CONDOLENCES
To Michael and Carol Golob on the passing of Michael's mother, Marjory Golob. May the Golob family be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
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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 BALAK
Rabbi Ismar Schorsch
Balak intuited an important truth about the Israelites: Their strength was spiritual, not military.
After two impressive victories against the Canaanites of the Negeb and the Amorites in Transjordan, the looming military might of Israel throws the leaders of Moab into a panic. Only the land of the Moabites separates Israel from the Jordan River and the conquest of Canaan. Balak ben Zippor, King of Moab, knows that he is next.
In desperation, he takes recourse in an unconventional pre-emptive measure. He summons Balaam son of Beor, a sorcerer from Mesopotamia to curse Israel, making it susceptible to defeat on the battlefield. Though Balaam comes, God frustrates the plan. Within the monotheistic framework of the Torah, Balaam can utter only what God imparts to him. Hence he ends up in rapturous praise of Israel, to the consternation of Balak.
In an imaginative midrash, the Rabbis expatiate on what brought Balak to seize on this particular tactic. Awestruck by Moses, he inquired of the Midianites, among whom Moses had once found refuge when fleeing Pharoah's wrath, as to the man's strength. They responded that Moses' strength resided in his mouth, that is, his prayers were able to move God to act in his behalf. To neutralize that weapon, Balak turns to sorcery. Balaam's strength also resides in his mouth. His curse will trump Moses' prayers. Without divine assistance, Israel is eminently beatable (Rashi on 22:4).
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May Their Memories Be For a Blessing
JULY YAHRTZEITS
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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Sisterhood Corner
Book Club
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Friday Morning, July 3rd
Minyan time: 7:15 a.m.
Shabbat Balak
Friday, July 3rd
7:15 a.m., Chapel
Saturday, July 4th
9 a.m., Sanctuary
10 a.m. Supervised Youth Room, Lower Level
Kiddush Lunch is sponsored by the following Kiddush Lunch Bunch Group: Bev Avadenka, Bernice Jacobson, Linda and Steve Jacobson, Pearl and Seymour Manello, Ruby Robinson, Lou and Sally Soverinsky, Joe Rose, and Ruth Webber.
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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TKA/BI JOINT ACTIVITIES
BI vs. TKA Softball Game
Sunday, July 12th 9-11 a.m.
Drake Sports Park, Field 2
Come cheer on your favorite team along with our extended TKA/BI family. Bring folding chairs or blankets for your family. Refreshments and water will be provided.
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
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

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
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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