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the BULLETIN September/October 2017 elul/tishri/cheshvan 5777/5778 5778 Wishing you a happy and sWeet neW year! Worship Schedule Holiday Dates Times SHABBAT Friday September 1 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service Saturday, September 2 10:15 am Shabbat Service, Parsha Ki Tetze SHABBAT Friday, September 8 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service 7:00 pm Bring your Own Dinner Saturday, September 9 10:15 am Shabbat Service, Parsha Ki Tavo Thursday, September 14 7:30 am Morning Minyan SHABBAT Friday, September 15 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service Saturday, September 16 10:15 am Shabbat Service, Parsha Nitzavim - Vayelech 8:00 pm Selichot Program begins see page 6 ROSH Wednesday, September 20 8:00 pm Erev Rosh Hashanah Service at Hellenic Centre HASHANAH Thursday, September 21 9:30 am Rosh Hashanah Children’s Service at Temple 10:15 am Rosh Hashanah Service at Hellenic Centre 11:00 am Junior Congregation (Grades 3-6) at Temple SHABBAT Friday, September 22 5:30 pm TOTally Shabbat 6:30 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service Saturday, September 23 10:15 am Shabbat Service, Parsha Ha’azinu, Shabbat Shuvah MINYAN Thursday, September 28 7:30 am Morning Minyan YOM KIPPUR Friday, September 29 8:00 pm Kol Nidre & SHABBAT Saturday, September 30 9:30 am Yom Kippur Children’s Service at Temple 10:15 am Yom Kippur morning service at Hellenic Centre 11:00 am Junior Congregation (Grades 3-6) at Temple 1:00 pm Yom Kippur Afternoon Study Session at Temple 3:15 pm Service of Healing with Rabbi Garten at Temple 4:00 pm Yom Kippur Mincha, Martyrology, Yizkor & Neilah SUKKOT Thursday, October 5 9:00 am Sukkot Services SHABBAT Friday, October 6 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service Saturday, October 7 10:15 am Shabbat Service, Parsha Va’etchanan, Shabbat Nachamu Bat Mitzvah Morgan Shusterman SIMCHAT Wednesday, October 11 Simchat Torah Celebration TORAH Thursday, October 12 9:00 am Simchat Torah Service, Yizkor SHABBAT Friday, October 13 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service 7:00 pm Bring your Own Dinner Saturday, October 14 10:15 am Shabbat Service, Parsha Bereshit 50th Volunteer Appreciation SHABBAT Friday, October 20 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service Saturday, October 21 10:15 am Shabbat Service, Parsha Noach Thursday, October 26 7:30 am Morning Minyan SHABBAT Friday, October 27 5:30 pm TOTally Shabbat 6:30 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service Saturday, October 28 10:15 am Shabbat Service, Parsha Lech Lecha SHABBAT Friday, November 3 6:15 pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service Saturday, November 4 10:15 am Shabbat Service, Parsha Vayera 2 | TEMPLE ISRAEL BULLETIN - September October 2017 From the Pulpit President’s Message Like a quilt top, we are more Beginning a new year with a clean beautiful and useful when we slate join together! When September rolls around, Dear friends, many of you know everyone seems to ask the that I am a quilter. I enjoy the same question: “How was your colour choices, cutting, ironing summer?” and sewing. There’s nothing I don’t like about quilting, even To be sure, this summer has been making mistakes, because that’s filled with many remarkable events. one way to learn. Once again, I was fortunate to spend I see analogies to quilting in my two weeks serving on faculty at URJ work for the Temple. Some tasks are much larger than Camp George. We had a wonderful group of 15 others. Some are routine and repetitive, while others Temple Israel youth who spent a part of their summer are exciting and unusual. at camp. Just as every Friday we quilt together in the little house Being at camp was a welcome break from the onslaught next door with friends, so do we share the work of of the very disturbing news happening around the world. Temple with other volunteers and staff. While I can That news ranged from the disturbing decisions of the handle making a baby quilt by myself, when it comes to Israeli government to only recognize the legitimacy of the bigger ones for the dialysis people, it takes at least a select group of orthodox rabbis, to the unbelievably two pairs of hands to keep things straight and smooth. frightening events of the riots in Charlottesville, and the As our project has gone on over eight years, Merle terrible devastation in Houston. Haltrecht-Matte and I have welcomed a number of helpers, some from Temple or other shuls, and some Along with Jews all over the world, in a few weeks we will from no shuls at all. Some of our most regular helpers gather together and usher in a new year – 5778. are not Jewish, but they like us and the work we are doing. It’s our mitzvah. This past year, celebrating our 50th anniversary, has been a wonderful year at Temple Israel. Our TIRS school High Holy Days are coming. We have a chance to think year will begin with Shofar Factory for our children to about what we tear apart in the world and what we create their very own real shofars. put together. Like a quilt top, if each of us represents one colour or pattern, we are much more beautiful and We are looking forward to welcoming our High Holy Day useful when sewn firmly together. soloist, Dr. Tana Sermer, who along with our choir under the direction of Ellen Asherman, has been working hard And together, we are more effective in promoting the values of Reform Judaism - Justice, Study, and Repair- all summer to create our beautiful liturgical music for the ing the World. holidays. We make our Jewish world better by participation, by As the summer winds down and we look towards a new teaching our children, by supporting our Jewish and year, I would like to invite you to take a few moments, Israel charities and projects. We make the whole world some quiet time, to reflect on the past year. What have better by never letting ourselves be complacent in the you done that you would like to do differently? Are there face of prejudice, evil or destruction, no matter who it things that you did not do that you would like to do? is aimed at. Things that you did for which you want to apologize to others? We can all be part of the most beautiful quilt. My fam- ily joins me in wishing each of you a very meaningful Every year we are given the gift of being able to begin a High Holy Day season and a happy and healthy 5778. new year with a clean slate; to apologize for the things Patsy Royer we did that were wrong and to be forgiven for them, thus President allowing us to forge a new path to the future. I am looking forward to our upcoming holidays, a wonderful time for our congregation to be together, to Celebrating a milestone, simcha or a special sing, to pray, to celebrate! event? Shanah Tovah, If you would like to make a donation in honour of this occasion, please see our website, contact our volun- Rabbi S. Robert Morais teers (see TIOF page 10 or Temple information page 11) or the office and we will make it easy for you! September October 2017 - TEMPLE ISRAEL BULLETIN | 3 From the Emeritus The tour will have a skilled educator and an experienced Shalom! Rabbi as your guides. Accomodation will be in 4 and 5 star Hotels and it includes two meals a day. It has been three years since I led a trip to Israel. It’s time to lead the This will be a trip for those who enjoy learning, arguing, 13th,the Bar Mitzvah tour. and exposure to alternative points of view. This will not be a trip for those who want to sit back and In honor of this special occasion I be “schlepped” from one site to another. have teamed up with the Melton School of Hebrew University to The trip begins in Tel Aviv on March 12, 2018 and offer a unique journey entitled it concludes on March 21, 2018 in Jerusalem. Early “within and without the borders.” comings and late goings are possible. This will be a unique opportunity to travel the length and For more information and a complete itinerary and costs breadth of the country visiting the key sites and speak- ing with the variety of “players “who will help us under- contact Rabbi S.H. Garten at [email protected] . stand the complex nature of the relationship between Rabbi Steven Garten The State of Israel and her neighbors. Rabbi Emeritus The highlights: • A Shabbat in Jerusalem • Visits to the Borders with Syria, Lebanon, Jordon and the Palestinian territories • Conversations with the Druze of Israel, Settlers, Palestinians, Bedouin, and Israelis representing the wide spectrum of political views • Visit a Palestinian village and an Arab Israeli Village (in the planning stages) Morning Minyan Join us SEMI monthly for our Thursday morning Minyan Temple Israel group breakfast with Or Haneshemah before Pride Parade We begin at 7:30am and conclude by 8:15 am. Those who wish to leave immediately may do so and start their day with a strong boost of Torah and prayer. Those who need a caffeine boost, a bagel and a little conversation, can stick around and ease into the morning The next minyans will be held: September 14 & 28 October 26 4 | TEMPLE ISRAEL BULLETIN - September October 2017 School News Welcome back! I am so pleased to be October 8th welcoming several new pupils to our PJ Library comes to Temple Israel for a Succah Party school once again this year, along with our returning students.