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Our Minyan Needs Your Help!
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Shabbat Kiddush
Hilda Froelke and her daughter, Ashlen Mijal Kalolewski, have enhanced today's kiddush in memory of husband and father, Donald Richard Froelke.
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Myra London
Hannah Rak
Loren Wasserman
Karen Brady
Irith Insler
Robert Mohl
Lisa & Gary Maier
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Saturday 2/10
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Morning Service 9:30 am
Minha 4:45 pm
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Thursday 2/15
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Rabbi's Class CANCELLED
Visiting Scholar
Janet DiNardo White
1:00 pm
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Torah Rea
ding
465, 523 Haftarah 1276
MISHPATIM
Following the Decalogue (Ten Commandments), a series of laws in concise form is given to the Israelites. These include regulations governing the master-servant relationship, capital offenses, bodily injury, and damage to property, negligence, theft, marital law, and treatment of the stranger, orphan, widow, debtor and animals. The application and effectiveness of these laws is dependent upon the integrity of witnesses and judges; their truthfulness and objectivity must be assured.
Mitzvot
regulating food and agriculture are also dealt with - first fruits and firstborn must be dedicated to God. Meat of an animal torn by beasts may not be eaten. The land must lie fallow every seventh year. Everyone - including servants - must rest on the Sabbath. Pilgrimage to the Sanctuary must be made on Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot. A kid may not be boiled in its mother's milk.
The people enthusiastically accept God's laws. Moses, the priests and the elders witness a mystical vision of God's glory. God commands Moses to ascend Mount Sinai to receive the tablets on which the Ten Commandments are inscribed. While Moses remains on the mount for forty days, Aaron and Hur will govern the people.
SH'KALIM
This morning marks the first of five special Shabbatot that precede Passover. From the second Torah Scroll we read a passage describing the requirement for all males above the age of twenty to remit a half-shekel coin (hence the name
sh'kalim) -
a capitation "tax"
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which was due annually on the first of Nisan. It became the custom to read this passage in the Synagogue on, or just before, the first of Adar as a reminder to the people that the half-shekel was due within one month.
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And AIPAC Isn't Only About Politics and Hi-Tech:
WE WILL BE AT THE AIPAC POLICY CONFERENCE!
Three Heroes from Israel with their guide dogs will be attending AIPAC. Please stop by our booth in "The Village"
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March 3rd, 4th & 5th
In Washington, DC
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Be sure to tell us that you are a donor
and receive a special gift!
(While supplies last)
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Please Join Me at AIPAC, March 4-6
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Tonight at 7:00 pm
A very special service; A very special Oneg - you won't want to miss either one!
Tomorrow morning at 9:30 am
We are on a roll: three weeks in a row with a sponsored Kiddush!
Maybe you would like to sponsor - or co-sponsor - in honor of a birthday or anniversary, or in memory of the beloved relative or friend? A sponsored kiddush is a wonderful way to mark any of these significant days in your life.
Tomorrow afternoon at 4:45 pm
Last weekend I watched a series of short Holocaust documentaries on HBO on Demand, in which kids interview Holocaust survivors. The overall title is The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm.
You can watch all 6 of them for free here:
One of the survivors talks about going to Kielce after liberation. As soon as I heard that I blurted out, "There was a pogrom in Kielce after the war." There is no disputing that Polish Gentiles murdered returning Jewish survivors.
This pogrom is one among many controversial issues being raised by a new Polish law that, in part, seeks to disassociate Poles and Poland from the Nazis - and rightly so.
Germany Alone Was Responsible for the Holocaust, Its Foreign Minister Says
But this law also seeks to indemnify and whitewash despicable Polish Gentile acts of treachery and cruelty.
On Shabbat afternoon we will begin to read a series of three articles on this topic, starting with a piece in Wednesday's New York Times:
Poland's "Death Camp" Law Tears at Shared Bonds of Suffering with Jews. That will be followed by two essays by David Harris, the American Jewish Committee's CEO:
Poland and the Jewish World: A Defining Moment, and Polish-Jewish Relations: A Case Study in What Can Go Wrong - and a Call for Moderation.
Please join us!
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Talmud and Tangents
No class next week, but tune in next Friday for a summary of what we did yesterday-and what you missed!
Heads-Up: Next week's shab sha will be greatly abbreviated.
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This Week's Important Read
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Israel and Her "Neighbors"
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Join JTS faculty for live, interactive online mini-courses this spring. Encounter compelling scholarship that brings
Jewish text and wisdom to bear on contemporary issues.
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All sessions take place from 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET. Advance registration required.
Sessions are recorded.
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UPCOMING ONLINE MINI-COURSES:
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VILNA: THE RISE, FALL, AND AFTERLIFE OF THE JERUSALEM OF LITHUANIA
Dr. David Fishman, Professor of Jewish History
Tuesdays, January 30, February 6, 13, 2018
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HALAKHAH IN A CHANGING WORLD: AN INSIDER'S GUIDE TO THE LAW COMMITTEE
Rabbi Daniel Nevins, Pearl Resnick Dean of The Rabbinical School and the Division of Religious Leadership
Tuesdays, February 27, March 6, 13, 2018
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FINDING MEANING IN THE BOOK OF PSALMS
Dr. Benjamin Sommer, Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages
Tuesdays, April 10, 17,
May 1, 2018
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PERETZ/KAFKA/CHAGALL: A JEWISH MODERNIST TRIPTYCH
Dr. Barbara Mann, Simon H. Fabin Professor of Jewish Literature
Tuesdays, May 8, 15, 22, 2018
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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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Discover how music helped Israel find its cultural identity during its formative years in this inspiring new play by award-winning Gramophone and Time magazine journalist James Inverne.
Directed by Andrew Leynse.
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Serving a life sentence in one of Israel's toughest prisons, Mikki Levy never thought he'd ever see the light of day. But when's he's released early on a technicality, Mikki moves to New York hoping for a fresh start. Living with his uncle in a Brooklyn, the harsh reality of life as an ex-con sets in and he gets dragged into a brutal turf war with the Russian mob forcing him to revisit his dark past and the survival skills he learned in prison. Mikki aggressively ascends the ranks of the underworld, but his tenacious drive may be the cause of his demise.
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Two of the greatest violinists of our time in one concert. Itzhak Perlman a compelling, vital artist and Pinchas Zukerman a classical phenomenon as violinist, violist, conductor and chamber musician.
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Experience the music of Naomi Shemer, the "First Lady" of Israeli song and poetry, through a live performance by Israeli Singer Ariella Edvy and an ensemble of musicians from MusicTalks.
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The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in partnership with the National Library of Israel will explore these shared ideas and transmutations of imagery as expressed through Islamic manuscripts from the 11th through 18th centuries, a particularly rich and fertile period for these works.
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Written and directed by Shmulik Maoz, this Israeli-German-French film is a powerful rumination of the lunacy of war, starring Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler and Yonatan Shirai. Foxtrot took home the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, reaped eight Ophir Awards at Israel's 2017 Academy Awards, and was shortlisted for the Best Foreign Language Film nomination for the 2018 Oscars.
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February 15 | 6:30 PM
Admission is free reservations are required
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Filmmakers Yael Perlov and Yariv Mozer accidentally discovered six hours of unseen footage of an interview with David Ben-Gurion, which provides some of the material for this film.
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After 15 years as leader of The Idan Raichel Project, international music icon Idan Raichel recently began focusing on the basic essence of his songs with a solo piano concert. Exclusively for his performance in New York, Raichel has invited a diverse group of special guests to join him on stage at various points during the evening.
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February 22 | 1:00 PM
Free and open to the public
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This platform offers a work-per-work barter between artists and writes and created by writer and curator Naomi Lev in 2017.
Lev writes about politically infused contemporary art, and currently focuses on female artists. As a curator she specializes in organizing collaborative art events that connect artists, curators, and scholars from around the globe.
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