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June/July 2018 Sivan/Tammuz/Av 5778 June/July 2018 Sivan/Tammuz/Av 5778 Founded in 1866 Publication No. 8180 • Vol. 92 • Issue No. 5 Our mission is to ensure the flourishing of Jewish life through educational, social and Conservative religious experiences in a warm and dynamic community. Tidings FREE AND OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY Sheldon Low is a prominent voice in contemporary Jewish music. He performs in more than 100 concerts, services, and workshops each year. His music Life’s has become the soundtrack of the lives of hundreds of thousands of children around the globe. Soundtrack Pharaoh’s Daughter led by Basya Schechter, performs Sunday, June 3, 2018 • 7 pm swirling Hasidic chants, Mizrachi B’NAI JESHURUN CONGREGATION and Sephardi folk rock. Her spiritual sound has been cultivated 27501 FAIRMOUNT BLVD, CLEVELAND, OH 4 4 1 2 4 by her Hasidic music background and trips throughout the Middle East, Africa, and the Mediterranean. This concert has been generously underwritten by The Daniel and Ethel Hamburger Music Fund, Harold and Sandra Levine, Trustees. CANTOR SHELDON LOW PHARAOH’S DAUGHTER AARON SHIFMAN For more information call 216.831.6555 • www.bnaijeshurun.org 27501 Fairmount Boulevard • Pepper Pike, Ohio 44124 • TEL: 216-831-6555 • FAX: 216-831-4599 • EMAIL: [email protected] • WEBSITE: www.bnaijeshurun.org Beineinu - Between Us In June, we will honor Kenny & Amanda Kurland at our annual Tribute Dinner. Kenny & Amanda endear Candle Lighting themselves to all they meet with their warmth and June 1 ....................................................8:35 pm caring, and their passion for the synagogue, Jewish June 8 ....................................................8:40 pm community and Israel. I hope you will join us as we June 15 ....................................................8:43 pm honor them. It promises to be a very special evening. June 22 ....................................................8:45 pm June 29 ....................................................8:46 pm As I write this, two embassies (US and Guatemala) have returned July 6 ....................................................8:44 pm to Jerusalem. Why do I say returned? There were 16 embassies – of July 13 ....................................................8:41 pm countries in Africa, Latin America and Europe – that were in Jerusalem July 20 ....................................................8:36 pm from the 1950s until 1980. Most remained there until after the Yom July 27 ....................................................8:30 pm Kippur War; the Dutch and Colombian Embassies were in Jerusalem until 1980. Torah Portions What happened to them? They were victims of the Arab Boycott. The June 2 ........................................ Beha’alotecha call by Arab countries to remove embassies from Jerusalem was a June 9 ........................................Shelach Lecha deliberate attempt to delegitimize Israel by denying recognition and June 16 ...................................................... Korach access to Israel’s capital and its governing institutions. June 23 ......................................................Chukat Israel is the only country in the world whose capital is not recognized. June 30 ..........................................................Balak Can you imagine the US or the UN dictating where the capital of Saudi July 7 .....................................................Pinchas Arabia should be? Or Germany or France? Brazil or Venezuela? In the July 14 ...........................................Matot-Masei entire world, only Israel has suffered this unique form of denigration. July 21 .................Devarim/Shabbat Chazon Moving the US embassy to Jerusalem rights this historic wrong and July 28 ......Vaetchanan/Shabbat Nachamu sets the record straight for the world. Daily Service Schedule In moving its embassy, the US opened the door for other nations to follow. Guatemala was first. Paraguay has announced it is moving its Mondays - Thursdays embassy. Honduras, Togo, Cameroon, Rwanda, the Czech Republic, 7:00 am, 7:30 am, 6:00 pm Romania and Slovakia have all indicated the possibility of making Fridays the move. Well over a dozen countries are talking to Israel about 7:00 am, 7:30 am, 7:00 pm moving their embassies. On the day before the US Embassy opened, Saturdays Israel invited the ambassadors of 83 countries to come to a reception 9:00 am, 6:00 pm honoring its opening. Ambassadors of 40 nations attended that reception. Sundays & Independence Day 8:00 am, 6:00 pm The momentum will only grow. Many nations are beginning to recognize the absurdity of denying reality. For this reason, the See below for Tisha B’Av service schedule. opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem is a watershed moment in Israel’s history, a dramatic step up in the world’s recognition of the Jewish State. And that is something to celebrate. Rabbi Stephen Weiss Tisha B’Av - Fast of the Ninth Day of Av Saturday, July 21 6:00 pm No minyan service Kosher Cuisine & Creative 7:45 pm Mincha Decor at its Finest! 8:15 pm Seudah Shlisheet/Seudah Mafseket (meal before fast) 8:54 pm Fast begins – Tisha B’Av study session 9:30 pm Ma’ariv, Havdallah, Reading of Lamentations 9:43 pm Shabbat ends CONTACT OUR EVENT PLANNERS FOR YOUR NEXT EVENT AT B’NAI JESHURUN OR LOCATION OF YOUR CHOICE! Sunday, July 22 440.449.0700 • [email protected] 8:00 am Combined minyans – no tallit or tefillin EXECUTIVECATERERS.COM 6:00 pm Mincha – with tallit and tefillin 6111 LANDERHAVEN DRIVE | CLEVELAND, OH 44124 9:26 pm Fast ends 2 June/July 2018 Sivan/Tammuz/Av 5778 [email protected] President’s Message From the Rabbi I need your help! As your new president of Every week, I receive calls from our B’nai Jeshurun Congregation, my primary own congregants who cannot afford goal is to increase the engagement of to feed their families. Hunger is not our members, and that begins with you. an issue only in the inner-city, for the My predecessors have already set the homeless or farmers far away from us. groundwork for this, as we have a wonderful Members of our synagogue, living on community who truly support each other in our streets, sitting in our row at shul times of need and who enjoy each other’s company. Let’s every Shabbat, are faced daily with the choice of paying build on that. for prescriptions or making necessary repairs to their homes or putting food on their tables. I would like to see us strengthen the bonds of our community by increasing involvement with each other, whether at social The Greater Cleveland Food Bank says the need events, religious services or activities we enjoy together. is everywhere and it is not going away. Even as Some examples include participating in tikkun olam and unemployment numbers decrease, the number of food social action initiatives, playing mahj, cheering for the Cavs bank recipients has increased, most especially in the on our big screen, celebrating holidays and life cycle events, suburbs. In Cuyahoga County alone, one in five is living attending Sisterhood Lunch & Learn sessions, being part of with food insecurity; our Jewish community has the the Better Booze Club, preparing meals, taking part in daily exact same rate. minyan and Shabbat services, and of course, sharing meals In the Torah, manna fell from heaven and sustained the together, at both the synagogue and each other’s homes. Israelites during their 40 years in the desert. Today, we (All of us like to schmooze over food!) are charged to be G-d’s partners and share our bounty. To provide some context, I am a native New Yorker who We are obligated as Jews to care for our neighbors, married a Clevelander and has now spent more than half of “V’ahavta l’reicha kamocha - love your neighbor as my life here. As a New Yorker, I still have a hard time believing yourself.” (Lev. 19) We are commanded to leave the this. However, Cleveland has proven to be an ideal place corners of our fields and the gleanings of our harvest to raise our family, and our engagement at B’nai Jeshurun for the poor and the stranger. This commandment is a has played a key role in our lives. Over the years, we have clear expression of our collective responsibility for each benefited from terrific family programs, an outstanding other. We are not to judge those who are poor, nor religious school, wonderful clergy and a fabulous social should we assume to know the circumstances of their network, including our chavurah, which is in its 14th year and lives. No one deserves to be hungry. still going strong. I join MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger in calling So, come and join us more often in ways that are meaningful for the protection of the Supplemental Nutrition to you. Please share ideas regarding activities you would Assistance Program (SNAP, also known as food stamps) enjoy through B’nai Jeshurun, whether inside or outside in the Farm Bill. As Jews, our primary mission is to the building, religious or social, educational or social care for the most vulnerable. I ask you to support our action-oriented. You can reach out to me directly at local Jewish and secular communal agencies fighting [email protected] or contact any of our clergy, hunger including JFSA, Cleveland Chesed Center, officers or staff. There’s lots to be done and lots we can Kosher Food Pantry and the Greater Cleveland Food accomplish together. Help us get started by you and your Bank both by volunteering and donating. If you have friends getting involved. excess food from a simcha or shiva, we can help find needy recipients including the men’s shelter at St. Gena Cohen Herman’s House of Hospitality. May we all join together to rid our world of hunger and do our part to help feed our neighbors and world. 152nd Annual Meeting Rabbi Hal Rudin-Luria Photos by Pete Copeland www.bnaijeshurun.org June/July 2018 Sivan/Tammuz/Av 5778 3 Education & Youth State of our Education As each school year comes to a close, I like Honoring Our Youth & Teachers to take the opportunity to reflect on our Saturday, June 9 • 9 am Youth & Learning Center, and I am proud to A group honor will be offered during the Shabbat report that energy is high and our students morning service to: are immersed in Jewish learning and living • B’nai Mitzvah tutors as much as ever.
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