BULLETIN COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS BDJ’S UPCOMING EVENTS February 10, 2017 ~ 25 Shevat 5778 February 11 - Chai Lifeline Volunteer Training Parshat Mishpatim פרשת משפטים Bnei Akiva: Shabbat 2/10, 3rd-5th graders, Beth Jacob/Snif Shluchot, 4:50 PM (walking groups LEAVE Canfield/Airdrome February 15 - Tikkun Olam Lunch 4:30 PM); Yavneh/Snif Saad, 4:50pm. Wed 2/14, Israel & Ice February 17 - YP Minyan Cream for Chevraya Bet; 7:30PM at Toppings. Feb 23-25 for February 17 - A Night with Janis Joplin Candle-Lighting: 5:14 PM THIS SHABBAT 9th-12th graders, Chevraya Bet Winter , Dovid February 23-24 - Inclusion Shabbat with Yachad Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat: 5:15 PM in the Beit RECHOV YELADIM PARENT MEETING Oved Retreat Center, Running Springs. SIGN UP with Hagai: Midrash February 25 - Mishloach Manot Packing Join Rav Yosef & Rabbanit Alissa in the Beit Midrash right after (310) 387-0974 or Adina: (310) 387-0831. 8:25 Minyan: in the Beit Midrash Adon Olam to discuss Jr. Congregation & Tween participation in February 28 - Taanit Esther/Erev Purim Teen Minyan: 9:30 AM in the Projection Room the Torah service beginning February 24. See inside for details. LA Mayor’s Days of Compassion: Hosting gatherings to March 1 - Purim educate and empower congregations responding to homeless- Main Minyan: 9:00 AM in the Main Sanctuary Please plan to have at least one parent per family ness and learning about the City's progress in housing people March 1 - Purim Seudah Tikkun Olam Lunch Sof Zman Kriat Shema: 9:25 AM attend this important meeting. and getting them services needed to achieve self-sustainability. March 4-6 - AIPAC Conference Shacharit: Rav David Stein See flyer for details or go to https://www.lamayor.org/days- Kriat HaTorah: Mordechai Fishman Shabbaton with Jonathan Ziring Torah/: Hertz: 306, 323, Stone: 416, 1156. (Yoetzet Halacha Ora Ziring’s teaching is available ִמי ֶשׁ ֵבּ ַר ֲא ֹבו ֵתינוּ ְאַב ָר ָהם ִי ְצ ָחק ְו ַי ֲע ֹקב ְו ִאמו ֹ ֵתינוּ ָשׂ ָרה ִר ְב ָקה .compassion-civic-university Drasha: SIR Rabbi Jonathan Ziring on a handout on the back table. Thank God she is ָר ֵחל ְו ֵלאָה הוּא ְי ָב ֵר ִו ַיר ֵפּא ֶאת ַהחולׁ ִים ַבּ ֲעבוּר ֶשׁ ֲא ַנ ְחנוּ -Research: Daniel Rubin, PhD, is gathering information to in (.Musaf: Alex Fax expecting and, as such, is not able to make the trip ִמ ְת ַפּ ְל ִלים ַבּ ֲע ָבוּרם ִבּ ְשׂ ַכר ֶזה ַה ָקדוש ׁ ָבּרוּ הוּא ִי ָמּ ֵלא ַר ֲח ִמים Closing Prayers: Zachary Schechter Friday Night Oneg: “It's a Small World After All - A Halachic ַע ֵל ֶיהם ְל ַה ֲח ִל ָימם ְוּל ַר ֹפּו ָאתם ְוּל ַה ֲח ִז ָיקם ְוּל ַה ֲח ֹיו ָתם ְו ִי ְשׁ ַלח ָל ֶהם vestigate how self-identified Jewish college/university faculty -Mincha: 4:35 PM followed by in the Perspective on Social Media.” Our lives are ever changed by so ְמ ֵה ָרה ְרפוּאָה ְשׁ ֵל ָמה ִמן ַה ָשׁ ַמ ִים ְל ָכל ֵא ָב ֵר ֶיהם ְוּל ָכׁ ׁל ִג ֵד ֶיהם ְבּ ֹתו -feel about issues of antisemitism. Please participate in the sur Beit Midrash cial media - but how has halachah dealt with it? From Agunot, to ְשׁאָר ֹחו ֵלי ִי ְ ֹש ָר ֵאל ְרפוּאַת ַה ֶנ ֶפשׁ ְוּרפוּאַת ַהגוּף ַשׁ ָבּת ִהיא //:vey and pass the link to others: https www.surveymonkey.com/r/2Z2Z3LR BW Mincha: 5:00 PM at the home of Jacqueline & Berachot, constructive shaming and #metoo, see how halachah ִמ ִל ְזעוק ׁ ְוּרפוּאָה ְק ֹרו ָבה ָלבוא ׁ ַה ְשׁ ָתּא ַבּ ֲע ָג ָלא ִוּב ְז ַמן ָק ִריב ְו ֹנ ַאמר Yigal Dakar (2238 Beverly Drive) is grappling with our ever shrinking world. 8:15 PM at the ֵאָמן. Judaism and the Self, Tuesdays 7:30 to 9:30 PM with Rabbi Steve Greenberg on Feb 13, Rabbi Shaul Magid on April Misheberach List : 6:11 PM home of Albie & Debra Cohen (1472 Cardiff Ave).

10 and Dr. Elana Stein Hain on May 8 at AJU, co-sponsored by Please be in touch with Susan Fink at [email protected] Shabbat Morning Drasha: "These are the Laws" the Hartman Institute. $15 per session. https://tinyurl.com/ Chaya bat Tova Bleima (Sorel Lainer’s mother) * Pessie bat HAPPENING THIS SHABBAT What Should Torah Law Look Like in 2018?” The belief that the ycm5jwn6 laws of Torah are eternal is essential. However, when halachic Chana (Martine Porter-Zasada’s sister) * Esther bat Devorah  Shabbat Mevarchim. Remembering Blaze Bernstein, Sun, Feb 25 at 4:30 PM, Bella (Mayer Schames’ mother) * Emanuel ben Hinda (Mr. authorities tried to implement halachah in the Jew- Segerstrom Center, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. Mu- Sassover) * Bella Rivka bat Rosa (Aharon Shimoni's sister) *  Shabbat Shekalim. ish state, what that meant was called into question. sical & verbal student performances in memory of Blaze Bern- Shulamit bat Ruchel Sheina (Selma Framson) * Arlene bat Mol-  Shabbaton with SIR Rabbi Jonathan Ziring. Seudah Shlishit: “Amazon Echo, Google Home, stein, the Jewish 19-year-old murdered in January. Guests are lie (Kara Robarts’ grandmother) * Michael ben Malka (Max  in the Social Hall sponsored by Sheldon & and the Future of Electricity on Shabbat.” Few Wozniak) * Chaya bat Bela (Mayer Bick’s mother) * Tziporah asked to bring 3 cans of food per person & consider a donation Batsheva Kasdan in honor of their children and the things affect how we experience Shabbat more to the Blaze Bernstein Memorial Fund. Entry is free, but bat Tova (Mrs. Sassover) * Reina Alfaro * Chayim Menashe than the tradition of forbidding electricity. If and why that is true BDJ Community! Thank you as well to our Cele- ticket is required. https://www.scfta.org/events/detail.aspx? ben Fruma (Manny Klein) * Yitzchak Avraham ben Devorah has recently become a hot topic among Israeli . (Deb Mizrahi Smith’s uncle) * Mordechai ben Dina * Yitzchak brate February Kiddush Sponsors listed below. id=18013. Also join #BlazeItForward. Rabbi Jonathan Ziring is Sgan Rosh Kollel of Yeshiva University ben Raizel (Ira Grose)* Sarah Hindi bat Lily (Cary Glass's  Seudah Shlishit sponsored by BDJ and learning Many Voices, One Song, Mon Feb 18, Wiltern Theatre. mother) * Sarah bat Malka (Lenny Schloss’ friend) * Tila bat Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov, and Rabbinic Assistant of Doors open 5:30 PM. Show 6:30 PM. Fried, Shabat, Helfot, Miriam * Pinchus Shalom Tzvi ben Ze’eva (Daniella Platt’s with our SIR Rabbi Jonathan Ziring in the Beit BAYT. He has smicha from RIETS, and an MA & BA from the YU Leiner & Levine together in concert at Gindi Maimonides friend’s son) * Menachem Mendel Ben Chaya (Sarah Abra- Midrash. Honors Program. The Zirings live in Toronto with their two sons. Academy 50th anniversary. www.maimonidesla.com/concert. ham’s grandfather) * Hadassah Bat Lea * Eitan Zev ben Nacha-

Confidential Five Day Intensive at the Ness Center for ma Sara Beilah * Shmuel ben Miriam (Rica Bercovici’s nephew) CELEBRATE FEBRUARY MELAVE MALKA - CELEBRATE ADAR! Orthodox men struggling with inappropriate behaviors that * Aharon ben Rosa * Helen Avivah bat Marietta Ruth * Anna KIDDUSH SPONSORS TONIGHT 7:30 PM - NOTE LOCATION Louise bat Barbara Feige * Tova Chaya bat Leah Malka * Leah have led to addictive actions. Feb 18-22. See flyer for details  Bernice Epstein in honor of her grandson Benjamin At the Merkin home (1541 S. Durango Ave). Celebrate bat Liba * Yosefa bat Fayga Hadas * Yosef Hiskiya ben Chaya or contact Rav Meir 818-275-1498 or [email protected] Kaufman’s birthday! the month of Adar with music led by our talented Dov Rosen- * Matisyahu Yoel Baruch ben Gittel (Marcus Freed )* Chava blatt, with Avi Hoffman on guitar and guest virtuoso violinist LA Rabbis Teach at Wilshire Blvd. Temple. Rabbanit  Dalia and Aron Youngerwood in honor of their anni- Yeta bat Shulamit * Carmi Adina bat Malka * Tamar Pnina Git- Ada Pasternak, plus Divrei Torah from BDJers! Alissa will teach Wed, Feb 21 from 7 to 8:30 PM. (See tel bat Aliza Rachel * Shoshana Malka bat Shifra Yona (Shani versary! flyer for details.) Rotkovitz) * Yaacov Moshe bet Sarah * Yakot bat Esther  Yoeztet Halacha Ilana Gadish and Moshe Peters in th (Colette Volvovic) * Hillel ben Sara (friend of Zev Hurwitz’s Maccabeats return to LA! Sun Feb 25 , doors open 5 PM at honor of their daughter Lila’s 2nd birthday! BDJ BROADCAST Shalhevet. $36 adults $18 students. www.itsmyseat.com father) * Chana Gittel bas Dvora Masha (Chanie Kravitz) *  Mazal Tov to Adaire and Manny Klein, Aharon, Hadassah, Yaffit Bat Monira * Leah Rachel Bat Miriam Bat-tzion * Chava Gilah and Joel Saltzman on the birth of great granddaughter The Jewish Women’s Archive invites applications for Rising Bluma bat Minah Rachel (Rachel Kupferman's grandma) * THIS WEEK Chana Saltzman on Tu B’Shvat! Voices Fellowship for 10th-12th grader girls. Apply by Ohad Chanan ben Malka * Shirli Malka bat Aliza * Achiya Bi-  Mazal Tov to Albie and Debra Cohen on the birth of a grand- March 28 at https://jwa.org/risingvoices/apply. naymin ben Shirli Malka * Elkana Asher ben Shirli Malka * BDJ Bikkur Cholim Committee son to Joshua and Rena Cohen, Yonah and Akiva! Free Israel Trip July 11-22 for college age and up with OU Yosefa Ariel bat Sarah (Kelila’s mom) * Rina Ariane bat Aye- and Chai Lifeline  Thanks to Sue Handman and Miriam Duman Goldberg for Birthright Israel and West Coast NCSY Connect. Contact let * Shoshanna Elisheva bat Leah Devra (Rosie Wolkind) * Free Volunteer Training - All Ages Welcome! helping out in the office with BDJ mailings! Denise Badreau, [email protected] 310 229-9000 ext. 202. Ahuva Yonina bat Rachel (Mark Treitel’s aunt) Tomorrow, February 11, from 11 AM to 12 PM  PLEASE DONATE to our Israel Appeal by Feb 15th, See inside for full details. https://www.bnaidavid.com/form/israelappeal2018

B’NAI DAVID-JUDEA CONGREGATION * 8906 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90035 * 310.276.9269 * www.bnaidavid.com * [email protected] Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky • Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn • Shana Fishman, President EDUCATION AT BDJ SCHEDULE OF DAILY MINYAN TIKKUN OLAM PURIM WEEKLY LEARNING AT BDJ SHACHARIT THURSDAY TIKKUN OLAM LUNCHES PURIM IS JUST 2.5 WEEKS AWAY!

Half Hour of Halacha: Sunday Night Purim! Sunday 8:00 AM February 15 & March 1 (Seudat Purim) at Noon To Give Mishloah Manot, VISIT Sunday Nights with Rav Yosef. 8:30 - 9:15 PM - Gill Home Monday 6:45 AM Join us as we have lunch with our neighbors, www.bnaidavid.com/purim. Resumes February 11. Tuesday, Wednesday 7:00 AM schmooze and enjoy! Shiur: The Brachot We Recite and Live Thursday, Friday (Rosh Chodesh Adar) 6:30 AM Help Pack Misloah Manot on Sunday, Monday Nights with Rav Yosef, 7:30 - 9:00 PM - Beit Mid- February 25th at 10:15 AM at BDJ. RSVP rash. (Upcoming February classes will be held on to [email protected]. Mondays February 12 and 26) MINCHA/MA’ARIV SEDER NASHIM Sunday - Friday 5:20 PM The Kids’ Costume Contest & Parade is Midrash Group Seeking Topics! Tuesdays with Rav Yosef, 7:45 - 8:45 AM - Beit Midrash coming soon. Help your kids get ready for

Parsha Plug SHABBAT February 17 It's time to gear up for another meaningful season of Seder the big event and plan to join us for the Tuesday Nights with Rabbanit Alissa, 7:30 - 8:30 PM - Beit Shacharit and Rechov Yeladim 9:00 AM Nashim, BDJ's discussion group for women. In past seasons, Contest and Parade!! Midrash we've discussed women's relationships with G-d, work-life Mincha 5:10 PM Briyut HaNefesh Havdalah 6:18 PM balance, differing religious perspectives, issues surrounding Thursdays with Rabbanit Alissa illness, trauma, mental health, divorce, fertility and other 7:45 - 8:45 AM - Conference Room SHABBATON To attend please contact [email protected] ISRAEL topics. We are looking for ideas for this upcoming season that will be relevant and interesting to a wide range of wom- INCLUSION SHABBAT Nothing but the Pshat AIPAC POLICY CONFERENCE en in our community. This is our opportunity to talk, in a Co-Hosted with Yachad - February 23 and 24 Various Teachers. During Seudat Shlishit - Beit Midrash Join Rav Yosef and Rabbanit Alissa private setting, about things that relate to us all as Modern Friday Night Oneg: “Inclusion in the Jewish Commu-

Shabbat Shorts And BDJ members Orthodox women, and our actions, environments, and nity and What It Has to Do with Me” with Michelle K By Rav Yosef and Rabbanit Alissa. Tuesday and Thursdays in Sunday to Tuesday March 4 to 6 unique experiences. To suggest a topic or volunteer to Wolf, 7:45-9:00 PM at the home of Kira & Michel Stein your inbox. To sign up, email [email protected]. in Washington, DC host an event in your home, email Daria Hoffman (1517 Livonia Ave).

AIPAC’s Annual Policy Conference is a bipartisan effort [email protected]. Shabbat Morning Davening with Yachad. Drasha with BDJ BIKKUR CHOLIM COMMITTEE in supporting Israel. BDJ tickets are $200 less than reg- Alec Schramm and Yachad’s Shlomo Meyers

AND CHAI LIFELINE ular tickets. We have 13 BDJ tickets left at $399 Shabbat Lunch with Yachad honoring the memory of RECHOV YELADIM FREE VOLUNTEER TRAINING each. our beloved Janet Wolf z”l who was deeply committed to TOMORROW, FEBRUARY 11 ATTENTION JR. CONG & TWEEN PARENTS! inclusion and love of all people. $25, RSVP by February To purchase your ticket at the discounted rate or to let FROM 11 AM TO 12 PM 20th: www.bnaidavid.com/event/shabbat-lunch-with- us know you will attend, but can’t purchase your ticket The Rechov Yeladim Committee and BDJ staff are working yachad.html ALL AGES WELCOME! just yet, please use the form at: on a new program with Jr. Congregation and Tween Minyan Shabbat Mincha & Seudah Shlishit. Yachad will be BDJ is partnering with Chai Lifeline to create a BDJ cohort https://www.bnaidavid.com/form/aipac-inquiry-2018. to include them during the Torah service in the main shul. The last few Shabbat mornings, Rabbanit Alissa and I have joining the BDJ Beverlywood Minyan. of trained volunteers to visit children in the hospital, deliver meals, and help at Chai Lifeline events. This is an opportuni- been teaching and reviewing the “Torah Service” part of Michelle Wolf is Founding Executive Director of the Jewish ty to change the experience of illness for a family and en- davening and this will continue in the weeks to come. On L.A. Special Needs Trust, the first pooled trust headquartered hance our BDJ Bikkur Cholim Committee, chaired by Nancy Shabbat morning February 24, all the kids will partici- in L.A. County. She was the Transitions Coordinator at Bet Dolensky. Do you have a few hours a week to make a differ- pate in the main shul as we take out the Torah. We will Tzedek, creating a coalition of agencies intersecting the de- ence in the life of a child? Becoming a BDJ Chai Lifeline vol- then begin doing this semi-regularly, with the kids having velopmental disabilities and aging worlds and Director of the increasingly participatory roles as time goes on. Caring for Jews in Need department at the Jewish Federation unteer is a great way to do Bikkur Cholim regularly. Chai Lifeline is dedicated to bringing joy and support to seriously To fill you in further and strategize about improving the of Greater L.A. At Federation, Michelle helped launch HaMer- ill children and their families. Their services are free of To arrange a personal conversation before or after you kids’ Shabbat morning experience generally, we will have a caz One Stop Resource and later led a special needs mission charge and delivered with sensitivity, discretion, and com- commit to attending the upcoming AIPAC Policy parent meeting this morning right after Adon Olam. of advocates to Israel to bring back best practices. Michelle passion. Volunteers are the heart and soul of Chai Lifeline. Conference, contact I am hoping and expecting that at least one parent per family writes a column for the L.A. Jewish Journal on special needs Noam Drazin [email protected] and is a longtime parent activist. She has an MA in Jewish RSVP to Rabbanit Alissa [email protected]. will attend. Your feedback, thoughts, input and buy-in are Matt Lefferman [email protected] or absolutely critical to this effort. -- Rav Yosef Communal Service from HUC-JIR and an MPA from USC. Leah Naghi [email protected]. For information and to donate in memory of Janet Wolf z”l’s 2nd Yahrzeit: www.bnaidavid.com/inclusion. BOOMERS CONNECT WITH BDJ A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN!! YOUNG PROFESSIONALS YP MINYAN DOWNLOAD OUR APP Saturday Night, February 17 at 8 PM at the Saban The- for quick access to our membership directory, minyan times PARKING DURING NON-BUSINESS atre, Wilshire near La Cienega. Purchase your ticket for $36 Join us for the next YP Minyan on and more! We will also use the app for emergency notifica- HOURS is available in the Wells Fargo Bank lot at night at https://www.bnaidavid.com/event/boomers-a-night-with- February 17 at 9:30 AM in the BDJ Beit Midrash. tions and announcements... so don’t miss out! from 6:30 PM to 8:00 AM, and on weekends and legal holi- janis-joplin.html. TWO TICKETS LEFT! To get more involved or to sponsor a YP Kiddush, Download the app at www.bnaidavid.com/getapp! days.

visit www.bnaidavid.com/yp or email Rabbanit Alissa Thanks to Mercy Housing and Wells Fargo for ar- at [email protected]. LIKE US ON FACEBOOK! www.facebook.com/bdj.losangeles! ranging this. We are continuing to work with Mercy Housing on parking solutions during business hours.