Jewish Community Center of Long Beach Island E-Letter
June 2, 2022
4 Sivan 5782
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A Shavuot Primer.
Each Shabbat we stand as the Ark is opened and the Torah is taken out and presented to the congregation. This weekly synagogue experience is no less of a revelation than the original event that occurred at Mount Sinai, and which we commemorate during the holiday of Shavuot. Just as God called out the Laws to Moses and our ancestors, the Law is called out (or chanted) to us, today, so that we can hear, learn, and do.
But Shavuot is not just about receiving the Torah. Indeed the Torah itself recognizes it as a Harvest Holiday (celebrating the Wheat harvest.) Thus the Torah refers to Shavuot as "Yom Habikurim" (the Day of the First Fruits); and "Chag HaKatzir," (the Harvest Festival).
It is customary to eat blintzes, cheesecake, and other dairy foods on Shavuot. One reason given for this is that, according to our tradition, Moses was taken out of the water on Shavuot and would only accept milk from an Israelite. Another commonly given explanation is that the Israelites first learned about keeping kosher when the Torah was given. They ate dairy foods until they could properly clean their pots and utensils because until that moment they had been eating non-kosher foods.
There is also a custom to stay up all night on the first night of Shavuot to study Torah and then to say the morning prayers at sunrise. This year the first night is Saturday, June 4th, we will study on Zoom with lessons taught by me and by Stu Lehrer. Click below for this and for all Shavuot Services.
Finally, it is customary to read the Book of Ruth. It tells of a woman who converts to Judaism and voluntarily accepts the Torah. Ruth’s reward is that she will be the Great Grandmother of King David whom, according to our tradition, was born, and died, on Shavuot. Aside from the basic narrative, the Book of Ruth highlights loyalty, beauty, intrigue, intimacy, and love. It is a great read. This year, a portion of the Book of Ruth will be read by Eve Lehrer on the second day of Shavuot.
Shavuot Services and programs are as follows:
Saturday evening, June 4th at 9:00 PM, zoom only, for Maariv services and study sessions.
Sunday Morning, June 5th, at 10:00 AM, in person or on Zoom, for Shacharit services.
Monday morning, June 6th, at 10:00 AM in person or on Zoom, for Shacharit services and a Yizkor service. (Light your Yahrtzeit candle on Sunday evening.)
Sunday and Monday Evenings there will be a Zoom only Maariv service at 9:00 PM.
Here is the Zoom link for all Shavuot services and programs:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83084274674?pwd=akxNZkNiRmtBUE5ST0dDQy8ra3BKUT09
Meeting ID: 830 8427 4674
Passcode: 586656
Join us as we receive the Torah, eat dairy, study, read a portion of the Book of Ruth and chant Yizkor. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to reach out to me via email or on my phone.
Shabbat Shalom – Rabbi Michael S. Jay
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Candle Lighting time
Saturday evening
June 4, 2022
9:33 PM
(So. Ocean County)
Saturday, June 4th 9:00 PM
Zoom Shavuot Services
and then A Night of Study
(Tikkun L’el Shavuot)
SHAVUOT SERVICES
Candle Lighting time
Sunday evening
June 5, 2022
9:33 PM
(So. Ocean County)
Sunday and Monday,
June 5th and 6th 10:00 AM
(Zoom and In-person)
June 6th
YISKOR recited at 11:30 AM
A special Shavuot grab and go lunch will be available to take home or to enjoy in our tent outside on the JCC property.
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Candle Lighting time
Friday evening
June 3, 2022
8:01 PM
(So. Ocean County)
JOIN US FOR
SERVICES
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BAR MITZVAH OF
JACOB "JAKE" YUDMAN
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On my bar mitzvah “it’s my introduction to becoming a man in the Jewish religion.” Jake Yudman
MAZEL TOV
to the parents
Jill & Ken Yudman
and brother Max
and the entire family
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Friday Evening
June 3, 2022
6:00 PM
IN PERSON
AND
ON ZOOM
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to join
Zoom services
Saturday Morning
June 4, 2022
Shabbat
Service
9:00 AM
IN PERSON
AND
ON ZOOM
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to join
Zoom services
Torah Reading:
Parashat Bamidbar
Numbers 1:1-4:20
Here is the Reading
Torah Reader
Aaron Lombardi
Bamidbar (“In The Desert”) is the first Torah portion in the Book of Numbers. It describes God's command to take a census and details the camping formation of the Israelites in the desert. It also begins to enumerate the responsibilities of the Levites when transporting the Mishkan.
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Haftorah
Hosea 2:1-22 · 22
Here is the Haftorah
Havdallah
and
Special Shavuot Study
9:00 PM
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to
join Zoom services:
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to
join Zoom services:
Sunday - Thursday
Ma'ariv Service
7:30 PM
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to
join Zoom services:
Monday- Friday
Shacharit Service
8:15 AM
Sunday at 9:00 AM
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to
join Zoom services:
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AND WHAT A WEEK IT WAS.... |
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Yasher Koach to JCC member DANA NEWBORN for taking us through the Book of Ruth with her enthusiasm and wisdom. Each chapter provided us with new insight into the story. We are so lucky to have Dana as part of our JCC family.
This last of our 2021/22 WAX Kol Nashim programs. Thank you to Hazzan Sara Geller, Debbie Miller and Dana Newborn for bringing to the JCC the women's view of our history.
Last Tuesday night we heard from the BEACH HAVEN FIRE DEPARTMENT tips on how to make our homes safer from the threat of fire. With the recent fires on our Island, the WAX felt it important to present this timely program for our members and friends.
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Here are the winners of the WAX Art Contest Open House held at the at the Coastal Volunteers in Medicine Clinic in Forked River held last Thursday night. The inspiration of WAX member Noralyn Carroll, 4th, 5th and 6th grade students at the Beach Haven Elementary School were asked to provide creative works to decorate the walls of CVIM.
Thank you to...
- Stephanie Cecchini, Art Teacher at Beach Haven School, for guiding the students in this project.
- The WooHoo for donating gift cards to the winners.
- LBI artist Linda Ramsay for judging the work.
- And of course the WAX for their wonderful projects all year round.
Coastal Volunteers in Medicine is a FREE non-emergency family clinic for those without medical insurance, residing in parts of southern Ocean County, who have a family income below 300% of the federal poverty level.
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THIS WEEK'S ACTIVITIES
WEDNESDAY 6/8/22
Wednesday Walking Tours
9:00 AM
See details below
Mah jongg/Canasta
12:30 PM
following Ma'ariv
7:45 PM
Studying the weekly portions
with Rabbi Jay based on the book
"Judaism’s Life-Changing Ideas"
by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
THURSDAY 6/9
11:00 AM Torah Study with the Rabbi
2:00 PM Beginning Hebrew with Ira
HERE ARE THE LINKS :
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JUNE 8 - Wednesday Walking Tours
JUNE 10 - Shabbat Dinner
JUNE 15 - WAX Book Club
JUNE 17 - WAX Craft Project
JUNE 17 - Shabbat on the Beach (Spray Beach)
JUNE 24 - Shabbat on the Beach (Loveladies)
JUNE 26 - Membership Brunch
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JCC WOMENS AUXILIARY: BOOK GROUP DISCUSSION
WEDNESDAYS AT 4:00 PM
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JUNE BOOK
Wednesday, June 15 at 4:00 PM
Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
Discussion Leader: Sondi Pripstein
Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival.
When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka: She is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to a Siberian prison camp. But did she really have a choice? And where do the lines of morality lie for Cilka, who was send to Auschwitz when she was still a child?
In Siberia, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, including the unwanted attention of the guards. But when she meets a kind female doctor, Cilka is taken under her wing and begins to tend to the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under brutal conditions.
Confronting death and terror daily, Cilka discovers a strength she never knew she had. And when she begins to tentatively form bonds and relationships in this harsh, new reality, Cilka finds that despite everything that has happened to her, there is room in her heart for love.
From child to woman, from woman to healer, Cilka's journey illuminates the resilience of the human spirit―and the will we have to survive.
ORDER YOUR BOOK NOW AND START READING TODAY: Click here to order Cilka’s Journey from Amazon.
Click here to borrow the book from the Ocean County Library.
A Zoom link will be sent shortly before the event.
FUTURE BOOKS:
July 13 - Concealed by By Esther Amini
by Maggie Anton
September 14 - Rav Hisda’s Daughter Book II Enchantress: By Maggie Anton
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The following names will be read by the Rabbi on Friday evening
Fay Baker*
Libby Gurian*
Abe Bernstein
Ruth Brill*
Irving Fingrman
Esther Myers
Shirley Rosner*
George Sesso
Ernice Gold
Muriel Krampf
Ethel Lenkowsky
Albert Rosenfeld*
Ike Schwaff*
Irene Epstein
Florence Koransky
Harry (Hershel) Kotler
Douglas Cole
Isaac Freedman
Jacob Shaer
Rose Shaer
Josh Braun
Sidney Denbo
Samuel Kanowith
Anita D. Klaiman*
Gloria Shapiro
Harry Sobelsky
Bertram Stern Lowe
*Memorial plaque will be lit this week.
In this Zoom era, we have been able to have a daily minyan at 8:15 AM and at 7:30 PM and on Shabbat. We encourage you to join us on the day of your loved one’s yahrzeit. In the morning, the service is about ½ hour beginning at 8:15 and in the evening at 7:30 until about 7:45. Rabbi will be glad to say the traditional El Malei Rachamim prayer for you, which is recited during the funeral, going up to the grave of the departed, Yizkor remembrance day and other occasions on which the memory of the dead is recalled. You are COalso welcome to share with the minyan some special memories of your loved one.
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Louis Celebre
June 4
Michael Nissenblatt
June 4
Andrew Ross
June 5
Lee Gardner
June 6
Ira Morgenthal
June 6
Marc Rubin
June 6
Phyllis Lishnoff
June 7
Bev Rosenberg
June 7
Marjie Carnevale
June 10
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Michael & Irene Babst
11th Anniversary
Jeffrey & Susan Carson
45th Anniversary
Barnett & Diane Hoffman
58th Anniversary
Roy & Ellen Konwiser
58th Anniversary
Sylvain Nakkab & Myrna Herman
30th Anniversary
Michael & Julie Lippmann
53rd anniversary
Donald & Maxine Paris
58th Anniversary
Michael & Toby Slomovitz
43rd Anniversary
Neil & Debra Falek
50th Anniversary
David & Maxine Freedman
61st Anniversary
David & Debra Horowitz
27th Anniversary
Samuel & Phyllis Sisenwine
60th Anniversary
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SHARE YOUR NEWS
AND PICTURES
CONTACT:
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BARNEY HOFFMAN
recovering from back surgery
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Matthew Gatto, son of Vincent and Sharon Gatto, and grandson of Ira and Ina Morgenthal will be graduating from the Ocean County Academy for Law and Public Safety on June 22. |
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SEND US YOUR GRADUATES' PICTURES AND INFORMATION
TO BE INCLUDED IN THE SHABBAT REMINDER
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University of Pennsylvania
Graduate
Josh Chazin
with parents Marty & Stacey Chazin and Grandparents Mark & Marsha Chazin
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MAZEL TOV TO
Debbie & David Levy on the birth of their granddaughter
Jessie Shai Wilbar
to daughter Shelly and her husband Teddy
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CARING COMMITTEE
This committee acts as a support system for congregation members facing illness and other personal situations that need to be addressed.
Please contact Chairperson,
Debby Schweighardt
if you are in need of assistance or if you know of a JCC member
that needs our help.
973-634-5349
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LOOKS WHO’S GRADUATING
FROM RYDELL HIGH
The Class of ‘59 will be Rydell High’s coolest class ever!
Here are the four fantastic triple-threats stars for the cast of
GREASE!
ISAAC SILVER as Danny Zuko, RILEY MARTIN as Sandy Dumbrowski, GARRETT FORRESTAL as Kenickie and SHARAE MOULTRIE as Rizzo.
AXELROD PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
100 Grant Ave., Deal Park, NJ 07723
June 3 - 19
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GIVING OPPORTUNITIES
PAVERS
Inscribe a paver at the front entrance to the building
8" X 4", 8" X 8" and 12" X 12"
SEE UPDATED ORDER FORM:
Become a permanent part of the JCC landscape.
Purchase a personalized paving stone
in honor of your family or in memory of a loved one.
Please contact Diane Hoffman
with your order or with any questions:
PRAYER BOOKS
There are still High Holiday Prayer Books and Chumashim available to be purchased in memory or honor of someone or something. The cost of a Prayer Book is $72 each and $120 for an Eitz Hayim Chumash. The donation includes an affirmation sticker in the book and an acknowledgement letter or letters.
TRIBUTES
SEND ONE OF OUR TRIBUTES IN HONOR OR IN MEMORY OF
TREE OF LIFE
Add a leaf (leaves) to our beautiful Tree of Life located in the Social Hall. See the order form here: TREE OF LIFE
Bronze Leaf $90
Silver Leaf $126
Gold :Leaf $180
ENDOWMENT FUND
Herb and Selma z”l Shapiro established the first individual Endowment Fund in memory of his father, as part of the JCC’s Endowment Fund portfolio.
Since then, three additional individual Endowment Funds have been established. Other members are encouraged to also provide for the future of our JCC by establishing similar funds. Please consider adding to this number.
A donation of at least $50,000 to the endowment fund will allow the donor to name one of the funds as the donor wishes. All such named funds will be joined together to be part of the Endowment Fund portfolio.
Endowment funds are necessary to ensure the continuation and well being of our congregation. All members are encouraged to help this important effort by contributing to this portfolio, whether as a specific named individual fund, or as a general donation. The donation can be spread over one, two, or three years, and can be paid via check, donation of appreciated stock, wills, or from the RMD of your IRA or 401K account. Your gift to the fund can be sent to the JCC Office. Please mark your check accordingly.
YAHRZEIT PLAQUES
Space is available for memorial plaques on the yahrzeit boards in the Sanctuary.
Here is the order form:
KOL HAKAVOD
Please consider being a part of this campaign to supplement the clergy needs of our congregation. This is a separate, voluntary commitment and is additional to our low annual dues obligation. HERE IS THE LINK TO BRING UP THE DONATION FORM KOL HAKAVOD
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2022 MEMBERSHIP FORMS
Your support is so important to the continued success of the JCC.
Here is form for renewal:
And if you have been reading our Shabbat Reminder and other communications and have not yet joined our congregation, here is the new member form:
To pay on line
Fill in your information and then
go to Donation Details - then
Other and type in 2022 Membership
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JCC FUNDS
Your gift to the JCC supports our Clergy, our Congregation and the Community.
ENDOWMENT FUND
This fund was established to assure the continuity of our JCC, and our ability to continue providing a full-service congregation to serve the Jewish people of the area. While a donation of any amount is encouraged, a donation of at least $50,000 allows the donor to name a special or specific Endowment Fund in memory or honor of a specific person event, or family.
GENERAL FUND
Donations to this fund are not earmarked but placed in the general administrative account. Donations to this fund can be in honor or memory of a person, event, or family.
KOL HAKAVOD FUND
Donations to this campaign supplement the clergy needs of our congregation.
RABBI’S DISCRETIONARY FUND
This fund, managed by the rabbi, allows donors to enable the rabbi to do the work of tzedakah in response to the needs of individuals, organizations and the community.
ZENA & JERRY JAY KIDDISH FUND
The Zena and Jerry Jay Kiddush Fund was established in memory of Rabbi Jay's parents to help provide funds for our Saturday morning kiddushes.
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JCC INFORMATION
THE JCC OF LBI IS LOCATED AT
2411 Long Beach Boulevard (24th Street)
Spray Beach, NJ 08008
Telephone: 609-492-4090 FAX: 609-492-7550
THE OFFICE IS OPEN
TUESDAY AND THURSDAY
FROM 10 - 2
CONTINUE TO USE THE PHONE OR EMAIL WITH REQUESTS.
OUR OFFICE STAFF WILL BE CHECKING IN REGULARLY.
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Staff:
Leslie Dinkfelt, Office Manager
Mary Beth Krieger, Staff Member
Diane
Kitchen Manager: Susan Berube
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LATEST
BULLETIN:
PRAYER BOOK:
WEB SITE:
PAVERS:
TREE OF LIFE
YAHRZEIT PLAQUE FORM:
KOL HAKAVOD DONATION FORM
TRIBUTES:
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Rabbi Michael S. Jay
Michael Babst, President
E-mail Editor: Rose Valentine
Graphics by
Irene Babst
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