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January 1st, 2015
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Shabbat Times:
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Candle Lighting
Evening Service
Morning Service
Mincha
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4:21pm
7:00pm
9:30am
4:15pm
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Our Minyan Needs Your Help!
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Upcoming Events:
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KIDDUSH
January 2nd
Join us in the community room for Kiddush. This is the perfect opportunity for us to experience
community and get to know each other better.
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Mazal Tov!
Birthdays & Anniversaries
January 2nd-8th
Kenneth Rak
Luba Veiland-Ciardiello
Emily Kopelman
Valerie Maier
Aviv Gensler
Laurie Smilovitz
Neil Benjamin Dasgupta
Sally Seymour
Gloria Salit
Susan Speiser
Susan Ginsburg
Gerald Gold
Selma Spielman
 Satuday January 2nd
Kiddush 12:00pm Mincha 4:15pm |
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Sunday January 3rd
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Wednesday January 6th
Hebrew School Resumes
Thursday January 7th
Rabbi's Class "Tiptoe through the Talmud" 10:30am
Sisterhood Board Meeting 1:00pm
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 Friday January 8th
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Happy New Year everyone!
In my absence from shul the Shabbat I would like to thank everyone who contributes to the smooth running of our service, in particular are Cantor, Paul Zim, Alan Stern, who distributes our honors, Marvin Chertkoff, who will deliver their D'var Torah tomorrow morning, and Marilyn Saposh, who will introduce the torah and haftarah readings.
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Next Shabbat
Are we "the ever-dying people," or is it really happening this time? There are those who "find" Judaism once they go to college, there are those who take a hiatus, and there are those who either give it up or lose it. And some of this ties into BDS and the Jews who are active in this anti-Israel / anti-Semitic movement, whether they do so naïvely or with a deliberate vengeance.
Given the Torah readings that we read in these weeks, and the fact that Joseph's family and the Nation of Israel maintained their identities despite being a miniscule minority, and resisted the allure of Egypt's "monumental" religion, I thought that Saturday morning, January 9 would be a great time to discuss this article.
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Fred Hirschenfang
Dr. Fred C. Hirschenfang, who passed away quite suddenly, two weeks ago, was one of a number of congregants send me items of interest that range from jokes and cartoons to serious pieces that they want to make sure have come to my attention.
It was thanks to Fred that I was able to send you a marvelous article written by Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks about the civilizing tendencies of the great religions, as opposed to the perversions espoused by Al Qaeda, ISIS, Al Nusra, Boko Haram. (And don't get me wrong: there are Jewish and Christian perversions as well).
The last article that Fred gave me was from the Wall Street Journal, dated November 21/22, 2015. I finally got around to reading the entire piece just a few hours before I officiated at Fred's funeral. It's a description and review of the graphic artist Archie Rand's new book entitled The 613. It's Rand's depiction of all 613 mitzvot (commandments). And from the two illustrations that accompany the article, I'm assuming that the other 611 paintings also bear a striking similarity to Fred's ties!
I'll order the book when I return from vacation, let you know when I receive it, and invite you to peruse it/borrow it.
Click here to read Do This, Don't Do That (The 613)
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Our Shul has 3 volunteers Going!
How About Joining Them?See the video below and the one that follow it in succession on Youtube... ...and then contact Iris Coleman irisc313@gmail.com if you are interested in joining a group from the shul:
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Please do this: (especially if you can't go to Israel to volunteer)
Sick of those who vilify Israel? Now you can do something about it!
You can make a difference: buy Israeli-made goods
Any products whose barcode start with 729 are made in Israel
Please also support those companies who operate in and/or support Israel
Here are a few of those who have the backbone to stand up to BDS:
Sabra salads and hummus
Danone: Dannon yogurt, Activia, Oikos, Evian water
Coca-Cola: Coke, Sprite, Fanta, Minute Maid, Dasani water
L'Oreal
Procter & Gamble: Tide, Bounce, Cascade, Dawn, Charmion, Bounty, Crest, Scope, Pantene
Nestlé: chocolates, Butterfinger, Skinny Cow, Nescafé
Starbucks
General Motors, Volvo, Hyundai, Subaru
Intel, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Motorola
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Jewish Camp Grants Now Available. Click image below for more details.
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Yael & Gabriel in Williamsburg
Gabriel is an Argentinian guitar player and composer; Yael is a French/Israeli singer songwriter. Their collaborative repertoire includes Jazz, French, Tango, Flamenco, Brazilian and Gipsy Jazz, each of the duo bring their own personal background and culture to the mix. For more information, click here.
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Kobi Peretz at B. B. King
Kobi Peretz is one of Israel's most popular stars in the Mizrahi genre, with a large, loyal audience that has been with him through his career, and a number of singularly successful concerts to his name. For more information, click here.
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For Equity Gallery's second exhibition, Ofri Cnaani will take over the non-profit art space, creating a participatory piece that functions as a visualization of Artists Equity's mission to support artists.For more information, click here.
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Tony®-winning director Bartlett Sher and Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter bring a fresh and authentic vision to this beloved theatrical masterpiece from Tony winner Joseph Stein and Pulitzer Prize winners Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. For more information, click here.
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This critically acclaimed debut feature by Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes, telling the story of a Jewish Sonderkommando in Auschwitz, was developed in the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab, and features a performance by Israeli actor Amitai Kedar. For more information, click here .
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Israeli Jazz Festival on Cornelia Street
Cornelia Street Cafe hosts the glitterati of Israeli Jazz: Saxophonist Oded Tzur, guitarist Dida Pelled, the Edan Ladin group, the Yotam Silberstein and Gilad Hekselman duo, the Gilad Lehavi band and the Ziv Ravitz trio. For more information, click here.
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TORAH Page 335 HAFTARAH Page 343
SH'MOT
In the years following Joseph's death, the Israelites became a sizable group within Egypt. Pharaoh, worried about a potential fifth column in the event of a war, enslaved the Children of Israel and had them build store-cities. He also ordered the Hebrew midwives to kill all newborn Israelite males, but the midwives disobeyed at the risk of their own lives. Thereupon, Pharaoh ordered all newborn sons to be drowned in the Nile.
One Israelite couple, from the tribe Levi, spares their newborn son. When they can conceal him no longer they set him afloat in the Nile in a basket, while his older sister, Miriam, watches from a distance. Pharaoh's daughter finds the boy and adopts him as her own. She names him Moses, and at the suggestion of Miriam, who has now come forward, she engages the boy's mother as his nursemaid.
Moses grows up in the royal palace, but he retains a compassion for the enslaved Israelites. He slays an Egyptian overseer who is beating a Hebrew. The next day he intervenes in a quarrel between two Hebrews, and one of them asks if Moses will slay him, too, as he had the Egyptian.
Moses realizes that his life is in danger and he flees to Midian where he works as a shepherd for Jethro, a Midianite priest. Moses marries Jethro's daughter, Tziporrah, and they have two sons.
While out shepherding, Moses sees an unusual sight - a bush is covered in flames but otherwise undamaged - and he approaches it. God speaks to Moses at the bush and tells him that he will be God's messenger to Pharaoh and lead the Israelites out of bondage. God reveals his personal name to Moses and equips him with the power to perform certain wondrous deeds with which he will convince both the Israelites and Egyptians of his divine mission. These serve to reassure a reluctant Moses to return to Egypt.
The enslaved Hebrews welcome Moses' message from God and take courage, but Pharaoh rejects Moses' demand for the release of the people and he subjects the Israelites to increased hardships. The Israelites accuse Moses of worsening their plight; Moses is disheartened, but God reassures him that ultimately God's might will prevail against Pharaoh.
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