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This Week At Beth Or

Your guide to upcoming programs,  
activities and news 

August 19, 2014
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In This Issue
 
 

Rabbi
Mark Kram   
 
 
 
 
D'Var Torah
  
  
August 23, 2014 
  

Re'eh
Deuteronomy 
11:26 - 12:28  
using the Year 1
Triennial Schedule

 
Haftarah
Isaiah 54:11 - 55:5  
 
 
 
Beth Or Links

Our Website 

Board Of Directors 

Committees 



Other Links




Contact:

Kathy Fisler 
bethortemple@aol.com
 
305-235-1419
 
Office Hours:
Tuesday  9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday: Noon - 3:00 pm.
Thursday: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
 
What's Happening This Week at Temple Beth Or
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Tuesday, August 19

Wednesday, August 20            
Chit Chat at 10:00 a.m. 
     
Thursday, August 21
Weight Watchers  10:00 a.m.

Friday, August 22 
Kabbalat Shabbat Services    8:00 p.m.   
 
Saturday, August 23
Torah Study  10:15       
Sunday, August 24  
    
Monday, August 25         
  
Tuesday, August 26     
   
Wednesday, August 27          
Chit Chat  10:00 a.m.  
  
 
  
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 Events 
 
Save the Date!  

mark your calendar
Friday, August 29
Kabbalat Service with "Reb" Max
     Kirkham

Wednesday, September 3 
Community Meeting

Sunday, September 7
Open House and Brunch

Wednesday, September 10 
Executive Committee and Board Meetings

Sunday, September 14  
Youth Event (TBA)
Red Tent Women's Reading Group

Saturday, September 20 
Selichot

Sunday, September 21 
Cemetery Remembrance Visit

Wednesday, September 24
Erev Rosh Hashanah

Thursday, September 25
Rosh Hashanah Day 1

Friday, September 26
Rosh Hashanah Day 2

Friday, October 3
Kol Nidre

Saturday, October 4 
Yom Kippur and Yizkor
Break the Fast

Sunday, October 5 
Sukkah Raising

Wednesday, October 8 
Pizza in the Sukkah

Friday, October 10 
Sukkot Potluck Dinner

Saturday, October 11 
Chapman Partnership Volunteer  Day
Movie Night at TBO

Sunday, October 12 
Red Tent Women's Reading Group 

Monday, October  13
Ritual Meeting

Sunday, October 19
  (and Oct. 26, Nov. 2, Nov. 9)
Little Known Jews program 
Wednesday, October 22
Adult Education with Rabbi Kram
  
Friday, October 31 
Story-Telling Shabbat

Friday, November 7 
New Member Recognition Shabbat

Saturday, November 8 
Spaghetti Dinner

November 17, and
     December 1 
Book Discussion: My Promised Land, by Ari Shavit



   
 
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Community Notices
  
Shabbat Shalom!                  shabbat shalom
 

Friday, August 22, join us for Kabbalat Shabbat services at 8:00 p.m.  Rabbi Mark Kram will be on the bima.
 
 
The Oneg Shabbat will be provided by Marti and Tom Gammon.
 
Thank You, Thank You!
..to those who have generously donated to Temple Beth Or...

Celia Belsky, in honor of Norma Belsky's
     90th birthday
Glenn Patron, to underwrite TBO's participation
     in the JCC Book Festival
Linda and Shep Faber, to underwrite TBO's
     participation in the JCC Book Festival

welcome new members Membership Open House Coming Up!

 

 

Beth Or will be hosting  a membership open house and light brunch on Sunday, September 7th, from 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon.

 

The primary purpose of this Open House is to showcase TBO to prospective members and let them see what we have to offer in the way of programs and activities as well as a spiritual home.   

 

Do you have friends who might be interested in Beth Or?  How about unaffiliated Jews looking for the right place to land?  Or non-Jews interested in learning about Judaism who might want a place to start?  We want to meet them, get to know them, and introduce them to our home! 

 

Please contact April Miller if you can attend and or help: ahmslm9400@aol.com

     

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Beth Or Day at Chapman Partnership  

 

Saturday, October 11 

  

We have another opportunity for members to enjoy spending time together while doing a Mitzvah!

This time, we will be helping to serve lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  We are also welcome to help prepare the food from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., but this is not required.  We need ten volunteers for serving.  If you would like to participate, please contact Andrea Loring at
andrealor@bellsouth.net to save a place.

 

 

 


What Is Red Tent? books

Red Tent is a reading group (named after the first book we read) that is comprised of female members of Beth Or.  But it is much more than a book club.  It is a close knit group of caring and supporting women who can be counted on to "be there" should the need arise.

If you would like a little mental stimulation and lots of friendship along with some darn good food, Red Tent might be exactly what you are looking for.  Our selections are quite varied...from "Is It Just Me or Is It Nuts Out There" to "Brothers Emanuel" and there is always a delicious array of food for us to enjoy as we share our latest family news.

If you would like a full listing of our monthly selections so you can prepare to participate in one of our meetings, let me know. If you would prefer to just drop in and see what Red Tent is about for yourself, I will be happy to provide you with the necessary details.

Bette Spector
BetteSpector@gmail.com
305-382-0762

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Little-Known Jews
                                         
Our very own Norma Salz will present a four-part education program on Little-Known Jews on four consecutive Sundays from October 19 through November 9 at the Temple.

Please leave a voicemail at the Temple or email bethortemple@aol.com.    You don't need to be able to attend all four sessions, but we'd love it it you can.  We just need a general idea of how many to expect. 

My Promised Land
by Ari Shavit

A Temple Beth Or Book Discussion, led by Rabbi Mark Kram, to meeto on Monday, November 17, and Monday, December 1.

Excerpt from the book's summary on Amazon.com:

"We meet Shavit's great-grandfather, a British Zionist who in 1897 visited the Holy Land on a Thomas Cook tour and understood that it was the way of the future for his people; the idealist young farmer who bought land from his Arab neighbor in the 1920s to grow the Jaffa oranges that would create Palestine's booming economy; the visionary youth group leader who, in the 1940s, transformed Masada from the neglected ruins of an extremist sect into a powerful symbol for Zionism; the Palestinian who as a young man in 1948 was driven with his family from his home during the expulsion from Lydda; the immigrant orphans of Europe's Holocaust, who took on menial work and focused on raising their children to become the leaders of the new state; the pragmatic engineer who was instrumental in developing Israel's nuclear program in the 1960s, in the only interview he ever gave; the zealous religious Zionists who started the settler movement in the 1970s; the dot-com entrepreneurs and young men and women behind Tel-Aviv's booming club scene; and today's architects of Israel's foreign policy with Iran, whose nuclear threat looms ominously over the tiny country.
 
As it examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, My Promised Land asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can Israel survive? Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is currently facing, My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. The result is a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today's global political landscape."

The book is available for purchase through Amazon and other sources and is also available at the Miami-Dade Public Library. 
 
Weight Watchers at Beth Or  

Weight Watchers continues its meeting series on Thursday mornings at 10:00 a.m. at Beth Or.
 
New members should arrive at about 9:45 and enter by the back door at the top of the ramp.


For more information, please contact Ilien Hechtman at ilienh@aol.com 

 

Chit Chat  
Chit Chat meets on Wednesday mornings at 10:00 at the Temple. 

We've picked up several interesting articles from reputable sources -- BBC News and the New York Times among them -- and we're ready to launch into 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.
 
There's always room for 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.
   
Garden and Grounds
Jeff Tucker asks for Landscape Design assistance to upgrade the Tucker Memorial Magen David Star Bench area.

Please call 305-607-9721 to share creative landscape ideas and techniques to enhance the two wooden structures.

 

 

Mangos are appearing!
mangoes
At last! 
 
The tree is starting to drop its fruit, and if your faithful mango gatherer can grab them before the critters do, there will be mangos in a basket on one of the Oneg Room tables! 


TBO Members' Page

Looking for a Cleaner?

Marina, who has cleaned and served at dinners at TBO for years, has cleaning time available for your home or small office.

She can be reached at 305-873-3517 and comes highly recommended! 
 
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In and For Our Local Community

 
Jewish Museum of Florida--FIU's Recipe Contest

From My Family's Kitchen

Do you have a great recipe for sour pickles?  Have you adapted your Grandmother's Gefilte Fish recipe using locally caught fish?  Do you bake the best Rugelach south of NYC?

To celebrate the closing of its wildly popular exhibition, Growers, Grocers, and Gefilte Fish
, the Jewish Museum of Florida--FIU presents this Recipe Contest to find the best Homemade Pickles, Gefilte Fish, and Rugelach in Florida.

Entrants must be home cooks over age 18 with a great original recipe for homemade pickles, gefilte fish, or rugelach.  No caterers or professional chefs are permitted to enter.

To enter:
1. The entry form is available online at  www.jewishmuseum.com, or call 786-972-3170.   Email your entry form with "Recipe Contest" and the category in the subject line (Category will be either Pickles, Gefilte Fish, or Rugelach) to marketing@jewishmuseum.com, or fax to 305-672-5933 by Friday, September 12, 2014, at 5:00 p.m.
2. Prepare ten servings of your product and deliver to the Museum between 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 21.  Participants must be present to win.

Prizes include JMOF-FIU memberships, gift certificates, photo in  TILES (JMOF-FIU Newsletter), and bragging rights!  First, second and third place prizes will be awarded.


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