In This Issue:
High Holy Days Workshops
Back to School Lunch
CPR Training
Kosher Food Pantry
Browns Watch Parties
Sisterhood Speaker
ATID Shabbat Dinner
Youth Groups @Whirlyball
What's Nu
Mazal Tov
Condolences
Announcements
Quick Links
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September 5, 2019 - 5 Elul 5779
Candle Lighting: 7:33 pm
Friday Evening Service; Birthday Shabbat: 6:00 pm
Shabbat Morning Services: 9:00 am
Starbucks, Bread & Torah with Doron Kalir: 9:00 am
Shabbat Ends: 8:31 pm
Friday evening services will be at 6 pm
during the month of September.
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High Holy Days Workshops
Starting TONIGHT! Thursdays, September 5 & 12 • 7:30 – 9:00 pm
Thursday, September 5
Rabbi Hal Rudin-Luria,
A Rabbi’s Guide to Change
Rabbi Josh Foster,
Yom Kippur: Solemn or Joyous? An Exploration of our Most Sacred Day
Rabbi Shalom Plotkin,
Malchuyot, Zichronot, Shofarot & Becoming a Change Agent in 5780: Through the Lens of King David
Thursday, September 12
Rabbi Stephen Weiss,
Preparing for Personal Transformation through Mussar
Doron Kalir,
Kol-Nidre: What Does It Mean and Why We Do It? Thoughts on the Nature and Scope of Repentance
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Back to School Lunch
Saturday, September 7 • 12 noon
Families from the Bessie Hershey Religious School and all day schools are invited to join us for our Back to School Lunch. Enjoy a delicious lunch, schmooze and meet our teachers. RSVP to
Wendy Altmire.
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CPR Training
Sunday, September 15 • 9 am
Sisterhood will host this vital training that is free and open to all. Contact Eve Phythyon (330-283-4003) to sign up. Space is limited. This is the rescheduled class from March. You must call to reserve a spot regardless of whether you were scheduled to attend in March.
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Chesed @Kosher Food Pantry
Sunday, September 15 • 9 am
Sort and pack food at the pantry that will go to families in need. Everyone volunteering should be over the age of 7. We volunteer the third Sunday of each month. Contact
Shani Kadis to help.
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Men's Club Browns Watch Parties
Monday, September 16 & Sunday, September 22 • 8 pm
Join us to watch the Browns battle the NY Jets and then the LA Rams on the big screen TV in Nickman Chapel. Snacks will be served at halftime. All are welcome; free.
Future games: Sundays, October 27, November 3, December 1 and 15.
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Sisterhood Evening with Anita Gray
Thursday, September 19 • 7 pm
The ADL’s Anita Gray will speak about the rise of anti-Semitism in our lives. This important and informative program is free and open to the community. RSVP by September 16 to
Grace Brower or 440-823-9445. A dessert reception will follow her talk.
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ATID Welcome Back Shabbat
Friday, September 20 • 6 pm
We will join together for Shabbat services followed by a free Shabbat dinner.
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Jr. Kadima/Kadima Opening Event
Sunday September 22 • 1:45 - 4 pm
All 3rd - 8th grade students are invited to meet at Whirlyball, 5055 Richmond Rd., Bedford Heights. Learn more
here or contact
Aklile Kebede.
Register by Thursday, September 12.
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Selichot
Saturday, September 21 •
8:15 pm
We will screen the Israeli hit film,
The Women's Balcony this year at our annual Selichot program. Stay for the service featuring Cantor Aaron Shifman & the B'nai Jeshurun Choir. Free and open to the community.
This program is made possible through the generosity of the Dobres-Berkowitz Israel Programming Fund.
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High Holy Days 5780
We look forward to seeing you at services and beyond as we make a great start to 5780. Join us in the David J. & Ruth A. Moskowitz Sanctuary for our service featuring Cantor Shifman and the B’nai Jeshurun choir, or at Gross Schechter Day School's auditorium for a more intimate participatory service led by congregants and Lance Colie.
Click
here for the schedule of services.
Click
here to view the flier with all our family programming and guest speakers.
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Inclusion Shabbat
Saturday, September 21 • during and after morning services
Please join us to hear what the Inclusion Committee has achieved as well as their future plans for making our shul more accessible to all. Following kiddush, stay for a discussion on where we go next. Your input is vital in helping to eliminate barriers that might cause anyone in the community to feel unwelcome and thus not participate at BJC.
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Caroline Simon Auerbach-Brown on celebrating becoming a Bat Mitzvah this Shabbat morning, and to her parents Deby & Chris Auerbach-Brown, brother Caleb Auerbach-Brown and grandmother Sharon Auerbach. Caroline is also the granddaughter of the late Sheldon Auerbach and Bobbi & Douglas Brown.
Galya Loeb & Andrew Silver on their aufruf this Shabbat morning, and to their parents, Helayne & Rich Loeb, Marley Gottstein and Jay Silver and grandfather Marshall Rosenberg.
Kerry & Jeffrey Glueck and Elayne Glueck on the birth of a granddaughter and great-granddaughter, Kaia Glueck. Parents are Marcelle & Jordan Glueck.
Anne Lukas & Steven Jones on the marriage of their son, Nate, to Jessica Shetler.
Marlene & Michael Willen on the marriage of their daughter, Elyse, to Ryan Panitz.
Aklile Kebede on her marriage to Adam Eisenberg. Adam's parents are JoAnn & Steve Eisenberg.
Anita Rosenbaum on the birth of a grandson, Dax Ethan Rosenbaum.
Diane Friedman on the birth of her great-great niece, Dalia Isabel Evans.
Men's Club & Sisterhood took 3rd place at the Gross Schechter Kosher Rib Burnoff.
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Lynn Tate & Austin Belle and family on the death of their son, Adam Belle.
Larry (Suellen) Kadis, Dan (Shani) Kadis, Debbie (Daniel) Fishman and Michael (Roseanne) Kadis and families on the death of their mother, grandmother and aunt, Estine Kadis.
Betty Fishman and Bob (Lisa) Fishman and families on the death of their niece and cousin, Jane Ellyn Stearns.
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Donations of Stock or IRA Contributions
If you are donating stock or sending money through your IRA as a retirement distribution, please be sure to notify
Paula Botkin (216-831-6555 ext. 109). We have received stock and distributions without names attached; due to security and privacy restrictions, brokers cannot tell us who these are from. Thank you for keeping the synagogue in your donation plans.
Renovation Update
The Family Restroom Project, renovating the men’s restroom by the kitchen, is underway. This restroom is not available for use during construction and we apologize for any inconvenience caused by the construction. Thank you to Wendy & Dan Dobres for their support in funding this project.
Synagogue Survey
Please complete the Passover Second Seder survey that was emailed over the weekend. If you have any questions or would like to be a sponsor, please contact executive director
Jay Ross
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Honey Sale
Purchase your raw, unfiltered honey from the apiary of our congregant,
Bobbi Pincus
. This is approved kosher for home use by Rabbi Weiss. The sale benefits BJC Sisterhood.
$8 per 8-oz. jar. Please make checks payable to BJC Sisterhood and mail to Harriet Rosenberg Mann, 23575 Shelburne Rd., Shaker Hts., 44122. Be sure to include your phone number and/or email when ordering. Questions? Contact
Harriet
(216-765-0824).
Missing
We are currently missing several women's shawls. If you inadvertently took one home, please return it to the synagogue. Thank you.
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