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Please consider at end of year donation to Temple Beth Or.

Shabbat this Friday, January 1, 2016

5:55pm Services, then Dairy Potluck

Temple Beth Or

1150 Selmi Drive

Mitzvah Project: Adopt-A-Family

Barbara Delivering Packages to Children's Cabinet

What a huge success!
Thank you to all who participated in this project. We were able to provide just about everything the family asked for, and more!

Wednesday Classes

Youngest Students: 4:00-4:30pm
(kindergarten, 1st grade)

Bnei Mitzvah Students: 4:30-5:30

Adult Torah Class: 5:30-6:30

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December Shabbat

Thanks to Barbara Ries, Ken & Barbara Meyer
for playing guitar and to all who brought
delicious food to our dairy potluck.

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Chanukah

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Torah and Ski

RSVP to Rabbi Beth if you are interested in skiing or just meeting us on the hill.

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JEWISH MOVIES NEEDED

DVD or VHS

Inmates at Lovelock and at Northern Nevada in Carson City have been granted some time on Saturday evenings to watch Jewish and or Israeli content movies after their service. It would be a mitzvah to provide them with movies no longer being watched. Please contact Rabbi Beth. Thank you for your help. Blessings to you and your family.

The Reno Gazette Journal hosts Faith Forum on Sundays. A question is answered by clergy from many faiths. Rabbi Beyer provides the Jewish response.

RGJ asked: Do We All Worship The Same G-d?

Only G-d Knows

There are many religions in the world. Some worship a singular G-d and some worship many gods. Judaism does not say it's the only path to G-d. In Hebrew, there are many names for G-d. Judaism holds that G-d is a unique oneness: beyond the farthest stars and closer than the air we breathe. Our Sages suggest that Judaism's daughter religions, Christianity and Islam, worship the same G-d. Yet, there are significant differences.

People practice different religions and our Sages tell us, "All of the righteous have a share in the World to Come." The Baal Shem Tov says, everyone has their own spiritual journey and unique contribution to make. As humans, we lack the ability to judge the spiritual path of our neighbors. One shouldn't compare one's spiritual path to someone else's. G-d knows - perhaps we worship the Holy One through a multi-vocal, human choir encompassing all religions.

Faith Forum appears each Sunday in the Local Life Section of the Reno Gazette Journal. Faith Forum clergy answer a question posed each week and responses in the paper are limited to 150 words. Rabbi Beyer is featured as the "Jewish" response. In February 2016 it will be 5 YEARS for Faith Forum column to run in the RGJ. This interfaith group is now working towards a book which would be an edited collection of these columns. See www.nevadafaithforum.org

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Donations

Marilyn Buchenholz

In Memory of her son Daniel,
and what would have been his 69th birthday
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Marshall Masters & Jennifer Burns
Nikki Britt

Karen Gold

Mark & Julie Stage-Rosenberg

Ken Goldman & Barbara Meyer
Tzedaka

Thanks to those of you who have or will be donating to assist with our Children's Cabinet Adopt-a-Family:

Marilyn Buchenholz
Neva Donovan and John Louie

Sandy & Annette Friedlander

Steve and Barbara Ries
Bob and Marcy Thompson and family

Marty and Betty Fineman

Dave and Peggy Levine

Don and Marilyn Kurzman

and a huge thank you to our coordinator: Barbara Meyer

Thanks to many of you who use that as your browser
or shop with GoodShop.

Blessings to each of you and your family.
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Birthdays:

Michael Lubin 1/1

Gail Ferrell 1/25

Julie Stage-Rosenberg 1/7

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Yahrzeits:

Cookie Schiff, wife of Norm Schiff 1/12

Anne Emas, mother of Barbara Agre 1/7
Evelyn Hutchings, relative of Ann Ezgar 1/19

Nettie Kurzman, mother of Don Kurzman 1/22

Samuel Kurzman, father of Don Kurzman, 1/29

Stanley Silvers, father of Marilyn Kurzman 1/20

William Roberts, father of Kenneth Roberts 1/19

Philip Brustein, father of Marilyn Roberts 1/5

Mike Halperin, father of Julie Rosenberg 1/29

Mary Fineman, mother of Marty Fineman 1/21

Parvis Soleman, father of Shaun Soleman 1/18

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Refuah Shlemah

(Towards Wholeness and Healing)

for those in need of healing body, mind or spirit

Al Povach
Herb Stoll
Nurit Stites

Marsha Cohen
Ari Klein
Judy Tempkin
Ed Posin

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Our apologies if your name did

not get properly listed this month.

Please let us know so we can fix it next month.

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The New Hebrew Month of Shevat
begins January 11

Rabbi ElizaBeth Beyer

(REB)

Listen to Kol Nidre with Rabbi Beyer and Cantorial Soloist Alan Kass

Click HERE

Rosh Hodesh: It's a Girl Thing!

a program of Moving Traditions Innovative Program for Adolescent Jewish Girls

rosh hodesh girls

Temple Emanu-El's "Rosh Hodesh: It's a Girl Thing!" group is running. The group remains open to any and all Jewish middle school girls in Northern Nevada. - Contact group facilitator Susannah Skyer Gupta if your daughter, grand-daughter, niece, or neighbor is not yet on the list. http:www.roshhodesh.org www.movingtraditions.org

RSVP 775-327-4743, suzskyer@gmail.com, or look for Susannah Skyer Gupta on Facebook.

Click HERE to see a previous class
and our YouTube Channel

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For info call the Rabbi 775-322-5542

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Temple Beth Or is an evolving group dedicated to Jewish values and learning. We support chevruta study (partner or small group study) and "experiencing" G-d. Friday night Shabbat services are musical, filled with ruach (enthusiasm) and the food is sweet. Beth Or is affiliated with the Jewish Community of Elko County. Rabbi Beyer also works with North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation, Tahoe Vista, Lake Tahoe.

For information on Jewish Renewal https://www.aleph.org/