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This Week At Beth Or

Your guide to upcoming programs,  
activities and news 

November 4, 2014
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In This Issue
 
 

Rabbi
Mark Kram   
 
 
 
 
D'Var Torah
  
  
November 8, 2014 
 
Genesis 19:1 - 20:18 
(using the Triennial Year 2 calendar)
 
Haftarah

For Ashkenazim:
II Kings  4:1 - 4:37

For Sephardim:
II Kings  4:1 - 4:23
   
 
 
 
 
 
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, November 4

Wednesday, November 5    
Chit Chat 10:00 a.m.
Programming Meeting 7:30 
     
Thursday, November 6   
Weight Watchers Meeting 10:00 a.m.

Friday, November 7  
New Member Recognition Shabbat 8:00 p.m.
 
Saturday,  November 8
Torah Study 10:15 a.m 
Italian Potluck Dinner  6:15 p.m. 
Movie Night  7:30 p.m. 

Sunday,  November 9 
Red Tent Women's Reading Group  1:00 
 
Monday, November 10    
  
Tuesday, November 11    
 
Wednesday, November 12        
Chit Chat  10:00 a.m.
Executive Committee Meeting 7:00 p.m.
Board of Directors Meeting  8:00 p.m.
  
Thursday, November 13
Weight Watchers  10:00 a.m. 
  
Friday, November 14
Kabbalat Shabbat  8:00 p.m. 
 
  
 
  
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November 17, and
     December 1 
Book Discussion:
My Promised Land, by Ari Shavit

November 22
Beth Or's Global Day of Jewish Learning
 
December 6
Bazaar Setup volunteers needed!

December 7 
Holiday Bazaar


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Community Notices
  
Shabbat Shalomshabbat shalom

Friday, November 7

Welcome the Shabbat and Beth Or's new and returning member families at 8:00 p.m.

Rabbi Mark Kram will be on the bima. 

The Oneg Shabbat will be provided by Amy Lomaskin and Mel Tenen, in memory of the fifth anniversary of the passing of Mel's brother, Philip Tenenburg. 
 
Italian Potluck and Movie Night
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Saturday, November 8, 6:15 p.m. for dinner, followed by a movie -- title to be announced -- at 7:30.  Yep, we'll have the popcorn!

Film:
The Band's Visit (Bikur Ha-Tizmoret).  A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town. 

A donation of $5.00 per person will be asked to cover the cost of paper goods, tableware, drinks and coffee, and cleanup. 

For carb-phobes, it's time to head for the cookbooks and see what vegetarian non-pasta dishes can be made into main dish fare.

Either call the Temple office or email with what you're going to bring.
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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.


Beth Or Annual Holiday Bazaar
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Our annual bazaar is just one month away, Sunday December 7, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

 

We have wonderful new vendors and our favorites, Hudson Girl, Uniquely Stoned, The Chosen, Carlos Pereira,  Tesserot Pottery and Dixie's jewels, traveling all the way from Maryland, just to name a few.  

 

We need a raffle chairperson and a few people to work that day.

 

On Saturday December 6, we need help setting up the tables and chairs, in the afternoon. Please let Rhoni or April know if you are available to help.

 

Save all your gelt and plan to do your holiday shopping with us, proceeds benefit TBO.


 

Flyers are available for you to post in condo or apartment bulletin boards, to give out to groups, or to ask the businesses you patronize to post in their windows.   

 

 

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. 
 
Global Day of Jewish Learning, Beth Or Style
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Beth Or's participation in the Global Day of Jewish Learning program will take place on Saturday, November 22, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.


We'll have a lunch provided for $7.00 per person.  Please let us know in the Temple office if you will participate, and if you'll join us for lunch.   305-235-1419 or bethortemple@aol.com 

Chapman Partnership

To all who helped with the recent volunteer day at Chapman, we've received the following:

"Please accept a sincere Thank You on behalf of the staff and residents of Chapman Partnership.  The generous in-kind contribution of non-perishable food for the residents of our Center has certainly been a source of encouragement."


 
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Beth Or's  ORGANIC  GARDEN 
ontinues to grow!

 

Put the 'Or' in 'Organic"

  

H&G thanks Glenn Patron for illuminating our monument sign with solar-powered spotlights.

 

 

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.  

 

The show continues this weekend; tickets are available! 

 

Please click on www.debpro.me

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

 

 

Social Action

Please consider donating movies on DVD or BluRay for Noli and Keke.  They care for our campus, help care for them.

Bring donations to the office, in care of Jeff Tucker. 
In and For Our Local Community

 
Mental Health Programs Open to the Public
...at Temple Beth Am, 7-9 p.m. as follows:

Wednesday, November 5: Honest Talk: Defining Mental Illness: Exploring coordinated resources with representatives from the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, UM Miller School of Medicine

Wednesday, November 12: Honest Talk on Issues: Ourselves and Our Community: A timely conversation on the spectrum of mental health problems highlighted in our news headlines and hidden in our personal lives

Wednesday, December 3: Honest Talk on Treatment Options: Discussions regarding psychiatry, psychology and the status of treatment in Miami-Dade County

Wednesday, December 10: Honest Talk: Innovative Approaches to Treatment: Groundbreaking new approaches to mental health

All events are free and open to the community.

For more information, visit www.tbam.org/mentalhealth 

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.