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This Week At Beth Or

Your guide to upcoming programs,  
activities and news 

February 10, 2015

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In This Issue
 

Rabbi
Mark Kram   
 
 
 
 
D'Var Torah
 

February 14, 2015   
 
Mishpatim
Exodus 22:4 - 23:19  
(using the Triennial Year 2 calendar)
 
Haftarah


II Kings 12:1 - 12:17 
 
 
 
Beth Or Links

Our Website 

Board Of Directors 

Committees 

Help Beth Or by shopping at Amazon

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.
 
mark your calendar
What's Happening This
Week at Temple Beth Or
Tuesday, February 10
Positive Psychology  7:00 p.m. 

Wednesday, February 11  
Chit Chat  10:00 a.m.
Executive Committee Meeting  7:15 p.m.
Board of Directors Meeting  8:00 p.m. 

Thursday, February 12
Weight Watchers  10:00 a.m.
   
Friday, February 13  
Kabbalat Shabbat   8:00 p.m. 

Saturday, February 14
The Lighthouse Cafe presents Mark Levy
                    7:30 p.m.
 
Sunday,  February 15 
 
Monday, February 16
Presidents' Day 
 
Tuesday, February 17   
Positive Psychology 7:00 p.m.  
 
Wednesday, February 19   
Chit Chat  10:00 a.m.


  
  

 


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 Events 
 
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Save the Date!  


February 24, March 3 and March 10 
Positive Psychology continues 
 
February 14 
Lighthouse Cafe with Mark Levy

March 7 
Lighthouse Cafe with Zak Shaffer

March 8 
Spring Garden Festival 

March 21  
Lighthouse Cafe with Ruth Wyand

community notice
Temple Beth Or Community Notices
shabbat shalom
Shabbat Shalom!

Join us on Friday, February 13, as we welcome Shabbat with Bette and Rose Spector leading the service.

We'll be back to our usual 8:00 p.m. start time.

The Oneg Shabbat will be in memory of Claudia Braunschweig, sponsored by her husband, Dr. Tomas Braunschweig.


A new feature for Beth Or members and Friends  
 

Look to the left and up for the Amazon "Widget". 
When you want to order from Amazon, you can click on this box.  From TWABO, the link will take you to the Beth Or website.  If you scroll down, you'll see another Amazon box.  Click "View More Products on Amazon.com" and you'll go straight to the Amazon website.  Log in with your own account, as you normally do.  Temple Beth Or, as a newly registered "Amazon Associate," will receive a percentage of your purchase price at
no additional cost to you, because you accessed Amazon via the Widget.


If you're not reading TWABO when you're ready to shop, just go to the Temple's website,  
and use the Amazon Widget from there.

   
 
Bridge to the Future Followup

The Bridge to the Future followup team will be communicating with TBO members in the near future.  We're looking to touch base with members whose pledges have open balances, members whose pledges have been completed, and members who have never made a BTF pledge or might be interested in continuing a completed pledge.

Before we contact anyone -- and the contacts will probably be by mail initially -- we will review each BTF history to make sure we have correct information to work with. 
Chit Chat  
             
 
Chit Chat meets at Beth Or Wednesday mornings at 10:00 a.m. to read and discuss items in the news or out there in the world.  We concentrate primarily on issues of
Jewish interest.  

If you want to be included on the Chit Chat email list, please contact Mike Leslie at hebrewnatl@aol.com
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Positive Psychology 2 continues...
   Wellbeing and Jewish Fundamentals 
 
An 8-week open event facilitated by Dr. Nancy Kirsner.  All are welcome!   
Positive Psychology has ushered in an
era of well being and happiness by focusing on what works and is strong in you.   
Research and reality teaches us that we are at our best when we live in our strengths and in relationships.  Our Jewish fundamentals and Positive Psychology converge, creating a rich context of meaning, purpose and pleasure -- the main ingredients of Happiness and Wellbeing.

Class session dates:  Tuesday evenings:
February 10, 17, and 24,
March 3 and 10.

Class time is 7:00 p.m. 

To register, please email nancykirsner@gmail.com 
For any questions, call Dr. Nancy Kirsner at 305-274-8283.    
Cost to participate: 
  • $10 per class if taken individually
  • $60 for the series of classes for Beth Or members if paid in advance or at the first session
  • $80 for the series for non-members if paid in advance or at the first session
All proceeds go to Temple Beth Or
Checks should be made payable to Temple Beth Or
  

 

Lighthouse Cafe
Mark Levy
Saturday, February 14 at 7:30 p.m.

Mark brings us Jewish and Yiddish folk music from around the world.

"Inspiring -- I don't often hear someone with such a good voice and a clear sense of direction"
                          -- Pete Seeger

Mark also lectures around the country and teaches classes on many subjects from Israeli Pioneer music to Klezmer, to Jewish humor.

Please pass the word around to anyone you know who might enjoy this musical theme.  It should be an interesting and enjoyable night.

We hope you'll join us!

Seats are $20 per person, and we'll be offering free coffee, tea, and light snacks.

Call 305-235-1419 to reserve or email bethortemple@aol.com
 
Honoring Shirley Pollak at March 6 Shabbat Service

Please join us for services March 6 at 7 p.m. (note earlier starting time), as we acknowledge Shirley Pollak for her many years of mentoring and teaching our B'nai Mitzvoth students.

In addition, we will be celebrating Purim.  This promises to be a celebration of Purim like none other, with many of Shirley's students in attendance. A celebration oneg put on by many of our members will follow.  Mark your calendars.

 

SPRING GARDEN FESTIVAL!

 

Sunday, March 8, 10:00 a.m - 1:00 p.m.

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            SAVE THE DATE!!


 
Beth Or's  ORGANIC  GARDEN
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Let's put the 'Or' in 'Organic"
 
Certified Florida Master Gardeners Wilfredo and Candy Candelaria promise support for
Beth Or's Organic Garden and Campus Edibles Program, 2015.
They offer a Seminar on Garden Veggies.
a) Most Green Thumb congregants could use more practical training:
b) what about seasonal variations
b) wisely allocate volunteer time or tend your own plot
c) general education for your appreciation and application of gardening skills
d) Temple plans to convert some decorative space into HERBS/MEDICINALS
 
I'm not able to run a Garden Club but a few committed diggers/planters/harvesters could
bring our Garden areas to life - you have the infrastructure; we can do something to start using it.
 
Help pick a date for this Seminar on Garden Veggies - - one Sunday afternoon in the coming weeks?
This wont happen unless you want it to, a few voices can be heard in the silence we now have around our Gommunity Garden.
I'm sure the Candelaria's will make their presentation worthwhile for you in our Lighthouse Cafe.
 
Will this become The Opportunity 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!
 
Kavanah~ 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 cultivation, 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.

TBO Members' Page

room.jpgFurnishings Needed

A family who was formerly at Chapman is now living in an apartment and is in

need of furniture. Please contact Andrea Loring ( andrealor@bellsouth.net) if you

have any used furniture that you are willing to donate. Thank you.


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"Music Keys and More" 

Piano Lessons given by member Sharon  Abramson . Hour and 3/4 hour lessons available. Call or email for further information. Children through adults. A percentage of lesson price will be donated back to Temple" 
H. 786-420-2467 
C 305 338 1193. E
sharonabramsonm@yahoo.com

Now Playing at the New Theatre in South Dade...

Twelve Angry Men
  by Reginald Rose

with a cast including Bill Schwartz, husband of Abbe, in the production playing February 6 - March 1, at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, 10950 SW 211 Street, in Cutler Bay.


For ticket information, call 786-573-5300 or visit the website at www.new-theatre.org


Wishlist for TBO Friends

Jeff Tucker is looking for: 
  • A good antenna -- rabbit ears or similar
  • Movie DVD's
  • Ladies' shoes size 8-1/2
  • Ladies' cosmetics
  • Men's slippers
  • Warm blanket
  • Full-sized sheets
Jeff is collecting these items for Noli and Keke. Please contact him at tuckbrc@bellsouth.net
to make arrangements for donations.
In and For Our Local Community



Limmud Miami Programs

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Limmud Miami offers an amazing range -- way too many to list here -- of speakers and subjects at the Kovens Conference Center, FIU Biscayne Bay Campus, 3000 NE 151  Street, North Miami Beach. For a complete schedule and registration information, check out the website below and see what piques your curiosity.  From the homepage, select the Register tab, and Schedule 2015 from the dropdown.

 
From the Limmud website ( www.limmudmiami.org )

"Limmud is an internationally popular festival of Jewish life and learning incorporating lectures, workshops, performances, panels, text-study sessions, film, meditation, discussions, exhibits, and performances. Limmud conferences maintain broad appeal within a diverse community.  One writer describes, "Limmud conference [is] a creative, collective learning experience that falls somewhere between Burning Man and yeshiva... in 50 communities around the world, from Moscow to Sydney to Rio and the Galil."

Writers to Speak at MDC Campuses

 
Leah Roth will discuss her forthcoming memoir,
My Eyes Looking Back at Me, which examines her experiences in the Holocaust and after.  As an observant Jew, Roth struggled not only to survive the Holocaust and Auschwitz but struggled to keep her religious identity in the face of evil.  Her story spans 90 years and moves from Europe, to Israel, and finally to Miami.  The discussion will take place

at 11:15 a.m., on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at the Homestead Campus, 500 College Terr.,  

Building F, Room 222.

 

Carla McClafferty, an author, freelance writer and speaker, will discuss her book,
In Defiance of Hitler: The Secret Mission of Varion Fry, which highlights the life of Fry, an American journalist in Vichy, France from 1940-41. He ran an underground network that saved up to 4,000 Jewish and anti-Nazi artists, intellectuals, writers, and political dissidents. He did so in defiance of not only Hitler, but the Vichy Regime and the U.S. State Department. He is one of only three Americans to be awarded Yad Vashem's Righteous Among the Nations honor. The discussion will be held at 9:50 a.m.,
on Thursday, Feb. 26, at the Kendall Campus, 11011 S.W. 104 St.

For more information, contact

MDC Humanities & Social Sciences Chairperson Randy Kaufman at 305-237-5267.