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What's
Happening at a Glance
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| MOSH outing: Dinner before the Bulls game |
- Save the Date: Town Hall meeting about the new building on Sunday, February 10
- February 7: Next book club
- Save the date! Purim Extravaganza on Saturday, February 23!
- New directories distributed
- Photos from MOSH’s Bulls outing
- Permission slips needed for Tu B’Shevat field trip
- Havayah to Attend Rick Recht Concert on Monday, January 21
- Upcoming school schedule
- Madrichim meeting this Sunday, January 20
- Registration Deadline Extension: Kallah! Midwest Regional Retreat February 15 to 17
- Friday, January 18: Storahtelling at Shabbat services
- Torah study this Sunday, January 20
- "Change for Change"
- Parent & Family Connection for LGBTQ Jews in Chicagoland
Membership and Upcoming Events
We are going to have a Town Hall meeting at the new building on Sunday, February 10, from 2 to 4 for adult members and guests. The building is located at 200 W. Dundee in Wheeling. See the top of this newsletter for details!
Next Book Club on February 7
Our next book will be One More River by Mary Glickman. This novel is about race, class, and Jewish life in the American South during the 1920s and 1960s. The story revolves around a man pursuing his roots in the course of a romance. The book was chosen by Spertus for the "One Community, One Book" for this year. Book Club will be held on Thursday, February 7, at 7:30 at the Zwicks’ home in Deerfield.
Fun night out! This year, we are holding a Purim party for adults at Rocky Vander's Cafe, 698 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Prospect Heights (immediately south of Palatine Road), from 7 to 11 p.m. on Saturday, February 23. The party will feature a DJ, dance floor, cash bar, and dinner buffet. Potluck dessert—please bring hamantaschen (with a prize for the best homemade hamentaschen!), other desserts, and fruit. We’ll also play party games! Come as you like or as you want. Costumes are encouraged. Stay tuned for more details! For more information or to RSVP, contact Melanie Andes at fmandes@comcast.net or Rebecca Rice at r.rice1@comcast.net. We hope to see you there, and feel free to invite a friend!
New Directories Distributed
On behalf of membership, directories have been passed out to Shir Hadash members at the Lights and Miracles service and to parents of religious school students. If you have a student in the school and you did not receive a directory, please e-mail Rebecca Rice at r.rice1@comcast.net. If you have a student that attends Havayah, or if you don’t have a child in religious school, your directory is in the process of being mailed to you. Be on the lookout for your directories!
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| Dinner before the Bulls game |
We had 26 people attend our Bulls
outing last week, including the rabbi. We had a yummy dinner at The Greek
Islands and then headed to the game. The game was a nail biter and
unfortunately the Bulls lost but everyone had a great time.
Education
Update
Field Trip Permission Slips Needed
Your child brought home a permission slip for our upcoming Tu B’Shevat field trip on Sunday, January 27, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Jewish National Fund’s Tu BiShvat Family Celebration is held at the Chicagoland Jewish High School, 1095 Lake Cook Road, which is directly south of Hellenic American Academy. We will have a nice group of our Sunday school students dancing onstage and there will be free arts and craft projects, free planting, free entertainment, games and prizes.
We need your help caring for our students that day! It’s a chance to do show your child(ren) you support them in Sunday school and you know how to have FUN! Please fill out your permission slip and return to your child’s classroom by January 20, or send to the office (Shir Hadash, 3340 Dundee Road, Suite 2N4, Northbrook, IL 60062). If you can’t find the form, visit Education Director Emily Ascher’s blog—it’s posted there!
Havayah to Attend Rick Recht Concert
Next Monday, January 21, our Havayah (8th grade through high school class) will meet at Temple Beth El for the Rick Recht concert. Our 8th Grade Ta'am participants (including Rabbi Eitan and his son Ayal) and some Shir Hadash song leaders (who will be attending the bootcamp) are participating in the concert. The rest of us will meet and enjoy the concert. Please make sure to eat before you get to the concert and note that the concert is supposed to end at 7:30. Parents are welcome to stay. Contact Emily Ascher at eddirector@shir-hadash.org to RSVP or with any questions.
- Sunday, January 20: Sunday School, please return field trip forms!
- Monday, January 21: Havayah (at Rick Recht concert)
- Sunday, January 27: Tu B'Shevat Field Trip (we walk to the event next door)
- Sunday, February 3: Sunday School
- Sunday, February 10: Sunday School
- Sunday, February 17: Kallah in Wisconsin/No Sunday School
- Sunday, February 24: Purim Carnival 11:05
- Friday, March 1: Shabbat services will be led by grades K through 3
- Friday, May 17: Shabbat services will be led by our Havayah
Teen
News
Madrichim Meeting THIS Sunday, January 20
The madrichim will meet this Sunday, January 20 from 8:40 to 9 a.m. Please join us for a short but important meeting. As always, donuts will be provided. Please let Carole know if you are unable to attend: youth@shir-hadash.org.
Registration Deadline Extension: Kallah! Midwest Regional Retreat
February 15 to 17
Planning is
underway for the 2013 No'ar Hadash Midwest Youth Kallah, which will be held
from February 15 to 17, 2013, at a NEW location. This year, Shir Hadash 6th to
12th graders will share a great weekend with teens from other Reconstructionist
congregations at the Perlman Retreat Center at Camp Beber in Wisconsin. Registration
information has been mailed home. The registration deadline has been extended
to January 25. If you are an adult and would like to help chaperone for the
weekend, please e-mail Carole Mostow at youth@shir-hadash.org. Please contact Carole with any
questions.
Creative
Worship & Ritual
“Yosi Had a Little Lamb”—Maven and Comedian Aaron Freeman, David Edler, Carly Matt and Rabbi Eitan Weiner-Kaplow bring Storahtelling to Shir Hadash. The First Passover in ancient Egypt was a huge festival that all the Hebrews shared. The lessons from that evening still speak to us and the real-time issues of our lives to this very day. Don’t miss this exciting and dynamic Storahtelling Torah reading Shabbat service. Just like we saw on Rosh Hashanah morning, Maven Aaron Freeman, David Edler, Carly Matt and Rabbi Weiner-Kaplow will present the Torah portion with a combination of drama, commentary and discussion in order to bring the Torah lesson to life in ways you never expected. We will also have a special send-off ceremony for our eight 8th graders heading to Israel with the Ta’am Yisrael program. Services will be held at LCHS at 7:30; please bring treats for the oneg.
Adult
Education
Torah Study This Sunday, January 20
So we're not quite done with the plagues yet - three to go! But of course, there's more to the story in this week's Torah portion—the whole “Passover” concept, all of those people leaving Egypt in a hurry, the dough for the bread not having time to rise... Be at Torah class on Sunday at 9:30, at Hellenic, and hear how it all went down. Come and discuss!
The
Rabbi's Corner
January 18-19, 2013 / 8 Shevat 5773
Shabbat Bo
Torah - Exodus 10:1-13:16 / Haftarah -
Jeremiah 46:13-28
“Change for Change”
Dear Friends,
In this week’s Torah portion we read about the first Passover meal celebrated on the evening before the Exodus from Egypt. On that night our ancestors sacrificed lambs and smeared the blood on the doorposts and lintels of their homes. They roasted the meat thoroughly and ate it quickly. Each person had a walking staff in hand, sandals on feet and coat on in preparation for moving quickly when the time was right. The Torah teaches that they shared their meals so that everyone, whether from a large or small family, whether wealthy or poor, could eat and partake of the celebration meal. From this experience comes the line we recite in every Passover seder since that evening, “Let all who are hungry come and eat.”
That line went through my mind a few weeks ago in a Las Vegas parking lot. I had just pulled in when a young man approached me for some spare change. He told me that he and a friend had just been evicted from an apartment and that he was out of cash. I could have given him a few dollars and wished him well, as I sometimes do when in a hurry. Instead, I asked if he was hungry. Indeed he was. So, I took him into a Burger King and told him to order whatever he wanted…
To read the rest of Rabbi Eitan’s blog, visit The Rabbi's Corner.
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Eitan Weiner-Kaplow
Donations
Thanks to the following people for their donations:
General Fund
- Marilyn Keller, in memory of Ed Kaplow
- Debra Burman-Gisby, in memory of Ed Kaplow
- The Meilech Family, in memory of Judy Hartsman, mother of Glenn Graff
- Elizabeth and Richard Rotberg, in memory of Ed Kaplow
- Tamar and Elliot Frolichstein-Appel, memory of Judy Hartsman, mother of Glenn Graff
- Red Stone Equity Partners in Cleveland, Ohio, memory of Judy Hartsman, mother of Glenn Graff
- Dawn and Monty Allen, in memory of Ed Kaplow
- Molly and Mark Michaels, in memory of Ed Kaplow
- Gina and Rick Zinbarg, in honor of their daughter Emily's bat mitzvah
- Ila S.
Rothschild, in honor of Rabbi Eitan Weiner-Kaplow
- Molly and Mark Michaels, in memory of Joanie Siegel
- Dawn and Monty Allen, in memory of Joanie Siegel
- Ila S. Rothschild, in honor of Cheryl and Jim Schultz
- Ila S. Rothschild, in honor of Bob Roiter
Community
News
On Monday, January 28, we will be viewing and discussing the film “Hineini.” Hineini is the story of one girl’s attempt to start a Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) at her pluralistic day school and the struggles and triumphs that her endeavors earned. Please join us for the film and discussion afterward. The event will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Response, 9304 Skokie Blvd, Skokie. Light refreshments will be provided. For more information or to RSVP, contact Rachel Marro, RachelMarro@jcfs.org. Please RSVP as space is limited.
With support from Keshet (www.keshetonline.org),
Response provides group support for those dealing with any stage of the coming
out process. Response
helps adolescents in the Jewish and general community develop skills in
communication, decision-making and leadership necessary to deal with life’s
challenges. Response is a program of JCFS, a partner in serving our community,
supported by the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation.
SHOP
Shir Hadash
Shop orders of at least $400 are now payable by credit card. Annual SHOP orders are also payable by credit card. If every family purchases $400 a month in grocery, gas, or other cards, we can earn more than $15,000. Shir Hadash believes that an inability to pay should never be a barrier to membership or education. Special consideration is given to our members when circumstances prevent them from meeting any part of their financial commitment. To offset this consideration and to make up the budgetary deficit, the Board is asking that all members consider making a monthly commitment to using shop gift cards. Purchasing SHOP gift cards helps the shul raise much needed funds without spending any more money than you already do for your regular expenses. A complete list of the many gift cards available through this program, along with the percentage the shul earns is available on our website. Orders can be picked up at Sunday school or the Shir Hadash office.
Special Offers
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- Zinbarg
- Soglin
- Joanne Litman
- Allen
- Farkas
- M. Graff
- Zwick
- Zoloto
- Weiner-Kaplow
- Gordon
- Judith Litman
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