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May 10th, 2014 - 10th of Iyyar, 5774
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Candlelighting - 8:08 pm
Havdalah - 9:11 pm
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Social Justice Shabbat
This Saturday, May 10
After Kiddush
On May 10, the Social Justice Committee will hold a kickoff event for this year's Project Ruth. The Ruth Fund will provide food for families of migrant workers.
Learn about:
- Migrant workers
- Food nutrition
- Community-sustained agriculture
Hear stories of real families of the workers who pick your food, and taste the difference!
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Taking Measure of Our Souls
Thursday evenings at 7 PM
during Sefirat Haomer:
May 8, 15 & 22
 As we journey from Pesach to Shavuot, we will explore our middot, our qualities of being, to prepare ourselves to receive Torah.
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Beth Jacob's Harold & Mickey Smith
Scholar-in-Residence Weekend
 From the Depths of the Well:
Adventures in Jewish Mysticism
with Rabbi Arthur Green
Shabbat & Sunday morning
May 23-25, 2014
Friday Night
- 6 pm: Kabbalat Shabbat
- 7 pm: Shabbat Dinner
- 8 pm: A Mystical Life: Rabbi Arthur Green tells his Story
Shabbat Morning
- D'var Torah in Shul
- 1 pm: Judaism through a Mystical Lens
Sunday
- 9 am: Minyan
- 10 am: Brunch
- 10:45 am: Jewish Mysticism for the Contemporary Jew
 Rabbi Arthur Green, a nationally recognized historian of Jewish religion and a theologian, is the founding dean of Hebrew College's Rabbinical School and now serves as its rector. He has lectured widely and taught Jewish mysticism, Hasidism and theology to several generations of students at the University of Pennsylvania; the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where he served as both dean and president; Brandeis University; and Hebrew College. Green is the founder of Havurat Shalom, an egalitarian Jewish community in Somerville, Mass., and remains a leading independent figure in the Jewish renewal movement. He is the author of more than a dozen books.
Join us to learn more before Rabbi Green's visit:
- Shabbat morning, May 10:
D'var Torah learning on Neo-Hasidic Judaism - Shabbat afternoon, May 17:
After-kiddush discussion on a selection of Rabbi Green's writings. Click here to download articles.
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 BJUSY's annual CMT weekend is only a few days away! Have you signed up yet? Don't miss out on a wonderful weekend with all your best BJUSY friends!
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With Rabbi Lynn Liberman
Shabbat mornings, 9:15-10 AM
May 10, 31
Join Rabbi Lynn Liberman to discuss the weekly Torah portion through the lens of thought-provoking commentaries.
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Summer Parenting Workshop
Sunday mornings, June 8-July 20
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Making Your Tallit
For B'nai Mitzvah Families, or Anyone Interested
Sun. afternoon, June 1, 1-5 pm
Make your own tallit!
Led by Maxine Rosenthal and a team of able crafty volunteers.
Begin with fabric you love - a large scarf or sari, fabric from your family or fabric you find in a store - where the colors are right and it feels good when you drape it over your shoulders. With the guidance of fabric artists from our community paired with your imagination, we will turn these pieces of fabric into the tallitot we'll wear as we come into Jewish adulthood and beyond, stitching together our collective and individual pasts into the lives we'll live forward.
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10:45 - 11:30 am Minyan Katan is a joyful, playful shabbat morning service for kids birth-kindergarten with their grownups. All are welcome! 1st & 3rd Sat. of the Month Next Meetings: May 17 _________________________________ Click link above for more info! |
Kehillat
Shabbat
This is a "B" week for Kehillat Shabbat Madrichim.
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Monthly Shabbat Potluck Dinner
at Beth Jacob
Fri., May 16th
6:00 pm: Lively, Songful Kabbalat Shabbat Services
7:00 pm: Vegetarian Potluck Shabbat Dinner
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 Adult Jewish Learning Survey Results
ADULT JEWISH LEARNING SURVEY -- WHAT WE'VE LEARNED FROM YOU
Jewish learning (Torah) has always been one of the core principles of our Beth Jacob community. To facilitate that, the Adult Jewish Learning committee did an on-line survey to discover what you hope to learn and how you want to learn.
Seventy-five people responded, a number the committee thinks is a good sample of the congregation. Thank you to everyone who responded. The responses tell us there is a deep need to learn more - more about our heritage, our culture, and how to live Jewish lives day by day.
The responses are helping to plan programs for the coming year and beyond, beginning this summer:
- June 14, after kiddush: Hebrew poetry in translation, with Jonathan Paradise
- August 16, after kiddush: Discussion of What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, by Nathan Englander
The responses: People checked all responses that applied, so numbers reflect the percentage of responses.
 What do you want to learn?
- Jewish texts (Talmud, Tanakh, Midrash) - 69 percent
- Jewish ethics - 57 percent
- Jewish history - 54 percent
- Jewish literature - 43 percent
- Hebrew language - 39 percent
- Israel. Issues in Israel, and the lives of Israelis - 29 percent
- How to be more Jewish, day to day, week to week - 29 percent
- The holidays, their history, their meaning, and how to observe them - 24 percent
- Synagogue skills - 23 percent
- Twin Cities Jewish activities - 16 percent
How do you best learn?
Overwhelmingly, most preferred to learn with other people in a small group setting (92 percent), or by reading books and articles (76 percent).
What hinders your learning?
The biggest factor is finding the time to do it. More than 81 percent said obligations at home and at work affect the amount of time they have to devote to Jewish learning.
What's the best time to learn?
Most (63 percent) liked learning after Shabbat services and kiddush, but sizable numbers liked to learn on a weekday evening (51 percent) and on Sunday mornings (49 percent).
The comments have told us a lot about the desire for Jewish learning. Three exemplify what respondents said in the comments:
- It's fun. There is always more.
- It should never stop. Being Jewish is a joyous "job" and you need to continuously work at it.
- My mother is 85, fortunately in reasonably good health, and is ALWAYS running off to classes and lectures at her synagogue (north suburban Chicago area). Her wish is to be "the smartest person in the cemetery" - and, at the rate she's going, will probably end up fulfilling her wish. She hopes to be buried w/all the books she has not yet read, a flashlight, and a supply of batteries. I think there are worse ways to go.
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Adult Jewish Learning
 Monday Night Talmud Class With Rabbi Allen
7:00 Pre-learning Schmooze and Munch
7:15 Class Begins
Study the words and thoughts of Rabbinic tradition as a living text in our modern world.  Parashat HaShavuah: Tuesday Afternoons With Rabbi Allen - 4-5:00 pm Study of this week's Torah portion.
 Bracha and Bagel: Wednesday Mornings With Rabbi Kippley-Ogman after Minyan Our learning chug (circle) meets for half an hour over breakfast, digging into rabbinic text related to the cycle of the Jewish year.
Jew in the Pew: Saturday Mornings With Rabbi Lynn Liberman - 9:15-10 am
May 10, 31
Join Rabbi Lynn Liberman to discuss the weekly Torah portion through the lens of thought-provoking commentaries.
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The History of Invulnerability
 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were teenagers living in Cleveland, Ohio when they created Superman. After a string of rejections, the mobster Lucky Luciano and his friend, smut publisher Harry Donenfeld, decided to start Action Comics and selected Superman for the lead feature. Embraced by both children and adults, Superman grew to iconic status amidst life of the depression and W.W.II. Based on true events, this intriguing new play tells the tumultuous story, intertwining the events of a world in strife, a place where even Superman has his limits.
- Opening April 19, 2014
- Closing May 11, 2014
Playing Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 pm; Saturdays at 8 pm, and Sundays at 1 pm
There will be one Sunday evening performance on April 20 at 7 pm
Audio description on Sunday, April 27 at 1 pm
All performances will be held at the Hillcrest Center Theater
1978 Ford Parkway, St. Paul, MN 55116
To purchase tickets call 651-647-4315 or fill out the online order form
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