YIZKOR BOOK 5776
Please consider memorializing your loved ones in the Yizkor Books which will be used throughout the coming year, beginning on Yom Kippur. To add names to the Yizkor Book for the coming year, Click here for the downloadable form, or simply respond to the e-mails and letters that were sent this past week to those who had previously listed names.
Questions? Contact DebbieSinger: yizkorbooks@gmail.com
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PARSHAT CHUKKAT
Highest Standards: Because of his position of leadership, Moses is judged extremely harshly when he sins.
Rabbi Jordan D. Cohen
Overview
In parashat Hukkat, we find an overwhelming concern with death. At the beginning we find the mysterious laws of the Red Heifer, a very rare animal which is burnt in a special fire outside the camp. Its ashes are then used to ritually purify those who have become impure due to contact with a dead body.
The portion then jumps 38 years to the end of the Israelite's wandering in the desert. We read the brief description of the death of Miriam, the prophetess who was the older sister of Moses and Aaron, and then an incident about the people's need for water. These two events are in fact connected by the Rabbis, who notice that stories with Miriam are always associated with water.
The people complain about thirst, and Moses is instructed by God to speak to a rock, which will then produce water. Seemingly frustrated and saddened by his sister's death, Moses strikes the rock instead of speaking to it. Water does flow, but Moses is chastised by God for his lack of trust, and he is told that he will not be allowed to lead the people into the Promised Land.
We then read of Aaron's death, and the people's mourning for him for 30 days. The portion ends describing a number of battles the Israelites must fight as they travel through the wilderness.
In Focus
And Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod. Out came copious water, and the community and their beasts drank (Numbers 20:11).
Pshat
This is really one of the saddest passages in the Torah. Moses, the long time leader of the Israelites and the greatest teacher and prophet our tradition has ever known, loses control of himself, and is punished in a particularly harsh way (from his point of view) by God.
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May Their Memories Be For a Blessing
JUNE YAHRTZEITS
6/25/2015 (8 Tammuz)
Betty Schwartz
6/27/2015 (10 Tammuz)
Jacob Kurland
6/28/2015 (11 Tammuz)
Harry Baer
6/30/2015 (13 Tammuz)
Beverly Weingarden
JULY YAHRTZEITS
7/1/2015 (14 Tammuz)
Jules Doneson
Sarah Dzodin
Anita Sonenshein
7/2/2015 (15 Tammuz)
Irv Belsky
Isadore Hamburger
7/4/2015 (17 Tammuz)
Pearl Nusbaum
7/5/2015 (18 Tammuz)
Ida Friedman
7/6/2015 (19 Tammuz)
N. Norman Goldenberg
Victor Lawson
Bella Lieberman
7/8/2015 (21 Tammuz)
Max Kleinbard
7/12/2015 (25 Tammuz)
Min Parker
7/13/2015 (26 Tammuz)
Maxine Gordon
Freda Kovsky
Toby Leib Myers
7/15/2015 (28 Tammuz)
Esther Dworin
Abraham Nusholtz
7/16/2015 (29 Tammuz)
Sophie Fischel
7/17/2015 (1 Av)
Molly Haar
Florence Bobry Robert
7/18/2015 (2 Av)
Milton (Billy) Graub
7/19/2015 (3 Av)
Saul Raimi
7/20/2015 (4 Av)
Herman Stark
7/27/2015 (11 Av)
Tilly Rose
7/29/2015 (13 Av)
Sydney Gartenberg
Simon Aaron Kapen
7/30/2015 (14 Av)
Rose Feibus
7/31/2015 (15 Av)
Mayme Lawson
To make a donation to commemorate a yahrtzeit, please click here. If you are a member of the synagogue and a yahrtzeit for your loved one is not on the list, please contact the synagogue office so we can update our records.
Please click here if you wish to permanently memorialize a loved one by purchasing a yahrtzeit plaque.
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SHABBAT SHALOM!
THERE IS A TKA BAR MITZVAH THIS SHABBAT. PLEASE PLAN TO SHUTTLE PARK FROM PRINCE OF PEACE.
SHABBAT CHUKKAT
Friday, June 26th
6 p.m., Chapel
Saturday, June 27th
9 a.m., CHAPEL
Kiddush, lower level at the conclusion of services.
10 a.m. Supervised Youth Room, Lower Level
To help sustain Kiddush Lunch, please consider joining a Kiddush Lunch Bunch group. E-mail Mindy Shuback for more information.
Donations to the Kiddush Lunch Fund can also be made online or mailed directly to the synagogue.
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UPCOMING YOUTH AND FAMILY ACTIVITIES
Formal youth activities will resume in the fall.
To stay current on all youth and family activities, contact Ilana Glazier to join the B'nai Israel Families Facebook Group.
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Saturday Night Learning, June 27th, 8:30 p.m. at the home of Joanna and Jay Abramson.
THERE WILL NOT BE A SESSION JULY 5TH. SNL WILL RESUME ON JULY 11TH. Happy Fourth of July.
Volunteers will lead a text based discussion each week on the topic of his/her choosing. The evening will close with Maariv and Havdalah. Everyone is welcome! Subjects are self-contained, so you can join any week you would like and not worry about "missing out" on material from the previous week.
SUMMER LOVING
Great Love Stories of the Tanach
Dates: Mondays, July 6, 13, 20, 27. August 3, 10
Time: 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
Cost: $90
Place: TKA/BI Library
Instructor: Mitch Parker
Begin your Mondays with a morning study of the love stories that are an integral parts of the Tanach. Learn the truth about the romances of Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Rachel, Samson and Delilah and David and Bathsheba. Spend a few summer hours immersed in the verses of one of the greatest love poems of all times, The Song of Songs, Shir Hashirim.
If you are interested in enrolling or would like more information, please contact Mitch: abbadoc@comcast.net.
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Mazel Tov

JUNE BIRTHDAYS
25 Max Feber
26 Herb Lantor
26 Karen Rosenberg
28 Madeline Kaufman
28 Raymond Silverman
28 Ruth Webber
JULY BIRTHDAYS
2 Sharon Gadoth-Goodman
2 Mark Kuhn
2 Cheryl Parker
2 Marla Weiss
4 Maxwell Singer
7 Ilan Elrom
7 Yael Elrom
8 Vicki Freedman
9 Joshua Chudnow
11 Monte Schloss
13 Coby Robbins
16 Tammy Dines
16 Elan Rosenberg
17 Joe Roth
18 Howard Jacobson
19 Randy Soverinsky
20 Miles Singer
21 Adina Berger
24 Leslie Chudnow
24 Bernice Handler
27 Barbara Kappy
28 Lena Karesh
28 Fran Stark-Hundiak
29 Robin Jacobson
29 David Lazarus
30 Hannah Finn
30 Ian Robinson
31 Brandon Kappy
31 Noah Weingarden
JUNE ANNIVERSARIES
25 Lowell Schmeltz & Ilana Glazier
26 Ron & Sharon Gadoth-Goodman
27 Ken & Shula Brown
27 Lenny & Robin Jacobson
28 Robert & Laurie Kimmel
28 Noel & Judy Lawson
29 Mark & Loraine Kuhn
30 Alan and Barbara Funk
JULY ANNIVERSARIES
6 Itzik Elrom and Paula Levy
6 Adam and Meredith Weingarden
9 Fred and Mindy Shuback
16 Evan and Leslie Chudnow
16 Irvin and Barbara Kappy
19 Allan and Karen Lovinger
30 David and Gloria Ruskin
If your birthday or anniversary information is not listed, please email the synagogue so we can update our records.
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