WHAT’S HAPPENING AT A GLANCE
Membership News and Upcoming
Events
New! WISH Hamentaschen Bake, February 22 (Sale on February 25)
Purim Comedy Night for Adults,
February 24
Purim Carnival, February 25
Volunteers and Supplies Needed
for Purim
Mac-n-Cheese Grogger Drive for
Food Pantry, Through February 25
Please Respond! Capital Improvement Survey
Book Club, March 15
Creative Worship and Ritual
Shabbat Evening Service, Friday
February 16, 7:30pm
Oneg Volunteers Needed -- Sign
Up Today
The Rabbi’s Corner
“Where God Dwells”
School News
No Religious School on February
18
Kallah This Weekend
Bagel Bar Help Needed
Youth Activities
Save The Date! Shir Hadash Youth Outing to Rockin’ Jump, March 18
Adult Education
No Torah and Jewish Philosophy
Class on February 18
No Living Judaism Sunday Class,
February 18
Lunch and Learn at Shir Hadash,
February 15
Social Action
Soup Kitchen, February 18
Israel Awareness
Speaker at Shabbat Services Rescheduled to March
9
Did You Know? Fun Facts About
Israel
Community News and Events
JUF Northwest Suburban
Reception on April 22 - Save the Date or Join the Committee!
Ongoing Fundraisers
Simcha Tree Leaves
Don’t Forget Our Permanent Restaurant
Fundraisers!
Shir Hadash Memorial Wall
Links to Fundraisers: Amazon, iGive, and More
SHOP Shir Hadash
MEMBERSHIP
AND UPCOMING EVENTS
WISH Hamentaschen!
Bake morning and evening of
February 22
Bake sale at Purim Carnival,
February 25
Come bake with Women in Shir
Hadash in the SH kitchen at 10:00am or 6:30pm on February 22. Bring your dough
pre-made at home along with your favorite filling, rolling pin and baking
sheet. Snacks, baggies and labels will be provided. Sign up for your preferred
time on the Event in the Shul Cloud Calendar or contact Julie Wellisch at juliewellisch@gmail.com. Help us sell these wonderful treats on
Sunday, February 25 throughout the Carnival!
Adult Purim Comedy Evening,
February 24
“Mordecai’s Mountain Resort
Presents: A SATURDAY NIGHT SPECTACULAR”
You
will be delighted with an evening of
Rousing
Entertainment
Hilarious
Comedy
Marvelous
Music
And
much much more!
Leave
the Kids at the Cottage
Meet
us in the Main Lodge
Saturday,
February 24 at Shir Hadash - 7:00 pm
Purim Carnival, February 25
Come one, come all to see
what’s new and exciting at our annual Purim Carnival! Enjoy food, photo booths,
face painting, balloon sculptures, unlimited games, a silent auction, and fun
for the whole family from 11:30 to 1:30. Buy your Purim Carnival wristband in advance and save! Enjoy unlimited games with a Purim Carnival
wristband, and save if you buy in advance! You can purchase at the SHOP
table or Gift Shop on Sunday mornings, or you can buy online by clicking here. $10
for unlimited game play* with advanced purchase, $12 and longer line if you buy
on the day of the carnival. You also can purchase lunch in advance and
skip the lines at the carnival. Just $5 for pizza, chips, and a drink.
*Numerous
fun games are included with the wristband; activities, food, and drink are
extra due to the cost of supplies. Spin art and photo booth are $1, and balloon
sculptures are $2. Lunch is $5. Hamantashen, popcorn, and drinks also
will be sold.
Volunteers Needed for the
Purim Carnival
Let’s make this the best
Purim Carnival ever for our kids! There are lots of different ways you can
help. Teens, this counts as community service hours since you’re
helping a school fundraiser!
- Setting up on
Saturday, Feb 24 starting at 4:00pm. If you can’t make it then, come by
Sunday at 9:00am to finish set-up
- Running games
at the carnival from 11:30-1:30, or stick around after the carnival at
1:30 for clean up.
- Getting
silent auction donations from local businesses. Just ask anywhere you shop. Or
you may donate a service or item from your business, work or yourself.
- Donating
carnival supplies -- in particular, we need
- Small toys
(for the Claw Grab game)
- Two tarps
(for Spin Art and Facepainting areas)
- Ten blue
tablecloths
- One pair
nylons
- One pack of
clothespins
- 12 empty
water bottles
Ready to help? Click here for
the volunteer Sign-up Genius, or contact Cindy Grills at homes@cindygrills.com or (847) 409-3707 to get involved! Donations
may be left in the SH office during the week or given to Cindy on Sunday
mornings.
Mac-n-Cheese Grogger Drive
for Food Pantry, Through February 25
While
celebrating Purim and making as much noise as possible when a certain name is
mentioned, let's also combat hunger. Running through the Purim Carnival
on February 25, we will collect mac & cheese boxes that we can use as
groggers (the traditional Purim noise maker) and then donate to the food
pantry. Place donations in the box in the lobby with the mac & cheese
sign.
Please Respond! Capital Improvement Survey
By now you should have
received an email regarding our Capital Improvement Survey. Please fill it out
so that we can have your input as to what projects you would like to see done
to help make our building a home.
Book Club - New Selection
The next book for Book Club
will be The Two Family House by Linda Cohen Loigman. This book is a
multigenerational tale taking place in Brooklyn involving gender expectations
and secrets. The Book Club meeting will be March 15, 7:30pm, at the home of
Cheryl Schultz, 1381 Sunnyside Avenue in Highland Park. Contact Meryl Abensohn
at abenkras@aol.com for more information.
CREATIVE WORSHIP AND RITUAL
Shabbat Evening Service, Friday February 16,
7:30pm
We just had the holiday of Tu
B'shvat - the New Year of the Trees, so this week’s service is the perfect
opportunity to talk about the environment. There are basic principles of
Judaism, drawn directly from the Torah and the Talmud, that teach us how
important it is to preserve nature for future generations. We will talk
about these principles on Friday, and our discussion will set the stage for an
exciting new program that is coming soon from our Social Action Committee that
will enable us to take environmentally conscious actions together, as a Jewish
community.
If you'd like to learn more
about Jewish environmental ideas, you may want to check out the the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life. See you on Friday night - and don't forget to
bring something for the oneg!
Oneg Volunteers Needed for Services
Sign up to help as an oneg volunteer for one of
our upcoming services. It's easy: just click here to pick a date, bring a
challah, and show up.! You'll receive a reminder email the week before
with more details. For more information, contact Sean Fisher-Rohde at oneg@shir-hadash.org.
THE RABBI’S CORNER
February 16-17, 2018 / 2
Adar 5778
Shabbat Terumah
Torah: Exodus 25:1 -
27:19
Haftarah: I Kings 5:26 -
6:13
“Where God Dwells”
Dear Friends,
Where does God Dwell? In this week’s Torah
portion, the Children of Israel have built the Mishkan (or Tabernacle), the
portable tent shrine in the center of their camp. In the Mishkan the priests
offered sacrifice and Moses encountered God’s presence. The sages asked if the
Mishkan was really where God lived. After all, God’s presence can be found
everywhere, in everything, at all times. According to the modern Torah
commentator Pinchas Peli, “The Mikdash was not a dwelling place for God but a
place set aside for people to come and experience more intensely the
in-dwelling presence of God in the world at large.”
The philosopher Martin Buber told this tale:
“Where is the dwelling place of God?” This was the question with which Rabbi
Mendel of Kotsk surprised a number of learned people who happened to be
visiting him. They laughed at him: “What a thing to ask! Is not the whole world
full of God’s glory!” Then he answered his own question: “God dwells wherever
we let God in.” (Tales of the Hasidim.)
What is your Mishkan? Where do you experience
the in-dwelling presence of God in the world? Where do you let God in?
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Eitan Weiner-Kaplow
SCHOOL NEWS
No Religious School, February
18
There is no school this week
while our 6th-12th graders are attending Kallah. We’re looking forward to
seeing our students ready to go at 9:15 next Sunday.
Kallah Is Coming... February 16
- 18
Kallah is the annual Reconstructionist youth retreat for 6th-12th graders. It will take place over Presidents Day weekend at OSRUI (Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute) in Wisconsin. We will leave by bus on Friday, February 16 in the late afternoon (around 4:00 pm) and return on Sunday, February 18 in the early afternoon (around 1:00 pm). It is an amazing opportunity for our youth to come together with peers from the region to participate in a weekend of fun and community building. All programs are created and led by the students. Please be in touch with Geoff if have any questions. To register, click here.
Kallah is the annual Reconstructionist youth retreat for 6th-12th graders. It will take place over Presidents Day weekend at OSRUI (Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute) in Wisconsin. We will leave by bus on Friday, February 16 in the late afternoon (around 4:00 pm) and return on Sunday, February 18 in the early afternoon (around 1:00 pm). It is an amazing opportunity for our youth to come together with peers from the region to participate in a weekend of fun and community building. All programs are created and led by the students. Please be in touch with Geoff if have any questions. To register, click here.
Sunday Morning Bagel Bar Help
Needed
We all enjoy the delicious
bagels at Sunday school, graciously donated by Tammy Pomper. Now we need some
volunteers to pitch in with set-up and clean-up. Helpers would need to arrive
around 8:15am to make coffee and set out bagels. If we get lots of helpers, it won't be much of a time commitment
for anyone. Please contact Glenn Graff, nflsunday1966@gmail.com, or Tammy Pomper, tammy.g.pomper@gmail.com, to learn more.
YOUTH ACTIVITIES
Save The Date! Shir Hadash Youth Outing to Rockin’ Jump, March 18
The next Youth Group
event will be an afternoon at Rockin’ Jump trampoline park on March 18. Watch
for more details coming soon.
ADULT EDUCATION
No Torah and Jewish Philosophy Class, February
18
Instructor: Fred Andes
We are off this week along with the Religious
School. Join us next week to dig deep into the weekly Torah portion and take a
look at modern Jewish philosophy.
Living Judaism: Introduction
to Jewish Spirituality & Civilization Resumes March 11
Sundays, 11:15 am to 12:25 pm
on March 11, 18; April 15, 22, and 29, 2018.
Instructor: Rabbi Eitan
Weiner-Kaplow
A survey of essential and
fundamental concepts of Judaism - its roots, history, sacred texts, holidays,
and life cycle celebration. This class offers a great opportunity to
learn what Judaism offers us to live, learn, celebrate and relate to life’s
challenges in a Jewish way, today! This class is for everyone – from
those with no Jewish background to those with a strong Jewish background, and
all in between.
Lunch and Learn at Shir Hadash, February 15
Join Rabbi Eitan and
Shir Hadash members and friends for a refreshing and contemporary exploration
of the weekly Torah portion. We will meet this week on Thursday, February 15 at
1:00 pm at Shir Hadash. Feel free to bring your lunch.
SOCIAL ACTION
Soup Kitchen, February 18
On
Sunday, February 18, Shir Hadash will be serving over 90 meals at the St.
Paul’s Lutheran Church interfaith soup kitchen in Evanston. We need six to
eight families (20-25 people total) who are able to prepare, cook and serve
food from 2:00 to 4:00pm.
Each
family will be responsible for bringing a precooked meat or pasta entrée
(non-vegetarian, in a disposable dish), a large bag of frozen mixed vegetables,
a bag of fresh fruit, and a dessert to feed approximately 15 people. Feel free
to partner with another family to fill these needs.This is a great family event
because there is no age limit to volunteer, but from past experience, kids
should be at least six years old to participate.
If you
are interested in helping, please contact Mark Lenhart, mjlenhart@comcast.net.
ISRAEL AWARENESS
Guest Speaker at Shabbat Services Rescheduled
for March 9
Due to last week’s snowstorm, we have
rescheduled our presentation by Marlene Dodinval, the Executive Director for
the Jewish National Fund in Chicago, for our Shabbat services on March 9. As we
approach the 70th anniversary of Israel, Marlene will be talking about the
Jewish National Fund’s involvement in the creation of the State of Israel and
their ongoing work to build a prosperous and sustainable country for all its
citizens
Did You Know? Fun Facts about Israel
Israel’s wine industry, revived after a gap of
2,000 years, was founded by the Baron Rothschild family. The company he
founded, Carmel, is Israel’s largest winery, accounting for 40 percent of its
wine market. When Baron Rothschild started the industry he had to import
grapevines from India to do it because France was plagued by a pest
(phylloxera) at the time.
Greek and Roman Emperors imported their wine
from Israel.
Over 33 million bottles of wine produced each
year in Israel; the vast majority of them are kosher.
COMMUNITY NEWS AND EVENTS
JUF Annual Dessert Reception, April 22
Save the Date, or Join the Committee!
Shir Hadash members Rich and Rachel Siegel are again serving as
co-chairs or the Northwest Suburban JUF Dessert Reception, scheduled for April
22 at 7:30pm at Congregation Beth Judea. This year’s guest speaker will be Alon
Ben-Gurion, grandson of the late Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion. This
important and exciting program will raise money for the 2018 JUF Annual
Campaign, supporting vital programs and services in Chicago, Israel and
throughout the Jewish world. If you would like to join Rich and Rachel on the
event committee, contact SandiKaplan@JUF.org by February 19.
ONGOING FUNDRAISERS
Simcha Tree Leaves Available for Purchase
Our Tree of Joy—a Simcha Tree—is
situated in our Community Room to remind us of all the joys of our lives. The
leaves come in copper, silver, and gold. Each leaf marks a lasting memory of a
joyous simcha in the lives of members of Shir Hadash. We invite
you to add your loved ones’ simchas to our Tree and share your nachas
with our congregation or just add your loved ones’ names out of love. Leaves
can be purchased to mark your special family or individual accomplishments.
Click here to see additional
information and make your purchase.
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.
Shir Hadash Memorial Wall
Having a Memorial Plaque for a loved one in Shir
Hadash’s Memorial Wall ensures that Yahrzeit will be observed for them in
perpetuity by our congregation.The cost for a plaque is $360. Many congregants
prepay and reserve plaques.You may register for the plaque(s) through our website, or request a paper order form by calling the office
(847-498-8218).
Fundraiser Information Now Available on Shul
Cloud
You can help Shir Hadash at no extra cost to you
by taking advantage of a variety of ongoing fundraisers, including iGive,
Amazon Smile, and more. For complete details, click here.
SHOP SHIR HADASH
SHOP for the Winter
SHOP is 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. Orders can be picked up in the Shir Hadash office. For
more information, email Michelle at SHOP@shir-hadash.org.
Thank you for supporting Shir Hadash with your
SHOP purchases!
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