We danced, we ate, we bid, we danced some more! Two hundred and seventy Narayeverniks had one hundred years worth of enjoyment at the party of the century. What a wonderful culmination to our Centennial year! Thank you to all!
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Dear Friends, accessible to those with mobility issues. We have talked about more space for children's programming, for adult Just one year ago, at the beginning of 2014, I don't think programming of all sorts, for teaching, for a rabbi's any of us really foresaw how much we would accomplish study, and for badly needed office space. during our shul's Centennial. Yet now that we have come to the end of the year, we can see that from the Throughout this past year, a new task force has been installation of beautiful new pew cushions, through to hard at work reviewing the possibilities for expansion the presentation of our historical exhibit, the publication and accessibility. The group has looked closely at both of our Centennial commemorative book, old ideas and new ones. and a fun and haymishe family celebration Now we want to hear from the at the end (and much else along the way), it congregation. What, if anything, do the was a deeply involving, community- members of our shul community want to building set of events. do? Are we ready to make a commitment Thanks again, by the way, to everyone who to an accessible, enlarged space? And if so, contributed to the success of our entire what kind of plan would make sense for us? year of programming. In order to find an answer to those For me, one of the most important questions, we are embarking on a process elements of the year was the lesson it of consultation with the shul membership. taught us about ourselves. In the course of The process will begin with a short survey, our history project we learned much that was new about which everyone will receive by email early in January. the original founders of the Narayever. I think we came You'll receive a package of material along with the to a deeper appreciation of their accomplishment, and survey, explaining the process that we're undertaking of the connection we still feel with them. But there is and the various options we would like you to examine, another lesson. When the Narayever was founded a think about, and comment on. century ago, ours was one of many small shuls in the We're then holding three meetings at the shul where we downtown area. Almost all those other institutions will present and discuss options. There's a lot at stake, have vanished or been absorbed into synagogues so we hope as many Narayever members as possible will outside the downtown. Yet ours survived. That's in part, come out to one or another of those meetings. I believe, because we were able and willing to adapt during a century of sometimes wrenching change. We need your input. Here are the dates and times for meetings regarding expansion and accessibility: Looking forward, we now have to ask ourselves how we adapt to the changes that the future will bring. I believe SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 2015 11:00 am* we have a great opportunity to grow as an institution WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2015 7:30 pm central to Jewish life in downtown Toronto. In the last decade, according to a new UJA study, the Jewish SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 2015 4:00 pm* community downtown grew faster than in any other part * Babysitting will be provided of the GTA. We have the new and congenial problem of thinking about how we fit into a community that is Consulting with our members will enable us to make expanding. choices and move forward on a crucial and long-delayed decision about our future. One essential area where we have to think hard about the future is our physical space. For a long time we at the Harry Schacter, Narayever Board President Narayever have talked about the need to make our space [email protected]
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Dear Friends, people who say kaddish attend and find a warm community of others in the same position. And at our shul, In early January I will conclude the 11 months of saying we do have our weekly Sunday services at shul beginning at kaddish daily for my late mother Gertrude Elkin, and in 9 am, and our monthly Rosh Hodesh service, in addition to early February I will observe her first yahrzeit. Observing our regular Friday night and Shabbat/festival morning the traditional Jewish rituals of mourning has not been services. It's not easy to arrange one's schedules around simple, but it has been very rewarding for me in ways that getting to a minyan, but doing so can be tremendously are a bit hard to understand or articulate. My mother rewarding. herself was not an observant woman, and would have been horrified to think that I had in some And then it comes to an end. The seven day ways “inconvenienced” myself on her shiva, with all its intensity, comes to an end. account by sitting a full shiva or finding my Shloshim ends. The 11 month period of saying way to a minyan for kaddish every day. So in kaddish for a parent ends. The first yahrzeit that sense, I wasn't doing it for her. As an passes. It's not as if we forget the loss, but our observant Jew, I felt it important to keep tradition eases us back into “normal” life. As Jewish tradition in this area as best I could. with so much else in Jewish tradition and in But beyond the halakhic requirement, it just life in general, the more we put into it, the felt right to me that I should honour her, and more we get out of it. our relationship, in this way. It felt right to me Rabbi Harvey Fields wrote the following poem that this year, the year of her death, should be about the kaddish, a prayer which famously different for me in a very concrete way. does not mention death: Jewish tradition helped me find a way to express that difference. Yitgadal ve'yitkadash shemey raba This profound praise of the living The experience of loss is an inevitable part of human Praise for the generous gift of life. experience, and I know many of you have spent time in the Praise for the presence of loved ones, “valley of the shadow of death”, as I did this year. When we the bonds of friendship, the link of memory. experience a loss, each of us has to decide how to relate to the structure of Jewish rituals around mourning that we Praise for the toil and searching, have inherited. In the last few years, there has been a trend the dedication and visions, the ennobling aspirations. in the non-Orthodox Jewish community towards a “3 day Praise for the precious moorings of faith, shiva”, towards narrow time limits on shiva visits, and away for courageous souls, for prophets, psalmists, and sages. from daily kaddish recitation. We all have our individual Praise for those who walked before us, circumstances, and everyone has to make their decisions. the sufferers in the valley of shadows, As your rabbi, I will support you in whatever way I can at a the steadfast in the furnace of hate. time of loss. If a shorter shiva is what you want, that's what Praise for the God of our fathers, we will announce and we'll help you make it happen. the Source of all growth and goodness, But when you're not in that highly stressful moment of the Promise of which we build tomorrow. crisis and grief, do think about the wisdom of our ancestors Yitgadal ve'yitkadash shemey raba and of the rabbis in giving us the rituals that we have This, the profound praise we offer. inherited. A short, limited, shiva may feel like the most you Praise for the generous gift of life. can do “in the moment”. But I've never known anyone who observed the full Jewish rituals and regretted it. If you at all Observance of the laws of mourning is a mitzvah none of us can, consider observing the traditional rituals, taking the seeks to observe. When life puts us in that position, I hope full amount of time our tradition has given us to that all of us will be able to derive the comfort from acknowledge the loss. It doesn't matter how observant you tradition and community that I did over the last year, and are of other traditions such as Shabbat or kashrut. Our come out newly strengthened in our affirmation of the gift Narayever community is here to help and support you. of life. Although we don't have daily services at our shul, there are Rabbi Ed Elkin minyanim in various places around town where many [email protected]
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FOOD COMMITTEE ADULT EDUCATION
Post Kiddush Talk, January 10, 1:30 pm Post Kiddush, Shabbat January 24, 1:30 pm THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS UNLIKELY AUSCHWITZ SABOTEURS - with David Loewith, a Jewish dairy farmer ANNA AND ESTUSIA WAJCBLUM with Sharon Abron Drache
On January 10 after Kiddush, the Food Committee gggg will be sponsoring a talk by Mr. David Loewith, a On October 7, 1944 the special squad of Auschwitz Jewish dairy farmer in the Hamilton area and father slaves called the Sonderkommandos blew up of shul member and Food Committee member Crematorium IV with homemade grenades made with Naomi Loewith. David will be sharing the gunpowder stolen by female slaves employed in the fascinating multigenerational history of his family's nearby munitions factory. The Sonderkommandos farming experience in Ontario. He will also address were killed on the spot, and four of the unlikely women ethical farming practices from a Jewish perspective. smugglers paid the ultimate price: Ala Gertner, Regina Safirsztajn, Roza Rabota and Estusia Wajcblum were hanged in the Auschwitz courtyard on January 5, 1945, just 22 days before the death camp was liberated. Estusia Wajcblum’s sister, Anna, was among the surviving women smugglers. After the war, Anna wrote a diary which constitutes the core of her Mr. Loewith has been an invited speaker about memoir, Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of current farming practices, ethical farming, herd Anna Heilman, winner of the 2001 Ottawa Book management and other farming issues across Award. Shul member Sharon Abron Drache will Canada and abroad. He holds a BSC in Agriculture present the story of the two sisters and the other with a major in Animal Science from the University women smugglers who played an important but of Guelph. He has won farming and service awards, lesser-known role in the Sonderkommandos revolt. has been an official judge of dairy cattle in shows in Sharon Abron Drache is a seasoned literary journalist Canada, Europe, Japan and Columbia, and who has served as a freelance book reviewer for collaborates in ongoing research with the numerous publications in Canada and Israel. She is also University of Guelph and the Ontario Veterinary the author of a novel, Ritual Slaughter, three College. collections of short stories, The Mikveh Man, The All are welcome to join the Food Committee in what Golden Ghetto, and Barbara Klein Muskrat-Then and promises to be a most engaging post-Kiddush Now, and two children's books, The Magic Pot and The session. Lubavitchers are Coming to Second Avenue. Sue Weinstein, Food Chair [email protected]
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Special program, Tuesday January 27, 7:30 pm Special program, Sunday February 8, 11:00 am “IN THE PRESENCE OF MY NEIGHBORS” BETWEEN GODS: A MEMOIR Documentary screening and conversation Book presentation with author Alison Pick with director George Gedeon gggg gggg Between Gods is shul member In this startling investigative piece, Canadian-Greek Alison Pick's memoir about journalist George Gedeon focuses his camera on the depression, family secrets, and historic and current climate of attitudes towards Jews. forging a new identity from the The Jewish population in Greece went from 70,000 ashes of the past. In the by prior to the Holocaust to 5,000 today. During several times raw, by times sublime visits to Greece and through interviews with Jewish memoir, Alison recounts her leaders, Holocaust survivors, and academics, Gedeon struggle with the meaning of exposes the misinformed and intolerant views her faith, her journey to propagated by some Greek mass media and certain convert to Judaism, her Church and political leaders. battle with depression, and her path towards facing and accepting the past and embracing the future--including starting a new family of her own. Between Gods is published in Canada by Doubleday, and is forthcoming in the US with HarperCollins and in the UK with Tinder Press. It was a National Bestseller, a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2014, and has been nominated for the BC Book Award for Non-Fiction. Alison Pick has won multiple awards and notations for her poetry and fiction work, which include the poetry collections Question & Answer and The Dream World, George Gedeon worked as a video editor of sports and and the novels The Sweet Edge and Far to Go. Pick is entertainment news. In the Presence of My currently on Faculty at the Humber School for Writers, Neighbours has been screened at the Department of the Banff Centre for the Arts, and the Iceland Writers Greek Studies, York University, Toronto; Memorial de Retreat. She lives and writes in Toronto. la Shoah, Paris, France; the Municipality of Athens, Thessaloniki and Ioannina, Greece; Toronto Jewish Alison will be signing books after her talk. Books will be Film Festival; Toronto Holocaust Education Week and made available for sale courtesy of Israel's Judaica Beit Hatfutsot in Tel Aviv, among others. (http://www.israelsjudaica.com/). Light refreshments will be provided after the talk.
Reuven Shlozberg, Adult Ed Chair [email protected]
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The Tribes of Israel - Part Two, 5 classes W e w armly welcome with Rabbi Ed Elkin to our community This year, Rabbi Elkin has been teaching a course these new members entitled “The Tribes of Israel: A Shared Homeland for a Divided People”. The series, designed by the Shalom Simon Coleman Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, discusses the Lorie Wolf and challenge of creating a Jewish and democratic public her son Jeddy space in the modern State of Israel – a shared common space for a people divided along “tribal” affiliations: Alison Pick and religious, ideological, national, and geographic. How her daughter Ayla does a people divided along these lines build a shared society? There were 5 sessions in the fall, and there will also be a new series with 5 sessions in February and March. Both students who took the fall course, and new Psssst, I hear there’s going to be students, are welcome to register for the second series.Topics to be covered in this second series will ANOTHER AMAZING Purim Shpiel! include: - But how can they possibly outdo last 1. Unity and Diversity in the Jewish Tradition year’s MeGLEElah? 2. The Porous “Wall of Separation” between Church I Know! All I hear is this year’s theme is going and State: Lessons from the US and Canada to be literally ‘off the charts’ 3. Synagogue and State: The Israeli Experience - Well I do like to act, sing and occasionally 4. Sharing the Public Sphere: New Foundations for a Jewish Democracy gesture with jazz hands 5. Tribes and Peoplehood: Reflections on Living in Then you should come with me and the a Tribal Family ShinShinim and CHECK IT OUT! gg The format of the class will include watching clips of Sunday January 11th from 1 - 3 pm for kids videos provided by the Shalom Hartman Institute's top and adults six years old and up scholars on the various topics and discussion led by - Should I email [email protected] Rabbi Elkin. to let her know I'm interested? The fall dates are on Monday nights: February 23, Fo’shushan! March 2, 9, 16 and 23, from 7:30 - 9:30 pm. There will - Sweet, I’m SO there because I love a be a $40 charge. While discussion may refer to casual, fun, once-a-week commitment. material covered in previous sessions, each class will have its own topic and people may sign up even if they know they can't make all the sessions. This Purim, on Wednesday March 4th, is going To register, please contact the shul office – to be sooo POPular [email protected]; 416.927.0546. - sigh, you’re Esther-ical Aw CHaman! This class is cosponsored by the shul's Adult Education and Israel and Wider Community Committees.
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Special thanks to the hard working CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE Shulabration committee: 2014, Our Centennial year is over! Brenlee Robinson and Ellen Friedland, Co-Chairs Micky Fraterman, Board Liaison and Silent Auction We marked the year with a great variety of programs, both educational and celebratory. Justine Silver, Event Planner Francine Dick, Budget, giveaway bags, skit oversight My two years as Centennial Celebration Chair were exciting and challenging. I treaded uncharted waters Bernie Feder, Marketing together with the many volunteers, at the board level Marcia Beck, Music and from the general membership, but I feel that the Zal Hart, Silent Auction programs and initiatives enriched our year and will add Lucille Narun, Silent Auction a memorable chapter to the Narayever history. It was a real privilege and pleasure to fulfil the role as Chair. Jill Magen, Decorations My deepest gratitude goes to Rabbi Elkin who We’d also like to thank our fabulous caterer Rachel initiated, inspired and coordinated many of the Zilberg who created beautiful, delicious, fun-to-eat programs. His vision was essential to the success of our treats. Centennial Celebrations! I also want to thank Marsha Frydenberg and Ariella Eben-Ezra, our wonderful office fairies, who are always there when you need them. As well, many thanks go out to Narayever volunteers who spent countless hours creating and planning a year full of exciting events for our shul MAZEL TOV TO... community. A brief overview of our celebrations this past year can be found in our Centennial book. Professor Randal Schnoor, on winning A brief overview of our celebrations this past year can the John O'Neill Award for Teaching be found in our Centennial book, which all shul Excellence from the Department of members should have received. If you have not Sociology at York University received your copy of our Centennial Commemorative Karen Weyman, on receiving an award book, please contact the shul office. from the University of Toronto for her Micky Fraterman, Centennial Chair outstanding contribution to the Family Medicine Undergraduate Program Ruth Rohn and Paul Pascal, on the marriage of her daughter Alisa to Michael Kaufman
The Narayever board and the entire congregation Dianne Saxe, Tirzah Meacham, and thank Micky Fraterman for her oversight, Harry Fox on the birth of their dedication, and hard work coordinating all aspects grandson Onias Stewart of this wonderful milestone year in the history of our congregation.
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NARAYEVER NEWS SHULABRATION - WHAT A PARTY!
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Shul member Marcia Beck composed this song in honour of CELEBRATIONS COMMITTEE our Shul's Centennial and performed it at the Shulabration.
The First Naray*Ever* Chinese and Movie Standing One Hundred Years CHANUKAH PARTY © Marcia Beck 2014 lll gg Our Chanukah Party was well Chorus: We've been standing one hundred years attended and enjoyed by all. Since our landing: one hundred years Fabulous Chinese Food was Still expanding… one hundred years prepared by Rachel Zilberg, And we'll stand one hundred more f o l l o w e d b y d e l i c i o u s gg Verse 1: sufganiyot and creamy hot Back in the beginning just a minyan plus a few white chocolate. Thank you to Forming new community (that's part of being a Jew) all who helped by recommending so many classic and Joys too grand to number, many children born wonderful movie titles. Sorrow at each corner, losses we still mourn (Chorus) gg Verse 2: OUR ANNUAL TU B’SHVAT SEDER Finding our first building, Galizianer crowds Tuesday, February 3 at 6 pm at the Shul Moving on to Brunswick Street: a shul that makes us proud jjjj Downtown in Toronto, many shtiebles found This year will include a The First Narayev was strong then and even stronger now (Chorus) m u s i c a l p r e l u d e gg featuring Israeli-born Verse 3: Mor Shargall on Flute Members getting older, members moving north a n d C a n a d i a n Soon young folks are clamouring to hold this Jewish torch Still tradition bound but egalitarian Composer/Musician Dafka reinventing our community again Samuel Bisson on (Chorus) Cello. gg Verse 4: The theme of trees and nature will influence their Families and singles are still dav'ning in our pews musical selections. Andrea Most will speak briefly Bursting through our doors are young & old and mid-aged Jews about Bella Farm, a Jewish organic farming initiative Sometimes breaking fire codes, squishing bums in seats followed by a delicious hot meal and Seder. Cost to We cheer all successes and give comfort when we grieve attend is: (Chorus) $20 adult/13+ gg $15 children ages 6-13 Verse 5: free for children 5 and under Who can guess where we will be one hundred years from now? $65/immediate family On Simchat Torah will we still dance on the street so loud? Ask our children's grandchildren; only they can know We hope to see you there! Dor l'dor Narayever traditions always grow Please contact the office to register. (Chorus) Leisa Hirt, Celebrations Chair [email protected]
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MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE LIBRARY NEWS
Recently many of us thoroughly enjoyed Shulabration. The library has just been enlarged by about twenty This wonderful program was put together by a freshly catalogued books. So if you have previously committee of dedicated volunteers who committed perused the shelves, you might want to check again for hundreds of hours to its success. Our little shul is our new additions! We are also very pleased about the continually evolving, and many members have been new magazine rack located just outside the office asking for more social gatherings (albeit not of this doorway on the wall. We subscribe to a number of magnitude -- a Shulabration can only happen once Jewish magazines and you are very welcome to enjoy every 100 years!). Ideas for more Shabbat dinners, them at the shul, as we do not lend the current copies. theatre outings, havdallah services, sporting events I would like to recommend in particular one of these (from attending a Jays game to pick-up softball newly catalogued books, a novel by shul member, Nora tournaments) are being suggested on a regular basis. Gold, called Fields of Exile. I remember when Nora I am delighted to report that Francine Dick has agreed read to us, at Narayever, from her manuscript of which to take on leadership of a subcommittee that will focus she was working to get a publisher for several years on developing social events for our shul community. ago. The novel is about anti- Israelism on a fictional Canadian In order to develop and deliver social programming we campus. We were all intrigued and need volunteers who have both an interest and the looked forward to the publication relevant skills. of the book. Well, I can say that this fulfillment of a gleam in Nora’s eye has certainly come to fruition. Nora If you are interested in seeing more social recently gave a reading at the programming and assisting with its development, or shul from her book, and led a simply wish to share your views on this topic, please discussion about some of the issues it raises. contact me at [email protected] Her publisher, Dundern, sums up the content of the David Barkin, Membership Chair book in a very apt manner by saying it is “about love, betrayal, and the courage to stand up for what one believes as well as a searing indictment of the N A R AY E V E R N E W S hypocrisy and intellectual sloth that threatens the JANUARY, FEBRUARY 2015 TEVET, SHVAT, ADAR 5775 integrity of our society.” The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel has found fertile Editing Team: Marcia Beck, Rabbi Elkin and Marsha Frydenberg ground on campuses. Nora’s fictional account evokes, in a non-didactic style, the problem of when criticism of Israel is legitimate and when it crosses the line into anti-Semitism. Check out this most engaging book! Lesley Turner, Assistant Librarian
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◆ 28% of respondents (35 people) would agree to an COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE ◆●electronic Newsletter though they would prefer ◆ paper. We are thrilled to announce that almost half of our members responded to our first Communications survey. ◆ 8% (21 people) would highly prefer a printed To put that into perspective, many organizations expect a ◆ Newsletter. 10% response rate from their members. It is clear that a Given these results in addition to the environmental huge number of Narayeverniks are engaged with our impact of printing and mailing the Newsletter, the cost of shared community. producing the Newsletter, and the hours involved in This first survey focused on how we can best preparing the Newsletter for mailing, we are going to communicate with each other. We learned that: move forward with a gradual shift toward an electronic Newsletter. ◆ 93% of our respondents (261 people) read the ◆ Narayever Net either every week or some weeks. If you are one of our members who strongly prefers a paper Newsletter, please do not fret! Here is our plan: ◆ 74% of our respondents (207 people) read our paper ◆ Newsletter either usually or sometimes. Our January/February 2015 Newsletter has been sent to you with a “cover page”. If you are happy to receive an ◆ Comparatively very few of our members are electronic Newsletter in the future, please disregard that ◆ Interested in communicating with the shul through paper. But if you would far prefer a paper version of the ◆ Facebook or Twitter: 16% of respondents or 44 Newsletter, please send that page back to the shul ◆ people. office. You can bring it in, send it by fax, send it by mail, or Although our survey did not allow us to learn the complex even call the office to ensure that you will continue to reasons behind different modes of communication, we receive the Newsletter in the mail. Once we understand can conclude that better how many of our members choose to receive their Newsletter via Canada Post, we may charge a nominal fee ◆ Our weekly, emailed Narayever Net is reaching many for that mailing. ◆ of our members One of the most amazing results of this survey came ◆ Our paper, snail-mailed Newsletter is reaching many through the comments that our members shared. As ◆ of our members would be expected, those comments were diverse, Last spring, our Board looked at the increasing cost of insightful, and illuminating – a perfect reflection of our postage and other costs in producing the Newsletter. The diverse, insightful and illuminating community members. Board suggested that we move toward an electronic Thank you so much for participating in this survey. We version of the Newsletter. This would save our hope that our members feel comfortable contacting congregation thousands of dollars each year. members of the Board, the office staff, or our Rabbi. If In the Communications survey, we asked our members you have any questions or comments that fall under that about the Newsletter. We learned that category of “Communications”, please contact me at any time. ◆ 63% of respondents (176 people) were interested in ◆ receiving the Newsletter electronically. Marcia Beck, Communications Chair [email protected]
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In addition to our regular Shabbat morning youth YOUTH NEWS programming, families and kids can look forward to the following events over the winter months: The fall flew by so fast! The shul's youth committee, teen board and various program leaders were busy January 10: Shabbat Children & Youth Programming New Time! 10:45 am throughout the autumn months, hitting the ground running after the High Holy Days as we always need to January 10: Chalutzim Skating Party do. Dufferin Grove, 7 - 9:30 pm We were pleased to participate in a number of January 17: First new monthly Chalutzim Shabbat Brunch & Banter, at 10:45 am conversations aimed at bridging any gaps we might (3rd Shabbat of each month) have in providing programming for children, teens and families. Our intention was to begin a process of January 28: 2nd Israeli Film with the ShinShinim reviewing what we do, what we could do, and how we 7:30 pm can achieve these goals through working together February 20: Family Dinner and Kabbalat Shabbat rather than through separate committees or for all ages. portfolios. These dialogues will hopefully lead to more February 21: Chalutzim Shabbat Brunch and Banter robust engagement of our family members in 10:45 am Narayever activities that are designed with you and your family's needs in mind. We would like to thank February 28: Youth Shabbat service 9 am the parents and board members who have participated in these meetings thus far!
Fun with the ShinShinim at Bar/Bat Mitzvah Class gggg In November, our teen youth group enjoyed the second annual Chalutzim Great Cottage Getaway! With great programming provided by our ShinShinim, Hili and Dor, and enough food to feed an army, a good time was had by all. Even Beth's dog Morrie had a great time – Morrie is our new unofficial Chalutzim mascot! There are not enough words to express our Looks like we will have lots of ways to be together and gratitude to Eden Gladstone's mother, Judy, for once stay warm over the winter months! again arranging for the use of her father's cottage on Lake Chemong. This has become a highlight in the Teddy Bercovici Beth Komito Gottlieb Youth Chair Family & Youth Engagment Coordinator Chalutzim calendar every year. [email protected] [email protected]
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Chalutzim Youth Group Update Photograph: The Sukkah that Yuval The Chalutzim have had a busy fall! We had two very built on his ship with successful events that have been a great beginning for the help of some our new members. The first event was our second Canadian funders – he won the award for annual Chalutzim getaway. Like last year we went up nicest Sukkah! to a cottage on Lake Chemong and had a ton of fun. This was a great experience for the older members Re’ut Rozner, our Pioneer ShinShinit, was discharged and a perfect introduction for the newer members. honourably as an IDF Officer. We hope to see a new wave of Chalutzim at our third annual Chalutzim getaway next year. Itay Buchnick, our second ShinShin, was commissioned as an IDF Officer in October 2014 after Our second event was two years of service. our fourth annual Chalutzim Israeli Iron Roni Ben Zikry, our second ShinShinit, was Chef! This year there commissioned as an Officer in the IDF in Feb. 2014. were three teams Re’em Korine, one of our which each needed to third ShinShinim, was make one dish and commissioned as an Officer present in a way in the Israeli Air Force after representing Israel. We had a lot of fun and even got to one year of service. eat our creations afterwards.
Alex Barkin, Chalutzim Vaad President Photograph: Itay received the Award of Excellence in his Honour's Officer Nachat News from Israel Course. about our ShinShinim
Adi Novak, our third ShinShinit, is an infantry Our wonderful ShinShinim, Hili Paryenti and Dor instructor. She has been in the army for 14 months and Ohavim, continue to bring Israel to our community she will serve for ten more months with the IDF. with their great programming and their engaging conversations. We look forward to many more We wish continued successes to all of these opportunities to learn from Hili and Dor and to enjoy exceptional young people who have strengthened our all that they bring to us. ties with Israel through their volunteer work. What has become of our past ShinShinim? Some updates from Israel: Julia Gluck Yuval Gur, our Pioneer ShinShin, was commissioned as an Officer in the Israeli Navy in September 2014, having also earned his first undergraduate degree.
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Members of the Board of Governors 2014 - 2015
President Fundraising Harry Schachter [email protected] Benjy Cohen [email protected] nnnnnb nnnnnb Vice President Hesed Liz Bohnen [email protected] Sarah Margles [email protected] nnnnnb nnnnnb Secretary High Holy Days Phyllis Berck [email protected] Kivi Shapiro [email protected] nnnnnb nnnnnb Treasurer Israel & Wider Community David Weyman [email protected] Micky Fraterman & Eitan Shvartsman [email protected] nnnnnb nnnnnb Past-President Membership & Shul Community Joel Edelson [email protected] David Barkin [email protected] nnnnnb nnnnnb Adult Education Ritual Reuven Shlozberg [email protected] Kivi Shapiro [email protected] nnnnnb nnnnnb Bar/Bat Mitzvah Social Action Simon Houpt [email protected] Morton Beiser [email protected] nnnnnb nnnnnb Building Special Projects Gary Lichtblau [email protected] Michael Freeman [email protected] nnnnnb nnnnnb Celebrations Youth Leisa Hirtz [email protected] Teddy Bercovici [email protected] nnnnnb Communications STAFF Marcia Beck [email protected] nnnnnb nnnnnb Rabbi Edward Elkin [email protected] Food nnnnnb Sue Weinstein [email protected] Administration Marsha Frydenberg [email protected]
YOUTH SHABBAT Our Condolences to... Our shul's annual Youth Shabbat Service is set for February 28, 2015. This is a wonderful Kathryn Polson Ferguson, on the opportunity for post bar/bat mitzvah teens to passing of her mother Daully Polson leyn, daven or deliver the D'var Torah. Support is available to help youth feel prepared and excited Dianne Saxe, on the passing of her to participate in all roles. There are also husband Stewart Saxe opportunities for younger teens and children to Alexandra Simsilevich, on the passing participate. Youth Shabbat is always a joyful celebration of learning, youth leadership and of her grandmother Reisz Sandorne community. Please contact Tama Soble, Vogel [email protected] , to sign up or if you have any questions.
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16 JANUARY, FEBRUARY 2015 TEVET, SHVAT, ADAR 5775 NARAYEVER NEWS DONATIONS The shul gratefully acknowledges the following donations made to our various funds from early October to early December. We apologize in advance for any errors or omissions. Please inform the shul office so that a correction can be made. If you would like to make a donation to one of our funds, please call the shul office at 416.927.0546 We also accept donations via CanadaHelps, www.canadahelps.org and click on Narayever.
ADULT EDUCATION RITUAL FUND Ruth Leneman and Harvey Savage, with thanks to Rabbi Elkin for Holli Clairman, in memory of Stewart Saxe presiding over Ruth's mother's unveiling Kathryn Polson Ferguson, thanking Sarah Margles, Esther Meisels, Sheine Mankovsky, in memory of Peter Gold's mother Rae Gold Avi Schonbach and Harvey Savage for leading the services at her hhh mother's Shiva BUILDING FUND hhh Liz Martin Landau, in honour of Rabbi Ed, Linda and family, in RABBI'S DISCRETIONARY FUND gratitude for their leadership and hospitality Jacob Langer, in honour of Jessica Arshinoff and James Roz Train, in memory of Stewart Saxe Cunningham's son Jonah Levi's brit milah hhh Claire and Gerald Simon CENTENNIAL FUND Lucille and Micky Narun & Janis and Rick Lempera, wishing the Laila and Avremi Lipetz, in honour of our wonderful congregation Rabbi a speedy recovery Howard Buckstein Anonymous hhh DANIEL CAMENIETZKI LIBRARY MEMORIAL FUND Esther and Baruch Levy, in memory of Kathryn Polson Ferguson's Keren and Shalom Camenietzki, in honour of the yahrzeit of their mother Daully Polson son Daniel Rhona Phillips, in honour of the yahrzeit of her father Sydney hhh Phillips GENERAL FUND Keren Brown, Jonathan Ohayon and family, in memory of Stewart Cindy Cross, in memory of Leslie Cross Saxe hhh Anonymous HESED FUND Olga Palmateer, in honour of the yahrzeit of her parents Annette Marsha Frydenberg, in memory of Kathryn Polson Ferguson's and James Blugerman mother Daully Polson Laraine and Neil Naft, in memory of Kathryn Polson Ferguson's Lili Little and Mitchel Smith, in memory of Kathryn Polson mother Daully Polson Ferguson's mother Daully Polson Kathryn Polson Ferguson, thanking Rabbi Elkin for his support Sue Weinstein and Shaun Singer, in memory of Stewart Saxe Marcia Beck and Mischa Levine, in honour of Marsha Frydenberg's Evelyn Schaefer, in memory of Kathryn Polson Ferguson's mother special birthday Daully Polson hhh Evelyn and Stephen Schaefer, in honour of the yahrzeit of Evelyn's ROSH CHODESH BREAKFAST FUND mother Edah Goldstein Kathryn Polson Ferguson, in appreciation to Brenda and Jerry Harriet Train and Geary Shorser, in memory of Stewart Saxe Enchin for all their hard work leading Rosh Chodesh Services hhh Roz Train, in honour of Eliana's leyning ISRAEL AND COMMUNITY FUND hhh Anna Teper, in honour of the yahrzeit of her father Isaac Jacob Cvi TORAH FUND Anna Teper, in honour of the yahrzeit of her mother Hinda Cvi Anita Shir Jacob and Cyril Press, in memory of Stewart Saxe Anna Teper, in honour of the yahrzeit of her sister Rina Maresky Helene Jacobs and Bruce Rosebrugh, in memory of Stewart Saxe Anna and Wilfred Teper, in honour of the yahrzeit of their friend Gayle and Stephen Benjamin, in memory of Stewart Saxe Amnon Ofir hhh hhh TZEDAKAH/SOCIAL ACTION FUND SHINSHINIM FUND Lesley and Peter Sevitt, in memory of Stewart Saxe Margie and Andy Gann, in honour of the birth of Isabel and Mendl Miriam Diamond, in memory of Stewart Saxe Malkin’s grandson Kian Hart Keren and Shalom Camenietzki, in memory of Stewart Saxe Julia Gluck and Ted Overton, in honour of Karen Weyman who Brenda and Jerry Enchin, in memory of Stewart Saxe received an award from the University of Toronto for her Joan and Stuart Schoenfeld, in memory of Stewart Saxe Outstanding Contribution to the Family Medicine Undergraduate Sarah Colman and Jared Peck, in honour of Julie Tepperman and Program Aaron Willis's 10th wedding anniversary Julia Gluck and Ted Overton, in memory of Stewart Saxe Shirley and Sam Rubenzahl, in memory of Stewart Saxe hhh Rhona Phillips and Ben Carniol, in memory of Stewart Saxe MEMBERSHIP SUBSIDY FUND Shaya Petroff, in memory of Stewart Saxe Lili Little and Mitchel Smith, wishing refua sh'lema to Miriam Nora Gold and David Weiss, in memory of Stewart Saxe Schlanger Kathryn Polson Ferguson, thanking Dianne Saxe and Janis Lili Little and Mitchel Smith, wishing refua sh'lema to Rabbi Elkin Rubenzahl for proving an opportunity for her mother Daully David Weyman Polson to participate in her Yiddish life Lauren Segal, with thanks to Rabbi Elkin Kathryn Polson Ferguson and Hugh Ferguson, in memory of Rochelle and David Barkin, in memory of Kathryn Polson Stewart Saxe Ferguson's mother Daully Polson hhh Sharone Bar David, in memory of Stewart Saxe YOUTH FUND Rochelle and David Barkin, in memory of Stewart Saxe Judy and Eli Abemayor, in memory of Judy's father Hy Shandling Sheila Roth, in memory of Stewart Saxe Brenlee Robinson, in honour of the yahrzeit of her mother Connie Laraine and Neil Naft, in memory of Stewart Saxe Robinson Joan and Stuart Schoenfeld, in memory of Stewart Saxe
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OCTOBER 11, 2014 NOVEMBER 15, 2014 Kiddush: The shul. Kiddush: Matthew Benjamin, in honour of Hallie's bat mitzvah. fff fff Donations to the kiddush fund were made by Percy Schacter, in Donations to the kiddush fund were made by Keren and Shalom honour of the yahrzeit of his father Ben Schacter; Peter Sevitt, in Camenietzki, in honour of the yarhzeit of their son Daniel; Rachel honour of the yahrzeit of his father Simon Sevitt; Isabel and Mendl Jacobus, in honour of the yahrzeit of her mother Frida Yanosof; Sue Malkin, in honour of the yahrzeit of Isabel's mother Clarise Michel; Weinstein, in honour of the yahrzeiten of her parents Belmore and Peter and Lesley Sevitt, in honour of the yahrzeit of Peter's father Ethelda Weinstein; Jackie Silverberg, in honour of the yahrzeit of Simon Sevitt; Shaun Singer and Sue Weinstein, in honour of the her father Harry Silverberg; David, Rochelle, Candice and Alex yahrzeiten of Shaun's parents Esther and Sam Singer; Isabel and Barkin, wishing Lili Little and Mitchel Smith a wonderful winter in Mendl Malkin, in memory of Peter Gold's mother Rae Gold. Florida.
OCTOBER 18, 2014 NOVEMBER 22, 2014 Kiddush: The shul. Kiddush: Jennifer Paton-Smith and Sander Smith, in honour of fff Yuval’s bar mitzvah. Donations to the kiddush fund were made by Belle Jarniewski and fff Ilan Millo and Michel Marciano, in honour of the aufruf and Donations to the kiddush fund were made by Ben Carniol, in marriage of Tamar Rubin and Noam Millo; Paul Milgram, in honour honour of the yahrzeit of his brother Edward Ezra Cohen; Dalia of the yahrzeit of his mother Sophie Milgram; Leslie and Harvey Margalit-Faircloth, in honour of the yahrzeit of her mother Chana Starkman, in memory of Peter Gold's mother Rae Gold; Ben Carniol Rachela Margalit; Morton Beiser, in honour of the yahrzeit of his and Rhona Phillips, in honour of the yahrzeit of Ben's mother Greta mother Regina Beiser; Shayne Robinson, in honour of the yahrzeit Cohen; Beth McAuley, in honour of the yahrzeit of her brother of his father Myles Sheldon Robinson; Anne Matlow Bohnen and Stuart McAuley; Beth McAuley, in honour of Sharoni Sibony and the John Bohnen, in memory of Kathryn Polson Ferguson's mother Narayever history exhibit team for a wonderful job; Sue Weinstein Daully Polson; Arnold Schonberg, in honour of the yahrzeit of his and Shaun Singer, in memory of Peter Gold's mother Rae Gold. mother Sima Schonberg; Ariella Eben-Ezra, in memory of Kathryn Polson Ferguson's mother Daully Polson; Isabel and Mendl Malkin, OCTOBER 25, 2014 in memory of Kathryn Polson Ferguson's mother Daully Polson; Kiddush: Jennifer Cohen and Ryan Penn, in honour of Aviva's bat Brenlee Robinson, in honour of the yahrzeit of her father Myles mitzvah. Robinson. fff Donations to the kiddush fund were made by Janice Graham, in honour of the yahrzeit of her father Allan Graham; Hannah Brown, NOVEMBER 29, 2014 with appreciation and thank you to Janet Horowitz; Sogee Spinner Kiddush: The kiddush was sponsored and prepared by a and Sapna Sharma, in honour of their wedding; Naomi Fromstein collaborative effort of five members of our shul community: Sue and Efrim Boritz, in honour of Phil Gold's special birthday. Weinstein, Ellen Friedland, Laraine Naft, Jackie Silverberg and Lesley Simpson. fff NOVEMBER 1, 2014 Donations to the kiddush fund were made by Issie Lyon, in honour Kiddush: Jerry Levitan, in honour of Jaime's bat mitzvah. of the yahrzeit of his mother Molly Lyon; Peikang Dai, wishing fff Donations to the kiddush fund were made by Justin Feder, in Miriam Schlanger good health; Phyllis Berck and Dorothy Garfinkel, honour of the yahrzeit of his mother Nita Frenkel; Sylvia Solomon, in honour of the bar mitzvah of Yuval Smith; Lillian and Eric in honour of the yahrzeit of her father Joseph Horowitz; Ursula Mendelsohn, in memory of Stewart Saxe; Isabel and Mendl Malkin, Loewenstein, in honour of the yahrzeit of her father Arthur Levita. in memory of Stewart Saxe; Olga Palmateer, in memory of Stewart Saxe; Pamela Sostorics, in memory of Stewart Saxe; Norma NOVEMBER 8, 2014 Latsonas, in memory of Stewart Saxe; Joan and Stuart Schoenfeld, Kiddush: Debbie Greenberg, in honour of Mira's bat mitzvah. in memory of Stewart Saxe; Micky Fraterman, in memory of 3 Stewart Saxe. Donations to the kiddush fund were made by Anne Matlow Bohnen and John Bohnen, wishing refuah shlemah to Rabbi Elkin; Anita Shir-Jacob and Cyril Press, in memory of Peter Gold's mother Rae Gold; Justine Silver, in honour of the yahrzeit of her husband Stewart Silver.
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We acknowledge the following yahrzeit anniversaries which occur during the coming months.
Tevet 10 Philip Holzberg brother of Ben Mark Holzberg Shevat 7 Barry Zachary Schacter father of Yael Schacter Tevet 10 Rose Schoenfeld mother of Stuart Schoenfeld Shevat 9 Sylvia Burstein mother of Anita Kerzner Tevet 11 Edith Bernice Schwartz mother of Hart Schwartz Shevat 9 Jacob Moshinsky father of Moises Moshinsky Tevet 12 Haim Michael Aaron brother of Miriam Schlanger Shevat 9 Sydney Robins father of Ricki Sharpe Tevet 12 Sylvia May mother of Denise Altshul Shevat 11 Esther Dunsky mother of Zipporah Dunsky Tevet 12 Esther Myers daughter of Louis Myers Shevat 13 Daniel Bohnen father of Elizabeth Bohnen Tevet 13 Zeev Samuel Laszlo father of Jason Laszlo Shevat 13 Judith Bohnen mother of Elizabeth Bohnen Tevet 13 Pearl Propas mother of Lorne Propas Shevat 13 Goldie Howard mother of Sheldon Howard Tevet 14 Manny Kirschenbaum father of Janet Horowitz Shevat 13 Ceceil Levinson mother of Ronnie Levinson Tevet 14 Jack Schnoor father of Randal Schnoor Burbank Tevet 16 Norman Bresko father of Gitta Rice Shevat 14 Daniel Lipman father of Louise Lipman Tevet 16 Pearl Brown mother of Irving Brown Shevat 14 Esterka Rozenblat mother of Lala Loon Tevet 16 Imre Joseph Komaromi father of Ann Komaromi Shevat 15 Joan Jacoby mother of Alan Jacoby Tevet 16 Louis Jacob Sherman father of Minda Sherman Shevat 16 Sonia Blitz mother of Etti Miller Tevet 17 Moshe Yoseph Aaron brother of Miriam Schlanger Shevat 16 Chaim Kleiman father of Beatrice Myers Tevet 17 Edith Ennis mother of Elizabeth Ennis Shevat 16 Helen Mendelsohn mother of Eric Mendelsohn Tevet 17 Molly Lipsky mother of Linda Lipsky Shevat 17 Mary Malkin mother of Mendl Malkin Tevet 18 Joseph H. Beiser father of Morton Beiser Shevat 17 Louis Shenfeld father of Avery Shenfeld Tevet 18 Sylvia Parker mother of Andrea Parker Simhon Shevat 17 Lilian Ruth Stein Davidovitz mother of William Davidovitz Tevet 19 Julie Goodbaum father of Mark Goodbaum Shevat 18 Harry Lipsky father of Linda Lipsky Tevet 19 Sydney Sharpe father of Mark Sharpe Shevat 21 Sarah Chernick mother of Lili Little and Steven Sharpe Shevat 21 Sandy Roff wife of Harvey Roff Tevet 20 Rose Klein sister of Jack Klein Shevat 22 Livia Plaks mother of Jason Plaks Tevet 21 Gabriel Grushcow father of Marc Grushcow Shevat 23 Froim (Ephraim) Merkur father of Celia Hirsh and and Hilary Goldenberg Laila Lipetz Tevet 21 Beatrice Letovsky mother of Eric Letovsky Shevat 23 Janice Pavalow mother of Randee Pavalow Tevet 22 Max Klein father of Jack Klein Shevat 23 Annie Petroff mother of Shaya Petroff Tevet 23 Gladys Leona Gruno mother of Annette Gruno Shevat 26 Charles Eric Lees father of Norma Latsonas Tevet 24 Lily Fineberg mother of Rosalie Shapiro Shevat 26 Eve Risen mother of Lawrence Fox Tevet 24 Florence Richmond mother of Anne Toby Golden Shevat 27 Sam Honig father of Rosanna Honig Tevet 24 Frances Rothman mother of Ben Rothman Shevat 28 Ben Berck father of Phyllis Berck Tevet 25 Harry Cherney father of Lawrence Cherney and Dorothy Garfinkel Tevet 25 Earl Parker father of Andrea Parker Simhon Shevat 28 Mabel Laine mother of Leslie Starkman Tevet 25 Edith Singer mother of Nancy Singer Shevat 29 Edie Mark wife of Craig Mark Tevet 28 Saul Morris Pascal father of Paul Pascal Shevat 29 Rudy Philipp father of Diane Philipp Shevat 2 Frank Epstein father of Aura Kagan Shevat 29 Reginald Ripstein father of Arthur Ripstein Shevat 2 Freda Solomon Gann mother of Andrew Gann Shevat 29 George Sherman father of Ronald Sherman Shevat 3 Rubin Jacobs father of Gordon Jacobs Shevat 30 Esther Gilbert mother of Linda Tadich Shevat 3 Ron Joseph brother of Marion Hoffmann Shevat 30 Yona Sharir mother of Shmuel Sharir Shevat 3 Esther Levin sister of Michael Levin Adar 1 Sarah Feferman mother of Irv Feferman Shevat 3 Joseph S. Rosenberg father of Howard Rosenberg Adar 2 Shirley Laskin mother of Monty Laskin Shevat 3 Betty Sevitt mother of Peter Sevitt Adar 2 Henry Michel father of Kathryn Levene Shevat 4 Henry Albert father of Lori Albert and Isabel Malkin Shevat 4 Sophie Cooper mother of Moe Cooper Adar 3 Jack Fainman father of Karen Fainman Shevat 4 Rose Enchin mother of Gerald Enchin Adar 4 Ruth Rosenberg mother of Howard Rosenberg Shevat 4 Ruth Leikin mother of Steven Leikin Adar 5 Yetta Bresko mother of Gitta Rice Shevat 5 Penina Chaya Davis daughter of Jim Davis Adar 5 Irene Davine mother of Melvyn Davine and Anna Korteweg Adar 6 Fanny Bucovetsky mother of Meyer Bucovetsky Shevat 5 Maurice Katz father of Steve Katz Adar 6 Sam Milgram father of Paul Milgram Shevat 6 Libbie Gold mother of Elaina Gold Adar 8 Yidel Helfand father of Victor Helfand Shevat 6 Iosif Samoilovich Livak father of Leonid Livak Adar 8 Erna Weintraub mother of Sharon Weintraub Shevat 6 Moshe Benjamin Schonbach father of Avi Schonbach Adar 9 Joseph Cohen father of Suzanne Shuchat Shevat 6 Izaak Wasserlauf father of Esther Levy Adar 9 Henry Davine father of Melvyn Davine Shevat 7 Fanny Roff mother of Harvey Roff Adar 9 Eve Rachel Trapunski mother of Edward Trapunski
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Vayechi Asarah B'Tevet Services 9 am
4:34 Services 6 pm
1 Tevet 10 2 Tevet 11 3 Tevet 12
Shacharit 9 am Chalutzim Skating Shemot party at Dufferin Services 9 am Grove, 7 pm Post kiddush talk with CSA 4 - 7 pm 4:41 David Loewith Services 6 pm Kensington Gardens 11am
4 Tevet 13 5 Tevet 14 6 Tevet 15 7 Tevet 16 8 Tevet 17 9 Tevet 18 10 Tevet 19
Vaera Shacharit 9 am Services 9 am Expansion and Expansion and Chalutzim Shabbat Accessibility Meeting, CSA 4 - 7 pm Accessibility Meeting, Brunch & Banter 11 am Bar/Bat Mitzvah Class 4:49 10:45 am 5:15 pm 7:30 pm Services 6 pm 11 Tevet 20 12 Tevet 21 13 Tevet 22 14 Tevet 23 15 Tevet 24 16 Tevet 25 17 Tevet 26
Shacharit 9 am Post Kiddush Talk Bo Rosh Hodesh Services 9 am Shvat with Sharon Abron Board Meeting Jacob Daum Bar Mitzvah Service, 7 am Drache 7 pm 4:58 Kensington Gardens 11am CSA 4 - 7 pm Services 6 pm
18 Tevet 27 19 Tevet 28 20 Tevet 29 21 Shvat 1 22 Shvat 2 23 Shvat 3 24 Shvat 4
Shacharit 9 am Screening “In the 2nd Shinshinim's Beshalach Presence of My Israeli Film Night Expansion and Neighbors” with Series, 7:30 pm Services 9 am Accessibility Meeting, director George 4:00 pm Bar/Bat Mitzvah Class 5:07 5:15 pm Gedeon 7:30 pm Services 6 pm
25 Shvat 5 26 Shvat 6 27 Shvat 7 28 Shvat 8 29 Shvat 9 30 Shvat 10 31 Shvat 11
FEBRUARY 2015 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
Shacharit 9 am Yitro Tu B'Shvat Seder, 6 pm Services 9 am 5:17 Services 6 pm
1 Shvat 12 2 Shvat 13 3 Shvat 14 4 Shvat 15 5 Shvat 16 6 Shvat 17 7 Shvat 18
Shacharit 9 am Mishpatim Book presentation of Shabbat Shekalim “Between Gods: Services 9 am A Memoir” with Author Bar/Bat Mitzvah Class Services 6 pm 5:26 Kensington Gardens 11am Alison Pick 11 am 5:15 pm
8 Shvat 19 9 Shvat 20 10 Shvat 21 11 Shvat 22 12 Shvat 23 13 Shvat 24 14 Shvat 25
Shacharit 9 am Rosh Hodesh Family Dinner Terumah Adar and Kabbalat Services 9 am CSA 4 - 7 pm Service, 7 am Shabbat Chalutzim Shabbat 5:36 Brunch & Banter 10:45am Services 6 pm
15 Shvat 26 16 Shvat 27 17 Shvat 28 18 Shvat 29 19 Shvat 30 20 Adar 1 21 Adar 2
Shacharit 9 am Bar/Bat Mitzvah Class Tetzaveh 5:15 pm Shabbat Zachor Board Meeting Rabbi’s Class Services 9 am 7 pm “The Tribes of Israel” Youth Shabbat Service Services 6 pm 7:30 pm 5:45 Kensington Gardens 11am 22 Adar 3 23 Adar 4 24 Adar 5 25 Adar 6 26 Adar 7 27 Adar 8 28 Adar 9
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