Jewish Community Center of Long Beach Island E-Letter
October 16, 2020
28 Tishri 5781
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It is commanded that on Sukkot and Simchat Torah we be joyful. And joyful we were! We had a wonderful response to each and every Service.
We danced, we sang, we laughed - virtually of course. Below you will see some of Ushpizin, special guests, who joined us for the holiday.
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Harry Belefonte & Danny Kaye singing
Hava Nagila
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Rabbi and Sheri roll back the Torah on Simchat Torah. |
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A MESSAGE FROM THE RABBI....
And so the story begins again. Creation and re-creation. A world imagined and re-imagined. The story of how God began making the world is not the story of creating something from nothing. Instead, if you read the Text closely, as God began, something already existed. We are told that the earth was “unformed and void” and that a wind from God was sweeping over the water. Thus, the Text tells us that at the very least earth and water were already present as the creation began.
If something already existed, then the story is not so much about “creation” as it is about “change”. Throughout the story there are transformations and alterations. Light is added. Heaven and earth and water are separated. Vegetation is added. Swarming things are added. Animals and man are added. It is change upon, change, upon change. Man is placed in the garden and man is removed from the garden. And the change does not end in Parashat Bereishit.
Indeed, at its core, the Torah is a book about change, upon change, upon change. To be certain it is managed modification, but it is change nonetheless.
This year we have needed to change. We have needed to create. What a job we have done. We could have left the world in chaos. Instead, we followed God’s example and made order out of the chaos and created something of beauty. To the entire JCC community, to the Executive Board, to the Board, to the committees, to the Cantor, to the Rebbetzin, to the volunteers, to the entire office staff, to everyone who joined us for services and our various programs……KOL HA-KAVOD! To each of you goes the honor. I am in awe of all that you have accomplished. I think the Yiddish word is “Wow!”.
We looked around us to see what could be changed and then, like God, in Whose image we were created, we took the steps to facilitate those changes. And there was light.
Shabbat shalom – Rabbi Michael S. Jay
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THE WEEK THAT WAS....
Thank you to all those who shopped at Boscov''s to benefit the JCC of LBI and to those who purchased items during Amazon Days. The program with Amazon Smile still continues.
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Great time with Steve of Text Breakers on Trivia Nite. Hope more of you will join us when we do it again. Thank you to the Chaverah Group for plannng this event.
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Torah Study with Rabbi Jay every Thursday at 11:00 AM. Here is the link to join.
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WAX MEETINGS
At this time we have two meetings scheduled.
Monday, October 26, 2020, at 7:30 PM
(Maariv services will begin at 7:00 PM that evening). The link is the same as the service and we will send it out prior to the meeting.
That evening, our program is called "Women in Business". We will be hearing from these 3 entrepreneurs who will tell us about their experience in starting and maintaining a business in all types of economies. The women who will be speaking are:
Marla Wink - Indian Summer
Marisa Denker - Connect the Dots
Cricket Luker - Wildflowers
November 15, 2020 - 1:00 PM
Save the Date - Plans made, waiting for confirmation.
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Candle Lighting Time
Friday evening,
October 16, 2020
5:57 PM
(So. Ocean County NJ)
JOIN US FOR SERVICES
ON ZOOM
Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
Friday evening
October 16, 2020
6:00 PM
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to
Join Zoom Services
TORAH STUDY
RESUMES AGAIN AT 9:00 AM
Use the link below
for Shabbat
There is no obligation to stay for services.
Saturday morning
October 17, 2020
10:00 AM
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to
Join Zoom Services
Torah Portion
Parashat Bereshit
Genesis 1:1-6:8
Here is the Parshah
Haftorah
Samuel 20:18 - 20:42
Here is the Haftorah:
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HAVDALLAH
Saturday, October 17
at 7:00 PM
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to
Join Zoom Services
Sunday - Thursday
Ma'ariv Service
7:30 PM
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to
Join Zoom Services:
Sunday - Friday
Shacharit Service
8:15 AM
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to
Join Zoom Services:
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.JCC WOMENS AUXILIARY: BOOK GROUP DISCUSSION
THE 3RD WEDNESDAY, AT 4:00 PM
Rashi's Daughters (3 book series) by
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In this novel, the year is 1068, and Rashi, a Jewish scholar is secretly teaching Talmud to his daughters. The oldest daughter, Joheved, has a passion for learning, but must keep it a secret in the medieval Jewish world. This story is based on the lives of real people.
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The second novel in a dramatic trilogy set in eleventh-century France about the lives and loves of three daughters of the great Talmud scholar
Rashi’s middle daughter, Miriam, is determined to bring new life safely into the Troyes Jewish community and becomes a midwife. As devoted as she is to her chosen path, she cannot foresee the ways in which she will be tested and how heavily she will need to rely on her faith. With Rashi's Daughters, author Maggie Anton brings the Talmud and eleventh-century France to vivid life and poignantly captures the struggles and triumphs of strong Jewish women.
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Wednesday, Jan. 20 at 4:00 PM
The dramatic final book in the epic historical trilogy about the lives and loves of the three daughters of the great Talmud scholar Rashi
Rachel is the youngest and most beautiful daughter of medieval Jewish scholar Salomon ben Isaac, or "Rashi." Her father's favorite and adored by her new husband, Eliezer, Rachel's life looks to be one of peaceful scholarship, laughter, and love. But events beyond her control will soon threaten everything she holds dear. Marauders of the First Crusade massacre nearly the entire Jewish population of Germany, and her beloved father suffers a stroke. Eliezer wants their family to move to the safety of Spain, but Rachel is determined to stay in France and help her family save the Troyes yeshiva, the only remnant of the great centers of Jewish learning in Europe.
ORDER YOUR BOOK NOW AND START READING TODAY!
Click here to purchase all 3 books in the series on Amazon. Click here to go to the Ocean County Library. A zoom link will be sent shortly before the event.
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H. Ocean County’s Jewish Virtual University!
As part of our efforts to connect members of the Jewish community with each other and with great Jewish opportunities, The Ocean County Jewish Federation is pleased to present this array of interesting, exciting, and meaningful learning opportunities from great Rabbis in our community, as well as some phenomenal educational resources from Israel.
Take a class, get connected, and support our Jewish community!
Here is the link for list of classes and to register.
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Rabbi Jay will be teaching a course entitled "Jewish Values in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict". Explore different attitudes towards the conflict through a study of Jewish narratives about Israel and the unpacking of the complex meanings of peace in Jewish tradition.
6 Tuesdays starting Nov. 10 at 8 PM.
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Clara P. Kahn
Harold Leon Levy*
Irene Pepis
Robert Williams
Florence Brounstein
Thelma Butler
Goldie Gorelick*
Goldie Perlman*
Morris Saden
Ronald Dalin
Ellen Rosen Field
Ralph Konwiser
Joseph Rosenthal
Eric M. Kahn
Fanny Margent
Lorraine Baratt
Molly Fingerman
Francis August
Herbert Davis
Jane Hochberger
Ruth Maginsky
Will Roth
Albert Stuhl
Max Weinstein
Sylvia Greene
Rabbi Samuel Nunberg*
Shirley Rogers
Rose Rosenbaum
Paul Tanenbaum
IF YOU HAVE A YARZEIT AND WANT TO SAY KADISH, JOIN THE RABBI FOR SERVICES SUNDAY - FRIDAY MORNING AT 8:15 to 8:45 AND EVENINGS SUNDAY - THURSDAY AT 7:30 to 7:45. HERE ARE THE LINKS.
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CORRECTION
Quincy Bee is the
GREATgrandchild of
SOL KARPEN & BOBBIE KAPLAN
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Dana Newborn
October 20
Diane Tucker
October 21
Samuel Halperin
October 22
Carol Hartman
October 22
Alan Turtz
October 22
Rima Demby
October 23
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RIMA AND ROGER ROSENSTEIN
on the marriage of their daughter
Aliza Rosenstein to Owen Coursin
September 12, 2020.
SEE BELOW BOTH BRIDE AND GROOM ARE BREAKING THE GLASS
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JO ANNE & PHILLIP (FLIP)
GLASS
on the Bar Mitzvah of their grandson
Jonah Devin Glass
son of Jonathan Glass and Elissa Germaine
Held in Pleasantville, NY
RABBI PAULA MACK DRILL & JOHN DRILL
on the birth of their grandson
Carmel Louis
to Sarah & Sagi Fainshtein
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GIVING OPPORTUNITIES
PAVERS
Inscribe a paver at the front entrance to the building
8" X 4", 8" X 8" and 12" X 12"
SEE UPDATED ORDER FORM:
Become a permanent part of the JCC landscape.
Purchase a personalized paving stone
in honor of your family or in memory of a loved one.
Please contact Diane Hoffman
with your order or with any questions:
PRAYER BOOKS
There are still High Holiday Prayer Books and Chumashim available to be purchased in memory or honor of someone or something. The cost of a Prayer Book is $72 each and $120 for an Eitz Hayim Chumash. The donation includes an affirmation sticker in the book and an acknowledgement letter or letters.
TRIBUTES
SEND ONE OF OUR TRIBUTES IN HONOR OR IN MEMORY OF
TREE OF LIFE
Add a leaf (leaves) to our beautiful Tree of Life located in the Social Hall. See the order form here: TREE OF LIFE
Bronze Leaf $90
Silver Leaf $126
Gold :Leaf $180
ENDOWMENT FUND
Join Herb and Selma Shapiro z'l to help assure the continuity of our JCC, and our ability to continue providing a full- congregation to serve the Jewish people of the area. Judith z"l & Donald Pripstein have joined the Shapiros with a $50,000 donation and have established The Pripstein Family Endowment Fund.
A donation of at least $50,000 to the endowment fund will allow the donor to name one of the funds as the donor wishes. All such name funds will be joined together to be part of the endowment fund portfolio.
All members are encouraged to help this important effort by contributing to this fund whether as a specific named fund, or as a general donation. Your gift to the fund can be sent to the JCC Office. Please mark your check accordingly.
YAHRZEIT PLAQUES
Space is available for memorial plaques on the yahrzeit boards in the Sanctuary.
Here is the order form:
KOL HAKAVOD
Please consider being a part of this campaign to supplement the clergy needs of our congregation. This is a separate, voluntary commitment and is additional to our low annual dues obligation. HERE IS THE LINK TO BRING UP THE DONATION FORM KOL HAKAVOD
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JCC FUNDS
Your gift to the JCC support our Clergy, our Congregation and the Community.
ENDOWMENT FUND
This fund was established to assure the continuity of our JCC, and our ability to continue providing a full-service congregation to serve the Jewish people of the area. While a donation of any amount is encouraged, a donation of at least $50,000 allows the donor to name a special or specific Endowment Fund in memory or honor of a specific person event, or family.
GENERAL FUND
Donations to this fund are not earmarked but placed in the general administrative account. Donations to this fund can be in honor or memory of a person, event, or family.
KOL HAKAVOD FUND
Donations to this campaign supplement the clergy needs of our congregation.
RABBI’S DISCRETIONARY FUND
This fund, managed by the rabbi, allows donors to enable the rabbi to do the work of tzedakah in response to the needs of individuals, organizations and the community.
ZENA & JERRY JAY KIDDISH FUND
The Zena and Jerry Jay Kiddush Fund was established in memory of Rabbi Jay's parents to help provide funds for our Saturday morning kiddushes.
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PLEASE LET THE OFFICE KNOW YOUR "WINTER" MAILING ADDRESS.
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THE JCC OF LBI IS LOCATED AT
2411 Long Beach Boulevard (24th Street)
Spray Beach, NJ 08008
Telephone: 609-492-4090 FAX: 609-492-7550
THE OFFICE IS TEMPORARILY CLOSED.
PLEASE USE THE PHONE OR EMAIL WITH REQUESTS.
OUR OFFICE STAFF WILL BE CHECKING IN REGULARLY.
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Staff:
Leslie Dinkfelt, Office Manager
Mary Beth Krieger, Staff Member
Tony DeGregorio, Custodial Staff
Kitchen Manager: Susan Berube
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LATEST
BULLETIN:
PRAYER BOOK:
WEB SITE:
PAVERS:
TREE OF LIFE
YAHRZEIT PLAQUE FORM:
KOL HAKAVOD DONATION FORM
KOL HAKAVOD
TRIBUTES:
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Rabbi Michael S. Jay
Michael Babst, President
E-mail Editor: Rose Valentine
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