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We believe it is best to continue our current guidelines as updated below.
CSFA’s COVID-19 policy is as follows:
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If you test positive for Covid or are living with or are in close contact with someone who has tested positive for Covid, please do not attend services or synagogue activities for a period that includes at least one Shabbat. Please stay home the required Shabbat and be tested with negative results before you return to the synagogue.
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All CSFA members, visitors, and program attendees are required to be fully vaccinated, including with boosters if eligible.
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Masks are required for all indoor services and programming.
We recognize that many of us are feeling enormous fatigue around masking, while for others continued masking creates a stronger feeling of safety. We feel compelled to protect one another by maintaining our policy in this way, as we begin to navigate this next wave of COVID-19.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
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Friday, February 3, 2023
6:00 PM
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CSFA invites you to join us at a special, child friendly Kabbalat Shabbat service along with the students and families of the CSFA Hebrew School.
Services will be led by the teachers and students from the Hebrew School.
While this service will not be the standard traditional Friday night service, Mourners Kaddish will be recited and all are encouraged to attend. Our traditional Kabbalat Shabbat minyan will not meet this week.
See you there...
Candle lighting at 4:57 PM
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Friday, February 3, - Friday, February 10, 2023
12 - 19 Shevat 5783
Parshat Beshalach
Shabbat Shirah
This Shabbat is Shabbat Shirah - the Shabbat of Song. The parashah contains Shirat Hayam, the Song of the Sea that Moses, Miriam, and the people Israel sang after the successful crossing of the Sea of Reeds and the defeat of the Egyptian army by the hand of G-D.
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To read a commentary on this week's parsha from
Bex Stern Rosenblatt from the
Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem,
CLICK HERE
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To read a commentary on this week's haftarah from Vered Hollander - Goldfarb of the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem, please CLICK HERE | |
To read an aliyah by aliyah summary of this week's parsha, CLICK HERE | |
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2023
9:00 AM.
Sam Swartz will lead Pesukei D'Zimra and Toby Silverstein will lead Shacharit. Bob Winograd will read Torah and Michael Massen will lead Musaf. David Oppenheim will chant the Haftarah and give the D'var Torah.
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Immediately following services there will be a kiddush. Kiddush this Shabbat morning is sponsored by "the House" (i.e. there is no sponsor)
If you are interested in sponsoring kiddush in the coming weeks, please call the synagogue office at 212-929-6954, or email us at csfa11e11@aol.com
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Saturday Night
February 4th, 2023
6:15 PM
Havdalah
PLEASE NOTE
TIME OF
6:15pm.
Shabbat ends at 6:07 PM
Join the members of the congregation as we gather online via Zoom to recite Havdalah and say goodbye to Shabbat.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85899668980
or CLICK HERE
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2023
5:00 pm
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Come celebrate!
Tu B’Shevat
Sunday,
February 5, 2023
5:00 PM
Please join us for our CSFA
Tu B’Shevat seder.
Learn, be inspired, eat delicious fruits and nuts, and drink four cups of wine as we celebrate the holiday of the trees.
Examine how food connects us to Jewish tradition, to the Earth, to G-D, to other people, and to ourselves.
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There is no charge but please RSVP to
212-929-6954, or csfa11e11@aol.com , or with the link below
so that we can properly prepare for the Seder.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2023
MAH JONGG WILL MEET
THIS WEEK. CALL THE SYNAGOGUE OFFICE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
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Tuesdaay, February 7, 2023
7:00 PM
CSFA BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING
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Tuesday, February 7, 2023
7:00 PM
Mishna Class with Rabbi Daniel Shibley will NOT meet
this week,but will resume NEXT TUESDAY, February 14th.
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The Conservative Synagogue of Fifth Avenue
invites you to a series of classes with visiting
Rabbi and Scholar
RABBI DANIEL SHIBLEY
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MISHNA MASECHET TA'ANIT
MISHNA TRACTATE TA'ANIT
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Fasting in modern Judaism is a relatively rare occurrence--two major and five minor fasts dot the calendar--but in the time of the Mishnah fasts were more frequent and more personal. Together we will explore the triggers for calling a fast as well as the role of the community in the ceremonies surrounding them. Towards the end of Masechet Ta'anit we will encounter some familiar holidays and their observances. No experience is necessary, questions and discussions are encouraged. Sources will be provided in the original and in translation.
Classes Meet LIVE and IN PERSON
at the Synagogue
CLASS WILL NOT MEET THIS TUESDAY, BUT WILL RESUME NEXT TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 TH, 2023
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
These classes will also be able to be viewed online on Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/424977839
Rabbi Daniel Shibley is originally from Washington, DC. He holds a B.A. in Sociology from Clark University, and an M.A. in Security and Diplomacy Studies from Tel Aviv University. Daniel has learned at Yeshivat Hadar, Pardes, and Yeshivat Har Etzion. He made aliyah to Jerusalem in 2012 and completed military service in a combat unit. Rabbi Shibley received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes in 2016 and was a member of the faculty at Pardes in Jerusalem until August, 2019. Daniel is now adjunct faculty at Pardes, a Hebrew tutor, and has completed his master’s degree in international relations at New York University. Daniel enjoys cooking, gardening, and long distance running.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023
6:30 PM
Search Committee Meeting
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NEXT FRIDAY
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
SHABBAT DINNER
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