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Looking Ahead
June 1st, 11 AM
Leyv Ha-Ir's Annual Meeting
Kennedy House Community Room
1901 JFK Blvd.
Brunch will be served.
Be part of planning Leyv Ha-Ir's future!!
Sound your voice!!
Marking Life Cycle Events
Making a financial contribution to
Congregation Leyv
Ha-Ir is a great way to mark special life events,
simchas, yahrzeits, etc. We are happy to send an
acknowledgement of your contribution to a
designee
of your choice. Contributions can be sent to our
regular P.O. Box address, or contact Evy
Simon, at
215-561-7474 or evylhi@hotmail.com, if you'd
like to
have an acknowledgement card sent.
Thank you.
NO ROOM FOR WORDS
by Roy Shenberg ©2008
Inspiration: Myrna Neimark Shenberg
And I took you in my arms
And the room was filled with love
Yet I could not tell you how I felt
There was no room for words
Love light filled your eyes
Longing filled my soul
Two heartbeats were the only sounds
There was no room for words
CHORUS
Why should we spend
These precious moments talking?
Words would only get in our way
Our love still grows
Like a tended garden
It's spring again,
The room bursts into bloom,
Today
Like lovers in a Chagall painting
Our souls ascend like doves
Who meet, we kiss
Above the crowded room
There is no need for words
CHORUS
I still remember
Our special lovesong
I've hummed it as the years
Zoomed by
Tho' I try
I can't recall the lyrics
But when we embrace
The music fills the room
Like lovers in a Chagall painting
Our souls ascend, again
Like birds
The room is filled with
Loving memories
There is no room for words
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Dear Friends and Members of Leyv Ha-Ir ~ Heart of the City,
I hope everyone enjoyed a festive
Passover. Whatever it means for you to be
liberated from slavery this year, I hope you
found such liberation. At Leyv Ha-Ir ~ Heart
of the City, we had a lovely community seder.
For me, the measure of a community seder is
found in the quality of the vegetarian
entree. This year the caterer prepared
mushrooms stuffed with vegetables including
eggplant, zucchini and roasted peppers. I
understand that the fish was good too.
Passover often draws our attention to food,
because we choose to limit our diet and to
eat in a more self-aware way. Often, in that
restriction, we find liberation. That is
likely why I enjoyed the stuffed mushrooms so
much. This is one of the spiritual paradoxes
of Judaism. Through structure comes freedom.
Judaism offers many structures into which we
can engage. In contrast, American culture in
2008 offers ever-expanding opportunity. Yet
so often we feel constrained in the face of
these many options. This is the American
paradox. Freedom becomes limiting. As
Reconstructionist Jews, we are asked to
reconcile our lives in these two
civilizations, America and Judaism. Why
choose to constrain ourselves in this Jewish
culture when faced with the expanding
opportunity of American culture? Feel Free.
Michael Meketon, President
Leyv Ha-Ir ~ Heart of the City
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May 2008 Activities
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May 3 SATURDAY
Shabbat
Morning Service
Ethical
Society
10:00 AM
Lay Led
May 4 SUNDAY
Holocaust Remembrance
Day
May 4 SUNDAY
Choir Rehearsal
Call Beverly,
215-557-3777
May 7 WEDNESDAY
Council
Meeting
Ethical
Society
7:00 PM
Michael
May 8 THURSDAY
Israel Independence
Day
May 11 SUNDAY
LHI Team: Race for
the Cure
Philadelphia Museum of
Art
Karen Zeitz
May 16 FRIDAY
Kabbalat Shabbat
Friday Service
Ethical
Society
7:30 PM
Rabbi Julie
May 17 SATURDAY
Shabbat
Morning Service
Ethical
Society
10:00 AM
Lay Led
May 18 SUNDAY
Israel
Independence Day and Festival
12:00 -
5:00 PM
Parkway
May 18 SUNDAY
Choir
Rehearsal
Call Beverly,
215-557-3777
May 18 SUNDAY
Family Torah Group
May 22 THURSDAY
Spirituality
Group
Karen Zeitz
7:00PM
May 24 SATURDAY
Shabbat
Morning Service
Home
10:00 AM
Lay Led
As part of the Kehillah of Center City we
are invited to attend all of the events that are
sponsored by the Kehillah and our larger
community. To learn more about these events,
check
out the link to Center
City Kehillah.
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Click here for a complete look at Congregation Leyv Ha-Ir activities for the upcoming two months. |
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| Israel Independence Day Parade - May 18, 2008 |
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Join the
Philadelphia Jewish community from noon to
5PM as we celebrate
the milestone 60th Anniversary of the State
of Israel with an Israel Independence Day
parade from 16th and the Ben
Franklin Parkway to Eakins Oval.
Join the Israel Festival at Eakins Oval and
experience Israel at its finest. For more
details contact Beth Razin at 215-832-0536 or
brazin@philafederation.org .
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You can also visit www.jewishphilly.org/israel60 |
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| Rabbi's Message: Rabbi Julie Greenberg |
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Dear Chevre, Well, friends, we've
left Mitzrayim/ Egypt and we're in the desert
now. That's where we are in the Jewish
calendar, coming out of Passover and moving
toward Shavuot when we will all stand at
Sinai together. I'm moved to see how we,
in this congregation, help each other out on
the journey. When someone is in need, others
circle around offering a helping hand, a
shoulder, a ride, a loan, an invitation, a
bit of sound advice. All of us have times of
need and some of us are more fragile than
others. When we arrive at Sinai, mythically
strong with 600,000 fellow travelers, we will
know that we gave when we could give and that
we received when we were in need.
This year your congregation needs your
presence at the annual membership meeting on
June 1. There are decisions to be made that
can't be made if we don't come together in
one place at one time. To add spice to this
meeting, Council decided it would be fun to
trade jewelry and articles of clothing. If
you are finished with something that you
think others might appreciate, bring it along
to the membership meeting. I promise to cart
away any leftovers at the end.
I hope you are enjoying spring!
All the best,
Rabbi Julie
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| LHI Purim Celebration Rocks! |
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Leyv Ha-Ir rocked the house with its
Purimspiel on Shabbat, March 21, 2008, at the
Ethical Society. After lighting the Shabbat
candles and the reading of the megillah, we
held our play. John Mason was King
Ahasueros, Iris Newman was Vashti, Frann
Shore, Enid Adler, and Marci Fleet were the
king's ministers, Joel Netsky was Haman,
Karen Zeitz was Queen Esther, and Mike
Meketon was
Mordechai. The theme of the spiel was "Esther
finds love on J-Date."
This was our biggest production ever with
a cast of 14 people!!
The play was co-written and co-directed
by Frann and Karen, with music by Roy and the
Do-Wops:
Roy, Sol, and Bobbi.
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| Annual Community Seder Hosts Sixty Guests |
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The Annual Second Night Community Seder
was held on Sunday, April 20 at the
Philadelphian.
Sixty members and guests attended, including
a few children.
Rabbi Julie & Jessi Roemer led us through
the service.
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| A New Activity for Leyv Ha-Ir |
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A pot-luck dinner, was held on April 4, at
the William Penn House, with 25 people
attending. Food was in abundance and Rabbi
Julie led us in song.
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| GONE WHERE? |
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(A poem written by a Hospice Nurse)
I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship at my side spreads her white sails to
the morning breeze,
and starts for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until at length she
hangs like a speck of
white cloud just where the sea and sky
come to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says "There, she is
gone."
"Gone where?"
Gone from my sight, that is all.
She is just as large in mast and hull and
spar as she was when she left my side.
And she is just as able to bear her load of
living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her.
And just at the moment when someone at my
side says
"There she is gone",
there are other eyes watching her coming, and
other voices ready to take up the glad shout:
"Here she comes!"
And that is dying.
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On
the occasion of
the Yahrzeit of Joan
Goldberg's Dad, which comes the first week of May
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