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D'Var Torah
Parashat
Chal HaMoed
(for October 6, 2012)
Exodus
33:12 - 24:26
using the Triennial
Year II schedule
Haftarah
Ezekiel
38:18 - 39:16
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What's Happening
This Week At Beth Or
Monday, October 1
Tuesday, October 2
Wednesday, October 3
Chit Chat at Starbucks 10:00 am
Sukkot Celebration 6:45 pm
(see the article below for Sukkot and Simchat Torah specifics)
Thursday, October 4
Friday, October 5
Sukkot Potluck Dinner 6:30 pm
Kabbalat Shabbat Service 8:00 pm
Saturday, October 6
Torah Study 10:15 am
Sunday, October 7
Simchat Torah 6:30 pm
Monday, October 8
Tuesday, October 9
Chit Chat at Starbucks 10:00 am
Sukkot Celebration 6:45 pm
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 Temple Beth Or Events
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Save The Date 
October 27
Lighthouse Cafe, featuring Jennings and Keller
November 9
New Member Shabbat
November 10
Spaghetti Dinner
November 18
Beth Or Holiday Bazaar
March 16, 2013
Evening of music, good food and memories to honor Dr. Michael Newman
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Shabbat Shalom! 
We will begin the evening with the Sukkot Potluck Dinner at 6:30 p.m.Shabbat Service
at 8:00 p.m. The service will be led by Rabbi Mark Kram, and we'll be exploring Sukkot and Simchat Torah.
The desserts provided by those attending the potluck dinner will make up our Oneg Shabbat for the evening.
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It's All About Sukkot and Simchat Torah
Wednesday, October 3: Sukkot Celebration at 6:45 p.m.
Share the Sukkot traditions with children and adults over pizza and salad -- bring finger-food desserts to sweeten the evening. Please phone or email the Temple at 305-235-1419 or bethortemple@aol.com
if you plan to attend...
Friday, October 5: Sukkot Potluck Supper and Shabbat Service begins at 6:30 p.m.
Again, for this event, please call or email how many will attend and what dish you plan to bring for the potluck supper. We'll be looking for main dishes, side dishes, salads, desserts. Remember it's vegetarian or dairy for Beth Or Kosher-style.
We will have a light Kiddush in the Sukkah, then return inside for a dessert Oneg Shabbat.
Our guests the evening will be the Confirmation Class from Christ the King Lutheran Church, led by Pastor Katie, who so graciously welcomed us to their church for our High Holy Days services.
Sunday, October 7, Simchat Torah from 6:30 - 8:30
... will involve a change in the usual Torah School schedule. In lieu of regularly scheduled class that morning, TS students will learn about Simchat Torah at 6:00 pm in a project to decorate for this joyous holiday. We'll have Klezmer music and celebrate our beloved Torah scrolls with dancing!
Tishrei Members are welcome to attend any or all of these events as members of Beth Or for this amazing month!
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Chit Chat at Starbucks...
will meet as usual this Wednesday!
Chit Chat is a weekly discussion group that meets on Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. that usually meets at Starbucks in the Suniland Shopping Center on US 1.
To be included in the Chit Chat notification list, please send your email address to Mike Leslie at
hebrewnatl@aol.com
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Membership Committee's next meeting
...is Monday, Oct 8. Please remember that membership growth & retention is everyone's business so join us at 7:30 pm on Monday, Oct 8, Temple Beth Or.
The agenda includes discussion of Nov 9 New Member Shabbat, Nov 10 New & Potential Member Spaghetti Dinner, New Member Buddy System, and YOUR ideas.
Hope to see you there.
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Thank You!
to those who have generously
contributed to Temple Beth Or...
Greta Larrison-Malkin, for the High Holidays
Abbe Hurwitz & William Schwartz, for Yom Kippur
Luisa and Enrique Mishaan, for the High Holidays
Barbara Merwitzer, for the High Holidays
Vicki E. Feeley, for the High Holidays
Sheila and Steve Sieglitz, in honor of Ellen Bukstel.
Barry Fellman, for the High Holidays
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Sunday Evening Discussion Group
For about a year a group of members of Beth Or as well as nonmembers has been meeting one Sunday evening a month to discuss Jewish topics of interest. For the past year we have focused on the book "Finding God: Ten Jewish Responses" by Rifat Sonsino and Daniel B. Syme. We have almost completed discussing the book so it is time to select our next topics. The discussions may not focus on a book but on any topic of Jewish interest that we find stimulating.
Please join us to help select the topics and to participate in a lively discussion. For information regarding the next meeting contact Bette Spector (305)382-0762, bettespector@gmail.com, or Gail Manning (305)253-9133, gailm66@bellsouth.net.
Please come and bring your friends. Both Beth Or members and non-members are welcome to attend.
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Innovations!
Adult B'nai Mitzvah Class
Several members have expressed interest in a weekly class for adults who have not become Bar or Bat Mitzvah, working toward a group B'nai Mitzvah ceremony sometime in the late spring.
We'd be concentrating on learning specifically what we need to prepare for the ceremony, including but not limited to Hebrew and the prayers and ritual appropriate to the occasion. And, in true Beth Or tradition, we'll have a party!
A date and time for class meetings has not yet been set; currently we would like responses from anyone interested in participating. The class will be open to active Temple members.
Please email the Temple at bethortemple@aol.com or phone the office with your name and contact information at 305-235-1419.
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More Innovations!
Would you like to see your Kiddush set on the bima?
Are you sponsoring an Oneg Shabbat?
On your Oneg date, we'd love to see your Kiddush cup and/or candleholders, challah plate and challah cover, on the bima at Shabbat services that evening.
You don't need to have a complete set -- just bring your family's treasures and share the stories behind them with the community on that evening.
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Beth Or's Program Calendar for 2012-2013
The initial version of the Temple Program Calendar for the coming year is available at :
Beth Or Event Calendar
Please bookmark this site so that it's easily available and will allow you keep up with what's going on at the Temple as well as be a part of the process of keeping it current and accurate.
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The Holiday Bazaar Approaches!
The Bazaar committee has out the contract for the November 18th event to numerous prospective vendors.
The Bazaar Committee is looking for a vendor who can bring Judaic items to sell. Please contact Rhoni Tannebaum April Miller if you know someone who would like to join us. Tables are still available for other merchandise.
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Childrens' World Montessori School
on Beth Or's campus needs a few good students, Toddler- 6thGrade. Small classes, certified teachers, excellent staff:child ratio.
Contact Head Teacher Mary Argumedo 305-506-8087.
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Garden and Grounds 
House & Grounds accomplishes most tasks, of necessity, using paid labor. But when needs
arise for volunteers we'd like to have your name on a list. In return we promise not to:
a) bug you
b) ask for the impossible.
Please advise Kathy (TBO office: 305-235-1419) of your willingness to provide a bit of help when mutually convenient, and thanks!
Jeff Tucker
Would you like to help in the gardens, particularly on Sunday mornings? Just email Marcy Prince at mprince@miamidade.gov.
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In and For Our Local Community
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Meet the Authors
Children Who Survived the Final Solution by Twenty-Six Child Survivors, edited by Peter Tarjan.
When: Saturday: October 6, 2012, 1:00 pm
(please note, this is a correction from last week's announcement, which had the wrong day)
Where: The Unitarian Universalist Congregation Sanctuary, 7701 SW 76 Avenue, Miami
Why: This is one point of view rarely heard (suitable for all ages. Children are welcome to learn and remember.
Holocaust survivors who were children during the Nazi persecution wrote this collectino of memoirs. Each story bubbled up spontaneously, without an interviewer's guidance; hence, these represent the most permanent memories of their authors' childhood experiences.
This anthology is the work of the twenty-six authors of the individual stories, all survivors of the Nazi Holocaust. The authors are: Johanna Franklin Saper (nee Hirschbein), Rita Bymel, Ruth B. Schwartz, Gunther Karger, Nellie Lee, Anna Blitz, Ruth Glasberg Gold, Tova Goldszer, Magda Bader, George Klein, Jack Baigelman (Beigelman) Rosh Kaplovitz (Zaks), Bernard Mayer, David B. Zugman (formerly Dow, Dov, Dave Zugman), Judy Berkowitz, Arnold Geier, Faye Lazega Stern, Frances Cutler, Louise Oberlender, Suzanne Ringel, Dena Axelrod, Elizabeth Zielinski di Mundlak, Bianca Lerner, Eugenia Shulz Rosen, Yosi Lazzar, and Peter Tarjan.
The book may be purchased from online booksellers and others and will be available for purchase after the presentation. The authors will personally inscribe your copy on request.
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Adrienne Arsht Center For The Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County to Host FREE Holocaust Studies Community Symposium
The Symposium is part of LIGHT/THE HOLOCAUST & HUMANITY PROJECT and is free for participants
The Program will take place on October 13-14, 2012, bringing nationally-renowned authors and historians to the Arsht Center to share valuable lessons on the impact of the Holocaust
Made possible with generous support from Targum Shlishi and Raquel and Aryeh Rubin
The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, in collaboration with local supporters and national experts, will host a FREE Holocaust Studies Community Symposium at the Knight Concert Hall, starting on October 13, 2012, at 8 p.m., and continuing October 14, 2012, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Part of the recently-launched LIGHT/THE HOLOCAUST & HUMANITY PROJECT, the FREE events will provide valuable lessons on the history and impact of the Holocaust through a series of lectures and presentations.
The program will be led by renowned authors and historians from around the country including professor and filmmaker Dr. Michael Berenbaum, National Institute for Holocaust Education historian Dr. William Meinecke, author Dr. Cheyenne Martin, and founding director of The David Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies Dr. Rafael Medoff. The symposium will be moderated by Miami-Dade County Public Schools District education specialist on Holocaust education Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff.
Each segment of the program will take a different look at the Holocaust and its effect on modern day society. The complete program, including times, is as follows:
Saturday, October 13, 2012 Knight Concert Hall
What We Know About the Holocaust, What We Have Learned and What We Still Want to Know Dr. Michael Berenbaum 8 PM *Presented in partnership with WLRN
Sunday October 14, 2012 Knight Concert Hall
The Twisted Road to Auschwitz From Nazi Ideology to Annihilation: A Visual Historical Overview of the Holocaust as told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Dr. William Meinecke 10:00 AM -11:45 AM
12:00 PM -12:45 PM Lunch Break
The Healing Profession during Auschwitz From Mengele to Medical Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto Dr. Cheyenne Martin 12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Coffee Break
The Holocaust as Reflected in Literature, Diaries and Memoirs Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
3:15 PM-3:30 PM Break
America's Response to the Holocaust through the Eyes of Political Cartoonist Dr. Rafael Medoff 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
The Power of Film in Holocaust Reflection"The Pigeon"Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM *Presented in partnership with The Holocaust Memorial, of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation
The Holocaust Studies Community Symposium is supported by Targum Shlishi and Raquel and Aryeh Rubin.
LIGHT/THE HOLOCAUST & HUMANITY PROJECT is a three-month, county-wide human rights collaboration that is focusing attention on the work being done in Miami-Dade County toward the protection of human rights against bigotry and hate. The initiative was inspired by a critically-acclaimed ballet by the same name which will be performed by Ballet Austin at the Arsht Center on November 3 and 4 as the culmination of the project. For more information on the Symposium and other events that are a part of the LIGHT/THE HOLOCAUST & HUMANITY PROJECT, please visit: www.arshtcenter.org/light
"FIRST ACCESS PASSES":Admission is FREE. First Access Passes can be reserved by calling the Adrienne Arsht Center box office at 305-949-6722 or online at www.arshtcenter.org (limit four per person). The passes provide patrons with first access to seating in the theater until 7:45 p.m. on Saturday, and 9:45 am on Sunday. Seating is "first come, first served" for the performance and passes do not guarantee a seat.
STAND-BY LINE: Patrons who do not have a First Access Pass may join the Stand-by Line beginning at 7 p.m. on Saturday and 9 a.m. on Sunday, outside the concert hall. Seating, if available, will be opened at 7:45 p.m. on Saturday and 9:45 a.m. on Sunday to patrons in the stand-by line.
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Unique Volunteer Opportunity to Bring Comfort to the Sick and Lonely
Discover a remarkable and life-changing opportunity to bring comfort, spiritual solace and joy to people in need. For the fourth consecutive year, The Jewish Chaplaincy Program and Jewish Volunteer Center are seeking volunteers for the Refuat Ha-Nefesh Spiritual Care Program.
Open to those age 18 and older, the Refuat Ha-Nefesh Spiritual Care Program offers practical training on the mitzvah of bikur cholim (visiting the sick) and compassionate visits to people who are lonely or ill. Professional instruction and resources are provided in a group setting by rabbis, doctors and social workers, with topics including the Jewish philosophy in visiting the ill; issues and concerns facing the elderly; Jewish perspective on end-of-life issues and death; Jewish healing rituals; how to handle dementia and depression in seniors with compassion; Jewish medical ethics and more. In addition, participants are able to enjoy three hours a week of hands-on volunteerism in the community.
Beginning November 12, 2012, the program runs through May 13, 2013. Training takes place bi-monthly on Monday evenings at Federation's Stanley C. Myers Building, 4200 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami. Certificates are awarded upon completion and the training is free of charge.
For more information or to apply, contact the Jewish Volunteer Center at 786.866.8414 or Volunteer@jewishmiami.org. The application deadline is October 31, 2012.
What past participants have said about the Refuat Ha-Nefesh program:
* "You go out to visit someone new and you find a new part of yourself."
* "You will encounter a new part of your future as you listen to the hopes and fears of those fighting health battles."
* "My challenge is to bring some Jewish spiritual feeling into my visits. I feel blessed with the opportunity to spend time with my new elderly friends and allow their memories to become my memories and share in the wisdom and warmth of their lives."
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REAL EXPERIENCE FROM AN INTERNSHIP IN ISRAEL
Spending 5 to 10 months kick-starting their career with world-class innovators who won't send them out for coffee, our interns are a real part of the action.
Here at Masa Israel Journey, we don't just help find the best internships, we also offer funding to help get there.
Go to www.MasaIsrael.org/Intern to see how we can help find and fund the perfect internship.
For more information, contact masa@gmjf.org or call 305.576.4000.
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Volunteer Opportunity Encourages Love of Reading
Discover a fun, meaningful way to spark the imaginations of Miami pre-schoolers.
The Jewish Volunteer Center (JVC) of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation is recruiting volunteers for the United Way of Miami-Dade's popular ReadingPals literacy program.
ReadingPals sends adult volunteers to early education classrooms across Miami-Dade, where they spend one hour each week reading to children. Because many of these youngsters are not yet reading on their own, ReadingPals volunteers are often among the first people who introduce them to the joys of reading and learning.
The 24-week program begins October 15, 2012 and concludes May 10, 2013. Volunteers are required to complete a background check and attend an orientation session, which will provide the tools and training to equip them to become successful and effective readers.
A special Jewish community orientation will be held at the Federation's Stanley C. Myers Building, 4200 Biscayne Boulevard, on Wednesday, October 3, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
To register, or for more information on other ReadingPals orientations, please contact Jewish Volunteer Center Director Lori Drutz at 786.866.8414 or Volunteer@jewishmiami.org.
To find out more information, please go to www.unitedwaymiami.org/Volunteer/ReadingPals.
You can also watch a brief video here.
The mission of the Jewish Volunteer Center (JVC) of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation is to partner with Jewish and communal organizations in Miami to create a culture of volunteerism by providing a central clearinghouse for volunteers in the Miami Jewish community. Guided by the Jewish values of chesed (loving kindness), tzedakah (social justice) and tikkun olam (repair of the world), the JVC works to strengthen the entire community through high-quality, hands-on volunteer projects and service learning initiatives.
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