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Sisterhood Sponsored Lego Event FEBRUARY 2013 | SHEVAT/ADAR 5773 VOL. 63 NO. 6 FROM THE Sisterhood Sponsored RABBI’S STUDY Lego Event Rabbi Danny Burkeman Our Family On Wednesday, December 12, 2012, families gathered in The Community in Israel Synagogue Congregational Hall for a Chanukah celebration and to build the world’s tallest Lego menorah. This bulletin should be arriving on your The menorah-building family event, doorsteps just over a week after Israel went to the sponsored by Sisterhood, was part of the polls to elect a new government. Israeli politics “Jewish History Construction Series” are unpredictable at best, and as I am writing this created by architect Stephen W. Schwartz over a month before the elections (time gets very to help teach children and their parents confusing when writing articles in advance) I am Jewish history using hands-on learning not going to make any predictions for what the techniques. The 13-foot tall menorah, result will be. assembled by parents and children That said, as I sit to write this article, it is working together following a template, only a few weeks since I have returned from a was made entirely of Lego bricks. Lively CCAR (Central Conference of American Rabbis) songs filled the room, led first by Bari solidarity mission to Israel. As well as time in Ziegel and then Rabbi Z. Everyone was Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Tsfat, the Golan Heights and awe-struck as the Menorah grew in other important stops on any Israel trip, we also size. When the “ginormous” structure was completed, Rabbi Z climbed a 16-foot ladder to went to the south to visit communities on the light the candles and recite the blessings. It was enormously spiritual as everyone rejoiced border with the Gaza Strip. singing Chanukah songs. The candles lit the room with their light and warmth, making the At Netiv HaAsara, one of the communities Congregational Hall bright and colorful. we visited, we drove outside the walls of the community and stood on a small hill looking over the security wall on the northern side of the Gaza Strip. We were close enough to see a man wandering around on the other side, in a place where a week and a half earlier it would have been unsafe for either of us to stand. At Kibbutz Kfar Aza we walked down to the very edge of the Kibbutz and looked across at the lights of the various communities in the Gaza Strip. We followed a pathway which has had Save the Date…May 11, 2013 rockets raining down on it over the last few years. 10th Anniversary Celebration for Rabbi Irwin Zeplowitz We understand that and Cantor Claire Franco continued on page 6 Onegs February 1 The Community Synagogue February 8 Wendy & Todd Sinett & friends & family in honor (516) 883-3144 Telephone of Taylor becoming Bat Mitzvah. (516) 883-4203 Fax February 15 The Community Synagogue www.commsyn.org February 22 The Community Synagogue Rabbi Irwin Zeplowitz [email protected] Rabbi Danny Burkeman [email protected] Rabbi Emeritus Martin Rozenberg Cantor Claire Franco [email protected] ,ukhp, Cantor Emeritus T’fillot Jacob Yaron Shabbat Yitro • ur,h Executive Director Friday, February 1 Joanne Fried Erev Shabbat ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 8:00 pm [email protected] Cantor Franco: “Mitzvah Goreret Mitzvah: One Mitzvah Leads to ECC Director Another” Shelley Roff Saturday, February 2 (Exodus 18:1 – 20:23; Haftarah: Isaiah 6:1-7:6; 9:5-6) [email protected] Havurah – Informal Worship (Beit T’filah) ����������������������������������������������10:30 am Director of Education Shari Isserles Shabbat MiShpatiM ~ ShekaliM • ohkea ~ ohypan [email protected] Friday, February 8 Coordinator of “Second Shabbes”–Family Services �������������������������������������������������������� 6:30 pm Youth Engagement Worship for the young and young at heart with lots of music, Lindsay Ganci spirit and energy, with the participation of our 5th Grade [email protected] students President Saturday, February 9 (Exodus 21:1-24:18; Haftarah: II Kings 12:5-16) Larry Helft Havurah – Informal Worship (Beit T’filah) ����������������������������������������������10:30 am [email protected] Brotherhood President Shabbat teruMah • vnur, Jack Obadia Friday, February 15 [email protected] Erev Shabbat . 6:30 pm Sisterhood Co-President Early services (with a light communal Oneg Shabbat) Helen Berkun Saturday, February 16 (Exodus 25:1–27:19; Haftarah: I Kings 5:26–6:13) [email protected] Havurah – Informal Worship (Beit T’filah) ����������������������������������������������10:30 am Sisterhood Co-President Diane Heiman Shabbat titzaveh ~ zachor • rufz ~ vum, [email protected] Friday, February 22 Erev Shabbat . 6:30 pm Bulletin Editor Early services (with a light communal Oneg Shabbat) Amy Dash [email protected] Saturday, February 23 (Exodus 21:1-24:18 ~ Haftarah: Esther 7:1-10; 8:15-17) Havurah – Informal Worship (Beit T’filah) ����������������������������������������������10:30 am puriM • ohrup Affiliated with the Sunday, February 24 Megillah Reading . 10:00 am Purim Carnvial follows the reading of the Megillah 2 THE COMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE MAKING SACRED CONNECTIONS PRESIDENT’S LETTER Larry Helft Jewish Demographics Recently, the Pew Jews are principally located in the United the government supports the education Research Center’s States. While Jews make up 76 percent of of women and girls like Tunisia, Iran, and Forum on Religion Israel’s population, they only make up one Indonesia, the median age is higher than for and Public Life percent or more of the country’s overall Muslims in Africa and the Middle East. The published a study on population in the United States (1.8 percent) median age for Jews in North America is religious adherence around the globe. One and Canada (1.0 percent). 40 vs an overall median age of 37, while the of its surprising conclusions (at least to me) Another interesting aspect of the study median age for Jews in Israel is 32. was that about one in six people worldwide looked at the median age of the major So what does this mean for the Jews? has no religious affiliation. (I would have religious populations. There was quite a First, the good news – with a fraction of one expected more.) More than three quarters of large spread. The global median age of the percent of the world’s population and less the religiously unaffiliated live in Asia, the world’s population is 28 years. Muslims have than two percent of the population of the majority in China. Christians are the largest the youngest median age at 23 years old and United States, we have been able to exert religious group in the world’s population. Jews have the oldest median age at 36 years influence and had an impact well in excess of They are followed by Muslims, Hindus and old. Christians logged in at 30 years old, our numbers. The bad news, however, is that Buddhists. There are 15 million Jews (people Hindus at 26 years old, Buddhists at 34 years having the oldest median age, our numbers who self identify as Jewish) or 0.2 percent old along with the unaffiliated. The religious as a percentage of the world’s population and of the global population. One fourth of the groups with the youngest median ages have the U.S. population will continue to decline world’s population lives in countries where the highest level of fertility and poverty unless we can boost the Jewish birth rate. they are a religious minority, but 97 percent and the lowest level of female education. 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Please remember to submit your order for Purim Events Shalach Manot Baskets either online at http://commsyn.macher.allducky.net/ with the user • February 7: Sisterhood Board Meeting, name and password that you received in the recent Purim Shalach Manot Basket mailing 7:30 PM in the Boardroom (personalized letter and list of congregational and ECC families) or send the hard copy list • February 13: Sisterhood Spa Night for in with your names checked off, along with your check. If you enter your names online, Charity, 5:00 PM at Red Hots Spa in please remember to send in your check made payable to The Sisterhood of The Community Roslyn Synagogue and mail it to Bari Ziegel, 37 Lewis Lane, Port Washington, NY 11050. If you • February 19: Mah Jongg Mavens, 7:30 PM misplaced your letter and need your user name and password or have any questions, please in the MPR call or e-mail Bari at 816-1082 or [email protected].
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