A joyous community of Jewish women engaged in prayer,
study, and spiritual growth
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Our next service will be Saturday, June 2.
This will be our last service until September.
Reminder - some of our congregants are "scent-sensitive."
Out of consideration, please do not wear perfume to services.
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Join Us for our Last Service of the Year!
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This Saturday's service is our last one before summer.
We have enjoyed ten months of meaningful and inspiring services this year and we look forward to seeing you this Shabbat and sharing our summer plans.
We will begin at 8:15am with a light breakfast and a teaching by Rabbi August on
Kate Bowler's book, "Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I've Loved." We will be exploring the challenging themes in this new nonfiction book by a young woman who has stage IV colon cancer. Through her "irreverent and funny observations on dying, she has learned how to live!" Join the conversation - do you believe everything happens for a reason? Let's examine our reactions to this assertion which is so commonly used to address illness, pain and loss.Our breakfast is sponsored by Marion Klein, who is celebrating her birthday.
Services follow at 9:30am,
led by Rabbi August and Cantorial Soloist Cindy Paley. Readings are from the book of Numbers.
Please stay for a delicious kiddush lunch co-sponsored by outgoing presidents Barbara Brown and Janis Cohen, honoring and thanking the 2017-18 Lev Board for all they do to support our mission:
Lev Eisha is a joyous community of Jewish women engaged in prayer, study, and spiritual growth.
Kiddush is also sponsored by Rabbi August, in honor of our fabulous outgoing co-presidents, Barb and Janis.
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We very much appreciate those Lev Eisha sisters who make it possible to cater our breakfasts and monthly Kiddush luncheons. Now is the time to get your reservations in for kiddush sponsorships for next year. Our September service is a great time to celebrate summer birthdays, anniversaries and other simchas, in addition to those events occurring in September.
Contact our catering chairperson, Lynn Beliak at
catering@leveisha.org
and send in your payment
BEFORE the 20th of the month prior to the month you wish to sponsor
. You can mail a check to us at
10736 Jefferson Blvd. #706, Culver City, CA 90230
or pay online
HERE.
Forms are available on
the Lev table in the foyer, or on the upstairs
kiddush tables. Lynn hopes to hear from you soon.
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- Susan Sperling and Matthew Sofer, in honor of Susie Yuré.
- Miriam Stein, for the yahrzeit of her father, Morris Stein.
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A Message from Our Outgoing Presidents
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As we end our final terms as co-presidents, we want to take this opportunity to thank our amazing Board of Directors for their hard work, dedication, talent, and caring. It has been a privilege and an honor to work side by side with these wonderful women. We honor them today and we look forward to the future of Lev Eisha as Carolyn becomes our next president.
B’shalom,
Janis and Barbara
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Leslie Geffen in front of weaver's shop in Marrekesh, Morocco.
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June Gloom? By Rabbi August
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What is it about the month of June? Sitting at my desk looking at the overcast sky which probably won't clear up until 2pm, June mornings are often cold and gloomy. This of course can affect our moods as we begin our days. I know that I have more joy and optimism when I wake up to a day of sunshine, in contrast to the grey morning I am experiencing now.
The month of June: on the one hand we are excited, anticipating summer and vacation time. Even without time away, for many people work slows down during the next few months.
On the other hand, with graduations and end of school years or for rabbis, the end of our 'fiscal' year, there is a sense of sadness and it is bittersweet saying goodbye to friends and families we might not see again.
I wrote a column ten years ago on "June Gloom" when my daughter was graduating from high school. Here is what I observed:
"As a parent of a high school senior, June is graduation
and a closing of an era. College starts a new chapter of autonomy and independence and we begin a new relationship with our teenagers. June is often a challenging time of testing and refining this emerging relationship."
To get a sense of how to cope with June and its conflicting messages of anticipation of change and loss because of change, I want to share some thoughts written by Rabbi Wolpe about an inspiring essay by Rabbi Milton Steinberg called "To Hold with Open Arms."
Steinberg describes emerging from the hospital after a long illness. Everything he sees touches him deeply: sunshine, the people striding along the street. He thinks how precious it all is and how careless we are about it most of our days.
Yet preciousness is only half the truth. The other half is that moments of preciousness slip away. We cannot feel unbounded gratitude all the time, Steinberg says. "We must hold the world close, but know it cannot last."
How do we cling and still let go, he asks? The paradox is reconciled with God.
Steinberg writes that "everything is more precious, but none of it is ultimately ours. Only with God, can we hold life at once infinitely precious and yet as a thing lightly to be surrendered. We learn to
"clasp the world, but with relaxed hands;
to embrace it, but with open arms."
This is how we can relate to the month of June. We are profoundly grateful for our Lev Eisha community. Our uplifting and inspiring services touch our hearts and souls.
I am grateful for our outgoing presidents Janis Cohen and Barbara Brown, and to Carolyn Wispe Burns who has agreed to be our new president next year. I want to thank all our Board members, whose time and efforts allow Lev Eisha to continue into our 19th year! We have completed our CHAI year and I pray we can continue to flourish and offer healing and joy for years to come.
May we continue to hold on, but with open arms. We assert, affirm and acknowledge the paradox, during the sunny/gloomy month of June.
L'Shalom
Rabbi August
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2018-19 CALENDAR
Lev Eisha services will be held the first Saturday of each month, Sept.-June, as usual. A full calendar with breakfast teachings will be published in our mid-summer Newsletter.
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Shop on Amazon and Support Lev Eisha!
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AmazonSmile is a website operated by Amazon with the same products, prices, and shopping features as
Amazon.com
. You use the same account on Amazon.com and AmazonSmile. Your shopping cart, Wish List, wedding or baby registry, and other account settings are also the same. The difference is that when you shop on AmazonSmile, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible products to the charitable organization of your choice.
AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support Lev every time you shop, at no cost to you.
To sign up, visit
https://smile.amazon.com/
. You will be prompted to select Lev Eisha from a list of eligible organizations. Amazon will remember your selection, and then every eligible purchase you make at
AmazonSmile
will result in a donation. You only have to sign up once.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
to the following friends
who are celebrating June birthdays:
Gail Barton
Cecile Benson
Janis Biederman
Janis Cohen
Melanie Gutterman
Marion Klein
Joy Krauthammer
Shirley Lowy
Judy Rosenzweig
Phyllis Shear
Do you have a June
birthday and we didn't acknowledge it? Please send us your birth month and we will be glad to wish you a Happy Birthday!
Birthdays, weddings, graduations, Bat or Bar Mitzvot, births, special awards/honors, and exotic vacations are some of the simchas that are fun to share with our community.
This is also the place to ask our community to join you in prayers of healing for those who are ill or in memory of those who have passed away.
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2018-2019 Board of Directors
Welcome to our incoming president, Carolyn Wispe Burns!
President: Carolyn Wispe Burns
Treasurer: Ruth Grossman
Secretary: Wendy Aleman
Membership: Robin Winston
Catering: Lynn Beliak
Ritual: Judy Fishman
Hospitality: Joan Spiegel
Newsletter: Rose Ziff
Outreach: Gail Heim
Women's Retreat: Linda Zweig
Past Presidents: Barbara Brown, Janis Cohen, Susie Yuré
Advisory Council
Rachelle Neshkes
Holly Zucker
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Lev Eisha Shabbat Services are held at Beth Shir Shalom
1827 California Ave. Santa Monica, 90403
Directions:
To Beth Shir Shalom
Take the 405 Fwy North or South to the 10 Fwy Westbound.
Exit the 10 Fwy at Cloverfield/26th Street
Turn right onto Cloverfield.
Turn left at Colorado.
Turn right onto 20th Street. Continue straight, past Wilshire, one block, to California.
Turn left onto California Avenue. Go 1-1/2 blocks. Beth Shir Shalom will be on the right.
To parking lot
Follow above directions to get to 20th Street and turn right.
Turn right at Wilshire.
Parking lot will be on the right behind the V Lounge, across the street from the Veggie Grill. (See map below)
LOOK FOR THE PURPLE BALLOONS!
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