Jewish Community Center of Long Beach Island E-Letter
June 10, 2022
11 Sivan 5782
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A MESSAGE FROM
THE RABBI
In this week’s Torah portion, Naso, we are presented with the Priestly blessing that we still use today when blessing our children and our community. At Numbers 6:22-27 it says:
The Lord spoke to Moses: Speak to Aaron and his sons: Thus shall you bless the people of Israel. Say to them:
The Lord bless you and protect you!
The Lord deal kindly and graciously with you!
The Lord bestow His favor upon you and grant you peace!
Thus they shall link My name with the people of Israel, and I will bless them.
The blessing itself is very interesting. Though it was originally intended for the Kohanim (Priests) to say to the entire Israelite community, it is written in the singular form. The intention is that the blessing is given not to the group, but to each individual present.
G-d is consistently looking for direct connection; the Holy one is seeking relationship with each of us.
I think that there is a lesson here. If G-d is seeking individual relationships with each of us, perhaps the message is that we should be seeking deep and meaningful personal relationships with those around us. If the Holy One seeks connection, how much more so should we seek to connect.
Perhaps more importantly, we should seek to help the people with whom we are connecting. What if we replaced the word “Lord” where it appears in the blessing with “May I”
May I bless you and protect you!
May I deal kindly and graciously with you!
May I bestow my favor upon you and grant you peace!
If each of us sought to bring blessing, protection, graciousness, favor and peace, to those we meet, what a different world we would live in. What a better (holier) community we would live in.
Strong communities are built one relationship at a time. Strong communities exist when each individual takes it upon himself or herself to reflect back that image of G-d in Whom we are all created. May it happen in our time.
Shabbat Shalom – Rabbi Michael S. Jay
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JUNE 17 - 6:00 PM SPRAY BEACH |
A wonderful Shavuot holiday was spent at the JCC last week. Thank you to Stu Lehrer and Rabbi Jay, our "Rabbi Akivas", who led study sessions on Saturday evening. Our services were enhanced by a group of families, including lots of kids, from White Plains. Some of the young girls chanted Torah and it was a delight to see them. This group have been coming down for Shavuot services over the past years. We have missed them during the pandemic and are so glad to see them again.
Last week, we told you about the WAX project with Coastal VIM and Beach Haven School. Here is the article about the project in this week's SandPaper, in case you missed it. Mazel tov again to our Women's Auxiliary.
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Candle Lighting time
Friday evening
June 10, 2022
8:06 PM
(So. Ocean County)
JOIN US FOR
SERVICES
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Friday Evening
June 10, 2022
SHABBAT SERVICES
6:00 PM
DINNER
7:00 PM
IN PERSON
AND
ON ZOOM
In Person attendance
for Services open to all
In Person
Dinner reservations are now closed
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to join
Zoom services
Saturday Morning
June 4, 2022
Shabbat
Service
9:00 AM
IN PERSON
AND
ON ZOOM
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to join
Zoom services
Torah Reading:
Parashat Nasso
Numbers 4:21-7:89
Here is the Reading
Naso (“Take A Census”), the longest portion in the Torah, opens by detailing responsibilities of the Levites. It also describes laws of a woman suspected of adultery (sotah), the Nazirite, and the priestly blessing. The portion ends by listing the gifts that heads of tribes bring to the Mishkan (Tabernacle).
Haftorah
Judges 13:2-25
Here is the Haftorah
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Torah Study
8:00 PM
Havdallah
9:00 PM
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to
join Zoom services:
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:
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THIS WEEK'S ACTIVITIES
WEDNESDAY 6/15/22
Wednesday Walking Tours
9:00 AM
See details below
Mah jongg/Canasta
12:30 PM
WAX Book Discussion
4:00 PM
following Ma'ariv
7:45 PM
Studying the weekly portions
with Rabbi Jay based on the book
"Judaism’s Life-Changing Ideas"
by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
THURSDAY 6/16
11:00 AM Torah Study with the Rabbi
2:00 PM Beginning Hebrew with Ira
FRIDAY 6/17
WAX Sea Glass Project
10:00 AM
HERE ARE THE LINKS :
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JUNE 8 - Wednesday Walking Tours
JUNE 10 - Shabbat Dinner
JUNE 15 - WAX Book Club
JUNE 17 - WAX Craft Project
JUNE 17 - Shabbat on the Beach (Spray Beach)
JUNE 24 - Shabbat on the Beach (Loveladies)
JUNE 26 - Membership Brunch
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JULY 8 - Shabbat on the Beach - Loveladies
JULY 6 - WAX Paid Up Membership Luncheon
JULY 10 - John Ciotta Concert
JULY 13 - Bazaar
JULY 13 - WAX Book Club
JULY 22 - Shabbat on the Beach - Spray Beach
JULY 29 - Shabbat on the Beach - Loveladies
JULY 31 - 10TH Anniversary Gala
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WALKS WILL BEGIN AGAIN IN JULY |
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JCC WOMENS AUXILIARY: BOOK GROUP DISCUSSION
WEDNESDAYS AT 4:00 PM
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JUNE BOOK
Wednesday, June 15 at 4:00 PM
Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
Discussion Leader: Sondi Pripstein
Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival.
When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka: She is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to a Siberian prison camp. But did she really have a choice? And where do the lines of morality lie for Cilka, who was send to Auschwitz when she was still a child?
In Siberia, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, including the unwanted attention of the guards. But when she meets a kind female doctor, Cilka is taken under her wing and begins to tend to the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under brutal conditions.
Confronting death and terror daily, Cilka discovers a strength she never knew she had. And when she begins to tentatively form bonds and relationships in this harsh, new reality, Cilka finds that despite everything that has happened to her, there is room in her heart for love.
From child to woman, from woman to healer, Cilka's journey illuminates the resilience of the human spirit―and the will we have to survive.
ORDER YOUR BOOK NOW AND START READING TODAY: Click here to order Cilka’s Journey from Amazon.
Click here to borrow the book from the Ocean County Library.
A Zoom link will be sent shortly before the event.
FUTURE BOOKS:
July 13 - Concealed by By Esther Amini
by Maggie Anton
September 14 - Rav Hisda’s Daughter Book II Enchantress: By Maggie Anton
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The following names will be read by the Rabbi on Friday evening
Anna Gubar*
Edward Oertell
Jeanne Paris
Beverly Rosenstein
Jennie Schlanger*
Leo Baron
Morris Brounstein
Sadie Chalek
Bernard Diamond
Jenny Kessler
Diane Korn
Avram Shatz
David Cohen
William Feather*
Jessica Fields
Celie Nelson
Samuel Starr*
Grace Berman
Dr. Raul Fleischmajer
Hilde Hess Lewisohn
Sylvia Marcus
Gene Mendlow*
Ida Opatosky
Leonard Ostreicher
Murray Rosenthal
Barbara Cohen
Joseph Herman
Hilda Baron
William Novick
Gertrude Polinsky
*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 COalso welcome to share with the minyan some special memories of your loved one.
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Roberta Kaplan
June 11
Richard Dittrich
June 13
Steven Powitz
June 13
Linda Silverman
June 13
Nona Levin Abrams
June 14
Juli Smith Brasch
June 15
Helen Gross
June 16
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Gary & Betsy Silverman
39th Anniversary
Stewart & Hana Cofsky
58th Anniversary
Steven & Carolyn Ross
41st Anniversary
Aaron & Susan Shapiro
61st Anniversary
Norman & Carole Barham
58th Anniversary
Benjamin & Sue Margulies
David Page & Roberta Brackman
30th Anniversary
Benjamin & Jeri Riffle
41st Anniversary
Irwin & Alyssa Sablosky
41st Anniversary
Jacob & Mary Pleeter
36th anniversary
Ian Zimmerman & Stacey Wasserman
5th Anniversary
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SHARE YOUR NEWS
AND PICTURES
CONTACT:
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LYNN & STANLEY BERMAN
on the birth of their great grandson
Akiva
to their grandchildren
Yael and Mordechai Zakutinsky
PAUL LEVINE will be part of a panel presented by the JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH CAROLINA as part of the discussion on the Jewish merchants of Beaufort SC, his home town. Paul's parents were the proprietors of a men's store on the busy main street of the town.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Staff:
Leslie Dinkfelt, Office Manager
Mary Beth Krieger, Staff Member
Diane
Kitchen Manager: Susan Berube
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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
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