June 26, 2025 /23 Sivan 5785 | | |
Included in This Newsletter
Beach Shabbat - 6/27
Vigil for Immigrants - 6/26
Save the Dates
Weekly D'var Torah
New Community Event
New Greenwich Jewish News
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D'var Torah by Rabbi David
Parashat Korah 5785 (2025)
Keeping Up With the Joneses
"Keeping Up with the Joneses" – no, not the 2016 Jon Hamm movie about a suburban couple that managed to get entangled in an international spy plot after suspecting that their new neighbors were secret agents.
I mean something far more important – and far more impactful.
We humans are wired to yearn, even to want what we don't have. There are reasons that the Tenth Commandment urges not to covet. It's when we become jealous when big problems – relational, spiritual, national and global – really get going. Read more...
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Six Alternating Tuesdays started April 15, 2025. The next date is July 8th.
Open only to Shir Ami members and individuals who have learned with Shir Ami previously
Israel evokes inspiration, dismay, pride, anger, blessing, suffering, love and hate. The State of Israel and the Mideast community, including the ongoing crisis in Palestinian life, deeply touch the heart of everyone in and near Jewish life. Yet rarely do we discuss them openly. Too often such matters are avoided like a Third Rail of Jewish life, or suppressed, or relegated to quiet corners.
This community conversation series will explore how the Mideast touches us and our Judaism, through the lenses of Jewish values and important topics in Jewish and Mideast life. We also will explore together how to have open and respectful dialogue about the Middle East with each other…and hopefully others in our lives.
For details about the series, topics and expectations, please read our full blogpost here.
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Soul Spa is open to all.
Our Torah study each Shabbat morning has become a mainstay of our programming. As we examine the parashat each week under Rabbi David's guidance and questioning, our sacred writings become more familiar, the stories clearer, and the teachings more meaningful.
Soul Spa is free for members and non-members alike. You may drop in frequently or infrequently, as you like. Please click here to find the weekly Zoom link and for recordings of previous discussions.
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Shir Ami has been invited to join an interesting screening and program on July 10th at Temple Beth El in Stamford. It ties in nicely with the Mideast Conversations series. If you’d like to attend, please register at the site on the flyer, tinyurl.com/awake6-24 and let Abby Ross aar1@optonline.net know you will be going. She is keeping a list of our attendees for
Temple Beth El.
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June Issue of
Greenwich Jewish News
Please click here to read the digital version. Please see the article on page 15 about our Beach Shabbat Service.
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June Issue of
New Jewish Voice
Please click here to read the latest digital version.
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A Trip That You Might Find Interesting
Anne Frank The Exhibition
Hosted by the Center for Jewish History
15 W. 16th Street, New York, NY
Whether or not you have faced that revolving bookcase and the steep staircase that leads you to the rooms in the annex where Otto Frank hid his family in Amsterdam, you should consider a visit to the replica now on exhibit in New York.
This prefabricated construction was commissioned by The Anne Frank House in June 2024 and shipped in a container. The exhibition opened on January 27th to mark 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz and has been extended to October 31, 2025.
Thousands of photos of The Annex were taken to assist in creating an accurate replica of the space in which the Frank family was confined and where young Anne wrote her diary. The exhibition surrounds you with the story of that dangerous time in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam and the
Frank family’s valiant effort to survive.
Interesting background and ticket purchase available at:
https://www.annefrankexhibit.org/.
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Blessings for a Happy Birthday to our members with June birthdays:
Richard Preng - 6/3
Jay Polansky - 6/14
Rick Mason - 6/15
Gary Meisel - 6/22
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In our weekly Blessing and Simchas, we invite members to offer congratulations on a special event in someone’s life, blessings for healing, or to remember a loved one.
If you make a special donation and would like to share it in the newsletter’s “Blessings and Simchas," let us know by emailing shirami.info@gmail.com with the subject line, "Blessings and Simchas" no later than 9:00 AM on Monday. Be sure to include the wording for how you want the donation and the donor to be recognized, including your name, the occasion and the recipient's name(s).
If you choose to make a donation, you may do so by visiting our website's donation page or by mailing a check to Congregation Shir Ami, 1273 East Putnam Avenue, P.O. Box 312, Riverside, CT 06870-9998.
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We warmly welcome you to join our community at Congregation Shir Ami.
Please visit our Membership Page where you can find:
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Membership Letter - from our Shir Ami Officers
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Membership Form - easy-to-fill out online or print
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Membership Policy - details on dues, benefits and more
Membership allows you special access to:
- practice our faith together and learn from the Torah and each other
- help shape our community
- support Shir Ami's mission
- find inspiration in our diverse offerings of services, classes and events.
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participate in rituals, group trips and member events
- have access to our wonderful clergy for pastoral care and life cycle events
- recognize our loved ones who have passed during our Yizkor service each year
As with most faith-based organizations, membership dues fuel everything we do and account for only 65% of our annual budget. Full dues payments and additional contributions are always appreciated. If an alternate arrangement is needed, please contact Co-Presidents Jackie Marschall at jackiea.broadcast@gmail.com, Fran Pribish at faprib807@gmail.com or Abby Ross at aar1@optonline.net.
If you are interested and would like to know more, please find membership information on our website’s membership page. The easy-to-fill-out form may be completed online and submitted with a button, or can be printed out and sent to our mailing address: Congregation Shir Ami, 1273 E Putnam Ave, PO Box 312, Riverside, CT 06878.
Contact us at shirami.info@gmail.com if you have any questions or would like to speak with an officer or our clergy.
All are welcome to join our community!
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