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This Week At Beth Or

Your guide to upcoming programs,  
activities and news 

January 26, 2016

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In This Issue
 

Rabbi
Mark Kram   
 
 
 
 
D'Var Torah
January 16, 2016
 

Yitro 
      
Exodus 18:1 - 20:23
(based on the Third Triennial Year 3 calendar) 
 
 
Haftarah
For Ashkenazim:
Isaiah 6:1 - 7:6
and 9:5 - 9:6

For Sephardim
Isaiah 6:1 - 6:13  
 
 
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, January 26, 2016
Positive Psychology: Week 1  7:00 p.m.   
   
Wednesday, January 27
Chit Chat in the Oneg Room  10:00 a.m.
 
Thursday, January 28   
Weight Watchers   10:00 a.m. 

Friday, January 29 
Bonfire Shabbat   7:30 p.m., followed by
    Tu B'Shevat Oneg

Friday - Sunday, January 29-31 
Jews in the Woods 
 
Saturday, January 30
Torah Study  10:15 a.m. 
 
Sunday, January 31 
 
Monday, February 1             

Tuesday, February 2
Positive Psychology: Week 2  7:00 p.m. 
 
Wednesday, February 3
Chit Chat in the Oneg Room  10:00 a.m.
 
 

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 Temple Beth Or 
 Events 
 
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Save the Date! 



February 5-7, 2016 
Scholar-in-Residence Weekend with Mark Levy

February 20, 2016
Bibliodrama

February 28, 2016 
Guided Tour of Black Miami, with Dr. Marvin Dunn 
 
 

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Temple Beth Or Community Notices
Shabbat Shalom!shabbat shalom
 
We'll begin at 7:30 over an open fire with Kabbalat Shabbat and S'mores, with Rabbi Kram leading the service. 

Then we'll head indoors to feast on the fruits of the New Year for Trees, Tu B'Shevat.

See you there!


Thank you, Thank you!

Pat Barron, in thanks for the Shir Appeal concert
Phyllis Winnick, in memory of Jack Winnick
Better and Morris Spector, in memory of Lee
     Weiner Grebin
Vicki Brail and Jeannie Covert, in memory of
     Jack Rosenfeld
Gentile, Joanne, in memory of Hilda and
     Seymour Steiner 
 

Scholar in Residence Program

...featuring Mark Levy, who has performed and taught for 25 years at temples, synagogues, JCC's, Lehrhaus Judaica, Workmen's Circle, and other Jewish Groups.
 
Friday, February 5, through Sunday, February 7  

Friday, Feb. 5: 
7:30 p.m.:Mark Levy will lead the service Friday night, with our own Michael Henry

Saturday, February 6: 
10:30 a.m.:  A 90-minute lecture on liturgical music over the past 3000 years, which will include multi-media examples.

7:30 p.m.:  Mark performs in the Lighthouse Cafe
    ($20 admission for this concert)

Sunday, February 7: 
2:00 p.m.:  Adult Education program in Jewish Humor

And we promise have everyone out in time to get home for the SuperBowl.

RSVP to the Temple phone 305-235-1419, or email bethortemple@aol.com, and tell us which portions of the program you plan to attend.  We can take credit card payments by phone for the Lighthouse Cafe portion of the program.
 

Social Action Calendar
February 2016

Black History Tour with Dr. Marvin Dunn,  February 28, 2016 

The Beth Or Social Action Committee will sponsor a Miami Black History bus tour to be given by Dr. Marvin Dunn on Sunday, February 28, 2016.

This tour will include stops in historic Coconut Grove, the heart of Miami's Bahamian community, Overtown, formerly called Colored Town, and the black entertainment center of the South in the 20's and 30's, and Liberty City, including the site of the catastrophic race riot of 1980.  We will travel by chartered bus and will leave from Beth Or at 10:00 a.m. and return to Beth Or at approximately 4:00 p.m.   The cost for the tour will be $25.00 per person.

We will stop at Bayside Marketplace for lunch on your own.  The cost of lunch is not included in the price of the tour.

Reservations will be accepted on a first paid/first served basis.  Seating is limited to 46.  The tour will initially be open to Beth Or members and their friends and family.  On February 1st, we will open the tour to the community.  Please be sure to make your paid reservations as soon as possible.

Dr. Dunn is donating his services.  If the tour turns a profit, it will be used to replenish the Beth Or fund to assist families of murdered children.

If you would like to participate, please send your check made out to Temple Beth Or by January 22, 2016, to Ellen Hanson, 10801 SW 124 St. Miami, FL  33176. 
 

Chit Chat  
             
Chit Chat meets this Wednesday  at 10:00 a.m. in the Oneg Room

If you want to be included on the Chit Chat email list, please contact Mike Leslie at hebrewnatl@aol.com
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Bibliodrama is Back 
 
February 20, 2016, 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

We'll let you know which story from the Hebrew Bible we will be dissecting and interpreting, but save the date! 
 

 
WHAT'S NEW? WHAT'S JEWISH!
 
Temple Beth Or - 11715 S.W. 87th Avenue, Miami, FL
 
January 26
February 2, 9, 16 and 23
March 1, 8, 15
7:00-9:00 pm
 
Fee: $15.00 per session or $100 for all 8 sessions if you register by Jan.26
All fees are donations to Temple Beth Or

This is a 8-week open event facilitated by
Dr. Nancy Kirsner
All are welcome!
You can come to one or all the sessions!
 
Judaism and Positive Psychology enhance and elevate each other. Learn about the latest books and practical research for living a full, rich life of well being that supports your aliveness and Judaic values and practices.
 
Read about:
  • The Upside Of Stress
 
Discover:
  • The "As If" Principle of Positive Action
  • The Power Triad of Eating-Moving-Sleeping as fossil fuel
  • Open and Closed Mindsets
 
Explore:
  • Your magnificent brain and
¨       Its' amazing neuroplasticity
¨       "You are not your brain"
¨       Neuronal gossip and more....all within an interactive informal learning community.
 
New additions:
  • Two online 30 day challenges
  • Three Positive Psychology book club selections
  • Supported journaling from Gratitude Works.
 
Nancy Kirsner, Certified Positive Psychologist, Ph.D., TEP is a Counseling Psychologist and licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.
 
 
To register, please email nancykirsner@gmail.com
R.S.V.P SIGNUP REQUIRED
For any questions call Dr. Nancy Kirsner at
(305) 274-8283

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It's Now More Affordable to Celebrate with an Oneg Shabbat!

Effective immediately, the rates  for an Oneg Shabbat sponsorship have been reduced as follows:

$25 to cover the table setting, drinks, cutlery and paper goods if you bring the goodies

$100 to cover the complete package: shopping and food prep, table setting, drinks, cutlery and paper goods

Anyone booking an Oneg Shabbat from this time forward will be charged at the new, lower rates.
 
  
Oneg Dates are available at various time during the 2015-16 year!

Do you have a family birthday, anniversary, yahrzeit, or another occasion -- or just for no particular reason at all??

It's a wonderful opportunity to recognize, remember, and celebrate with the Beth Or community on Shabbat.


Contact the TBO office for more information.

305-235-1419


Tucker Memorial

 
Thanks to permission from renowned sculptor and architect Kenneth Treister 
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/treister

the Tucker Memorial took its present shape almost twenty years ago.  The wooded beams, posts and elements were shaped by hand following Mr. Treister's installation at Temple Judea.  If you are not acquainted with his work think "creator of Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach."  Last week I had the pleasure of thanking his son Charles on behalf of The Tucker Family and Temple Beth Or.
 
In appreciation and with deep respect I quote Treister "I created the memorial as a large environmental sculpture ... a series of outdoor spaces in which the visitor is led through a procession of visual, historical and emotional experiences with the hope that the totality of the visit will express, in some small way, the reality of the Holocaust. NEVER SHALL WE FORGET. The totality of the Holocaust cannot be created in stone and bronze ...but I had to try. The rich diversity of the European culture, now lost, cannot be expressed ... but I had to try. The murder of one and one half million children whose joys turned to sorrow suddenly on September 1, 1939, when World War 11 broke out, cannot be sculpted... But I had to try. Six million moments of death cannot be understood... 
 
Beth Or's  ORGANIC  GARDEN
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Beth Or's  ORGANIC  GARDEN needs green thumbs!    

 

Let's put the 'Or' in 'Organic"

Just a few committed diggers/planters/harvesters energize our Garden areas  - you have the infrastructure.  Cultivate your own plot at Beth Or and'ro help our next communal crop of bananas, papayas, other edibles, herbs and medicinals. 

 

Over 20 years ago Beth Orians wer Shomrei Adamah, Guardians of the Earth -- Keepers of the Garden of Eden, aspiring to the highest standards of earth ethics.  We can and will carefully select the veggies and herbs to maximize output, with proven techniques such as companion planting, insect control, etc.  With today's high prices, a garden is economically desirable.  Plus, it is a part of a healthy lifestyle, providing hands-on education and a social communal experience.

 

 

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."