Jewish Community Center of Long Beach Island E-Letter
April 15, 2022
14 Nissan 5782
|
|
|
JCC OFFICE CLOSED FOR PASSOVER HOLIDAY
The JCC Office will close on Friday April 15th at 12:00 Noon through the week of Passover. It will reopen on Tuesday. April 26th. Phone messages and emails will be responded to during that time.
YAHRZEIT LIST FOR NEXT WEEK WILL BE READ AT THURSDAY NITE MA'ARIV SERVICE
|
|
 |
A BRIEF MESSAGE FROM YOUR EDITOR
First thank you all for opening - and hopefully reading - our weekly Shabbat Reminder. I so enjoy creating it for you but most importantly it binds us together as a community wherever we are.
Speaking of binding together - 2022 brings is together in any ways. Folks are feeling more comfortable this year having their Seders in person and sitting around the Seder table together. And we have learned these last few years that family and friends can join us on Zoom from afar as well. That is surely something to celebrate.
In addition, Passover begins this year on Friday night so we will be celebrating the holiday of freedom along with the joy of Shabbat. A double blessing.
At the same time our Christian friends - and often relatives - will be observing the holiest days of their religion - Maudy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday - as we celebrate Passover. I have just learned about Maudy Thursday through my non-Jewish grandsons. This is a remembrance of the Last Supper and is often commemorated in churches with a dinner and service. Many believe the Last Supper was in fact a Seder.
This year my Christian grandkids will be joining us for the First Seder for the first time. The story of our exodus from slavery to freedom is an important one to share with everyone and I am excited to have them at our Seder table. By the way, since it is Good Friday and they refrain from eating meat on that day, my menu will be a little different. Lots of Passover noodles!!!
Akedah means "binding". It is what we refer to when reading the story of Abraham and Isaac. But binding can also be interpreted as "link". On this Passover, let us feel the joy of our freedom, the beauty of Shabbat and at the same time recognize the link between us and those of the Christian faith.
Wishing you a Zissen Pesach.
Rose Valentine
Shabbat Reminder Editor
|
Deadline to send to Sale of Hametz form to Rabbi is today at 4:00 PM
You can scan it and email to the the Rabbi. Make your donation online through the web site
|
Setting the Seder Table
from Jewish Treats
Before beginning the seder, it is important to make certain that everything necessary is available. No seder table is complete without the following:
1) Three Unbroken Matzot (Kosher for Passover) — Many have the custom to use shmura (specially supervised) matzah for the seders.
2) Wine/Grape Juice (Kosher for Passover) and Wine Glasses — All participants should be given a glass or cup (minimum size of 3.3 ounces) from which to drink the required four cups of wine/grape juice.
3) The Seder Plate — It is traditional to place the following items on a special seder plate:
—Bay’tza/Roasted (hard-boiled) Egg, symbolic of the cycle of life because of its round shape and representative of the Jewish character – the more you boil them, the harder they get. The egg also represents the missing chagiga (holiday) sacrifice that was offered on Passover, Sukkot and Shavuot.
—Z’roa/Shank Bone (of a lamb or the bone of another kosher animal or fowl), representing the Passover lamb offering that we can no longer bring today because of the absence of the Temple.
—Maror/Bitter Herbs, reminding participants of the bitterness and pain of slavery.
—Karpas/Vegetable (usually a piece of celery, parsley or potato), which is dipped in salt water as part of the seder ritual.
—Charoset, a tasty mixture of chopped walnuts, wine, cinnamon and apples, representing the mortar the Jewish slaves used to build Pharaoh’s cities (recipes may vary by community).
—Chazeret/Bitter Vegetable (like romaine lettuce or celery), which is sometimes placed on the seder plate to remind us of the bitter lives of the Israelites as slaves.
4) Salt Water — The karpas (vegetable) is dipped in salt water as a reminder of the tears of the Jewish slaves. Usually, the salt water is not placed on the seder plate, but near it.
5) Elijah’s Cup — This cup, filled with wine, is used to invite Elijah the Prophet, the harbinger of the Messianic age, to come to the seder, and hopefully, begin our final redemption.
|
|
|
|
SHABBAT
SHALOM
AND
HAPPY PASSOVER
|
Candle Lighting time
Friday Evening,
April 15, 2022
7:16PM
Saturday
April 16, 2022
8:48 PM
So. Ocean County
JOIN US FOR
SERVICES
Friday Evening
April 15, 2022
NO SERVICE
FIRST SEDER
Saturday Morning
April 16, 2022
Shabbat &
Passover
Service
10:00 AM
IN PERSON
AND
ON ZOOM
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to join
Zoom services
Ira Morganthal will be
a special prayer called Tefillat Tal, literally “the prayer for dew.”
|
Torah Reading:
Exodus 12:21-51; Numbers 28:16-25
Here is the Reading
Haftorah
Joshua 5:2-6:1
Here is the Haftorah
Saturday Evening
COMMUNITY SEDER
Sunday Morning
April 17, 2022
Passover
Service
10:00 AM
IN PERSON
AND
ON ZOOM
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to join
Zoom services
Torah Reading:
Leviticus 22:26-23:44; Numbers 28:16-25
Here is the Reading
Haftorah
II Kings 23:1-9, 23:21-25
Here is the Haftorah
Ma'ariv Service
6:00 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:
Monday- Friday
Shacharit Service
8:15 AM
Sunday at 9:00 AM
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to
join Zoom services:
|
|
|
|
COMPLETE LISTING OF PASSOVER SERVICES
|
|
Please join us for FRIDAY Night Shabbat Dinner (ZOOM)
May 6, 2022
Services at 6:00 PM
With special quest Hazzen Geller
and dinner following. We will Schmooze, sing, pray, Schmooze, learn, eat, and Schmooze some more! Dinner following candle lighting and kaddish in your own private chat room with friends, family and new friends.
|
|
THIS WEEK'S ACTIVITIES
NO CLASSES THIS WEEK
|
|
JCC WOMENS AUXILIARY: BOOK GROUP DISCUSSION
WEDNESDAYS AT 4:00 PM
|
|
Hotel Moscow by Talia Carner
Brooke Fielding, a thirty-eight-year-old New York investment manager and daughter of Jewish Holocaust survivors, finds her life suddenly upended in late September 1993 when her job is unexpectedly put in jeopardy. Brooke accepts an invitation to join a friend on a mission to Moscow to teach entrepreneurial skills to Russian businesswomen, which will also give her a chance to gain expertise in the new, vast emerging Russian market. Though excited by the opportunity to save her job and be one of the first Americans to visit Russia after the fall of communism, she also wonders what awaits her in the country that persecuted her mother just a generation ago.
Inspired by the women she meets, Brooke becomes committed to helping them investigate the crime that threatens their businesses. But as the uprising of the Russian parliament against President Boris Yeltsin turns Moscow into a volatile war zone, Brooke will find that her involvement comes at a high cost. For in a city where “capitalism” is still a dirty word, where neighbors spy on neighbors and the new economy is in the hands of a few dangerous men, nothing Brooke does goes unnoticed—and a mistake in her past may now compromise her future.
Future books:
Wednesday, June 15 at 4:00 PM
Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
Discussion Leader: Sondi Pripstein
|
|
UPCOMING ZOOM PROGRAMS
with PARTNERS IN JEWISH PROGRAMMING
\
CLICK ON EACH EVENT FOR
DETAILED FLYER
Deadline for sign-up Friday, April 15
Deadline for sign-up Friday, April 22
Links will be sent out prior to each program
and are free to members of the JCC of LBI
Non-members $18.00
If you missed previous videos
here are the links to see them:
Access Passcode: zT+dm2!*
|
|
CHAVURAH VISIT TO THE GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE
HAMILTON, NJ
|
|
Chavurah
Date: Sunday, May 15, 2022
Rain Date: Sunday May 22, 2022
Mode of transportation: Car pool
Ticket Prices: $15.00 Senior rate
$18.00 Group rate
$10.00 Students
Tickets will be ordered 2 weeks prior to the event
Arrival time: 11:00 AM
Lunch: Rat’s Café 1:00 PM - Order from menu
This is the tentative plan, thought this would be a wonderful opportunity to be outside and enjoy the weather with our friends who we have all missed so much over the past 2 years.
So, who’s on board, again, this plan is tentative but we need to begin.
Questions: Irene Babst 856 904-5145 or JCCofLBIChaverah@gmail.com
|
|
Also in stock - Mezuzah Scrolls |
|
|
The following names will be read by the Rabbi on Friday evening
NAMES WILL BE READ ON THURDAY EVENING MAARIV SERVICE THIS WEEK.
William Berger*
Hannah S. Cohen
Bernice Franks
T. Daniel Lang*
Jacob Liebenberg
Isidore Opatosky
Joseph Schlanger*
Marvin Henry Weinberger*
Ethel Zwillman
Ann Celnik
Chaya Cohen
Samuel Kreiger
Leslie Siegel
Sam Singer
Michael Beck*
Louis Cohen
Irving List*
Lillian Barham
Charles Miller
Fannie Shapiro
Ruth Weisberger
Lawrence Alpert*
Charlotte Chazin*
Minnie Einhorn*
Martin Hartman
Fred Pollack
Jeanette Rosen
Dora Weinstein
Isadore Abend
Mary Halpern
Herbert Iris
Irving Maginsky
Leon Shechtman
Benjamin Epstein*
Shirley Feather*
Rita Haas
Lena Hirschman
Irving Klein
Bertha Stern Landau
Jennie Silverman*
Saul Silverman*
*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.
|
|
|
|
Lewis Chakrin
April 2
David Denenberg
April 2
Mark I. Peroff
April 2
Steven Goldsmith
April 3
Linda Sclarow
April 3
Hugh Chairnoff
April 4
Maxine Paris
April 4
Clifford Denker
April 6
Carl Tepper
April 6
Robert Farin
April 7
|
Philip & Shari Garfinkel
April 2
16th Anniversary
Oded Cohen & Joann Ramer
April 6
14th Anniversary
George & Susan Karp
April 7
43rd Anniversary
Scott & Dana Ranani
April 8
22nd Anniversary
Cary & Lynn Reimer
April 8
50th Anniversary
|
SHEILA WEISEL
following surgery
|
|
|
|
SHARE YOUR NEWS
AND PICTURES
CONTACT:
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
2022 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:
To pay on line
Fill in your information and then
go to Donation Details - then
Other and type in 2022 Membership
|
|
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.
|
|
WELCOME DIANE PARZYCH TO OUR JCC OF LBI STAFF
Diane will be in the office on Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 AM until 2 PM when we open up for summer hours on June 1. In the meantime she is learning all the the workings of our synagogue so that she will be able to help you with any questions and transactions.
|
|
|
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
TUESDAY AND THURSDAY
FROM 10 - 2
CONTINUE TO USE THE PHONE OR EMAIL WITH REQUESTS.
OUR OFFICE STAFF WILL BE CHECKING IN REGULARLY.
|
Staff:
Leslie Dinkfelt, Office Manager
Mary Beth Krieger, Staff Member
Kitchen Manager: Susan Berube
|
|
|
|
LATEST
BULLETIN:
PRAYER BOOK:
WEB SITE:
PAVERS:
TREE OF LIFE
YAHRZEIT PLAQUE FORM:
KOL HAKAVOD DONATION FORM
TRIBUTES:
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Rabbi Michael S. Jay
Michael Babst, President
E-mail Editor: Rose Valentine
Graphics by
Irene Babst
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
