Messages from the Office...
Save the dates
May 24-27, 2019 - Or Shalom Community Retreat at Walker Creek Ranch
June 19-30, 2019 - Or Shalom's trip to Israel and Palestine
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Mazel tov to....
New Member Peter Smith.
Returning Members Thomas Stern & Kathleen Baxter.
Welcome to Or Shalom!
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Mazel tov to....
The Bloch & Yitzhaki Family upon Ethan becoming a Bar Mitzvah!
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Rabbi
Katie Mizrahi
Education Director
Zehava Dahan
Music Director
David Cohen-Tzedek
Board President
Janet Jacobs
Administrator
Lillian Markind
Administrative Assistant & Social Action Fellow
Ezra Leventhal
Bet Sefer Coordinator
Becky Klawans
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Join us for Meditation every Wednesday at 1 pm and/or Torah Study at 1:30 pm.
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We Remember the Yahrzeits of:
Leon M. Golding
Trudy Balch
Richard Schechter
Max Silverston
Joan Lax
Sylvia Van Der Hout
William Engelman
Abie Murov
William E. Gorbach
Sidney Rifkind
Abie Murov
Louis Seidman
Curtis Grove
Marvin Minoff
William Richard Maginnis
Morris Pleaner
Jane Gallagher
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What is Reconstructing Judaism?
Learn more about our theological grounding at the following sites:
- Check out Rabbi Deborah Waxman's podcast
Hashivenu
in which she interviews other Jewish professionals and educators about practices of Jewish resilience.
Find it here
or
on your favorite podcatcher!
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625 Brotherhood Way
San Francisco, CA 94132
415.469.5564
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Upcoming Holiday Observances
2018
Hanukkah - Dec 8
2019
Tu B'Shvat - Jan 23
Purim - March 20
Pesach - April 26
Yom HaShoah - May 1
Yom Ha'atzmaut - May 8
Lag B'Omer - May 22
Shavuot - June 8
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Or Shalom Weekly Newsletter
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CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS - Nov-Dec 2018
| Fri 11/16 |
6:30 pm |
Shabbat Kulanu
Blessings and dinner followed by a service.
Details below, please RSVP
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| Sun 11/18 |
10:00 am |
News Minyan
At the home of Daniel Raskin
Details Below
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Thu 11/22 -
Fri 11/23 |
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Office Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday |
| Sun 11/25 |
10:00 am |
Free Your Words Writing Workshop
At the home of Daniel Raskin
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Wed 11/28
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TBA
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Feed Homeless San Franciscans with Or Shalom
Details Below
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| Fri 11/30 |
6:30 pm |
Sharing Shabbat with BIJ & OS
Potluck dinner and service lead by Rabbi Katie & Rabbi Danny
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| Sat 12/8 |
6:00 pm |
Hanukkah Celebration
Details below, please RSVP
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Thu 12/13
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7:00 pm
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Organizing Or Shalom
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Fri 12/14
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7:30 pm
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Chant & Drum with BIJ
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Sat 12/15
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10:00 am
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Shabbat Service and Bat Mitzvah of Eva Goldberg
Daughter of Lisa Garbus & Adam Goldberg
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Sun 12/16
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10:00 am
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News Minyan
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Thu 12/20
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12:00 pm
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Lunch & Learn with Rabbi Pam at Or Shalom
Followed by assembling bag lunches for the homeless.
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Deadline for registering for the Israel & Palestine trip
Details below
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Friday, November 16 at 6:30pm
Join us for our second Shabbat Kulanu hosted by Or Shalom teens and their families. Our October event was amazing with 80 people in attendance for a wonderful meal, provided by our Bet Sefer students and their families, followed by a musical and joyful Shabbat service.
Blessing and dinner start at 6:30pm followed by a service around 7pm. Join us but please
RSVP so we know you are coming!
Teen families - please join us and
sign up here to let us know what you are bringing!
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News Minyan
Sunday, November 18 10am - noon
at the home of Daniel Raskin
Jewish Texts presented by Rabbi Carol Caine
The News Minyan brings 3000 years of Jewish thought to bear on the pressing issues of our time. We examine and discuss both traditional Jewish texts and 'texts of our times' - news articles, essays, and online video. The News Minyan is not a forum for political debate, but an attempt to use our tradition's practice of wrestling with text to examine the full experience of life in the 21st century.
Texts of Our Time:
We hope to see you there!
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Here is an opportunity to help Dor Hadash, the Reconstructing Judaism community who lost a member during the hateful acts in Pittsburgh. They are unable to recover many of their prayer books and chumashim
. Reconstructing Judaism is sending copies of Kol Haneshamah: Prayerbook for Shabbat and the Festivals (Shabbat Vehagim)
and Kol Haneshamah: Prayers for a House of Mourning (Tefilot Leveyt Ha'evel)
. Please consider
making a donation to help them collectively rebuild Dor Hadash's prayer resources
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A gift of $36
will cover the cost and shipping of one copy of Shabbat and the Festivals
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A gift of $18
will cover one copy of Prayers for a House of Mourning
. If sufficient gifts come in, they will help replace their chumashim
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You can make that donation
here.
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The Annual Fund is one of the essential income streams which nourish Or
Shalom. Each year, we count on gifts beyond membership commitments to
meet our basic operating costs. Please participate generously with your
own tax-deductible gift to the Or Shalom Annual Fund this year, and even
if you can only spare a small amount, we do ask each of our members to
take part.
Thank you so much to all of those who have given this week -
your support is what keeps Or Shalom healthy and thriving!
This Week's Donors Are:
Barbara Wechsler / Zehava Dahan & Vavi Toran / Eric & Melinda Ruchames / Daniel Raskin / Jurate Raulinaitis & Kirk Schneider / April Lapidus / Nitza & Ofer Agam
You can participate in the Annual Fund here.
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Help Feed Homeless
San Franciscans This Winter!
Wednesday, November 28
Or Shalom will cook for the Interfaith Winter Shelter for the homeless this year. In this program, churches and synagogues in San Francisco offer shelter and food for 70 homeless people during the winter months. Several churches allow people to sleep in their buildings, while other churches, synagogues and faith groups provide meals.
This has been coordinated for many years by San Francisco's Interfaith Council. Or Shalom's contribution will be to cook and serve dinner on Wed. Nov. 28. We will cook at Or Shalom beforehand, and serve dinner at St. Boniface Church.
Please contact Allan Pleaner if you'd like to help. Exact time is to be determined; for now we are just gathering names of folks who are interested.
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Celebrate Hanukkah with Or Shalom!
Saturday, December 8 at 6pm
Families with young children are invited at 5:30pm
Invite your friends! Please RSVP
here.
If you don't recall your RSVP status, you can check your member account or RSVP again and we will delete any duplicate.
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New Shabbat Schedule for 5779/2018-19
New start times!
1st Friday -
6:30pm Traveling Shabbat and potluck dinner
2nd Friday - 7:30pm Chant & Drum lead by BIJ
2nd Saturday - 10:00am Shabbat Morning Service
3rd Friday -
6:30pm 'Shabbat Kulanu'- Shabbat for Everybody, with dinner
4th Friday -
6:30pm Shabbat Service with light nosh often followed by a presentation
Our 6:30pm events will start with blessings and food, followed by a service around 7pm.
We frequently have additional Saturday services. Check our online calendar for a full list of services.
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Travel with Or Shalom!
June 19-30, 2019
Deadline to register is 1/1/19
Only a few spots remaining!
Explore the complex layers of Israel and Palestine with your community on a trip that will be spiritual, thought-provoking, and inspirational.
On our first-ever Or Shalom trip to Israel and Palestine, we will:
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Or Shalom has an Or Shalom Cookbook!
JUSTICE in the KITCHEN is an Or Shalom vegetarian cookbook with over 150 pages, including beautiful cover art by Rabbi Me'irah, a Foreword by Rabbi Rami Shapiro, an Introduction by Danny Brook, and lots of delicious recipes with personal stories from our members, as well as photographs and resources.
Paper copies are sold out, but e-cookbooks (pdf) are available for an $18 suggested donation to Or Shalom.
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Social Action Corner
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Highlight from the Spark! Calendar:
- Get more news and events at Spark!
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Tzedakah
Kathy & Chad Balch In Memory Of Trudy Balch / Janet Jacobs & Terry Gomes In Honor Of Judy Olasov on the birth of her new granddaughter, Livia Alessandra / Corey Weinstein & Pat Skala In Honor Of Ezra Leventhal's Bat Mitzvah / Anne Flatte & Matthew Harrington to the Rabbi Discretionary Fund In Honor Of Sean Harrington's Bar Mitzvah / Henrietta Flatte
to the Rabbi Discretionary Fund In Honor Of Sean Harrington's Bar Mitzvah / Jurate Raulinaitis & Kirk Schneider In Honor Of Ezra Leventhal's Bat Mitzvah / April Lapidus In Memory Of Jeremy Lapidus / Debbie Benrubi in Honor of Ezra Leventhal's Bat Mitzvah / Barbara Bernstein & John Tibbetts In Honor Of the Social Action Fellowship and In Honor Of Ezra Leventhal's Bat Mitzvah / Janet Jacobs & Terry Gomes In Honor Of Ezra Leventhal becoming a Bat Mitzvah / Ruth Maginnis and Family In Memory Of Bill Maginnis /
Rachelle Resnick In Memory Of Victor Resnick /
Bryna Rifkind In Memory Of Sidney Rifkind / Bryna Rifkind In Honor Of Ezra Leventhal's Bat Mitzvah / Becky & Barry Klawans In Memory Of Don Lichtenberg / Motomi & Matthew Rudoff In Memory Of Leonard Rudoff and Janet Rudoff
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Condolences
Or Shalom sends condolences to those on our community who have suffered recent loses.
Deborah Jansen on the passing of her brother,
Harlan James Crowe Jr.
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Make an Announcement to Or Shalom
Thinking about submitting an event for inclusion in the Or Shalom weekly email? We'd love to hear from you.
Please submit announcements 3 weeks in advance, with the appropriate RSVP information. All non-official OS programs must meet the following criteria:
- Doesn't conflict with an OS event
- Specifically relevant to the OS community
- Has official OS approval
All postings may be edited for content, format and/or length by office staff or volunteers.
For more information about getting an event listed, please contact Administrator Lillian Markind at
admin@orshalom.org
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