Saturday Morning, Feb. 17, 2018 The following people are assisting Parashat Terumah this : Exodus 25:1-27:19 pp. 485-498 Mark Seidenfeld, President’s Chair; Robert : Morris, VP’s Chair; Lauren Freeman-Bosworth, Gabbai; I Kings 5:26-6:13pp. 500-502 Sam Bergerand Arlene Salman, Greeters;

Brian Bosworth and Barbara Cohen, Ushers Anna Silverman, Cantorial Intern Visit

Chai House Shabbat Visit Those marking a simcha, observing the loss of a loved one, or recovering from an illness have 9:00am Shabbat Morning Services been delighted/comforted that their lifecycle 9:30am Shabbat SPACE event has inspired generosity. If you would like 10:15am Pre-Service Oneg Shabbat to make a donation to Beth El in honor or in 10:15am Shabbat Morning Discussion memory, please click here. Group with Jack Gruenberg 10:45am Family Kehillah Services Minyan Times 10:45am for Tots 12:00pm Shabbat Tween Lounge 12:00pm Kiddush 12:30pm Daf Shevui 5:10pm Mincha/ 6:14pm Sunday 8:00am Shacharit; 5:20pm Mincha/Maariv This week’s Kiddush is sponsored Monday (Beth El Offices Closed for Presidents Day) by: 8:00am Shacharit; 5:20pm Mincha/Maariv Beth El Center Tuesday 7:00am Shacharit; 5:20pm

Mincha/Maariv Mazal Tovs, Condolences, & Wednesday 7:00am Shacharit; 5:20pm Mincha/Maariv Refuah Shleimah Thursday 6:55am Shacharit; 5:20pm Mincha/Maariv Condolences on the passing of passing of Friday 7:00am Shacharit; 5:20pm Rita Hoffman, beloved mother of our Mincha/Maariv member, Sherry (Richard) Brown.

A Word of Torah - From Torah Sparks The Zohar immediately sees a parallel. For The Living Mishkan - Dr. Shaiya Rothberg, what else is composed of intricate systems, Conservative Yeshiva Faculty and systems inside of systems, but when they come together in one unity, a unique Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with spirit becomes manifest? The human being! ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and "In a human being there are many members, purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of higher and lower; some internal, within; cunning work shalt thou make them. The others outside, revealed. Yet they are all length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty considered one body, one person in a single cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four bond. So too, is the mishkan … when its cubits: and every one of the curtains shall members all join together as one, then it is have one measure… Fifty loops shalt thou written, 'the mishkan shall be one', like a make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt human being." (Zohar 2:162b). thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in Both the human body and the mishkan are the coupling of the second; that the loops may complex structures composed of many parts. take hold one of another…and it shall be one But when they are properly constructed, a mishkan (tabernacle). -Shemot:26:1-11 unity prevails, and in that unity emerges a higher and more sublime dimension of After weeks of powerful narrative (Burning reality: the human spirit and the presence of Bush, Plagues, Crossing the Sea, Sinai) and God. profound laws (10 Commandments and And yet, simply having a body or Parshat Mishpatim), Parashat Terumah constructing a building is not sufficient. We, drops like a stone in our midst with its like the devotees of all humanity's spiritual repetitious detail that only an architect or traditions, seek a higher way. We call that interior designer might appreciate. The way the Torah. And is the Torah not also an curtain in the Mishkan has to have fifty intricate system, with systems inside of loops. Fifty loops?! So what! Who cares?! systems, from which emerges a higher While generations of Bar kids unity? would probably not agree, the authors of the The Zohar tells us: "The commandments of classic work of Jewish mysticism, The the Torah are all members and limbs…when Zohar, found in Parashat Terumah's detailed they all come together, they amount to one account of the mishkan's structure an mystery. And this is the secret of the interpreter’s paradise. The intricacies of the mishkan, that it is all limbs and members, construction of this holy space, in which and they all amount to the mystery of God's presence on earth would manifest, humanity." fired their imaginations. They were perhaps And thus, for the Zohar, the mishkan, the most struck by the combination of human being and the Torah all manifest multiplicity and unity in the mishkan's "the mystery of unity". In this mystery, construction: There are myriad curtains, different disparate parts join together into a boards and sockets (and don’t forget the living whole. And in that whole is manifest fifty loops!), but they all come together, a higher, spiritual, dimension of reality. "and it shall be one mishkan" (Shemot May we all find that higher spirit in our 26:11). For in the unity that emerges from practice of Torah. And may you live to see the multiplicity, the spirit of God is the glory of God fill the holy of holies, manifest: "…and the glory of Y-H-V-H wherever that space be for you. filled the mishkan" (Shemot 40:34).

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ON YOUR RADAR The next Contemplative Service will be Saturday, March 17 at 10:45am led by Sitkin. For a list of our spiritual practices, visit www.bethelnr.org/spiritualpractices

Join us on Wednesday, Feb. 28 for Purimpalooza at 5:15-6:45pm. There will be pizza, snow cones, bouncy castles, and games! Everyone will leave with a prize bag. Register at bethelnr.org/purimcarnival. Our Young Families Service will take place that night from 6:45-7:30pm led by Rabbi Sitkin and a few special guests. Join us for a fun, interactive Megillah reading. A Teen Led Community Reading will start at 7:00pm. Bring a box of pasta to use as your gragger, then donate it to HOPE and BJCC!

Interested in being a part of singing a parody during the Megillah reading? Want to know more? Contact Abby Wise at [email protected].

Note: The library will be available as a quiet space for children throughout Purim on Feb. 28.

Beth El Synagogue Center Invites You to our 64th Annual Gala Honoring

Donald J. Fleishaker for Distinguished Leadership and Devoted Service Lori and Steven Schwartz, President's Ne'emanim Service Award Recipients Robyn and Daniel Yairi, Lapid Award Recipients Our next scheduled “OBM” is Tuesday, Feb. Visit www.bethelnr.org/Gala2018 to place 27 with scholar Dr. Amy Kalmanofsky. We your ad, make your reservation, and begin at 7:30pm with drinks and a nosh purchase raffle tickets! You can read about followed by learning promptly at 8:00pm. our honorees, view the letters of tribute, and get Gala details. We will once again be OBM is held on alternating Tuesdays and holding a top-notch Silent Auction. With Thursdays with Schuck and Sitkin, your help, we can truly catapult Beth El and Rabbi Ethan Linden of Ramah Synagogue Center's annual fundraiser to Berkshires, simultaneously teaching on new heights. If you have access to worthy different areas of Jewish texts. On the last items, and you are able to contribute them to week of the month, there is a scholar teaches our auction, we will be most appreciative on a specific topic in their field. Free and and will recognize you at the Gala. Help us open to the public. The OBM is subsidized raise funds by donating an auction item! If by the Rabbi Melvin and Lenore Sirner you have something to donate please Fund for Jewish Inspiration and the Sylvia contact Shery Rosenstein and Harry Halpern Lecture Fund. ([email protected]) no later than Monday, Feb. 26. For more information or to sponsor an evening of learning in someone’s honor or JOIN US ON SUNDAY, MARCH 18 AT memory, visit bethelnr.org/openbeit or 5:00PM, contact [email protected].

Be There or, well, Just Be There!

PEACE GARDEN PROJECT Beth El is co-sponsoring the Peace Garden Project a project with the United Methodist Church, in which we will be planting over 50 garden boxes at three different locations in New Rochelle. Before gardening begins, there will be several joint communal interfaith learning sessions at the United Methodist Church. The following tentative dates remain: Sunday, Feb. 18 at 12:30pm, and Sunday, Feb. 25 12:30pm (community meal with a few Kosher meals available). Dates are subject to change. This initiative is led by Rabbi Zach Sitkin and Rev. Michelle Lewis. All are welcome.

AIPAC CONFERENCE The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) will hold their Policy Conference at the Washington Convention Center from March www.bethelnr.org/vashti 4-6. We’re always appreciative to have a strong representation on-hand. Members can TAX RECEIPTS The 2017 tax receipts register through the website were emailed several weeks ago. Please (ww.policyconference.org) and enter the make sure to check your inbox and your code PC18BENR, or call 646.360.1534. SPAM folder. If you need another copy via Contact [email protected] for more. email, please email [email protected]. SISTERHOOD AND BOOKS The next discussion will be Monday, Feb. DAY CAMP Best. Days. Ever. Our camp 26 at 9:30am regarding Cathedral of the doesn’t have the best reputation in Southern Sea, by Ildefonso Falcones. Books are Westchester for nothing! Registration is available at the New Rochelle Public open now. Camp is now eight weeks and Library - mention that you are a member of will provide towel service! Visit, Beth El Sisterhood’s Bagels & Books www.betheldaycamp.org. Group. Questions? Contact Arlene Salman at [email protected] or 914.235.2485. *RABBI SCHUCK AND BETH EL TO BE HONORED* NURSERY SCHOOL Register now for the This year’s HOPE Gala will honor Rabbi 2018-19 school year! There is no time to David Schuck and Beth El. It will be held on delay. Sign up now and save. Inquire about Thursday, April 26 at 50 Washington Ave. “Toddler Time” as well! Contact Director in New Rochelle. Questions? Contact Ronnie Becher at 235.2700, x250 or Carole Troum at [email protected]. [email protected] for details.

The Israel Affairs Committee presents A Tasting and Wine Sale on Thursday, March 15 from 7:00pm– 9:00pm. 20% off bottles and cases! supplied by The Grape Exchange. For more, visit www.bethelnr.org/specialneedsseder www.bethelnr.org/passoverwines. CONGRATULATIONS to our members ONLINE BETH EL SIGNUP; FULFILL Ron Burton, Marc Klee, and Mark Silver, THE MITZVAH OF READING TORAH who will be honored at this year's Julian Y. We have a new online sheet that allows you Bernstein Distinguished Service Awards by to sign up to read from the Torah or chant the Westchester Jewish Council. They will the Haftarah on Shabbat and holidays. Click be honored for their outstanding volunteer the link that follows and you can choose work: Burton for the American Jewish Joint from a list of available aliyot and Haftarot: Distribution Committee (JDC), Klee for www.bethelnr.org/torahsignup. Select the United Synagogue of aliyah (or aliyot) you want to read and enter – METNY, and Silver for Beth El. The your name and email address. If you wish to ceremony will be on Thursday, March 8 at read in honor of your , anniversary, 7:30pm at Temple Israel Center of White to fulfill a mitzvah on any Shabbat, or Plains on 280 Old Mamaroneck Road. discuss this new system for fulfilling the Please show your support. It’s free and open mitzvah of reading Torah and Haftorah, to the entire community. RSVP here: please contact Cantor Aqua https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/regist ([email protected]) or Alan Kellman er/eventReg?oeidk=a07ef1n9jzd17148db9& ([email protected]). oseq=&c=&ch=.

OUR ANNUAL MINYAN BREAKFAST will be held on Sunday, March 18. Morning minyan will be at 8:00 am followed by breakfast in the Wiener Lounge. We will honor long-time Beth El member and Minyanaite Bernard Katz for his constant support of the minyan for more than 30 years.

At the breakfast, you can reconnect with old friends, enjoy bagels and spreads, and hear

Rabbi Schuck and Cantor Aqua talk about CARD ROOM The weekly Sisterhood the minyan and give out siddurim to Canasta group plays at 12:45pm on members who finished reciting for Mondays while the Mah Jongg group plays their loved one. on Tuesdays at the same time. Beginners, as

well as experienced players, are always We invite you to volunteer to help with our welcome. Contact Arlene Salman at minyan to ensure its continuity. If you can [email protected] or 914.235.2485. come once a week or even several times a month, you would be a great support. Just TALMUD DAF SHEVUI STUDY contact Cantor Aqua and let him know a SESSION This study session occurs every time that would work best for you Shabbat at 12:30pm in the Library. New ([email protected]). participants are welcome. We discuss a page (daf) of the Talmud. Download the weekly TEEN LEARNING AND portion: ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM www.conservativeyeshiva.org/category/daf- This options-based model creates a menu of shevui. choices for Jewish learning and engagement, including niche-specific opportunities as GIFT SHOP Visit the Beth El Sisterhood well as opportunities for social engagement. Baum Judaica Gift Shop for ALL your In this way, we will address the varied Judaica needs. Open by appointment. Email interests and schedules of our teens in a [email protected], or call Erica Epstein manner that allows us to reach each of them (914.633.3161), Carole Graham personally. Questions? Visit (914.576.6617), and/or Ellen Hollander www.bethelnr.org/teens or contact (914.632.4658). Rebekkah Gold at [email protected]. WHEREVER WE STAND, WE STAND WITH ISRAEL Beth El's Israel Affairs Committee would like to share interesting and exciting news regarding the week's developments in business, culture, technology, agriculture, sports and the environment in Israel.

8 of the most anticipated hotels opening in Israel in 2018 https://www.israel21c.org/8-of-the-most- anticipated-hotels-opening-in-israel-in-2018/

Paul McCartney awarded Wolf prize, expected to come to Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/paul- mccartney-awarded-wolf-prize-expected-to- come-to-israel

Limmud and Other Learning Opportunities DON’T FORGET TO ZUMBA! For more FUTURE TENSE Rabbi Molly Karp’s information, contact Carrie Fox at Future Tense: Jews, Judaism, and Israel in [email protected]. the 21st Century; A Vision for Jews and Judaism in the Global Culture. Class ISRAELI DANCING Held Sundays 10:00- focuses on the book written by Lord Rabbi 11:00 am with Cantor Aqua. $10/class. Jonathan Sacks. It meets Wednesday Wear comfy clothes and sneakers. mornings from 10:00am-12:15pm. Classes Questions? E-mail [email protected]. are Feb. 21, 28; March 7, 14, 21. Cost: $350, which includes audio recordings of all Additional Beth El and Community class sessions. To learn more, visit Events and Information rabbimollykarp.com or contact the rabbi at [email protected]. FULL STEAM AHEAD Your preschooler is invited on Feb. 23 for a morning of LEARN HEBREW IN OUR ULPAN Engineering and Arts activities while you CLASSES Classes with Miri Ben Avi are learn more about the STEAM (Science ongoing Mondays and Wednesdays - classes Technology Engineering Arts Math) are for learners at all levels. Beginners: program at Schechter Westchester’s Dr. 6:30-7:30pm/ Intermediate: 7:30-8:30pm/ Elliot Spiegel Lower School in White Advanced: 8:30-9:30pm Contact Plains. Session one is 9:00-10:30am. [email protected] or 914.602.1503. Session two is 10:45am-12:15pm. Space is limited. RSVP to [email protected].

SEEKING JOB OPPORTUNITY FOR NEWLY-ARRIVED AFGHAN REFUGEE This family has settled in White Plains under the auspices of HIAS-NY and is sponsored by a consortium of local and churches. (Fully authorized for permanent work in the US.)

Fluent in English; skilled in use of Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook); some experience with QuickBooks. Extensive managerial, administrative and logistical experience in projects with the American military, United Nations and Afghan government. If you have or know of an available position, please contact Jeff Swarz at [email protected] or Gene Tozzi at [email protected] or 914-672-1088. Thank you.

JEWISH FILM AJC Westchester/Fairfield will hold the 17th annual Westchester Celebrates Jewish Film Festival at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville from March 13 to March 29. This two-week festival is the largest annual Jewish event in Westchester. Last year, close to 9,000 tickets were sold. The festival brings not only the best new Jewish films to Westchester every spring, but also an extraordinary array of top-notch speakers and other programming. More than 38 films will be shown. Questions? Contact AJC Westchester Associate Director Jill Friedman by email ([email protected]) or phone (914-948-5585).

More announcements can be found at www.bethelnr.org/ongoing.