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March 4, 2021
20 Adar, 5781
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Need help scheduling your COVID-19 Vaccination?
An anonymous congregant has generously offered to help you register for your vaccine, especially if you have issues getting your appointment! Please click here and contact us, so we can help you get your shot!
If you want to register on your own for the vaccine through the Community Vaccine Alliance, click here.
Please Register and Get Your COVID-19 Vaccine as soon as possible!
How to Register for The COVID-19 Vaccine:
City of Chicago: The City of Chicago is promoting a national website that will allow people to find and schedule COVID-19 vaccination appointments.
The site, www.zocdoc.com/vaccine, is run by an outside provider and will allow users to find and book appointments from some local vaccination sites including city-run mass vaccination sites and those operated by AMITA Health, Erie Family Health, Innovative Express Care and Rush University Medical Center.
Suburban Cook County Residents: Cook County Department of Public Health, visit their website at vaccine.cookcountyil.gov.
If you do not have access to the internet, call (833) 308-1988.
If you do not have access to the internet, call (847) 377-8130.
Other vaccine locations include CVS, Hatzalah Chicago/Refuah 311, Jewel/Osco, Mariano's, Wal-Mart, Walgreen’s and doctors’ offices. One other resource is Spare Vaccine.
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Reserve your space today for Pesach Minyanim
To daven in person during Pesach this year, please click here to RSVP (required for contact tracing, walk-ins cannot be admitted). We will be in the 550-seat sanctuary, which has plenty of room for social distancing.
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Sunday, March 28
Monday, March 29
Saturday, April 3
Sunday, April 4
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9:30 AM
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
10:45 AM
(Yizkor)
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Chicago Loop Synagogue is forming a Social Group for Millennials only!
Covid-19 has made meeting people harder than ever, so by popular request we’re starting a strictly-social zoom group for Millennials only. This is your chance to get in on the ground floor of a new experience – no agenda, no cost, no cliques, and because it’s by Zoom, you never even have to leave your home. For info, contact Cary at (312) 346-7370 or caryw@chiloopsyn.org.
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Virtual Crain-Maling Foundation Egalitarian Minyan Every Friday night
Next date: Friday, March 5, 2021 at 6:00 PM
We will be meeting on Zoom. For our service, we will be using the Rabbinical Assembly’s free downloadable Sim Shalom service. To download, please click here. Once you register and fill out the form for the Rabbinical Assembly, please pick the “Siddur Lev Shalem: Kabbalat Shabbat and Shabbat Evening Service” for use during our service.
NEXT WEEK – For the social hour after our minyan, we will be delivering food from Mizrahi Grill in Highland Park on Friday, March 12. To check out their menu, click here.
For delivery, check the "Romanian Delivery Fee" on our website. To pay, please click here.
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Shabbat Morning Services
Saturday Morning Services are at 9:30 AM. There will be a strict limit on those who may attend, and masks and social distancing are required.
RSVPs are required. Please click here or call (312) 346-7370.
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Yahrzeits
Click here for yahrzeits being observed in the month of Adar.
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Online Prayer Service Options
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We are pleased to provide you with online prayer service options. To see what is available, click here.
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Vilt ir lernen Yiddish is expanding online!
Weekly Conversational Class every Thursday at 11:00 AM We also offer an Advanced Class at 1:00 PM!
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Have you always wondered about Yiddish? Have you thought of it as a language of the immigrant communities of Maxwell Street on the "Vest Side" or the Lower East Side of New York? You couldn't be more wrong!
Join Chicago Loop Synagogue as we learn Conversational Yiddish with our experienced Yiddish teacher, Gela Altman.
Currently, we offer two courses every week. Our conversation class will meet today at 11:00 AM and our Advanced Class will meet at 1:00 PM. New attendees are always welcome.
To RSVP and get a link to the Zoom class, click here.
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Brunch and Learn with Renan Sugarman
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Sunday, March 7, 2021
11:00 AM
Enjoy your Sunday morning lox, bagel and coffee virtually with Renan Sugarman via Zoom as he goes over the Torah portion of the week and other texts.
Classes will meet every other Sunday at 11 AM.
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This live Zoom concert honors groundbreaking composers giving Jewish feminist voice through song to the women of the Bible. The professional volunteer team of Rabbi Dr. Goldie Milgram, Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael, and Prof. Dr. Sarah Ross, via the non-profit Reclaiming Judaism, focus on documenting this work by creating a Jewish feminist music database, songbook, archive, concert series, workshops on gender-inclusion in Jewish music, and a documentary on the herstory of Jewish feminist music.
Our own Dr. Judith Tellerman will be one of the performers.
During each concert in this series, the composers will also explain their motivation for creating their featured song.
An edited recording will be sent to registrants when it is ready.
Early registration is advised as space is limited. $18 suggested donation.
To explore volunteer and funding opportunities and learn more about this initiative, click here).
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Learn Hebrew and Israeli Music with
Hebrew Language Society
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The Hebrew Language Society is offering mini-sessions via Zoom on Mondays and Thursdays. Please note that new full sessions start every three weeks. Beginner, intermediate and advanced levels are available.
Israeli Music on Sundays at 1:30 PM
Sunday, March 7, 2021
Sunday, March 21, 2021
Join the Hebrew Language Society every other Sunday at 1:30 PM to sing beautiful Israeli songs, experiencing the best of Israeli culture while expanding Hebrew vocabulary and improving language comprehension.
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The Inimitable Talents of Moishe Oysher Hosted by Robert Kieval and Cantor Dr. Joel Gluck of the Cantor’s Assembly
This series focuses on the Golden Age of Hazzanut. The Cantor’s Assembly invites you to hear a wide range of voices old and new, from Moishe Oysher to Leibele Waldman, Louis Danto and more. We even have special sessions planned on the hazzanim of South Africa, Switzerland and the choral traditions of the UK with special guests David Prager and Alex Klein.
The schedule is:
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Sunday, March 7 - 1:00 PM - The Hazzanim of Switzerland
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Sunday, March 14 – 7:00 PM - Hazzanim - A Look at "The Next Generation"
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Sunday, March 21 – 7:00 PM - A Hazzanische Pesach
The CA invites you to sit back and enjoy the beauty and power of our cantorial traditions and listen to entertaining stories and commentary about the great hazzanim of past and present.
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Religion: Cause or Cure for America’s Divides? A Conversation with Eboo Patel with AJC
Monday, March 8, 2021
11:00 AM
Despite waning religious affiliation, faith continues to influence the culture and character of American society. Extremist Christian nationalism has fueled seditious violence, antisemitism, and other forms of hate; even so, religious leaders work to overcome the dangers of tribalism on the left and the right. Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council (MJAC) member Dr. Eboo Patel, the founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core, joins us to discuss how faith communities can champion good and oppose evil, and assure that America’s diversity is not a liability, but rather an asset.
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Join Rabbi Megan GoldMarche of Silverstein Base Hillel and a panel of Gen Z and Millennial community members for a panel and conversation on “Understanding your Millennial /Gen Z children”. This is open to anyone who better wants to understand the 18-30 population, especially their parents! Millennial Panelists include Lily Booker, Sean Cooper, Robin Lieberman and Phil Trachtenberg.
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Tuesday, March 9, 2021
11:00 AM
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We invite you to a discussion with Project Kesher Executive Director Karyn Gershon, Founder Sallie Gratch, and longtime supporter and Chicago Loop Synagogue member Lois Rakov. Karyn, Sallie, and Lois will speak about the next generation of Jewish women leaders in the Project Kesher network. Discussion topics will include leadership training for young activists, the Project Kesher Torah Return Project, and breast health awareness campaigns throughout Russia and Ukraine. Founded in 1989, PK invests in women's leadership training, replicable programming, and technology to promote Jewish life and advance the status of women in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Israel.
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Get your Shabbat meal at Zelda's Catering and help Chicago Loop Synagogue
Call Zelda's at (847) 674-0033 to place your order and say you are with Chicago Loop Synagogue.
If you order online, please select "Chicago Loop Synagogue" on the pull-down menu.
All orders must be placed the day before delivery.
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Thursday, March 11, 2021
11:00 AM
The Druze faith originated in Egypt as an offshoot of Ismaili Shiism in the 10th century. Today, Druze mostly reside in Lebanon, Syria and Israel. Join us for a discussion with 2 prominent members of the Druze community as we explore their unique faith, customs, and relationship to the State of Israel.
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Hitler’s True Believers: How Ordinary People became Nazis with Author Robert Gellately
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Thursday, March 11, 2021
6:30 PM
Why did ordinary citizens choose to follow Hitler? Join Robert Gellately as he delves into how the Nazis obtained and maintained the support of millions of Germans as he discusses his book Hitler’s True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis. Exploring the motivations and rationalizations behind popular support for the Third Reich from Hitler’s rise to power to the culmination of the ‘Final Solution.’
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Do you want your Romanian order delivered to
your home?
We can do that!
Sunday, March 14, 2021
Our own Cary Wolovick is willing to pick up your order from Romanian Kosher Sausage Company and deliver it to you.
Please note that in order to participate, there is a $10 fee. This fee should be paid to Chicago Loop Synagogue by clicking here and selecting Romanian Delivery.
Click here to make arrangements with Cary for pick up and delivery.
Click here to visit Romanian's website. To place your order, call (773) 761-4141.
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Book Club Meeting - The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust by Rafael Medoff
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Monday, March 15, 2021
5:30 PM - Online via Zoom
Zoom link will be provided to those who register.
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The Discussion
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
5:30 PM
Express yourself in “The Discussion,” a lay-led zoom group that will examine an article and critique it. This month’s article will visit COVID-19's impact on the world's faith community. In Tablet Magazine, we will read "How the Zoom Minyan Brought Me Closer to Judaism" by Ivy Eisenberg.
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General attendance or California CLE Credit, please click here.
For Illinois, New York or Washington, D.C. CLE Credit through Decalogue Society, please click here.
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Join Chicago Loop Synagogue's Movie Club!
Are you a huge movie buff? Do you have knowledge about Hollywood that you want to share? Join Chicago Loop Synagogue's Movie Club!
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POST-COVID Chicago Jewish History Tour
There’s more to Jewish history in Chicago than the obvious institutions, and we are planning a post-COVID discovery tour to showcase some of our fascinating heritage. Right now we are looking for an early show of interest, so if you’d like to participate (or help us craft the program), please click here.
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Do you want to play Mahjong?
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Are you a Mahjong fanatic or a newbie who would like to improve your game? No matter how experienced you are, come join our growing group that plays online!
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