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What's Happening at a Glance
Membership
News and Upcoming Events
- Urgent: Book of Life Submissions Due Tuesday, September 3
- Update Your Online Membership Info
- Last Call: Kosher Honey for the Holidays
- Parent/Kid Fantasy Football League, Draft on September 1
- Book Club, September 25
- Permanent Restaurant Fundraisers: The Continental and Butterfield’s
Volunteer
Opportunities
- Office Help Needed
- Lend a Hand for the High Holidays
- Pick Your Week to Host an Oneg
- Join the ADA Benefit Committee
Creative
Worship & Ritual
- August 31: Selichot Service
- High Holidays Schedule
- Upcoming: Sukkot and Simchat Torah
The Rabbi's
Corner
- "Let Freedom Ring"
School News
- School Starts September 22, Register Now!
Community
News
- Step Up Walk to Stop Diabetes, September 28
- Final Week: “The Pianist of Willesden Lane”
SHOP Shir
Hadash
Membership and Upcoming Events
Book of Life
Program
Update Your Membership Info Today!
Please note
submission deadline – Next Tuesday
We would
like to invite our members to participate in this year’s Book of Life program
as we celebrate the High Holy Days for 2013. This program is a meaningful and
beautiful way to remember our loved ones.
The Book of Life will ensure that on the holiest of days,
Yom Kippur, we remember and inscribe the names of those who have passed on.
This Book of Life will replace the traditional reading of names at the Yizkor
service. Names of loved ones who have
passed away during the last year and are identified by an asterisk will
continue to be read at the service.
To submit names for the Book of Life, please click here to
access our online order form. (Scroll to the bottom of the page and select "Book of Life".)
- One to five names: $36
- Six to ten names: $54
- Over ten names: please contact the Mitzvah Committee, mitzvah@shir-hadash.org
Your online form and payment (or check) must arrive at the Shir Hadash office by Next Tuesday (Sept 3, 2013). Late orders cannot be accommodated due to time constraints for printing. For more information, please contact the Mitzvah Committee.
Now is the time to renew your membership for the coming
year. Please remember,
only members who have submitted all their renewal forms will be admitted to
High Holiday services, which start on September 4. That's one week from today! Additionally, families with
bar/bat mitzvahs coming up must be members in good standing in order to have
access to the synagogue’s resources (use of the ark, books, torah, rabbi, and
of course the new building).
Click here to view the online membership area of our website. If you haven’t received the online link for membership renewal or have any questions, please contact the tech team at info@shir-hadash.org.
Last Call: Kosher Honey for the High Holidays
It’s time to start a sweet new year! Shir Hadash has obtained delicious
kosher honey, just in time for Rosh Hashanah.
Our last shipment has arrived and we have half a case of honey left available
for sale. If you are interested in
purchasing some jars, please contact Glenn Graff at 847-420-2505. Honey is available for pick-up at the
Synagogue during office hours or at Rosh Hashanah morning services on September
5th. Profits from the honey sale
benefit Shir Hadash.
Parent/Kid Fantasy Football League -- Draft on September 1
Looking for a chance to share your vast storehouse of
knowledge about fantasy football with your kids? This fall, for the first time
ever, Shir Hadash is facilitating a no-betting, fantasy football league for
school-aged kids (K-7) and their parents. This is a great opportunity for you
to spend more time with your child and to get to know other Shir Hadash
families. The league is open to boys and girls and moms and dads.
The Shir Hadash fantasy football draft will be held this Sunday, September 1, from 3 to 5
p.m. at the synagogue. The league will be run online. Depending on interest,
there could be up to 12 teams in the league. For more information or to RSVP
for the draft, contact Commissioners Steve Mesirow at slmesirow@comcast.net or
Rich Siegel at rschicksiegel@comcast.net.
Book Club, September 25
Permanent Restaurant Fundraisers: The Continental and
Butterfield's
Visit The
Continental Restaurant or Butterfield’s anytime, and they will donate 5% of
your total bill to Shir Hadash! No flyer needed – just mention Shir Hadash when
you are paying. Stop by for a great meal
and thank them for supporting our community!
- The Continental Restaurant, 788 S. Buffalo Grove Road, Buffalo Grove – 847 459 4095
- Butterfield’s, 4195 Dundee, Northbrook – 847 205 2588
Volunteer Opportunities
Office Help
Needed
Can you
pitch in to help get our new office running? Lillian needs assistants to answer the phones and cover other administrative tasks between now and
September 30. The busiest times are from 9am-noon, but she could use help
anytime between 9am and 4pm. If you’re
able to volunteer a day or two, or more, it would be most appreciated. Contact volunteer@shir-hadash.org to let us
know what dates and hours you are available, and how often you’d like to be
scheduled.
Lend a Hand
at the High Holidays
Our main
services for Rosh Hashanah, Kol Nidre, and Yom Kippur will be held again this year
at Our Lady of the Brook, 3700 Dundee Road in Northbrook (see below for detailed schedule). We can use lots of
help each day to set up and take down our equipment. Any time you can commit is
much appreciated! Please contact Fred Andes at fandes@btlaw.com or 773 354
3100.
Pick Your
Week to Host an Oneg
This year we
are asking each of our families to be Oneg & Service Host for just one
service a year. This does NOT mean
providing all the refreshments for the oneg --
just setting up, cleaning up, and greeting our guests. Multiple families can/should host the same
week. While you’re exploring the new Membership Management System, you will find more information and a form to choose a date and sign up
on the home page. Sign up today to pick
the best date for your family!
Creative Worship & Ritual
Selichot
Service, Saturday, August 31, 7:30pm
Legend has
it that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a six-word story and came
up with, “For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Inspired by Hemingway’s short,
short story, writer and journalist Larry Smith started collecting six word
memoirs from writers world-wide on a number of topics, including Judaism. At our Selichot service (Saturday, Aug. 31 at
7:30 - at the synagogue), we will explore this simple form of expression as we
prepare to begin a New Year.
We will
examine a number of six-word memoirs from Smith’s new book, Six-Word Memoirs
on Jewish Life, that offer personal windows into the wild, weird and
wonderfully complex world of Judaism today.
Then we will look deep into our souls and write our own six-word memoirs
to share with our community throughout the Holidays. We know that this will
start many conversations about the meaning of Jewish life among Jews and
non-Jews alike in our synagogue and community among both the most observant and
most secular.
A few choice examples from Six-Word Memoirs on Jewish Life:
- “The Manischewitz made me do it.” Maya Stein
- “Moved to Israel. Rest is history.” Alexa Raine
- “Had Bar Mitzvah. Still not man.” Aaron Kisslinger
- “Converted to Judaism for the jokes.” Lorenzo Mattozi
See you
Saturday for a service filled with laughter, reflection, and engagement!
High
Holidays – Service Schedule
The High
Holidays are our “annual convention”–a gathering of our entire Shir Hadash community to meet, study, reflect, pray, and
affirm our readiness to repair our lives and our world in the coming year. Our
services are moving, exciting, meaningful and very participatory. Members of
our creative artist community add music, drama and dance to our Rosh Hashanah
and Yom Kippur experience.
Our services are held at:
- Shir Hadash Synagogue (“SH”), 200 W. Dundee Road in Wheeling
- and Our Lady of the Brook, (“OLB”), 3700 Dundee Road in Northbrook
The following services are open to Shir Hadash members and to
ticket holders:
- Erev Rosh Hashanah, Wednesday, September 4, 7:30 to 9:30 pm (at SH)
- Day 1 Rosh Hashanah, Thursday, September 5, 9:30 a.m. to noon (at OLB)
- Kol Nidrei, Friday, September 13, 6:15 to 8:00pm (at OLB)
- Yom Kippur Morning, Saturday, September 14, 9:30am to 12:30pm (at OLB.)
Shir
Hadash also offers the following High
Holidays services, which are open to the public:
- Rosh Hashanah (Thursday, September 5, at SH):
- Family service (geared to families with children in grades K-3), 2:00 to 2:45pm
- Yom Kippur (Saturday, September 14, at SH):
- Family service (geared to families with children in grades K-3), 2:00 to 2:45pm.
- Adult Open Discussion, 2:00 to 3:00pm
- Reflection service, 3:00 to 4:00pm
- Afternoon service, 4:00 to 5:00pm
- Ne’ilah, 5:00 to 6:15pm
Friday,
September 20: Sukkot
Join Shir
Hadash for Sukkot services on Friday, September 20, at 7:30 p.m. After a
family-friendly service at our new synagogue in Wheeling, we will engage in a
Sukkot art project for all ages. Sukkot decorations will be created and hung in
the sukkah that evening. Then we’ll shake the lulav and the etrog and have a
pot-luck oneg in the sukkah. Services will be held at Shir Hadash Synagogue,
200 W. Dundee Road, Wheeling, IL 60090. For more information, click here or call (847) 498-8218.
Sunday,
September 29: Simchat Torah
Celebrate
Simchat Torah with Shir Hadash Synagogue on Sunday, September 29, at 6 p.m.!
This is a great family holiday celebration. We welcome everyone, younger and
older, to dance numerous circle dances with our Torah scrolls led by Rabbi
Eitan Weiner-Kaplow and members of the Mighty Shir Hadash Klezmorim band. Our
newest religious school students will be honored through a “Consecration”
ceremony. Following the dancing, we will unroll a Torah scroll from end to end
for all to see. We will read the last few lines of the Torah and then the first
few lines, thus finishing and beginning our study anew. Finally, taffy apples
will be served outside in our Sukkah harvest booth. We are also planning a
pizza party at 5 p.m.--details to follow.
The Rabbi's Corner
August 30-31, 2013 / 25 Elul 5773
Shabbat Netzavim-Vayelech
Torah Portion:
Deuteronomy 29:9-30:30 / Haftarah Portion: Isaiah 61:10-63:9
“Let Freedom Ring”
Dear Friends,
Fifty years ago this week, on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial in Washington DC, a huge congregation gathered in the pursuit of jobs
& freedom. Black and White, Christian and Jew, privileged, poor, empowered,
and disenfranchised, all gathered together in common purpose civil rights and
equality for our nation. Whenever I see photos of that great day in American
history, the March on Washington led by the Rev. Dr. Martian Luther King, I
think about this week’s Torah portion.
It describes another great gathering, albeit many thousands of years
earlier.
‘Atem Nitzavim hayom’ – the Torah portion begins – ‘You are
all gathered here this day before the Eternal One your God.’ With these words, Moses convened the whole
congregation of Israel on the plains of Moav, just across the Jordan River from
the Promised Land. He brought everyone
together from the leaders of Israel to the ordinary workers. He brought everyone together, men, women and
children. He brought the whole house of
Israel together to forge a united dream of living in peace, wisdom, and
understanding through the guidance of the Torah. In his address, Moses set out the choice
before them that day – blessing or curse, life or death. ‘U’vachartem b’chayim’ he taught, ‘choose
life.’…
To read the rest of The Rabbi’s Corner, click here to visit
our website.
School News
Sunday School Countdown!
The Education Committee and school staff are looking forward
to the 2013-2014 school year. The first day will be Sunday, September 22nd,
from 9:15 a.m.-12:25 p.m. Teachers are decorating their classrooms
and creating lesson plans, and we are all very happy to be in our building.
Parents, please make sure that you have registered your
child for Sunday school. We have several new families this year and want
to make sure the classes are properly organized to accommodate all of us. If
you haven’t signed up yet, please click here to complete your child’s registration. We don't want you to miss out on all the
great things that are happening around here!
Community News
American
Diabetes Association “Step Out” Fundraiser
The ADA’s
annual Step Out Walk to Stop Diabetes will be held September 28 at Didier
Farms. Shir Hadash’s Dumrauf family has a team walking in honor of their son. In
addition to a four-mile fundraising walk, this event features a fun, family-friendly
festival where you can learn about healthy eating, physical activity and
diabetes. Didier Farms is a pumpkin patch full of rides
and games for children, plus a corn maze and hayrack rides. Visit the event website for details on how to participate or
donate in support of Team Tyler Dumrauf.
This wonderful play at the Royal George Theatre must close
on September 1. Set in Vienna in 1928 and in London during the Blitzkreig, “The
Pianist of Willesden Lane” tells the true story of noted pianist and author
Lisa Jura, as performed by her own daughter Mona Golabek. Click here to visit the Royal George Theatre
site for more information.
SHOP Shir Hadash
SHOP is easiest way to make donations to Shir Hadash,
without spending an extra dime! Here’s how it works: You purchase gift
certificates (Scrip) through Shir Hadash and we earn a percentage of that
purchase. Online orders and convenient pick-up options make it easy. Visit the SHOP page of our website for detailed program information.
While supplies last, a limited run of the following plastic
gift cards will be available:
- Barnes & Noble $5 Gift Card
- Target $10 Gift Card
- Panera Bread $5 Gift Card
Bonus Contributions: Below you'll find a list of special offers.
- CVS/pharmacy® 1% bonus contribution has been extended through August 30.
- Dell® 2% bonus 8/17 - 9/13
- Petco® 1% bonus 8/17 - 8/30
- Walgreens® 2% bonus 8/17 - 8/30
- Burlington Coat Factory® 1% bonus 8/17 - 8/30
- Express® 2% bonus 8/17 - 8/30
- Earn a bonus $5 iTunes ScripNow® eGift every time you order $25 or more in iTunes physical gift cards or ScripNow eCards on ShopWithScrip.com through Friday, August 30.
Thanks to the following families for participating in Shop
this week:
- Zinbarg
- Schleicher
