MISSION, VISION & INCLUSIVITY STATEMENTS
Our mission at Temple B’nai Israel - The Satell Center for Jewish Life on the Eastern Shore is to welcome all who seek connection with Jewish community, tradition, and values. We provide a warm community environment for worship, education, lifelong learning, celebration, and comfort.
Our vision is to nurture and sustain an active Jewish community, and to see its fullest inclusion in the social fabric of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, both now and for future generations.
Temple B’nai Israel is an inclusive and welcoming congregation. We practice the religious custom of hakhnasat orchim, welcoming the stranger, whether you're new to Jewish life or the Eastern Shore, or not. We encourage participation from all who seek a connection to Jewish life -- regardless of religious background, race, ethnicity, gender, ability, socioeconomic status, political affiliation, age, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
We also support interfaith couples and families, and others who may have been historically and institutionally marginalized or excluded from the Jewish community -- including those who consider themselves agnostic, atheist, or questioning. As a Union for Reform Judaism member congregation, we are committed to being an open tent, a sacred community that welcomes all people, each of whom is an expression of Tzelem Elohim, the Divine Image.
