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What’s Happening at a Glance
Membership News and Upcoming Events
Creative Worship and Ritual
Volunteer Opportunities
The Rabbi’s Corner
Education
Teen News
Adult Education
Ongoing Fundraisers
SHOP Shir Hadash
Membership and Upcoming Events
High Holidays Service Schedule
This summary
of services is also available on the Shir Hadash website.
Locations:
SH = Shir Hadash, 200 West Dundee Road,
Wheeling
OLB = Our Lady of the Brook, 3700 Dundee
Road, Northbrook
Erev Rosh
Hashanah (Wednesday, Sept. 24)
- Evening Service, 7:30 – 9:30pm at OLB
Day 1 Rosh
Hashanah (Thursday, Sept. 25)
- Morning Service, 9:30 a.m. – noon at OLB
- Family Service, 2:00pm at SH
Day 2 Rosh
Hashanah (Friday, Sept. 26)
- Bagel-and-Shmear Breakfast, 9:30am at SH
- Service/Adult Study, 10:00 a.m. – noon at SH
Kol Nidrei
(Friday, October 3)
- Evening Service, 6:15– 8:00 p.m. at OLB
Yom Kippur
Day (Saturday, October 4)
- Morning Service, 9:30am – 12:30pm at OLB
- Yizkor, 12:30 – 1:30pm at OLB
- Family Service, 2:00pm at SH
- Adult Discussion Sessions, 2:00 – 3:00pm and 3:00 – 4:00pm at SH
- Afternoon (Mincha) Service, 4:00 – 5:00pm at SH
- Ne’ilah, 5:00 – 6:15pm at SH
Sukkot (Friday, October 10)
- Evening Service, 7:00 – 8:30 pm at SH
Simchat
Torah (Friday, October 17)
- Evening Service, 7:00 – 8:30 pm at SH
We are proud
to continue our Book of Life program, which follows the hallowed Jewish
tradition of honoring the memory of our loved ones during Yizkor. The Book of Life will ensure that on the
holiest of days, Yom Kippur, we remember and inscribe the names of those that
have passed on. Please click here to
include those names in the Shir Hadash Book of Life. In order to ensure that we can include
your names in the printed Books, please fill out the form (including payment
information) no later than Sunday,
September 28. No requests can be
accepted after that date, due to the printing deadlines. If you have any questions, please send a note
to cwr@shir-hadash.org .
New! Planning
Meeting for Annual Gala, September 28
Preparations
are already underway for an absolutely wonderful evening on Saturday, February
7, when we will come together to honor our own Rabbi Eitan Weiner-Kaplow for
his 20 years of service and inspiration to the Shir Hadash community. We have our date, our venue, our
entertainment, and of course our honoree – but we have lots to do to make this
a night to remember!
If you are
interested in helping us plan and develop our celebration, please join us this Sunday, September 28, at 2:30 pm
in the Shir Hadash Conference Room. We have a variety of subcommittees that
will benefit from your ideas and creativity. All are welcome! If you need more
information, or can’t make the meeting but would still like to be involved, please
contact Carrie Matt at fundraising@shir-hadash.org. See you on Sunday!
New! Yoga Classes Forming
Interested in improving your mind and body through yoga classes at Shir Hadash? Email jolitman@gmail.com if you are interested in learning more. Please indicate if you are interested in classes during the day, night or either one.
Get your Sunday Schmear at Shir Hadash
What to do
while the kids are in Religious School?
Looking for fun on Sunday mornings?
Hungry while waiting for adult education to start? Come hang out with your fellow Shir
Hadashnicks and have coffee and a bagel 'n schmear. Spend some fun time with your friends, bring
a newspaper, or just have a relaxing morning with a cup of Joe. All coffee and bagels proceeds benefit the
Synagogue. And if you would be
interested in helping assist with the coffee and bagel once a month, please let
us know by emailing nflsunday1966@gmail.com.
Please put “Bagels” in the subject line.
Our next
book will be My Promised Land: The
Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit. We will meet at the home of
the Kopulsky family, 2460 Asbury Road in Northbrook, on October 22 at 7:30. All
are welcome to our book club meetings. If you have questions, please contact
Meryl Abensohn, abenkras@aol.com.
Join us for
a screening of the award-winning film Magic
Men at Northbrook Court’s AMC Theater on Saturday, November 8 at 7:00pm.
The story follows a Greek-Israeli Holocaust survivor and his Hasidic rapper
son, estranged for many years, as they embark on a road trip to find the old
magician who saved the father’s life during WWII. The screening will feature a
special appearance by co-director Guy Nattiv. After the movie, we’ll gather for
coffee and dessert at Prairie Grass Café to discuss the film and schmooze. The
film is part of the Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema which runs from October 29 to November 9.
We have a
block of 20 tickets available on a first-come, first-served basis for $12 per
person. To purchase tickets, click here. The deadline is November 4. For more
information, contact Rebecca Rice at r.rice1@comcast.net.
Creative Worship and Ritual
This Week’s Services
Please see
the detailed High Holidays Service Schedule, above.
We’ve had a
wonderful response to our High Holidays Guest Membership opportunity, and are
expecting an additional 200+ people for our services! To be sure that we have
enough prayer books to supply this large a group (even with people sharing
books), we are asking members to loan us any extra copies of the prayer book for
the services. Maybe your kids are off at college, or you bought fresh copies and still have your old ones?
If you have books you can temporarily loan to the shul, please bring them to our check-in table when you arrive at Rosh Hashanah services. We will write
down your name and number of books on our book loaner sheet, we will put a
numbered temporary cover on the books, and we will ask you to write your name
inside the cover of the books, so we can keep track of them properly. Then, when the High Holidays are over, you
can pick up your books - either at the end of Yom Kippur services, or at the
synagogue office anytime later. Thank you advance for helping make our services fully participatory for everyone!
High Holidays Registration
Last call to register for the High Holidays! Click here to do so through the Shul Cloud system on our website.
Members:
Please keep in mind, although you do not have pay for tickets to High Holidays
services, you do need to go through the online service registration. This
allows us to plan for seating, food, and other contingencies. Also, note that
members must up-to-date in their annual dues payments in order to be admitted
to services.
All
questions regarding services, registration, etc. should be directed to
cwr@shir-hadash.org. Shana Tova!
If you plan to have your children participate in our excellent
special programs during Rosh Hashanah morning and Yom Kippur morning services,
please be sure to sign them up via our website. This allows us to plan for
materials, seating, and other logistics. Thanks for your response!
Special Offer for New High Holidays Guests
– “High Holiday Memberships”
We are not
selling tickets for High Holiday services this year -- we are offering High
Holiday Memberships! This new concept covers everything we do at Shir Hadash
between Selichot and Simchat Torah/Shmini Atzeret, including of course Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur. This is a perfect time for your friends that have been
on the fence about us to try us out! Come to Lunch and Learn on Tuesdays with
the Rabbi, try out an adult ed class on Sunday mornings, join in a Saturday
morning Shabbat and see our one of a kind B'nai Mitzvot.
For anyone
who has never been with us for High Holidays, there are 108 memberships
available for $54 each. For those guests who have been with us before, a High
Holiday Membership is the same as the ticket-only price of $250. Click here for details, or tell your friends to
visit our website to register. Shir Hadash:
Not what you expect, but what you've been looking for.
Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteers Needed for High Holidays – Ushers, Oneg, and Children’s Programs
The High
Holidays are here, and we’re looking for volunteers to help make
our observance a pleasure for everyone. With a minimal time commitment, you can
help make our services welcoming and accommodating. New members are especially
welcome – this is a great opportunity to make new friends in the community!
Volunteers
are needed in the following roles:
- Ushers for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur: Contact Ken Laner, klaner@6ideas.com
- Oneg Organizers for Rosh Hashanah: Contact Mia Graff, graffme379@yahoo.com
- Adult Assistants for Children’s Programs: Contact Suzanne Wexler, volunteer@shir-hadash.org
Thanks for
your participation!
The Rabbi’s Corner
September 24-26, 2014 / 1 Tishrei 5775
Rosh Hashana
“Reflecting
Your Light”
Dear
Friends,
As we
prepare to begin a New Year, I share this prayer by Ruth Brin, of blessed
memory. May the New Year bring us
renewal, inspiration, growth, and learning.
May the New Year bring us health, happiness, and prosperity. May the New Year bring us closer to God and
performance of righteous compassionate deeds.
Footnote to a Rosh Hashana Prayer
by Ruth Brin z”l
Like the rays of the late afternoon sun,
Slanting through the trees, shining on each
separate leaf,
You shine on us, our God,
And like the leaves we reflect Your light.
I Thank You with all my heart
For the presence of Your spirit, which is
life.
I pray You not to withdraw from me,
I pray You not to depart from me, though I
am unworthy,
I pray You let me pray to You.
How can I love You, who are so far away?
How can I know You, whose face I have not
seen?
How can I approach You, when I am laden with
guilt?
I can love some of Your creatures, and so
love something of You.
I can know some of Your world, and so know
something of You.
I can approach You with repentance and
prayer and righteous deeds,
But I can do none of these, my God, without
Your help.
Help me to love You and know You and pray to
You
That this my existence may become a life,
A life that like a leaf in the afternoon sun
Reflects Your great and golden light.
L’Shana Tova
– Wishing everyone a good New Year,
Rabbi Eitan
Weiner-Kaplow
Education
Religious School
Shir
Hadash’s wonderful religious school is off to a great start for the new year! Click here for detailed school information in Education Director Emily Ascher’s blog.
Teen News
New! BBYO
– Info Meeting for Teens and Parents, October 1
Calling all
teens in 8th through 12th grades – and their parents!
Wondering what happens at a BBYO meeting?
Is your teen already involved, or are you and/or your teen thinking
about joining our Shir Hadash BBYO chapter? Come learn more!
Teens and
their parents are invited to come to a special event on Wednesday, October 1
from 7:00 to 8:30pm. at the Lake County Camps (site of the Apachi Day Camp), 23280
North Old McHenry Road in Lake Zurich.We'll start with a program for parents
and teens together as a chapter, and then the teens will stay to continue the
program while the parents move to a meeting with our BBYO-GRM regional program director
Celia Livshin. Contact Carole with questions (youth@shir-hadash.org) or send an
e-mail to raambbyo@gmail.com.
New! BBYO
Ra’am Chapter Meeting and Hangout, October 6
Our Ra'am Chapter
will have its next meeting on Monday, October 6 at Shir Hadash from 7:00 - 8:00
pm, followed by Ra’am Hangout time from 8:00 – 9:00 in the Teen Lounge. All teens (you don't have
to be a member) are encouraged to join us.
New! BBYO
Brotherhood/Sisterhood Convention, October 24-26
BBYO Great
Midwest Region is introducing Brotherhood/Sisterhood Convention 2014! Students
in grades 9 through 12 can join teens from GMR chapters at Beber Camp in
Mukwonogo, Wisconsin for a weekend of bonding, history, leadership, song
sessions, and campfires. The fee for the weekend is $209. Scholarships are
available; contact Celia Livshin at clivshin@bbyo.org ASAP for information. Scholarship
applications due back by Friday October 3rd. Click here to register online.
Adult Education
Lunch & Learn with Rabbi Eitan
Weiner-Kaplow – Now on Tuesdays!
Join Shir
Hadash members and friends for a refreshing and contemporary exploration of the
weekly Torah portion. This fall, we have
a new day and location: We now meet at noon on Tuesdays in the conference room.
All are welcome.
Sunday Morning Adult Ed
Our kids are
back in school, and our adult ed programs are getting a fresh start too! Our
Torah Study & Jewish Philosophy class, led by Fred Andes, takes place on
Sunday mornings. Meet at the synagogue from 9:45 to 10:45 for coffee and
engaging discussion topics. All are welcome.
Ongoing Fundraisers
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 raise between
$30 and $100 a year for their causes. There are 1480 online retailers helping
to make donations happen through iGive.
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 http://sh.shulcloud.com/samuel-i-andes-scholarship-fund.html
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 and 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.
SHOP Shir Hadash
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 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.
Shir Hadash.
New!
Starbucks is
available for ReloadNow!
Bonus
Contributions Now Available:
Athleta – 2% til Sep 26
AutoZone – 1% til Sep 26
Banana Republic – 2% til Sep
26
Bass Pro Shops – 4% til Sep
26
Bed Bath & Beyond – 1%
til Sep 26
Cabela’s – 1% til Sep 26
Gap – 2% til Sep 26
Journeys – 3% til Sept 26
Landry’s – 4% til Sep 26
Old Navy – 2% til Sep 26
PetSmart – 2% til Sep 26
Piperlime – 2% til Sep 26
Restaurant.com – 15% til Oct
10
Shutterfly – 2% til Sep 26
Smart & Final – 2% til
Sept 26
Bonuses
Beginning September 27
Applebee’s – 2% til Oct 10
Hallmark –2% til Oct 10
Hyatt – 2% til Oct 10
Logan’s Roadhouse – 2% til
Oct 10
Regis Salons – 2% til Oct 3
JCPenney Variable ScripNow
Available!
Caribou Coffee 1% Bonus
Contribution Caribou Coffee® is offering a 1% bonus contribution on physical
cards only purchased through Friday, October 3. Customers who purchase $10
Caribou Coffee physical gift cards will receive a 7% contribution instead of
the standard 6%.
Thanks
to the following families for participating in SHOP this week:
Zinbarg
Schleicher
Grills
Simon
Friedman
Weiner-Kaplow
Andes
Zweiban
Lieberman
Weiss
Newman
Hester
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