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D'Var Torah
Parashat
Vaetchanan
July 20, 2013
Deuteronomy
5:1 - 7:11
Haftarah
Isaiah
40:1 - 26
using the Triennial
Year III schedule
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What's Happening
This Week At Beth Or
Tuesday, July 16
Wednesday, July 17
Chit Chat at Beth Or 10:00 am
Friday, July 19
Kabbalat Shabbat Service 8:00 pm
School Supplies Donation Drive and
Socks/Underwear Donation Drive continue
through August 9
Saturday, July 20
Torah Study 10:15 am
Sunday, July 21
Choir Practice 3:00 pm
Wednesday, July 24
Chit Chat at Beth Or 10:00 am
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Save The Date 
Friday, July 19
School Supplies collection drive begins
Socks and Underwear (new, please!) collection drive begins
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Shabbat Shalom! 
Kabbalat Shabbat Service this Friday evening at 8:00 p.m. will be led by Rabbi Mark Kram.
Oneg Shabbat will follow the service.
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Chit Chat at Beth Or
The Chit Chatters are back at Beth Or this Wednesday at 10:00 a.m.
This discussion group addresses topics of local, national and international interest with a distinctly Jewish approach. We talk about cultural, legal, educational, social, political, religious and secular subjects, with a text usually from the media to start us off.
Now that we are back at the Temple, there's always room for one more, so please don't hesitate. If you're available, so are we.
If you want to be included on the Chit Chat email list, please contact Mike Leslie at hebrewnatl@aol.com.
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Thank you, Thank you!
Mimi Eagar, in memory of her father, Joseph
Oberstein, and in memory of her mother,
Sylvia Oberstein.
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School Supplies Drive
It's that time of year again--we will be collecting school supplies for children in need. There is a box in the oneg room where you can leave
your donations. Supplies will be donated to Children's Home Society.
Bette and Morris Spector will deliver all donated items to the CHS before the start of the school year.
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Socks and Underwear Drive 
And while we're at it, we're also collecting new socks and underwear for children in all grade levels. The collection will continue through August 9th.
Jane Weinstock is coordinating that drive and will take all donated items to the folks at the Chapman Partnership.
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Stand With Us
StandWithUs is an international, non-profit organization. Founded in 2001, StandWithUs is dedicated to informing the public about Israel and to combating the extremism and anti-Semitism that often distorts the issues.
We work by supporting people around the world who want to stand up for Israel and educate their own local campuses and communities. We believe that knowledge of the facts will correct common prejudices about the Arab-Israeli conflict, and will promote discussions and policies that can help promote peace in the Middle East.
Through print materials, speakers, programs, conferences, missions to Israel, campaigns, focus on social media and internet resources, we ensure that the story of Israel's achievements and ongoing challenges is told on campuses and in communities, the media, libraries, and churches around the world. Based in Los Angeles, StandWithUs has fifteen offices across the U.S., and in Israel, Paris and the UK.
This YouTube video tells a story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl-80McB_HM&feature=player_embedded
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Beth Or Website Update...
Stay tuned for an announcement of a workshop about Facebook and using Beth Or's Facebook Fan page to its fullest to promote who we are as a Jewish Jewel, instead of the best kept secret in South Dade.
www.bethormiami.com 
Get noticed by your temple!
Ad copy can be sent to the Temple and will be forwarded to the Facebook/Website mavens.
Camera-ready business card size ads will be rotated through the website for $180 per year.
Send ads by e-mail to drmikebethor@comcast.net
and the check to temple.
The Temple Directory is available in PDF to members.
Webmaven:
Natalie Kaminsky
Natalie can be contacted via the Temple office at 305-235-1419 or kaminskynat@gmail.com. All messages will be forwarded.
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 A message from the Temple's Web Maven, Natalie Kaminsky:
Hello everyone! I am excited to be Beth Or's Web Maven and one of our Facebook facilitators. I look forward to keeping Beth Or's cyberspace presence fresh and engaging.
I can't do it without you, though. If you snap a good picture at a temple gathering, send it to me so I can post it on Facebook. Write and send me a short blurb about a meaningful Beth Or experience (perhaps three or four sentences) that may be shared online. That link about a local Jewish happening? Send it over! My email is kaminskynat@gmail.com.
Making Beth Or shine one post at a time,
Natalie
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About the Calendars..
The Google Calendar for Beth Or events can be viewed by clicking the following link:
This will take you to our website's calendar page without requiring a login. You will be able to choose among the Posterboard, Month, Week, Day, and Agenda views.
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 Garden and Grounds Mangos are ripening! Watch for fruit from the trees on the north side of the property and from one or two of the trees on the south side! Beth Or's ORGANIC GARDEN continues to grow! Let's put the 'Or' in 'Organic" Wilfredo Candelaria, a local Master Organic Gardener kindly offers free advice and consultation to Beth Orians wanting to get their hands dirty and fill their plate with home-grown produce! Call Wilfredo (786) 234-7520. Five Raised Bed Custodians: 1-Jane Weinstock 3' x 8' 2-Mark Rosenbloom 4' x 4' 3-Pat Barron 3' x 8' 4-Karen Steinberg-Lewis 3' x 8' 5-Diane Pearl 3' x 8' If YOU want to operate a beds there's no charge - most supplies freely available (or BYO) >>> CONTACT Jeff Tucker and Grow Your Own!
JMTucker007@gmail.com
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The Young Lion of Judah Program
...a unique B'nai Mitzvah project for students becoming a Bar or Bat Mitzvah.
In addition to choosing individual volunteer opportunities, the Jewish Volunteer Center is partnering with the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach, a committee of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation to pair students with Holocaust survivors who never had the chance to become B'nai Mitzvah. Students will spend time with a Holocaust survivor while working toward completing 10 hours of community service.
Projects include learning about the Holocaust, touring the Holocaust Memorial with survivors, and beautifying and planting at the Memorial.
For 2013-2014, the program begins on Sunday, October 13, 2013 and ends on Sunday, February 23, 2014. Participants will meet with their peers for three programs on Holocaust education. In addition, students will volunteer on their own schedule, visiting with their survivor partner and building a new friendship.
Students are asked to honor their survivor partner during their Bar or Bat Mitzvah service and make a gift of $180 to the Annual Greater Miami Jewish Federation/UJA Campaign. They will receive a certificate of completion and their Young Lion of Judah jewelry gift - a silver bracelet for girls and a silver talit clip for boys.
IMPORTANT PROGRAM DATES:
October 13, 2013, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach, Orientation and Meeting with Survivors
December 8, 2013, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach, Holocaust Education Program
February 23, 2014, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach, Closing Mitzvah Project
For an application or for more ways to become a Young Lion of Judah, please contact Jewish Volunteer Center Director Laura Guren Rodriguez at 786.866.8680 or Volunteer@jewishmiami.org
Space is limited to 25 participants.
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Justice Delayed is Justice Denied:
The AMIA (Jewish Center in Buenos
Aires) bombings 19 years later
Thursday, July 18, 2013, 7:00 pm
Skylake Synagogue
1850 NE 183rd Street
North Miami Beach
The featured speaker is Claudio Grossman, Dean, American University Washington College of Law, Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies, Observer of the AMIA trial for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
This event is sponsored by the ADL, One Park Place, 621 NW 53rd St., #450, Boca Raton, FL, 561-988-2900.
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