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Weekly Newsletter
February 2, 2023
11 Shevat 5783
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Building A Caring Community: Healing for Self and Others
Every Wednesday through Feb 15, 7:00 pm
Zoom Link + Shalom
From the School of Jewish-Living Arts, led by Rabbi Chaya Gusfield, and sponsored by Or Shalom Chesed Circle. Healing is not only about cure and recovery. We will learn what healing actually means. We will study prayers, Torah, stories, Talmud and find out how our traditions can guide our communities’ ways of caring for each other. Each class offers lecture, discussion, and prayers of healing for those present and those on our hearts.
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Next Class, Feb 8: Sweep the floor, give me your hands, inspiring stories from Talmud.
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Yishar Kochech (Fantastic Job!) to Our New Torah Chanters!
You are an inspiration
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Passover is Coming!
I am offering an Or Shalom Zoom Seder on Saturday night, April 8 (the fourth night of Pesach). It would be oriented to young and old and be about 30-45 minutes. Are you in? We won’t go forward with the planning if we don’t get enough family units.
We need at least 8 signups.
If you are interested, please email me at rabbichaya@orshalom.org by February 8, so we can start planning!
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Nosh & Learn + Tikkun Olam Opportunity
Friday, February 10, 11:00 am
Congregation Ner Tamid, 1250 Quintara St
Please come to do some tikkun olam work with the Southside Jewish Collaborative, as we have a learning session at 11:00 am with Rabbi Henkin followed by lunch bag making for the SF homeless (~40 minutes later). Tea/coffee and a nosh will be provided for volunteers.
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News Minyan with Rabbi Chaya: The State of Democracy
Saturday, February 11, 10:00 am
The Brandeis School, 655 Brotherhood Way
RSVP Here
The news is full of threats to democracy around the world, but we will focus primarily on the United States and Israel. We’ll share what we have taken in from recent news and events, read excerpts from a Text of Our Time* together, and then dive into Jewish texts with Rabbi Chaya, discussing how Jewish wisdom illuminates our responses to the issues of our day.
The News Minyan is an effort to use our tradition's practice of wrestling with text to examine our own time, our own texts, and our own lives. We seek to focus Judaism's wisdom, compassion, and life affirmation on current events and the full experience of what it's like to be alive now.
Text(s) of Our Time: A recently published piece assigned for reading ahead of time. Please check next week's newsletter for the reading link!
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Purim Jewelry Making Class
Sunday, February 26, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
B's Jewelry Shop, 535 Grant Avenue
Purchase Tickets via Eventbrite Here
Make your favorite Queen Esther or Vashti (or yourself) Purim beads and bangles and help support the Chinatown Volunteer Coalition (CVC). A portion of the funds collected from this fun workshop will go to the Coalition’s Community Fund, supporting Chinatown businesses that have been badly affected by the dual epidemics of COVID-19 and anti-Asian acts of violence.
The cost of this one-hour class is $10. Materials cost $8-20 depending on whether you create a bracelet or necklace. Everyone is welcome to take this class, but space is limited, please sign up early to get a spot!
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Mystical Tu Bishvat Seder
with Rabbis Me'irah & Shana Chandler-Leon
Sunday, February 5, 4:00 pm
Zoom Link + TREES
Come to our beautifully illustrated seder, where we learn the mystical role we have in creating benevolence in the world.
Items to Prepare for the Tu Bishvat Seder:
- A decanter and cup of white wine or juice AND red wine or juice
- At least ONE of the following fruits: fig, persimmon, apple, pear
- At least ONE of the following: olive, peach, plum, prune, nectarine, or apricot. (dried is OK!)
- And at least ONE of the following fruits: orange, grapefruit, pomegranate, or nuts
- Paper & writing and/or drawing implements: markers, colored pencils, especially for any youth present.
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Paint your own Ritual Object
Sunday, February 19, 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Terra Mia Ceramics, 1314 Castro St
$36 Materials Fee
Register Here
We have reserved Terra Mia studio so we can paint a ritual object: A seder plate, a kiddush cup, whatever! Register so we know how many are coming. $36 covers the cost of the ceramic, and our “studio time” at Terra Mia. Rabbi Me’irah will be a supportive artistic consultant, if you desire it. It’s great fun!
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Charlie Varon: The 5 Most Important Things I've Learned as a Writer
Sunday, February 5, 10:00 am, via Zoom
Purchase Tickets Here Use code OrShalom for $10 off!
Charlie Varon is hosting a webinar where he'll share 60% of what he knows about writing in 90 minutes, including the 5 most important things & how he learned them, two brief writing prompts, and a demo of how he coaches writers & performers.
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QueerCore Talmud: Rearrange with Change!
Sundays, February 5 – March 12, 10:00 am
via Zoom
Learn More and Register
Join Maggid Jhos Singer, Julie Batz, and Rabbi Batshir Torchio for an uplifting, queer-normative, inclusive, and traditionally radical, 6-week, SVARA method, Beit Midrash where we will unpack a core rabbinic teaching on ways to rearrange your life. Not only were the sages contemplating what forces can shift our path for the better, they were also laying down the foundation for some of the central tenets of the High Holy Days (with a few amazing twists!).
Students must be familiar enough with the Hebrew alphabet and vowels to sound out words written in Hebrew, with or without comprehension. 10% discount with code: QCTPARTNER10%
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Tzedakah
We gratefully acknowledge these contributions from our community:
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Betsy Strausberg, In Memory of Beth Abrams and Al Sion.
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Jurate Raulinaitis & Kirk Schneider, In Memory of Al Sion.
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Robin Roth, In Memory of David Gershan.
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Jody Reiss, In Memory of Al Sion.
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Me'irah Iliinsky, A Speedy Recovery to Jamie Raskin.
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Robyn Talman, In Memory of Lois Talman.
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Judy Olasov, in Memory of Al Sion.
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Yahrzeits
On the anniversary of their deaths, we remember:
Barry Willdorf, Betty Levy, Clara Wolinsky Menduke, Dawn Allen-McIntyre, Doris Bernstein, Doris Najjar, Earl Weinstein, Geraldine Satz, Gigi Rubinstein, Hans Freistadt, Jacob Harry Levine, John Levin, Mary Isham, Ron Glassman, Rose (Ruchel) Raskin, Sandy Hudson, Ya'akov Mor
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Rabbi Chaya is here to support our community. Please reach out if:
- You or someone close to you is experiencing a health challenge and you are looking for support.
- You have questions or feelings about life/death/God/Judaism/etc.
- You or someone close to you who is in the hospital would like a visit for companionship, prayer, or witnessing.
- You are in mourning.
- You are new to the congregation and want to feel more connected.
- You aren’t new to the congregation and want to feel more connected.
- You are struggling with a conflict in your family or work
- Any other reason! R. Chaya would love to hear from you.
Rabbi Chaya can be reached via email at RabbiChaya@orshalom.org
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Please note our NEW mailing address!
Or Shalom Jewish Community
333 Cortland Ave
San Francisco, CA 94110
To reach Or Shalom by phone, please call: (415) 469-5542
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