CHAILITES
January 6, 2021
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Jewish Community Gathering Thursday, Jan. 7, 7:00 pm
Prayers for our Nation, Prayers for Peace
Cantor Harriet will be participating in a prayer service of healing, comfort and hope by and for the Jewish Community of Upper Fairfield tomorrow evening that will take place from 7:00-7:30pm in response to the terrible events that took place Wednesday in Washington, DC.
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TBC Events Through January 14, 2021
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Thursday, January 7, 7:00 pm - Prayers for Our Nation, Prayers for Peace
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Friday, January 8, 5:00 pm - Tot Shabbat
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Friday, January 8, 6:30 pm - Family Service Welcoming Shabbat Together
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Saturday, January 9, 9:30 am - Torah Study
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Sunday, January 10, 9:30 am - Jr. Chai
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Sunday, January 10, 9:30 am - Religious School
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Sunday, January 10, 11:30 am - TBC Teens
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Sunday, January 10, 5:00 pm - Sisterhood Cooking Class: Parent & Child Challah (Zoom)
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Monday, January 11, 7:30 pm - TBC Sisterhood Presents a Special Event Dana Mack, the Author of a New Historical Jewish Novel; A Novel of Wilhelmine Germany
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Tuesday, January 12, 7:30 pm - Jewish Bio Ethics in the time of Covid - Adult Education
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Wednesday, January 13, 4:15 pm - Hebrew School
For events that require registration:
Once you click on the registration link, you will be taken to a webpage where you will enter your name and email address. Once you submit this information, you will receive a CONFIRMATION EMAIL that includes the LINK you will use to join the program and the PASSWORD that you will need to enter after clicking the link to join.
**YOU MUST SAVE THE CONFIRMATION EMAILS THAT YOU RECEIVE. THEY ARE THE ONLY PLACES WHERE THE LINKS AND PASSWORDS WILL APPEAR.**
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TBC Sisterhood Co-President Pam Klem Demonstrates
How To Make Challah
Sunday - January 10, 5:00 pm
Pam Klem will show us on Zoom how to make challah. Please join us for what should be a fun event, which is open to parents and children. To register, please click here.
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TBC Sisterhood Presents
Dana Mack, Author of
All Things That Deserve to Perish
Discussing Her Novel of Wilhelmine Germany
Monday - January 11, 7:30 pm
Dana Mack, known to many of our congregants as Dana Prinz, is proud to announce the publication of her first work of fiction, All Things That Deserve To Perish: A Novel of Wilhelmine Germany. An historian, journalist and musician, Ms. Mack's articles on music, history, culture, family issues, and education have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Commentary Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, the New Criterion, the Washington Post, USA Today, and many other publications.
All Things That Deserve To Perish is the first of two historical novels which trace the life of an intermarried Jewish woman in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
You can purchase the book on Amazon, by clicking here. To participate in the discussion, click here.
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Bioethics During COVID
Tuesday - January 12, 7:30 pm
The Adult Education Committee is bringing this very important and relevant lecture to TBC.
With COVID continuing to rage, many bioethical issues that once seemed hypothetical are very real now.
When we run out of vital supplies, space or equipment, what criteria may we ethically use to distribute scarce resources? What do our sacred texts tell us about such decisions? Do we assign higher value to some lives? When we don’t have enough, do we use an algorithm based on medical criteria alone? Do we use a simple lottery?
Rabbi Gary Gerson and Dr. Carol Gerson will review some of the approaches we might use to guide us when faced with crisis decisions. We will debate which of these criteria we think are ethical, and look at how Jewish sources would have us address ethically difficult decisions.
Dr. Carol Gerson is a retired pediatric otolaryngologist and an active mohelet with a doctorate in bioethics. She is a faculty member of the medical schools of Northwestern and
Tulane universities.
Rabbi Gary Gerson served as Senior Rabbi of Oak Park Temple B’nai Abraham Zion in the
Chicago suburbs from 1979 to 2009. As Rabbi Emeritus, he teaches courses in Jewish
text, Kabbalah, Jewish thought, and comparative religion. A Fulbright scholar, Rabbi
Gerson holds master’s degrees in religion and psychology, rabbinic ordination, a
doctorate in ministry, and certification as a family therapist from the Philadelphia Child
Guidance Clinic.
All are welcome. Click here to register for this extraordinary event. To make a donation click here. |
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TBC Religious School Celebrates Tu B'Shvat
January 24
TBC Religious School celebrates Tu B’Shvat in person, safely socially distanced outside at TBC on Sunday morning January 24th! Stay tuned for more details in next week’s Chailites!
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Mitzvah Hero Awards January 31 at 4:00 pm
Honoring our very own Steve West-Rosenthal!
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The Weekly Torah Portion
Sh'mot Names
Exodus 1:1−6:1
- The new king of Egypt makes slaves of the Hebrews and orders their male children to be drowned in the Nile River. (1:1-22)
- A Levite woman places her son, Moses, in a basket on the Nile, where he is found by the daughter of Pharaoh and raised in Pharaoh's house. (2:1-10)
- Moses flees to Midian after killing an Egyptian. (2:11-15)
- Moses marries Zipporah, the daughter of Midian's priest. They have a son named Gershom. (2:16-22)
- God calls Moses from a burning bush and commissions him to free the Israelites from Egypt. (3:1-4:17)
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Moses and Aaron request permission from Pharaoh for the Israelites to celebrate a festival in the wilderness. Pharaoh refuses and makes life even harder for the Israelites. (5:1-23) Click here to learn more
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Join with TBC to Support Wi-ACT's
Cystic Fibrosis Initiative!
Temple B'nai Chaim members have participated each year in Wilton Interfaith Action Committee's Rise Against Hunger meal packing event to provide food to hungry children around the world.
This year Wi-ACT has had to change its focus because of the pandemic. Instead Wi-ACT is requesting donations of gift cards for food and also for holiday gifts for local families in the tri-state area with children suffering from Cystic Fibrosis. We'd love to see TBC family members engaged in this work, including having children write notes to recipients and prepare decorative envelopes to hold the gift cards. We believe this experience will engage children in ways similar to the meal-packaging event and underscore the significance of working to meet the needs of others whatever the challenges. Click here for more information!
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Yahrzeit Memorial Plaques at TBC
During this challenging time, we know that many of us are thinking of loved ones who have passed away. We invite you to commemorate the lives and blessings of your loved ones with a memorial plaque. A special service of dedication for the entire community will be scheduled at TBC when that again becomes possible. Ordering information is available here.
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Yahrzeits, January 7-14
Zeicher tzaddik livrachah!
Friday, January 8, 2021
Ronnie Kamber, cousin of Moses Alexander
Saturday, January 9, 2021
Ruth Rader, great aunt of Jodi Simon Stewart
Sunday, January 10, 2021
Mary Ransom, grandmother of Jason Stewart
Anita Shapiro, grandmother of Michael Bonheim
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Hilda Bennett, grandmother of Jennifer Meehan
It is traditional to light a memorial candle on the eve of the yahrzeit at home and to recite Kaddish when lighting the yahrzeit candle. It is also a custom to make donations in memory of loved ones around the time.
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Contact Us
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 305, Georgetown, CT 06829
Phone: 203 544-8695
Location: 82 Portland Avenue, Wilton CT 06897 (Directions)
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