Naomi Less headlined our Israeli Cafe Saturday night. Check out more pictures from this event and others during Israel Week on our Facebook page.

Thank you to our Israel Week committee chairs: Lydia & Michael Frankel, Zehava & Steve Galun and Betty & Kevin Trangle for putting together a spectacular week of events.
Shul News


February 4, 2016 25 Shevat 5776
This week's parsha is Mishpatim.

  Candle lighting:    5:29 pm
 Friday Evening Service; Zamir Children's Choir; Birthday Shabbat:    7:00 pm
Shabbat Morning Service; Gross Schechter Day School Shabbat :    9:00 am
Starbucks, Bread & Torah with Doron Kalir:     9:00 am
Open Tent Minyan:  9:45 am
         Shabbat ends:    6:31 pm
 
Join the World Wide Wrap 
Sunday, February 7 @ Congregation Shaarey Tikvah 
8:45 am Wrapping Workshop * 9:00 am Minyan 

Celebrate the mitzvah of tefillin. Get a wrapping lesson from our tefillin coaches, then stay for minyan. Make plans to stay for a special breakfast following services. Open to all men and women. Free. No RSVP necessary. Sponsored by the Men's Clubs of B'nai Jeshurun and Shaarey Tikvah.
 

Volunteer at the Cleveland Food Bank with Chesed
 
Contact Karen Nash  to volunteer.  The food bank is located at
15500 S. Waterloo Rd., 44110.
 
Family Night * Thursday, February 11 * 5:30 - 7:30 pm
This is for families with children between the ages of 6 and 12 years.  We will sort and package food and pizza will be provided for all volunteers.  
Ten volunteers are needed.  
 
Adult Night * Wednesday, February 24 * 6:00 - 8:00 pm
(please note original date was Monday, February 22)
Ten volunteers are needed to help sort and pack food. This is open to anyone 13 years and older.

 

Meshuganotes * Shabbat, February 13

Meshuganotes will perform during services as well as after kiddush on February 13. Our member, Miriam Bennett , is a member of the group; she is 
the daughter of Laura & Michael Bennett.   CHALLah capella from Oberlin College will join them for a song or two.
 

Atid is going to Trapped!
Saturday, February 20 at 7:30 pm

Join us at Cleveland's first fully-interactive group gaming experience where players are locked in a room and must use logic and teamwork to find their way out . . . in under 60 minutes.

Atid is receiving a discounted price for this event! $20 per person 
Space is limited, so please respond by February 10. Register here.
 

17th Annual Sheila Radman Balk Cholent Cookoff
Saturday, February 20 * noon
Presented by Men's Club
 
Enjoy a selection of cholents cooked by our teams of chefs. If you'd like to enter the competition, team up with some friends to prepare your own special cholent recipe. You provide the creativity and expertise and we provide the ingredients. Please contact Richard Berkowitz (440-605-1514) or Murray Berkowitz (216-342-4759) by February 11 to enter. 

We need everybody to taste the cholents and pick your favorite! Every year, we have hundreds of people who stay for lunch, so don't miss it! RSVP through the synagogue office or on our website. $10 per person; children under 9 years old are free. If paying by check, please make payable to B'nai Jeshurun Men's Club.

It is also Men's Club Shabbat on February 20. If you would like to participate in the service, please contact either David Cohen or Ed Horowitz.
In This Issue
Men's Club World Wide Wrap
Cleveland Food Bank
Meshuganotes
Atid is going to Trapped!
Men's Club Cholent Cookoff
Straight from our website

Mazel Tov to:

Sheri Gross will join the faculty at Gross Schechter Day School in a newly-created position, Director of Creative Programs, for the 2016-2017 academic year.

Gary Lippe and Norman Millstein on the birth of a grandson and great-grandson, Grant Mitro. Parents are Brooke & Roger Mitro.

Avery Steinberg, Adam Kahn and Jacob Solomon, are advancing to the regional competition of the Power of the Pen contest. They are students at Gross Schechter Day School. They are the sons of SeAnna & Neil Steinberg, Melissa Frankel & Leonard Kahn, and Rayna & Steven Solomon, respectively.
Condolences to:

Sherry (Kenneth) Banchek, Stacey (Ian Owens - fiance) Banchek, Jeremy (Jessica) Banchek and Matthew Banchek & families on the death of their father and grandfather, Myron Eichler.

Arlyne (Howard) Bochnek & family on the death of her father, Harry Kuperman.

Les (Cindy) Keller, Jerome (Sharon) Schmelzer & families on the death of
their father and uncle, Bernard Schmelzer.
Announcements

Ma'ayan Shalom, daughter of Diane Shalom, is now working for Taglit!  Pre-register for May-September 2016 birthright trips using this special link  and she will give your application priority attention. Registration began February 1, 2016. Register now for the trip of a lifetime!  For 18-26 year olds. 

The Jewish Genealogy Society will meet on Sunday, February 7 at 1:30 pm at Fairmount Temple. Speaker will be author, Marlene Englander, whose topic will be "Lost Shtetl Revisited." 

Hebrew Storytime at CCPL Beachwood Wednesday, February 10 at 4 pm with Zehava Galun.

We have another case of someone taking the wrong coat after Shabbat services. Please see if your ladies' black puffy coat is really yours!  If not, we've got it!
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