Shabbat Afternoon

December 30th, 1:00-2:00 pm

Bennett Clifford

Isis In America: Why and How Americans Join the Islamic State

 

Bennett Clifford is a Researh Fellow for George Washington University's Program on Extremism. The Program is dedicated to producing balanced, empirical analysis of the threat presented to the United States by Islamic extremism.

Sponsored by the Nat Leon Education Fund

with Rabbi Silver

 Tuesday, January 2, 2018

11:00 am (class)

12:00 pm (lunch)

at Shir Chadash

 

Saturday, January 6, 2018

4:00 - 6:00 pm 

4708 Hessmer Ave., Metairie

Join Rabbi Silver at home to meet and get to know our new Shir Chadash Board who will be installed at the community meeting the following day.  There will be time for introductions, schmoozing and of course eating and drinking before making Havdalah together.

 

Growing our Pathway to Joy

 

Did you walk our new brick pathway to the Sukkah this year?  Did you linger to read the bricks put there to honor loved ones and commemorate simchas?  Did you wish that you had ordered a brick too and regret that you hadn't?

 

Now is your chance to do so!

 

We are proud to announce that we are now open for orders for a second round of bricks.  If you order before December 31 your brick will be ready for dedication on Purim (February 28th)  And you will have helped fund Shir Chadash's services, education, programs and vision for next year and all the years to come.

 

Bricks are available in three sizes, and inscriptions may include English and/or Hebrew.  Click  here  for more information and to submit your order.  Or come to the office and Danielle will gladly help you.

 

Rabbi Silver has already ordered Zalman's brick.  Will you place an order too?

 

Lisa Finkelstein, President

Bruce Yaillen, Executive Director

When Do I Sit, When Do I Stand?

A JCC Course at Shir Chadash with Rabbi Silver

 

3 January 2018 7.30pm

Conservative Judaism - Stuck In The Middle?

 

In this session we will consider the genesis of Conservative Judaism in the USA.  Using both text and roleplays we will explore some of its major tenets: its relationship to halakhah, its understanding of the revelation of Torah and the way it makes legal decisions.  We will also consider the worldwide Masorti movement and its relationship to American Conservative Judaism.

 

10 January 2018 7.30pm

The Orchard - Four Ways to Pray

 

It can often be a challenge to pray from a fixed liturgy, particularly when that liturgy is lengthy, complex and hard to infuse with our own spirituality even in translation.  We will use a centuries-old system of interpretation, originally invented by the Rabbis to study Torah, to open up some possibilities of how we might re-energize our communal prayers.

Caring Committee Fund 

Lis & Hugo Kahn

In memory of your sister, Hanne   

Marlene & Reuben Friedman

 

Rachelle Stein & Family    

In memory of your husband, father & grandfather, Terry Stein              

Marlene & Reuben Friedman

 

Children's Fund

Judy & Bruce Yaillen          

Congratulations on your 35 anniversary       

Shirley & Ralph Seelig

 

Fred Bronfin Torah Preservation Fund

Eileen Wallen       

Happy Birthday! 

Shirley & Ralph Seelig

 

General Fund

Eileen Wallen       

Happy Birthday! 

Marsha & Scott Zander

 

Sylvia & Israel Finger          

Welcome Eden Schwarz

Marsha & Scott Zander

 

Jeannine Burk     

In honor of your presentation about the Holocaust on December 14, 2017        

Fisher Middle-High School

 

Shir Chadash Officers, Board & Advisors!     

You have a wonderful path to build on and I know that you will add significance  achievements of your own.              

Warm regrets, Joan Berenson

 

Herbert J. Garon Memorial Fund for Ramah Darom & USY Israel Programs

Lis & Hugo Kahn

Condolences on the loss of your sister, Hanne           

Robin Levy & Bobby Garon

 

Rachelle Stein & Family    

Condolences on the loss of husband, father & grandfather, Terry Stein              

Robin Levy & Bobby Garon

 

Lagniappe Fund 

Rachelle Stein, Stacey Stein & Sandra, Ronald & Cecelia Price                

Condolences on the loss of your husband, father and grandfather, Terry Stein                 

Caron Bleich

 

Sandy Kahn Memorial Lecture Fund

Lis & Hugo Kahn

In memory of your sister, Hanne Jensen      

Shirley & Ralph Seelig

 

Lis & Hugo Kahn

In memory of your sister, Hanne   

Irene & Sheldon Hersh

 

Yahrzeit Fund

In memory of Bertha Lansky            

Celia Weinstein

In memory of Johannah Kahn

Hugo & Lis Kahn