Shir Chadash 
Weekly Newsletter
March 2-9, 2018
Friday, March 2nd
  • 6:15 pm, Friday Night Services
Saturday, March 3rd
  • 9:30 am, Shabbat Services followed by kiddush lunch in the double classrooms
  • 10:30 am, Family Shabbat & Jr Congregation
  • 6:45 pm, HAVDANIELLE
Sunday,  March 4th
  • 9:00 am, Shul School
  • 9:15 am, Minyan followed by Men's Club breakfast
  • 6:30 pm, Teen Learning
In This Issue
Parashat Ki Tisa
Torah:
Exodus 31:18-33:11

Haftarah:
I Kings 18:1-39

Schedule of Weekly Services
Shabbat
Fridays, 6:15 pm 
(8:00 pm during July)
Saturdays, 9:30 am
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Weekday
Sundays, 9:15 am
Wednesdays, 7:00 am
*Both Minyans are followed by breakfast*

Contact Us
Rabbi
 
Executive Director
 
Director of Youth Education and Community Engagement

Office Manager
 

Office Phone
504-889-1144
 
Office Fax
504-889-1146

Quick Links
This Coming Week at Shir Chadash
Monday, March 5th
  • 7:00 am,The Shir Chadash community is warmly invited to a special Minyan at Shir Chadash.  Ben Horwitz will be leading Shacharit to mark his father's first Yahrzeit.  Breakfast
    afterwards sponsored by Ben Horwitz and Ellie Streiffer    
     
  • 7:30 pm, Shiva minyan for Ralene Chalew at Shir Chadash
Tuesday, March 6th
  • 11:00 am, Lunch and Learn
  • 4:00 pm, Shul School Uptown
Wednesday, March 7th
  • 7:00 am, Minyan followed by breakfast
  • 10:00 am, Sisterhood Class
  • 7:30 pm, Pesach on West Esplanade at Shir Chadash with Rabbi Silver on Who Knows One? How many Haggadot are there?  We will explore how the Maggid, the 'telling' part of the Haggadah, reflects multiple narratives and why that might be, followed by some ideas to liven up the way we tell the story at our own Sedarim this year!
Friday, March 9th
  • 6:15 pm, Friday Night Services/Shabbat Music followed by Potluck dinner
Saturday, March 10th
  • 9:30 am, Shabbat Services followed by kiddush lunch. Desserts are being sponsored by Joyce Giordano for her birthday
Sunday, March 11th - Daylight savings time (spring forward)
  • 9:00 am, Shul School
  • 9:15 am, Minyan followed by Men's Club breakfast
Monday, March 12th
7:00 pm, Regular Board Meeting

Tuesday, March 13th
4:00 pm, Shul School Uptown

Wednesday, March 14th
  • 7:00 am, Minyan followed by breakfast
  • 10:00 am, Sisterhood Class
  • 7:30 pm, Pesach on West Esplanade at Gates of Prayer with Rabbi Loewy on "Avadim Hayinu- We were slaves in Egypt ." How does this remembrance from long ago, along with other Pesach texts, impact how we respond to oppression and injustice  in our time?
Friday, March 16 and Saturday, March 17th
There will be no services at Shir Chadash.  All services will take place at Gates of Prayer due to Limmud Weekend

Sunday, March 18th
  • 9:00 am, Shul School at Limmud
  • 9:15 am, Minyan followed by Men's Club breakfast
Limmud New Orleans



We wanted to share this specific list of presenters - they are all Shir Chadash congregants! It is pretty exciting that so many of Shir Chadash's congregants are represented in the group of authors, philosophers, chefs, musicians, artists, historians, deep thinkers (and burlesque dancers) who will be presenting this year:
  • Ronna Burger - Hidden in the Haggadah: Exploring the Puzzles of Pesach
  • Melanie Ehrlich - Games Children Played Long Ago
  • Davida Finger - Sanctuary: A Synagogue Response to Supporting Immigrants
  • Ned Goldberg - The "Home": The Institution that Put New Orleans on the Jewish Map
  • Barry Ivker - Visioning Creation Through Collage: A Hands-on Workshop
  • Hugo Kahn - Krauss: The New Orleans Value Store
  • Sandy Lassen - Caring for the Dead: Why Do I Need a Chevra Kadisha
  • Jennie Lavine - "The Pen of the Soul": Jewish Melodies and Niggunim
  • Simone Levine - "Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue: Judges, Courts, Partiality and Due Justice
  • Josh Lichtman - The Incredible Og and Why You Can't Trust a Giant
  • Danny Mintz - Jewish Food Politics: Whatever Happened to the Hekhsher Tzedek?
  • Elliott Raisen - Israeli Dancing for Kids
  • Dashka Roth - What Is Jewish Art?
  • Rabbi Deborah Silver - #MeToo: A Jewish Response
  • Suzanne Stone - What Could Have Been: A Discussion of Women in Judaism
  • Becca Waxman - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Through Today: Jews and the Labor Movement
  • Noam Yaillen - You Knead This! Challah: A Doughy Discussion
  • Meryl Zimmerman - Music with Meryl
This year, LimmudFest's celebration of arts, culture, community, and learning is March 16-18, 2018. The LimmudFest program includes a Shabbaton at Congregation Gates of Prayer on Friday and Saturday, with more learning and cultural programs at the newly expanded Uptown JCC on Saturday night and Sunday . Registration is open now and anyone who uses the promotional code "SHIR" will receive $10 off all Adult and Young Adult weekend passes or Sunday  Only Tickets. Visit limmudnola.org for more information, including a full list of presenters and schedule, and to register.

Please note:   There will be no Shabbat Services at Shir Chadash for Limmud weekend. That weekend Shabbat services will only be at Gates of Prayer.   

HAVDANIELLE
Please RSVP if you plan on attending
Lunch and Learn 
lunch and lean
Sponsored by the Nat Leon Education Fund
with Rabbi Silver

Tuesday, March 6, 2018
11:00 am (class)
12:00 pm (lunch)
at Shir Chadash
 
We learned so much about heaven last time that we didn't get to go to hell!  So join us for a trip into our tradition's wildest imagination.  Fire, demons, amulets - it's all waiting for us!

Program is free and open to the public
 
Pesach on West Esplanade
Click on flyer to enlarge

Potluck Shabbat


Friday, March 9th

Come to a musical service at 6:15 pm and bring dinner for your family to enjoy afterwards in the double classroom.  We will provide challah, grape juice and dessert.

Please bring dairy food only (vegetarian, no fish) cooked in disposable dishes.  

It's also fine to bring kosher wine if you like!
 
An ARTrageous Evening:  Bids, Bites and Bordeaux!
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March Yahrzeits
March 1-3 (14-16 Adar)
Lily Goldberg
Libbye Gordon
Sarah K. Jeffer
Joseph Sher
Benjamin Wulliger
Leah Brener
Mose Ellis
Wolfe Gerbe
Koppel Matz
Harold Reich
Anne Ross
Jennie Shear
Samuel Waltzer
Samuel Yoselevitz
Irene C. Haber
Rose Hyman
Herman Oppman
Dinah Rausen
 
March 4-10 (17-23 Adar)
Morris Kleinman
Morton Ziskind
Ann R. Bloch
Eugene S Horwitz
Rose L. Jeffer
Bertha Krilov
Betty B. Burk
Israel Fisher
Minnie Meshevksy
Adrienne Mexic
Pauline C. Rausen
Abe Slabot
Walter Wisznia
Manny Erez
Max Levin
Anna Bernstein
Mildred Burger
Esther Segel
Etty Ungar
Irving H. Weinstein
Pincus Wolfson
Herbert Burstein
Harry Heiman, M.D.
Sarah Kresteel
Gabriella Lehmann
A. Bernard Mass
 
March 11-17 (24 Adar - 1 Nisan)
Brian Feldman
Rabbi Marshall Miller
Rosalie Ross
Alex Silverman
Eva Somjen
Shirleymae B. Weinberg
Samuel Wolfson
Mervin Gaethe
Gertrude S. Herman
Rachel Lang
Fannie Buderman
Lilo S. Fauman
Arnon A. Fortgang
Benjamin Kiefsky
Selma Naron
Emanuel Steinberg
Monte Graber
Menachem Schwartzman
Hannah A. Steinberg
David H. Yuspeh
Marilyn Deli
Abraham Gerber
Joel Handelman
Rose Mansberg
Gitel Midlo
Jenny Strauss
Rose P. Teles

March 11-17 (24 Adar - 1 Nisan), cont
Julius Herzog
Max L. Singerman
Isadore Yager
George Ellis
Bernard A. Goldman
Anna Lansky
Louis Silvers
Odile Washastrom

March 18-24 (2-8 Nisan)
Jacob Singerman
Benjamin P. Chass
Micki Endliss
Sam Gold
Annie Hyman
Sol B. Mandel
Bernard Samuels
Helen S. Simon
Celia Brown
Kenneth I. Goodman
Leon Meisel
Celia Reiner
Freda Silver
Fannie W. Simerick
Bernard Bloch
Clara L. Creidman
Harold L. Effron
Phyllis Fuhrman
David Karno
Anna Stone
Celia D. Washofsky
Sarah E. Weinstein
Samuel E. Berger
Bertha Jacob
Benjamin Schleifstein
Gerson Solomon
Abram Sprickler
Goldie Cash
Abraham J. Jeffer
Hyman Lader
Marilyn Roth
Mamie Weil
 
March 25-31 (9-15 Nisan)
Nan Gartenberg
Sandy Kahn
Joseph Katz
Hyman Kresteel
Ala Kuperblum
Tillie Rosenberg
Mary R. Picard
Sonya Wisznia
Neil Allison
Meyer Ellis
Harry Lubow
Mary R. Picard
Annie K. Dulitz
Abe Manheim
Noah Weaker
Samuel Crossner
Roslyn Fingerman
Harry G. Warren
Laura Goldman
Nathan Handmacher
Meyer Raitman
Audrey Weiss
Abusch Borenstein
Louis Laufer
Amy K. Shapiro
Joseph Cellar
Ann E. Gardsbane
Hyman Steinberg
Jacob Stermer

Weekly Donations
 
Bernard Berins Cemetery Fund
Album & Katz Families       
In memory of your mother, Etta    
Jane Berins
 
Joan & Gerald Berenson
In memory of your sister, Sara        
Jane Berins
 
Caring Committee Fund
In memory of Bertha Krilov              
Sandy & Leslie Krilov
                 
In memory of Irving Weinstein        
Gloria Krilov

Ned Goldberg      
Mazel Tov on being honored by the JCRS for more than three decades of leadership                 
Natalie & Charles Cohen
 
Rabbi Silver          
Condolences on the loss of your mother, Anne          
Natalie & Charles Cohen

General Fund
Dr. & Mrs. Gerald Berenson              
In memory of Sara Berenson Stone                
Miriam & Bruce Waltzer
 
Dr. & Mrs. Stuart Chalew 
In honor of the birth of your granddaughter Ava      
Miriam & Bruce Waltzer
 
Sylvia & Israel Finger          
In honor of Sylvia's birthday             
Miriam & Bruce Waltzer
 
Dr. Sharon Sernik                 
In honor of your birthday
Miriam & Bruce Waltzer
 
Mr. Richard Stone               
In memory of Sara Stone 
William Goldring
 
Mr. Harvey Stone                 
In memory of Sara Stone 
William Goldring
 
Eileen Wallen       
In honor of your birthday
Carol B. Wise
 
Joan Album          
In memory of Etta Lurie   
Jill (Mary E.) Stein
 
Joan & Jerry Album            
In memory of Etta Lurie   
Kenneth & Michelle Najder
 
Mr. & Mrs. Jerald Album  
In memory of Etta Charlotte Lurie 
Lawrence R. Plunkett, Jr. Reich, Album & Plunkett
 
Mrs. Joan Album
In memory of Etta Lurie
Laura & Walter Levy
 
Gilda Finkelstein Gift of Israel Fund
In memory of Sarah & Hyman Kresteel & Annie Dulitz              
Rosalie & Harris Dulitz

Herbert J. Garon Memorial Fund for Ramah Darom & USY Israel Programs
Rabbi Silver          
Our deepest sympathy on the loss of your mother, Anne and your uncle, David                 
Jackie & Chuck Stern
                 
Danielle Spadoni
Mazel Tov to an outstanding friend and synagogue office manager   
Jackie & Chuck Stern

Joan & Jerry Album            
In loving memory of your dear mother, Etta Lurie    
Laurie & Paul Sterbcow
 
Rabbi Silver          
In loving memory of your dear mother, Anne Chauveau         
Laurie & Paul Sterbcow
 
Rabbi Silver          
In loving memory of your uncle, David         
Laurie & Paul Sterbcow
 
Lis Kahn
In loving memory of your sister, Hanne        
Laurie & Paul Sterbcow
 
Bebe & Joe Rabhan            
Mazel Tov on the birth of your granddaughter, Nava          
Laurie & Paul Sterbcow
 
Jackie & Chuck Stern          
Mazel Tov on the birth of your grandson, Isaac         
Laurie & Paul Sterbcow

The Stone Family
In blessed memory of Sara Stone  
Bobby Garon & Robin Levy
 
Deena Gerber      
In honor of the birth of your new grandson                 
Bobby Garon & Robin Levy
 
Ken Klein & Beth Hershberg             
In honor of your engagement         
Bobby Garon & Robin Levy

Lagniappe Fund
Joan & Jerry Album            
In memory of your mother Etta Lurie            
Pat & Steve Klein
 
Leon & Marilyn Katz Family Education Fund
In memory of Harry Blackman & Rose Wainer Mansberg        
Shellie & Terry Jacobson
 
Rabbi's Discretionary Fund
Rabbi Silver          
With heartfelt sympathy on the loss of your uncle, David       
Dana & Eileen Wallen
 
Joan & Jerry Album            
In memory of your beloved mother, Etta Lurie           
Natalie Seltzer
 
Rabbi Silver          
In memory of your beloved mum, Anne Chauveau   
Natalie Seltzer
 
Yahrzeit Fund
In memory of Abusch Borenstein  
Morris Borenstein & Sabina Barash
 
In memory of Manny Erez                 
Shirley & Ralph Seelig
 
In memory of my dear mum, Ann Ross         
Natalie Seltzer
 
In memory of Samuel Crossner & Joseph Cellar         
Rochelle Pearl
 
In memory of Tobie Levitan & Esther Koniarski          
Sam & Gert Levitan
 
In memory of Rosalie Ross                
Dena Grenell