December 1, 2006 –
Kislev 11, 5767
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THANK YOU TO ALL WHO
ARE HOSTING AND PARTICIPATING IN OUR PROGESSIVE DINNER THIS SATURDAY NIGHT
AND GOOD LUCK TO ALL
WHO WILL BE PARTICIPATING IN THE
MURDER MYSTERY
Join your fellow community members and volunteer on Super Sunday,
THIS SUNDAY
(UJF's community phone-a-thon)
on December 3, 2006.
Friday
is World AIDS Day – if you are receiving this on Thursday, consider
joining Cantor Littman and myself at the Interfaith Service tonight at 7 PM.
Details in Announcements below
Our 7th
graders planted1000 daffodil bulbs…
See the Beth El Cares section below
find out about this exciting 7th grade mitzvah project.
Then check out www.tbe.org for more photos of the event,
plus our
extensive library of photo albums,
articles,
sermons, info about the temple,
Shabbat-O-Grams and links to
the Jewish world.
Contents
of the Shabbat O Gram:
(Click
to scroll down)
Just
the Facts (service schedule)
The Beth El Bar/Bat Mitzvah Commentary
(new)
The (Occasionally) Ranting Rabbi
Mitzvah/Tzedakkah Opportunities
Required Reading and Action Items (links
to key articles on Israel and Jewish life)
Announcements (goings on in and around
TBE)
Special Blood Drive
in honor of Bobby Silberman
(see details in
Mitzvah section below)
Synaplex returns!!!!!
HAVE YOU SIGNED UP YET FOR NEXT WEEK’S SYNAPLEX
FRIDAY NIGHT, CELEBRATING THE SISTERHOOD’S NEW COOKBOOK?
Download the reservation form NOW at
http://www.tbe.org/site/docs/temp/Invitation_General%20Congregation.pdf
Here’s what’s happening:
Synaplex
& Sisterhood Family Shabbat Dinner,
Services
and Program
Honoring
New Members
December
8, 2006
Services 6:30 pm
Please join us in
the main sanctuary as we welcome Shabbat together and honor our new
members. There will be a Tot
Shabbat for our children starting at the same time with Nurit.
Dinner
7:30 pm
Share in the
Sisterhood’s celebration of the all new (first ever!)
TBE cookbook. Enjoy a dinner
made from cookbook recipes that were contributed by our own TBE family. Hear about the beautiful two-year
journey of over 120 Sisterhood members who contributed their hearts and
kitchens to create this beautiful keepsake for all to enjoy.
If you are
interested in purchasing the cookbook, please order using the RSVP (on the
opposite side of this page). The proceeds
will be donated to TBE’s kitchen renovation project.
Program
8:30 pm
We are honored to
have Elise Klein, UJF BRIDGES Program Director, join us to share with us how
each of us can become part of our TBE community and what we can do to make it
stronger.
Working together,
we will discuss ways in which to create a community that all
want to be part of and which all can share in – respecting our
differences and celebrating our commonalities. By strengthening bonds
we create a strengthened, enriched community: opening and welcoming to all who
wish to be part of TBE’s wonderful congregation.
There will be
children’s programming at this time, with Nurit here for the younger
children and a Scrabble tournament for older ones..
Here’s what we’ll be eating:
Yom Tov Chicken (Sari Jaffe) – “This is a great
dish to make for the New Year or Passover.
I got the recipe from the late Tish Lilie
who was a wonderful cooking demonstrator at a
Sweet Potato Latkes (Marge Shameer) –
“Enjoy”
Apple Cranberry
Relish (Ellen Gordon) – “Great with brisket, turkey, or chicken.
Vary the fruits added to your preference”.
I then give them away
in the pans uncut or cut them up and present them in individual paper cupcake
liners on a tray or in a wicker basket.
One recipe makes one pan of brownies. I have made up to 18
times the recipe but you need a gigantic bowl for that much batter.”
And here are some of
the stories behind the recipes…
(we’ll be sharing lots more that night)
“My mom, Mollie,
enjoyed cooking for her family, but I don’t remember her owning any
cookbooks or having a recipe collection. I do recall, however, all of the
wonderful smells and food coming from our small kitchen”. Barbara
Gold
“This section
is dedicated to my grandmother, Beate Yunker, who came from a totally assimilated German
home. Through the ironies of history, she found herself in
“It is told
that this recipe came from Mrs. Roth, mother of author Philip
Roth”. Kim Hittman
“This recipe
was given to me by my wonderful mother-in-law, Muriel Novack.
She had received it from her mother, Marion Jacobson”. Lynn
Villency Cohen.
“My
mother’s finest recipe ever. No one who has ever had it has
ever forgotten the experience”. Ellen
Gordon
“My friend Doi is a great soup maker. She served this soup at
our semi-annual women’s retreat. Later, I made it for my
mom’s 87th birthday celebration”. Caroline
Temlock Teichman
“Miriam’s
husband, Snekky, believed that you should eat soup
after the meal to wash it down”. Miriam Stosser
Passed
down from my mother (a
“This recipe
has been in our family for more than 100 years. It came from
“My mother
made the highest, lightest sponge cakes ever and she made them for everyone
(family and friends) at Passover”. Linda Simon
“This is
Steven’s mother’s traditional recipe and an old family
favorite”. Susan Leiterstein
Quote for the Week
On this week of the progressive dinner…
“Can you accept the moments of
anger and fear as guests,
be willing to receive them with kindness
without feeling obliged to serve them a
five-course meal?”
-Christina Feldman in 'Compassion:
Listening to the Cries of the World'
Friday Evening
Candle
lighting: 4:09 pm on Friday, 1 December 2006. For candle lighting times,
Havdalah 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/
Shabbat Evening service: 6:30 PM – in the chapel
Tot
Shabbat: 6:45 – in the lobby.
Shabbat
Morning: 9:30 AM– on Shabbat, we celebrate
the Bar Mitzvah of David Katz. Mazal tov to David and to his parents Joan and Sheldon!
FROM DAVID KATZ FOOD DRIVE MITZVAH PROJECT Donate Food to Help the Hungry
All donations will be taken to the local food bank.I will personally shelve the food so the more donations you give, the harder I will work!Boxes will be located in the Hebrew school lobby and at my Bar Mitzvah on 12/2/06.Thank you.David Katz
Children’s
services: 10:30 AM – (jr. congregation service in the chapel, Tot Shabbat morning
downstairs. 6th and 7th graders are expected to be in the
main sanctuary)
Our Torah Reading
for Shabbat Morning
Genesis 28:10 - 32:3 – Jacob’s
Journeys
1: 31:17-21
2: 31:22-24
3: 31:25-35
4: 31:36-42
5: 31:43-45
6: 31:46-50
7: 31:51-32:3
maf: 32:1-3
Haftarah Hosea 12:13 - 14:10
If you liked
Storahtelling, you’ll LOVE Storahtelling’s
new weekly blog about the Torah portion Find it at http://storahtelling.blogspot.com/. ORT
Navigating the Bible; Rashi
in English; BibleGateway:
Useful for comparing different translations: Note- this is a Christian site.
What’s
Bothering Rashi (Bonchek) Each week, one example
from the parashah is deconstructed.
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://www.jtsa.edu/community/parashah/. USCJ Torah
THE ENTIRE
HEBREW BIBLE (AS WELL AS OTHER JEWISH SOURCES) CAN BE FOUND WITH SIDE-BY-SIDE
TRANSLATION AT http://www.mechon-mamre.org/
100 Blessings:
Download information about the grace
after meals (see Birkat
Ha-mazon explained in Wikipedia and in the Jewish
Virtual Library)
The actual prayer can be downloaded at Birkat
Hamazon [pdf]
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