What's Happening at a Glance
Social Events and Membership
- Check out our revamped website
- Please help us staff our booth at the Greater Chicago Jewish Festival
- Give Thanks
- Hello from Education Director Emily Ascher
- Volunteer at the Greater Chicago Jewish Festival
- Friday: June 15: Special Torah service with a skit about the twelve spies
- Find out what happened when AIPAC came to Shir Hadash
- Friday: June 29: A representative from J Street visits Shir Hadash
- Lunch & Learn with the Rabbi, Thursday, June 7
- Greater Chicago Jewish Festival, Sunday, June 10
- Genetic Education and Screening Program
Social Events and Membership
Check Out Our Revamped Website
Please Help Us Staff Our Booth at the Greater Chicago Jewish Festival
The Greater Chicago Jewish Festival is this Sunday, June 10, at St. Paul Woods, Morton Grove. It will have three stages with music, dance, and storytelling; a family stage; a kosher food fair; an art fair; and an organization fair. The fair will take place between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. We will have a table and need people to staff. We will be sharing our table with Amram Abraham and his Congregation Gevurot. The first shift is 10 a.m. to noon—this is the set up shift, so you need to arrive at 10 and put out our brochures, set up the posters, and be ready to smile. Other shifts are noon to 2 p.m., 2 to 4 p.m., and 4 to 6 p.m. The 4 to 6 p.m. shift will pack up. Please e-mail Lynne Arons and let her know what shift you are signing up for: RzlDzl122@aol.com.
The Rabbi's Corner
June 8-9, 2012 / 19 Sivan 5772
Shabbat Beha’alotecha
Torah Portion: Numbers 8:1-12:16 / Haftarah Portion: Zecharia 2:14-4:7
“Give Thanks”
Dear Friends,
In this week’s Torah portion the Children of Israel, respond to their new freedom in the wilderness… by complaining about the food. They actually weep in disappointment and pine for the ‘good old days’ in Egypt when food was plenty and life was ‘so good.’ They couldn’t get over temporary inconveniences to realize how truly fortunate they really were.
We are a lot like our ancestors. We move so fast and deal with so much stress and overload that we rarely can see the blessings and the abundance all around us…
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Eitan Weiner-Kaplow
Education Update
Hi Shir Hadash Parents,
Just want to let you know the staff and I are enjoying the summer, but we are always thinking of ways to inspire your children. We would love to plan a summer get together for our families, and need some help. If you are interested in spending about an hour in the office in the last week of June making some phone calls, please let me know. Off to Cooperstown for some middle school baseball...
I miss your children,
Emily Ascher
Education Director
To read more from Education Director Emily Ascher, go to Education Updates.
Teen News
Volunteer Opportunity for Teens (and Their Families)
The Greater Chicago Jewish Festival will be held on Sunday, June 10, at St. Paul Woods, Morton Grove. It will have three stages with music, dance, and storytelling; a family stage; a kosher food fair; an art fair; and an organization fair. The fair will take place between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. We have a volunteer slot from 3 to 5 p.m. to sell soda. Volunteering is open to teens, adults, and kids (with parental supervision). We still need more volunteers. Please send an e-mail with your name and t-shirt size to youth@shir-hadash.org.
Creative Worship & Ritual
June 15 Service: “BeShalach—When You Go Forth”
June 29 Service Features a Representative from J Street
A representative of J Street will be coming to talk to us about Israel and peace issues. For more information about J Street, go to http://www.jstreet.org/. AIPAC at Shir Hadash
Adult Education
Torah study with the Rabbi on Thursday, May 31, from 12 to 1 at the Shir Hadash office. The theme and Torah verses that we will be studying this week: Numbers 13:1-14:10
There will be adult education classes this weekend; date and time to be announced.
Call for Volunteers
Wanted: Webmaster
We are looking for someone to maintain our Shir Hadash website. If you are interested in helping out, please contact eff Wallk at jeffrey.wallk@gmail.com. Mitzvah Committee
We're looking for more Shiva leaders (adults and yes, even Havayah kids). If you are interested, please contact Bob Roiter at bob.roiter@sbcglobalnet.net
Get Involved with the Spring Membership Drive
We're planning a lot of activities this spring to expand our membership. If you're interested in helping us grow, please call the office and ask for Lillian (847) 498-8218.
Community Events
Greater Chicago Jewish Festival
The Greater Chicago Jewish Festival will be held on Sunday, June 10, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The festival will feature Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies, Blue Fringe, and Soul Aviv, along with a juried art fair, kosher food court, children's activities, and an organization fair. We are planning to have a Shir Hadash booth, so stay tuned for details, including how to sign up to volunteer at the booth!
PERFORMER UPDATE: The Greater Chicago Jewish Festival has now released its musical, storytelling, and dance line up. Along with Steven Page, Blue Fringe, and Soul Aviv, other performers will include Chicago native Rabbi Joe Black from Colorado, who moves from liturgical music of the heart to children's music of the funny bone; Moshe Skier from Milwaukee; Jewish blues performer Saul Kaye from California; Chicago based Lucky Break Bluegrass; the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band; the Chicken Fat Klezmer Band; Ed Holstein, part of the legendary Chicago folk music scene; Steve Justman, who continues the Chicago folk music tradition, will focus his performance on Jewish song writers for the Festival. Other performers include storytellers, comedy, a children’s choir, a Yiddish choir, an Israeli dance troupe, jazz, and a puppeteer.
The festival will be held at the Cook County Forest Preserve, St. Paul Woods, Oakton Street west of Lehigh. There is plenty of parking on site. A $5 per person donation is suggested. For more information, go to www.jewishfestival.org/ or call (847) 933-3000.
Genetic Education and Screening Program
Registration is underway for the Chicago Center for Jewish Genetic Disorders upcoming screening programs for young Jewish adults. The Center is now offering an expanded panel of 18 disorders. Join the Center in June or August for a subsidized screening program ($180 per person), which includes an educational presentation, dinner, and screening. These tests usually cost more than $3,000! Pre-registration is required. Please contact Taryn Brickman at tarynbrickman@juf.org to learn more or visit http://www.jewishgenetics.org/.
SHOP Shir Hadash
Shop for Dads, Grads, and Teachers
Celebrate Dads, Grads, and Teachers with Amazon, Barnes and Nobel, Bath and Body Works; Bed, Bath, and Beyond; Dicks; Great Clips; REI; Sports Authority; Target; Walmart/Sam’s; Fanny May; Best Buy; Home Depot; Darden and Lettuce Entertain You restaurants. Lettuce Entertain You restaurants are now available for purchase by credit card.Save time and support Shir Hadash. Order gift cards instead of shopping for gifts. Dine out with gift cards. Just give us a click or call. Remember, Shop raises money for the congregation and you don't spend a dime more than you would have anyway! For more information on any these great programs, contact Lise at info@basketworks.biz, or Gina at gzinbarg@sbcglobal.net, or visit our website.
Thanks to the following families for supporting SHOP this week:
- Schliecher
- Litman
- June 9, 2012, through June 22, 2012, there will be a great 2% bonus rebate on AMC Theatres® Gift Cards and Reload, Cinemark Theatres Gift Cards, and Regal Entertainment Group Gift Cards and variable denomination ScripNow
- Save up to 60% at Babies’R’Us Online Clearance Store
- Check out the Pier 1 Idea Room and their Special Savings and Clearance items
- Ruth's Chris Steakhouse
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