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April 14 - 20 6
Nissan - 12 Nissan
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WEEKEND SERVICES AT A GLANCE
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Friday
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6:30 p.m.
Shabbat Evening Services in the Chapel
Candle Lighting:
7:09 p.m.
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Saturday
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9:30 a.m.
Shabbat Morning Services in the Sanctuary
Parashat Hashavua:
Metsorah
Shabbat Coordinator:
Hymie Milstein
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Kiddush
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12:30 p.m.
This Shabbat, we celebrate
with a lovely
Simcha Kiddush sponsored in honor of the
birthdays of:
Elizabeth Tarsky
Melissa Tarsky
Sue Fox Horn
Henry Hochman
Rena Panush
Gerson Safran
and anniversaries of:
Jeff Gornbein and Fredricka Martin
Shifra Raz and Benny Rubinstein
and sponsored by
Miriam Baron, in memory of her father, Nisan Belfor
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Our New Rabbi Is Rabbi Gabriel Botnick!
A message from our president, Judy Gordon
The Board is really happy to announce that Rabbi Gabriel Botnick has accepted our offer of employment to be Mishkon's rabbi as of August 1, 2016.
The Search Committee used the results of the focus groups you participated in to develop a list of the needs of the congregation and the job description, went through your survey responses, reviewed all of their interview materials, and checked every reference. The Search Committee, feeling strongly that Rabbi Botnick is best suited for Mishkon's future, recommended him to the Board as our next rabbi, and the Board voted to approve.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to send them to me (Judy Gordon, Board President) at
33malka33@gmail.com. If you would like to send congratulations to Rabbi Botnick, he can be found at
rabbi@gabrielbotnick.com.
Rabbi Botnick will begin his tenure with us on August 1 as Rabbi Dan moves into the position of Rabbi Emeritus. I hope we will see you all on August 5 and August 6 to help celebrate Rabbi Botnick's first Shabbat as our rabbi.
I look forward to a wonderful partnership between Rabbi Botnick and our exceptional Mishkon community as we move forward.
About Rabbi Botnick:
 Ordained by the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, Rabbi Gabriel Botnick serves as Rabbi of Temple Aliyah in Woodland Hills and was previously the Rabbinic Intern of IKAR and a long-standing member of its musical prayer team. He also works as a certified Mohel performing Brit Milah and is the only non-Orthodox Shochet in America certified by the Israeli Rabbinate to perform kosher slaughter. Gabriel is the founder of Tekumah, the first and only Jewish organization dedicated to teaching the holy trades to any Jew interested in learning. Before rabbinical school, he worked for many years as a jeweler, community organizer, and youth director.
Drawing on his extensive experience as a musician, community organizer, and teacher, Gabriel is passionate about developing innovative and engaging ways to access the Jewish tradition as well as making Judaism relevant and meaningful in our busy, modern lives. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, he has lived in Los Angeles for more than a decade. Both Gabriel and his wife, Rose Prevezer, are long-term lovers of Venice and its vibrant community. They are thrilled to be joining the Mishkon Tephilo family and look forward to settling into their new spiritual and communal home.
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12:30 p.m.
Simcha Kiddush
Kiddush in Memory of Miriam Barron's Father, Nisan Belfor
Mishkon's Simcha Kiddush is our monthly lunch celebration of birthdays, anniversaries and other simchas in our community, following Shabbat services.
11 a.m. Passover Model Seder
Join us for our children's annual Passover seder in the social hall. Come shep nachas as our scrumptious preschool and religious school students show us how it's done!
All congregants are welcome.
And we'll begin promptly at 11 a.m.
Adults $14 Children $8 A roasted-chicken lunch will be served.
To RSVP and pay online, please visit our website or click
here.
Board Meeting Changed to April 27
6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. - First-Night Passover Seder
Please join Mishkon and Adat Shalom at Kehillat Ma'arav as we celebrate together again for our Joint Passover Seder. This year, in a wonderful merging of Shabbat and Passover, our community seder will be on the first night of Pesach.
To RSVP and pay, please go to Kehillat Ma'arav's website link below, contact them at 310.829.0566, or email them at
office@km-synagogue.org
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Location:
Kehillat Ma'arav, 1715 21st Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404, 310-829-0566
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Wednesday, April 27
Please note this new date
Wednesdays - April 20 and 27
No Religious School - Passover
Friday April 22 to Friday April 29
No Preschool - Passover
No Friday Night Shabbat Service on Friday, April 29
Sunday, May 1
10 a.m. Poetry Reading with Carol V. Davis and Patty Seyburn
Mishkon's own Carol V. Davis and Professor Patty Seyburn will read from their own poetry and talk about what makes a poem Jewish.
Carol is the author of
Between Storms (2012),
Into the Arms of Pushkin; Poems of St. Petersburg (2007) and
It's Time to Talk About... (1997). She is a former Fulbright scholar at the Jewish University in St. Petersburg, Russia. She teaches at Santa Monica College and Antioch University and is poetry editor of the Jewish Journal.
Patty Seyburn is the author of
Perfecta (2014),
Hilarity (2009),
Mechanical Cluster (2002) and
Diasporadic (1998). She is an associate professor at California State University, Long Beach.
Breakfast Snack: 10 a.m. -10:30 a.m. Reading: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Q & A and Book Signing: 10:30 a.m. -Noon Charge $10. Location: Social Hall
This event is part of the Adult Education Sunday Series.
To RSVP, please visit our website or click
here.
May 2 - May 6
Preschool Teacher Appreciation Week
Tuesday, May 3
12:15 p.m. Rabbi Dan's "Lunch and Learn"
Newcomers welcome! No advanced reading required. Just show up! No charge.
Join Rabbi Dan, who will be guiding us through Readings in Modern Hebrew Literature with English translation. Bring a dairy or pareve lunch.
Location,
Mishkon Library, Enter on Hampton. For more information, contact Phil Bell at
shalvah@aol.com.
7 p.m. Yom Hashoah at Adat Shalom
Join us at Adat Shalom as Rabbi Lebovitz leads us in joint memorial services with Kehillat Ma'arav and Mishkon Tephilo. We will also be showing the film Nicky's Family, about Nicholas Winton, who saved a group of Czech children during the Holocaust. Light refreshments will be served following the movie. RSVP to the Adat Shalom Office
by calling the number below.
No Charge.
Adat Shalom, 3030 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90034
310-475-4985 www.AdatShalomLA.org AdatShalomSynagogue
For more information,
please open Adat Shalom's flyer
here
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12:30 p.m. Kiddush Lunch in Honor of Jeremy & Matt
Join us at a congratulatory kiddush celebrating the Zeigler School of Rabbinic Studies graduation and ordination of Jeremy Szczepanski and Matt Marko. We will be thanking them for their outstanding service to Mishkon: Matt for his extraordinary coordination and participation in chanting Torah and Jeremy for his internship and teaching.
Naturally, both Jeremy and Matt got wonderful pulpits, Jeremy will be the rabbi of Congregation of Moses, in Kalamazoo, Michigan,
and Matt will be the rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel, in Greenville, South Carolina.
If you would like to contribute, we suggest an $18 donation to this memorable event. Please click
here
for the online donation form, and select the third Kiddush Club box.
1:30 p.m. "Interning With Our Intern" with Jeremy Szczepanski
Please join us as
our Rabbinic Intern, Jeremy Szczepanski, leads a discussion immediately following kiddush in the social hall.
7:30 p.m. Barbara's Book Club
Join us to discuss The Dream of Scipio, by Iain Pears.
It is a long book, so start reading it soon!
Pears intertwines three intellectual mysteries, three love stories, and three of the darkest moments in human history. United by a classical text called "The Dream of Scipio," three men struggle to find refuge for their hearts and minds from the madness that surrounds them in the final days of the Roman Empire, in the grim years of the Black Death,
and in the direst hours of World War II.
Please RSVP here
or directly to Rena at
rapan18@gmail.com
for directions. Location TBD.
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Chametz Sale
Start preparing for Passover today, and sell your Chametz to Mishkon Tephilo.
Click
here to download the form.
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Visit our website
to view the full calendar or click here.
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Susan Fox Horn
Ben Berkovich
Sami DeMello
Henry Hochman
Joan Harelik
Susan T. Lindau
Mikayla Hirt-Eddy
Jeff Gornbein and Fredricka Martin
Pierre Andre Lowenstein and Shirren Oberman
(newlyweds)
Shifra Raz and Benny Rubinstein
Jim Eddy
(father of preschool parent Bruce Eddy)
Karen Amarawansa
Erwin Adler
Bruce and Jill Kobritz
Ruth Glosser
George Katz
Condolences
Ellen Aiken on the death of her beloved sister, Nancy
If you would like to make a donation in honor of anybody on this week's list, please
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Mishkon Tephilo
Mailing Address:
201 Hampton Dr.
Venice, CA 90291
Sanctuary
206 Main St.
Venice, CA 90291
Office (310) 392-3029
Fax (310) 392-0420
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