Wednesday, August 26, 2020 | 6 Elul 5780 |
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Daily Meditation- with Rabbi London
TODAY, Wednesday, August 26 at 11:30 a.m.
Rabbi London will be leading today's Meditation from the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. If you can't be there live, check the Institute for Jewish Spirituality Facebook page where it is live-streamed and available for viewing after the fact. Click here to join the meditation room.
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Join us for the High Holy Days- Register by Friday!
When the shofar sounds this year, it will usher in a time unlike anything else we have experienced. As 5781 begins, we unite with the loving and creative spirit of our Beth Emet. Our clergy, Klei Kodesh, and lay leadership are developing a dynamic mix of online services and in-person celebrations. This year, all the familiar sights and sounds of the High Holy Days will be made available through online streaming.
Register. Please complete the online registration form by Friday, August 28. Alternatively, you may complete the form that you received in the mail. We ask you to confirm your contact information, consider being a sponsor and contribute to the cost of the High Holy Days, add the names of loved ones in the Yizkor (Memorial) book, and check out ways to engage throughout the Holy Days.
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Send your High Holy Days Greeting!
Seeing each other in the lobby before services is always a wonderful way to welcome the new year. This year we have a special way to connect as we are creating a photo montage of our community to share during the High Holy Day season that you will be able to check out when you log in to participate in services. Send your greetings to the community, honor the memory of a loved one, or let us know through a picture how you prepare for the Holy Days. Some examples might include:
- The Israel Family sends New Year wishes in honor of their grandchildren Adam and Eve
- Yasher Koach (good job!) to Adam Israel for his Torah reading, with love from Mom and Dad
- Mazal Tov to Eve Israel on her graduation from college
- Missing our beloved mother, Ida Israel, who always made a great kugel for Rosh Hashanah
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Congregational Programs and Opportunities |
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Office Hours with Karen Isaacson, President
Sunday, August 30 at 10:00 a.m.
Israel Committee Meeting
Monday, August 31 at 7:30 p.m.
Movies with Mark: Before Sunrise
Tuesday, September 8 at 7:30 p.m.
Zoom Link | Phone: 312-626-6799 | Meeting ID: 875 5246 4185
Before Sunrise (1995). Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) meet on a train and spend a night walking around Vienna and talking and sharing the city’s cultural life. That’s the “action” in this wonderful Richard Linklater movie that’s constantly engaging and intelligent, as well as romantic. Warning: This movie may inspire a deep longing to experience a such a magical, now-out-of-reach kind of night. Available on Prime and Netflix.
*Movies with Mark is usually on Mondays, please note that we will be meeting on TUESDAY this week*
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Beth Emet Recommends: Race and Justice Resources
As we prepare for the High Holy Days, we continue to educate ourselves as a community on Racial Justice and deepen our understanding of this moment. We’ve gathered recommendations by Beth Emet community members and Klei Kodesh to keep learning from each other and orient towards meaningful actions and interventions. Thank you to everyone who submitted recommendations; please check back, as we will periodically add new recommendations to this page.
Make a difference by ordering Honey
To wish your loved ones a sweet new year, send them the gift of honey from Sweet Beginnings
Why from Sweet Beginnings?
Sweet Beginnings, LLC, the social enterprise of North Lawndale Employment Network, was created to serve formerly incarcerated men and women by providing them with an opportunity to establish or re-establish a work history through transitional work for 90 days. Sweet Beginnings introduces its transitional workers to beekeeping and teaches marketable job skills through the end-to-end production of its honey and honey-infused skincare line, known as beelove®. Since 2008, the social enterprise has provided over 500 transitional job opportunities for North Lawndale Employment Network clients, reduced recidivism, and assisted in the attainment of permanent employment.
Much like the significance of honey during Rosh Hashanah signifying a new and sweet beginning, every beelove® product provides just that for its clients.
To order your honey and support this amazing organization www. beelovebuzz.com. To learn more about Sweet Beginnings, you can watch this video made by the Obama Foundation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXDwz8DUddo, and join the President and CEO of Sweet Beginnings, Brenda Palms Barber on Wednesday, September 9 from 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Zoom Link or 312-626-6799 | Meeting ID: 842 6835 6573
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Get you Calendar before they run out!
Hebrew Calendars from Chicago Jewish Funerals
We have been gifted a limited number of calendars from Chicago Jewish Funerals. The 24 month calendars are 8.5x11 from August 2019 – July 2021. Please email Shlomit if you would like us to send you one.
*Note, only one per family due to the limited quantity.*
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For a list of next week's events and recordings from previous programs, check out the website!
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Fridays with Cantor Cotler- Don't Miss this Last Session of 5780
Friday, August 28 at 3:00 p.m.
This is geared for families with kids under 6. We cannot wait to move and sing with you!
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High Holy Days for Families with Young Children
Do you have a child ages 0-5 in your family? Plan to join us for High Holy Day Services and activities for young families at Beth Emet. As always, membership at Beth Emet Synagogue is not required, so please share with your friends and family. There are many opportunities here—some in person, some on Zoom. I hope you’ll join us.
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During the month of Elul which begins on Thursday evening, August 20, there will be a number of offerings to help us prepare our homes, our minds and our hearts for the High Holy Days. Please see below and watch your emails for additional information and programs.
Playlist to Prepare for High Holy Days
Looking for some musical inspiration to prepare you for the High Holy Days? Our Beth Emet Spotify playlist is just the thing for you! An eclectic assortment of songs relating to the themes of the Holy Days, including liner notes to stimulate your thinking.
Mikdash Me’at – Making Your Sacred Space at Home
TONIGHT, Wednesday, August 26 at 7:00 p.m.
Zoom Link or 312-626-6799 | Meeting ID: 891 5841 2077
High Holy Day services will be online. Sitting on your couch in front of your computer doesn't feel right? The Jewish people have faced a similar problem before. When the Holy Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed, people made their homes into what the rabbis called a Mikdash Me'at, a small temple, or holy place. Learn more about how to find holy space in your home and create an art piece to help this transformation. All adults and families are welcome, and we'd love to share the photos of the finished products during High Holy Day services! Look here for the list of materials encouraged for this project. Led by Rabbi Toby Manewith (with behind the scenes help from artist Lynn Friend). If you cannot make this session, no worries, we'll have another session on Thursday, September 10 at 7:00 p.m.
A Ritual for Growth and Renewal
Fridays August 28, September 4, 11 from 9:30-9:50 a.m.
The month of Elul preceding the High Holy Days is a time to get ourselves spiritually ready for the new year. During Elul, each Friday for four weeks, Rabbi Memis-Foler, Rabbi London, Cantor Cotler, and our Beth Emet rabbinic and cantorial students will guide us in a ritual focusing on the theme of T'shuvah--working on making amends and growing towards being our best selves. The ritual will be live on Zoom every Friday and then available each day of the week for our own spiritual practice.
2 Elul: Week One Ritual
As we begin the month of Elul on August 21, we start to get ourselves spiritually ready to welcome the new year on Rosh Hashanah. We begin the process of T’shuvah—return. This morning we recorded a ritual to be used for this first week of Elul to help us with our spiritual preparation. This video will be available all week; I encourage you to listen to it daily and contemplate the question that cantorial student, Beth Reinstein, asked us. “As we begin this month of Elul is what are you returning to? Is it an ideal, a dream, a relationship, an intention? How are you going to return to it?” It’s also customary to read Psalm 27 during this month of preparation. I offer you this translation by Rabbi Sam Feinsmith for you to read and contemplate.
Chodesh Tov! Wishing you a blessed new month!
Rabbi London
There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays-a Family Elul!
Fridays August 28, September 4, 11 in our Shabbat Email
Week One Activity:
Marilyn Price, puppeteer/storyteller and educator, has created a four part series called “There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays - a Family Elul.” Each Friday beginning August 21, the explanations will be on a short video piece and all the supplies will be listed. This week the activity is the making of a doorpost Mezzuzah as a way to begin to turn our home space into Rosh Hashanah celebration space and to focus us on ways we want to improve this year.
Reading and Understanding the Machzor with Bluma Stoller
Wednesday, September 2 from 9:30 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
A new Elul class that focuses on prayers from the Rosh HaShanah Machzor with Bluma Stoller. The class will discuss the meaning of these prayers and practice reading them in Hebrew and/or English. Hebrew reading ability is preferable but not required.
Honey in Lawndale: A Conversation with President and CEO of Sweet Beginnings, Brenda Palms Barber
Wednesday, September 9 from 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Zoom Link or 312-626-6799 | Meeting ID: 842 6835 6573
To learn more about Sweet Beginnings, you can watch this video made by the Obama Foundation, and join the President and CEO of Sweet Beginnings, Brenda Palms Barber on Wednesday, September 9 from 7:30-8:30 p.m. who will share with us the impact Sweet Beginnings is having in the Lawndale community and how we can support economic growth there.
Honey Cake Baking- A Secret Family Recipe
Sunday, September 13 at 4:00 p.m.
Jonathan Yenkin shares his secret Honey Cake recipe and Rosh Hashanah memories
Zoom Link | Phone 3126266799 | Meeting ID: 820 3898 2466
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Environment Climate Action and Change Committee
Environment and Climate Action Committee (ECAC) Meeting
Sunday, August 30 at 9:30 am.
Zoom Link or 312-626-6799 | Meeting ID: 844 8700 3626
All are welcome to attend. The committee is currently working in 3 areas: advocacy, education and environmental justice. We’ll hear about the Illinois Clean Energy Jobs Act; the environmental film series ECAC is hosting as part of Adult Education; and ECAC’s partnership with Environmental Justice Evanston, a committee of Citizens Greener Evanston. Please join us on Sunday!
William Barber III addresses Environmental Injustice: Race, Class and Climate Change
Thursday, Sep 3, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.
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Advocacy
Civic Engagement
This November’s election is the most important many of us have ever faced. Because we value equality, the unity of humankind,, and peace, many of us feel we must act to assure that every vote counts. Beth Emet is participating in the Every Voice, Every Vote campaign of the Religious Action Coalition (RAC). The campaign has three components:
(1) combatting voter suppression (2) making sure all members of our congregation vote; and (3) encouraging young people to vote.
To combat voter suppression in Wisconsin, we are working with WISDOM, an organization that works for racial justice there. Because of the state’s efforts to remove voters from the rolls, we will be calling members of minority groups to help them confirm or restore their registration and vote absentee. Free training is available via Zoom. There will be many sessions available between now and the election. We need whatever time you can spare.
We also will be working with Common Ground, RAC’S partner, to send postcards to minority voters in seven other swing states encouraging them to vote. Watch the training video (required). Then, request postcards using RAC’s online form. You will be asked to make an $18 donation to cover the cost of the cards and shipping. The donation is optional.
We can make a difference in Wisconsin and elsewhere. If you need help voting (or know someone who does), would like to help with any part of this effort, or would just like to know more, contact Michelle Oxman at 847-328-0609 or 847-558-9797, or email her.
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Noar News
Noar News is your one stop shop for all information about upcoming Youth Programs at Beth Emet and in the community. If you want to stay in the loop on the amazing learnings and accomplishments of our teens, just click the Youth Programs link that gets sent out each Wednesday in EmetMail.
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B’nei Mitzvah:
August 29, 2020
Ronan Young, son of Shaina and Eric Young
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My name is Ronan and I go to Nichols Middle School in Evanston. My hobby is playing drums and playing music with my band, Gemini. I also like spending time taking long bike rides with my friends. Since we had to reschedule my Bar Mitzvah, my parents and I put together a Mini-Mitzvah in our back alley where our neighbors could hear me read my Torah portion from their balconies. We had a few family members and close friends attend, sing and celebrate reading Torah even though it was just from a book. It felt good to have something to celebrate in the middle of the pandemic. My favorite part of the Mini-Mitzvah was when I had candy thrown at me from all directions, even from the people above on the balconies! |
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Birth:
Matilda Ruth Merel, daughter of Josh and Grace Merel. Grandparents are Roger and Sharon Merel and Great-grandmother is Laurie Merel. Born August 8 in London.
Deaths:
Milo Leo Mattsson, son of Mårten Wilhelm Mattsson and Tiina Johanna Heino, and nephew of Marit (Jacques) Bohbot, cousin of Lea and Danica
Ruth Lasky, Ruth Lasky, wife of the late Harold Lasky z"l, and long time Beth Emet members, and mother of Gary (Terry Winant) Lasky, Julie (Ernest Beck) Lasky, and Andrew (Erin Fitzgerald) Lasky
Allan Nelson, father of Michael (Clara) Nelson and Rachel Olivia Nelson (Mark) White, grandfather of Emily, Hannah, Kimberly, Katherine and Kiara, and brother of Robert Nelson, Leonard (Tina) Nelson
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