Jewish Community Center of Long Beach Island E-Letter
August 14, 2020
24 Av 5780
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ZOOM CLASSES NEXT THIS WEEK
We are taking a little vacation from the Tuesday and Wednesday classes. They will resume on the first day of Elul (8/21) in preparation for the holidays. Look for details soon.
Family Dynamics in Chumash Class (The Joseph Story)
Monday, 8/17 @ 10:00 AM Click on
Weekly Torah Study - Pirkei Avot
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NEXT WEEK'S SPECIAL
ZOOM
EVENTS
Sunday
August 16, 2020
6:00 PM
MAGIC SHOW
$18 per hook-up
Your Zoom password will be
sent to your prior to the show.
JAX BOOK DISCUSSION
Monday
August 17, 2020
12 Noon
"THE ONLY WOMAN IN THE ROOM"
BY MARIE BENEDICT
An Interactive Zoom Experience
led by Sheri Jay Horowitx
Here is the link to join the discussion
TO SEE THE
COMPLETE LIST OF SUMMER EVENTS
CLICK HERE:
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The High Holidays are just 5 weeks away!!!!
Our High Holiday Information Booklet is available on our website for members and friends. It includes an introductory letter, dates and times of services, ticket information and an order form. See the web site for all the information: HIGH HOLIDAYS
Each Tuesday we will be sending out an update on our plans leading up to the Days of Awe as well as instruction on how to navigate Zoom and Streaming. Our first issue, which was just sent out, includes information on how you can order a prayer book (Mahzor) . If you missed Issue 1, here it is: HH UPDATE
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The Month of Elul starts next Friday. It begins the countdown to the High Holy Days. The Rabbis envisioned that the month of Elul would be used to prepare for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Because the pandemic has shifted us out of our normal routines, this year, preparation is more important than ever.
The above having been said, I am very excited about our plans for High Holy Day services. Zoom gives us an ability to be intimate in a unique way. Each of you will have a front row seat to the service. There will be an opportunity for interaction that cannot be provided during a “normal” service. I am certain that you will love Cantor Geller.
Because services will be virtual, they will be different from what we have experienced in the past. This is why I am providing programming designed to help all of us get ready for this year’s holidays.
Starting next Friday morning, the first of Elul, we will be having a daily morning service. At the end of every morning service we will be blowing the Shofar. It is a mitzvah to hear the Shofar whenever it is blown.
I will also have classes designed to help us become familiar with the themes of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. We will also take a look at specific prayers and poems that are contained in the services.
I will be providing a daily word designed to help us to think about the issues that confront us as we consider making positive changes for the year to come.
Be sure to look for future emails from me outlining the next month in more detail!
For starters, take a look at “This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared”, by Rabbi Alan Lew. Rabbi Lew outlines the issues presented by the Holy Days in a way that is both understandable and motivating. You can get a hard copy or you can get it for your kindle. I will have a number of classes that will focus on this book.
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It is my hope that by the time you join Cantor Sara Geller and me for our High Holy Days Zoom services, we will all feel prepared to use the Holy Days to strip away any negativity from 5780 and create a positive beginning to 5781.
As always, I am continually available by email, text, phone, or Zoom, to discuss your thoughts and ideas.
Shabbat Shalom – Rabbi Michael S. Jay
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WOMEN'S AUXILIARY
"THE WAX'
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Start the New Year with some delicious honey. Buy some for yourself and give them as gifts to family and friends. Price has increased to $18.00. Click here: FLYER for the full-size flyer. For more information contact
Diane Buskirk at 856-952-5940
diane.buskirk@yahoo.com or
Suzy Geier at 703-629-8654 or
Mystic Meat and Seafood in Ship Bottom will give the Women's Auxiliary at 5% donation on any individual orders. Orders can be placed with Renee and Phil. Let them know this order is to be recorded in the donation book for the JCC of LBI. Orders are curbside pick up only. Make your request over the phone with a credit card: 609-324-1194.
For more information, visit their web site: MYSTIC
HERE IS THE WAX'S FIRST NEWSLETTER:
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SUSAN (SHAPIRO) & FRIENDS SUMMER SERIES
Our inaugural program of Susan & Friends Summer Series brought the delightful Jamie Brenner to LBI via Zoom. Jamie novels are always set in a beach community. We hope she will chose LBI for one of her future stories.
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Our second program of the series featured veteran
journalist, Leslie Bennetts, who gave us quite an insight into the life of Joan Rivers.
If you haven't read her book, put it on your list:
"Last Girl Before the Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses, and Liberation of Joan Rivers." .
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OUR FINAL PROGRAM IN THE SERIES
Thursday, August 27 @7:45 PM
Zoom interview by Susan Shapiro
of Sally Koslow,
author of "Another Side of Paradise"
an unforgettable portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham, a remarkable couple steeped in all the glamour, romance, and intrigue of old Hollywood.
HERE IS THE LINK TO JOIN THE DISCUSSION
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THE WEEK THAT WAS......
Our first Zoom Annual Meeting was well attended.
Various chairpersons gave their reports and there was a feeling that we are doing well in spite of the pandemic. A recording of the meeting will be made available on the web site shortly.
Thursday night was quite a treat as long time JCC member and local developer, Herb Shapiro, took us with him on his journey from Elizabeth to LBI. It was a very special evening.
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SHABBAT SHALOM
Candle Lighting Time
Friday evening,
August 14, 2020
7:37 PM
(So. Ocean County NJ)
JOIN US FOR INTERNET
SERVICES
Friday evening,
August 14, 2020
6:00 PM
MEET OUR
HIGH HOLIDAY
HAZZAN
SARA GELLER
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to
Join Zoom Services
Saturday Morning
Service
Saturday,
August 15, 2020
10:00 AM - 12:00 NOON
Rabbi Jay will be conducting services from the sanctuary
this Saturday morning.
We hope to be both live streaming along with Zoom
To view the service go to the JCC website:
1. Go to website
2. Go across top to Religious Community
3. Go to Live Streaming in the pull down menu
4. Hit the play arrow on the screen to get into the live streaming for Shabbat Services starting
at 10:00 am
ZOOM LINK:
Aaron Lombardi will be reading Torah this week.
Torah Portion
Parashat Re'eh
Deuteronomy 11:26 - 16:17
Here is the portion:
Haftorah
Isaiah 54:11 - 55:5
Here is the Haftorah:
Saturday,
August 15, 2020
9:00 PM
HAVDALLAH
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:
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Fund Raising
ANNUAL 50/50 RAFFLE
As is our custom, the 50/50 raffle drawing will be drawn after Yom Kippur on Monday, September 28th. Tickets remain at $10.00 each or $100 for a book of 11. Tickets will be mailed shortly.
Please support the JCC by purchasing one or many, and don’t forget to sell some to others! Winners need not be present.
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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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ON LINE ACCOUNT
Members should have received an email from Rakefet (the data base we use for our records) this week inviting you to set up an account with the JCC so you can pay for activities and items on line as well ask keep track of your contributions.
Please contact Mary Beth in the office with any questions. Here is her email: MARYBETH
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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
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Rabbi Michael S. Jay
Michael Babst, President
VIEW THE JULY/AUGUST
with this link
E-mail Editor: Rose Valentine
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Samuel Bell*
Lena Levison*
Samuel Richman
Morris Rosner
Miriam Blaher
Nathan Dondershine*
Lydia Garay
Shirley Halpern
David Hochman
Mildred Rosenthal
Sophie Cohen
David Dover
Rivka Garkawe
Elaine Hoffman Greene
Victoria Kuperman*
Pearl Pepose
Leonard Reason*
Judith Schiller
Victor Zinn
Leonella Patrician
Benjamin Schocat
Ida Grossman
Anna Hirschfeld
Zachary Korn
Wallace Charles Ruoff*
Samuel Weissman
Blanche Kugel
Anne Miller
Reneta Prebluda
Richard Tucker*
Ben Ungar
Martin Weiner
Donald Churgin
Frances Horenstein*
Gertrude Rosenbloom
Frances Shapiro*
Jack Tanenbaum
PLEASE LET THE OFFICE KNOW WHEN YOU WILL NEED A MINYAN TO SAY KADDISH.
* Yahrzeit Plaque - These names are lovely enshrined on our synagogue
memorial boards.
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LYNN & STAN
BERMAN
on the birth of
their great grandson
to
Moshe & Rivka Berman
8/8/20
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AND PICTURES
CONTACT:
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CARING COMMITTEE
This committee acts as a support system for congregation members facing illness and other personal situations that need to be addressed.
Please contact Chairperson,
Debby Schweighardt
if you are in need of assistance or if you know of a JCC member
that needs our help.
973-634-5349
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Gloria Canter
August 16
Steven Hartman
August 17
Andrea Seidler
August 17
Warren K. Racusin
August 19
Jackie Avondoglio
August 20
Oded Cohen
August 21
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LATEST
BULLETIN:
PRAYER BOOK:
WEB SITE:
PAVERS:
TREE OF LIFE
YAHRZEIT PLAQUE FORM:
KOL HAKAVOD DONATION FORM
TRIBUTES:
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The pergola in the rear of the JCC property is for sale. The asking price is $750. Please contact Sherry Fruchterman if you are
interested. fsherryf@yahoo.com
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