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This Week At Beth Or

Your guide to upcoming programs,  
activities and news 

October 21, 2014
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In This Issue
 
 

Rabbi
Mark Kram   
 
 
 
 
D'Var Torah
  
  
October 25, 2014 
 
Genesis 8:15 - 10-32 
(using the Triennial Year 2 calendar)
 
Haftarah for
Rosh Chodesh

Isaiah 66:1 - 66:24 
 
 
 
 
 
Beth Or Links

Our Website 

Board Of Directors 

Committees 



Other Links




Contact:

Kathy Fisler 
bethortemple@aol.com
 
305-235-1419
 
Office Hours:
Tuesday  10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday: Noon - 3:00 pm.
Thursday: 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Friday: 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
 
What's Happening This Week at Temple Beth Or
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Tuesday, October 21

Wednesday, October 22  
Chit Chat 10:00 a.m. 
Executive Committee Meeting  7:30 p.m. 
Board of Directors Meeting 8:00 p.m. 
  
Thursday, October 23 
Weight Watchers Meeting 10:00 a.m.

Friday, October 24 
Kabbalat Shabbat  8:00 p.m.
 
Saturday, October 25
Lighthouse Cafe featuring Friction Farm  7:30 p.m. 

Sunday, October 26 
Little-Known Jews class with
     Norma Salz  10:30 a.m.

Monday, October 27   
  
Tuesday, October 28   
 
Wednesday, October 29         
Chit Chat  10:00 a.m.
  
Thursday, October 30
Weight Watchers  10:00 a.m. 
  
Friday, October 31
Kabbalat Shabbat
 
  
 
  
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Save the Date!  

mark your calendar


November 2 and 9
Little Known Jews program with
   Norma Salz  

November 9 
Red Tent Women's Reading Group 
 
Friday, November 7 
New Member Recognition Shabbat

Saturday, November 8 
Spaghetti Dinner

Sunday, November 16
Global Day of Jewish Learning
 
November 17, and
     December 1 
Book Discussion: My Promised Land, by Ari Shavit

December 7 
Holiday Bazaar 
 
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Community Notices
  
Shabbat Shalomshabbat shalom

Join us Friday evening at 8:00 p.m. for Kabbalat Shabbat.

Oneg Shabbat will follow the service.  

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

Bette and Morris Spector, in appreciation of
    Rabbi Kram, Michael Henry, and the many
    others who made the High Holiday services
    so memorable
Evelyn Cohan, in honor of Ellen Siegel's
    birthday and her friendship
Rhoni and Ned Tannebaum, in memory of
    Winston Crosby
Michael Schwartz, in memory of Douglas
    Schwartz

Lighthouse Cafe  

Saturday evening, October 25 at 7:30



Friction Farm

Aiden Quinn, guitarist/vocalist and
Christine Stay, bassist/vocalist

"Aiden and Christine command any stage they're on. Their applicable force is gently delivered with keen lyrics and beautiful melodies, with a hint of humor to mitigate the seriousness of some of their material,"
-- David Engels, Emerald Concerts
 
Rerservations are available through the Beth Or office: 305-235-1419 or bethortemple@aol.com.

Seats are $20 per person, and we'll offer complimentary refreshments and coffee at the intermission. 

Red Tent Women's Reading Group

 

The Red Tent will meet next at Janie Emerson's home on November 9 at 1:00 p.m. to discuss Orphan Train.


Little-Known Jews
  
...got off to a great start this past Sunday!
                                        
Our very own Norma Salz presents a four-part education program on Little-Known Jews on four consecutive Sundays, continuing on October 26 through November 9 at the Temple, from 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. 

Programs:

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.

Beth Or Annual Holiday Bazaar
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Our bazaar is filling up nicely!

 

We have some wonderful new vendors and are looking for a few more, one selling Mexican pottery and a women's clothing vendor.  

 

If you know of someone interested in attending, please have them contact Rhoni at 305-253-4155 or April at 305-667-9616.  

 

We are NOT  accepting anymore jewelry vendors. Please mark your calendars for December 7, 10:00 a.m. -3:00 p.m.



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. 
 
gardening-bucket.jpg Green Stuff!

Beth Or's  ORGANIC  GARDEN 
ontinues to grow!

 

Put the 'Or' in 'Organic"

 

 

 

Beth Or's
Minipark is the mulched area between the gravel parking lot and our main building.  Still under construction, it

provides safe passage walkways from parking lot to building on a mulch bed instead of rough terrain, tree roots and encroaching vegetation.

Watch for additional improvements as we add sitting area, etc.~ House & Grounds

 

 

 

Certified Florida Master Gardeners Wilfredo and Candy Candelaria will support

Beth Or's Organic Garden and Campus Edibles Program for 2014-15.

They will help train volunteers and provide education for Green Thumb congregants

who want to practice organic, sustainable vegetable, fruit and medicinal cultivation.

Watch for opportunities to cultivate your own plot at Beth Or or help our next communal crops of:  bananas, papayas, other edibles, herbs and medicianals!

 

We're also submitting a grant proposal to improve the irrigation for many edibles on campus!

  

Do's and Don'ts:

  • Don't step on a bed. Your weight compresses the soil, reducing "friability." 
  • If you don't know what to do, ASK!
  • Learn as much as you can about organic-veganic methods- Rodale's magazine is a good resource

Check out this site:  Derek Fellows Grows 

 

Kavanah by Rabbi Mark  "...to help build up our people, our institutions and our strength so that we continue to l'takein olam b'malchut Shaddai, 'repair the world under the kingdom of heaven.'  Let's get our hands deliciously "dirty" in this endeavor as we grow and sustain our beloved community."

 

 

Story:  We are Shomrei Adamah, Guardians of the Earth or Keepers of the Garden of Eden.  To start off we will be practical and do whatever works- but we aspire to the highest standards of earth ethics summarized by Organic/Veganic Gardening. We will carefully select the veggies and herbs to maximize output, balanced cultivatino, companion planting, insect control, etc. With today's high prices for quality veggies and herbs, a garden is economically desirable.  Plus it is part of a healthy lifestyle, good education, and a social communal experience.  All those with green (or any color) thumbs are welcome to cultivate with us.

 

 

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.
   
TBO Members' Page

Break a Leg, Marcy and Butch!
 

Marcy Prince and Butch Falgiatore are appearing in Little Shop of Horrors at the Murray Nelson Government and Cultural Center, Mile Marker 102, Key Largo, opening October 31. 

 

Please click on www.debpro.me

for more show and ticket information.  This is Marcy's first retirement venture -- Mazel Tov!

 

 

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 Local Community

 

Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges


October 5, 2014 - January 11, 2015 
at the Coral Gables Museum

Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow

tells the story of Jewish academics from Germany and Austria who were dismissed from their teaching positions in the 1930s. After fleeing to America, some refugee scholars found positions at historically black colleges and universities in the Jim Crow South. The exhibition explores what it meant to the students to have these new staff as part of their community, how the students were affected by their presence, and what life was like for white, European Jews teaching at black colleges and universities. The exhibit looks at the empathy between two minority groups with a history of persecution, some of whom came together in search of freedom and opportunity, and shared the early years of struggle in the Civil Rights movement.

 

For more information, go to www.coralgablesmuseum.org  click on Events, then Upcoming Events, or call 305-603-8067.