb 1, 2026 -- Faith Wight -- Did you know the world renown artist Chagall was Jewish, as well as contemporary artists Taacov Agam and Judy Chicago? Please join CBC's own Faith Wight in exploring their work and significant contributions they each have made to the world of art. Faith is a volunteer educator assistant and docent at the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton and taught basic Hebrew and Bible studies to 3rd and 4th graders at Temple Micah for 19 years. Faith has a unique understanding about how these artists were influenced by their Jewish upbringing and will share with us these artists' most famous masterpieces.
Mar 1, 2026 -- Patricia Schneider -- When we think of anxiety today, we often imagine it as a clinical or private experience - something to be treated, managed, or hidden. But in the Jewish Bible, anxiety is not hidden at all. It is sacredly exposed. The Toah and the Prophets show us the trembling moments of our ancestors: Abraham afraid, Jacob sleepless, Hannah weeping, Elijah exhausted. In each of these stories, anxiety becomes not an obstacle to faith but its very ground - the place where human vulnerability meets divine presence. Please join our own Patricia Schneider to help see in these ancient narratives the beginnings of a spiritual psychology - one that speaks to our contemporary struggles with depth, courage, and compassion. Dr Patricia Schneider, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, and Frommian Psychoanalyst, who trained in Switzerland, Mexico City at the institute that Dr Erich Fromm founded in Mexico City, and in the USA. She holds a PHD in Clinical Psychology and a postdoctoral specialization in Frommian Psychoanalysis. She has worked in clinical, and hospital settings with mainly adult patient populations of varying ethnicities, cultural, racial, linguistic, and diagnostic characteristics, and in corporate and pharmaceutical settings assessing the impact of varying doses of psychotropic medication on differing levels of symptom severities. She currently is in private practice.
[If you would like to speak at a breakfast, or propose a speaker or a topic, please click here.]

OTHER RESOURCES...

Holocaust Education Materials
The Men's Club Holocaust Education Materials are now available for loan from the Synagogue. These materials have been purchased with the proceeds from the Yom HaShoah Yellow Candle Program. View the list of materials we currently own. All items are available for loan and have been moved to the Beth Chaim Library.
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