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Temple Beth O’r/Beth Torah Temple Beth O’R/Beth Torah Non-Profit 111 Valley Road, Clark NJ 07066 Organization 732-381-8403 U.S. Postage Paid Rahway, NJ [email protected] PERMIT No. 166 www.bethorbethtorah.org Change Service Requested IYAR 5774 MAY 2014 Steven Stern, Spiritual Leader Howard Silverman, President Jonathan Phillips, Executive Vice-President GAME SHOW GALA! Mailed May 1, 2014 Sunday, May 4 at 5 PM An outrageously fun evening with Simply Streisand your favorite TV games shows! Sunday, June 29 at 5 pm Enjoy delicious Super Heroes with all the trimmings catered AWARD WINNING TRIBUTE ARTIST by Deli-King of Clark! Yummy desserts! CARLA DEL VILLAGGIO Don't miss out on the fun. Reserve now. Presents an elegant, exciting show that leaves audiences spellbound! Tickets are only $28 for members, $33 for non-members, and $10 for children under 12. Evening includes ♦ dinner and dessert You can be the next Winner!!! ♦ silent auction of fabulous goods & services For tickets call the temple office by Thursday, June 19. Simply Streisand Tickets: members $30, non-members $35 Sunday, June 29 at 5 pm PATRON $360: 2 admission tickets for the show, dinner & dessert; preferred seating; bottle of wine; Barbra Streisand AWARD WINNING TRIBUTE ARTIST CD; 2 raffle tickets & a photograph with entertainer CARLA DEL VILLAGGIO SPONSOR $180: 2 admission tickets for the show, dinner & dessert, preferred seating & 2 raffle tickets Presents an elegant, exciting show that leaves audiences spellbound! Evening includes ♦ dinner and dessert ♦ silent auction of fabulous goods & services Details on the back cover 12 From the Cantor "This is my modest gift to the son’s passport list Israel as his place of birth. According to Jewish people who have always legal experts, the case involves a number of very significant dreamt of biblical love, constitutional issues. But what interests me most is not the friendship and of peace among perennial friction between the various branches of our all peoples. This is my gift to that government. Rather it is the degree to which governments people which lived here and institutions make policy based not on propriety and thousands of years ago among reality, but on the basis of an attempt to placate those on the the other Semitic people." Marc world stage holding the most radical and extreme Chagall, Jerusalem, February 6, viewpoints. We have unfortunately seen this phenomenon 1962 increasingly in recent years. On my trip to Israel in February, I had hoped to visit Yom Yerushalayim will be observed on the 28th of Iyar, Hadassah Hospital and view the famous Chagall windows, which falls this year on May 28th. It commemorates the but unfortunately there was not enough time. I wish I had reunification of Jerusalem in 1967 following the Six Day made time, because today I just finished reading about the War. There are surely many issues, including those related great passport debate. As you may know, the U.S. Congress to the Holy City, that will have to be resolved if there is in 2002 passed a law that required any U.S. citizen born in ever going to be peace between Israel and her neighbors. Jerusalem to have the right to have his/her passport stamped That is to be left for the parties involved to settle. That the with Israel as the birthplace. This was intended to nullify birthplace of a baby born adjacent to the grand, artistic the policy of the State Department that directed that only masterpiece of Chagall needs to be debated in the hallowed Jerusalem be listed as the place of birth, a policy designed halls of our nation’s highest court is, however, unfortunate to affirm the U.S. position of neutrality on the question of and sad. sovereignty over the city. On the subject of Jerusalem, I am pleased to have been able One might conceivably be excused for understanding the to invite Rabbi Jonathan Porath to join us for our upcoming rationale behind the State Department’s position as regards Scholar-in-Residence Shabbat on May 30 and 31. I met the Old City, but is there any question at all regarding him briefly while in Jerusalem where he now resides, and Israeli sovereignty over Western Jerusalem? Is there any as many of you know, he served our community in Clark question about whether a baby born at Hadassah Hospital or from 1975 to 1984. Among other topics, he will be Shaare Zedek was born in Israel or not? According to the speaking about life as a resident of Jerusalem. I hope you State Department it seems there is, and since the executive will join us for this very special Shabbat. branch of our government is now in conflict with our legislative branch, the Supreme Court has been asked to Shalom u’vracha, adjudicate. Cantor Steven Stern A suit has been brought by Ari and Naomi Zivotofsky, U.S citizens whose son Menachem Binyamin was born at Shaare Zedek in 2002 and who claim the right to have their HOLIDAY CELEBRATION! What’s Up for Shabbat in May? TIKKUN LEIL SHAVUOTH Men’s Club Shabbat - Saturday , May 3 A NIGHT OF LEARNING Dress Down Shabbat— Come casual for our Shabbat services on Friday and Saturday, May 9 & 10. TUESDAY, JUNE 3, @ 7:30 P.M. Simcha Shabbat—We will celebrate all birthdays and Join us at the Bayit anniversaries in the month of May on Saturday, May (117 John Street) 24. Come for a blessing and share your simcha with your TBO/BT family! for an enchanted evening of prayers, Toray study, and dairy desserts. Scholar-in-Residence Shabbat - Friday & Saturday, May 30 & 31 RSVP 732 381 8403 [email protected] 2 11 Nancy Kelner delivered the following D’var Torah on a recent Shabbat morning From The President April "I had the honor of giving the D'var Torah on Saturday, April plan also involves telling the neighbor’s wife that you saw your 26, and was asked to submit it for our Temple neighbor in a bar, being a little too friendly with the barmaid. H a p p y B i r t h d a y ! Shalom, Bulletin. Hope you enjoy it.” Bam! Now you’ve violated Commandment # 9, also, “You Bonnie Altman Karen Langer Nancy Kelner shall not bear false witness.” Holy cow! A double violation! As I write this note to you on a Jerome Baron Benjamin Margulies Shabbat Shalom. I’d like to say a few words about today’s Torah Well, I think you get the idea. Envy can be a slippery slope. glorious April day when the temperature should reach 50 Alex Cammy Helene Miller portion. But is it realistic to expect us to, let alone command us to, not Nikolai Cherenkov Ian Muhlgeier be envious? Are we talking thought-control here? I decided to degrees (only 47 now), I can just Today’s parshah is Kedoshim. It begins: “And the Lord spoke to feel the collective excitement that Ilana Dorsch Arthur Purdy Moses saying, Speak to the entire congregation of the children of check the Internet to see what scholars had to say. Here’s what I Ellen Gietter Shirley Ratner found in Wikipedia regarding Maimonides’ interpretation of winter has (hopefully) finally Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your G-d packed its bags and that summer Bernice Gola Benjamin Saks am holy.” It goes on to repeat many of the Ten Commandments this commandment: will soon be here. I feel the inner William Hausler Joseph Weiner and lists many other things we should and should not do. ‘Maimonides viewed the prohibition of coveting as a fence or joy to be outside. Acknowledging Lorraine Itzkowitz Norma Weinshanker boundary intended to keep adherents a safe distance away from One of the Ten Commandments I didn’t see in the parshah is the this change in seasons also gives Malvina Kohn tenth one, “You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall the very serious sins of theft, adultery, and murder. me the opportunity to reflect on the winter that has just Happy Anniversary! not covet your neighbor's wife, his manservant, his maid-servant, ‘Desire leads to coveting, and coveting leads to stealing. For if passed. We had our challenges with cold temperatures, ice his ox, his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor's.” the owner (of the coveted object) does not wish to sell, even and snow. Through it all we remain active and a vibrant Alan & Wendy Mandelbaum I am fascinated by the word covet. Definitely a word you don’t though he is offered a good price and is entreated to accept, the community. Michael & Laurie Saks hear much in conversation today. If I saw the word covet for the person (who covets the object) will come to steal it, as it is written (Mikha 2:2) [Micah 2:2], 'They covet fields and (then) Your Temple Board still strives to have interesting, exciting Jay & Esther Schlesinger first time, as a retired secretary, my first thought would be TYPO! and entertaining programs to keep us active. It would be (And those of you who type know that the R and the T are next to steal them.' And if the owner approaches him with a view to Joel & Barbara Seltzer impossible to truly communicate my respect and admiration each other on the keyboard.) Maybe G-d meant ‘cover.’ And that reclaiming his money or preventing the theft, then he will come Allan & Rayna Warner for all who serve on your Board.