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Ma Chadash:
What's New at Adat Shalom?
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Member
Join us for everything Adat Shalom has to offer this weekend! Great scholarship and amazing music coming to you this month. Don't miss it!
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Allan Schwarz Music Shabbaton - Next Weekend!
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Join guest artist Dr. Galeet Dardashti, renowned scholar of Persian-Jewish musicianship.
Friday, November 22nd
7:30 pm Kabbalat Shabbat with Dr. Dardashti and Adat Shalom clergy
8:30 pm “Family Legacy, Artistic Innovation, Jewish Scholarship – A Personal Journey”
Yom Shabbat, November 23
9:30 am morning prayers led by Dr. Dardashti and Adat Shalom clergy
11:30 am Creative Musaf
12:15 pm Shabbat lunch
1:00 pm “My Heart is in the East: Middle Eastern Influences on Jewish Prayer”
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Friday, November 15th - Shabbat at the Table!
at 6:00 PM
If you have a child between the ages of 5 and 10 in your life (grandparents, aunts/uncles, parents, other non-traditional family configurations) bring them along and join us for Shabbat at the Table. We’ll light the candles, sing Shabbat songs, eat a lovely dinner and share some Shabbat traditions.
Please bring a side-dish for 10 to share
; we’ll have everything else! RSVP at
rsvp@adatshalom.net
. (Siblings, extended family, etc. are welcome!)
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Saturday, November 16th
Shabbat Morning Services with Rabbi Rachel
9:30am Contemplative Chanting & Meditation
10:00am Morning Prayers with David Sieradzki
10:30am Torah reading -
Parashat Vayera
11:15am Torah Study & Discussion
11:45am Kaddish & Closing Prayers
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Shabbat Matters: Intro to Recon with Rabbi Fred at 9:45 AM in the Double Classroom
All are welcome for this quick overview of Reconstructionist Judaism with Rabbi Fred – we’ll run through WHO, HOW, WHAT, and WHERE of Reconstructionist Judaism.
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Tot Shabbat with Miss Ellie at 10:30 AM in the Library
Join Ms. Ellie for our weekly energetic and joyful celebration of Shabbat.
Great fun for kids up to age 5 and their adults. Grandparents welcome!
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Village Oneg at 12:00 PM
Genesis has tribes, but Adat Shalom has 12 Villages! In the Social Hall, look for the table with your Village's number, and join new friends and old for a Shabbat lunch. (If you've forgotten your Village number, check your name tag or the Adat Shalom directory.)
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Listening Circle with Rabbi Jane: When Our Teen or Young Adult Struggles at 1:00 PM in the Library
The Listening Space is a drop in support group, a place to feel heard and understood. If you have any questions, feel free to contact
Rabbi Jane.
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Sunday, November 17th
Global Day of Jewish Learning with the RRC
Join Rabbi David Teutsch and
Reconstructing Judaism
for this LIVE presentation from Media, Pennsylvania. We will begin with what Rambam (Maimonides) says about the obligation to offer rebuke and what makes such conversations effective, consider some contemporary situations that need our feedback, and talk about how we overcome our internal resistance to addressing wrongdoing. You can
join the webinar here, or
click here if you are able to go in person (at Beth Israel in PA)!
Haiti Book Group
at 2:00 PM in the Library
All are welcome to the first meeting of the Haitian book group; Karen Paley and Marta Beresin will lead a discussion of National Book Critics Circle winner
Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat.
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News from the Synagogue Office
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B’Hatzlacha – Good Wishes -- to our Clergy Assistant Sarah Wesson. Sarah will be leaving her post on November 20. She has been with Adat Shalom since December 2016, and served as Office Administrator and then Clergy Assistant. She is returning to her home state of Florida where she will be enrolling in nursing school. Please join us in wishing Sarah good health and good vibes as she begins a new chapter. Her last day at Adat Shalom will be Wednesday, November 20. Feel free to stop by the office to wish her well.
Following Sarah’s departure on November 20, please direct all clergy-related messages to
Shay HaLevi and all general synagogue administrative messages to
Marcie Wilson, or directly to Marla Cohen.
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Tuesday, November 19th at 7:00 PM
Friends of the American Technion Society featuring Alon Wolf
, founder and director of the Biorobotics and Biomechanics Lab in the Technion Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. His research focuses on the fundamental theories in kinematics biomechanics, mechanism design with applications in medical/surgical robotics, rehabilitation robotics, and biorobotics.
Click here to RSVP
and learn more.
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From the Nominating Committee
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We are beginning the process of forming the Nominating Committee to create the Board and Program Council for 2020-21. The Nominating Committee will be chaired by Immediate Past Co-Presidents Jon Grossman and Harriet Shugerman.
We encourage all who are interested in serving on the Nominating Committee (which is about a 4 month 1-2 hours per week commitment) or who wish to consider being nominated for a leadership position on an Adat Shalom committee or on the Adat Shalom Board to contact us at your earliest convenience.
According to our By-Laws, the Nominating Committee must be announced by November 30
th
and the only in-person meeting will be the evening of December 3
rd
.
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Celebrating a birth, wedding, or other simcha? Please let us know about it! Need a visit with clergy or an aliyah? Contact
Shay HaLevi
.
If you have a death in the family or other life cycle emergency, please contact one of the co-chairs of the Adat Shalom Life Cycle Committee:
Shelley Rudick
Victor Rezmovic
Marc Gunther
Betsy Reinstein Dewey
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...Membership, billing, scheduling a meeting or rental?
...B'nai Mitzvah, Aliyah, Clergy or Pastoral Care Questions?
...Torah School, Youth Programs Registration, membership update
(including yahrzeit dates), IT questions, help with listserv/member log in?
...Membership and adjustments or other questions?
Contact: Executive Director,
Marla Cohen
, 301-767-3333 x107
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Have a submission for Ma Chadash?
Send
it the week before on Monday (10 days in advance) to be sure it's included!
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Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation
7727 Persimmon Tree Lane * Bethesda, MD 20817
(P) 301-767-3333 * (F) 301-767-3340
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