Tot Music and Story Time
Every Tuesday at 10:30 am
with Cantor Hass
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Kids in Quarantine
Say the Darndest Things
Wednesday, April 1 at 11:00 am
with Cantor Hass and Lucy!
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Children's Bedtime Story and Shema
(For Children 3 - 8 years old)
Wednesday, April 1 at 8:00 pm
with Sharon Amster Brown
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Meditation with Cantor Hass
Every Wednesday at 5:00 pm
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Relaxing Music Hour
Every Thursday 3:30 pm
Secular and Jewish music
with Cantor Hass
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Ease into Shabbat
Every Friday at 3:30 pm
Meditation and music with Cantor Hass
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PLEASE NOTE: If you are not available to watch any of our postings live on Facebook or our streaming channel, they are available for viewing at your leisure on those websites. Don't miss out!
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Family Havdalah Experience
This Week Pajama Havdalah!
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This Saturday, April 4 at 7:30 pm
Led by Sharon Amster Brown, ANDI President Johanna Brown, and Cantor Sara Hass. A beautiful way to end Shabbat.
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Torah Center Live
Sunday, April 5 at 10:00 am
With Sharon Amster Brown
(TC Families, check your email for grade level class schedule for the weekend)
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Challah Baking Fun - Share Online!
With all of the extra time at home, we know that many congregants made challah for Shabbat this past week. We want to encourage more people to try making challah at home! After you bake your challah, post a picture on Facebook and "check in" at "Temple Israel, Long Beach CA," so that we can see all of those beautiful challot! You can also email the photos to Sharon Amster Brown (
sab@tilb.org), who will share them on Facebook with our community.
Here's a recipe from congregant and amazing cook Amy Lipeles, if you need a tried and true recipe.
Amy's Challah Recipe (From the Kitchen of Amy Lipeles)
Ingredients:
1.5 C. boiling water
5 C. flour, plus extra as needed
1/4 C. margarine (or butter)
2 packages, dry yeast, regular or rapid-rise
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 C. sugar
1/2 C. raisins (optional)
3 eggs, reserve one for topping
Sesame seeds (optional)
Mix dry ingredients together. Boil the water on the stove. Take boiling water off the stove, just when it starts to boil (little bubbles form around the edges of the pot). Add margarine or butter to it. Stir margarine until margarine melts. Add 2 eggs, stirring quickly after each addition. Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients. Knead for 10 minutes (or use dough hook on mixer for about 7 minutes), adding flour as needed for good consistency (this may be at least an additional cup of flour). Put in an oiled bowl, cover with a towel and let rise for one hour (less if rapid rise yeast is used). Punch down the dough and divide it into two sections. Divide each of these sections into three and braid each. Place the braided dough on baking sheets and let rise again for an hour. Brush with egg, sprinkle with sesame seeds, and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
Try to save for Shabbat and enjoy!
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Social distancing does not mean social isolation.
Jewitathome.com
is a curation of resources to create digital Jewish Community and live a Jewish life even when we cannot gather physically.
Created by your Clergy and staff at Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, Temple Isaiah, University Synagogue, Temple Akiba of Culver City, Congregation Kol Ami, Temple Beth Israel of Highland Park and Eagle Rock, Malibu Jewish Center & Synagogue, Beth Chayim Chadashim, Sharsheret, ChaiVilliageLA, Temple Beth Am, Temple Judea, Culinary Kids Academy, Temple Israel of Long Beach, Theatre Dybbuk, Temple Beth Shalom of Long Beach, and Congregation Ner Tamid of Henderson, Nevada
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SHABBAT EXPERIENCES
During this time, ALL Friday Shabbat Evening Services will begin at 6:00 PM, and will be led by our clergy.
Shabbat Mornings Torah Study and Services will also be led by our clergy, and held online through our streaming platform (link below). Torah Study begins at 8:45 am and Shabbat Morning Service begins at 10:30 am, every Saturday. (We apologize for our issues this past Saturday morning.
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CONTACTING OUR CLERGY
IMPORTANT REMINDER - The Rabbi and Cantor are available to help/counsel you in any way possible. If you want to make an appointment to talk to either Clergy, call the office and leave a message on their extension (Rabbi Simon ext. 214 or Cantor Hass ext. 213) or email Rabbi Simon at
rabbisimon@tllb.org and Cantor Hass at
cantorhass@tilb.org .
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Mah nishtanah ha-liailah ha-zeh mikol ha-leilot?
How is this night different from all other nights?
This question will have even more meaning and relevance this year as we shelter in place and our seders take on a new look and format. For some suggestions on how to gather and conduct your virtual seders check out the following resources:
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Got extra time on your hands?
Join us for TI Reads One Book
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Memento Park
by Mark Sarvas
Sunday, May 31 at 10:00am
We are very excited to bring back the Temple Israel Reads One Book program: an opportunity for our congregation and community to engage with one another around one specific piece of literature. The JJL Committee is proud to have selected the book
Memento Park by author Mark Sarvas, published in 2018.
Winner of the 2019 Association of Jewish Libraries Jewish Fiction Award,
Memento
Park is the story of a son who learns more about his father than he ever could have imagined when a mysterious piece of art is unexpectedly restored to him. After receiving an unexpected call from the Australian consulate, Matt Santos becomes aware of a painting that he believes was looted from his family in Hungary during the Second World War. To recover the painting, he must repair his strained relationship with his harshly judgmental father, uncover his family history, and restore his connection to his own Judaism.
Of all the questions asked by Mark Sarvas’
Memento Park ― about family and identity, about art and history―a central, unanswerable predicament lingers: How do we move forward when the past looms unreasonably large?
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