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Confirmation Service During Shabbat Services SATURDAY, MAY 28 Torah Study NISAN/IYAR/SIVAN 5776 • MAY/JUNE 2016 www.bethisraelnorthfield.org Religious Services Your presence will be May very special to us FRIDAY, MAY 6 as our son Parshat Aharei Mt, Lev. 16:1-18:30 Michael Gideon Kabbalat Shabbat Services ....... 5:30 p.m. is called to the Torah Please join us for SATURDAY, MAY 7 as a Bar Mitzvah Torah Study ...................................9:15 a.m. Bar Mitzvah of The Marc L. on Saturday, May 14, 2016 Logan Russo ................................10:30 a.m. Rosenberg 10:15 am Son of Mike & Lisa Russo Golf We are honored to have you FRIDAY, MAY 13 Tournament join us for Kiddush luncheon Parshat Kedoshim, Lev. 19:1-20:27 following services Kabbalat Shabbat Services ....... 5:30 p.m. Celebrating Israel’s Birthday For the benefit of Music by Klez with Class Band Beth Israel and SATURDAY, MAY 14 Cantor Larisa and Manna at the Torah Study ...................................9:15 a.m. Dmitry Leiderman Bar Mitzvah of Shore Michael Leiderman .....................10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Please RSVP to the Temple office Son of Cantor Larisa & Dmitry Leiderman June 22, 2016 FRIDAY, MAY 20 at Linwood Parshat Emor, Lev. 21:1-24:23 JPlace Tot Shabbat.......................5:00 p.m. Country Club Wine & Cheese PreNeg ............. 5:30 p.m. See pages 5 & 6 Kabbalat Shabbat Services .........6:00 p.m. SATURDAY, MAY 21 Torah Study ...................................9:15 a.m. Youth Group Services .................10:30 a.m. FRIDAY, MAY 27 Congregation Beth Israel cordially invites you to its Parshat Behar, Lev. 25:1-26:2 Kabbalat Shabbat Services ....... 5:30 p.m. Confirmation Service during Shabbat Services SATURDAY, MAY 28 Torah Study ...................................9:15 a.m. Friday, June 10, 2016, 4 Sivan, 5776 Shabbat Minyan Services............10:30 a.m. 5:30 p.m. June Service Schedule on page 2. Jocelyn Schwartz Elana Tiger Sara VanDyke Sam Watt Shavuot Yizkor Services Rabbi David M. Weis & Dinner Cantor Larisa Averbakh David Lowenstein, President Turning Torah Into Deeds 5:30 p.m. Reception Follows Immediately RSVP to the Temple office Esther and Joseph Ashner Auditorium 2501 Shore Road, Northfield, N. J. Tidings May/June 2016 • 2 From the Rabbi Religious Services Of Seders Past and Future June Last week, Jews all over the world gathered around their FRIDAY, JUNE 3 tables to again celebrate Pesach and to relive the exodus Parshat Behukotai, Lev. 26:3-27:34 from Egypt. The Seder is a look back, but it is more Kabbalat Shabbat Services ....... 5:30 p.m. importantly a journey forward. We are ever on the way from SATURDAY, JUNE 4 slavery to freedom. This story is our vision of a brighter Torah Study ...................................9:15 a.m. tomorrow. At my Seder table, we shared Seder stories. I shared one that Bat Mitzvah of my friends Yitzhak Sokoloff and Michael Oren had in 1982. Rachel Lischin ..............................10:30 a.m. For Pesach that year, they were on a mission to visit Soviet Jewish Daughter of Jeff & Margot Lischin refuseniks on behalf of the Israeli Government. They arrived in Odessa the day of the Seder. That afternoon they visited a group of long-term FRIDAY, JUNE 10 Parshat B’Midbar, Num. 1:1-27:34 refuseniks who brought them to the only functioning synagogue left in a Kabbalat Shabbat Services city with 100,000 Jews. Parked outside were a group of black Volga sedans, & Confirmation ........................... 5:30 p.m. which were used by the KGB in order to track and intimidate those daring SATURDAY, JUNE 11 to attend religious services. Torah Study ...................................9:15 a.m. They entered the synagogue and joined a minyan of a few old men, Bar Mitzvah of together with two or three refusenik friends. In the middle of the service Daniel Wise..................................10:30 a.m. one of the KGB guys got out of his car, walked into the synagogue and Son of Dr. Richard & Rachel Wise started accosting people demanding that they show him their identity FRIDAY, JUNE 17 papers. Their friends thought that it would not be a good idea for the KGB Parshat Naso, Num. 4:21-7:89 to know that the synagogue worshipers were meeting with foreigners, so JPlace Tot Shabbat.......................5:00 p.m. they sneaked them out of the synagogue, and back into their car. Wine & Cheese PreNeg ............. 5:30 p.m. The driver’s name was Ya’akov Mesh. Yaakov pulled away from the curb Kabbalat Shabbat Services .........6:00 p.m. and started dashing through the streets of Odessa, with the KGB hot on his SATURDAY, JUNE 18 tail. It was like being dropped into a movie set, except that somehow it was actually real. At one point Ya’akov drove around a bend in the road, took a Torah Study ...................................9:15 a.m. Bat Mitzvah of sharp turn into a narrow one way street, looked back at Yitzhak and Michael Jordyn Fisher...............................10:30 a.m. with a big smile and said, “now we will watch them.” At that moment the Daughter of Bryan & Jeni Fisher two cars that were trailing them motored past and kept going. Yaakov turned around and headed in the opposite direction. That is how they FRIDAY, JUNE 24 made it to Seder night in Odessa! Parshat Behaalotecha, Num. 8:1-12:16 Their hosts were an incredible family named the Nepomniachis. Their Kabbalat Shabbat Services ....... 5:30 p.m. daughter, a 19-year-old woman named Yehudit, had personally Huntington Avenue Beach in Margate established a network of underground Hebrew classes that would serve as SATURDAY, JUNE 25 a model for the entire Soviet Jewry Movement. The Seder was Torah Study ...................................9:15 a.m. unforgettable. Never before (or again) would they be able to recite the Bar Mitzvah of Xander Matik ...............................10:30 a.m. words, “This year we are here, next year let us be in the land of Israel; this Son of Darren & Brett Matik year we are slaves, next year let us be free,” with the same intensity. As if their goal was to drive that very point home, the following day, when FRIDAY, JULY 1 they returned for lunch, the KGB barged into the apartment in the middle Parshat Shelach-Lecha, Num. 13:1-15:41 of the meal and forced my friends to return to their hotel to hear a warning Kabbalat Shabbat ....................... 5:30 p.m. about fraternizing with criminals. A few years later the Neopmniachi’s arrived in Israel themselves, but only No Torah Study and Saturday morning after Yehudit’s father Mark and her fiancée Ya’akov had been arrested and services in July. sent to serve almost two years in Soviet labor camps. Thirty-four years have passed since that Seder, and over a million Soviet Please visit Beth Israel’s website: Jews have become Israelis. The Soviet Union itself no longer exists. I am thankful for having had the opportunity to witness one of the great chapters of Jewish history, a chapter that has not quite come to a close. Jews continue to arrive in Israel from Russia, Ukraine, Yemen, and even Iran, and www. in recent weeks we have learned that they will soon be joined by thousands of Ethiopians who have been waiting for years to achieve their dream of bethisraelnorthfield. joining their families in Israel. The challenges in Israel may still be incredibly org difficult, but looking at our history through the prism of many millions of Continued on page 3 Tidings May/June 2016 • 3 B’nai Mitzvah From the Cantor I hope you agree that this 125th year has been May 7, 2016 extraordinary, filled with celebratory and Logan Russo Grade 7 inspirational services and events, geared for Northfield Community School every taste and age. And we keep rolling… May Hobbies:Gaming, snowboarding, brings us a special Israel-themed Shabbat squash, tennis and golf. Service on Friday, May 13, at 5:30 p.m., in honor of Yom Haatzmaut. Please come dressed in Israeli May 14, 2016 colors, white and blue. This service will be Michael Leiderman particularly significant for me. On that day my Grade 6 son, Michael, will be called to the Torah for the first time on the Northfield Middle School eve of his Bar Mitzvah. I am honored and grateful that our Hobbies: Science, history, theater Sisterhood decided to celebrate his coming of age with an hors and music, tennis, video games d’oeuvres reception following the services. From the day he was and spending time with friends and born, Beth Israel has become Michael’s second home. I hope family. you’ll share our simcha Saturday, May 14, at 10:15 a.m., as June 4, 2016 Michael ascends the bimah and join us for a luncheon following Rachel Lischin the services. Please RSVP to the Temple’s office. Grade 7 June brings our Service of Confirmation, on Friday, the tenth, Northfield Community School as well as a new program in celebration of Shavuot, on Sunday Hobbies: Is an honor student, June 12, at 5 p.m. We’ll celebrate this important holiday (referred loves singing, dance, theater, to as “the time of the receiving of the Torah), remember our loved playing flute and most of all ones with Yizkor Service, engage in traditional Tikkun Leil Shavuot being with her family, friends (a community study with the Rabbi), and nosh on delicious and her puppy. blintzes. We’ll welcome the summer with our first Beach Service June 11, 2016 on Friday, June 24. Daniel Wise I’d like to fast forward to the end of the summer and draw your Grade 7 attention to the special musical event I am very much looking Belhaven Middle School forward to.
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