Shir Chadash Newsletter
April 15 - April 21, 2021
3 Iyar - 9 Iyar, 5781
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PRAYERS FOR RECEIVING THE COVID VACCINE
Some of us in the community have begun to receive the vaccine. If you wish to mark this holy moment in your life, rabbis all over the country and the world have been creating prayers for you to do so.
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Left to right: Rabbi Michael Cohen, Andy Adelman, Karl Mintz, Danny Mintz, Sarah Allison, and Rabbi Deborah Silver
Mazel tov to Sam and Karl Mintz on the affirmation of their Jewish identity!
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Shir Chadash Calendar
All links have migrated to our webpage. Click here to get there!
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Friday, April 16th
9:30 am, Yoga for the Jewish Spirit with Rabbi Silver
6 pm, Kabbalat Shabbat
Saturday, April 17th
10 am, Shabbat Morning Services
8:30 pm, Community Havdalah
Sunday, April 18th
9 am - 11:45 am, SHUL SCHOOL
**individual class times can be found on our website
9:15 am, Shacharit Minyan with Men's Club
10:30 am, Masorti Speaker: Rabbi Gordon Tucker
Tuesday, April 20th
10 am, Good Lookin' Cookin' with Sisterhood
7 pm, The Deep Dive - A Book of Life
Wednesday, April 21st
10 am, Sisterhood class: Psalms
Thursday, April 22nd
8 am, Shacharit Minyan
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Friday, April 23rd
9:30 am, Yoga for the Jewish Spirit with Rabbi Silver
6 pm, Kabbalat Shabbat
Saturday, April 24th
10 am, Shabbat Morning Services
8:30 pm, Community Havdalah
Sunday, April 25th
9 am - 11:45 am, SHUL SCHOOL
**individual class times can be found on our website
9:15 am, Shacharit Minyan with Men's Club
10:15 am, Coffee with Ken
10:30 am, Guest Speaker: Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz
5 pm, Teen Learning
Tuesday, April 27th
10 am, Good Lookin' Cookin' with Sisterhood
7 pm, The Deep Dive - A Book of Life
Wednesday, April 28th
10 am, Sisterhood class: Psalms
Thursday, April 29th
8 am, Shacharit Minyan
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Join us at 9:15 am for our virtual Sunday minyan followed by a check-in and a L'Hayyim!
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Thursday Shacharit Minyan - Please join! |
Join us at 8 am for our virtual weekday minyan which includes the opportunity to say Kaddish.
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Click here for the Shul School Newsletter
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Click here for Family Newsletter
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Tuesdays at 10 AM
Each Zoom session will be approximately an hour long.
Ingredient lists will be e-mailed several days in advance so you will be able to purchase ingredients and prepare the dishes in real time. Voila! Tuesday's tasty dinner will be prepared and ready to be eaten!
If you would like to volunteer to be a Chef du Jour, receive ingredient lists in advance, or want more information, please contact Charisse Sands, annsandsc@aol.com (Good Lookin' Cookin' in subject line), 504-231-6464.
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Wednesdays at 10 AM
Come study Psalms with Rabbi Silver!
Come study Psalms with Rabbi Silver! This week we will be studying Psalm 48.
Please make sure you have a Tanakh/Bible.
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For details about membership, dues payments, or contributing, please click HERE.
For questions or for more info about Sisterhood, contact Charisse Sands
504-231-6464
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Shir Chadash Events & Announcements |
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Special Guest, Rabbi Gordon Tucker, speaking on
"Masorti - The Blooming of 100 Jewish Flowers"
Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 10:30 AM
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We are honored to host Rabbi Gordon Tucker as our speaker for Masorti Shabbat. Rabbi Tucker will speak on Sunday morning, April 18th at 10:30 AM. The link to his talk will be available on our webpage, www.shirchadash.org.
Rabbi Tucker is Vice Chancellor for Religious Life and Engagement at The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS). He is also a Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He is a past Chairman, and currently Member, of the Board of the Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel.
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Special Guest, Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, speaking on
"Overlapping Worlds"
Sunday, April 25th at 10:30 AM
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Join special guest, Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, as she shares the main findings of her recent book, Challenge & Conformity: The Religious Lives of Orthodox Jewish Women. Dr. Taylor-Guthartz's groundbreaking study reveals creative and sophisticated groups that focus on different areas of religious expression. They clash with, or work around, the male-dominated establishment to develop new ways of getting their voices heard.
Dr. Taylor-Guthartz received her doctorate from University College London. She has been an affiliated or associated lecturer at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Middlesex, and at Vassar College, New York. She is currently studying for rabbinic ordination at Yeshivat Maharat, New York.
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CLASSES WITH RABBI SILVER |
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Yoga for the Jewish Spirit
Fridays at 9:30 AM
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Yoga and Judaism are different traditions but they share some profound truths about the human spirit. Join Rabbi Silver for a weekly one-hour yoga practice to get us physically and spiritually ready for Shabbat. You will need only a yoga mat and your curiosity. (Please note that while this class is suitable for beginners you should check with a medical practitioner that it will be safe for you.) |
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The Deep Dive - A Book of Life
Tuesdays at 7 PM
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One of the worst effects of the pandemic has been its impact on communal gathering. How are we supposed to maintain a nourishing, meaningful Jewish life when we can’t be together? This weekly class will use Michael Strassfeld’s A Book of Life to help illuminate and re-ground our personal spirituality, enriching both our own practices and our connections to each other.
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Sisterhood Class: Psalms
Wednesdays at 10 AM
The 150 poems in the book of Psalms address every aspect of the human condition. Join Rabbi Silver to explore a psalm a week. We’ll consider not only the poem itself but how it speaks to us and how we might integrate its wisdom into our lives. Please do bring along a Tanakh/Bible of your own.
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Member Questionnaire Returns
All members should have recently received a questionnaire form to fill out to help keep our office's database complete and up-to-date. This information helps our office run more smoothly, so please return it to the synagogue at your earliest convenience. Don't hesitate to contact the front office if you have any questions.
Our Office Hours are 9 am - 2 pm, Tuesday - Friday.
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Community Events and Announcements |
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GiveNOLA Day is an initiative of the Greater New Orleans Foundation , is a one day online giving event on Tuesday, May 4th. For 24 hours, everyone who loves our region can support their favorite local causes by donating to one or more of 700+ participating nonprofit organizations.
Learn more about GiveNOLA Day HERE.
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Julius Rosenwald: Jewish Philanthropy for Social Action |
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Sunday, April 18th
2 - 3:30 PM CDT
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The Jewish Community of Sedona and the Verde Valley will be presenting an educational program about a most impactful Jewish Philanthropist who perhaps you’ve never heard of, Julius Rosenwald.
Sponsoring numerous civic, Jewish, and African-American projects, Rosenwald’s pioneering philanthropy helped set the stage for the Civil Rights movement. In recognition of his remarkable philanthropic and social action legacy, Congress is moving forward with plans to create a Julius Rosenwald & Rosenwald Schools National Historical Park – the first national park to commemorate a Jewish American.
This program will include video clips about his life, along with two prominent guest speakers: Nan Roberts, President of the Scrabble School Preservation Foundation, and Dorothy Canter of the Julius Rosenwald National Historic Park Campaign.
Those interested in hearing about Rosenwald’s inspiring legacy and the importance of philanthropic endeavors that respond to the need for social change, are invited to join us for this event.
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Presented by our former congregant, Dr. Sheldon Hersh |
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Black [but / AND / or] Jewish: A Conversation on Intersections within and across Communities
April 22, 2021 5:30 PM to 6:45 PM
Dr. Mia L. Bagneris, Associate Professor of African Diaspora Art & Studies of Race in Western Art and Director of the Africana Studies Program, will moderate a discussion on starting and changing the conversation about intersectional Jewish identities, what it means to be Black AND Jewish, and how Black Jews can be supported in bring their full selves to all the tables at which they sit. Representing perspectives from across the Jewish denominational spectrum, panelists include Rabbi Shais Rishon (MaNishtana), Rabbi Isaama Goldstein-Stoll, and rabbinical school student Kendell Pinkney.
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We are excited that four institutions of the Conservative/Masorti Movement -- the Rabbinical Assembly, USCJ, The Jewish Theological Seminary, and the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies -- have created a joint initiative to offer high quality adult education opportunities to all those interested in participating.
ScholarStream is an exciting series that will give individuals and communities the opportunity to learn from some of the world’s leading scholars and engage deeply with our texts and traditions.
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Rabbi
Executive Director
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Education Director
Sarah Lustig
Office Assistant
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