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January 30, 2023

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Save the Date for a very meaningful Refugee Shabbat on Friday, February 10 at 6pm. In collaboration with HIAS & The Westchester Jewish Coalition for Immigration, we invite you to come and hear from Oleksander Zabialo during our Friday night service. 

Dinner will follow at the Rabbi’s home, but space is limited so please RSVP here by February 8. Please see flyer below for details.

Tuesday evenings:

"An Introduction To Hasidism"

Next session: Tuesday, January 31 at 7:30 p.m.

Hasidsm a mystical revivalist movement with roots in 18th century Eastern Europe, is the most recent (and ongoing) “major trend” in Jewish Mysticism (Kabbalah). It is also one of Judaism's greatest recent success stories.

In this course we will explore core elements of classical Hasidic thought–including theological speculation, mystical experience and dekevut (union with God), spiritual fellowship, the nature of the human being, the importance of storytelling, and our relationship nature/physical world–with an eye towards appreciating their enduring relevance to contemporary Jewish spirituality. Focusing mainly on primary sources, we will encounter the major early Hasidic thinkers, such as Israel Baal Shem Tov, Dov Bear the Maggid of Mezritsch, Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev, Shneur Zalmon of Liadi, Nahman of Bratslav and others. Each week there will be suggested secondary readings. These articles will enrich our discussion, though we will mainly focus on the primary texts themselves.

Because we are in the process of preparing materials, please let us know as soon as possible if are interested in attending. As always, anyone can jump in at any point, but the classes will build from one to the next.

If you think you're likely to attend, please email the office. There is a $75 suggested donation. The class will run for approximately 8 weeks. 

Wednesday Lunch and Learn:

Our Zoom parashah and mishnah reading group will meet on February 1 at 12 noon. A zoom link will follow.

Shalom Hartmann Institute Series on Belonging

Third Session, Feb 14 at Temple Israel Center

The PJC is joining other Westchester synagogues for an exclusive conversation with the Shalom Hartmann Institute on Boundaries and Belonging: Creating a Synagogue Community of Meaning.



The next session on February 14 at 7 pm. Join presenter Justin Pines for a conversation about how we can think beyond categories of Jew versus non-Jew. How can we imagine new models of community? This session will be held at Temple Israel Center in White Plains.

For more info and to register, please reach out to shalomhartman.org/boundariesbelonging.

PJC Soup Kitchen - February 16

If you'd like to join our group of cooks, bakers and shoppers, contact Jill or Barry for more details, or sign up here.

The need for help is growing as is the need for more PJC chefs! The meals are easy to make and can make for a great whole family activity. You can sign up to make an entire meal or just one part of it. Please consider coming on board. Thank you!

The next delivery dates are as follows:

Thank you to everyone who has been helping and

supporting this effort.

The next PJC book club meeting will be held on

Monday, February 27 at 8:00 pm on zoom.

Our next book is "Out of Egypt" by Andre Aciman. Aciman's story of Alexandria is the story of his own family, a Jewish family with Italian and Turkish roots, that tied its future to Egypt and made its home there for three generations, only to find itself peremptorily expelled by the Government in the early 1960's.

A zoom link will follow.

Shabbat, February 4

Ruth Alper Jaffe, Mother of Marshall Jaffe

Sunday, February 5

Theodore Handelman, Father of Stephen Handelman

Morris Steinberg, Grandfather of Florence Grossman

Monday, February 6

Stanley Backer, Father of Jon Backer

Tuesday, February 7

William Koblenz, Uncle of Eleanor Dreyfus

Rita Agris, Mother of Cheryl Agris

Wednesday, February 8

Esther Taub, Mother of Shelley Klein

Thursday, February 9

Felix Bronner, Father of Ethan Bronner

Ardis Read, Mother of Lydia Read

Samuel Rubock, Father of Daniel Rubock

Anne Yelsey, Mother of Neil Yelsey

Friday, February 10

Marsha Lanoil, Mother of Jerry Lanoil

Billing statements are emailed monthly. 

Checks made out to the Pelham Jewish Center can be mailed to Pelham Jewish Center, P.O. Box 418, Montvale, NJ 07645. Credit card payment instructions are on your monthly emailed billing statement, or go to https://thepjc.shulcloud.com/member. 

If you are interested in paying via appreciated securities or IRA distributions, please email Mitch Cepler.

It is the policy of the Pelham Jewish Center to make every effort to assist members experiencing financial challenges. Financial challenges should never be a barrier to being an active member of the PJC community. You can reach out to President Steve Martin, Treasurer Mitchell Cepler or Rabbi Benjamin Resnick to speak confidentially concerning your ability to pay PJC dues and Learning Center tuition.

We are always looking for fun PJC photo memories for our website. Please bring to the PJC office or send to Lisa Neubardt.

Please consider being a Kiddush sponsor, there are dates available. We are also looking for one or two congregants to manage the Kiddush program. Please contact Andrea Rothberg for more information.

Do you have an upcoming simcha (celebration) you would like acknowledged in our PJC community? Please reach out to

Barbara Saunders-Adams so she can share via the HaKol.

Have you attended or participated in a virtual PJC event you would like to write about for HaKol? Please let Barbara know!

For any other related communications matters, please contact Lisa Neubardt.

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