Prayer Books for Shabbat and High Holidays services are available!
You may pick them up at the synagogue during office hours, Monday- Friday, 10-4. Call the office and we will have them ready for you!
We are also happy to deliver! Call Kate at 910-762-1117 and let us know.
From the President...
I hope you were able to join us last Saturday evening for Selichot. What a great start to the High Holidays! Beginning with Havdalah, we then recited some of the traditional prayers which usher in the holiest season for Jews around the world.
Rabbi Bender was accompanied by The Rocking Selichot Band.
Who exactly were those masked men? They said their names were John and Ringo, but I have my doubts. They did look kind of familiar though...
I am absolutely looking forward to the rush of the holidays over the next few weeks. As different as they will be, these days still connect us to our friends and family around the globe. Just knowing that restores some normality to this anything-but-normal year.
Many thanks to Rabbi Bender and everyone who has worked so hard to bring you what we hope will be lovely and meaningful High Holiday services.
From Richard and myself,
L'Shanah Tovah, a Sweet, Happy and Healthy New Year 5781.
Michelle
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Be sure to login to ShulCloud if you never have at
It is very important to sign on to your ShulCloud account if you've never done so before or if it's been a while. Please make that a priority this week. If you have any difficulty signing on to ShulCloud, we want to help you before the High Holidays. Not sure how to sign on? Click here to learn how:
Membersplease log onto your ShulCloud account and you will see the connection to services.
Non-members who have bought tickets will be sent a link to
the services via separate email.
If you have difficulty connecting to the High Holiday services, please call Carol Atwood at 910.409.0764
or
Carolyn Moskowitz at 910.540.8499.
EREV ROSH HASHANAH
The Jewish New Year
Please have Apples and Honey ready
for End of Service
Friday,
Sept 18
6:00 pm
ROSH HASHANAH
First Day-no Shofar
Torah Service
Sermon
Musaf
Saturday, Sept 19
9:00 am
9:45 am
10:45 am
11:00 am
ROSH HASHANAH
2nd Day-with Shofar
Torah Service
Shofar Service
Sermon
Musaf
Sunday,
Sept 20
9:00 am
9:45 am
10:30 am
11:00 am
11:15 am
ROSH HASHANAH
One Room Shul House
Rosh Hashanah Seder
RSVP to Rabbi at
rabbibender.bnaiisraelilm@outlook.com
by Thursday 9/17 to receive Food Supply List, Seder Booklet, and Zoom Link
Sunday,
Sept 20
3:00 pm
TASHLICH
Option One
Snipes Middle School
2150 Chestnut Street, Wilmington
Tuesday,
Sept 22
6:00 pm
TASHLICH
Option Two
Brunswick River Walkway Park
580 River Road, Belville
Thursday, Sept 24
2:00 pm
EREV YOM KIPPUR
One Room Shul House Service
RSVP to Rabbi at
rabbibender.bnaiisraelilm@outlook.com
by Friday 9/25
to receive the Zoom Link
Sunday,
Sept 27
3:00 pm
KOL NIDRE
Day of Atonement
Please have candles to light at the beginning of service
Sunday,
Sept 27
6:40 pm
YOM KIPPUR
Morning Service
Break
Torah Service
Sermon
Yizkor
Break
Musaf
Monday,
Sept 28
9:00 am
10:30 am
11:00 am
11:45 am
12:00 pm
12:30 pm
1:00 pm
YOM KIPPUR
Mincha
Neilah
Fast Ends
Please have your Break Fast bags sponsored by Men's Club and Sisterhood
Monday, Sept 28
5:30 pm
6:30 pm
7:36 pm
Guidelines for Private Time before the Ark
Private time before the Ark is available through Thursday 9/24
Your safety is our primary concern, as is the safety of our rabbi, staff and all members. Therefore, we ask that you follow these guidelines when coming to the synagogue for Private Time before the Ark:
Please be aware that the temporary Ark being used for Private Time is located in the Social Hall. The sanctuary and permanent Ark are undergoing renovation.
Please arrive about 10 minutes before your scheduled time slot.
Enter on Chestnut Street.
You will be required to sign a waiver
Your temperature will be checked with a touchless thermometer
Face mask is required (we will provide one if needed)
Hands must be cleaned with hand sanitizer.
Social distancing must be maintained at all times.
Each time slot is for 15 minutes
In order to limit the number of persons in the building, we ask that you leave the building through the Chestnut St. entrance after your private time at the Ark is over.
Holiday Food Drive
The Good Shepherd Center serves homeless people in our community by providing food, shelter and a path toward permanent housing. Pre-pandemic their soup kitchen fed about 150 hungry men, women and children at breakfast, another 200 people at lunch, and 70 more at dinner. They provided over 90,000 meals to hungry people last year!
Dear B'nai Israel Congregation,
I'm happy to announce the 10th annual B'nai Israel High Holiday Food & Supplies Drive to benefit The Good Shepherd Center.
This Tikkun Olam project was founded in 2011 by Sylvia Atwood and was continued by my sister Sophie Zeldin. Sophie is out of town this year and I am studying for my bat mitzvah so I am extremely excited to step in and continue the Tikkun Olam.
I'm determined to not let COVID-19 stop us from serving others! They need our help more than ever!
You can donate throughout the High Holidays by dropping items off at B'nai Israel. I will be on site to accept donations several times (see below), or you can bring them during normal office hours (10 am to 4 pm). If you cannot come to the synagogue, email me and we will come get the donation from you: Edie.zeldin@gmail.com
The school year will start off with distance learning so for the meantime classes will be divided into developmentally appropriate smaller sizes. To help facilitate distance learning, all materials will be sent home with the student.
In addition to the typical topics (Tikkun Olam, Holidays, Hebrew Language, Lifecycle, Prayer, History, Values, and Israel, to name a few) this year we will also be using a Covid-inspired supplemental curriculum called La'Briyut, To Our Health and Wellness, to provide Jewish context to our unusual times. The calendar will be released shortly (subject to change given the evolving nature of Covid). Please register as soon as possible and share widely!
Call or email Kate in the office to register:
910-762-1117;
kate.bnaiisraelilm@outlook.com
Fall Adult Ed Coming Soon
For the fall, we will be having two weekly classes. For variety of time, the proposed class times will be Tuesday "Lunch and Learn" and Thursday night class. One of these courses will be a 101 in Hebrew reading as well as answering the age old question of "What the Heck are we saying in services anyway?!"Another course will cover a variety of topics from Tanakh, to Talmud, to Jewish Literature and more!
Please email if you have a preference in timing for this classes, with the understanding that not everyone can be accommodated.
Also please email is you are interested in an Introduction to Judaism Class. I have been approached by a few seekers of Judaism and want to try to expand the class. This class would be for those who are not Jewish and interested in exploring Judaism more deeply. There is absolutely no requirement for conversion, only the desire to learn. Interfaith couples may join together.
Finally, if you are interested in adult bar/bat mitzvah class, please email!
Rabbi Chaya Bender
B'nai Israel Congregation
https://bnaiisraelilm.shulcloud.com/
C. 910-547-7595
We offer prayers of healing for the following:**
Steve Glaser
Sydel Gluck
Cindy Throne
Stephanie Bell
Faye Sobol
Henry Westreich
Kenneth Densmore
** Each week we will show our members and their families who wish to be on the Misheberach list. Names will remain on the list for 3 months unless you ask us to remove them earlier. Please contact the office to add or remove names.
The names of those who are not members but whom you wish to
receive prayers will be read at Shabbat services.
2020 Birthdays & Anniversaries
Birthdays in September
Martha
Stein
2-Sep
Matthew
Popkin
3-Sep
Richard
Cody Jr.
3-Sep
Jeremy
Alper
8-Sep
Todd
Atwood
9-Sep
Roberta
Eichenholz
10-Sep
Donna
Ratner
12-Sep
Cookie
Cohen
12-Sep
Fred
Opper
15-Sep
Miriam
Bloch
18-Sep
Phyllis
Rosenberg
18-Sep
Jack
Markowitz
24-Sep
Michelle
Bannon
26-Sep
Pam
Weiss
28-Sep
Jack
Markowitz
24-Sep
Marvin
Neuwirth
29-Sep
Anniversaries in September
Barbara & Michael
Rovner
5-Sep
Felice & Lloyd
Zeldin
15-Sep
Mindy & Steven
Krasnipol
18-Sep
Theresa & Kenneth
Densmore
28-Sep
Yahrzeits
23-29 5780 ~ September 12-18, 2020
Aaron Busch
Respectfully remembered
Abraham Rubin
Respectfully remembered
Carolyn Medress
Mother of Mike Medress
Dorothy Bridger
Mother of Dotty Freedland
Dorothy Meyerson
Mother of Martin Meyerson
Harry Greenspan
Respectfully remembered
Jeri Medress
Wife of Mike Medress
Joan Weiss
Friend of Jane Birnbach
Lawrence P. Bridger, II
Brother of Dotty Freedland
Lena Goldstein
Respectfully remembered
Lorayne D'Lugin
Mother of Lenny D'Lugin
Sarah Berkowitz
Mother of Efraim Jaronowski
Theodor Sender
Father of Dennis Sender
Donations
If you would like to make a donation to B'nai Israel, please click below
and use the Pay Online tab on our website.
Keith, Elaine, Diane, Jonathan & Lance Popkin, and Davoria. Building Fund
In memory of Elaine Lathrop
Walter & Leigh Winter General Fund
In memory of Elaine Lathrop
Phyllis & Warren Rosenberg Rabbi's Discretionary Fund
In memory of Elaine Lathrop
Jane Birnbach Rabbi's Discretionary Fund
In honor of my dramatic reading with Rabbi Bender for Yom Kippur
Jane L. Birnbach Benevolent Fund
In memory of my beloved daddy, Marvin E. Birnbach
Steve & Lyne Glaser Capital Improvement Fund
In memory of Elaine Lathrop
Jerry & Debbie Smith General Fund
In memory of Elaine Lathrop
Cary F. Lathrop General Fund
In memory of Elaine Lathrop
Steve & Martha Stein Kavanotes Fund
In memory of Elaine Lathrop
David & Arlene Burns B'nai Israel Sisterhood
In memory of Elaine Lathrop
Howard & Caroline Eisenstein Rabbi's Discretionary Fund
B'nai Israel 
We offer prayers of healing for the following:**
