July 16, 201529 Tammuz 5775
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Todah Rabbah
To Mitch and Cheryl Parker for sponsoring morning minyan breakfast marking the yahrzeit of Mitch's mother, Min Parker.

To Marlene and Steve Myers for sponsoring morning minyan breakfast marking their yahrtzeits of their beloved parents, Harvey Meyer and Toby Leib Myers.

ISRAEL: 

THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED.  

Join Mitch Parker March 21-April 2nd in Israel.

Click here for detailed itinerary. 

E-mail Mitch:

if you are interested in participating.

 

HIGH HOLIDAY INFORMATION

Guest Tickets

Guest tickets for High Holiday Services may be ordered through the synagogue office.  For order form, please click here.  Please place order by August 31st to allow time for processing.


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

 

PARSHAT MATTOT/MASEI

Coping With Complexity

Sam Shonkoff

 

The child in me wants to hide Parashat Mattot and Parashat Masei in a dusty attic somewhere; so many of their words are disillusioning, disturbing, and embarrassing. Parashat Mattot begins with sexism: all men must keep their promises, yet women's promises may be nullified by disapproving husbands and fathers (Numbers 30). It continues with genocide: in a spirit of revenge, thousands of Israelites invade Midian and kill every man (Numbers 31:7). When they return with captured women, children, and booty, Moses is angry because his soldiers did not do enough. He commands them to kill every non-virgin female and every male child among the captives (Numbers 31:15-18).

This massacre is especially bloodcurdling for those who remember that Moses lived in Midian for a period of his life and that his wife Tziporah and father-in-law Yitro are Midianites. Later, Parashat Maseiforeshadows a horrific mission of ethnic cleansing in Canaan: God commands the People of Israel, "You shall dispossess all the inhabitants of the land...And if you do not dispossess the inhabitants of the land, those whom you allow to remain shall be stings in your eyes and thorns in your sides" (Numbers 33:52-55).

 

May Their Memories Be For a Blessing 

JULY YAHRTZEITS

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.  

SHABBAT 
SHALOM!
Shabbat Mattot/Masei
Friday, July 17th
Shabbat Table
6 p.m., Chapel

Saturday, July 18th

9 a.m., Sanctuary
 
Jordan Weiss will deliver the D'var Torah and discuss his recent trip to Berlin.

Kiddush Lunch is also sponsored by the following Kiddush Lunch Bunch Group:

 

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.

ADULT EDUCATION

SNL
Saturday Night Learning
will resume July 25th.
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.


Mazel Tov 
Happy Birthday!

Birthday Cake

JULY BIRTHDAYS

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

Jewish Wedding

JULY ANNIVERSARIES

 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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Sisterhood Corner
Book Club books

The first Book Club meeting was well-attended and enjoyed by all.  Click here for list of future books and dates.  
Thank you to Lori Orel and Shelley Fenyes for organizing Book Club.  Your suggestions are welcome.

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