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| B'nai Shalom of Olney | Shabbat Announcements
April 4, 2015
15 Nisan 5775
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Schedule of Services: Shabbat & Pesach
Thursday, April 2
Search for Hametz after Sundown
Friday, April 3
6:45 a.m. - Siyum Bekhorim (First Born), Minyan, Study & Breakfast
8:30 a.m. - Last Chance to Sell Hametz
9:30 a.m. - Bi'ur Hametz
Erev Pesah
7:15 p.m. - Candle Lighting
First Seder- No evening services at BSO
Saturday, April 4
9:00 a.m. - Shabbat/1st day Pesah Morning Services
Second Seder- No evening services at BSO
8:15 pm - Candle Lighting
Sunday, April 5
9:15 a.m. - 2nd day Pesah Morning Services
Monday, April 6 (Hol Ha'Mo-ed Pesah)
7:30 p.m. - Minyan
Tuesday, April 7 (Hol Ha'Mo-ed Pesah)
7:30 p.m. - Minyan
Wednesday, April 8 (Hol Ha'Mo-ed Pesah)
7:30 p.m. - Minyan
Thursday, April 9 (Hol Ha'Mo-ed Pesah)
7:21 p.m. - Candle Lighting
7:30 p.m. - Minyan-Pesah Evening Services
Friday, April 10
9:15 a.m. - 7th day Pesah Services
7:30 p.m. -Shabbat/Pesah Evening Services
8:22 p.m. - Candle Lighting
Saturday, April 11
9:00 a.m. - 8th day Pesah Morning Services
10:45 a.m. - Yizkor (Approx.)
8:22p.m. - Pesah Concludes
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Torah This Week:
Pesach I (On Shabbat)
Chapters/Verses:
Exodus 12:21 - 12:51, Numbers 28:16 - 28:25
Haftarah Joshua 5:2 - 6:1
Pesach II Chapters/Verses:
Leviticus 22:26 - 23:44, Numbers 28:16 - 28:25
Haftarah
II Kings 23:1 - 23:9; 23:21 - 23:25
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PASSOVER WINE SALE WAS A SUCCESS
Thank you to everyone who made the Passover Wine Sale such a success!
Stephen & Marlene Leavey, Ron Schneider, Barry & Sharon Laken, Gary Jacob
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Enjoy some Pesach Madness Download the Bracket
Join your family during the seder and try not to break your bracket. Who do you think the greatest Jewish Hero is? |
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SOCIAL ACTION
BSO cooks and serves dinner the third Wednesday each month to the 30 homeless women who stay at Sophia House. Sophia House is under the umbrella of Interfaith Works, a Montgomery County organization. We coordinate the schedule of meals for our congregation. The shelter is located off of Parklawn Dr. in Rockville.
We are seeking volunteers for August, September & October Requirements include food for 30: 2 entrees, 2 side dishes, dessert/fruit & drinks.
Please contact Meredith Gavin Singer via email, or 301-792-5509, if you are interested in coordinating or contributing food toward a meal on one of those dates.
Follow BSO Social Action & Community Service on Facebook.
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COMMUNITY-WIDE YOM HA'SHOAH COMMEMORATION
Sunday, April 12 - Afternoon - Evening
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Community Commemoration A community-wide remembrance including Memorial candle lighting; Kaddish; reflection; music (including the participation of Hazzan Geller and members of our BSO Kolot Shalom choir); poetry; and memorial to the destroyed communities of Europe. A keynote address will be offered by Rabbi Andrew Baker, Director for International Jewish Affairs at the American Jewish Committee and a renowned expert on Holocaust restitution and anti-Semitism then and now.
This year, Har Shalom is pleased to host the Community-wide Yom HaShoah Commemoration. We welcome everyone to come together in our Burke Sanctuary for this very moving program. A community-wide remembrance of the victims, survivors, and heroes of the Holocaust including a multi-generational memorial candle lighting, Kaddish, reflection, music, poetry and keynote speaker.
For more information go to www.jcouncil.org/YomHaShoahMD or call 301-299-7087.
Are you a survivor or child of a survivor? Please contact JCRC to be recognized during the candle lighting program: www.jcouncil.org/CandleLighting. Questions? Please contact Sonia Beekman at yomhashoah@harshalom.org.
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AUTHOR PRESENTATION AND DESSERT 
Tuesday, May 5 - 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Dessert & coffee following a moving presentation by cookbook author
Joanne Caras
$5 admission
Cookbooks will be available for purchase at the event.
To reserve your spot or for more information contact:
Cindy Shuman at vpmembershipbso@gmail.com or call the office 301-774-0879
More Information
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HAZAK Trip to Washington, D.C. 
Tuesday, May 5 - 9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Tour historic Albert and Lillian Small Synagogue before it moves to the new Washington Jewish Museum.
Tour Sixth and I Cultural Center and learn how it was saved from becoming a nightclub.
Chartered roundtrip buses from BSO to DC.
More information
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ADULT EDUCATION 
Hebrew for Beginners
Mondays 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
If you are interested in finding out more about the class or signing up, please RSVP to Rabbi Sunshine at rabbi.sunshine@bnaishalomofolney.org.
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Praying with Purpose-taught by Rabbi Sunshine
Are you looking for a richer prayer experience? Trying to get a better understanding of how our prayer services developed and what themes our prayer liturgy is attempting to address? This class will take an in-depth look through the medium of Jewish texts and the siddur (prayer book) at many issues regarding prayer, both historical and practical. Topics include origins of prayer, the synagogue, and the siddur, kippah, tallit and tefillin, the structure and order of our services, meaning of individual prayers, etc. Class begins with minyan at 7:30 PM. All backgrounds welcome!
Tuesday evenings, 7:30-9:15 PM
Course dates: 4/14, 4/21, 4/28, 5/5, 5/12, 5/19
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RELIGIOUS SCHOOL 
Sunday, 4/5-4/12
No School, Pesach Break
Wednesday, 4/15
Erev Yom Hashoa
Shabbat, 4/18
Minyan Katan, Minyan Beyachad
Sunday, 4/19
6th Grade in Philadelphia
Wednesday, 4/22
Yom Hazikaron, Erev Yom HaAtzmaut
Sunday, 4/26
5th Grade Israel Program
Teacher Appreciation Luncheon
Club Sababa
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EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL 
Tot Shabbat with Morah Beth
is this Saturday, April 4th at 11:15 AM
ECS will be Closed April 3-10 for Spring Break/Passover.
Community Cruiser Day
Sunday, May 3 - SAVE THE DATE
Scrip Fundraiser
The ECS has joined a scrip gift card program to raise funds for our school. It's just another way to pay for your purchases using gift cards in place of cash, checks, and credit cards. For every card you purchase, a rebate of up to 14% will be donated to ECS. Download the Order Form. There are no hidden costs and no long term obligation. April orders are due Wednesday, April 15th to the ECS office.
Challah Sales
We sell a variety of delicious challahs, challah rolls, babkas, and loaf cakes as a fundraiser for ECS that are delivered here weekly from Rosendorff's in Baltimore. Download the Order Form. Please print it, attach your check, and send it to the ECS office.
Contact Information:
Early Childhood School Office 301-570-0699
www.ECSolney.org
Beth Hoch, Early Childhood Education Director
bhoch@bnaishalomofolney.org
Sandy Weiss, Early Childhood School Office Manager
sweiss@bnaishalomofolney.org
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Thursday Torah with Rabbi Sunshine
Thursdays, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Click HERE for course description and dates.
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JTS Day of Learning in Maryland
Sunday, April 26, 1:00-5:30 PM at Har Shalom
Co-sponsored by B'nai Shalom of Olney and many other local shuls.
Topic: "What is the Good Life? Happiness and Fulfillment in the Jewish Tradition"
A celebration of adult Jewish learning featuring outstanding faculty and fellows from the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Registration $36 in advance, $54 at the door, free childcare available with registration by 3/30. Click through the link for more details and registration information.
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Greater Olney Interfaith Ministerium Movie Night
Sunday, April 19, 7:15 PM
St. Peter's Parish Hall, 2900 Olney-Sandy Spring Road (behind the playground)
Arranged
Two faiths, two women and their friendship. Shared values bridge the faith divide in an unexpected way. www.arrangethemovie.com
Come watch this independent film that depicts the lives of two young women (Jewish and Muslim) of marriageable age as they interact with their families and faith traditions while developing a deep friendship. Over refreshments, we will share our own experiences with supporting marriage in our faith traditions. Join us and make a new friend!!
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Your vote matters! Vote MERCAZ USA in the ongoing WZO elections!
This Shabbat we mark the start of a new month as we start a new book of the Torah. Take 5 minutes this week to support MERCAZ's platform in the World Zionist Congress elections: progressive environmentalism in Israel, pluralistic-egalitarian religious options and Israeli government funding for the schools and institutions of Conservative/Masorti Movement. Help build our Israel. Our votes for MERCAZ Slate #2 can change the way Conservative Jews are represented in our Israel.
It takes about 5 mintues to impact Israel. Go to votemercaz.org and vote MERCAZ Slate #2. [$10 fee to the election company; $5 for those ages 18-30].
Click votemercaz.org - have your family and friends do it too.
Our Judaism - Our Israel - Vote MERCAZ, Slate #2
Follow us on Twitter @VoteMercaz and like us on Facebook. Invite your friends to join us on social media!
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Would you like to plan ahead for B'nai Shalom of Olney events? Click HERE for our full calendar of events. You can also visit our website and click on the Upcoming Events header.
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Thank you to this week's volunteers: 
Paula Evans
Naomi Kline
Helene Rosenheim
Lis Unger
Joe Shapiro
Kiddush on Shabbat is sponsored by:
Dr. Albert Schmelzer and Rabbi Tirza Covel in honor of the birthdays of their sons, Arijeh, Gauviel, & Lios and Esther Weiss
Kiddush on Pesach II is sponsored by: Sisterhood
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Weekly Yahrzeit Reminders
If you know your birthday, you know when to come to evening minyan. Just come once a month on the day of the month that corresponds to your birthday. For example, if your birthday is October 12, under this system you should make every effort to attend minyan on the 12th of every month.
Please support our weekday minyanim on Sunday at 9:00 am, weeknights at 7:30 pm, and Friday at 6:45 am with bagels and lox. If you would like to have a Sunday evening minyan, please contact Larry Fishbein.
Congregants are saying kaddish and any Jewish person 13 and older will count in the
minyan. It's a mitzvah!
Yahrzeits for this week are as follows, observed beginning with Ma'ariv the night prior:
Sunday, 3/29/2015
Miriam Kaufman, Mother of Ellen Feldman
Antoinette Libster, Mother of Stephen Libster
Ida Finkelshteyn, Remembered by of Yelena Sandler
Peter Schmeidler, Father of David Schmeidler
Friday, 4/3/2015
Samuel Feldman, Father of James Feldman
Gershon Fishbein, Father of Lawrence Fishbein
Helen Hirshenson, Mother of Steven Hirshenson
Irvin Levine, Remembered by Marvin Levine
Diana Pitem, Aunt of Stuart Markowitz
Nathan Silverman, Father-in-law of Norman Rosenblum
Shabbat, 4/4/2015
Montford Cosman, Husband of Celia Cosman, Father of Sarah Levenstein, Barbara Shapiro, Jackye Vandyke
Myer Waranch, Father of Linda Krass
Millie Enten, Mother of Stanley Rosen
Maynard Silberberg, Father of Jeffrey Silberberg
Stanley Steckler, Father of Stephen Steckler
Leonard Weiss, Father of Steven Weiss
Sunday, 4/5/2015
Kenneth D. Kornrich, Father of Barbara Kornrich
Miriam Koffer, Remembered by Sharon Press
Jean Steckler, Mother of Stephen Steckler
Philip Waldman, Father of Ellen Fields
Monday, 4/6/2015
Bernard Hirshenson, Father of Steven Hirshenson
Dayna Leslie Dubin, Granddaughter of Sidney Kramer
Ruth Steiner, Mother of Arthur Steiner
Tuesday, 4/7/2015
Lilo Guggenheim, Mother of Kenneth Guggenheim
Nathan Bernstein, Father of Linda Lubin
Wednesday, 4/8/2015
Sally Sommer, Mother in law of Nancy Sommer
Dora Freedman, Mother of Ruth Temin
Thursday, 4/9/2015
Eva Bloom, Mother of Wallace Bloom
Friday, 4/10/2015
Sylvia Hankin, Mother of Alan Hankin
Hyman Weinberg, Father of Lola Springer
Ilene Hershman, Sister of Harriet Tempchin
Shabbat, 4/11/2015
Fannie Wald, Mother of Helene Rosenheim
Sunday, 4/12/2015
Joel Levy, Father of Marc Levy
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Contributions will help us expand the activities and services we offer to our congregants
as well as to the community.
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