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Matching Funds Challenge
The year-end Matching Funds Challenge is ending tonight when 2014 ends; take this last 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 Blood Drive
Sunday, January 18th
Come give the gift of life at the Beth Jacob Annual Blood Drive!
 Questions? Contact Sharon Benmaman. Want to volunteer? Contact David Honan. |
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Saturday, January 10
Please plan to join us for "Chevra Kadisha Shabbat." Rabbi Lynn Liberman will give the d'var Torah, and we will have a post-kiddush panel discussion on the role of the Chevra Kadisha in Shmira and Taharah. We will tell you what we do and why we do it, and relate some of our experiences. We will also answer any questions you may have. One of our goals is to expand the "sacred community" who work to ensure that people are prepared for burial with dignity and respect.
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Contemplative Chanting
With Sara Lynn Newberger & Rabbi Emma Kippley-Ogman
Second Thursdays of the Month | 7-8 PM at Beth Jacob
(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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Film Lovers' Chavurah
 The Beth Jacob Film Lovers' Chavurah would to invite you to a very special evening: the Engage evening of Jewish learning. There will be intellectually stimulating sessions for everyone's tastes. In particular, there will be two sessions of special interest to film lovers. Both are related to Israeli cinema. The first session focuses on Jewish-Arab relations in cinema. The second session brings focus to Orthodoxy in cinema.
Feel free to reach out to Zach Feinstein if you have any questions or concerns. [ zsfeinstein@yahoo.com] Be prepared to be Engaged, and we will see you at the movies! |
An Introduction to Classic Jewish Texts
Sundays, 10 AM, 60-90 min. each
 Want to jump-start your knowledge of basic Jewish learning? Discover the foundations of Judaism? Come to learn about classic texts. You may come to just one, some of them, or all of them. No need to register- just show up! - January 18 TANACH (the bible) - Rabbi Yossi Gordon
- January 25 The TALMUD (Mishna/Gemara) - Emily Filler
- February 1 The MIDRASH - Louis Newman
- February 15 The HAGGADAH - Earl Schwartz
- February 22 The SIDDUR - Rabbi Shosh Dworsky
This class is free and open to the community.
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Desserts for Pesach:
A Study Group
1 pm Sundays at Beth Jacob
beginning January 11th
Knowledge about Passover and kashrut traditions, science and substitutions enable us to broaden our repertoire of Pesachdik (fit for Passover) desserts. How can I make dairy desserts pareve, and favorite leavened desserts kosher for Passover? Why might a recipe not work?
Each week participants will bring recipes and a dessert they've made (a Pesach recipe though not kosher for Passover) to share with others, and we'll gently critique the results. We'll compare results when two people make the same recipe, or the same dessert from two recipes. Together we'll ask lots of questions, learn important methods, and discover the best way to execute an instruction. We'll talk about equipment, shopping, and workarounds. And decide what we want to try the next week!
We'll publish recipes and more on beth-jacob.org as we identify the best of our discoveries. |
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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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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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Jew in the Pew: Saturday Mornings
