Bet Torah Weekly 4-19-17

The Bet Torah Weekly

4/19/2017

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New & Exciting Initiatives || Yom HaShoah

Community Events

Social Events || Celebrate Shabbat

Quick Links

A Night In The Shuk Photo Album (photo credit for the entire album: Thank you Dan Baitch!) Check out Dan Baitch's website at https://danielbaitchphotography.smugmug.com/

Mermaidspiel photo album (photo credit for the entire album: Thank you Dan Baitch!)

Purim 2017 photo album (photo credit: A big THANK YOU to Joanna Segal and Gina Fass!)

Check out how much fun we had and don't forget to Tag yourself!

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If you have photos from Bet Torah events that you would like to share with the congregation, feel free to send to Melissa Heller at [email protected]

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Dates To Remember

April 23rd: 2 events for Yom HaShoah Community Commemoration

April 23rd: Lunch & Learn with speaker Nitsana Darshan-Leitner at Temple Israel Of New Rochelle

April 25th: Tuesday morning minyan resumes at 7:15am

April 25th: Holocaust Survivor speaker - Lola Margulies
click here to learn more about our speaker. open to ALL Hey-Zayin students - parents encouraged to join

April 26th: Honoring Robin Wald

April 27th: Jewish Book Club Discussion of the book, "Night."

April 27th: Last day to RSVP for Sisterhood's Mother's Day flower arrangement event

NEVER FORGET

YOM HASHOAH / REMEMBRANCE DAY is this SUNDAY, APRIL 23rd

Bet Torah has TWO Community-Wide Commemorations on Sunday

9:45-10:45 am

We will join together through music, poetry and reflection to mourn and commemorate the loss. The service is not only a tribute to those who perished in the Shoah but will also include inspirational readings from the extraordinary congregant survivors and/or members of their families. Family members of survivors will light yahrtzeit candles in memory of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust. This program will feature art and poetry by the Zayin class. Religious school students younger than 5th grade may attend with parents.

7:00-9:00 pm

Movie "Ahead Of Time" & Discussion with the Producer & Holocaust Survivor

With her love of adventure and fearlessness, Ruth Gruber defied tradition from the moment she became the world's youngest PhD at the age of 20 in 1931. Ahead of Time tells the remarkable journey of 96 year-old Gruber. Gruber continued to make history throughout her trail-blazing career by becoming the first journalist to enter the Soviet Arctic in 1935 and escorting 1000 Holocaust refugees from Naples to New York in a secret wartime mission in 1944. She covered the eartwrenching ordeal of the refugees aboard the ship Exodus 1947 with photographs that helped change the world. Please join us for a showing of the documentary on Ruth Gruber entitled "Ahead of Time" ( www.ruthgruberthemovie.com ). Afterwards, we will have a discussion with documentary executive producer Patti Kenner and Doris Schechter, executive producer and a refugee and Holocaust Survivor rescued by Ruth Gruber. Please RSVP to [email protected]

Read more about all our Yom HaShoah 2017 events

HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR,

LOLA MARGULIES SPEAKS AT BET TORAH

Tuesday, April 25th

4:00pm-6:00pm

Lola Margulies was born in Poland, interned in a ghetto, spent time in a labor camp and was saved by being hidden underground for 10 days. Click here for a brief outline of her story.

Ascher Speaker Fund invites you to attend Learn & Lunch with

Guest Speaker, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner

Sunday, April 23rd

12 PM at Temple Israel of New Rochelle

Topic : Representing Israeli and American Citizens Against Terrorists

FREE and Open to All! Walk-ins welcome

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner is an Israeli attorney, human rights activist and the founder of Shurat HaDin Israeli Law Center. She is known for her legal activism, especially lawsuits and legal actions brought on behalf of terror victims against terrorist groups, their leaders and financial patrons.

Click here for Nitsana Darshan-Leitner's Professional Biography

Community Events

From The Jewish Book Club

Thursday, April 27 at 8pm

As the Yom Hashoa observance day approaches, keep in mind that Mark Koller, himself a survivor, will be discussing "Night", Elie Weisel's first book about the holocaust. Feel free to join the discussion whether or not you have read the book.

click on the book to read more!

Sisterhood Spring Rummage Sale

May 7th & May 8th

Click here for details

Our First Ever

Shabbat Ala Mode

Friday, May 12th

6:30 pm

Featuring BT's Mike and the Mentsches and the Bet Torah Youth Chorus. Plus a delicious Shabbat meal! RSVP to [email protected]

New & Exciting Initiatives

Commentary On This Week's Torah Portion

Want to know more about the Torah portion for this Shabbat? Bet Torah now has access to an exciting new resource, the Judaic Digital Library (JDL). JDL contains more than 1300 classics of Jewish literature.

But, to access it, you need an access key. Don't miss out on this great new Bet Torah benefit! To get an access key, please contact Jerry Fensterstock [email protected]

Once you have this code, this vast library of Jewish literature will be available to you anywhere. JDL contains histories, commentaries, reference material and kid's books, too.

Click here for the link to the JPS commentary on this week's Torah portion residing within the Judaic Digital Library

Vast Judaic Resource Now Available To Bet Torah Community

The Bet Torah Library Committee is pleased to announce that we have arranged for access to the Judaic Digital Library (JDL) for the Bet Torah community. JDL contains more than 1300 classics of Jewish literature that will complement the more than 4000 volumes in the Bet Torah Library. If you are doing research or writing a Bar/Bar Mitzvah D'var or just curious about some aspect of Judaism, this new Bet Torah resource will be invaluable to you...plus, it's fun. For more information, or to get an access key, please contact Jerry Fensterstock at [email protected]