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Our Minyan Needs Your Help!
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KIDDUSH
Today's kiddush is sponsored by
Meredith Stern &
Ken Hattem in honor of their daughter Ella's Bat Mitzvah
Mazal Tov!
Birthdays & Anniversaries
May 6th - May 12th
Daniel Kraut
Richard
Levy
Richard Schiff
Peter Bloch
Jordan Leon
Solomon Arbeiter
Adrian Osian
Jean Burnick
Joe Speiser
Marc Rosenberg
Ronald Schechter
Paul Zim
William & Phyllis Lowe
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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5/6
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Evening Service 7:30pm
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5/9
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SIR, Sisterhood, and ORT
Lecture - Concert featuring
Diane Cypkin 12:30 pm
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5/10
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SIR Lecture Series
"A Lens on Israel" 1:00 pm
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5/11
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On the Road with the Rabbi 10:00 am RSVP Required
Rabbi's Class Cancelled
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5/12
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Bible Study 11:30 am
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This Shabbat
Tonight at 7:00 PM: musical service in the Chapel
Tomorrow morning at 9:00 A.M. will celebrate the bat mitzvah of
Ella Claire Hattem. Mazal Tov to her and her parents!
Minha is tomorrow "afternoon" at 7:30 PM. Barring any late-breaking news we will be reading a New York Times op Ed
Does Feminism Have Room for Zionists? I bring this to you because it's graduation season, and the City University Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy has invited Linda Sarsour,
executive director of the Arab American Association of New York to be the keynote speaker (she of the cleanup of the desecrated Missouri Jewish cemetery....), who, for our purposes, is the person who claimed that unabashed supporters of Israel cannot be feminists.
Today is the 24th day of the Omer, and...Counting the Days of the Omer, Up or Down
Cancer patients find a new perspective on the present and the future in the Jewish ritual of counting the Omer.
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From last year's celebration...
Paying Terrorists' Families - Helping the Victims' Families
There is a bill wending its way through Congress, named for Taylor Force, the 28-year-old American Army veteran who was stabbed to death on the Tel Aviv
Midrachov last year, that would withhold funding for the Palestinian Authority unless/until they stop making payments to the families of those who committed acts of terror in Israel. (In last week's Shab Sha! I brought your attention a similar effort that is now underway in England following the murder of a young British citizen by Palestinian terrorist).
This article comes from the Jewish Agency, and I couldn't help but note the contrast and the priorities...
This piece, from yesterday's New York Times, about the Trump-Abbas meeting makes brief mention of the Palestinian payments to terrorists' families. Most disturbing to me that the two historical inaccuracies the article contains. Right off the bat, its author claims that prior to the Balfour Declaration, there was peace and harmony between Jews and Arabs in Palestine. That is patently false. And Abbas, in his remarks stated that the Palestinians are the only remaining occupied people. There are plenty of other peoples whose claims are stronger than the Palestinians, who would take issue with that remark (Kurdistan, Tibet, Northern Cyprus, to name a few).
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You may have heard that Prime Minister Netanyahu declined to meet with Germany's visiting Foreign Minister because he also scheduled a meeting with a dissident group of former IDF veterans
, Breaking the Silence, who gather testimonies about Israeli military mistreatment and misdeeds in the territories, and then publicize them in other countries. Here's a New York Times editorial on the topic, followed by an explanatory (somewhat) peace by my good friend, Danny Gordis:
And here is an article that we read a couple of weeks ago at Shabbat Minhaabout Richard Gere's visit to Hebron as a guest of
Breaking the Silence, and the fallacy of some the remarks that he made there (apologies for the fact that the translation leaves a bit to be desired):
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How's
this for a reasonable approach to trying
to move the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate off dead center?
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Anti-Semitism and BDS:
Minnesota Legislature Approves anti-BDS Measure
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Yom haAtzmaut was on Tuesday...
Two Yom haAtzmaut "Presents" for Masorti and Pluralism:
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On going film -- Various Venues
MR. GAGA
follows choreographer Ohad Naharin at a critical turning point in his personal life. This spirited and insightful documentary will introduce you to a man with great artistic integrity and an extraordinary vision. Mr. Gaga tells Naharin's personal story of this controversial, political, and always entertaining figure, and his constant battle for artistic perfection. Eight years in the making, Mr. Gaga traces Ohad Naharin's artistic roots using personal family footage, intimate rehearsal footage, extensive unseen archive material and stunning dance sequences. Heymann weaves a marvelous tale of what it takes to be a genius, the exhausting toll dance can take on its performers, and finally, the beauty that art can bring to this world.
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A group of young adults with Down syndrome embark on a demanding trip through the Himalayas accompanied by their typically abled siblings, bringing unresolved challenges to the surface. Winner, Best Documentary, Jerusalem Film Festival.
as part of
Reelabilities
- the largest festival in the country dedicated to awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with disabilities.
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Creative Action Network
Creative Action Network and the Anti-Defamation League are teaming up to invite artists to illustrate refugee stories from across time and geography. Maybe your family fled pogroms in Eastern Europe, from Nazism, from political oppression in Iran or the Soviet Union. Maybe you know someone who fled Uganda or other countries that persecute members of the LGBT community, maybe you are concerned about how many today have to flee extreme violence and persecution. No matter where refugees came from or their reason for fleeing, each story is unique--but connected. We hope to build a collection of pieces that rise above the noise and hateful rhetoric by humanizing the refugee experience.
Crowdsourced, creative campaigns that enlist artist and designers to create work around different ideas and causes. All designs that meet the requirements in their respective creative briefs will be published and made available for sale as prints and other merchandise. Artists retain ownership of their work but grant us permission to promote, license and sell it in exchange for 40% of the proceeds.
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the Jerusalem Post's Annual Conference
Get Special Discounted Tickets to the Event
May 7th, 2017
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Masorti is a sponsor of the
Jerusalem Post's Annual Conference. This year it's all about Israel-U.S. Relations in the Trump Era. It's an all-day event with an amazing roster of speakers including:
- Israeli Justice Minister, Ayelet Shaked
- Consul General of Israel in New York, Ambassador Dani Dayan
- Ronald Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress & former U.S. Ambassador to Austria
- U.S. Senators Tom Cotton and Deb Fischer
- U.S. Representative Eliot Engel, the ranking member on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
- Harvard professor, Alan Dershowitz and many more!
This is your special opportunity to attend at a discounted ticket price. The event is regularly $249. Because Masorti is a sponsor, we can make tickets available at only $179--a nearly 30% discount!
Just be sure to get your ticket through this registration link, to get
the discount.
At the Marriott Marquis hotel in Times Square. 1535 Broadway or click the interactive map.
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When: Last Session 5:10 pm
(It's Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post Senior Contributing Editor and a riveting speaker.)
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Masorti's sponsorship entitles you to a $70 discount off the regular price of $249. You'll pay only $179--a discount of nearly 30%!
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The Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel
info@masorti.org
www.masorti.org
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TORAH Page 679
HAFTARAH Page 714
AHAREI MOT
After the death of two of Aaron's sons, who were struck down by God for attempting to enter the Holy of Holies, the High Priest is given strict instructions that the Sanctuary's most holy place may only be entered on Yom Kippur. The purification of the Sanctuary and the rituals of Yom Kippur - including the scapegoat and the personal and communal confessions - are enumerated. The entire Israelite nation was commanded to "afflict their souls" - to fast on Yom Kippur.
Rules are given prohibiting the random sacrifice of animals in any locale; they may only be offered on the Sanctuary's altar. To do otherwise was tantamount to idolatry. The consumption of any blood or of the flesh of an animal that was not slaughtered properly was also considered an abomination.
The Torah's standards of personal morality include sexual behavior: the excesses of both the Egyptian and Canaanite cultures were rejected, and prohibited marital unions were also spelled out.
K'DOSHIM
In scholarly circles the opening section of Kedoshim is called the Holiness Code. In it we are enjoined by God to strive for human holiness to parallel the divine holiness.
The commandments, through which holiness is expressed, may be divided into two groups: those that emphasize the human-divine relationship and those stressing interpersonal behavior. In the first category we find respect for one's parents, Shabbat, and the condemnation of idolatry and of a variety of other practices common to the Canaanite peoples, including tattooing.
With reference to our interaction with fellow human beings, we are enjoined to consider the poor and the stranger. Specific laws with regard to the poor, applicable to the farmer, are enumerated. Laws promulgated based on truth and justice are set forth: stealing, defrauding, slander, etc. are prohibited. Protection for all disadvantaged - not just the poor, but the deaf and the blind - is required. Not surprisingly, Judaism's Golden Rule, "Love Your Neighbor As Yourself," is found here, too.
The sidra concludes with the reminder that just as the heathen nations are to be punished for their ways, Israel will suffer a similar fate if these commandments are breached.
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