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May 2006 | Iyar-Sivan 5766 Temple Rodef Shalom Bulletin May Shabbatot & Other Services Temple Rodef Shalom and Shabbat Achare Mot – Kedoshim May 5 & 6 Rabbi Laszlo Leviticus 16:1 – 20:27 Friday, May 5 Berkowits 6:30 pm Bo’i Shabbat Service invite you to 8:15 pm Learners Shabbat Service attend an Saturday, May 6 outstanding concert of Jewish 9:00 am Torah Study music by world renowned 9:00 am Tot Activity cantor Emil Toth of Budapest, 10:30 am Shabbat Morning Service Hungary. B’not Mitzvah of Yael Urbach & Thalia Aoki 5:00 pm Afternoon B'nai Mitzvah Service of Andy Gross & Saturday, May 20, 8:00pm Elias Chajet Shabbat Emor – May 12 & 13 Leviticus 21:1 – 24:23 Participating with Cantor Friday, May 12 Toth will be Rabbi Laszlo Berkowits and our 6:30 pm Teacher Recognition Shabbat Service distinguished TRS Professional Quartet 8:15 pm Israel Shabbat Service Accompanied by TRS Choir Director, Frank Conlon Saturday, May 13 9:00 am Torah Study Don’t miss this once in a lifetime musically 10:30 am Shabbat Morning Service spiritual experience! B’nai Mitzvah of Ryan Swirsky & Daniel Heins Cantor Toth has performed in the major cities of Europe Thursday, May 18 including London, Berlin, Helsinki, Stockholm and also in 6:45 pm Service of Strength, Comfort & Healing Jerusalem. Cantor Toth will also participate in the Erev Shabbat Worship Service Shabbat Bahar-Bechukotai – May 19 & 20 With Rabbi Laszlo Berkowits May 19 at 8:15 pm Leviticus 25:1 – 27:34 Friday, May 19 6:30 pm Erev Shabbat Service for Younger Families The Clergy, Staff, & Board of Directors 8:15 pm Volunteer Shabbat Service; we also welcome Cantor Emil Toth of Temple Rodef Shalom Saturday, May 20 9:00 am Torah Study Invite you to celebrate with 9:00 am Tot Shabbat Service Rabbi Marcus Burstein and Mr. Eric Larson 10:30 am Shabbat Morning Service B’nai Mitzvah of Nina Zegler & Jake Saunders At their Auf Ruf 10:30 am Parallel Shabbat Morning Minyan When they will be Shabbat Bemidbar – May 26 & 27 called to the Bima for Numbers 1:1 – 4:20 Friday, May 26 a special blessing 6:30 pm Erev Shabbat Service for Older Families Prior to their wedding 8:15 pm Erev Shabbat, Koleinu sings Aufruf of Rabbi Marcus Burstein and Eric Larson Saturday, May 27 Friday, May 26, 2006 9:00 am Torah Study 10:30 am Shabbat Morning Service at the 8:15 pm Erev Shabbat Service B’nai Mitzvah of Eric Villani & Theodore Aronson SERVICE SCHEDULE For descriptions, please view our Temple website at www.templerodefshalom.org FIRST SHABBAT OF THE MONTH • Friday 6:30 pm – Bo’i Shabbat • Friday 8:15 pm – Shabbat Evening Worship • Saturday 9:00 am – Tot Shabbat Activity • Saturday 10:30 am – Shabbat Morning Worship • Saturday 5:00 pm – Shabbat Afternoon Mincha Worship SECOND SHABBAT OF THE MONTH • Friday 6:30 pm – Younger Family Shabbat Worship (K-3) • Friday 8:15 pm – Shabbat Evening Worship • Saturday 10:30 am – Shabbat Morning Worship THIRD SHABBAT OF THE MONTH • Friday 6:30 pm – Early Erev Shabbat Service • Friday 8:15 pm – Shabbat Evening Worship • Saturday 9:00 am – Tot Shabbat Service • Saturday 10:30 am – Shabbat Morning Worship • Saturday 10:30 am – Parallel Shabbat Morning Minyan FOURTH SHABBAT OF THE MONTH • Friday 6:30 pm – Older Family Shabbat Worship (Grade 3- and up) • Friday 8:15 pm – Shabbat Evening Worship Table of Contents • Saturday 10:30am – Shabbat Morning Worship 16 ARZA-Bridge to Israel Our Onegs for early services will precede the service. There will be Israeli Dancing immediately following 08 B’nai Mitzvah the young family and older family services. 26 Calendar 18 Caring SUMMER SERVICE SCHEDULE BEGINS IN JUNE! 03 Clergy Please join us on Friday, June 2 at 7:30pm for our 19 Donations Shavuot/Confirmation Service. This will be our only service 17 Library for the evening. Please note the special time. Beginning June 9 through August 25, there will be one 05 Membership Erev Shabbat Service each Friday, beginning at 6:30 pm.A Wine and Cheese Welcome will be hosted by 13 Men’s Club our Membership Committee on second Friday of each 09 Outreach month beginning at 6:00pm during summer months. For information on Summer Shabbat Dinners, please see 06 Religious School future postings on our TRS Weekly E-letter. If you are not already subscribed to receive this weekly e-mail and would 15 Scrapbook like to be included, please e-mail info@templerodef- 12 Sisterhood shalom.org and include your membership number in the body of the e-mail. Your membership number can be found 14 Social Action on the back of your monthly bulletin, and on your quarterly statement. This important weekly e-mail will keep you up to 10 TRSTY & Jr. TRSTY date on weekly programs and services, messages from the clergy, program additions and changes, deadline reminders, 2 membership mazel tovs and condolences and much more! OPEN FORUM From the Clergy ON WORSHIP Reflecting on Worship Sunday, May 21 • 7:30 pm Dear Friends, Just after the High Holidays this past year we instituted a new There we can discuss not only the worship schedule. The primary change was the option of two times of worship, but also the style of our service and other questions you services each Friday night. It was our goal to offer more diverse may have or issues you may want to worship as well as new times that might accommodate different raise. schedules. This experiment in worship, which we created in response to the congrega- tion’s feedback over the past few years, has gone well in many regards. We have learned more about what you are and are not looking for in your worship experience. We have Camp Rodef Shalom is seeking a Camp seen which groups want to worship early and which prefer to come to Temple later. Art Counselor for Summer 2006. We are The past seven months have given us helpful information which we will use to plan for looking for an art counselor who will next year. However, before we do that, we want to hear more from you about your create art projects for the campers that include Judaic content. Hours are 8:30 thoughts on our worship options. Please take advantage of this invitation to attend an am–4 pm Monday-Friday from Monday open forum on worship on Sunday evening, May 21 at 7:30 pm. There we can discuss June 19–Friday August 4. Contact Camp not only the times of worship, but also the style of our service and other questions you Director Jay Rapoport at camp@tem- plerodefshalom.org or 703/532-2241 may have or issues you may want to raise. Please join me. x251. Rabbi Amy Schwartzman A TRS Trip to Jewish Spain or hundreds of years Spain hosted wonderful and synagogue. Throughout my six months in Spain I had the varied communities of Jews. The Jewish people opportunity to travel to many places and in future trips to Fenriched the country in many ways – philosophy, med- Spain I continued to learn about the country and the Jewish icine, the arts, culturally, financially, and in other ways too. communities there. Our traditions and contributions left a powerful mark on the I would love to share my love and knowledge of Spain Spanish people. Unfortunately, our official presence in Spain with you on a trip this December 2006. Although plans are came to an end with the expulsion of the Jews in 1492 under not finalized, I would like to see if there is enough interest to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Yet our influence still lead a tour of Jewish Spain from December 21-January 1, survives–Spain is rich with many remnants of Jewish 2007. Even though it may be too ambitious for 10 days my existence that have endured hundreds of years. More recently, hope is that the trip will include visits to Madrid, Toledo, smaller Jewish communities throughout the country continue Seville, Cordoba, Granada, Barcelona and Girona. My guess is to thrive. that it would cost $3000-3500 per person. Details are still Many of you know that I studied in Madrid for part of my being worked out. junior year of college in 1992 – the perfect year to be in Spain. If you are interested in joining other members of our That year Madrid was the Cultural Capital of Europe, Seville community to experience Jewish Spain, please be in touch had the World’s Fair and the Olympic Games took place in with my assistant Stacy Twersky at: STwersky@templerodef- Barcelona. The 500th anniversary of the expulsion of the Jews shalom.org. As we figure out more of the details we will be in was commemorated by many events as well. One of my most touch with you. special experiences was singing for the King and Queen of Spain as they attended services in Madrid’s synagogue – it was Gracias, the first time that both reigning monarchs had ever been in a Rabbi Marcus Burstein 3 The Clergy, Staff & Volunteer Board of Directors of Shabbat Temple Rodef Shalom invite you Friday, May 19 to a Service of Confirmation 8:15 pm Join us for this special opportunity to recog- Friday, June 2 • 7:30 pm nize all of our wonderful volunteer 6 Sivan 5766 activities and projects that our temple members have partici- Chloe Berk Joseph Huennekens Halle Ritter pated in over the past year. A Julia Berkson Benjamin Jardot Benjamin Roberts flower will be added to our bema vase for each volunteer Jacqueline Birnbaum Michael Kalish Effe Rosenzweig project that has been worked on Jamie Breitner Katie Klein Emily Schwartz over the past year.