Shir Chadash Newsletter
May 6 - May 12, 2021
24 Iyar - 1 Sivan, 5781
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PRAYERS FOR RECEIVING THE COVID VACCINE
Some of us in the community have begun to receive the vaccine. If you wish to mark this holy moment in your life, rabbis all over the country and the world have been creating prayers for you to do so.
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Shir Chadash Calendar
All links have migrated to our webpage. Click here to get there!
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Friday, May 7th
9:30 am, Yoga for the Jewish Spirit with Rabbi Silver
6 pm, Kabbalat Shabbat
Saturday, May 8th
10 am, Shabbat Morning Services
8:30 pm, Community Havdalah
Sunday, May 9th
9:15 am, Shacharit Minyan with Men's Club
10 am - 12:30 pm, Shul School Moving Up Ceremony and Picnic at the Metairie JCC
5 pm, Teen Learning
Tuesday, May 11th
10 am, Good Lookin' Cookin' with Sisterhood
7 pm, The Deep Dive - A Book of Life
Wednesday, May 12th
10 am, Sisterhood class: Psalms
Thursday, May 13th
8 am, Shacharit Minyan
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Friday, May 14th
9:30 am, Yoga for the Jewish Spirit with Rabbi Silver
6 pm, Kabbalat Shabbat
Saturday, May 15th
10 am, Shabbat Morning Services
10:30 am, Junior Congregation + Mini Minyan
8:30 pm, Community Havdalah
Sunday, May 16th - Erev Shavuot
9:15 am, Shacharit Minyan with Men's Club
3 pm, Step Into Shavuot
8 pm, Tikkun Leil Shavuot (at Congregation Beth Israel)
Monday, May 17th - Shavuot, Day 1
10 am, Shavuot Morning Services
Tuesday, May 18th - Shavuot, Day 2
10 am, Shavuot Morning Services
Wednesday, May 19th
10 am, Sisterhood class: Psalms
7 pm, The Deep Dive - A Book of Life
Thursday, May 20th
8 am, Shacharit Minyan
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Join us at 9:15 am for our virtual Sunday minyan followed by a check-in and a L'Hayyim!
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Thursday Shacharit Minyan - Please join! |
Join us at 8 am for our virtual weekday minyan which includes the opportunity to say Kaddish.
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Click here for the Shul School Newsletter
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Click here for Family Newsletter
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Tuesdays at 10 AM
Each Zoom session will be approximately an hour long.
Ingredient lists will be e-mailed several days in advance so you will be able to purchase ingredients and prepare the dishes in real time. Voila! Tuesday's tasty dinner will be prepared and ready to be eaten!
If you would like to volunteer to be a Chef du Jour, receive ingredient lists in advance, or want more information, please contact Charisse Sands, annsandsc@aol.com (Good Lookin' Cookin' in subject line), 504-231-6464.
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Wednesdays at 10 AM
Come study Psalms with Rabbi Silver!
Come study Psalms with Rabbi Silver! This week we will be studying Psalm 147.
Please make sure you have a Tanakh/Bible.
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For details about membership, dues payments, or contributing, please click HERE.
For questions or for more info about Sisterhood, contact Charisse Sands
504-231-6464
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Shir Chadash Events & Announcements |
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After Shabbat Morning Services
- announcing Trey's Traybakes!
Take home a delicious treat baked by Trey Rintala in our own back kitchen! Trey is the former sous chef and pastry chef of Meauxbar. After he lost the restaurant due to the pandemic, he focused his energy on feeding those needing help by establishing Tres Bon Food Fund, a nonprofit that allowed him to prepare meals for unemployed musicians and service industry workers. He now runs Happy Breakfast Trey, a popup that allows him to engage his more whimsical creative side.
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CLASSES WITH RABBI SILVER |
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Yoga for the Jewish Spirit
Fridays at 9:30 AM
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Yoga and Judaism are different traditions but they share some profound truths about the human spirit. Join Rabbi Silver for a weekly one-hour yoga practice to get us physically and spiritually ready for Shabbat. You will need only a yoga mat and your curiosity. (Please note that while this class is suitable for beginners you should check with a medical practitioner that it will be safe for you.) |
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The Deep Dive - A Book of Life
Tuesdays at 7 PM
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One of the worst effects of the pandemic has been its impact on communal gathering. How are we supposed to maintain a nourishing, meaningful Jewish life when we can’t be together? This weekly class will use Michael Strassfeld’s A Book of Life to help illuminate and re-ground our personal spirituality, enriching both our own practices and our connections to each other.
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Sisterhood Class: Psalms
Wednesdays at 10 AM
The 150 poems in the book of Psalms address every aspect of the human condition. Join Rabbi Silver to explore a psalm a week. We’ll consider not only the poem itself but how it speaks to us and how we might integrate its wisdom into our lives. Please do bring along a Tanakh/Bible of your own.
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Member Questionnaire Returns
All members should have recently received a questionnaire form to fill out to help keep our office's database complete and up-to-date. This information helps our office run more smoothly, so please return it to the synagogue at your earliest convenience. Don't hesitate to contact the front office if you have any questions.
Our Office Hours are 9 am - 2 pm, Tuesday - Friday.
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Community Events and Announcements |
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It is a rare American Jewish family that is not touched by interfaith marriage. And it is a rare Jewish community that does not contain non-Jews, even if many remain on the periphery - particularly here in New Orleans. But historically, the Jewish establishment has been reluctant to be authentically welcoming to non-Jews and to the Jews who marry them, and even sometimes to the offspring of these marriages. What is the path forward? Join Rabbi Shira Stutman on Tuesday, May 11 at 7:00 p.m. to hear a little about the hopes, fears, and joy of interfaith households in being welcomed into the Jewish community, exactly as they are.
Rabbi Shira Stutman, Senior Rabbi at Washington, DC’s innovative Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, was named one of “America’s Most Inspiring Rabbis” by The Jewish Forward in 2013. At Sixth & I, she and her colleagues strive to create a spiritually connected, reflective, intellectually challenging and engaging Jewish community for the area’s large millennial population. When not at Sixth & I, Rabbi Stutman teaches and speaks extensively at Jewish Federations throughout North America; teaches on the faculty of the Wexner Heritage program; and is on the board of Jews United for Justice. Rabbi Stutman graduated from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 2007, where she was a Wexner Graduate Fellow.
All are welcome, but please register using the link below.
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What should Zionism look like in an era of a confident and strong Jewish state? Can the various flavors of Judaism’s enduring focus on the Land of Israel translate into a new Zionist ethos? Join JTS, the RA, the Schechter Institutes and Ziegler for a collaborative ScholarStream series, in which teachers representing each institution will explore these and other questions—re-examining some of Zionism’s key ideas, moments, and challenges, from its earliest origins and into the 21st century.
All classes will take place on Wednesday evenings at 7:00 PM CT
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May 12: Peoplehood, Pluralism, and the Meanings of Zionism for Diaspora Jews Today (RA) with Rabbi Lauren Berkun, Vice President, Rabbinic Initiatives, Shalom Hartman Institute of North America
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Individual registration is $25. You will receive the Zoom link to join the session in the confirmation email upon completion of this registration. |
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Executive Director
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Education Director
Sarah Lustig
Office Assistant
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