JEWISH COMMUNITY
CENTER OF
LONG BEACH ISLAND
E-LETTER
January 20, 2023
27 Tevet 5783
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The opening section of the morning service is called Birkhot Ha-Shakhar (The Morning Blessings). The name comes from the first, major, communal prayer of this early part of the service. Essentially this prayer, which is actually a series of 14 separate prayers, is an expression of gratitude for the privilege of experiencing another day.
In truth, we often wake in the morning failing to acknowledge how incredible it is to be given the opportunity to spend another day in this world that God created. The point of the 14 separate blessings is to help heighten our awareness of the gift(s) of the day that is about to be lived.
Though we often say them as a community, the prayers are personal, intending us to appreciate the day that will be and our part in it. (This will be countered by other prayers that are universal, or which see God as universal). Indeed the liturgy is full of personal and community prayers).
The personal nature of the prayer is highlighted by the general prayer structure. Each prayer begins with “Baruch Atah Adonai”(Praised are You Adonai). The prayer is made personal by the inclusion of the word “Atah”(You). By adding this to the prayer, the person saying it is specifically praying to a personal God. A prayer could say “Praised is God” (without the “You”) and God would, in fact, be praised. However, by saying “Praised are YOU God”, it makes it is as if, as you are saying it, you are placing your hand on God’s shoulder. It is done this way because The Rabbis, the tradition, the prayer book, and God, want the God/person relationship to be close and personal.
By formulating the prayers in this way, we are not praying to an unseen God, who is far away. Rather, we are praying to a God who is nearby and approachable.
Here are the things in the prayer that we thank God for:
Waking up.
Being created in God’s image.
Being Jewish.
Being Free.
Being able to see the world around us.
Being clothed.
Being freed from the things we might be enslaved to.
For Raising those who have fallen.(Literally or metaphorically).
For creating the heavens and the earth.
For providing the things that we need.
For providing guidance us on our path.
For giving the People of Israel strength and courage.
For crowning Israel with glory.
For giving strength to those who are weary.
Does this list resonate with you? Is there anything that seems particularly appropriate? Is there anything that seems particularly inappropriate? Would you delete any of these? Would you add something new?
Shabbat Shalom – Rabbi Michael S. Jay
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Candle Lighting time
Friday evening
January 20, 2023
4:44 PM
(So. Ocean County)
JOIN US FOR
SERVICES
Friday night
January 20, 2023
7:30 PM
IN PERSON AND
ON ZOOM
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to join
Zoom services
Saturday Morning
January 21, 2023
9:00 AM
IN PERSON AND
ON ZOOM
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to join
Zoom services
Torah Reading
Parashat Vaera
Exodus 6:2-9:35
Here is the Reading
Vaera (“I Appeared”) opens as God promises to redeem the enslaved Israelites and bring them to the Promised Land. When Pharaoh repeatedly refuses to let the Israelites go, God sends a series of plagues: water turning to blood, frogs, lice, wild animals, death of livestock, boils, and hail.
Haftorah
Ezekiel 28:25-29:21
Here is the Haftorah
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Meat and Vegetable Cholent Kiddish Lunch |
Game afternoon after Kiddish |
Saturday evening
Havdallah
5:30 PM
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Sunday - Thursday
Ma'ariv Service
7:30 PM
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to
join Zoom services:
Monday- Friday
Shacharit Service
8:15 AM
Sunday at 9:00 AM
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to
join Zoom services:
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THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE
SATURDAY, JANUARY 21
Showing of Film Cinema Sabaya
7:30 PM
MONDAY, JANUARY 23
Foundations for a Thoughtful Judaism: Practice
A Hartman Class with Rabbi Jay
10:00 AM
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25
12:30 AM - 4 PM
Canasta & Mah Jongg
following Ma'ariv
7:45 PM
with Rabbi Jay
"Jewish Wisdom"
using the book
by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
THURSDAY, JANUARY 26
11:00 AM Torah Study with the Rabbi
2:00 PM Beginning Hebrew with Ira
8:30 PM PJP History Zoom Series - The Barcelona Disputation
SATURDAY
LIFS Showing of Cinema Sabaya
8:30 PM
SEE LINKS BELOW
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Meeting ID: 824 6632 3203
Passcode: 854177
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January 21 - Cholent/Game Afternoon Shabbat
January 21 - Lighthouse International Film Society film at the JCC
January 26 - PJP History Zoom Series
January 29 - PJP Zoom Visit to the Anne Frank House
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Dockside Dinner and Award Winning Movie this Saturday Night?
Cinema Sabaya is a film about the power of cinema: to change people’s lives, to give women a voice, and to break down cultural barriers.
The word sabaya in Hebrew means “young girls,” so the irony is all the more sharply drawn when used in the title of this intimate story of eight women—of various ages, both Arab and Jewish—who meet at a community center video workshop and begin documenting their lives.
As each student works on her filmmaking skills and shares her footage, beliefs and preconceptions are challenged and barriers are broken down.
The group comes together as the women they are—mothers, daughters, sisters, wives—all living in a world designed to keep them apart. Learning more about each other and themselves, their interactions form empowering, uplifting bonds.
Inspired by writer-director Orit Fouks Rotem’s own experiences as a teacher in Tel Aviv, Cinema Sabaya presents a deft and heartfelt portrait of art’s capacity to unite disparate communities.
Moving seamlessly between the challenges they face in their domestic lives and the joy found in the new friendships fostered within this unlikely group, the women open a window into our common humanity.
And the cast, comprised of both professional actors and non-actors, strikes a perfect balance of humor and grit.
Admission: $10 online/ $12 at the door
LIF Society Members: Free
2411 Long Beach Blvd, Spray Beach, NJ 08008
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HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY PROGRAM
Showing of the Documentary
"They Survived Together"
Wednesday, January 25
6:30 PM
Toms River Branch of the Ocean County Library
101 Washington St., Toms River
731-349-622 to make a reservation
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PNJ JEWISH TRAVEL PROGRAMS
Free of Charge to JCC Members & Friends
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NEXT PJP TRAVEL PROGRAM: "The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam: A Visit to the Secret Annex”
Sunday, January 29 at 1:00 PM
COME JOIN US on a virtual tour of the Secret Annex in the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam to examine the extraordinary life of Anne Frank and how her legacy continues to inspire young people today. Led by educators from the Anne Frank House this webinar will leave plenty of time for Q&A. Prior to the virtual tour please view the powerful documentary “The Short Life of Anne Frank” to prepare for the webinar.
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The JCC is participating in the PNJ Consortium. An exciting 8-part series is being made available to our congregation.
You need not register.
NEXT PROGRAM JANUARY 26, 2022
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Meeting ID: 824 6632 3203
Passcode: 854177
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JCC WOMEN’S AUXILIARY: BOOK GROUP DISCUSSION
WEDNESDAYS AT 4:00 PM
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House on Endless Waters by Emuna Elon
February 8, 2023 CHANGE OF DATE
At the behest of his agent, renowned author Yoel Blum reluctantly agrees to visit his birthplace of Amsterdam to meet with his Dutch publisher, despite promising his late mother that he would never return to that city. While touring the Jewish Museum with his wife, Yoel stumbles upon a looping reel of photos offering a glimpse of pre-war Dutch Jewish life, and is astonished to see the youthful face of his beloved mother staring back at him, posing with her husband, Yoel’s older sister, Nettie…and an infant he doesn’t recognize.
This unsettling discovery launches him into a fervent search for the truth, revealing Amsterdam’s dark wartime history and the underground networks which hid Jewish children away from danger—but at a cost. The deeper into the past Yoel digs, the better he understands his mother’s silence, and the more urgent the question that has unconsciously haunted him for a lifetime—Who am I?—becomes. Evocative, insightful, and deeply resonant, House on Endless Waters beautifully illustrates the complex nature of identity and belonging, and the inextricability of past and present.
FUTURE BOOKS:
March: The Choice
April: Defending Brita Stein
ORDER YOUR BOOK FROM AMAZON AND START READING TODAY
Click here to borrow the book from the Ocean County Library.
A Zoom link will be sent shortly before the event.
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RSVP TO JILL DENKER 973-214-2767 Jill.denker@hotmail.com |
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The following names will be read by the Rabbi on Friday evening
Helen Berman
Joyce Blumberg
Mildred Holt
Harry Jerome
Herman Meyer
Miriam Minsky
Richard Pacharz
J. Gilbert Sholin
Dr. Henry Abrams
Helen Cweibel*
Estelle Gordon
Gussie Gross
Ruth Karp
Beatrice Koss
Amy Babst
Harriet Blecher
Cantor Hirsch L. Chazin*
Harry Goldhammer
Marvin Kolsby*
Doris Luterman
Dr. Jack David Levy*
Erik Cameron, MD
Perla Zavelson
Lillian Kenter*
Frieda Klein
Martin Nissenblatt
Mary Esther Sprague Ruoff*
Benjamin Scharf
Helen Tebeleff
Milton Elefant
Henry Hirsh
William Jaslow
Jack Kaplan
Stella Schub
Joseph Stern
Arthur Sussman
*Memorial plaque will be lit this week.
In this Zoom era, we have been able to have a daily minyan at 8:15 AM and at 7:30 PM and on Shabbat. We encourage you to join us on the day of your loved one’s yahrzeit. In the morning, the service is about ½ hour beginning at 8:15 and in the evening at 7:30 until about 7:45. Rabbi will be glad to say the traditional El Malei Rachamim prayer for you, which is recited during the funeral, going up to the grave of the departed, Yizkor remembrance day and other occasions on which the memory of the dead is recalled. You are also welcome to share with the minyan some special memories of your loved one.
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Norman Chevlin
January 21
Margo Weill
January 22
Dean Adler
January 23
Denni Koupf
January 23
Rita Pepperman
January 23
Herbert Zemble
January 24
Martha Serepca Frank
January 25
Eileen L. Rosen
January 25
Sheryl Rothman
January 25
Evelyn Stern
January 25
Barry Sussman
January 25
Brian Gottesman
January 26
Robert Van Naarden
January 26
Marlo Karp
January 27
Karen Schwing
January 27
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Aaron & Anne Karp
January 22
12th Anniversary
Richard & Jill Berson
January 24
52nd Anniversary
Ronald & Diane Buskirk
January 24
47th Anniversary
Melvin & Helyn Benjamin
January 26
67th Anniversary
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MAZEL TOV
ERIN & JAKE WEINBERG
on the birth of their twin daughters
Eleanor Miriam & Mildred Grace
Jake is a part of our morning minyan
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JON LOMBARDI, a member of the Seaside Heights Police Department, who was promoted to Captain this week.
WE SALUTE YOU!!!!
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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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YOU CAN NOW FILL OUT A GIVING FORM AND PAY ON LINE IN ONE SIMPLE PROCESS.
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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
Herb and Selma z”l Shapiro established the first individual Endowment Fund in memory of his father, as part of the JCC’s Endowment Fund portfolio.
Since then, three additional individual Endowment Funds have been established. Other members are encouraged to also provide for the future of our JCC by establishing similar funds. Please consider adding to this number.
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 named funds will be joined together to be part of the Endowment Fund portfolio.
Endowment funds are necessary to ensure the continuation and well being of our congregation. All members are encouraged to help this important effort by contributing to this portfolio, whether as a specific named individual fund, or as a general donation. The donation can be spread over one, two, or three years, and can be paid via check, donation of appreciated stock, wills, or from the RMD of your IRA or 401K account. 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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2023 MEMBERSHIP FORMS
Your support is so important to the continued success of the JCC.
Here is form for renewal:
And if you have been reading our Shabbat Reminder and other communications and have not yet joined our congregation, here is the new member form:
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JCC FUNDS
Your gift to the JCC supports 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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JCC LEADERSHIP
OFFICERS
President- Phil Rosenzweig
1ST Vice President-Sherry Fruchterman
2ND Vice President-Diane Hoffman
3RD Vice President- Rose Valentine
Treasurer- Ira Morgenthal
Secretary- Cliff Denker
Immediate Past President -Michael Babst
BOARD MEMBERS
Howard Babbitt
Diane Buskirk
Mitch Frumkin
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Jon Geier
Paul Levine
Donald Pripstein
Terri Robinovitz
David Shatz
Rob Van Naarden
WOMEN'S AUXILIARY
President - Diane Buskirk
Co-Vice President - Noralyn Carroll
Co-Vice President - Jill Denker
Treasurer - Suzy Geier
Secretary - Joanne Babbitt
Immediate Past President - Irene Babst
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JCC INFORMATION
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 OPEN
MONDAY - FRIDAY
CLOSED THURSDAY
FROM 10 - 2
Staff:
Leslie Dinkfelt, Office Manager
Mary Beth Krieger, Staff Member
Diane Parzych, Staff Member
Susan Berube, Kitchen Manager
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LATEST
BULLETIN:
PRAYER BOOK:
WEB SITE:
PAVERS:
TREE OF LIFE
YAHRZEIT PLAQUE FORM:
KOL HAKAVOD DONATION FORM
TRIBUTES:
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Rabbi Michael S. Jay
Phil Rosenzweig, President
E-mail Editor: Rose Valentine
Graphics by
Irene Babst
Contributing Columnist
Sheila Weisel
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