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Shir Chadash Newsletter
March 9 - March 15, 2023
16 Adar - 22 Adar 5783
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Our Purim Costume Contest Winners! | |
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BEST FAMILY COSTUME WENT TO...
The Adelman Family, dressed as
The Newsies
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BEST COUPLE COSTUME WENT TO...
Patrick & Carolina Benjamin
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BEST INDIVIDUAL COSTUME WENT TO...
Mindy Levitt
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BEST CHILDREN'S COSTUME WENT TO...
Jonathan Soso, dressed as Yoshi
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Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate Purim
with us this week with your beautiful, creative costumes!
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The Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana honored two Shir Chadash congregants with top awards at its recent 2023 Annual Event Legacy, Impact and Community on Sunday March 5 at the Audubon Tea Room.
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CAROLE C. NEFF was recognized with the JFNA Endowment Achievement Award. Carole joined JEF’s Board of Directors, which lead to her chairing the Development Committee for four years, assisting in establishing the Professional Advisory Council, and serving as President. Along with the late Max Nathan, Carole is the coauthor of a three-volume treatise on estate planning that has become the definitive resource on this subject of law. She has an extensive history of philanthropic and civic work as well as her acclaimed career as a leading estate planning attorney and partner at Sessions, Fishman & Nathan, L.L.C.
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LESLIE FISCHMAN was honored with the Helen A. Mervis Community Professional Award. Leslie excelled with a 25-year career at the JCC. Some of the New Orleans JCC’s most impressive milestones in its 168-year history can be attributed directly to Leslie and her leadership as Executive Director. While spearheading the largest-ever fundraising endeavor, resulting in a $9 million capital expansion, she also pushed the JCC to see its largest membership growth period to date.
Leslie’s leadership and commitment also steered the agency through some of its toughest challenges, including Hurricane Katrina and COVID-19, which forced a two-month closure, but safely reopened to provide critical childcare services and a sense of normalcy for JCC families.
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We at Shir Chadash take pride in the accomplishments of these two dynamic leaders. Mazel Tov to both of our wonderful congregants! | |
Shir Chadash Calendar
All links have migrated to our webpage. Click here to get there!
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Thursday, March 9th
6 pm, YAS (Young Adults at Shir Chadash) Happy Hour at Zony Mash - 3940 Thalia St.
Friday, March 10th
6:15 pm, Shabbat Evening Services
Saturday, March 11th
9:30 am, Shabbat Morning Services, followed by Kiddush lunch
10 am, Babysitting
Sunday, March 12th
9 am, SHUL SCHOOL
9:15 am, Minyan with Men's Club, followed by breakfast
10:30 am, Good Lookin' Cookin' with Sisterhood - Pesach Recipes Workshop
Tuesday, March 14th
6:30 pm, Special Back-to-Back Program at Rabbi Hoffman's Home: Watch JCRC's Zoom Discussion on Israel's 2023 Challenges with Dr. Eric Mandel, followed by our Great Jewish Books (of the Last Decade) series, discussing critically-acclaimed My Promised Land by Ari Shavit - email rabbiscott@shirchadash.org to RSVP
Wednesday, March 15th
10 am, Sisterhood Class: The Book of Legends
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Thursday, March 16th
8 am, Morning Minyan on Zoom
Friday, March 17th
6:45 pm, Special LimmudFest Shabbat Evening Services, followed by Oneg Shabbat (babysitting available) - at Congregation Gates of Prayer (Conservative Service held in the Bart Room)
Saturday, March 18th
9 am, Special LimmudFest Shabbat Morning Services, followed by lunch (babysitting available) - at Congregation Gates of Prayer (Conservative Service held in the Sanctuary)
10 am, LimmudFest Tot Shabbat - at Congregation Gates of Prayer (Room 13)
Sunday, March 19th
NO SHUL SCHOOL - LIMMUDFEST
9:15 am, Minyan with Men's Club, followed by breakfast
Wednesday, March 22nd
10 am, Sisterhood Class: The Book of Legends
Thursday, March 23rd
8 am, Morning Minyan on Zoom
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Our Health Committee update as of December 7, 2022 is as follows:
'Tis the season for respiratory viruses . . . A "tridemic" of COVID, influenza, and RSV is currently upon us. As a result, we strongly encourage you to stay up to date with your COVID and flu vaccines. Bivalent COVID boosters are available for those ages 5 years and older. Flu vaccine is available for those ages 6 months and older. Please visit vaccines.gov to find a location near you. We also encourage frequent handwashing and wearing a mask in crowded indoor spaces. And if you are feeling sick, please stay home to help reduce the transmission of virus to others. Zay gezunt! Be well!
Please click HERE to read our guidelines in full.
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Shir Chadash Events & Announcements | |
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No registration required. If you can't find the group,
please text or call Chaviva Sands at (504) 237-1522.
We look forward to seeing you TONIGHT!
| Please RSVP before March 22nd | Meanwhile, for the Young Adults of the community... | Please RSVP before March 22nd | Registration is now OPEN! | |
Save the date for this fun-filled weekend with The Bible Players, a Torah Comedy team who use theater and improv to infuse comedy and laughs into tales from the Torah and beyond! | | |
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LAST CALL to have your dedication on one of the new white Torah covers to be on the Torah for the High Holidays or one of the blue covers for the rest of the year.
Call the synagogue office (504.889.1144) for details about the amount needed to get your name or event commemorated on one of these covers. Deadline for donation commitment is April 3.
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Please note that the above images are not representative of what we will be purchasing, but merely examples of other Torah covers. | |
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CLASSES WITH RABBI HOFFMAN
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Great Jewish Books
(of the Last Decade)
@ Rabbi Hoffman's Home
JOIN US THIS WEEK FOR A SPECIAL BACK-TO-BACK PROGRAM:
6:30 PM - Watch JCRC's Zoom Discussion on Israel's 2023 Challenges with Dr. Eric Mandel
7:30 PM - Great Jewish Books (of the Last Decade)
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Next Class: THIS TUESDAY,
March 14th
"My Promised Land"
by Ari Shavit
Numerous Jewish books are published every year, and many are of a very high quality. But what about the most important books, those that make a deep impact on the American Jewish community? In this course, led at Rabbi Hoffman’s home (aka the parsonage) one Tuesday evening per month, we will review a book together.
Please RSVP to Rabbi Hoffman at rabbiscott@shirchadash.org
Click here for the full 2022-2023 schedule and book list
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Lunch & Learn:
One Hour Responsa
With gratitude to the Nat Leon Fund
Once a month, Tuesdays, 11 AM
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Next Class: March 28th
Join Rabbi Hoffman for a one-hour session followed by a delicious catered lunch. They will take a look at contemporary issues through the lens of Jewish sources. You don’t need to bring anything to class but yourself and your appetite – everything will be supplied to you. The course is based upon the responsa writings of Dr. David Golinkin of the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem.
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Sisterhood Class: The Book of Legends
Wednesdays. 10 AM
In-person and available on Zoom
Join us on Wednesday mornings at 10 for lively teaching and discussion with Rabbi Hoffman of The Book of Legends.
The Book of Legends brings to the English-speaking world the greatest and best-loved anthology of classical Rabbinic legends ever compiled. First published in Odessa in 1908 by the poet Hayim Nachman Bialik and editor Yehoshua Ravnitzky, it was recognized immediately as a masterwork in its own right and reprinted numerous times in Israel and now, the United States.
All materials will be provided - come join us for an exploration of Rabbinic texts in translation and enjoy!
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Minyan will be in the Chapel
at 9:15 am, followed by breakfast.
Zoom participation remains an option.
Everyone welcome!
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Thursday Shacharit Minyan | |
Join us at 8 am for our
virtual weekday minyan.
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Click here for the most recent Family Newsletter
to learn more about upcoming children's programming!
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Click here for the most recent Shul School Recap!
If you have not yet registered your child(ren) and wish to enroll them,
please contact Chaviva Sands at educationdirector@shirchadash.org.
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Good Lookin' Cookin'
with Sisterhood Returns!
THIS SUNDAY, March 12, 2023 at 10:30 am
Shir Chadash
Feeling adventurous? Ready to spice up your Pesach cuisine with tried and true recipes that are new to you? Bring your favorite Pesach recipes to share while enjoying coffee and a nosh.
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WJWD (What Jewish Women Did) is Back!
Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 11 am
In-person at Shir Chadash or on Zoom
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Join us for a brief bio of one or two Jewish women who have made contributions in science, literature, etc. will be discussed while munching on pastries and coffee.
So many women and so little time …
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Top 10 Reasons to Join Sisterhood! | |
10. Sisterhood needs & values you
9. Interesting discussions & conversations
8. Opportunities to learn new skills
7. Being a part of something bigger than yourself
6. Connections to individuals around the world
5. Longest ongoing Torah study class in NOLA
4. Innovative programming
3. Increased longevity & decreased stress
2. Unmatched support system
1. Lasting friendships
For details about membership, dues payments, or contributing, please click HERE.
Information and/or questions, contact Charisse Sands at 504-231-6464 or annsandsc@aol.com (Sisterhood in subject line)
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Community Events and Announcements | |
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LIMMUDFEST 2023 IS ALMOST HERE!
The lineup of local, regional, and national presenters and information on their sessions is now available! This year's sessions will cover a wide variety of issues and topics, such as:
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- Arts and Culture
- Contemporary Jewish Life and Identity
- Family
- Food
- Hands-on
- History
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Israel
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- Music
- Social Justice
- Southern Jewish Life
- Spirituality
- Text & Thought
- Teen Limmud
- Young Limmud
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Each week we will be featuring two of their amazing presenters! | |
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Peter M. Wolf, a fifth-generation New Orleans native, is author of The Sugar King, and is Leon Godchaux's great-great grandson. He is an award-winning author whose memoir, My New Orleans Gone Away, reached the New York Times e-book Best Seller list. Previous books such as Land in America, Hot Towns and The Future of the City were honored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, and the Graham Foundation. His research has taken him to Paris as a Fulbright scholar and to Rome as a visiting artist/scholar at the American Academy in Rome. Wolf serves on the advisory board of the Tulane University School of Architecture and as a trustee of the Louisiana Landmarks
Limmud 2023 sessions: Leon Godchaux: A New Orleans Legend, His Creole Slave and His Jewish Roots
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Leah Krandel is a social worker, educator, and social justice activist who has called New Orleans home for the past 10 years. She is a proud mama, an avid reader, and a big fan of the podcast "Dolly Parton's America."
Limmud 2023 sessions: The Kids Are All Kids, Wish You Were Okay
| Visit www.limmudnola.org to see the full line-up of sessions and to register for LimmudFest 2023. | |
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The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience is excited to announce the opening of its newest Special Exhibit! Titled “God, Goats and Pickup Trucks: Maurice Schmidt’s Visions of Texas,” the exhibition features 23 artworks celebrating the deep connection between the land and the divine that has come to characterize life in the Bible Belt. The collection ranges over the diverse Texas landscape through subjects both pastoral and holy.
Come see the exhibit, on display at MSJE until May 31, and mention that Shir Chadash is your congregation for a discounted ticket!
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Some of our congregants have some difficulty driving at night, but still wish to attend evening services and programming. Shir Chadash wishes to be as inclusive as possible and hopefully provide assistance to those who may need it.
If you need assistance in getting to shul in the evening OR are able and willing to provide a ride to those in need, please fill out the survey below.
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Beloved member of the New Orleans Jewish community, Nita-Joan Sams, is seeking a full-time, live-in mature female companion who can also assist with transportation. Free room and board plus payment for services. Respondents must have a current driver's license and computer skills. If interested, please call 504.831.8475 x7245 (ask for Kiolga) or email kiolga@jfsneworleans.org. | |
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Vanessa Cohen is an early childhood educator at the New Orleans JCC. This will be her sixth year teaching there. Vanessa was recently diagnosed with advanced colorectal cancer. She is taking at least the first semester off from teaching to undergo aggressive cancer treatment which includes radiation and chemotherapy. If you know Vanessa, then you know she is one of the most caring and loving humans on this planet. She takes an interest in every single student. Teaching young and curious minds is Vanessa's greatest love, so for her to have to take extended time off of work must have been an especially challenging decision for her. As a teacher at the JCC, Vanessa has always supported her students and their families with so much enthusiasm and warmth.
Even with health insurance, Vanessa will have many medical bills and extra expenses as a part of her treatment. FMLA will not be enough to support Vanessa with all of her routine and extra expenses. Now is our time to give back and show our support for Vanessa. Please donate if you can and please feel free to pass this on to anyone who may be willing to help.
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Scott Hoffman
Rabbi
Executive Director
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Chaviva Sands
Director of Education & Programming
Sarah Lustig
Office Manager
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