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A Look Inside Life & Legacy New City Jewish Center October 2020 Help beneit NCJC with your everyday purchases. Support our Hakol advertisers. A Look Inside Life & Legacy ................................................9‐10 NCJC Kadima/USY ..................................... 17‐23 Religious Services ............................................. 2 Shabbat Dinner in the Sukkah ..................... 11 Torah Fund ...................................................... 25 Calendar of Events ........................................... 3 Sisterhood Virtual Cookbook ...................... 12 Men’s Club / Football Pool / Allstars .... 29‐30 Message from Rabbi Graber ...................... 4‐5 Black Out Sukkah Fest ................................... 13 Sisterhood / Gi Shop / Stars ................ 31‐32 Message from Pres. Mike Backelman .......... 6 J. Harold Nissen Awards Recepon ............ 14 Tributes & Donaons ............................... 33‐34 Hebrew School News ................................... 7‐8 ECC Events ....................................................... 15 HAKOL NEW CITY JEWISH CENTER Affiliated with the United Synagogue of Conservave Judaism, The deadline for November Women’s League for Conservave Judaism, Federaon of is October 21, as always Jewish Men’s Clubs and United Synagogue Youth and Kadima. arcles can be early. Office: [email protected] Beatrice L. Snyder Reading Room: [email protected] As always, Hakol welcomes items Senior Rabbi from members of the congregaon David I. Berkman ................................................. [email protected] and synagogue affiliates. All publicity Rabbi must be sent by email to the office Rabbi Daniel Graber ............................................... [email protected] and the editor. Please do not send Rabbi Emeritus Cantor Emeritus original photographs. 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Thursday, October 1, 2020 Sunday, October 11, 2020 Friday, October 23, 2020 Morning Services: 8:30 am Simchat Torah SHAYE HEILBRONN Evening Services: 7:30 pm Shacharit (Hakafot): 10:00 am Morning Services: 8:30 am Mincha/Ma’ariv: 6:30 pm Kabbalat Shabbat: 6:00 pm Friday, October 2, 2020 Holiday Ends: 7:02 pm Candle Lighng: 5:44 pm Erev Sukkot Bat Mitzvah of Shane Heilbronn: 8:00 pm Morning Services: 8:30 am Monday, October 12, 2020 Kabbalat Shabbat: 6:00 pm Morning Services: 8:30 am Saturday, October 24, 2020 Candle Lighng: 6:16 pm Evening Service: 7:30 pm Parashat Noach SEAN HALPERT Saturday, October 3, 2020 Tuesday, October 13, 2020 Morning Services: 10:00 am Sukkot I Morning Services: 8:30 am Mincha/Ma’ariv: 5:16 pm Shacharit: 10:00 am Evening Service: 7:30 pm Mincha/Ma’ariv: 6:30 pm Sunday, October 25, 2020 Candle Lighng aer: 7:14 pm Wednesday, October 14, 2020 Yom HaAliyah Morning Services: 8:30 am Morning Services: 8:30 am Sunday, October 4, 2020 Evening Services: 7:30 pm Evening Services: 7:30 pm Sukkot II Shacharit: 10:00 am Thursday, October 15, 2020 Monday, October 26, 2020 Mincha/Ma’ariv: 6:45 pm Morning Services: 8:30 am Morning Services: 8:30 am End of Yom Tov: 7:13 pm Evening Services: 7:30 pm Evening Services: 7:30 pm Monday, October 5, 2020 Friday, October 16, 2020 Tuesday, October 27, 2020 Sukkot III (Chol Hamoed Sukkot) Morning Services: 8:30 am Morning Services: 8:30 am Morning Services: 8:30 am Kabbalat Shabbat: 6:00 pm Evening Services: 7:30 pm Evening Services: 7:30 pm Candle Lighng: 5:54 pm Wednesday, October 28, 2020 Tuesday, October 6, 2020 Saturday, October 17, 2020 Morning Services: 8:30 am Sukkot IV (Chol Hamoed Sukkot) Parashat Bereshit Evening Services: 7:30 pm Morning Services: 8:30 am SAMANTHA HELMAN Evening Services: 7:30 pm Morning Services: 10:00 am Thursday, October 29, 2020 Mincha/Ma’ariv: 5:26 pm Morning Services: 8:30 am Wednesday, October 7, 2020 Evening Services: 7:30 pm Sukkot V (Chol Hamoed Sukkot) Sunday, October 18, 2020 Morning Services: 8:30 am Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan Friday, October 30, 2020 Evening Services: 7:30 pm Morning Services: 8:30 am Morning Services: 8:30 am Evening Services: 7:30 pm Kabbalat Shabbat: 6:00 pm Thursday, October 8, 2020 Candle Lighng: 5:35 pm Sukkot VI (Chol Hamoed Sukkot) Monday, October 19, 2020 Morning Services: 8:30 am Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan Saturday, October 31, 2020 Evening Services: 7:30 pm Morning Services: 8:30 am Parashat Lech Lecha Evening Services: 7:30 pm Morning Services: 10:00 am Friday, October 9, 2020 Mincha/Ma’ariv: 5:05 pm Hoshanah Rabbahh/Erev Shemini Atzret Tuesday, October 20, 2020 Shacharit: 8:30 am Morning Services: 8:30 am Mincha/Ma’ariv: 6:00 pm Evening Services: 7:30 pm Candle Lighng: 6:06 pm Wednesday, October 21, 2020 Saturday, October 10, 2020 Morning Services: 8:30 am Shemini Atzret/Erev Simchat Torah Evening Services: 7:30 pm Shacharit (Yizkor is said): 10:00 am Mincha/Ma’ariv/Hakafot: 6:45 pm Thursday, October 22, 2020 Candle Lighng aer: 7:03 pm Morning Services: 8:30 am Evening Services: 7:30 pm 3 MESSAGE FROM RABBI GRABER Shalom my NCJC family, This October we will celebrate Sukkot, a fesval which is full of joy following the more austere Yom Kippur. I’ve always appreciated the stark juxtaposion of these two holidays, as they take very different approaches to the same concept of the fragility and uncertainty of life. On Yom Kippur we dwell on the gravity of life’s brief and unknowable nature. We spend the day disconnected from physical needs, like food, and focus on our spirits. By contrast, on Sukkot we build ramshackle huts and dwell outside, acknowledging that everything, even our permanent homes, are temporary. And since everything is temporary, we celebrate what we have with joy and gratude, and sharing what we have by inving guests (in non‐pandemic years). We end the week with Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, tying our mortal existence to the eternal holiness of God and Torah. Many people who build their own sukkah further connect these holidays by immediately beginning to build their sukkah when Yom Kippur ends. Some people hammer in their first nail. I myself begin this process each year by carrying the poles, which hold up my sukkah, out of my garage and out to my yard. This pracce stems from the ancient maxim “Mitzvah haba’ah l’yadecha al tachamitzehnah” ‐ “If an opportunity to do a mitzvah presents itself, do not be slow in performing it”. When we have the opportunity for a mitzvah we should take it! Who knows when we will have this opportunity again. This is the unified message of our Chagim. We have seen
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