Shabbat – O –
Gram
October 28,
2005 and, Tishrei 25, 5766
Rabbi Joshua Hammerman,
TBE TO DO LIST FOR THIS
WEEK:
n Come to services!
n Fill out an “All About My Pet” for next week’s “Blessing of the
Animals” (http://www.tbe.org/site/sog/blessingofanimals.htm)
n Attend adult ed classes and sisterhood
paid up brunch.
n Send my little singer to the first Junior Choir rehearsal on Sunday
n Check the Website for photos and discussion topics (this week: “Should
Jews celebrate Halloween?”)
Last Sunday things were hopping here,
with the planting of our new
Lots more photos can be found at our website, www.tbe.org.
(Photos taken by Dan Young and
Mitch Pomerance)
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Contents
of the Shabbat O Gram: (click to scroll down)
Just
the Facts (service schedule)
Mitzvah/Tzedakkah Opportunities
Required Reading and Action Items (links
to key articles on Israel and Jewish life)
Announcements (goings on in and around TBE)
Quote for the Week
"
When I was a congregational rabbi, at the close of
Yom Kippur I would look out at the approximately 1,300 people before me and ask
myself, “What would it take to keep the walls down all year and have a crowd that
swelled the sanctuary?...
First, stop
blaming “them” for not joining “us.” Those who only visit the synagogue a
couple of times a year are not the problem…
Second, we
must understand that diversity is a blessing and not a threat…
Third, we
shouldn’t try and prescribe a “one size fits all” definition of being Jewish…
Fourth, use
the talents within our communities…
Finally,
remember that the goal of encouraging membership in a synagogue is not just to
increase dues but to increase Jewish involvement.”
-- from “Five
Steps Toward Revitalizing Synagogues” by Rabbi Hayyim Herring
See the full article in the Jewish Week,
http://www.thejewishweek.com/top/editletcontent.php3?artid=4575
REMEMBER
TO “FALL BACK” TO E.S.T. THIS WEEKEND
Friday Evening
Candle lighting for
Stamford, CT: Candle lighting: 5:38pm
on Friday, 28 October 2005.
For candle lighting times, other Jewish calendar information, and to
download a Jewish calendar to your PDA, click on http://www.hebcal.com/. To see the festivals of other faiths as well,
go to http://www.interfaithcalendar.org/
Kabbalat Shabbat: 6:30 PM – in the LOBBY
Tot Shabbat this week: 6:45 PM – in the CHAPEL
Shabbat Morning: 9:30 AM
- MAZAL TOV TO Jeffrey Jablon, WHO BECOMES BAR
MITZVAH THIS SHABBAT MORNING!
Children’s services: 10:30
AM, including Jr. Congregation for grades 3-6 and Tot
Shabbat Morning for the
younger kids.
Torah Portion: Beresheet Genesis
1:1 - 6:8
1: 2:4-9
2: 2:10-19
3: 2:20-25
4: 3:1-21
5: 3:22-24
6: 4:1-18
7: 4:19-26
maf: 4:23-26
Haftarah – Isaiah
42:5 - 43:11
See a weekly
commentary from the UJC Rabbinic Cabinet, at www.ujc.org/mekorchaim. Read the Masorti
commentary at http://www.masorti.org/mason/torah/index.asp. University
of Judaism,
JTS commentary is at: http://learn.jtsa.edu/topics/parashah/.
USCJ Torah
Former Knesset
Speaker Avraham Burg offers Torah-based commentary on
current affairs (Y-net)
THE ENTIRE HEBREW BIBLE (AS WELL AS OTHER JEWISH SOURCES) CAN BE
FOUND WITH SIDE-BY-SIDE TRANSLATION AT
Morning Minyan: Sundays at 8:30 AM (note new
time!!!),
Weekdays at 7:30 AM – IN THE CHAPEL
Minyan Mastery
Now you can become more comfortable with the prayers of our
morning service by heading to…
http://www.tbe.org/site/sog/minyanmastery.htm
The Rabid Rabbi
Mazal
tov to Sue and Art Greenwald, our Hattan and Kallat Torah and Olga
Goldstein, our Kallat Breisheet,
who were honored on Simhat Torah morning with the special aliyahs
for their tireless volunteer efforts on behalf of the congregation! Here is what they said upon being honored
this week.
Sensitivity to human
suffering can be overwhelming.
Contributing to the reduction or amelioration of suffering is not only a
mitzvah, it helps to empower and console those who do the work of making the
world a better place. Social action,
performed with humility, is a uniquely gratifying activity. It adds depth, purpose and understanding to
our lives.
Our involvement with
Beth El Cares was a natural outgrowth of our commitment to tikkun
olam and being a positive role model for our
children. Jan Gaines, Joan Weisman and
Fred Weisman were our first Beth El Cares role models. Their fervent commitment to social action
inspired us to work with, and learn from, them.
Eventually Rabbi Hammerman connected us with our predecessors, Tracy and
Nahum Daniels, and we assumed Beth El Cares leadership roles.
We agreed to lead, like those before us, to
help facilitate opportunities for Temple Beth El members to do mitzvoth
together- to ease the burden of those in need while having an opportunity to
work with, and get to know, other members. It has been particularly gratifying
to see congregants who perform mitzvoth frequently-and quietly-without any
expectation of recognition or reward.
They are willing to inconvenience themselves to comfort, feed and serve
others who need their support. We can be
proud of the impact these individuals make in our community and in
Over the past year, we
became mentors for Cheryl Wolff who, along with
We appreciate
everyone’s kindness and the Kallat Torah and Hattan Torah honors you have given us.
Sue
and Art Greenwald
My journey as a volunteer at Temple Beth-El started
one afternoon nine years ago when my oldest daughter Carrie was Bat-Mitzvahed by
Shortly there after, I went to see
Finally after half an hour,
Also I would like my daughter to participate.
He smiled at me and said, thank you for coming to
my office today. I left his office with
smile. I became responsible for the Teen
Service for the next five years.
I wanted to give, in a genuine, authentic and
caring way to The House Of G-d and this was the
beginning of my journey at Temple Beth-El.
I continue helping whenever I have the time to
spare. I dedicated time helping in the
kitchen, I organized Cantor Jacobson's office and started organizing
Volunteering at Beth-El makes me feel whole as a
person and makes me happy to be around all the wonderful people that we all
know, work very hard to make our temple STAND TALL.
Olga Goldstein
Kosher in
The
many email requests the Kosher Activists Committee has
received from all of you has now paid off - Over the past 8 months the Stamford Kosher
Activists Committee has been working diligently to honor and
secure many, many food items that have been hard to come by locally, here in Stamford, CT. We
have dedicated ourselves to building a long lasting relationship with both the Stop
& Shop and Shop
Rite Supermarkets Corporate and Regional Management. The
results have, to date, produced the following: STOP &
SHOP - Stamford - Ridgeway Center - Summer St. Current
& Ongoing Reorganization / Expansion of Kosher Depts. Includes expanded (
30 Feet ) of kosher grocery (Bloom's line of pareve
cookies, candies, Biutoni Tomato
Sauce line, Osem (Israeli
products), Tradition - ready meals, etc) . (Includes 6 feet in
Aisle # 3 ). Kosher Dairy - Besides the current Miller's
cheese line, the store will now carry some Cholov Yisroel products. The current kosher bakery
now features a table of a full line of Beigel's
brand - pareve cakes & cookies. Kosher Meat
section will now display glatt kosher processed
deli meats, above an expanded line of pre-packaged - fresh meats / poultry. Frozen Kosher
will now feature an expanded 5 doors of a newly revamped / reorganized /
expanded sections with new product lines, such as Ratner's, Old City Cafe, Kineret,
A&B Gefilte Fish, etc.
For the time being
- discussions relating to the store location offering a glatt
kosher deli and glatt kosher fresh meat dept.,
at the request of management has been placed " on the back burner ",
due to space constraints. However -
discussions are continuing with the kosher committee.
NEW
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BEGINNING THURSDAY - OCTOBER 27TH
The
Kosher
Committee is pleased to make the community aware of the GRAND OPENING of the NEW ( 80,000 sq. ft.),
SHOP RITE -
off
exit 6 - Right turn at Stop sign. First left onto
Going I-95 North / East - Take Exit
6, at end of ramp, make left, go under highway. Make left
onto
Enter
thru left side store entrance - proceed to Aisle # 1 -
Grocery - 36 feet of grocery - featuring Pareve
Cakes, Savion Croutons,
Bloom's
cookie & candy section, bread crumbs, rice cakes, chips, snacks, canned
soups, grape juice, crackers, Osem
line of products, Assorted Teas, etc.
Frozen Kosher - 9 doors of well stocked, items - Tabatchnick & Ratner's soups, pizza varieties, Blinztes, Pirogen, Yoni's brand of pasta favorites, Meal Mart
of favorite entrees, chopped liver, Kinnert
potatoes & onion rings, etc.
Kosher Meats - 8 feet
of processed glatt kosher deli and prepackaged fresh glatt meats & poultry, pickels,
etc.
New Sally Sherman (small resealable size) Pareve
salads - including - Cole Slaw, Macaroni, Tuna & Egg.
Ideal for family functions,
Dairy Section - (far side of store) Includes - Herring (Cream Sauce), Horseradish, Mehadrin - Cholov Yisroel - brand yogurts,
New
Square
- Cholov Yisroel -
brand products (on order).