Welcome to our Synagogue

We are a small, friendly Reform congregation located in Des Moines, Washington,
between Seattle and Tacoma.
We serve the Jewish Community of South King and North Pierce Counties.

Shabbat (Friday) evening services every week.

Evening Services start at 7 PM

Morning Services (once a month) begin at 10 AM

BC Calendar 2026

APRIL 2026

Sunset, Wednesday, April 1^st – Passover begins

7:00pm, Friday, April 3^rd – Lay-led Shabbat Evening Services (virtual only)

5:00pm, Saturday, April 4^th – Bet Chaverim Community Seder w/Cantor Serkin-Poole (hybrid)

7:00pm, Wednesday, April 8^th – Bet Chaverim Board Meeting (virtual only)

Sunset, Thursday, April 9^th – Passover ends

7:00pm, Friday, April 10^th – Shabbat Evening Services w/Joel Hencken (hybrid)

Sunset, Monday, April 13^th – Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)

7:00pm, Friday, April 17^th – Lay-led Shabbat Evening Services (virtual only)

10:00am, Saturday, April 18^th – Shabbat Morning Service w/Maya – potluck and Torah study (hybrid)

Sunset, Monday, April 20^th – Yom HaZikaron (Israel Memorial Day)

Sunset, Tuesday, April 21^st – Yom HaAtzmaoot (Israel Independence Day)

7:00pm, Friday, April 24^th – Shabbat Evening Services w/Joel Hencken (hybrid)

The Story of Bet Chaverim:
We started off as “Community Synagogue Of South King County”, CSSKC.
During a Sunday school session, a more meaningful name, Bet Chaverim (a house of friends) was nominated.

Choir 3/28/25

Funding for Community Synagogue of South King County (Bet Chaverim) has been made possible, in part,
by a grant from the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle

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10 Minutes of Torah

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Since our founding in 1989, Bet Chaverim has been an inclusive community,
welcoming a diverse membership.
We are made up of a range of ages, singles, married couples, and families.
We are proud of our interfaith couples.

Although members generally live in South King and North Pierce Counties,
others come from further away,
drawn by the quality of the services, the education we provide for children and adults,
as well as the numerous social and cultural activities.

Our goal is to continue to build a Jewish community based on inclusiveness,
and reflecting the congregation’s belief in cooperation and mutual support.
We welcome and invite you.

“Do not separate yourself from the community;
do not believe in yourself until the day you die;
do not judge your fellow until you have reached their place;
do not say something inappropriate,
for it will then be appropriated; and do not say,
‘When I am free I will study,’
for perhaps you will not become free.”

Rabbi Hillel [he is said to have been born in Babylonia around 110 BCE and died in Jerusalem
in the first years of the Common Era. His grave is in Meron, in northern Israel. ]

In the beginning G-d created the heaven and the earth.