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What’s Happening at a Glance
Membership News and Upcoming Events
- Membership Renewal Now Available
- New: Summer Cinema Family Movie Night, July 12
- New: Shir Hadash Annual Picnic, August 10
- Rummage Sale – Drop Off Dates Announced
- Book Club, August 6
- Havdalah and Hot Tub Recap
- Help Shir Hadash Earn Free Donations with iGive
- Samuel I. Andes Scholarship Fund
- Permanent Restaurant Fundraisers: The Continental and Butterfield’s
Creative Worship and Ritual
- Shabbat Study and Bike Ride, July 12
Volunteer Opportunities
- Feed the Homeless, July 21
The Rabbi’s Corner
- "Seeking Peace"
Music Notes
- Lahaka Adult Choir
Teen News
- Open Teen Lounge Night, July 16
- SH Young Artists at Buffalo Grove Art Fair, July 13
Adult Ed
- Lunch and Learn with Rabbi Eitan
- Sunday Morning Adult Ed Classes
Donations
SHOP Shir Hadash
Membership and Upcoming Events
Membership Renewal Now Available
Membership
emails have been sent out. Please use the links to renew your annual membership
as soon as possible. If you have not received your email, or have any questions
about the renewal process, contact Lise Schleicher at info@shir-hadash.org.
New! Summer Cinema Family Movie Night, July
12
Kids in
grades K-4: Bring your folks out for a fun movie party at Shir Hadash this
Saturday! Our new Summer Cinema Night will feature a showing of “The Lorax,”
along with a pajama party, pizza, and ice cream treats. The fun goes from 6:00
to 7:30pm. Please RSVP today, July 10, by calling 847 498 8218.
New! Save the Date – Shir Hadash Annual
Picnic, August 10
Mark your
calendars for the Annual Shir Hadash Picnic and Sing-along, coming up on
Sunday, August 10 at 4:00pm. Bring along games for kids and adults, food for
the pot luck dinner, and your musical instruments and your voices! Full details will follow soon. To help with
planning, please contact Melanie Andes, fmandes@comcast.net.
Rummage Sale – Drop Off Dates Announced
Special Drop Off Tonight, July 10, from 7:00 to 9:00pm!
The Shir Hadash Rummage Sale is coming on August 24! We need rummage to sell: time to clean out your closets! Things can be dropped at the shul Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10am – 2pm, or on special drop off dates of July 10, July 20 and August 12.
We need help! We are asking for one or two hours from each family to pull this off – that will cut this huge job into tiny bites for everyone! Kids are absolutely welcome to come along. Visit our website for a sign-up form, as well as a list of what sort of stuff we need and details on the drop off dates. Questions can be sent to Lise Schleicher at info@shir-hadash.org.
The Shir Hadash Rummage Sale is coming on August 24! We need rummage to sell: time to clean out your closets! Things can be dropped at the shul Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10am – 2pm, or on special drop off dates of July 10, July 20 and August 12.
We need help! We are asking for one or two hours from each family to pull this off – that will cut this huge job into tiny bites for everyone! Kids are absolutely welcome to come along. Visit our website for a sign-up form, as well as a list of what sort of stuff we need and details on the drop off dates. Questions can be sent to Lise Schleicher at info@shir-hadash.org.
Book Club, August 6
The next
Book Club meeting will be on Wednesday, August 6, beginning at 7:30pm, at the
home of Susan Grossman, 2720 Oak Street in Highland Park. The book this month is Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon
Krakauer. This book chronicles a true-life murder which took place within the
Mormon Fundamentalist community. It also discusses the history of America's
fastest growing religion. All are
welcome. For more information, contact Meryl Abensohn, abenkras@aol.com.
Havdalah and Hot Tub Recap
A friendly
group of around 30 Shir Hadash members gathered last Saturday at the Schleicher
home for a lovely evening of singing, smores, a little wine, and sweets. But
the sweetest of it all was the wonderful company we shared for a few hours with
fellow Shir Hadash families. Be sure to visit our Facebook album to view photos from this fun annual event. Heartfelt thanks go out to Lise and
Sandi Schleicher for hosting, and to all who came out!
Help Shir Hadash Earn Free Donations with
iGive
You can help
Shir Hadash every time you shop online – the iGive Button makes it simple!
iGive is a free and easy way to support the shul. Average shoppers using iGive raises between
$30 and $100 a year for their causes. Shir Hadash has already earned nearly
$200 this year from members using iGive. There are 1480 online retailers
helping to make donations happen through iGive.
Plus, for
each person who joins iGive in July for the first time, $5 will automatically
be donated to Shir Hadash – no purchase necessary! All you or your friends need
to do is try the iGive Button by October 15, 2014. And the person who gets the
most new members to join iGive in July and try the Button through October 15
earns $1000 for his or her cause – no matter which cause or charity the new
members they invited choose to support. $500 prizes go to the second and third
place winners’ causes too. So after you sign up, please spread the word!
Click here to learn more and join iGive. If you have questions, contact Sandi Schleicher, finance@shir-hadash.org.
Scholarship Fund
We are
grateful to everyone who has contributed to the Samuel I. Andes Scholarship
Fund, a need-based fund for children whose families cannot afford to pay for
their Jewish education at Shir Hadash. Melanie and Fred Andes have created this
fund in memory of Fred’s great-uncle Samuel I. Andes and have graciously
offered to match all donations to the fund up to $11,000.00. Click here to donate online or mail in your check made out to Shir Hadash with “Scholarship”
written in the memo line. Thank you!
Don’t Forget Our Permanent Restaurant
Fundraisers!
The
Continental Restaurant in Buffalo Grove or Butterfield’s Restaurant in
Northbrook will donate 5% of your total bill to Shir Hadash! No flyer needed –
just mention Shir Hadash when you are paying or fill out the Shir Hadash book
behind the desk.
Creative Worship and Ritual
Shabbat Study and Bike Ride, July 12
Enjoy summer
with a special Shabbat Study and Bike Ride to the Botanic Garden on Saturday,
July 12 from 9:00am to noon. Meet in the
parking lot on the northeast corner of Willow Road and the Edens. We will
study the Shabbat Torah portion and greet the Shabbat morning. Then we will
ride five miles north into the Botanic Garden for some natural inspiration and
breakfast or coffee. Then we will return on the trail to our cars. Bring a few
dollars to purchase food and/or drinks. All children must be accompanied by an
adult.
Volunteer Opportunities
Help Feed the Homeless, July 21--Sign Up Today
Shir Hadash
needs your immediate support to help feed the homeless at Kingswood United
Methodist Church in Buffalo Grove. Our
assigned night is Monday, July 21st. We
will be serving alongside members of Kingswood Church. Our needs
include cooks to prepare and drop off food, people to purchase and drop off
other items needed for the evening, and dinner staff to set up, serve and clean
up after the meal.
The doors
will be open to our homeless guests from 6:30pm-8:30pm. All hot food needs to
be dropped off at Kingswood Church, ready to eat, at 6:00pm. Other foods may be dropped off earlier in the
day or the day before, at your convenience.
Dinner staff is needed from 5:30 until 9:00pm. Onsite training will be held the first 15
minutes of the shift.
Food
Donations -- We are responsible for the following:
- Five Main Dishes - provide enough hot food to feed 15-20 adults, in disposable containers.
- Five Vegetables - provide any type of hot vegetable dish to feed 15-20 adults. Food should be brought in hot, in disposable containers, ready to eat.
- Five Salads - provide any type of salad to feed 15-20 adults. Food should be brought in disposable containers, ready to eat.
- Three Desserts - provide your favorite dessert to feed 15-20 adults. Cakes or pies can be cut by our volunteers.
- Also: Three gallons of juice, two gallons of milk, two cases of bottled water, 25 granola bars, 25 mini bags of pretzels, 25 pieces of fruit
Please RSVP as soon as possible (no later than July 13, please)i ndicating what you would like to sign up for. It would be helpful for you to give us more
than one option, as we will fill the slots as responses come in. To volunteer,
contact Suzanne Wexler at 847-478-1704 or skwexler@yahoo.com.
The Rabbi’s Corner
July 11-12, 2014 / 14 Tammuz 5774
Shabbat Pinchas
Torah: Numbers 25:10 - 30:1 / Haftarah: I Kings 18:46 -
19:21
“Seeking
Peace”
Dear
Friends,
There are
many ways to respond to conflict. This
week’s Torah portion offers two paths as examples. At the start of the portion we learn that
Pinchas is honored for his violent killing of an Israelite man and a Midianite
princess as they were sharing intimate relations. According to the Torah, the
Midianites were accused of two crimes.
First, they terrorized, injured, and murdered Israelites on their
journey to the Promised Land. Second,
their women seduced young Israelite men in order to draw them away from and
thus, weaken the people of Israel.
Because of Pinchas’ actions, Midian was defeated and the men of Israel
remained true to their nation. Though
the Torah honors Pinchas for protecting Israel from further attack by its
enemies, we are still a bit uncomfortable each time we read the portion. Did it
really have to come to this? Was
violence needed? Was killing and bloodshed the only way to defend
ourselves? Later in the portion, we read
about the daughters of Zelophehad who petitioned Moses to change the law
allowing women to inherit from their fathers in the event that there were no
male heirs. Moses consulted with God and
the law was changed. They talked it over
and settled things without anger, rancor, or violence. There is a message here. While the Torah recognizes that sometimes the
only way to defend ourselves is through violence, we should not glorify or
celebrate this. Rather, it should make
us uncomfortable and reluctant. Talking
out our differences is the far better path, if at all possible.
Among the
news items this week, things are heating up with Ukraine and Russian
separatists, Iran and its nuclear program, Syria and civil war, Iraq and ISIS,
and of course Israel, Hamas, and the Gaza strip. War means terrible suffering
and pain for everyone on all sides. The murder of three Israeli youths and the
despicable revenge murder of an Arab youth are cruel, terrible, and
unjustifiable acts. Yet, I am heartened
by the way the families of the four youths are reaching out to each other to
offer support and comfort and how they are appealing to their peoples and the
world for calm, patience, and peace. May
their prayers be answered so that no one needs to suffer what the families of
Naftali Frenkel, Gilad Sha’ar, Eyal Yifrach, and Mohammed Abu Khdeir are facing….
To read the
rest of The Rabbi’s Corner, please click here. http://shir-hadash.org/rabbis-corner/
Music Notes
Lahaka (Adult Choir)
Come Join Us - We're Already
Looking Forward to High Holidays!
If you like
to sing and be part of a warm, friendly, fun-loving group, come join Lahaka,
our adult choir! Be on the lookout for information on our summer and High
Holidays rehearsal schedule. We will be preparing for a meaningful musical Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur. For more information contact Sandy Weiss,
sandy2weiss@gmail.com.
Teen News
New! Teen Open Lounge Night, July 16
Missing your
Shir Hadash friends this summer? Looking for a place to come, hang out and
relax? Join us for Open Lounge Night on Wednesday, July 16 from 7:30 to 8:45pm.
All 8th – 12th graders are welcome.
Shir Hadash Artists at Buffalo Grove Art
Fair, July 13
If you’re
around Buffalo Grove this Sunday, be sure to stop by the Youth Art tent at the
Buffalo Grove Invitational Fine Art Fair. Two young artists from Shir Hadash will be
selling their handmade jewelry and duct tape wallets. The art fair is Sunday, July 13 from 10:00am
to 5:00pm at Town Center, located at the intersection of Lake Cook and Route
83/McHenry Road. The Youth Art tent will be near Jimmy John's. Come say hello!
Adult Education
Lunch & Learn with Rabbi Eitan
Weiner-Kaplow
Join Shir
Hadash members and friends for a refreshing and contemporary exploration of the
weekly Torah portion. This informal
group meets on Thursdays from noon to 1:00 in the Shir Hadash Kitchen/Café. All
are welcome.
Sunday Morning Adult Ed
School’s out
for the kids, but Adult Ed goes on! Join us for Torah and Philosophy at 9:45
with Fred Andes, followed by Hebrew Reading at 10:45 with Steve Lewin. For more
information, contact Fred Andes, frederic.andes@btlaw.com.
Donations
- Lois and Marshall Levin and Family, in memory of Cissy Schor
- Averil and Richard Moskow, in memory of Cissy Schor
- Joel Warady and Heidi, Kanter, in memory of Cissy Schor
- Fern Wernick, in memory of Cissy Schor
- Lauren and Jason Greis
Donations to the Rabbi’s Discretionary
Fund:
- Diane and Art German, in memory of Cissy Schor
- Lauren and Jason Greis
- Howard Grill
Donations to Samuel I. Andes Scholarship Fund:
- Nadine and Harry Goldman
- Lauren and Jason Greis
Donations to the School Fund:
- Kathy and Gary Lazar, in memory of Cissy Schor
Donations to the Capital Campaign Fund,
Camp Scholarship Fund, School Wish List, Music Wish List, and Youth Group Fund:
- Lauren and Jason Greis
SHOP Shir Hadash
SHOP
over the Summer!
SHOP is our
congregation’s ongoing fundraiser – and the easiest way to support the shul
without spending an extra dime! Purchase gift cards through SHOP and the
vendors pay a percentage back to
Shir Hadash.
SHOP
orders of at least $400 are now payable by credit card, as well as annual SHOP
orders. Orders can be picked up at the synagogue office.
Bonus Contributions Now Available:
- Hallmark – 2% now through July 11
- Hyatt – 2% now through July 11
Place an order
including at least $100 in Gap Inc. scrip between July 12 - 18 and you'll be
entered in a drawing for a chance to have Gap Inc. reimburse you for the cost
of your order, up to $200. All Gap Inc. products* are eligible for the
promotion, including ScripNow® and ReloadNow®!
Winners will be
randomly selected and notified after the promotion ends. Click here for terms and conditions ,
and call the Customer Support Team at 1.800.727.4715 option 3 if you have any
questions.
GLSC Summer Hours: From now
until September 2, GLSC office hours will be 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m Eastern
Monday through Thursday, and 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Eastern on Fridays.
MyScripWallet,
ScripNow’s new mobile website, makes it easy to support SHOP while you’re on
the go! To learn more about this convenient service, click here for the site’sFAQs.
Thanks to the
following families for participating in SHOP this week:
- Zinbarg
- Schleicher
- Singer
- Arons
- Zweiban
- Mostow
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