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Our Minyan Needs Your Help!
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KIDDUSH
This special Kiddush for Mother's Day weekend is sponsored by Suzanne & Mordechai Warshavsky, in gratitude for and in honor of our mothers.
Mazal Tov!
Birthdays & Anniversaries
May 13th - May 19th
Madelyn Danoff
Barbara Margolin
Sam Cohen
Rachel Taylor
Jeffrey Adler
Irwin Meyers
James & Jill Rosenberg
Michael Herzig & Rachelle Gandica
Yakov & Vera Kishinevsky
Karl & Diane Sudakoff
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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5/16
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Sisterhood Book Club 1:00 pm
"The Marriage of Opposites" by Alice Hoffman
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5/18
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Rabbi's Class 10:30 am
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5/19
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Bible Study 11:30 am
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Tomorrow Morning at 9:30 a.m.
Mazal tov to
Miranda Stern, who will be chanting the haftarah on the occasion of the 3
rd anniversary of her bat mitzvah anniversary!
We thank
Suzanne and Morty Warshavsky who are sponsoring today's kiddush in gratitude for being part of our shul community, and in particular, in honor of all mothers!
Minha will be at 7:30 p.m. and we will be reading a heartfelt essay by Iranian-born, CNN correspondent Reza Aslan entitled
Why I Worry About Israel's Future. (And so should we all. kas)
And next Shabbat morning were back to a 9:00 a.m. start: we have another bar mitzvah ceremony!
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Sunday is... Mother's Day! But it is also La"G baOmer
Please enjoy this piece from the Masorti Movement by my Paraguayan colleague:
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I am proud to say that we are more than 3/5 of the way through the Omer counting, and in still eligible to recite the
Sefira with the blessing beforehand! (In other words, I haven't missed a day!)
Why am I so proud? Because I've been much more consistent about it in recent years, whereas when I was younger, I blew it regularly. And I'm also very impressed with myself, but I've been doing it without relying on an app on my phone to remind me! At least some part of my gray matter and the synapses are still working.
Here's an article on different apps to make the life of an observant Jew easier. An app for counting the Omer is not among them:
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On the Road
Waiting to take the plunge in the Mikvah's beautifully appointed Reception Area
Next Month:
Our
Sofer hits the road and comes to Gesher Shalom for a special, day-long program
Thursday, June 8
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I don't know why anybody should be surprised:
And this article is significant because it is published in the respected journal
Foreign Policy:
There may have been a flap with the German foreign minister's visit to Israel, but things seem back on track:
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BDS
He asserted Israel's right to exist, rejected BDS as a tactic and assailed the United Nations for singling out the country for condemnation. Wow!!!!
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Barghouti
Barghouti's "Hunger Strike"
First of all, they are all drinking salt water to keep hydrated and to keep their electrolytes in balance. And second...
Two versions here: the candy bars were planted in his cell; the bars were smuggled in for him:
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UNESCO
A number of years ago our member, Jaime Weiss, gave me a reprint of a pamphlet that was published in the early 1900s by the Jerusalem Waqf, under the auspices of the detestable, Nazi-loving, anti-Semite
Mufti Amin Al Husseini. Intended as a guide for English-speaking visitors to Jerusalem, the pamphlet states "there is no question that this was the original site of Solomon's Temple." I guess neither UNESCO, nor all the countries that consistently vote to de-Judaize Jerusalem want to be confused by the facts.
Video: Abbas, UNESCO, and the Test of Diplomacy
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Israel News
The famous fortress is about pageantry, and specifically the pageantry of the underdog
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Pop Culture
The artist and social activist thought it inappropriate to hold a celebration in light of the worsening refugee crisis "on Israel's doorstep."
"The exposure of a group's uncomfortable side is part of the price for living in a pluralistic culture."
'Harold and Lillian,' a new documentary about the marriage of a Hollywood storyboard artist and a researcher, is the heartwarming movie you need in your life right now
From Gal Gadot saving humankind to a tale about Hasidic fatherhood....
These millennial musicians range from a former top chef to the founder of the frat-rap genre
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Israel Technology
It didn't do much to quell the Intifada, but it's all the rage now (and yes, I know, it's low-tech):
A wildly popular toy was dreamed up during the first intifada when an inventor pined for a way to distract young demonstrators
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TORAH Page 717
HAFTARAH Page 735
EMOR
Because of their unique status as ritual functionaries, the priests had to maintain a high standard of purity. As contact with the dead was a source of ritual defilement, the priests were only permitted to attend the funerals of their closest relatives. The High Priest was held to an even higher standard: he was not permitted to attend anyone's funeral.
Any physical defect disqualified a priest from functioning in an official capacity, just as any physical defect in an animal rendered it unfit for sacrifice. Sacred food (donated, dedicated or sacrificed) could only be eaten by those members of the priests' families who themselves were in a state of ritual purity.
The holidays: Shabbat, Passover, Shavuot, Rosh Hashannah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot - are enumerated.
The people are reminded of their obligation to provide olive oil for the Sanctuary's menorah to keep it burning continually. The showbread, changed each week, was to be made of twelve loaves arranged in two rows.
During a quarrel a man blasphemes God. He is placed in custody until his penalty is disclosed: blasphemy, like murder, is punishable by death.
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