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December 2020 Ohef Sholom Temple's Monthly News Publication THE TEMPLEEstablished 1844 • Volume P 61, IssueOST 3 • December 2020 LIVE! ChanukahSee page 3 for details In this Issue: Worship .......................... 2 Chanukah LIVE! ............. 3 Clergy Corner ................. 4 WORSHIPTORAH PORTIONS Presidential Address ....... 5 Announcements ............. 6 EcoJudaism .................... 8 December 13 | 27 Kislev December 18 | 3 Tevet Sisterhood ...................... 9 December Chanukah - Day 3 Chanukah - Day 8 (4 Lights in the Evening) Parashat Chanukah Men's Club ..................... 9 December 3 | 17 Kislev Torah Study - 4:00 pm Parashat Chanukah Numbers 7:54 - 8:4 Tzedakah Corner .......... 10 Numbers 7:24 - 7:35 Education ..................... 11 December 5 | 19 Kislev December 19 | 4 Tevet Torah Study - 9:00 am Teshuvah Stories ........... 12 Torah Study - 9:00 am December 14 | 28 Kislev Chanukah - Day 4 Parashat Miketz Inside OST/Closer Look 15 Parashat Vayishlach Genesis 32:4 - 36:43 (5 Lights in the Evening) Genesis 41:1 - 44:17 LIFE & LEGACY ............ 16 Haftarah: Obadiah 1:1 - 1:21 Parashat Chanukah Haftarah: I Kings 3:15 - 4:1 Donations ..................... 17 Numbers 7:30 - 7:41 Yahrzeits ....................... 18 December 10 | 24 Kislev December 24 | 9 Tevet Erev Chanukah December 15 | 29 Kislev Torah Study - 4:00 pm Calendar & Birthdays .... 19 (1 Light in the Evening) Chanukah - Day 5 pOST Bulletin Board ..... 20 Torah Study - 4:00 pm (6 Lights in the Evening) December 25 | 10 Tevet Parashat Chanukah Parashat Asara B'Tevet Numbers 7:36 - 7:47 Exodus 32:11 - 34:10 December 11 | 25 Kislev Chanukah - Day 1 (2 Lights in the Evening) December 16 | 1 Tevet December 26 | 11 Tevet Parashat Chanukah Chanukah - Day 6 Torah Study - 9:00 am Numbers 7:1 - 7:17 (7 Lights in the Evening) Parashat Vayigash Parashat Chanukah Genesis 44:18 - 47:27 Numbers 28:1 - 28:15 Haftarah: Ezekiel December 12 | 26 Kislev Maf: Numbers 7:42 - 7:47 37:15 - 37:28 Chanukah - Day 2 (3 Lights in the Evening) Torah Study - 9:00 am December 17 | 2 Tevet December 31 | 16 Tevet Parashat Vayeshev Chanukah - Day 7 Torah Study - 4:00 pm Genesis 37:1 - 40:23 (8 Lights in the Evening) Maf: Numbers 7:18 - 7:29 Torah Study - 4:00 pm Haftarah: Zechariah 2:14 - 4:7 Parashat Chanukah Numbers 7:48 - 7:59 530 Raleigh Avenue Norfolk, VA 23507 Light the Shabbat Candles with Us! 757.625.4295 Volunteer today and sign up online at ohefsholom.org to light the (F) 757.625.3762 Shabbat Candles with Rabbi Roz and Cantor Jen during our live ohefsholom.org stream services! EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BOARD OF DIRECTORS PAST PRESIDENTS HONORARY DIRECTORS LEADERSHIP StaFf President: Carol Brum Minette Cooper Tom Bachman & Terri Denison Budman, Matthew Fine Karen Fine Terri Budman CLERGY Director of Religious School [email protected] Tammi Foer Kim Simon Fink Allan Donn Senior Rabbi Kitty Wolf, RJE Vice President: Andrew Fox Linda Fox-Jarvis Morris Fine Rosalin Mandelberg [email protected] John Cooper David Hirschler, II Robert C. Goodman, Jr. Sandra Forte-Nickenig [email protected] Secretary: David Kushner Steven Kayer Jay M. Friedman Engagement and Barbara U. Dudley Robert Levinson Edward G. Kaufman Leslie Friedman Cantor Programming Associate Treasurer: Mike Jaffe Amy Metzger Dr. Howard Kesser Mark Friedman Jennifer Rueben Nina Kruger Member-at-Large: Alyson Morrissey Edward A. Kramer Mark Hecht [email protected] [email protected] Charlie Nusbaum Dr. Bert Newfield Cathi M. Laderberg Andrew C. Kline Engagement Committee Chair: Sharon Nusbaum Charles S. Nusbaum Steve Kocen Rabbi Emeritus Office Manager Marsha Moody Ethan Ostroff William L. Nusbaum Jay Legum Shelley Stephens Lawrence A. Forman Education Committee Chair: Dr. Abbey Pachter Dr. Robert M. Rubin Dr. Rachelle Luna [email protected] [email protected] Barb Gelb Nicole Rosenblum Henry M. Schwan Robin Mancoll Worship Committee Chair: Paula Russel Linda Spindel Dr. David Metzger STAFF Clergy Assistant Margaret Sawyer Joashua Schulman Alan D. Stein Alyssa Muhlendorf Executive Director Elizabeth Vincent Frank Scott Alex Pincus Linda Peck [email protected] Finance & Development [email protected] Committee Chair: Leslie Shroyer Dr. Meredith Rose Controller Neal Schulwolf Tom Snyder June Saks Music Director Anna Rivera Immediate Past President: Lawrence Steingold Miriam Seeherman Charles Woodward [email protected] Karen Fine Valeria Williamson The Honorable Louis Sherman [email protected] Louis D. Snyder Graphic & Web Design Linette Bond [email protected] Sisterhood President OSTY Advisors Gail W. Bachman Robyn & Paul Weiner Follow Us! Men's Club President OSTY President ohef.s.temple Tom Bachman Leia Morrissey 2 THE TEMPLE POST ohef_sholom_temple Celebrating Chanukah December 10 - 17 Evenings at 6:30 pm via livestream LIKE US ON FACEBOOK and light the candles with us! facebook.com/ohefsholomtemple/ or find us through ohefsholom.org ever did we imagine that the online streaming used for Chanukah LIVE! candle lightings would become commonplace in 2020! We are, however, overjoyed that we can still stay connected virtually and bring N a little light into our homes together this year. Each evening of Chanukah we will stream the lighting of the menorah live on our Facebook page from a different location or with a different group. Please join us again this year to rekindle faith, hope and love as we celebrate Chanukah together as a community! Chanukah LIVE! Lighting Schedule THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10 (1 Candle) MONDAY, DECEMBER 14 (5 Candles) Live with the Ohef Sholom Temple Congregation Live with the Ohef Sholom Temple Men's Club FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11 (2 Candles) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15 (6 Candles) Chanukah Shabbat Services with Joyce & Harry Graber Live with Ohef Sholom Temple's Adult D'Bar Torah Group SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12 (3 Candles) WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16 (7 Candles) Live from the Jewish Museum and Cultural Center Live with Emily & Nathan Strelitz SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13 (4 Candles) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17 (8 Candles) Live with the Ohef Sholom Temple Religious School Live with Ohef Sholom Temple's Board of Directors DECember 2020 3 Clergy Corner WITH RABBI & CANTOR Join us each night of Chanukah at 6:30 pm on the Ohef Sholom Temple Facebook page as Be the Light we take our Chanukah Candle Lighting LIVE! ecember used need to be only money—it could be sharing gently to be fraught used toys and clothes! D with dilemma: how could our minor 3. Ha’achalat Re’evim / Feeding the Hungry: festival of lights Chanukah time is also a time to think about people compare with the who may not have enough money to celebrate grand spectacle the holiday—or enough money for the food they of Christmas . need. To teach this mitzvah, you can volunteer as a that is everywhere family at our OST Soup Kitchen, JFS, the Foodbank beginning in of Southeast VA or Oasis Social Ministries or take Contact Clergy October! Amidst the canned good to any of their food pantries. Rabbi Roz & Cantor Jen music, decorations, [email protected] trees and gifts, we 4. Bal Taschit / Not Wasting: What happens after [email protected] worried, "would you unwrap Chanukah gifts in your home? Engage our children feel your kids in the mitzvah of Bal Taschit, not wasting. left out, cheated even, out of what seemed to be Kids can carry cardboard boxes to your recycling bin the ultimate American holiday?" Fast forward to and use old gift-wrap for arts and craft projects. 2020, and President Trump boasts eight Jewish Hachnasat Orchim It’s grandchildren, President-Elect Biden has five and 5. / Welcoming Guests: always a mitzvah to welcome guests in your home Vice President Elect Harris' Jewish step-children and at Chanukah time, there’s an opportunity to call her Mamela Kamela! In our delicious melting reach out to another family to join you for candle pot of a nation, there seem to be few winter lighting, dreidl and more Chanukah fun. You can holiday dilemmas at all. Rather, we're one beautiful also invite a family who isn’t Jewish and teach them American mosaic of different ethnicities, religions, about traditions. and cultures united by our pride in and love for our country. Even in the midst of a serious, multi-year 6. Bikur Cholim / Visiting the Sick: Many of us rise in anti-Semitic incidents, we Jews certainly do have older relatives in nursing homes who would seem to be fully accepted as Americans; in other appreciate a Chanukah card or picture drawn by words, we've made it! your kids! The same is true for Jewish children who are in the hospital could also use Chanukah cards! But as many benefits as there are to this status, there are downsides and dangers as well. One of 7. Hochma / Wisdom: PJ Library has so many them is that we have lost some of the values, beliefs wonderful Chanukah books available—you can pick and practices that make us uniquely us. So during one to reach each night or have a special book night this Chanukah season, we encourage you to devote in which everyone gets to pick their favorite story. each of your eight days or nights to highlighting some of the gifts of Judaism. Below are some ideas 8. Al Ha Nissim / Declaring the Miracle: It’s a taken from jkidphilly.org: Jewish tradition to place the Chanukah menorah in the window for everyone to see. Take a picture of 1. Ometz Lev / Courage: The Chanukah story your family on the last night of Chanukah and post emphasizes the bravery of the Maccabees and those it on our OST Friends Facebook page so we can who stood up for the freedom of being Jewish. Talk celebrate with you! to your kids about their heroes and share examples of people who inspire you. May each of these mitzvot remind you, your children, and your grandchildren of the depth, joy, 2.
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