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Temple Beth El celebrates Shabbat with joyous, musical and participatory services. TBE congregants have migrated to Southwest Florida from all directions, bringing diverse backgrounds of worship and traditions. During our worship services, we join together to sing joyful music that uplifts and excites our souls and to experience traditional and meditative moments that connect us to past generations and to our deepest selves. 

Our Erev (Evening) Shabbat services begin at 7:30pm every Friday evening and include reading from our sacred Torah scroll. We use the Reform movement’s prayer book, Mishkan T’filah, and the prayers are also projected on screens for easy visibility and accessibility. The service includes both Hebrew and English readings and lasts about an hour. The dress for in-person services is "business casual". Most wear a button-down shirt, khaki pants, a nice blouse, a dress, a skirt or dressy slacks.

You are also welcome to join us via Zoom (click here, password: 613) or Facebook Live www.facebook.com/TempleBethElofFortMyers (a Facebook account is not required).

Cantor Shira Ginsburg is a celebrated actress, singer, and playwright who tours the country extensively with her one-woman musical, Bubby's Kitchen, which premiered to rave reviews in NYC in 2016, and is now in development as a television series. She has performed all over the world, notably joining Norm Lewis on his 2025 Broadway Concert Tour as a featured guest performer. Cantor Ginsburg is the founder of Jewishly Ever After, a
private Jewish lifecycle event company, and she travels worldwide performing and officiating. She holds the distinguished title of Cantor Emerita of East End Temple of Manhattan where she served as Senior Cantor for 18 years. Cantor Ginsburg has released five albums, most recently her collaboration entitled 'I Will Cover You.' with Grammy award winner Ben Wisch, All of her albums are available on all streaming platforms. Cantor Shira Ginsburg serves on the Jewish Partisans Education Foundations Young Leadership Board, served multiple years as an annual panelist on the Gerecht Institute for Conversion, and teaches Holocaust studies in middle and high school classrooms as a founding member of 3rd Generation Holocaust Survivors program ‘We Educate’ in
partnership with Facing History Facing Ourselves. Cantor Shira Ginsburg has been a guest lecturer at Florida Atlantic University, Hebrew Union College, and Moishe House, and has served on the Israel Task Force at the UJA. She also mentors and coaches Cantorial students at Hebrew Union College.