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Free Friday Delivery to DHJC Parking lot. Door to Door Delivery Available Upon 2020 © Ronald M. Dragoon Request for a $10.00 Delivery Fee. 3 RABBI’S CLASSES & BOOK REVIEWS A series of multi session courses on a variety of topics including Torah, History and Talmud. These courses are open to everyone in the community & meet weekly unless otherwise noted. MONDAYS - Dec. 7, 14, 21, Jan. 4, 11, 18, 25 WEEKLY TORAH PORTIONS @ 8:30 PM A thirty-minute conversation about the Torah Portion of the week. How the Torah guides us through this turbulent pandemic time with insights from history, culture and art, the wisdom of the rabbinic sages and the meaning of the portion in the light of our current times defined by Covid19. TUESDAYS - Dec. 1, 8, 15, 22, Jan. 5, 12, 19, 26 TALMUD WITH RABBI @ 7:00 PM The powerful teaching of Tractate of Moed Katan studied in English translation. Topics include: prayer, theology, rituals & observances. 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Sydney, 2005: Annika Barnett sets out on a journey that takes her to Budapest and Tel Aviv to discover the truth about the mysterious man who rescued her grandmother in 1944. January 5, 2021 SPIES OF NO COUNTRY: SECRET LIVES AT THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL by Matti Friedman Journalist and award‐winning author Matti Friedman’s tale of Israel’s first spies reads like an espionage novel‐‐but it’s all true. The four agents at the center of this story were part of a ragtag unit known as the Arab Section, conceived during World War II by British spies and Jewish militia leaders in Palestine. Intended to gather intelligence and carry out sabotage operations, the unit consisted of Jews who were native to the Arab world and could thus easily assume Arab identities. 4 DHJCNEWS From Our Rabbi Dear Friends: Committee calls Americans at two a.m. is opinions - gravity is a scientific reality in our truly a mystery!) and shared that he and his terrestrial world. And as Senator Moynihan Self-evident truths can be fellow researcher, Dr. Paul Milgrom were of NY stated unequivocally, “Everyone found in both ordinary and sharing the Nobel in Economics. They then is entitled to his own opinion, no one is extraordinary moments. inquired if Dr. Wilson knew how to contact entitled to his own facts.” We need to, as a Two images from Nobel Dr. Milgrom as the provided contact number community, as a country, strive to push the prize winners capture the was not working. With that, Dr. Wilson and reset button and discover common ground strength that Jewish values his wife walked next door as he and Paul in reality, not in fictions or malevolent and wisdom bring to the Milgrom not only research together, they are conspiracy theories - many of which are world in every generation. also next-door neighbors. A Nest video cam fallacious fig leaves for horrific anti-Semitic This year, as in many, the number of Jewish captures Dr. Wilson and his wife knocking on and hate filled propaganda. Nobel laureates is far disproportionate to Dr. Milgrom’s door and as he finally arrives our actual population numbers. In fact, The second principle of science and Judaism at the door, they shout through the closed more than 200 of the over 900 Nobel Prizes in harmonious agreement is what I refer to as door, “Paul, we have won the Nobel Prize ever awarded have been presented to those the calculus of humanity - that lies divide and in Economics!” Most compelling is that the identified as being Jewish. truth multiplies. Falsehoods create divisions Nest front door video not only captures this and chasms, while truths are the foundations The first image is from a Shabbat morning poignant scene, but also most prominently to raise our families and create a more just while I was in college. As usual, I arrived on seen in the video is Dr. Milgrom’s front door society. time to the nearby Conservative synagogue mezuzah! and before beginning prayers, the Rabbi This is the wisdom of both Science and Judaism and science, faith and physics announced that today we would have an Judaism - to choose wisely and be guided by coexist. There is no gulf or divide in Judaism opportunity to offer a bracha/blessing rarely factual realities. Minds and parachutes both between belief and science. Judaism has recited. The blessing Rabbi Yaakov Hilsenrath work well when fully opened is a maxim never challenged the Galileos of the world. reminded us at that moment was: “Barukh well worth remembering. The journey of From the words of the Torah to modernity, Atta Adonai Elohaynu Melekh Ha-Olam the Jewish people through time has been to normative Judaism and science have always Sh’natanmay Hachmatol Vasarv’dam.” Praised illuminate our world with more faith, truth, been synergistic and in harmony. The are You, God, Sovereign of the World, Who justice and wisdom. We counter dark ages language of Creation is certainly crafted in allocates Divine Wisdom to humanity. in every generation. May we continue to poetic brush strokes placing humanity at the guide our community and our country with This is a prayer stated when in the presence pinnacle of Creation and God as the creative wisdom and truth that will bring more light, of a great scholar, a brilliant person, a process in the evolution of our world. harmony and justice into our world and in luminary renowned for their extraordinary Stephen Jay Gould, for years a professor at the process bring much needed healing.