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Our Minyan Needs Your Help!
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Shabbat Kiddush
Join us for Kiddush on Shabbat. This is the perfect opportunity for us to experience community and get to know each other better.
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Chase Barnett
Bonnie Weisner
Eloise Polinsky
Fred Wolodiger
Jerome Goldfischer
Susan Davis
Jill Rak
Helene Rabin
Joni Rosen
Nancy & Seymour Green
Nili & Alvin Cohen
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Saturday 3/10
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Morning Service 9:30 am
Minha 5:15 pm
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Monday 3/12
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Lecture/Concert - The Story of Yiddish Theatre
12:30 pm
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Thursday 3/15
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Rabbi's Class 10:30 am
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Friday 3/16
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Bible Class 11:30 am
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Torah Rea
ding 560 880 Haftarah 1287
VA-YAK
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After Moses' descent from Mount Sinai with the second set of tablets, he informed the people of God's instructions for the construction of the Sanctuary. Moses also emphasized the importance of refraining from any kind of work on Shabbat. The Israelites responded to Moses' appeal for voluntary contributions of material and assistance most generously; their donations exceeded what was required.
P'KUDEI
The total cost incurred in the construction of the Sanctuary was counted at Moses' command under the direction of Itamar, Aaron's youngest son. The weight of the gold amounted to 29 talents and 730 shekels; of the silver to 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, and of the brass to 70 talents and 2,400 shekels. The work, having been completed with the making of the priestly garments, was inspected and approved by Moses, who blessed the people for their magnificent achievement.
On the first day of the first month (i.e. Nisan, almost a year after the departure from Egypt), the Tabernacle was erected under Moses' personal supervision, and the contents were arranged in the prescribed order. A cloud covered the Tabernacle, which was filled with God's glory. Whenever the cloud lifted it gave the signal to the Israelites to continue their journey.
With the Sidra Pekude we conclude the Book of Exodus
PARAH
From the second scroll we read the Laws of the
PARAH ADUMAH
(Red Cow), which deal with ritual purification. In Temple times, all those who made the pilgrimage to Jerusalem for Passover and wished to partake of the Paschal Lamb, had to be in a state of ritual purity. Reading this passage (the ashes of the cow were used in the purification procedure) within the month preceding Passover served as a reminder to all who were not ritually fit to take the necessary steps if they wished to participate, as Passover was rapidly approaching.
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Remember to Change Your Clocks Tomorrow Night
Spring Forward!
It dawned on me that some of you may be missing a large portion of each week's Shab Sha. When the document gets too long, you can no longer read it as an email; it has to be read on/in the browser (whatever a browser is!).
All you have to do is look at the bottom left at the end of the email: if it says [Message clipped] View entire message--
just
click on it and you will be taken to the complete Shab Sha
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Tonight at 7:00p.m.
Tomorrow morning at 9:30a.m.
Report from our AIPAC participants in the sermon slot
Mincha, S'uda Shlishit, Ma'ariv and Havdalah at 5:15p.m
During S'uda Shlishit we will be reading:
"From Bahrain to Jerusalem"
A Bahraini delegation's trip to Israel is the latest sign of the Gulf monarchies' burgeoning alliance with the Jewish state.
My thanks to all those who filled in for me while I was at AIPAC:
Cantor Zim, Jeff Adler, Diana Yacobi, Evelyn Baer, Sy Green, Alan Herschenfeld
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AIPAC
We had a bumper crop at AIPAC this year-and many of them have already signed up to attend again next year! AIPAC is that good, impressively well-organized and inspiring. Don't take my word for it...
Please ask one of these members about their impressions: Neil Dasgupta, Iris Coleman, Matt Fermaglich, Regina Friedman, Hilda Froelke, Larry Lesh, Tobey Lyden, Nancy Schiff, Richard Schiff, Alan Stern, Charlene Stern, Mordechai Warshavsky, Suzanne Warshvasky.
You can hear about our experiences tomorrow morning at services.
First thing I saw when walking into the "AIPAC Village on the lower level of the Convention Center:
This is no mock-up; this is a full-size, functioning Iron Dome Battery!
And they also had the cockpit/flight simulator of the newest US stealth jet fighter to be delivered to Israel, the F-35.
And along side those weapons were life-saving technologies, like a gamma radiation-absorbing harness that allows workers to enter nuclear disaster sites, like Fukushima, without fear of radiation poisoning, and will allow deep-space travel with equal safety.
In line with the next two articles, I did raise the concern of maintaining Israel as a bi-partisan issue with Congressman Bill Pascrell when we met with him. He said it's not true: there is still overwhelming bi-partisan support. Nevertheless, Rep Pascrell responded positively when I asked him to mentor younger democratic colleagues based on his experiences and in line with his world view.
What is AIPAC's role in the age of Trump?
An increasingly polarized political landscape is the new reality for a lobby that has long banked on bipartisanship.
AIPAC Launches Conference with Appeal to Progressives
AIPAC's message is that bipartisanship is critical to maintaining pro-Israel support.
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This Story Has More Legs!!
I am sure you recall this picture, which Regina Friedman took in a nutmeg factory in Grenada...this is the third and (I think) final time I am printing...
At AIPAC, during the rabbinic lunch, I sat next to the director emeritus of Camp Ramah in the Berkshires, Paul Resnick. (He's the guy whose reaction to seeing this picture was, "Ken, This is crazy!").
He told me over lunch, "Ken, Wait... There is more! I put the picture of the Ramah Berkshires Facebook page, and the mother of a camper saw it, and showed it to her au pair who happens to be from Grenada. It turns out that the au pair knows the woman in the picture!"
And Regina's reaction when I texted her from the lunch? "WOW! Unbelievable!!"
Not even 6° of Separation.
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Train to Help Israel in Times of Emergency
Emergency Volunteers Project (EVP) recruits and trains firefighters, medical personnel and community volunteers to become Emergency First Responders in Israel.
On
Sunday, March 11, 2018,
undergo training at Bergen County Law and Public Safety Institute in Mahwah to be certified by the State of Israel and EVP so you can serve in Israel in the event of a crisis.
Join Federation's Cadre of Certified
Doctors * Firefighters * Nurses * Paramedics * Community Volunteers
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Israeli Culture in North America
Armory Arts Week
Israeli Contemporary
Art
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Room #2253
Orit Hofshi's practice is primarily based on drawing and printmaking, though I frequently experiment and disregard what would be labeled as common formalistic conventions. Much of her work is focused on the relation between nature and social occurrences.
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HEADLINES
Room #2304
Shony Rivnay works in various media including painting, sculpture, video, installation and performance. He has exhibited solo shows around the globe and participated in group shows as well.
Naomi Lev is a writer and curator based in New York. Lev writes about politically infused contemporary art and currently focuses on female artists.
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WRITTEN IN WATER
Curator:
Katya Valevich
Room #2310
Keren Anavy explores the dynamic relationship between nature, culture and site, by challenging the boundaries of painting and drawing as a form of installation. Her works often contain imagery and subject matter that are disconnected from their previous meaning and context, and as a result, transformed into a visual, abstracted experience.
Ronit Levin Delgado explores embodied and ecstatic states of spiritual experience from the ambivalent convoluted and distanced location of being a female, post-Jewish, Israeli-diaspora artist. her process starts with video-performance that leads to making a physical object such as paintings and sculptures serve as a memento from the experience.
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THE MOVIES
Curator: Fiona Felicitas Eltz
Room #2331
Dov Talpaz was born in Bryan, Texas and grew up in Israel. He has exhibited extensively locally and internationally, including recent solo shows at Slag Gallery (NYC) and EGMS Studio (Austria), as well as in group shows at William Holman Gallery (NYC), Fire Barn Gallery (Michigan), and Muskegon Museum of Art
(Michigan), among many others.
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FALSIFIED FAMILIARITY
Curator: Wai Ying Zhao
Room #2334
Zac Hacon has participated in the International Artists Residency at the National Art Studio in Seoul under the Unesco Aschberg Scholarship, the International Artistin-
Residence Program at MeetFactory Studio, Prague,and a fellowship residency at Salem Art Works in
Salem, NY. Hacmon is a current MFA candidate at Hunter College in NYC.
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Gal Cohen's main mediums are painting, drawing and installation. Cohen earned her MFA in Fine Arts at Parsons The New School. Graduated from the B.F.A in Fine Arts from Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem (2009), Cohen studied Gender studies in Tel-Aviv University (2014) and opened an art space in Tel Aviv called "Jaffa ArtCube" where she curated various exhibitions (2015).
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Larry Abramson
(b. 1954) is one of Israel's leading contemporary artists. His work is on permanent display at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and is included in the collections of all of the country's leading museums. Internationally, he has participated in the Venice Biennale and held solo shows in New York, San Francisco, Dusseldorf and Berlin.
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Shai Kremer's
(b. 1974) haunting conceptual series "Smoke Screen" was conceived as a response to living in a world of data and in a present of constantly evolving narratives. The smoke's nebulousness highlights how facts get blurred in today's "post-truth" era. The images evoke a sense of heightened unpredictability.
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Curator: David Gryn
Keren Cytter
spent her childhood in Israel and went on to study visual arts at the Avni Institute of Art and Design, Tel Aviv. After finding success in various galleries in her home country, she moved to Amsterdam on a scholarship from De Ateliers where she studied with Willem de Rooij and Marlene Dumas. Her scope of work includes film, video installations, performance, drawings and photography. She is also a writer of novels, theatre plays and poetry.
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March 8 - 11
SKYLIGHT CLARKSON SQUARE
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MARCH 8, 3:30 PM
Tamar Ettun's four-year series
Mauve Bird with
Yellow Teeth Red Feathers Green Feet and a Rose
Belly explores four primal emotions, each associated
with a primary color: Blue/Empathy, Yellow/
Desire, Pink/Aggression and Orange/Joy. Each
year's body of work has included exhibitions of
Ettun's sculptures and collages, public performances
by
The Moving Company
, and communal
movement workshops with inner-city youth.
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