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This Week At Beth Or

Your guide to upcoming programs,  
activities and news 

September 30, 2014
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In This Issue
 
 

Rabbi
Mark Kram   
 
 
 
 
D'Var Torah
  
  
October 4, 2014 
  
Yom Kippur

Leviticus 16: 1-34
Leviticus 18: 1-30


 
Haftarah
Isaiah 57:14 - 58:14      
 
 
 
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, September 30

Wednesday, October 1
Chit Chat 10:00 a.m. 
 
Thursday, October 2  
Weight Watchers Meeting 10:00 a.m.
Childhood Education Meeting  7:30 p.m.

Friday, October 3
Kol Nidre   8:00 p.m.
   (at Christ the King Lutheran Church)
 
Saturday, October 4
Yom Kippur Service  10:00 a.m.
  (at Christ the King Lutheran Church)   
Afternoon Study Sessions at Beth Or 
    beginning at 2:15 p.m.
Neilah and Havdalah  5:30
Break the Fast   6:00 p.m.

Sunday, October 5
Sukkah Raising  10:00 a.m.

Monday, October 6          
 
Tuesday, October 7   
 
Wednesday, October 8          
Chit Chat  10:00 a.m.
Pizza, Lulav and Etrog in the Sukkah  
7:00 p.m 
 
Thursday, October 9
 
Friday, October 10
Sukkot Potluck Dinner before Services  7:00 p.m.
 
  
 
  
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 Events 
 
Save the Date!  

mark your calendar

 
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

Wednesday, October 15
Executive Committee and Board Meetings

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
  
Kol Nidre                    shabbat shalom
 
Rabbi Mark Kram will be on the bima this Friday at 8:00 p.m. at Christ the King Lutheran church to lead us in the Kol Nidre Service.

Please see the article below for the schedule for the remainder of the High Holy Days.

Thank You, Thank You!
..to those who have generously donated to Temple Beth Or...

Zack Henry
Greta Larrison-Malkin, in memroy of Donald H.
     Katz
Rhoni and Ned Tannebaum, in memory of Ginny
     Elliott
Ossie and Harry Hanauer, in memory of Ginny
     Elliott
Bette and Morris Spector, in memory of Ginny
     Elliott
Sandra and Frank Kaplan, in memory of Minnie
     Kaplan
Ossie and Harry Hanauer, in memory of Jean
     Van Dam
Diane Barkow, in memory of Esther Akel, and in
     memory of Jean Van Dam and Ginny Elliott
Sheila and Marvin Silverberg, in memory of
     of Fried Silverberg
Marti and Tom Gammon, in honor of Marcy
     Prince's retirement, and in memory of Ginny
     Elliott
Sharon Abramson, in honor of the High Holidays
Evelyn Cohan, in honor of the High Holidays
Michael Cohen, gift in memoriam
Philip Cook, in honor of the High Holidays
Vicki and John Feeley, for L'Shanah Tovah
Abbe Hurwitz and William Schwartz, in honor of
     Rosh Hashanah
Greta Larrison-Malkin, in memory of Jean
     Van Dam
Luisa and Enrique Mishaan, in memoriam
Stacy and Sam Pagan
Randi and Stephen Silverberg
Diane and Koji Sugimoto
Jean Tucker
Daniel and Merle Weiss
Mayme Eder
Stephanie Suarez and Larry Krutchik
Janie and George Emerson, in honor of Kathy
     Fisler's Torah Reading

Ushers Needed for High Holiday Services

A few good ushers are needed!

Kol Nidre, Friday, October 3: one or two to arrive
      by 7:00 p.m.; others by 7:15-7:30
Yom Kippur, Saturday, October 4: one or two to
      arrive by 9:00 a.m.; others by 9:15-9:30

At least four ushers are needed for each service.  If you  are willing and able, please contact the Temple office, and you'll be put in touch with Tom Gammon for specific instructions.


Temple Beth Or

2014 High Holy Days Services Schedule

 

 

  

Friday, October 3 (at Christ the King Lutheran Church)

  • Kol Nidre Service: 8:00 - 10:00 pm in the church sanctuary
  • Cold water will be available in the Red Room

Saturday, October 4 (at Christ the King Lutheran Church, with return to Beth Or in the afternoon)

  • Yom Kippur Service: 10:00 am - 1:30 pm in the church sanctuary
  • Cold water will be available in the Red Room
    • Older kids and teen seminars will run concurrently with services
    • Babysitting for children ages 2-6 will be available
  • Return to Temple Beth Or for study sessions: 2:15 - 3:45 and 4:00 - 5:15 pm
  • Neilah Service and Havdalah: 5:30 p.m.
  • Break the Fast at Temple Beth Or: Immediately following Havdalah.

Break the Fast reservations are now closed. 

 

Temple Beth Or: 11715 SW 87th Avenue, 305-235-1419

Christ the King Lutheran Church: 11295 SW 57th Avenue

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Break the Fast at Beth Or
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Reservations are now closed!

For those attending, here are the details:
Saturday, October 4, 6:00 p.m.,
...immediately following Neilah and Havdalah services, we will break the Yom Kippur fast with a meal catered this year by
A Fare to Remember.

If you have not yet paid, the cost is as follows:
     $22.00 per person for 13 years and older
     $12.00 for ages 6-12
     No charge for under 6 or over 100




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Sukkah Raising on Sunday, Celebration on Wednesday

Kids of all ages, parents, grandparents, come and help to raise the sukkah this Sunday, October 5, at 10:00 a.m.

Master Sukkah constructor Jeff Kaminksy will head up the project. 

Then join us on Wednesday, October 8, at 7:00 p.m. for pizza, the lulav and etrog, and a nice fall evening in the sukkah. 
 
fancy-eggroll-appetizer.jpg Sukkot Potluck Dinner

Friday, October 10, at 7:00 p.m., we'll gather before services for a Sukkot Potluck Dinner.

Get out those recipes -- Beth Or Kosher, of course, and let us know what you plan to bring and how many will attend.

The Oneg Shabbat will consist of the dessert items brought in.     
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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!

Five more volunteers are needed to make a complete roster for this event!

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.


And while we're talking of Chapman....

 

A story about Temple Beth Or's community partner, Chapman Partnership for the Homeless, was in the Herald this week.  Copies are in the Oneg room.  You will be proud to know that this shelter is the most effective one in the country for helping homeless individuals and families to end the cycle of homelessness and transition into  independent living arrangements.  Much of what they accomplish is possible due to their huge cadre of volunteers.  If you haven't signed up to help serve lunch there on Saturday, Oct. 11th, there are still a few slots open.   

 


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, from 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. 

Programs:

October 19:  Nathan & Isadore Straus  

October 26:  Rabbi Tobias Geffen of Atlanta,  

                          Georgia  

                      Private Joel of the 23rd Ohio  

                          Volunteer Regiment, Fayette,

                          West Virginia                   

November 2:  Rabbi Brennglass of Massena,  

                          New York 

                       Fanny Levy & Sarah Edelson,  

                          Lower East Side, NYC  

November 9:  Manya Shahat



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.

This educational series is being presented at no charge to Temple members.

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.

Note: Author Ari Shavit will be at Temple Beth Am, 5950 N. Kendall Drive, on Thursday, October 30, at 7:30 p.m.  Please contact Rebecca Leibowitz, South Dade Director for AIPAC, at 954-382-6110 or RLeibowitz@aipac.org for more information.  Advance registration is required for the event at Temple Beth Am.


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.

 

 

TBO Members' Page

stethoscope_dr_pad.jpg News Flash!

Irene Elliott is feeling much better following her injury last week and says thank you to everyone for their good wishes, not to mention numerous armchair diagnoses!

However, Irene reports that our very own Max Kirkham is in the hospital near his home in North Carolina, having an appendectomy just as this is being published.  We wish him a successful procedure and a speedy recovery.

Lost and Found

Someone left a brown ladies' cardigan at the Temple in the last week or two.  Please contact the office if it's yours.

Mah Jongg Lessons

 

Mah Jongg Lessons are offered by TBO member Sharon Abramson in 4-week sessions, consisting of 1 hour of instruction and 2 hours of supervised pay for each session.

  

Please contact Sharon Abramson for more information.

  

A minimum of 8 students is needed for class (2 Tables).  Sign-ups must be made at the beginning of each series of sessions in order to insure continuity in the instruction and practice.  If you miss the start of one series, it will be necessary to wait the the start of the next series.

 

A Mah Jongg Card is required to play.  Please contact Sharon if you do not have a card.

 

A Mah Jongg set will be needed per group of four players.  Sharon has one, however, additional sets will be needed for each table.

 

 

Notes will be provided and presented in instructional structure; once you are familiar with the concepts, you'll start to play.

 

Suggested day and time of meetings: Thursday afternoon from 3 pm. to 6 p.m.  

 

There will be no charge to Temple members, and the cost to non-members will be $5 per meeting. 

 

 

 

In and For Our Community

 
Taglit--Birthright Israel

Registration is open for upcoming trips!

Israel Outdoors is offering a selection of trip dates and departure options for Birthright Israel, and registration is now open.

Call 202-537-0006 or email info@israeloutdoors.com 


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