Friday evenings

7:15 PM when Virginia Tech is in session.  These services are organized and led by Virginia Tech Hillel students, sometimes at the BJCC and sometimes on the Virginia Tech campus. Everyone is welcome to attend. Check the VT Hillel website to find out their services schedule and location.

Saturday Mornings

10 AM, every Saturday throughout the year.   The liturgy generally alternates weekly between Reform (Gates of Prayer) and Conservative (Sim Shalom), to accommodate the variety of backgrounds of our members.   As we have no rabbi or cantor, services are led by a rotating set of BJCC members.   All visitors are heartily welcome to come and daven with us and share in our discussion of the week's Torah portion, regardless of your Jewish background or observance.

In most months, we hold a potluck luncheon after the Shabbat morning service one Saturday per month.   Visitors are welcome to attend services and stay for lunch, or just bring a dish and join us for lunch at about 11:45 am.   The food you bring must be dairy or vegetarian only, no meat or shellfish.   (If you're briefly visiting Blacksburg from out of town, you need not bring a dish, just come and join us.)

Check the Shofar (our monthly newsletter) on this website for the current month's schedule which will tell you the kind of service (Reform or Conservative), the Torah portion and service leaders for each week, and the date of the monthly potluck luncheon.

High Holidays

We provide full High Holiday services each year including Erev Rosh Hashanah, both days of Rosh Hashanah, Kol Nidrei, Yom Kippur, and Neilah.   We have a community potluck Break-The-Fast at the end of Neilah.   There is usually a children's service on the first day of Rosh Hashanah and on Yom Kippur, and child care is provided for most services.

These services are lay-led, like our weekly Shabbat morning services.   The Erev Rosh Hashanah and Kol Nidrei evening services are planned to be Reform-like, with more English, and the daytime Shaharit and Musaf services are more in the Conservative mode.

We welcome students at Virginia Tech and Radford University to attend as our guests along with our members.  We ask non-members to make a modest donation to help defray the cost of providing these services.