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This Week At Beth Or

Your guide to upcoming programs,
activities and news 
  
For the week beginning
November 12, 2012
      
In This Issue
 
 

Rabbi
Mark Kram   
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D'Var Torah
 
Parashat
Toldot
 
(for November 17, 2012)
 
Genesis
27:28 - 28:9
   
using the Triennial
Year III schedule
 
Haftarah 
 
Malachi
1:1 - 2:7
 
 
Beth Or Links

Our Website

Board Of Directors

Committees



Other Links




Contact:

Kathy Fisler 
BethOrTemple@aol.com
 
305-235-1419

What's Happening    

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This Week At Beth Or
 
Monday, November 12
 
Tuesday, November 13
 
Wednesday, November 14
Chit Chat at Starbucks   10:00 am
 
Thursday, November 15
 
Friday, November 16
Kabbalat Shabbat Service  8:00 pm
   
Saturday, November 17
Torah Study  10:15 am

 

Sunday, November 18
Holiday Bazaar  11:00 am - 5:00 pm
  
Monday, November 19

 

Tuesday, November 20
 
Wednesday, November 21
Chit Chat at Starbucks   10:00 am 
 

 

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 Temple Beth Or 
 Events 

Save The Date    
  
November 24
Lighthouse Cafe
 
December 2
Day of Jewish Learning
 
March 16, 2013
An evening of music, good food and memories to honor Dr. Michael Newman
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Community Notices
  
Shabbat Shalom!             shabbat shalom
  

Kabbalat Shabbat Service will be at 8:00 p.m.  

 

 

TBO's Holiday Bazaar
 
Sunday, November 18, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m .

 

This is the perfect time to shop early for all of your holiday gifts. 

  • Jewelry
  • Ceramics
  • Candles
  • Plants and orchids
  • Clothing
  • Children's accessories
  • Specialty gifts 
  • Works by locally renowned artist Carlos Pereira
  • Home-baked goodies
  • Raffle tickets for vendor-donated gifts

Everything is indoors in a comfortable environment, and there's plenty of room for parking! 

 

Organizers:
Rhoni Tannebaum can be reached at rtclowns@bellsouth.net, or phone 305 253 4155,.
 
 

HOLIDAY BAZAAR PLANT SALE!

 

Attention Members: We will be having a plant sale as part of our Holiday Bazaar. We will be selling bromeliads for landscaping and baskets. Bring in containers or baskets that you would like to use, or choose one readymade.

 

Also, we are short on baskets and containers, so if you have any nice ones you would like to donate, please bring them in to Marcy.
 

 

What's Needed before these events...

 

Saturday, November 17, 2012

More muscle power!  At 1:00 p.m. we need to set up for that Sunday's Holiday Bazaar.

 

Please contact April Miller: ahmslm9400@aol.com or 305-667-9616,

or Rhoni Tannebaum: rtclowns@bellsouth.net or 305-253-4155, to help with this very important setup!

 

And a lamp!!  We need to borrow a pole lamp or tall floor lamp to provide extra illumination in the sale area. 

 

 

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Holiday Bazaar, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Bakers are needed to bake cookies, brownies, cupcakes, fancy breads, buns, and more for the Beth Or Bakery table.

 

Items such as cakes or breads should be cut in serving sizes and individually wrapped for easy sale. Contact April Miller:  ahmslm9400@aol.com or 305-667-9616 if you will bake for the sale.  

 

 

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 

   

Day of Jewish Learning 
 
Something exciting is coming to Temple Beth Or.  We will be participating along with 250 other communities around the world in a day of study.  The topic is "Blessings and Gratitude."  Rabbi Kram and others will facilitate discussions that will be relevant, and you will come out of these sessions with knowledge and ideas that we can all use in our challenging lives.  The event is on Sunday, December 2, and starts at 10 a.m.
 

New TBO Website Update 

 

From our Web Maven, Dr. Mike:

 

We are now ready for advertiser & sponsor ads. Please get the word out and post it in the Newsletter.

 

Get noticed by your temple!

 

Camera-ready business card size ads will be rotated through the website for $180 per year:

Jan 1-Dec 31.

 

The Temple Directory is available in PDF to members.

 

Send ads by e-mail to drmikebethor@comcast.net

and the check to temple.

 

Dr. Michael Newman

305-632-1663 

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.
 
                                                                                    

New Season of Bibliodrama

 

BIBLE STORIES
 

Three exciting programs designed to explore Hebrew Bible stories and their contemporary meaning in today's world will be presented.

 

~ PLEASE JOIN US FOR THESE THREE PROGRAMS ~

On the following Saturdays, 10:00 a.m. to Noon

 

November 10, 2012     

Genesis: Innocence vs. Cynicism:  Adam, Eve, an Apple and a S-s-s-nake!   

 

December 15, 2012

Genesis: Jacob, Honesty vs.  Deception

 

January 19, 2013

Genesis: Jacob Gets the Wrong Wife!

 

No prior knowledge of the Bible stores or of psychodrama is required!  Just bring openness and a beginner's mind! 

 

Presented by Rabbi Mark Kram and Nancy Kirsner, Ph.D., Psychodramatist.  The program is entitled "Bibliodrama: Midrash in Action," and is a form of role-playing in which the roles are taken from Biblical texts.  Enacted and enlivened in the present, this form of interpretive play is often called the action version of the Midrash.  The roles may be characters, objects, images or scenes from the Bible.

 

We have all read these Hebrew Bible stories for many years.  Today we will "step into the shoes" of ech of these Biblical characters and experience their lives from the inside out.

 

For more information, please call the Temple at 305-235-1419, or call Dr. Nancy Kirsner at 305-274-8283.

 

 


Lighhouse Cafe
 
Rod MacDonald: The Music and the Message
 
Named "Best Local Acoustic Artist" by New Times and "One of the Ten Magnificent Musicians of Palm Beach County" by the Palm Beach Post, Rod appears at festivals, concerts and cafes throughout North America and Europe, expressing his "personal commitment to communicating events that have affected and shaped our world's societies...with lyrics and music that are infectious and inspiring and humorous..."
 
November 24, 2012
The Lighthouse Cafe at Temple Beth Or
11715 SW 87 Avenue, Miami
305-213-1419
 
 

Got Space?   

 
Do you have some garage or shed space the Temple could borrow till next spring's annual Yard Sale?  We have a couple of folks who want to donate sale items but cannot keep them till sale time. 
 
If you do, please contact Jeff Tucker at JMTucker007@gmail.com
 
 

Garden and Grounds  

 

 

 

 

All Organic Garden Beds have been renovated, covered with weed-suppressing cardboard and our Kosher Mulch. Maybe we'll have a full planting this season if volunteers step forward.... Email Jeff Tucker JMTucker007@gmail.com

 

 

In and For Our Local Community
 

 Town Hall Meeting Wednesday, November 14
 
"Connecting  South Dade" town hall meeting regarding the proposed U.S. 1 toll lane project.
 
Informal reception 6:00 - 7:00 p.m., with the meeting from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. at Pinecrest Gardens, 5855 SW 111 Street.  There will be a panel discussion moderated by Katie Sorenson.  This event is hosted by the Village of Pinecrest, Florida and co-hosted by the Chamber South Economic Development  Council, Edward McDougall, Mayor of Cutler Bay.
 
For more information, email info@MoveMiamiDade.com
 

Reception and Briefing with Aharon Barnea

 

Rita and Ted Benghiat

cordially invite you for a

cocktail reception & briefing with

Aharon Barnea

Anchor and Senior Correspondent in the U.S.

for Channel 2 Television News, Israel

 

Israel at a Crossroads: An Insider's Perspective

 

Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. 

 

at their home

9538 Southwest 62nd Court, Miami

Hors d'oeuvres and refreshments will be served.  Dietary laws observed.

 

Advance reservations are required.  This event is strictely off the record and closed to the press.  Kindly RSVP by Wednesday, November 21, by contacting

Eland Kanel at 954-382-6110 or EKanel@aipac.org

 

Aharon Barnea is currently the Senior Correspondent based in the U.S. for Israel's Channel 2 Television News.  A former advisor to Israeli President Ezer Weizman, Mr. Barnea has served Channel 2 News as Correspondent on Arab Affairs and as Special Correspondent.  He was also Press Secretary for the Embassy of Israel in Cairo, Egypt.

Mr. Barnea holds the rank of Captain in the Israeli Defense Forces.  He completed his Masters in Middle Eastern Studies at U.C. Berkeley, and his undergraduate degree in Middle East History and Arabic language at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.   Mr. Barnea currently resides in Washington, D.C.

New World Symphony and Holocaust Memorial to Co-Sponsor "Songs of the Holocaust" Concert

 

Even as the Nazi regime sought to take away everything else from them, the Jews of Eastern Europe found music as a way to express their humanity, to mentally escape from the realities of their situations, and to find hope and comfort. In celebration of the enduring spirit that kept so many alive during unthinkable conditions and in tribute to the millions who perished, the New World Symphony and the Holocaust Memorial of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation will present Inside the Music: Songs of the Holocaust on Tuesday, November 13, beginning at 7 p.m. at the New World Center, 500 17th Street, Miami.

 

Inside the Music will feature performances by the New World Symphony Fellows, and include interactive film, electronic media segments, and testimonial excerpts from Holocaust survivors. The program will reflect the importance of music in lifting spirits within the walls of the Jewish ghettoes and the barbed wire fences of the concentration camps.

 

The late, renowned poet Abraham Sutzkever, a Jewish partisan fighter in the Vilna Ghetto, spoke of the motivating force of music when he said, "Today I heard a beauty for which it is worthwhile to fight." Reflecting on Sutzkever's statement while planning Inside the Music, New World Symphony Fellow Anthony Parce, said, "I decided to program music that would have been such an inspiration, it would have enabled those suffering at the hands of the Nazis to carry on. I have searched for music primarily by Jewish composers written just before or in the early stages of the Holocaust, and also included two other pieces for their reflection of the culture and their outstanding beauty."

 

"We are proud to host this very special performance with the New World Symphony," said Andrew C. Hall, Esq., Chair of the Holocaust Memorial of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation. "The concert is one of a series of creative programs designed to promote Holocaust awareness and remembrance throughout our entire community."

 

Tickets for Inside the Music: Songs of the Holocaust are free of charge and must be reserved in advance. For reservations or more information, visit www.nws.edu or call 305.673.3331.

 

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Greater Miami Jewish  Federation
gmjf  
Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts
 
The Greater Miami Jewish Federation has established an emergency relief fund to assist those affected by Hurricane Sandy.
 
One hundred percent of all proceeds collected for this fund by Federation will be distributed through the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), the umbrella organization for Jewish community organizations across North America, as part of a national response to help victims in the Jewish and general populations.  The GMJF will collaborate with JFNA, which will work to assess the neds in affected communities and provide immediate assistance.
 
You can send a conation check with a notation "Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund" by mail to: Greater Miami Jewish Federation, 4200 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33137.
 
For more information, call 305-576-4000.