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March 2011 Adar I-Adar II 5771 Vol. 81, No. 6 meach! Purim Sa Sa m m ri ea u ch P ! Our “4th A “Magical” Purim Celebration Friday” Shabbat Join us at Wornall on Saturday, March 19, 8 pm for a community Purim Dinners will celebration and service with Ohev Sholom. Pull your best joke out of a hat continue and bring it with you to share. There will be unbelievable hamantashen on Friday, March 25 at 6 pm for all! Then, bring your family of all ages dressed in costume to Lamar with a Tefillah 2000 Service in the on Sunday morning, March 20, 8:30 am, to listen to the Megillah and Rosenblum Library and a Chapel partake in the mitzvah of a Purim Seudah (feast) and even more unbelievable Service in the Katz Chapel at the hamantashen. To complete the mitzvot of Purim, bring a box of kosher Wornall Campus. A delicious Italian macaroni and cheese to shake like a gragger and then donate to Yachad-The Dinner (by reservation) catered by Kosher Food Pantry. Reservations for the Purim Seudah are due March 14. Kosher Connection will follow the See the February Purim Magic! Schedule service. Please see insert. Scroll for a This dinner will be subsidized through the reservation form or Saturday, March 19 - Wornall generosity of an anonymous donor. If you would click here. 6 pm Minchah like to donate so dinners can continue to be 8 pm Ma’ariv subsidized, please contact [email protected]. 8:15 pm Havdalah & Megillah In This Issue: Reading with Ohev Sholom Pesach Is Coming! From the Hazzan.... 2 Sunday, March 20 - Lamar Pesach is right around the corner. Transition Update... 3 Check out our many preparation 8:30 am Shacharit Services Lechem.................. 4 offerings as well as events to participate 9:30 am Megillah reading in during the week of Passover: Confirmation Class. 5 * Purim costume parade for Magicians of all ages Kindergarten * Purim Shpiel presented by the Lead a Passover Seder, p. 2 Roundup........ 5 Monday Journeys magicians Sarah Peltzman Classes, p. 2 Purim Fun.............. 8 * LaMishpachah programming for young families Attend the Community Seder, p. 10 Sisterhood............10 10:30 am Purim Seudah, Feast (reservations required) SH’s Torah Fund Luncheon, p. 10 SH Calendar......... 12 in Goldsmith Hall Passover Service Schedule p. 11 www.bethshalomkc.org | 913-647-7279 March 2011 From the Hazzan’s Study Purim Is A Time for Laughter! Click on the When did we learn that Judaism is serious so much of our tradition, the kernel Hazzan & Listen To Stop: business? When did we become convinced of truth has been surrounded by Right Click, then that in order to draw closer to God we had fences protecting us. Reverence Disable Content to grimace and cry and cower? When did for God has been extended to be concentration on God come to mean a reverence for everything religious, furrowed brow rather than a smile? At Sinai, making play impossible, making we beheld God and we were afraid. lightness of heart an aberration. At some point, someone interpreted The Torah does not provide a model of the wait for Mashiach as a weight for Mashiach, and levity for us. Rather, we are told that God is Judaism became painfully heavy. awesome and dangerous. Where is the laughter? Where is the joy? Count the number of times we dance for joy in Throw off that weight! Purim is coming and it's time to the Tanakh. Not many. remember that the world may not be what we think it is. It's time to laugh. Megillat Esther is different. It is humorous, ridiculous, impossible. It institutes a holiday which is joyful and playful. It is a reminder that the way to God is not a path Hazzan Robert Menes of broken glass, but can be light and fun. Why not? Like [email protected] | 913-647-7296 Join us for a Magical Purim Celebration on March 19 & 20. See page 1. Parashah Class - Rabbi Stein-Wornall Beth Shalom Lead a Passover Seder -Lamar Opportunities Saturdays, Mar. 5, 19, Apr. 2, 9 am Adult Education Thursday, Apr. 7, 7:30 pm Adult Hebrew Classes -Lamar Sarah Peltzman Classes -Lamar Mishnah Study Break Sundays, Mar. 6, 27, Apr. 3 Tuesdays, Mar. 1, 8, 15, 22, Apr. 5, 10 am -Lathrop & Gage, 2345 Grand, #280, K.C. Clip and Save Wednesdays, Mar. 2, 23, 30, Apr. 6 Eat & Educate -Village Shalom Thursday, Mar. 10, 12 pm (See web or school office for specific times) Thursdays, Mar. 3, 10, 17*, 24, 31, 12 pm Walking With the Jewish Calendar * Ta’anit & Educate - Fast Day Wednesday, Mar. 9, 11:30 am -JCC Adult Education Updates Calling All Learners! A “Taste” of Sarah What would you like Peltzman Classes to study next year? Lead a Passover Seder Sisterhood’s Sarah Peltzman classes What courses or lectures would you Put a new and interesting spark into will continue on Tuesdays in March like to attend at Beth Shalom? The your Passover seder this year. Add a at 10 am, Lamar Campus (see class Adult Education committee is going deeper meaning, understanding and dates above.) Everyone is welcome to convene and welcome new ideas, insight. Join Hazzan Menes when he to join us to study and discuss the people and programs. Watch for leads this workshop at 7:30 pm sources and meanings details on the date and time. For on Thursday, April 14, Lamar of Passover rules and more information, contact Vivien Campus. Come and learn “How traditions. Questions? Schlozman at 913-677-0019 or to Lead a Passover Seder.” For more Contact Berenice, [email protected]. details, please contact Jill Goldstein, 913-894-6697 or [email protected]. [email protected]. Berenice Haberman & Charlotte Ruben, Sisterhood Education Co-Chairs 2 March 2011 www.bethshalomkc.org | 913-647-7279 Keep Informed Transition Progress We want to keep you informed so we Update… have established a page on the CBS website for you to keep up on Ritual Committee Update our progress as 5772/2011Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur services will take place at the we transition Jewish Community Campus, allowing two simultaneous services and youth from the Wornall to Lamar Campus. To get to this activities to accommodate the entire Beth Shalom community. While the page: Go to www.bethshalomkc.org. Lamar building will be our ritual home, we recognize that we will need to provide alternate locations for events which exceed Lamar’s capacity. Next, look to the right of the screen in the box Arrangements are being finalized for options for B’nei Mitzvah which are “Quick Links” g. estimated to exceed our capacity. These details will be shared first with B’nei Click on “Transition” Mitzvah families from August 2011 through July 2012. which is the last item on the list. g The subcommittee evaluating the daily minyan location, led by Steve Flekier, This will take you to a page where is exploring options and will have a recommendation for the ritual committee you can read about our progress. and board later this spring. Check the Beth Shalom webiste for updates. Questions or concerns, please email [email protected]. Michael Bodker, KCUSY President Youth & Informal Education Moriah Abrams, Kadima President Stefanie Williams, Director | [email protected] | 913-647-7292 Join KCUSY at Spring Kallah Alice in the Holy Land by Hannah Azorsky and Emi Adler KCUSY’s Purim Carnival Spring Kallah is the final regional convention of the USY year. We get to say goodbye to the graduating class and Sunday share in their memories about their years in USY, take part in regional elections March 6 and receive chapter awards. Some of our 11:30 am - favorite memories were going to Spring Kallah knowing no one and then sharing 2 pm a cabin with 14 girls who became some Lamar Campus • Goldsmith Hall Hannah Azorsky Emi Adler of our closest friends! As it is a smaller convention, it feels as if we have a great opportunity to get to know everyone! Beth Shalom Youth Events: We travel Thursday night, so we can start first thing Friday morning and we have Wednesday Night Programs lots of time for the amazing programming that takes place over the weekend! 6:15-8 pm -Lamar One of the best things about USY is that it is youth led. Because the programs March 2, 23, 30 are created and led by our peers, they are always engaging and awesome!! Services & Special Programs Clip and Save Friday, March 4 – 4 pm KCUSY has been lucky enough to have representation on the regional board Grand Court, 119th & Lamar – for over the past 12 years! It is so important to have representatives on the Kabbalat Shabbat board so our voice is always easily heard. This year, we have two executive Friday, March 18 – 4 pm KCUSY board members and two of our chapter board members Village Shalom – Kabbalat Shabbat running for the upcoming year! It’s so much fun – please come Kadima Kinnus, 7th & 8th grade (April 14-April 17 at Lake Doniphan in Excelsior Springs, MO) support our Friday-Sunday, March 11-13 chapter and have a fun, Jewish weekend!!! Click here for registration forms. 1:30 pm - Leave from Youth Lounge 3 March 2011 www.bethshalomkc.org | 913-647-7279 Rose Family Early Childhood Education Center Judy Jacks Berman, Director | [email protected] | 913-647-7287 Beth Shalom RFEC In The Loop... Create an Experience to Last a Lifetime Shabbat Music, 9 am Hilary Clinton reminded us that “... it takes a village Fridays, Mar.