This Week at CSFA - December 3

We believe it is best to continue our current guidelines as updated below.

CSFA’s COVID-19 policy is as follows:

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.

All CSFA members, visitors, and program attendees are required to be fully vaccinated, including with boosters if eligible.

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.

Friday, December 2, 2022

6:00 PM

Shabbat Evening Services in the Sanctuary at

6:00 PM

Services will be led by Bob Winograd..

Please join us and help us make certain that we have a minyan.

Shabbat Candle lighting is at 4:11 PM

Friday, December 2 - Friday, December 9, 2022

8 - 15 Kislev 5783

Parshat Vayetzei

To read a commentary on this week's parsha from Bex Stern Rosenblatt from the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem,

CLICK HERE

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

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2022

9:00 AM.

Pesukei D'Zimra will be led by Hana Joy Ain. Bob Winograd will lead Shacharit and read Torah. Michael Massen will chant the haftarah and Monica Sass will lead Musaf.

Immediately following services there will be a kiddush. Kiddush this Shabbat morning is sponsored by Hon. Stella Schindler in memory of her beloved mother, Else Speiser, whose birthday occurs this week.

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

Saturday Night

December 3, 2022

5:30 PM

Havdalah

PLEASE NOTE

TIME OF

5:30pm.

Shabbat ends at 5:19 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

SATURDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 3, 2022

AT TOWN AND VILLAGE SYNAGOGUE

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2022

7:00 - 8:00 PM

ONLINE - REGISTRATION REQUIRED

CSFA Member, Dr. Sharon Keller

invites all CSFA Members and Friends to an Online Lecture

sponsored by the Orange County Community Scholar Program

Princess, Poetess, Priestess,

Ornament of Heaven Enheduanna,

the Women of Mesopotamia

& Our Biblical Narrative

Sunday December 4, 2022

7:00-8:00 PM

Most ancient texts come to us without authorship or attribution, yet the first named author in history was a woman: Enheduanna (ca. 2285-2250 BCE). She was a Princess and a High Priestess in Sumer who told us the grandeur and sorrows of her life in the hymns and petitionary prayers that she wrote. Her compositions were highly valued, and therefore they were copied and re-copied in antiquity; many are thought to be early foundations of some of our own biblical psalms and hymns. We will explore the groundbreaking “She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia” currently on view (through Feb. 2023) at the Morgan Library (NYC) and not only see the woman and her work, but we will tease out many connections to our biblical narrative that can be seen in the exhibition.