Happening this Week
June 17 - June 24
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Weekly Meditation Series with Cantor Julie Newman
Tuesday, June 18 ∙ 6:00 - 7:30 p.m
Chapel
Join us for Jewish mindfulness meditation. No prior experience needed. Come as you are, all are welcome! Tuition by voluntary donation.
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Do you have a simcha to share with the congregation? We are looking for your joyful announcements, including recent weddings, new babies, B'nai Mitzvah, and more!
Simply email your announcement with a photo to Director of Communications and Marketing, Stephanie Rex, at rex@rodefshalom.org to get started!
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Support Immigrants: Belt and Shoelace Drive!
Help immigrants who come over the border from Mexico by donating new or gently used shoelaces and belts in the commons area at Rodef Shalom today. When immigrants cross the border, ICE officers confiscate these items, creating the need for your help. Please donate gently used or new belts and shoelaces to be sent to the border to help immigrants and refugees today. Bins are located in the Rodef Shalom commons area! Contact
tucker@rodefshalom.org
for more info.
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Tikkun Chant Circle
Sunday, June 23
10 a.m. ∙ Chapel
This unique spiritual experience is led by composer and chant leader David Goldstein. David uses texts from the Torah and our liturgy, combined with simple, repetitive melodies to dive deeply into a prayerful intention. Drums and the East Indian shruti box heighten the experience.
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NOTICE: Building Hours Changing
Permanently
Beginning Thursday, June 27,
Rodef Shalom will close on Thursdays at 6 p.m.
The building will stay open for Garden Parties on Thursday, July 11 and Thursday, Aug. 8. Beginning Sunday, June 9
the building will close at 6 p.m. on Sundays.
This is a permanent change in our operations.
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The Joint Jewish Education Program (J-JEP) is a collaborative, community-wide supplemental religious school offered by Congregation Beth Shalom and Rodef Shalom Congregation. J-JEP provides K-7 students with religious and Hebrew education programs.
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Gardening Volunteers Needed in the Biblical Botanical Garden this Summer!
Help us maintain the beauty of our facility. Previous gardening experience preferred, but not necessary.
Gardening volunteers will meet Fridays from 10-12. Typical duties include light pruning, dead-heading flowers, weeding, and as the season continues harvesting fruits and veggies, and spreading new/turning over mulch. Contact
nichols@rodefshalom.org to volunteer today!
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The playground will be ready for play soon!
Thanks to everyone who supported the renovation of the playground. Watch for the formal dedication and celebration in September!
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Thanks to everyone who donated to the
Rabbi Sharyn H. Henry Fund for Social Justice.
Anonymous (1) • Barbara Abraham • Barbara and Alan Ackerman • Robert Alexander • Marian and Tom Allen • Kathy Arnheim • Valerie and Paul Bacharach • Nancy and Lester Berkowitz • Dr. Michelle and Rabbi Aaron Bisno • Richard Burkitt •Judith Nesviksy and Jerry Bitner • Joan and Bernard Bloch • Charlotte Bluestone • Erin Barr and Jeff Bonno • Sandie and Bob Brand • Patricia and Miles Braverman • Karen and Richard Brean • Sharon Ryave Brody and Family • Richard Burkitt •Sylvia and Sidney* Busis, Maureen and Jim Busis, and Neil Busis • Joelle Caplan • Marilyn and Bernard Caplan • Sarah Castelli • Margot and Todd Cavalier • Adina and Brian Cohen • Naomi Siegel and Eric Cooper •Teri and Barton Cowan • Marion Damick • Georgia Davidson • Arnold Davis • Debra and William Demchak • Gene Dickman • Margie and Dr. Paul Dubner • Rubinoff-Dunham Family Fund • Caryn Rubinoff and Craig Dunham
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Eads Family • Mary Ellen Elias • Walter Ellman • Susan Sternburg and James Epstein • Phyllis and Philip Feinert • Sharon and Morris Feldman • Sheila and Milton* Fine • Marian Finegold • Lois Finkel • Maxine and Dr. Stephen Fisher • Frederick Frank • Joan Friedberg • Marcia Frumerman • Rabbi Jamie Gibson • Rebecca Gildengers • Sharon and James Goldberg • Goldman Union Camp Institute • Jennifer Burnau and Richard Gordon • Dennis Grinberg • Hanna Gruen • Ina and Larry Gumberg • Beth, Jeff, Ellen and Jason Gusenoff • Lori and Richard Guttman • The Harrison Family • Dan Heit and JusticeWorks YouthCare Inc. • Bryna Helfer •Janice and Richard Henry • Phyllis Henry • Karen Hochberg • Carol Skinger and John Horn • Aislinn Bohren and Alex Imas • Dr. Walter Jacob • Lynne and Blair Jacobson • Jennifer Marin and Jeremy Kahn • David and Susan Friedberg Kalson • Jane and Barry Kart • Goldie and Joel Katz • Mina Kavaler • Barbara Gaines and Richard King, Jr. • Kathy and Cary Klein • Cantor Julie Newman and William Klingensmith • Elliott and Bobbee Slotsky Kramer • Eileen and Nicholas Lane • Symoine Laufe • Carol and Salem Leaman • Marcia Levaur • Frances F. Levin • Anne Lewis • Carol Tobin Lewis • Mimsie Leyton • Susan and Paul Lieber • Sally and Tim Litman • Susan and Richard Loether • Catherine and Mark Loevner • Amy Lowenstein • Bernard Mallinger • Gladys Maharam • Myrna and Mark Mason • Dorenberg and May Families • Ben McFerren • Jane and Dr. Richard Meltzer • Beverly Mermelstein • Rachel and Karl Meyers • Gwen Miller • Cheryl Moore • Pearl Moore • Carol and Richard Nathanson • Roberta Needleman • Marcia and Robert Netzer • Judith Roscow and Stephen Oliphant • Helen Orringer • Barbara and Lester Parker • Amy and Edwynn Platt • Valerie Monaco and Deborah Polk • Anne Molloy and Henry Posner III • Nancy and Bill Rackoff • Theresa Greco and Reid Roberts • Laura and Jason Rock • Sandy and Larry Rosen • Barbara and Bryan Rosenberger • Sabina and Peter Rosenfeld • Sarah and Jonathan Rosenson • Marcia Rosenthal • Nancy and Robert Rosenthal • Drs. Ellen and Loren Roth • Mayda Roth • Richard and Ann Bass Roth • Ruth Rubenstein • Deborah Rubin • Eric Schaffer and Cantor Michele Gray- Schaffer • Nancy Bernstein and Robert Schoen
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Mary Beth and Guy Salama
• Eleanor Schoenberger • Rabbi Burt Schuman • Arline Schwartz • Sally and Lanny Seed • Elizabeth Segel • The Segel Family • Jan and Don Shaw • Nataliya and Grigoriy Shevchenko • Eleanor Siegal • Dottie Silberman • Marjorie Silverman • Paul Silverman and Family • Nancy Tapper Smith • Deborah Moss and Keith Somers • Suzanne Weinthal Somers • John Spear • Carol Spero • Heather and John Spitzer • Bill Stein • Marcia Stewart • Laura and Harlan Stone • Meredith and David Strassburger • Mona and E.J. Strassburger • Rochelle Sufrin • Rowna Sutin • Laura Swiss and Richard Swartz • Shirley Tucker • Pamela Wagoner • Carole and David Wallach • Susan and Benjamin Wechsler • Andrea and Ron Wedner
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Barry Weisband • Sarah and Rick Wertheimer • Robin Wertkin • Michelle Einstoss, James Wilson and Jordan Wilson • Lauren Wolcott • Myrna and Allan Zelenitz • Doreen Zisla
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Every Week at Rodef Shalom
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Monthly Food Drive for the
Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry
Food justice is a significant part of our Social Action efforts! Help feed the needy in our community. Visit our donation station in the Commons area.
Learn about the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry at
www.sqfoodpantry.org.
Women of Rodef Shalom's Bridge Game
Mondays ∙ 12 p.m. ∙ Freehof Hall
Pittsburgh Bridge Association information is available at:
Alcoholics Anonymous
Mondays ∙ 7:00 p.m. ∙ ALC1
All are welcome.
Sewing Workshop Sponsored by Women of Rodef Shalom
Tuesdays ∙ 10 a.m. ∙ Sisterhood Room
Beginners welcome. Contact Nancy Rosenthal: (412) 828-4844.
Bridge Game
Wednesdays ∙ 12 p.m. ∙ Sisterhood Room
Pittsburgh Bridge Association information is available at:
Mahjong
Wednesdays ∙ 1 p.m. ∙ Freehof Hall
Everyone is welcome to this informal game of maj.
Choir Rehearsal
Wednesdays ∙ 7:30 p.m. ∙ Levy Hall
Our singers span several generations and have varying levels of musical experience. Music reading and Hebrew reading are not required. Our choir sings in services once a month and performs in the community a few times a year. For more information, email Molly May at
may@rodefshalom.org
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Afternoon Open Play
Tuesdays ∙ 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. ∙ Family Center
A classroom and the playground will be open for children who are accompanied by an adult to hang out with friends.
Contact
Mimsie
: (412) 621-6566 x127.
Parkinson's Support Group
Wednesdays ∙ 1 p.m. ∙ ALC1
Meets the first Wednesday of each month. Parkinson's Foundation Western Pennsylvania Information is available at:
Yoga sponsored by Women of Rodef Shalom
Fridays ∙ 9:30 - 11 a.m. ∙ Sisterhood Room
All genders are welcome. Cost is $10/class. Bring a mat. Contact Sharon Lesgold: (412) 904-2611.
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Friday, June 21
Shabbat on the Rocks
5:30 p.m. Pre-Service Oneg
6:15 p.m. - Shared musical service with Tree of Life*Or L'Simcha
-Rabbi Sharyn Henry
-Rabbi Jeffrey Myers
-Cantorial Soloist
Molly May
Saturday, June 22
10:30 a.m. Service
-Rabbi Sharyn Henry
-Cantorial Soloist
Molly May
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Although it may not officially be summer yet, the flowers are blooming and the bees are buzzing!
This calls for some seasonal jewelry from the Gift Corner! (Of course you can wear it year-round!)
We have some wonderful new pieces in stock which are sure to thrill even the occasional gardener. And since the Biblical Botanical Garden is now open, you can wear your new jewelry when you tour this year's exhibit.
See you soon at the Gift Corner!
Monday-Friday
11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Sunday
9:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
(during Religious School)
Evenings by appointment.
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JFunds:
A Resource for Your Finances
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JFunds is a network of funding sources available in the Jewish community. Whether you are figuring out how to finance your child’s education, replace your furnace, pay for medical, prescription, or dental expenses, afford next month’s bills, or sending a teen on a trip to Israel, there are people ready to partner with you! Visit
www.JFundsPgh.org
to find out about the many resources available to you.
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Rodef Shalom
Legacy Society
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Thank you to our congregants who created their legacy by including Rodef Shalom Congregation in their will, trust, retirement account, or insurance policy.
Welcome to our newest members in 2019,
Alex Heit and
Harris Blum,
Marla J. Perlman, Marjorie Silverman, Janet* and John Spear, and Ruth C. Yahr.
Anonymous (3) ∙ Betty Abrams* ∙ Barbara and Alan Ackerman ∙ Marcia* and Richard Adelsheim ∙ Lawrence Adler ∙ Bette and Hal* Bigler ∙ Michelle and Aaron Bisno ∙ Karen and Richard Brean ∙ Rosella and Gilbert Broff* ∙ Sylvia and Sidney Busis* ∙ Marion Cohen* ∙ Teri and Barton Cowan ∙ Marcia and Charles* Deaktor ∙ Ruth and Emil Feldman* ∙ Sheila and Milton* Fine ∙ Sylvia Fischer ∙ Frederick Frank ∙ Nachum Golan and Steven Hough ∙ Bette Jean Goldblum* Jack Goldsmith* ∙ Juliette Grauer* ∙ Anna Greenberg* ∙ Sharyn Henry and Dennis Grinberg ∙ David Hammerstein ∙ Jacki and Jeffrey Herzog ∙ Martha and Edwin Horne* ∙ Irene* and Dr. Walter Jacob ∙ Lynne and Blair Jacobson
∙ Evan Klein ∙ Audrey and Robert* Lazar ∙ Francine* and Alan Lefkowitz ∙ Susan Friedberg Kalson and David Kalson ∙ Natalie A. Kaplan ∙ Corrine and Seymoure
Krause* ∙ Amy Langham ∙ Sharon and Alan Lesgold ∙ Marcia Levaur ∙ Edgar Levenson* ∙ Frances and David* Levin ∙ Janet Markel and Barry Lhormer* ∙ Sally and Tim Litman ∙ Lois and Milton Michaels ∙ Norma and Edgar Michaels* ∙ Pauline and Bernard Michaels* ∙ Carol Goldblum Nathenson ∙ Helen Orringer
∙ Lynn and Gerald Ostrow* ∙ Jeffrey Pollock ∙ Shirley and Sidney Rapport* ∙ Richard E. Rauh ∙ Mildred Rogow ∙ Bette and Howard Rom ∙ Sabina and Peter Rosenfeld ∙
Robert Rosenthal ∙
Mayda Roth ∙
Michelle Gray-Schaffer and Eric Schaffer ∙ Dottie Silberman ∙ Richard Simon ∙ William Stein ∙ Karla and Raymond Stept* ∙ Laura and Harlan Stone ∙ Meredith and David Strassburger ∙ Mona and E.J. Strassburger ∙ Barry Weisband ∙ Carole Williams ∙ Ruth Wintner* ∙ Susan and Robert Wolf* ∙ Leatrice and John* Wolf, Sr.
*z"l - "of blessed memory"
To learn more about the Rodef Shalom Legacy Society, contact Mayda Roth at
or at
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