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A message from Cantor Amanda Kleinman


In 2019, our beloved High Holiday violinist, Rebecca Cherry, then in her first year at WRT, suggested we include a little known meditation by Austrian Jewish composer Robert Dauber in our Yom Kippur Yizkor service. Dauber’s “Serenade,” with its romantic melody and waltz-like middle section, though certainly beautiful, seemed a strange accompaniment to our solemn memorial prayers.

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Shabbat and Holiday Services

Civil Service Gratitude Shabbat

Friday, November 11 at 6:15 pm (in-person indoors or live streamed)


Please join us for a special service honoring our Civil Servants, our local professionals and volunteers who serve in local Law Enforcement, Fire Departments, and Emergency Medical Services. 


By way of the evening’s sermon, Rabbi Blake will join congregant and Israel maven Yoel Magid for a dialogue about the outcome of the Israeli Elections, which was held on November 1st.

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Friday night services will be held indoors in the Sanctuary, where masks are optional and everyone is expected to be vaccinated and boosted (if eligible). 

Torah Study

Saturday, November 12 at 9:00 am (in-person in the Sifriyah or Zoom) 

 

Each Shabbat morning we gather informally to read and discuss the week’s Torah portion. The morning begins with a brief Shabbat service at which mourners who wish to say Kaddish are warmly welcomed. The group is led by volunteers, with clergy participation. No prior experience with Torah is necessary.  

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Programs and Special Events

A Deep Reading of Pirkei Avot, 

“The Wisdom of the Ancestors” 

Led by Rabbi Jonathan Blake

Thursday, November 10 at 10:15 am (Zoom)


Rabbi Blake will guide us in interpreting one of the most important texts in Jewish life, Pirkei Avot, which is part of the Mishna and which continues to provide invaluable wisdom for leading a life of righteousness, purpose, and Jewish joy. All are welcome. No Hebrew or Jewish text experience is required.

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Please note: Rabbi Blake's "The Seven Jewish Conversations That Will Change Your Life" that was scheduled for November 16th has been cancelled.

The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia - Author Talk

Thursday, November 10 at 7:00 pm 

(This event will be held indoors at WRT)


Join us for a lively and enlightening talk with Rabbi Blake and author Stephanie Butnick about her book, The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia: From Abraham to Zabars and Everything in Between - An Unorthodox Guide to Everything Jewish. Deeply knowing, highly entertaining and irreverent, this unputdownable encyclopedia of all things Jewish and Jew-ish covers culture, religion, history, habits, language, and more. 


The cost of this event is $36 per person, which includes a copy of the book. Additional books will be available at the event for purchase. Makes a great Chanukah gift for all generations! Any questions? Contact Beth Berkeley at behrich3@gmail.com. Sponsored by the FreeBirds and open to everyone.

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Open to everyone! MRJ Sunday Morning Breakfast Series - Speaker Bruce Beck, NBC Lead Sports Anchor

Sunday, November 13, Bagels at 10:00 am, Talk 11:00 am 


Bruce Beck, a member of WRT and MRJ, will be discussing "The World of Sports and Beyond" as part of our Breakfast Series. Bruce is in his 25th year with News 4 New York, the host of Sports Final, and is the host and sideline reporter for New York Giants pre-season football.

Bereavement Group

Wednesday, November 16 at 11:30 am (Zoom)

 

This Support Group meets to create community for those in mourning over the loss of a loved one, and to help find comfort and process feelings of loss through caring discussion and in sacred Jewish context.

 

Led by Jane Slevin, LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist from Westchester Jewish Community Services), and Cantor Laura Stein, LMSW, a social worker who specializes in spiritual care. 

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Mussar - Measuring What Matters

Led by Rabbi Sasha Baken

Thursday, November 17 at 6:45 pm (Zoom)


Between the 11th and 18th centuries, individual Jewish scholars developed the study and practice of Mussar as a field of Jewish thought and spiritual growth. In the modern era, Mussar is recognized as a spiritual practice that utilizes tools such as text study, journaling, and meditating in effort to understand various character traits (middot, literally “measures”) that each of us embodies such as generosity, anger, humility, and trust.

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The WRJ with assistance from the JLL will be hosting the Thanksgiving Dinner for the Visually Impaired on Nov 17th after a two year hiatus. 

If you would like to donate some nut free desserts, please contact Harrietrachlin@gmail.com

Hootenanny: Jewish Music Concert to Benefit URJ Eisner and Crane Lake Camps

Thursday, November 17 at 7:00 PM


WRT is a proud co-sponsor of Hootenanny: A Celebration of Jewish Music. Join Cantor Danielle Rodnizki at Cong. Rodeph Sholom in NYC or via livestream for this evening celebrating the deep tapestry of contemporary Jewish music and supporting scholarships for URJ Eisner and Crane Lake Camps. Tickets can be purchased at www.hootenannylive.org

An Afternoon of Music & Joy

Sunday, November 20 at 4:00 PM


Join us for a wonderful afternoon of music as WRT hosts the talented Cantors of Kol Hazzanim. 


Our very own Cantor Amanda Kleinman, Cantor Danielle Rodnizki, Cantor Mia Davidson and Cantorial Intern Isaac Sonett-Assor will all be performing.


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WRT is excited to announce a music series for the 2022-2023 calendar year.


We know that music has immense power to connect us, lift us up, and inspire us, and what better way to be in community than to experience the beauty of music with fellow congregants and leading Jewish artists, cantors, and composers!


To discover the rest of our wonderful artists in this series, please visit the website, https://bit.ly/3MSTYfV

Tikkun Olam (Repair of the World)

WRT Delivers Thanksgiving


WRT is joining a local Scarsdale tradition - Grandma Pat’s Thanksgiving Dinner - to come together as a community to feed those in our community that might otherwise go hungry on Thanksgiving. All food will be donated to Meals on Main Street for distribution to residents in need in Port Chester, New York and surrounding areas.  Sign updonate supplies, or contribute to the Food and Housing Insecurity Fund. We need turkeys! Please consider cooking and carving a turkey for donation.  

Cooking4HOPE Thanksgiving Voucher Drive


Last Thanksgiving we were able to provide almost 60 $50 food gift cards to our partners in New Rochelle and Mt Vernon to buy turkeys and other Thanksgiving needs. Given the increased cost of food this year, the need is even greater this year and we hope we can at least match last year’s total.


You can join this year by buying StopnShop or other vouchers online or in person and mail them to Yoel Magid at 65 Hutchinson Blvd, Scarsdale 10583 before November 14 so they can be delivered to families in time for Thanksgiving shopping. Questions? Write to Yoel at yoel.magid@gmail.com


WRT’s Cooking4HOPE team

To learn more about the ways that the WRT community impacts the broader world through acts of Tikkun Olam, read Repairing Our World - WRT Social Impact Update. In this blog, Sharon Stiefel, WRT's Director of Social Impact and Community Engagement, reflects on WRT's social action programming. and discusses further opportunities to engage in tzedakah, chesed and tzedek. Click here to read.

WRT is committed to pursuing tikkun olam (repairing the world) and tzedek (social justice) for impact locally, statewide, nationally, and globally through direct service, tzedakah, advocacy, and community organizing.  

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WJBL (Westchester Jewish Basketball League) is being organized now for Grades 5-12 for the 2022-23 season. Are you interested in helping? or have a child interested in playing? Click here for more information. 

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