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Weekly Newsletter
April 8, 2021
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400 Missouri St, SF CA 94107 |
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Our mailing address has changed!
Please send all mail to:
Or Shalom Jewish Community
400 Missouri St
San Francisco, CA 94107
We have consolidated our phone numbers. Please use this number for all calls to Or Shalom: (415)469-5542
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Fridays at 6pm at Or Shalom
April 9 - Shabbat Service with Saralie Pennington & Tom Herz
April 16 - Shabbat Kulanu
Join Rabbi Katie, Alison, and Zehava for an all-ages Shabbat. Our theme is 'Counting the Omer, Counting our Blessings'.
April 25 - Shabbat Service with Rabbi Katie and special program 'Climate Action Week: Dayenu!' More details next week.
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Sing Shalom!
Sunday, April 18 at 10:00 am
Quality Family Time + Hands-on Jewish Learning = Sing Shalom!
Designed for kids 7 and under (along with their families).
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Join the JFCS Holocaust Center and the greater Bay Area community as we commemorate Yom HaShoah.
April 8 – 9, 2021
Days of Commemoration
Interactive workshops featuring Holocaust survivor testimony and expert-led conversations focused on the lessons and legacies of the Holocaust.
Attend one or all sessions.
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Commemorate Yom HaZikaron with
The Israeli-Palestinian Joint Memorial Day Ceremony
Sharing Sorrow, Bringing Hope
Hosted by Combatants for Peace & Parents Circle - Families Forum
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific
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Journeying to Sinai: Seven Workshops for the Omer
Tuesdays at 9:00 AM through May 11
Join Ritualwell for a creative, spiritual journey from Exodus to Revelation, with weekly workshops taught by rabbis, poets and spiritual leaders. Workshops include meditation, poetry writing and spiritual practices connected to the kabbalistic theme of each Omer week. We will use this powerful time on the Jewish calendar to journey toward our individual and collective revelation.
“Journeying to Sinai: Seven Workshops for the Omer” is offered as part of Ritualwell’s annual Omer fundraising campaign. Our goal is to raise $18,000. Your support allows us to continue to provide hundreds of free resources that make Jewish life meaningful to thousands of visitors to our site. A minimum donation of $36 is suggested to attend the workshop series and gain access to all the recordings. We encourage you to donate as generously as you are able, using our kabbalistic ladder of giving as guidance.
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Social Action Opportunities
Make a call or post a tweet in support of freeing our friend Melvin, who is in the Adelanto ICE Detention Center. Melvin's wife contracted COVID-19 and has been hospitalized with complications. Melvin needs to be released now to care for his children, and to support his wife and her health. It's easy to do using the script in this toolkit: bit.ly/100DaysFF
To Landlords and Tenants:
During COVID, many have suffered economic downturns. SB91 allows both landlords and tenants some relief. 2021 is a sabbatical year if the mandate in the Torah for sabbatical years were carried into modern times. In a sabbatical year, all debts are forgiven and everyone is given an opportunity to find economic security again.
In the spirit of uniting together for the common good, Faith in Action Bay Areas is asking Or Shalom to join in its congregational effort to help landlords and tenants secure the benefits of SB91. If you are a small landlord who has tenants who have been unable to pay rent due to related COVID 19 impact, please apply through San Francisco for SB91 relief for you and your tenants. And please contact Leslie Roffman at [email protected] if:
- You need help applying,
- You have applied and would like to sign a FIABA pledge for landlords expressing the ideas above,
- You are a tenant and need support,
- You would like to be part of this new FIABA effort where landlords and tenants join together to work to create communities where housing is stable, corporate landlords have less power and everyone can thrive or have applied for SB91 and would like to sign.
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Spark! is a twice-a-month newsletter filled with actions you can take to advance social justice. As always, we will recommend events and activities that bring Or Shalom's mission and values to life.
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Or Shalom encourages members to get vaccinated against COVID-19 (unless there are medical reasons to decline).
Public health recommendations and Jewish moral teaching make it imperative that our community members participate actively in following the guidelines of the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
We have suffered the loss of our communal gatherings for almost one year. (While SFDPH allows outdoor religious gatherings with certain restrictions, Or Shalom has chosen to not use this exemption to the general lockdown out of respect for the most important Jewish value of them all--the preservation of human life.) In the meantime, we will continue to hold virtual meetings and gatherings until it is safe for the general public to meet with others not in their household pod.
The vaccine program is critical to ending the pandemic. Participation in this program is a civic responsibility as well as a moral one. It will assist San Francisco and Or Shalom in getting back to congregate, pray, work, and play.
You can find vaccine availability information here.
Starting April 1, all California residents 50+ are eligible for the vaccine.
Starting April 15, all California residents 16+ are eligible for the vaccine.
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Tzedakah
We gratefully acknowledge contributions from our members:
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Elysa Hill, in honor of Or Shalom
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Corey Weinstein & Pat Skala, in memory of Michael Jordin
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Rabbi Katie Mizrahi & Raj Abbasi, in gratitude for vaccinations
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John Tibbetts, in memory of Hal Tibbetts
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Bryna Rifkind, in memory of Debbi Goodman-Smith
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Juliana Gerard, in honor of Stephen Gerard's 70th Birthday
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Yahrzeits
On the anniversary of their deaths, we remember:
Ronnie Boss, Sally Feiner, Elec Eliyahu Klein, Murial Gorden, Hayim Najjar, Art Sechrest, Milton Thurm, Raymond Stanten, Hector Xavier Mirande, Joyce Mandel, Martin Jacobs
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Condolences
We send comfort to those with recent losses:
Paul Axelrod, on the loss of his father, Daniel Axelrod
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This Week's Parsha
The parsha for this week is Shemini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47)
Commentaries:
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Or Shalom Clergy and Staff
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