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December 6th, 2014 - 14th of Kislev, 5775
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Candlelighting: 4:14 pm
Havdalah: 5:15 pm
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 Matching Funds Challenge
The year-end Matching Funds Challenge is on; take this opportunity to automatically double your gift to Beth Jacob!
Here's how to donate:
You can watch our progress by checking the 2014 Year-End Challenge Campaign thermometer at beth-jacob.org!
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Beth Jacob Reads a Book
 Jewish Luck: Friendship and Jewish Identity Shabbat, Dec. 6th After Kiddush "Jewish Luck" tells the story of two women who struggled against life in Soviet Russia and established new lives. Authors Leslie Adler and Meryll Page will talk about their book on Dec. 6 after kiddush. Want to read the book? Copies are at the shul for borrowing. To learn more or get the book for yourself: morejewishluck.com Read an excerpt here
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Iyunim this Sunday!
 9:30-11:30 am
Join together with the Iyunim and their families this weekend for another fun-filled Iyunim Family Sunday! (And, of course, on Shabbat morning as well.)
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Deadline Extended!
Selfie Directory
 Due to popular demand, we are in the process of compiling a Beth Jacob roster book. We again will offer you the option of including (or not) e-mail addresses and determining what phone numbers or children's information appear in the roster section. This is strictly an "opt in" affair; your children or e-mail addresses will not be listed in the directory if you do not respond.
Now here is the fun part! We are asking you to send in family "selfies" for your picture! That's right everyone, gather the kids, the dogs and cats, hamsters and parakeets - and you! - and snap that picture. Send us pictures in your backyard, at Disney World, biking the Mendota Bridge, or maybe on the couch in your home. Or perhaps you took a family picture this past summer, something to post on Facebook or Twitter. We want good, clear, color pictures from your phones or your cameras.
Submit your pictures and info to us at
Due to popular demand, the picture deadline is now Sunday, Dec. 21, after The Beth Jacob "Hanukkah Happy Hour". If you like, you can get help with a selfie at the event!
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Next Week!
Contemplative Chanting
With Sara Lynn Newberger & Rabbi Emma Kippley-Ogman
Second Thursdays of the Month - 7:00 - 8:00 PM at Beth Jacob
(12/11, 1/8, 2/12, 3/12, 5/14, and 6/11)
Singing is a physical experience, involving breath and muscles, ears and mouths. When we are touched by the music, the whole of our bodies come into play. When we sing with others, we are connected by and within the music. In chanting, we sing a melody multiple time giving us time to enter the chant as its melody (and words) enter us, feeling ever more deeply the effect of the music in each repetition. Chanting is a form of meditation that opens the doors of the heart, it focuses attention on the present moment, the place where the Divine Presence can be experienced. Whether wordless or with words, repetition of the chant helps clear the mind of chatter, and connects us to each other and the Divine. Allowing some quiet between the chants or niggunim enables us to absorb the energy of the chant.
Join us on Thursday evenings as we ready our hearts for Shabbat. No experience or prior knowledge is required. Co-sponsored with Hineini, A Center for Adult Jewish Learning and Contemplative Practices at the Talmud Torah of St. Paul. There is no set cost for these sessions, though donations will be accepted.
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This is Not Your Mother's Moses!
 Sunday Evening, December 14
The Beth Jacob Film-Lovers' Chavura would like to invite you to a very special screening of Exodus: Gods and Kings. Details are still being worked out in terms of what theater it will be at, but it will be well after the Dreidel Dash.
 Be assured you are in for a very unique and fun cinematic experience watching Christian Bale play the role of Moses!
Note - given the director and the lead actor on this one it is very likely going to have very violent imagery and action sequences. But everyone is welcome to see how the story unfolds!!!
Please contact Zach Feinstein, zsfeinstein@yahoo.com with any questions or concerns. The exact theater and early evening time will be released next week. We will see you at the movies!
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 Order your homemade pies today! Pies cost $18, are parve (except Pecan, which is dairy), and come in the flavors listed below.
Pies are available in the following flavors:
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 Apple - Pumpkin
- Cherry (New this year!)
- Pecan
Pies may be picked up at Beth Jacob during business hours starting December 10, or at the Dreidel Dash Post-Dash Bash with advance notice.
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A Beth Jacob Learning Moment
 The Beth Jacob community came together to learn the art of Hebrew calligraphy with Congregational Educator and sofer (scribe) D.Marcos Vital. Participants came together for three sessions to experience basic calligraphy, work on Hebrew lettering, and finally wrote with a reed and a quill. In addition to practicing the art of calligraphy, participants looked very closely at two of Beth Jacob's beautiful Torahs as products of an intentional and detailed artistic effort, which participants have begun to experience themselves. Adult Education at Beth Jacob is compelling and inviting, and we offer sustained and individual opportunities for adults of varied interests to deepen their relationship with their Jewishness and with each other. Stay tuned next week for a snapshot of Youth learning at Beth Jacob!
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PLEASE NOTE:
 There will be no Monday night Talmud Class or Tuesday Afternoon Parasha Study Group for the next two weeks. Classes will resume on Monday, December 22 and Tuesday, December 23 respectively.
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Beth Jacob Info:
Calendar
(Link active after 2 pm Fri.)
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K'tanim Make a Menorah!
Sun, Dec. 14, 10 am
Get ready for Hanukkah by making an alphabet block menorah for Hanukkah, singing Hanukkah songs together, and eating some delicious treats. For children birth-7 with a parent. RSVP to help us get the right supplies: rabbiemma@beth-jacob.org.
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Last Shabbat of the Month!
After Kiddush at 12:45 pm
Everyone truly is welcome! Sing to praise G-d, to open your heart, to make something beautiful together, or all of the above. The focus is on liturgical songs with harmony, chants, rounds, and niggunim.
Please volunteer to lead a song or make a song request a week and a half ahead of the date, so Aaron Hodge Silver, our songbook designer, can get it ready. Questions, comments, requests, and to VOLUNTEER TO LEAD A SONG, call or e-mail Pam Winthrop Lauer: wpdj@usfamily.net, 952-432-7038.
Childcare will be available.
*Ozi v'Zimrat Yah = G-d is my Strength and my Song.
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Skill Share
Have you ever wanted to lift the Torah scroll, showing three columns of script, without dropping it? Want to learn how to do homemade latkes for Hanukkah? Challah for erev Shabbat? Do the Torah blessing? Sign up now to learn a new skill, or perfect the skill you know.
They include:
LATKE MAKING
LIFTING AND TYING THE TORAH SCROLL
CHALLAH BAKING AND BRAIDING
HAFTARAH BLESSINGS
TORAH BLESSINGS
EREV SHABBAT DINNER
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Erev Shira
An Evening of Israeli Song
Saturday, Jan. 3, 7 pm
Bring your voice, and an instrument if you play; we will provide song sheets, chords, and refreshments!
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Thursday, December 25th
4:00-6:00 pm
Not a chilly reception, but a Chili reception! That's right everyone, join the Beth Jacob family for a tasty bowl of vegetarian chili, cornbread, sweet treats, beer and other beverages. No cost to you, but donations are most welcome. Sponsored and cooked by the super fun Kesher Committee. Interested in helping cook on Sunday, Dec. 21st? Interested in joining the FUN committee? Contact Linda Perry at boblindaperry@msn.com.
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 Adult Jewish Learning
Ongoing Classes
 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 from 3-4 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
Join Rabbi Lynn Liberman to discuss the weekly Torah portion through the lens of thought-provoking commentaries.
Class meets on 2nd & 4th Saturday mornings in the chapel.
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Sunday, December 14
5K, 10K & Maccabee Mini Mile
 First,
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE RACE, OR FOR MORE INFO!
Then:
and receive this year's BJC race regalia on race day, free!
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