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Our Minyan Needs Your Help!
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Shabbat Kiddush
Iris & Jonathan Fox have enhanced today's Kiddush in
celebration of their 50th Wedding Anniversary.
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Lotte Pick
Vida Story
Emanuel Rabin
Samuel Ginsburg
David Pitchkhadze
Fred Starr
Ann & Peter Bloch
Iris & Jonathan Fox
Karen & Irwin Meyers
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Saturday 12/23
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Morning Service 9:30 am
Minha 4:00 pm
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Sunday 12/24
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No Hebrew School
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Monday 12/25
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Office Closed
Morning Service 9:00 am
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Friday 12/29
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Bible Study 11:30 am
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Join me at AIPAC
March 4- 6
Watch this video that captures it all:
and then please call me to register!
Sutherland Springs, Texas
About 110 members of the Congregation signed the letter wishing the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs hope and healing. Our letters and the enclosed gift were mailed out on Tuesday afternoon and arrived in time for Christmas
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Torah Rea
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279 Haftarah 291
VA-YIGGASH
Judah approaches Joseph and delivers an impassioned plea, asking that Benjamin, who was framed for having stolen Joseph's chalice, be allowed to return to their aged father. Judah offers himself in place of his youngest half-brother. At this point Joseph can no longer contain himself and he reveals his true identity to his brothers. Joseph reassures them that their role in his disappearance was God's will: it has allowed him to save Egypt from starvation during the famine which will continue for another five years. It will also allow Joseph to bring their entire family from Canaan to Egypt where they will have sufficient food. The brothers embrace; all is forgiven.
Joseph lavishes gifts upon his brothers and sends wagons to convey Jacob and the Israelite household to Egypt. On the way down to Egypt Jacob stops at Be'er Sheva, where God assures him that his descendants will return to Canaan.
The reunion between father and son is quite emotional. Joseph presents his father and several of his brothers to Pharaoh, who extends an invitation to them to settle in Goshen.
The famine becomes more and more severe. When the people have no more money with which to buy food, they exchange their cattle and their land for provisions. Many move from the countryside to the city to be close to the food storage and distribution centers. Those who remain on the land are permitted to till it as long as they remit one-fifth of their produce to Pharaoh's treasury. The Israelites, living apart from the Egyptians, prosper in Goshen.
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Tonight at 7:00 p.m.
Tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m.
Minha tomorrow afternoon at 4:00 p.m.
During S'udah Shlishit, we read Alan Dershowitz's is take on the President's motivation in recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital. I'm pretty sure Dershowitz is wrong. It should be an interesting discussion... Why not join us?
What to Do this Sunday Night / Monday...
Well, after you come to support the minyan (7:45 p.m., 9:00 a.m.; 7:45 p.m.)...
You might:
'Twas the Night Before Holiday
Don't pretend Christmas isn't Christmas. It's an opportunity to shore up who we are as Jews
December 25 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage 10 AM - 6 PM
* Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann (Closes Jan 14)
* New Dimensions in Testimony
* My Name Is... The Lost Children of Kloster Indersdorf (Closes Jan 12)
Adult and family-friendly tours are free with Museum admission. The Museum's restaurant, LOX at Café Bergson, will be open during Museum hours.
Denmark's Jewish Christmas Cookie
This holiday season, make 'Jødekager,' a Snickerdoodle-esque cookie made by Jewish bakeries in Copenhagen since the 17th Century
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Jerusalem
Bernard-Henri Levy: Trump, Jerusalem, and the Jews
The Palestinian Cause Has Lost Its Resonance
Why the Palestinians Have Never Felt So Despondent Blame poor leaders, distracted neighbors and a stalled peace process.
Was it cheap politics or historical concern and fellow-feeling that motivated the president to declare his allegiance to the millennial capital?
Abbas, whose doctorate denied the Holocaust and who accused rabbis of poisoning Palestinian water, is no stranger to anti-Semitic remarks
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Amb. Nikki Haley Received a Sustained Standing Ovation at AIPAC last March-before she even opened her mouth. Here's why:
"What is troublesome to some people is that the United States had the courage and honesty to recognize a fundamental reality," Ambassador Haley told the Security Council. "Jerusalem has been the political, cultural, and spiritual homeland of the Jewish people for thousands of years. They have had no other capital city. But the United States' recognition of the obvious - that Jerusalem is the capital and seat of the modern Israeli government - is too much for some."
The U.S. last used its veto power six years ago. "The fact that this veto is being done in defense of American sovereignty and in defense of America's role in the Middle East peace process is not a source of embarrassment for us," said Haley. "It should be an embarrassment to the remainder of the Security Council."
"The United States will not be told by any country where we can put our embassy," said Haley, adding the resolution and council proceedings were "an insult" that "won't be forgotten."
"If the United Nations' history in the peace efforts proves anything, it is that talking in New York cannot take the place of face-to-face negotiations between the regional parties. It only sets back the cause of peace, not advance it," said Haley.
Here are a few headlines about yesterday's vote in the General Assembly.
- Why the UN Defeat Isn't as Bad as It Looks
- Analysis of the UN Vote on Jerusalem-The Silver Lining
- Significant Number of States Stood with Truth, Morality, and Justice
- UN Vote on Jerusalem Highlighted Pockets of Support for Israel
I think they all get it wrong. Yesterday's lopsided vote was not as bad as many previous anti-Israel votes, and part of the reason for that may have been the President's threat. So this may have been more of a vote about the United States and about Israel; we shouldn't read anything positive or more encouraging into it.
On the other hand, this resolution was a lot milder than many others that garnered larger anti-Israel majorities.
Finally, let's remember that these votes in the General Assembly are largely symbolic; they have no teeth; they don't really matter. And even last year's vote in the Security Council, which the United States decided not to veto, has had no meaningful effect.
As I wrote last week, it's a tempest in a teapot.
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4 Videos:
A Brief History of the Jewish Claim to Jerusalem
The Evidence that Jerusalem Is Jewish
The Origins of the Name "Palestine" - Every Synagogue in the World Faces Jerusalem
Israel Has a Better Legal Title and Will Safeguard the Holy Sites of All Faiths in Jerusalem
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Decision to boycott Israel orchestrated by a small cadre of academics who infiltrated the ASA's nominating committee and leadership to demonize the Jewish state.
Is the BDS Movement Failing? Depends on Your Definition of Success.
Israel's haters on campus are less and less effective in stopping institutions from collaborating with the Jewish state, but increasingly good at making Israeli speakers feel unwelcome
Not barred was the Palestinian Authority ambassador to Britain, who had choice words about Jews and the Holocaust
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BOOK REVIEWS
Robert P. Barnidge, Jr., Self-Determination, Statehood, and the Law of Negotiation: The Case of Palestine by Joseph S. Spoerl
- Eunice G. Pollack, ed., From Antisemitism to Antizionism: The Past and Present of a Lethal Ideology by Joseph S. Spoerl
- Yossi Katz, The Land Shall Not Be Sold in Perpetuity by Yisrael Medad
- Tuvia Tenenbom, The Lies They Tell: A Journey through America by Rivkah Fishman-Duker
- Jeremiah Unterman, Justice for All: How the Jewish Bible Revolutionized Ethics by Abba Engelberg
- Moshe Halbertal, Maimonides: Life and Thought by Abba Engelberg
- Andras Kovacs ed., Communism's Jewish Question: Jewish Issues in Communist Archives by Amnon Lord
- Albert Londres, The Wandering Jew has Arrived by Edward Alexander
- Yosef Govrin, Reflections on my Mission as Israel's Ambassador - To Austria, Slovenia and Slovakia by Avigdor Shachan
- Philippe Val, Hide that Identity Which I Can Not Bear to See by Michelle Mazel
- Itamar Rabinovich, Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman by Amb. Freddy Eytan
- Nir T. Boms, Expat-ing Democracy: Dissidents, Technology and Democratic Discourse in the Middle East by Miroslav Zafirov
Click here for upcoming Federation programming in our area. 
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Dear Friends of Ramah,
Now that the chagim have ended, there's no denying that summer is over and fall is well underway. But if you miss Ramah, please take a look at these upcoming opportunities to spend time with the Ramah community:
family camps, adult camps and retreats, travel with Ramah Israel Institute and Reshet Ramah, and programs for families who have children with disabilities.
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Travel with Ramah Israel Institute (RII) and Reshet Ramah
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Families with Children with Disabilities
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