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This Week At Beth Or

Your guide to upcoming programs,  
activities and news 
  
      December 17, 2013
   
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In This Issue
 
 

Rabbi
Mark Kram   
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D'Var Torah
  
  
December 20, 2013
  
Shemot   
Exodus 1:1 - 2:25
   
  
using the Year 1
Triennial Schedule
  

Haftarah:   
Ashkenazim: Isaiah
27:6 - 28:13 and
29.22-23
Sephardim:
Jeremiah 1:1 - 2:3 
 
 
Beth Or Links

Our Website

Board Of Directors

Committees



Other Links




Contact:

Kathy Fisler 
BethOrTemple@aol.com
 
305-235-1419
What's Happening This Week at Temple Beth Or
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Tuesday, December 17 
  
Wednesday, December 18   
Chit Chat at Beth Or  10:00 a.m. 
  
Thursday, December 19
 
Friday, December 20 
Family Midrash Kabbalat Shabbat Service
        8:00 p.m.
  
Saturday, December 21
 
Sunday, December 22
Broadway Sing-Along  2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
 
Monday, December 23 
Adult B'not Mitzvah Class will not meet this week.
 
Tuesday, December 24 
Chinese Food Night

Wednesday, December 25  
Chit Chat at Beth Or  10:00 a.m. 
 
 
  
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 Events 
 
Save the Date! mark your calendar
 

Monday, December 30
Adult B'not Mitzvah Class will not meet this evening

Tuesday, December 31
 
New Year's Eve at TBO 

Saturday, January 11 
Blessing of the Pets 
Progressive Dinner 
  
Friday, January 31 - Sunday, February 2
Jews in the Woods
 

 
  
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Community Notices
  
Shabbat Shalom!  
shabbat shalom 

 

Join us this Friday for a Family Midrash Kabbalat Shabbat service at 8:00 p.m.  Jeff and Carol Kaminsky will blend stories with tradition to welcome Shabbat.

The Oneg Shabbat will be community sponsored.
Chit Chat at Beth Or
  
Chit Chat meets on Wednesday mornings at 10:00 at the Temple. 

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.
   
Progressive Dinner

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Hello everyone:  

It's that time of year again when we start planning for Temple Beth Or's Progressive Dinner.  The date for the 2013 Progressive Dinner is, Saturday, January 11, 2014.  We are looking for volunteers to host the entree portion of the evening, and Irene and I were wondering if you would be willing to serve as a host house.

 

Our 2014 Progressive Dinner will be extra special. We will be beginning and ending our evening in the same place, thanks to the generosity of Ilien and Keith Hechtman. We will initially gather at the Hechtman home for appetizers to get the evening off to a great start.  

 

Once the guests leave the Hechtmans, they will head to their assigned host house.  Hosts are responsible to serve a salad, main dish with some side dishes, bread, and something to drink.  Temple Beth Or provides each host house with two bottles of wine -- one red and one white.  

 

You and your guests eat and talk for a couple of hours and leave to return back the Hechtman home by 10 p.m. for the dessert portion of the night.  It's a great way to rekindle old friendships and make new ones.

 

Irene and I do all the behind the scenes arrangement of assigning folks to the houses and so forth.  As an added benefit, guest hosts are not required to pay the fee for the dinner. 

 

It's great fun and we hope you'll consider hosting.

 

Please let us know as soon as possible whether you'll be able to be a host. Feel free to respond by email to annette075@aol.com or you can call either Irene or me if you have any questions.  We look forward to hearing from you. Please contact one of us as soon as possible so we can properly plan the dinner.

 

Best,

Annette & Irene

 

Annette's home number is 305-234-8868

Irene's home number is 305-251-4336

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Jews in the Woods in January

Friday, January 31 - Sunday, February 2

 

Your trusty volunteer ranger Ellen Siegel will already be at Flamingo camping the week before, and the Trust family camp is on Sat and Sunday so there's lots of activities going on for kids of all ages.

 

Details will follow, but interested campers can put this date on their schedules.

  

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.

  

Garden and Grounds

 

Beth Or's ORGANIC GARDEN can put the OR in Organic!

 

Free advice is available from local Master Gardener Wilfredo Candelaria (786-234-7520).

 

Willing to get your hands dirty and fill your plate with home-grown produce?  Use our infrastructure with his advice.

 

Raised Bed Custodians:

 

1-Jane Weinstock 3' x 8'

2-Mark Rosenblum 4' x 4'

3-Pat Barron 3' x 8'

4-Karen Steinberg-Lewis 3' x 8'

5-Diane Pearl 3' x 8'

 

A sixth, round bed is currently open.

 

You're invited to DO YOUR FALL PLANTINGS in November-December.

 

 

>>> CONTACT Jeff Tucker and Grow Your Own!

JMTucker007@gmail.com

 

 

  

Garden and Grounds  Wish List
  
Thinking of replacing your older lawn-care equipment?
  
To save $500 or more per year, the TBO Grounds Department needs some equipment, in good running condition, or nearly so!
  
1. Large lawnmower
2. Edger
3. Weedeater
4. Large chainsaw
  
Contact Jeff Tucker at JMTucker007@gmail.com if you can help.  Thanks!
  
  
Do you have an old "box style" TV that works? 
  
Looking for an excuse to replace it?  We've got one, ready-made.

Marcy Prince can take old, working TV's with the following specifications: TV's must have outlets for DVD/VHS/game hook-up; no larger than 27".
 
Marcy is  also seeking DVD and VHS players and cable boxes.
  
These would be made available to women who need assistance in getting a roof over their heads and don't have the means to purchase luxury items.

 

 


Please contact Marcy at mprince@miamidade.gov 

Need Golf Clubs?

 

Karen Steinberg-Lewis has a set for sale, including a Dunlop Driver, Acer 3-9 irons, sand wedge, pitching wedge, putter, balls and tees and the wheeled carrier. We are asking $200.00.  

 

Contact Karen at 305-310-9906. 

 

In and For Our Community
 
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Volunteering Christmas Day, close to home

On Christmas morning from 9:30 to 11 am we will do a holiday visit at the Palace nursing home.  We have stuffed animals to give out and we sing songs and be with the residents.  Children and pets are welcomed as well as musical instruments. 

If you want to participate with us, please contact 

Karen Steinberg-Lewis at

 

 

sepia_stacked_hands.jpg Holiday Season Volunteering via the Greater Miami Jewish Federation

As they do every year, the Federation makes available a wide variety of volunteer opportunities for Christmas Day and surrounding days. 

These include, but are most certainly not limited to, working with kids, older folks, homeless persons, and community organizations.  Projects may involve food preparation/distribution, toys, entertaining, bringing Jewish tradition to those who can't get out easily, even knitting items for the little ones.

If you're interested, either call 786-866-8680 or email volunteer@gmjf.org.

Or...you can check out their website and look under the News Tab for the Season of Doing section.  www.jewishmiami.org
 
    
Affordable Care Act Informational Workshops

The League of Women Voters of Miami-Dade County in conjunction with the Health Council of South Florida, Enroll America, and the Miami-Dade Public Library System will host a serious of informational workshops about the Affordable Care Act.

For library branch locations and and program times, visit: