This Week at CSFA - May 20

We believe it is best to continue our current guidelines as updated below.

CSFA’s COVID-19 policy is as follows:

If you test positive for Covid or are living with or are in close contact with someone who has tested positive for Covid, please do not attend services or synagogue activities for a period that includes at least one Shabbat. Please stay home the required Shabbat and be tested with negative results before you return to the synagogue.

All CSFA members, visitors, and program attendees are required to be fully vaccinated, including with boosters if eligible.

Masks are suggested for all indoor services and programming.

We recognize that many of us are feeling enormous fatigue around masking, while for others continued masking creates a stronger feeling of safety. We feel obligated to protect one another and suggest but do not obligate individuals to continue masking indoors.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Friday, May 19, 2023 - Friday, May 26, 2023

28 Iyar - 6 Sivan 5783

Parshat Bamidbar

This Shabbat morning we bless the new month of Sivan, which arrives this week.

Friday, May 19, 2023

CSFA Family Kabbalat Shabbat Service

followed by

Hebrew School Shabbat Dinner

Shabbat Candle lighting at 7:51 PM

Saturday, May 20

9:00 AM

Shabbat morning services

Sam Swartz will lead Pesukei D'Zimra and Toby Silverstein will lead Shacharit. Bob Winograd will read Torah and Michael Massen will chant the haftarah. Monica Sass will give the D'var Torah and lead the Musaf Service.

Following services there will be a kiddush in the CSFA Garden. Kiddush this week is sponsored by Harvey and Michele Sass, Monica Sass's parents, in honor of Monica's graduation from NYU Law School and Social Work School.

To read a commentary on this week's parsha from

Bex Stern Rosenblatt from the

Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem,

CLICK HERE

To read a commentary on this week's haftarah from Vered Hollander - Goldfarb of the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem, please CLICK HERE

For an aliyah by aliyah summary of this week's Torah portion, please CLICK HERE

Saturday Night

May 20, 2023

9:15 PM

Havdalah

PLEASE NOTE

TIME OF

9:15 pm.

Shabbat ends at 9:01 PM

Join the members of the congregation as we gather online via Zoom to recite Havdalah and say goodbye to Shabbat.

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Monday, May 22, 2023

Mah Jongg group will meet this week.

For information, please call the synagogue office.

Thursday, May 25, 2023

1:00 PM

Shavuot Cooking With Lynn Kutner

Pre Shavuot

ZOOM Virtual

Cooking Class with

Lynn Kutner

Thursday, May 25

1:00 PM

Join us Thursday, May 25 at

1:00 PM for an Erev Shavuot Zoom Virtual Cooking Class.

Lynn Kutner, our “in house” chef, will teach us how to make

Traditional home made blintzes

and Crustless Quiche.

You Can Cook Along at Home and be

ready to celebrate the joyous (dairy) holiday of Shavuot with culinary flair.

SAVE THE DATE AND TIME

MAY 25^TH AT 1:00 PM

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ZOOM LINK:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84670257215

or CLICK HERE

Thursday night, May 25

Friday, May 26 and

Shabbat, May 27

Shavuot

Thursday night, May 25, 2023

NEW TIME !!! NEW TIME!!!

7:30 PM

Dairy Supper

8:00 PM

Tikkun Leyl Shavuot

A night of Prayer, Food, and Learning

Prof. Sharon Keller will present

T'Ain't What You Do ...

It's the Way That You Do It:

Ruth Read With Attitude

Ruth is seen as a sweet devoted woman who "converted"

to help care for her widowed mother-in-law ....

Are there other ways to read this text?

Join us for a lively discussion of The Book of Ruth

Friday, May 26, 2023 9:00 AM

Shavuot Services followed by Kiddush

Saturday, May 27, 2023 8:30 AM

Shavuot Services followed by Kiddush

YIZKOR is recited during services following Torah reading.

There will be a kiddush following services.

Kiddush this Shabbat/ Shavuot is sponsored by Rozanne Seelen in memory of her sister,

Jane Ritch and her mother, Nell Ritch.

SAVE THE DATE AND MARK YOUR CALENDAR

SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 2023

CSFA GALA GARDEN

RECEPTION AND JOURNAL

HONORING

LEEOR SABBAH

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THIS WEEK'S YAHRZEITS

We also remember

Laurette Reisman, Robert Oppenheim, Ruth Oppenheim, Violet Gati, Robert Meckler,

Alan Mironer, Peter Feldman Merril MIroner, Ruth Wortman,

Suzanne Schein, Ruthe Unger, and Yehudis Penina Isseroff.