Parshat Eikev
July 30-31 | 22 Av 5781
Masks are now required for everyone, regardless of vaccination status, to enter the building. Those who are fully vaccinated (ONLY!) are invited to join us for kiddush and seudah shlishit. Please note that children under 12 are not permitted to attend, but you are welcome to take food to go for them. As a reminder, if you have not yet been vaccinated, please do so as soon as possible.
SPONSORSHIP DONATIONS
  • A donation to the Kiddush Fund has been made by the Breitbart and Feldman families in honor of Elly Feldman's Bat Mitzvah.
  • Seudah Shlishit is sponsored by Sharon & Nick Merkin in honor of the BDJ community.
To sponsor in honor of a Simcha or Yahrzeit, click here.
BROADCASTS
  • Mazal Tov: To Elly Feldman, her parents Andrea & Michael, and her sister Etta on Elly's Bat Mitzvah this Shabbat!
  • Mazal Tov: To Michelle & Daniel Stone and siblings Abby and Jacob on the birth of a baby girl! Join the Meal Train to take them a meal!
  • Welcome: To New Members Andrea Medina & Jeremy Halpern!
  • Welcome: To New Member Brenda Robin!
  • Membership Forms have been sent via email. Please send in your membership renewal and high holiday seat requests by August 1st. If you have any questions, please be in touch with Adynna at director@bnaidavid.com
  • Yoetzet Halacha Dr. Jordana Topp will be serving the broader LA community beginning Aug. 1st. Meet her Aug. 28th! Contact her: (700) 900-3509 & yoetzetla@gmail.com
  • BDJ is hiring! Please pay special attention to our open Teen Minyan Director position. If you have any recommendations, please be in touch asap.
THIS SHABBAT
  • Friday Night Candlelighting: 7:38 PM
  • Friday Night Davening Location Changed - Mincha & Kabbalat Shabbat: 7:00 PM at the Kanefsky/Abrams Backyard (1537 Durango Ave.)

  • 8:25 Minyan in the Beit Midrash. Post-Davening Learning with Benji Nachimson.
  • Rechov Yeladim: 9:00 AM in the Upstairs Classrooms (until 11:45 am)
  • Shacharit: 9:15 AM in the Sanctuary
  • Torat Chayyim: Approximately 11:00 AM in the Beit Midrash with Rav Yosef - Not By Bread Alone: Observing Halacha with Celiac Disease
  • Nosh n' Drosh: 5:00 PM--see below for more details
  • Mincha/Maariv: 7:25 PM in the Sanctuary
  • Seudah Shlishit in the Beit Midrash for those fully vaccinated
  • Nothing But the Pshat with Rabbi Aaron Finkelstein
  • Havdalah: 8:37 PM
Nosh n' Drosh
Building Bridges: Teens and Parents from Black Churches and an Orthodox Shul
The Naftalin-Nelson Home 1538 S. Canfield Ave | Childcare On-Site
Shabbat, July 31, 5:00 PM

Join the discussion as Black and Jewish parents and teens share their experiences as participants in two dynamic programs over the past year. Parents of teens and young children from BDJ and Faithful Central Bible Church (FCBC) in Inglewood came together in a series of discussion groups, led by Rabbanit Alissa and Pastor Kasey. On a separate track, teens from BDJ and First AME Church participated in a series of meetings to speak frankly and transparently about their experiences of stereotyping and prejudice, under the professional facilitation of Dr. Claudia Shields, Associate Professor at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

See a testimonial here!
THIS WEEK
Weekday Minyanim
- Mincha/Maariv will be at 7:35 pm this week
Classes
- Midrash Group w/ Rav Yosef; Tuesday at 7:45 AM; Zoom and in person
Tikkun Olam: Giving Spirit and BDJ
August 5th-10th
Contact: Albie Cohen acohen@loeb.com

Many of us have many fond and meaningful memories of packing (and delivering) survival kits for the homeless, through our annual partnership with The Giving Spirit. While the pandemic forced The Giving Spirit to suspend much of its operation, they have just invited us to volunteer with them in August (5th-10th), in a setting that will be created with health concerns very much in mind. Volunteers will be packing kits specifically designed for women and girls, who represent the fastest growing and most vulnerable segment of homelessness. There are two shifts per day from August 5th to August 10th, with each shift lasting 2-3 hours, but volunteers are welcome to stay longer. Full details are here. Please take advantage!!!
UPCOMING NOSH N' DROSH
Shabbat, August 14 - How in the world did Covid-Halacha work?? Part Two - You Can (or Can’t) Do That Over Zoom?!?
Location: The Weinreb Home, 1735 S. Canfield Ave
Childcare: The Adatto Home, 1751 S. Canfield Ave
RECORDING OUR COVID-YEAR REFLECTIONS
What We’ve Learned:
As We Ever-So-Slowly (and Unevenly) Emerge From Covid
 
Even as we’re realizing that we’re not yet “Post-Covid” unfortunately, we already know that we have each learned important things over the past year and a half–things about life, love, and what's really important. Every one of us is invited to contribute to a compendium of thoughts that we are compiling to be called: What We’ve Learned: Looking Back at the Unforgettable Years of 5780 and ‘81.

Some have referenced these prompts to reflect on their experiences:

  1. What are some things you have realized you cannot live without?
  2. What are some things you have realized are not actually necessary?
  3. What has “community” come to mean, both in terms of who your community is and how community functions?
  4. What are the new, creative ways you have built and maintained friendships?
  5. How has your connection to or feelings about family changed?
  6. What’s something you have done that you probably would never have done otherwise?
  7. What kind of person do you hope to be “after”?
  8. What have you gained? What have you lost?
  9. What is a change that you will try to hold onto? Why?
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
  • Jewish Family Service LA is seeking pantry volunteers for Thursdays from 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM at Pico and Robertson. Email Joyce Williams: JMWilliams@jfsla.org
  • Oil Drilling Site - Notice of Public Hearing Aug. 18, 2021 after 4:30 PM.
  • Call in: (213) 338-8477 or (669) 900-9128, mtg ID 85903275934.
  • Zoom Link, mtg ID 85903275934, Passcode 585081.
MISHEBERACH LIST
Esther bat Devorah Bella (Mayer Schames' mother) * Emanuel ben Hinda (Mr. Sassover) * Bella Rivka bat Rosa (Aharon Shimoni's sister) * Shulamit bat Ruchel Sheina (Selma Framson) * Michael ben Malka (Max Wozniak) * Chaya bat Bela (Mayer Bick's mother) * Tziporah bat Tova (Mrs. Sassover) * Chayim Menashe ben Fruma (Manny Klein) * Chava bat Helen (Eva Magid) * Masha Hinda bat Malke Roisa * Tova Chaya bat Leah Malkah * Hersh Yaakov ben Chaya Leah (David Stein's father) * Saureet bat Yehudit (Saureet Hayill) * Nechama Bracha Bat Yechiela * Moshe ben Shoshana (Martine Porter Zasada's uncle) * Yehezkel ben Kaila (Fred Toczek's father) * Mordechai David ben Margalit (Zev Hurwitz' father) * Sarah Golda bat Fradyl (Rav Yosef's mother) * Shlomo haCohen ben Rachel * Shalom David Ben Feigel (father of Boaz Hepner's friend) * Yair ben Bella Rivka (Sheryl Shimoni's nephew) * Aharon Avram ben Adina (Aron Wolf) * Esther bat Liba (Jill Lefferman's mother) * G'dalyah Reuven ben Bracha (Gary Linder) * Miriam Yosefet bat Leah Malka (Tobi Inlender's sister) * Masha Libi bat Shulamit (Sheryl Shimoni's sister) * Laurie Higashi * Shoshana Raizel bat Chaya (friend of Miriam Katz) * Leah Rivka bat Ada * Shulamit bat Miriam * Avraham Yitzchak ben Devorah * Yoseph Ben Gittel Pessel * Bracha Merel bat Rivka (Bernice Epstein) * Baruch ben Sara (Rabbanit Alissa's father) * Ida bat Raya * Lev Binyamin ben Masha Libba * Rivka Chanah bat Tziporah (Ariella Moss' mother) * James Schnellbacher (Debra Smith’s grandfather) * Zechariah Ben HaRav veHeChazan Tehillah (R. Alissa's brother) * Yitzchak Shlomo ben Mirel Devorah (Chaim Plotzker’s son) * Amichai Yehoshua ben Leah Feigele (Ami Korn) * Leah Chaya bat Basha * Wolf Isaac ben Nediva * Shana bat Chia (Jillian Isaacs) * Sarah Freida bat Raizel (Rachel Olshin's mom) * Illana bat Elke (Heather Thau's mother) * Gilad Tal (Julie Sugar's cousin) * Baila Malka bat Ada Etti (Ze'ev Korn's mother) * Farah bat Mozelle Tobe (Brenda Robin's mother)