May 11, 2007– Iyar
24, 5767
Shabbat Shalom, Happy Mother’s Day
And
Happy Yom Yerushalayim!
Rabbi Joshua Hammerman, Temple Beth El, Stamford,
Connecticut
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Contents
of the Shabbat O Gram:
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Just
the Facts (service schedule)
The (Occasionally) Ranting Rabbi
Mitzvah/Tzedakkah Opportunities
Ask the Rabbi
Spiritual Journey on the Web
The
Beth El Bar/Bat Mitzvah Commentary
Required Reading and Action Items (links
to key articles on Israel and Jewish life)
Announcements (goings on in and around
TBE)
Joke for the Week
Shabbat Unplugged THIS FRIDAY!
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Supporter for the coming year, please see me!
Mazal
Tov to Maxine Freilich on becoming president of the JCC!
MAZAL
TOV TO 12TH GRADE KULANU GRADUATES!
Graduation
takes place this coming Wednesday evening.
Nat Anker,
Ben Avny, Stephanie Bachar, Rachel Benjamin, Sam Berman, Marc Freundlich, Ely Gerbin, David
Ginsberg, Lauryn Goldstein, Andy Granowitz, Zach Jackson, Rob Kempner, Allison Kruk, Alex Lopatin, Matt Neems, Libby Osher, Mike Rich,
Rachel Spaulding, Deborah Stein, Dan Stone and Ilana Verwey.
Quote for the Week
“The world is not comprehensible,
but it is
embraceable:
through the
embracing of one of its beings.”
-- Martin Buber
JUST
THE FACTS
Welcome
to the JCC Tzahal Shalom soldiers!
Some of the soldiers this week
meeting with Kulanu students
Several will be joining us for
services this Shabbat morning
And we’ll have the
chance to dialogue with them
Candle lighting: 7:42 pm on Friday, 11 MAY
2007. For 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/. The United Synagogue has updated its candlelighting information. To learn more, click here.
Friday Evening:
Shabbat Unplugged: 7:30 PM – in the SANCTUARY
Shabbat Morning:
Service begins at 9:30 AM
Mazal Tov to alyssa
gold, WHO BECOMES bAt MITZVAH THIS SHABBAT MORNING!
Children’s
Services: 10:30 AM
Our Torah Portion
for Shabbat Morning
פרשת בהר־בחקתי
Leviticus 25:1 - 27:34
1: 27:1-4
2: 27:5-8
3: 27:9-15
4: 27:16-21
5: 27:22-25
6: 27:26-28
7: 27:29-34
maf: 27:32-34
Haftarah: Jeremiah
16:19 - 17:14
If
you liked Storahtelling, Storahtelling’s new
weekly blog about the Torah portion is at http://storahtelling.blogspot.com/. Also check out Torahquest
at http://www.torahquest.org/commentary_list.php 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 Sparks can be found at: http://www.uscj.org/Torah_Sparks5689.html
UAHC Shabbat Table Talk discussions are at http://urj.org/torah/index.cfm,
Reconstructionists are at http://www4.jrf.org/recon-dt. Other divrei Torah via the Torahnet home
page: http://uahcweb.org/torahnet/. Test
your Parasha I.Q.: http://www.ou.org/jewishiq/parsha/default.htm.
CLAL’s Torah commentary archive: http://click.topica.com/maaaiRtaaRvQhbV2AtLb/. World Zionist Organization Education
page, including Nehama Liebowitz archives of parsha commentaries: http://www.moreshet.net/web/index.asp?f=1
For a more Kabbalistic/Zionist/Orthodox perspective from Rav Kook, first Chief
Rabbi of Israel, go to http://www.geocities.com/m_yericho/ravkook/index.html.
For some probing questions and meditations on key verses of the portion, with a
liberal kabbalistic bent, go to http://www.jewishealing.com/learning.html
or, for Kabbalistic commentaries from the Zohar itself, go to http://www.kabbalah.com/k/index.php/p=zohar/weekly/intro. Also, try http://home.utah.edu/~rfs4/jkmfc.htm. To see the weekly commentary from
Hillel, geared to college students and others, go to http://www.hillel.org/hillel/NewHille.nsf/FCB8259CA861AE57852567D30043BA26/DF7D129F15B3DF0885256AB80058E9C3?OpenDocument.
For a Jewish Renewal and feminist approach go to http://rabbishefagold.hypermart.net/Torah1.html
. For a comprehensive Orthodox
viewpoint from the Israeli rabbi, Yaakov Fogelman, go to the Torah Outreach
Program at http://israelvisit.co.il/top/previous.shtml. Guided meditations for each portion by
Judith Abrams at http://www.maqom.com/kavannah.pdf
For online Parsha quizzes from Pardes in Israel, go to http://www.pardes.org.il/online_learning/parsha_quizzes/
Torah for Kids: http://www.torah4kids.net/ Weekly Lesson of Popular Israeli Rabbi
Mordechai Elon: http://www.elon.org/archives/archives.htm
- and his parsha sheets: http://www.mibereshit.org/special/download_eng_pdf.htm From Bar Ilan University: http://www.biu.ac.il/JH/Parasha/eng/; http://www.torahproductions.com/weekly_article.jsp
THE
ENTIRE HEBREW BIBLE (AS WELL AS OTHER JEWISH SOURCES) CAN BE FOUND WITH
SIDE-BY-SIDE TRANSLATION AT http://www.mechon-mamre.org/
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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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The
(occasionally)
Ranting
Rabbi
Jerusalem’s Liberation,
Plus 40
Those old enough to recall May
and June of 1967 have trouble communicating to younger generations just how
precarious things were back then.
Israel was at the breaking point, with the Egyptian noose ever tightening
around the straits of Tiran and in Sinai, and with
Syria threatening attack from the north.
Some have said that May 1967 was when our culture first began to grapple
seriously with the Holocaust that had occurred 20 years before (but had been suppressed in the collective Jewish memory),
because it looked like it could happen again. It’s hard to recall how vulnerable
Israel seemed back then.
Everything changed with the
Six Day War. It was American
Jewry’s “Summer of Love,” the time when we went overnight
from the perennial underdog to proud defenders of Zion. The song “Jerusalem of Gold”
never left our lips. Each time we
looked at a map of Israel, we couldn’t believe that all those biblical
places were suddenly OURS – most of all, Jerusalem.
So much has changed since
then, but 1967 remains an event that shaped our world, for better and for worse,
but mostly for the better.