Shir Chadash Newsletter
May 7 - 13, 2020
14 Iyar - 21 Iyar, 5780
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This Week's Shir Chadash To-Do List
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Be honest - have you been wearing the same pair of sweatpants for a while? Are you losing track of time because you're not dressing up for Shabbat? Shir Chadash has the answer...
FANCY FRIDAYS!
Every week we'll dress to a different theme. Put on your glad rags (and your makeup and your jewelry...), take a photo of yourself/yourselves and send it to us at
shirchadash@shirchadash.org
so we can share it on our Facebook page.
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This week's theme is:
Little House on the Prairie
Turn a baseball cap into a bonnet with a piece of fabric and string!
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You are invited to Shir Chadash Shul School's first, and hopefully
only
, Zoom-style end-of-the-year celebration.
Help our oldest students graduate to their Bat and Bar Mitzvah study years, and our little ones move on up!
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Cocktail hour has been rescheduled
for this coming Wednesday!
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Click
here
for last week's
Shul School Newsletter
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Join us
online
for our regularly scheduled Sisterhood Tanakh class as
w
e continue our journey through the book of Judges.
Wednesdays at 10 am
For questions or for more info about Sisterhood, contact Charisse Sands
504-231-6464
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Join us at 9:15am for our Sunday minyan followed by a check-in and a virtual L'Hayyim!
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Looking Ahead
(Click on the bold writing to join the ZOOM meeting)
SOME OF THE LINKS HAVE CHANGED.
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Friday, May 8th
Saturday, May 9th
Sunday, May 10th
Shul School
Tuesday, May 12th
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Wednesday, May 13th
10 am, NO SISTERHOOD CLASS - back next week!
Friday, May 15th
Saturday, May 16th
Sunday, May 17th
Tuesday, May 19th
Wednesday, May 20th
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Baruch Dayan Emet
The entire Shir Chadash community extends its condolences on the loss of Harris Dulitz to his wife Rosalie, his sister Charlene Pukof and to his entire family. May Harris's memory be for a blessing.
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Buy Your Own Siddur Lev Shalem
Thanks to the generosity of our donor, we are able to offer the Siddur Lev Shalem for purchase at a price of $40.00 (a discount of $9.00 from the list price).
Additionally, anyone who wants to can borrow an 'old' Siddur Sim Shalom.
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Dear Shir Chadash community,
This week I found myself turning towards gratitude.
Just about every spiritual tradition has a ‘gratitude practice’ - a moment of prayer, or an intention, or a physical action, that ask us to clear our minds of whatever might be cluttering them up and re-focus ourselves on the things for which we are grateful.
It can feel challenging to do this - perhaps that’s why the modim prayer, which is the prayer of gratitude at the conclusion of the Amidah, is said three times a day! However, it is a practice with huge benefits. It truly has the power to shift our state of mind.
This Shabbat, I am grateful for our President, Ken Klein, and our Executive and Board, who have been working behind the scenes ever since this began to ensure that we stay connected to each other, and much more. I’m grateful for my colleagues, Ricardo Totah, Jennie Lavine and Sarah Lustig. None of them signed up for this, and they have risen graciously and gracefully to the challenge.
And I am grateful for the beautiful weather we have been having. We are coming to the end of it, alas - but it has felt like a special gift to be able to be in the sunshine and the breeze, to notice how the plants are growing and the birds are singing. I have taken to praying my Amidah outside, so I can be more open to the beauty of the world.
I wish us a sweet, gentle, grateful Shabbat. See you at services - be safe and be well.
Warmly
Rabbi Silver
PS - I always provide a few new links for Shabbat, so please scroll down…
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Virtual services and
pre/post Shabbat materials
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We hope that playing these in the background has been getting you in the mood for Shabbat!
Here
is our Shabbat playlist and for our younger members,
here
is the Shir Chadash Youtube page, where you can spend some time with Miss Meryl and the Shabbat dinosaur!
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Please use
this link
for Kabbalat Shabbat on Friday night at 6:15pm.
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Shabbat morning liturgy at home
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I hope that by now we are in the habit of making a computer-free time on Shabbat to pray, to reflect and to study.
You can find an online Siddur
here
- please download before Shabbat.
At the end of
this article
is Rabbi Wayne Dosick’s prayer to say in place of Kaddish.
And here is a beautiful improvisation around the modim prayer, from Rabbi Rachel Barenblat:
GRATITUDE
Is meant to arise automatically
as the clock-radio severs
whatever held me to dreaming.
It's mandatory even on tough days,
regardless of what I know
(or imagine I know) is coming.
The rabbis teach that
each night we lend You our souls
for purposes I can't begin to imagine.
Do You harness them in tandem?
Do they cluster in Your kitchen
trading recipes with the angels?
Your enduring trust in us
isn't patched and worn at the seams
like the faithfulness we know
but abundant and whole
every single time we wake
and wipe slumber from our eyelids.
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Torah: Leviticus 21:1-22:16
Maftir: Leviticus 22:13-16
Haftarah: Ezekiel 44:15-31
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Torah study
The Torah reading for this week is in the red panel above. If you do not have a Humash at home you can find it on the link below. We are reading Triennial Year 1, but you might like to read the full portion (“
Full Kriyah
”). It’s a long parashah this week but there is some very good stuff in there!
My Jewish Learning
has curated an excellent collection of parashah study websites to browse at your leisure (please note that you might want to download some of the materials before Shabbat).
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Brochure
Unfortunately, this week we are not able to include our full Shabbat brochure with simchas, yahrzeits, and a misheberakh list. However, Rabbi Silver's Verse to Live By is
attached.
And while we are not able to provide a list of those in need of healing this week, you might wish to take special notice of those who are sick -- people you know and people you don't -- and take a moment to direct your thoughts towards them. We expect our regular Shabbat brochure to be back next week and we apologize for the lapse.
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Prayer for Medical Workers
Please continue to say this prayer for all those who work to keep us healthy and safe.
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Holy One
We ask your blessing for our doctors
for our nurses
for all our hospital workers
who stand between the living and the dying
as Aaron once stood.
Help them to know they are not alone
as they undertake the overwhelming holy work
of deploying and organizing,
of caring and healing and comforting.
Bring them strength
and fortitude
and grace.
May the work of their hands be blessed.
And we say,
Amen.
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Jewish Community Health Care Workers
Take Home Meal Program
The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans is pleased to announce the launch of the Greater New Orleans Jewish Community Health Care Workers Take Home Meal Program. This program will benefit Tulane Medical Center, Touro Infirmary and Ochsner Health System. Over the next eight weeks, this program will serve 5,000 take-home meals to frontline medical staff and healthcare workers.
Three local kosher restaurants and caterers – Kosher Cajun, Rimon and Dvash – are collaborating to provide healthy, delicious meals to all three hospital campuses each Tuesday evening.
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Community Events and Announcements
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Chevra Thilim Memorial Park
Cemetery Plot for Sale
A plot at Chevra Thilim Memorial Park at Iberville and Helena streets has become available for sale at a discounted price.
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Due to the current shelter-in-place restrictions, our community publication, Southern Jewish Life magazine, is distributing its next couple of issues entirely online. The new edition is currently out, you can follow
this link
, or go to the
Southern Jewish Life website
for a version that is downloadable. They also offer a weekly e-mail newsletter that you can sign up for by emailing
subscribe@sjlmag.com
. You may also use that address to request that the PDF version be emailed to you.
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NOLAJewishWomen
is an online exhibition based on the 2018 New Orleans Tricentennial Exhibition, l’dor v'dor, that highlighted the critical roles Jewish women have played in shaping the New Orleans public sphere over the past 120 years. Their goals are to preserve and share Jewish women's leadership that has made New Orleans a dynamic Southern city, capture new stories, and inspire new leadership. In addition to the website, you can
like their Facebook page
and
sign up for their monthly newsletter
.
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Have you ever used
ZOOM
? We are holding meetings and classes using this online program. Please look at this tutorial so you can join us! We hope to see you soon!
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Thank you to all our generous donors. We are deeply grateful for your support.
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Sponsored Kiddush
In memory of Rene Lehmann
From: Nathan & Robin Lew
Landscaping Fund
From: Sheldon & Irene Hersh
Building Fund
In memory of Rene Lehmann
From: Charles & Rita Manning
In memory of Rene Lehmann
From: Mark Kline
Caring Committee
To: Allan Lehmann
In memory of your beloved father, Rene
From: Bock, Dreyer, Gamzu, Goldman-Yassen, Grill- Abramowitz, Hoffman, Israel, Mesch, Rhodes, Rosner-Schapiro, Safran, Slotnick, Smith, and Ziff families
To: Lawrence Lehmann & Dashka Roth
In memory of Rene Lehmann
From: Elliott and Joan Bain
Emanuel Steinberg Education Fund
In loving memory and great respect of Rene Lehmann
From: Sylvan & Judy Steinberg
Endowment Fund
In memory of Rene Lehmann; one of the dearest and inspirational men.
From: Harry & Marcie Katzen
To: Lawrence Lehmann & Dashka Roth
In memory of Rene Lehmann. He touched my life and set a fine example for all of us.
From: Thomas Wolf
General Fund
To: Lawrence Lehmann & Dashka Roth
In memory of Rene Lehmann
From: Warren Manning
To: Lawrence Lehmann & Dashka Roth
In memory of Rene Lehmann
From: Ricardo & Marcela Totah
To: Allan Lehmann
In memory of Rene Lehmann. His son Allan has been my teacher and a regular co-participant in our morning minyan here in Newton, MA
From: Donald Freedman
Gilda Finkelstein Gift of Israel Fund
In memory of Linda Dulitz Hirsch's yahrzeit
From: Harris & Rosalie Dulitz
Nat Leon Education Fund
To: The Lehmann Family
In loving memory of Rene Lehmann
From: Renee Sabel
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Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund
In memory of Rene Lehmann, from the friends of his grandson, Elie.
From: Gail Fogel
To: Lawrence Lehmann & Dashka Roth
In Memory of Rene Lehmann. May his memory be a Blessing
From: Frima Fox Hofrichter
To: Lawrence Lehmann & Dashka Roth
In memory of Rene Lehmann
From: Carolyn Lenz
In memory of Rene Lehmann. May his memory be a blessing.
From: Arthur & Bonnie Lustig
In memory of Rene Lehmann
From: Carol Emery
To: Lawrence Lehmann & Dashka Roth
In Memory of your beloved father, Rene Lehmann
From: Dale & Carol Newman
To: Larry Lehmann and Family
In memory of Rene Lehmann
From: Celia Katz
In memory of Rene Lehmann
From: Kenneth & Melanie Ehrlich
Stan Bleich Lagniappe Fund
In memory of Dorothy Joseph
From: Caron Bleich
Yahrzeit Fund
In memory of Rene Lehmann
From: Anthony Bibus
In memory of Rene Lehmann. May his memory be a blessing
From: Sanford Pailet
To: Lawrence Lehmann & Dashka Roth
In memory of Rene Lehmann
From: Julanne Isaacson
In memory of Rene Lehmann
From: El & Sandy Raisen
In memory of Bill Goldsmith
From: El & Sandy Raisen
In memory of Rene Lehmann
From: Hal & Linda Becker
In memory of Rene Lehmann
From: Nita-Joan Sams
In memory of Mildred Lubritz Covert
From: Celia Katz
In memory of Rene Lehmann
From: Sessions Law Firm
In memory of Rene Lehmann
From: Stanley & Anne Levy
In memory of our dear long-time friend, Rene Lehmann
From: Milton Scheuermann Jr.
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Chaverweb Online Member Access
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Watch the video above that another congregation put together with some basics about how to use ChaverWeb. (Please note - some of the functionality in this video is specific to the Beth Chaim Congregation and not yet available to Shir Chadash at this time.)
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Did you get your welcome email?
If not, please contact the synagogue office.
Subject line: Welcome to Shir Chadash Conservative Congregation's Online Member Access!
From: donotreply@chaverweb.net
With this online portal, you can manage your personal synagogue business online:
- Manage your account online
- Set a secure private password
- Update your info (name, address, photo, link yourself to family members and Yahrzeits)
- Check your account balance
- Make payments and donations
- RSVP for upcoming events (coming soon)
- and so much more!
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Rabbi
Rabbids@shirchadash.org
Executive Director
execdir@shirchadash.org
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Director of Youth Education
and Community Engagement
communityeducator@shirchadash.org
Sarah Lustig
Office Assistant
shirchadash@shirchadash.org
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