| | | Congregation Agudath Sholom Shabbat Bulletin 301 Strawberry Hill Avenue, Stamford, CT (203) 358-2200 www.cas-stamford.org Mikvah 203-964-1928 / Eruv 203-324-3955 |
| December 8, 2012
| Vayeshev | 24 Kislev 5773 |
| | | Friday | Candles | 4:08pm | | Mincha | 4:13pm |
Saturday | Chapel | 8:00am | | Coffee & Commentary | 8:45am | | Main Sanctuary | 9:00am | | Future Tots (Bridal Room - Parent Led) | 10:30am | | Tot Shabbat
(Library) | 10:30am | | Mini-minyan (Youth Room) | 10:30am | | Jr. Congregation (Chapel) | 10:30am | | B'nai Mitzvah Club (Grades 5-6, near elevator) | 10:30am | | Teen Minyan (back of social hall) | 9:30am | | Code of Jewish Law | 3:20pm | | Mincha (Sanctuary) | 4:05pm | | Daf Yomi- during Seudah Shlishit | | | Shabbat Ends | 5:07pm |
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| First Chanukah Candle after Havdala
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| | Rabbi Cohen:
Monday: 3:00-4:15 PM
Tuesday: 10:00-11:00 AM
Friday: 9:45-10:30 AM
Rabbi Walk:
Sunday: 10:00-11:00 AM
Monday: 8:15-9:00 PM
Thursday: 6:45-7:30 PM
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| | | | Yasher Koach to Tzvi Bernstein for organizing a rewarding and uplifting MALT experience. Thank G-d, the trip was filled with many memorable moments of learning, touring, tefilla and more. We joined many of our students studying in Israel for a Shabbat lunch. Thank G-d, they are all thriving. It is impossible to summarize a visit to Israel but I look forward to sharing a few reflections on Shabbat morning.
Wishing you and your families a Shabbat Shalom and joyous Chanukah! Rabbi Cohen Chanukah Saturday night, we light the first Chanukah candle following Havdala. However, in shul, we light the Chanukah lights first in order to insure publicizing the miracle while people are still present. For more info, visit www.ou.org Join us for lighting every night at the shul. Enjoy our new menorah outside marking each night! (Thank you, Rad, for your creativity.) Tuesday 12 pm: Special Chanukah Themed Lunch and Learn with Rabbi Cohen 7:30 pm: The Mysticism of Chanukah with Rabbi Walk Thursday 8:30-9:15 am: Chanukah Coffee and Conversation at Starbucks High Ridge with Rabbi Cohen Shabbat, December 15th: Chanukah Celebratory Kiddush |
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Thank you to Diane Cohen, Maruja Ivri and Vivian Weiss for organizing a successful senior lunch.
We wish the following people a Refuah Sheleima. Please have them in your prayers. If you would like to add a name for this month, email Rabbi Cohen rabbicohen@cas-stamford.org. Ester Rachel bat Razel Baila Rachel Adina bat Batya Sarah Rivkah bat Mindelle Devorah Bat Sara Yehuda Shalom ben Hadassah Lousya bat Janna Malka Bracha bat Elke Sara bat Eta Zeisel Refael Ephraim ben Sima Ziv ben Vered Zev Mordechai ben Chaya Gittel Chaya Devora bat Chana Dovid Levi ben Gittel Shmuel ben Mildred Ephraim ben Channah Yoel Yehudah Hersch ben Miriam Zlata Yosef Fischel ben Miriam Zlata |
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| - The first joint minyan of the year on Shabbat morning will be Dec. 29th at 8:45 AM.
- Please be advised that there is now a late maariv at 8:30 pm Monday-Thursday. If you can attend or for more info, contact Rabbi Walk.
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- Miriam and Gideon Pell on the engagement of their daughter Jennie to Josh Small
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Parents Shani and Elan White, brother Tuvia, sister Talia, grandfather Rabbi David Walk and the entire Walk family on the birth of a baby boy -
David Bessaleli on his engagement to Deena Falk of West Hempstead, NY
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- Alan, Richard and David Horowitz on the death of their beloved father, Philip Horowitz
- Norman Itkowitz on the death of his beloved mother, Minnie Itkowitz
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| Shabbat Topics & Participants
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| Torah Readers | Gil Daniels, Michael Berg, Sam Goldstein, Judd Love, Rabbi Shaked Parhi | | Shacharit/Musaf
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| Cantor Arik Wollheim
Rosalyn Sherman | | Rabbi Daniel Cohen | Sartuba: Reflections from Israel | Seudah Shlishit
| Saturday Night Lights - Havdala vs. Chanukah - for the speedy recovery of Rabbi Spektor
| | Code of Jewish Law
| Ari Lieberman
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| Thanks to this Week's Sponsors...
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| Shabbat Shalom Hospital Packages | Phyllis and Gerry Brodsky in sincere appreciation for the lovely Shabbat packages delivered to Gerry while hospitalized; The Linda Beson Nursing Educational Fund | | Sanctuary Kiddush | Susan & Len Mark, commemorating the yahrzeit of Len's father, Isadore Mark, and Fannie Stevens commemorating the 2nd yahrzeit of her husband, Daniel Stevens | | Chapel Kiddush | Murray and Roberta Engel, commemorating Moses Engel's yahrzeit | Seudah Shlishit
| Tracy & Nahum Daniels in honor of the first anniversary of Gil's bar mitzvah |
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| Daf Yomi | Sunday 7:45 am Monday-Friday 7:00 am | | Shacharit | Sunday 7:15/8:30 am Monday-Thursday 6:30/7:30 am Rosh Chodesh Tevet Friday 6:20/7:30 am | | Weekday Mincha | Sunday-Thursday 4:15 pm | | Late Maariv | Monday-Thursday 8:30 pm | | Next Friday Candles | 4:08 pm |
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| PLEASE JOIN US AT THE CAS CHANUKAH FAMILY FUNFEST 2012 Sunday, Dec. 9th 11 am-1 pm Crafts, Video Presentation, Raffle, Dreidel Contests, Family Games, Prizes & Delicious Lunch! $180 sponsorships are available Each sponsor will receive admission for their entire family and 5 raffle tickets! Cost for the entire program is just $5 per child and $10 per adult. Please sign up online at Click here to sign up |
MY YIDDISHE CHANUKAH
a musical celebration for the whole family (6 and up) Sunday, December 16, 6:30 pm at Temple Beth El in Stamford Featuring Arik Wollheim and local Cantors Asa Fradkin, George Mordecai, Vicki Axe, Laura Berman, and Micah Morgovsky. The production is under the direction of Zalmen Mlotek, Artistic Director of the National Yiddush Theatre Folksbiene. The performance stars Joanne Borts (currently on Broadway in the Tony-winning Best Musical Once), Daniella Rabbani, Avi Fox Rosen, Dmitri "Zisl-Yeysef" Slepovitch,
Brian Glassman, and Matt Temkin and is accompanied by a modern Klezmer band. The event is free and will be followed by
post-performance noshing and schmoozing. |
| CAS Women's Scholar Program: Wednesdays: December 12 & 19, 2012 and Jan. 2 & 9, 2013 at CAS 7:30 pm with: TAMMY JACOBOWITZ, PhD. TOPIC: Body and Soul in Judaism Free of Charge - Open to both men and women |
| We are excited to announce our honorees for the Annual CAS Dinner Dance Sunday evening, May 5th, 2013! Guests of Honor: Elissa and Dr. Philip Klapper Aviva Maller Community Service Award: Ronni Bass Young Leadership Award: Shira and Ethan Green Annual Dinner Chairpeople: Claudia and Howard Rimerman Diane and Elliot Sloyer We wish them and their families a hearty Mazal Tov!
Please mark the date and plan to join us as we celebrate our shul and the accomplishments of our honorees. |
| TEEN ADVOCACY FELLOWSHIPS FOR ISRAEL
A SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY Be one of six teens to be selected for a free trip to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference, March 3-5, 2013 in Washington DC. The trip will include registration, travel and hotel, and the winners will join the Agudath Sholom AIPAC delegation. To be one of the six selected: Submit in a 500 word essay-"WHY DOES AIPAC NEED YOU?" If you could lobby to the members of Congress on Capitol Hill, what would you say? What case would you present about the issues affecting the United States and Israel? Essays will be evaluated by local and national panel of AIPAC supporters. Submit to Rabbi Cohen by Friday, January 15, 2013 rabbicohen@casstamford.org Open to 10th-12th graders from CAS. Sponsored by Stephanie and Bob Sherman in memory of Stephanie's mother, Rosalie Aberma. If you would like to enable more teens to attend AIPAC Policy Conference through a contribution to our AIPAC Teen Fund, please contact Rabbi Cohen. |
| CAS Trip to Israel - November 3 - 13, 2013 Travel to Israel with Rabbi Daniel and Diane Cohen on an Israel Mission exploring highlights of Israel from ancient to modern times. Great trip for first timers. See flier in shul for more details or go to: www.ITC.com. Join Rabbi Cohen and representatives of Israel Tours for two informational sessions about the CAS Israel Trip in November, 2013. Sunday, January 13th at 9 am Thursday, January 24th at 8 pm |
| Rabbi Daniel Cohen's Classes:
Tuesday Morning Classes Power of the Prophets 8:15 - 9:00 am | Modern Jewish Thinkers 9:00 - 9:45 am Parsha Perspective & Paradigms 12:00 - 12:45 pm
Friday Morning Classes Torah Portion 8:15 -8:45 am | Daf Yomi Shiur 9:00-9:45 am |
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| Rabbi David Walk's Classes | Sunday Bible from the Beginning | 9:15 am | | Monday Weekly Parsha at BCDS | 12:10 pm | | Monday New Class @ CAS Hilchot Bishul B'Shabbat The Laws of Cooking on Shabbat With Harav Mordechai Willig Shlit''a Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshiva University, on tape with source materials Heyman Chapel, 1 hour; be home in time for MNF | 7:15 pm | | Tuesday Mystical Minhagim | 7:30 pm | | Thursday Talmud, Megillah | 7:30 pm |
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| CAS Youth Department | | THIS WEEK: WE WILL NOT HAVE early drop off this week for Tot Shabbaters & Mini Minyaners- please let us know if you are interested in continuing this service - Mini Minyan-Danielle Alexander from PJ Library will join us for a special Chanukah Story Time
- Jr. Cong.-bring your nekudot for a double nekudot weekand a special nekudot sale Shabbat!
- At Jr. Cong.-Come and hear Avi Gordon read from the Torah while Leeba Zucker will be delivering a special Birthday D'var Torah!! If you would like to read from the Torah or deliver a D'var Torah please let us know.
- Thank you to the Haron and Zucker families for hosting onegs last Shabbat and to the over 50 children who attended them! And thank you to Adina and Ari Hertzberg as well as to Josh Sperber for helping to run these fabulous onegs. If your family would like to host an oneg, let us know!
- Thank you to Chemda Parhi, Daniella, Roni, Rabbi Walk, Shira Parhi, Shira Cohen, Mrs. Links, and Rebecca Sigman for helping to run our Chanukah Family Funfest this Sunday - we hope to see you all there!
- Thank you to Rebecca Dayan and Maceala Thau, youth chairs of the senior luncheon, for helping with this wonderful event.
FRIDAY NIGHT -
THE ROADSHOW COMES BACK TO STAMFORD CAS welcomes the NCSY Roadshow advisors Devora Weinstock, Izak Held, Elisheva Penner, Daniel Altaras, and Leah Goldstein to Stamford! -
SR. TEEN ONEG for Grades 6-8 8pm at the Smart's, 26 Toilsome Brook Rd, featuring the Roadshow!
SATURDAY - TEEN MINYAN at 9:30 AM in the Social Hall for 7-12th graders
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TEEN MINYAN KIDDUSH sponsored by NCSY in honor of the Stamford Roadshow -
MIDDLE SCHOOL "JR. NCSY" ONEG 3-4pm at the Leiberman's, 426 Strawberry Hill Ave., featuring the Roadshow!
THIS SATURDAY NIGHT The whole Stamford Community is invited as we try to set the WORLD RECORD for the Most Chanukah menorahs EVER lit in one place! Join New York and Atlantic Seaboard NCSY and over 400 Jewish friends at the STAMFORD HILTON as we make history! Menorah lighting will be at approximately 6:45, following a HUGE NCSY-style musical Havdalah at 6:00 pm. BE A PART OF HISTORY! SUNDAY UPCOMING EVENTS: BROOKLYN NETS GAME! Saturday night, Jan. 5th, 2013 Limited tickets-first come, first served. COMING SOON... YOUTH SHABBAT/JR. CONG. SHABBATON... AND FOR THE TEENS: Jr. TEEN CHANUKAH PARTY!!! Thursday Night, December 13th- Donuts, Latkes, Music, and Fun... and win some extra presents and gelt! TEEN MINYAN December 15th at 9:30am for Grades 7-12 YARCHEI KALLAH SHABBATON December 25th-29th. Experience Torah like never before! For more info contact Josh at JYoshiMunk@gmail.com JANUARY: FRESHMAN NIGHT @CAS! Party like you're in 9th Grade... because you are! A special Shabbos dinner party JUST FOR FRESHIES! TEEN MINYAN January 5 at 9:30 AM in the Social Hall for 7-12th graders Jr. TEEN ONEG January 5 - For grades 6-8 TEEN MINYAN January 19 at 9:30am in the Social Hall for 7-12th graders Jr. TEEN MLK DAY TRIP! -Save the date! January 21, for grades 6-8 FEBRUARY PREVIEW:
NCSY WINTER REGIONAL SHABBATON JAN 31-FEB 3... it's back again - the BEST WEEKEND OF THE WINTER!!!! Contact Josh for more details. FOLLOW @CAS_TEENS ON TWITTER!! Shabbat Shalom, Yehuda Jeiger |
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JOIN RABBI COHEN'S 40 Days to a Better You for Chanukah! YESHIVA BAIS BINYOMIN invites the men and boys of Stamford to their community Chanukah Party, this Wednesday evening, December 12, at 7:30 pm. There will be inspirational Torah, delicious food and lebidik dancing. Rabbi Krohn is expected to attend! MENS CUB HOMELESS SHELTER The Mens Club would like to thank and invite all the volunteers and contributors who have responded generously over the years to provide these unfortunate homeless, a holiday meal,gifts and company, when all other volunteers are home with their families. This year, we need your help again, to provide the Pacific House homeless shelter Christmas dinner. If you can donate food, contributions or time, please contact the Shul (Cindy) or Mitchell Bell: FROM GALUT TO HITGALUT WITH DR. HINDY NAJMAN-Wednesday, Jan. 16th, 23 & 30th , 8 - 9 pm at the JCC. Dr. Najman, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University, explores the question of how the Jews responded to the destruction of the First Temple. Generously sponsored by Mike and Betsy Stone. Co-sponsored by CAS, the JCC, TBE, TS and YI. SPONSOR THE KIDDUSH- Would you like to sponsor a Shabbat Kiddush? Call the office and ask for Cindy, 203-358-2200! LET US KNOW! We strive at CAS to support our members in time of need. If you know of someone who is ill, please reach out to Rabbi Cohen via email at rabbicohen@cas-stamford.org or phone, alerting our clergy and Chesed committee to offer comfort and assistance. Together, we can insure CAS's role as a community of caring. Thank you very much! CAS DECORUM The policy for our kids is easy - "In shul or in groups." Please help us maintain decorum. Make sure you child is either sitting in synagogue or participating in our Youth Groups. Make sure that your child enjoys Kiddush in the Simcha Room or Social Hall. READ MEGILAT ESTHER ON PURIM -We're looking to enhance our Purim Day Megilah Reading (Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 8:30 AM) by having a group of capable young men who would lein the Megilah. For training and more info please contact Cantor Arik Wollheim-cantor@cas-stamford.org |
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| New & Prospective Member Brunch at Rabbi Daniel & Diane Cohen's Home 15 Revonah Circle, Stamford Sunday December 16, 2012 10:30-noon Enjoy great company, delicious food, and learn about our shul community. For more information, please contact the shul office at 203-358-2200
New Member Orientation for New and Seasoned MembersWednesday January 23, 2013 7:30-9:00pm |
| In the words of Adam Sandler, "Put on your yarmulke, it's time for Hanukah." Join the Jewish clubs at Stamford High school and Westhill High School in celebrating Chanukah. Come eat latkes, doughnuts and chocolate. Win all the gelt in the dreidel tournament and hear a story of warriors and religious freedom. Stamford High School's club meets on Tuesdays at 2:15 PM in Room 925 and Westhill's club meets on Thursdays at 2:15 PM in Room 601. Can't make it this week? Clubs meet weekly! For more information contact Rebecca@myjsc.org myjsc.org _______________________________________________________________________________ YESHIVA BAIS BINYOMIN invites the men and boys of Stamford to their community Chanukah Party, this Wednesday evening, December 12, at 7:30 pm. There will be inspirational Torah, delicious food and lebidik dancing. Rabbi Krohn is expected to attend! AIPAC POST ELECTION ANALYSIS: WHAT'S IN STORE FOR THE PRO-ISRAEL COMMUNITY-Wednesday, December 12, 2012 Temple Beth El. 7:00pm doors open/7:30pm program, followed by dessert reception. FREE,but for security purposes, RSVP to nrodriguez@aipac.org or 212-750-4110 JEWISH BIBLICAL THEMES BY THE OLD MASTERS WITH HELANE REINGOLD- December 12th, Jan. 2nd & 9th 10-11:00am at the JCC. The Old Masters helped shaped our vision of Jewish themes and Jewish texts. Review these paintings with the texts that inspired them. Co-sponsored by the JHS. $45/free for J.E.E.P. pass holders. JEWISH UNITY CONCERT & TRIBUTE TO SENATOR LIEBERMAN- Sunday, December 16 (8th day of Chanukah) at the Lyman Center for Performing Arts at Southern Connecticut State University, 501 Crescent Street, New Haven. Doors open-3:30; concert-4:00. Featuring 8th Day and the Maccabeats. Tickets: (203) 392-6154 or jewishunityconcert.com THE MACCABIAH GAMES is holding a open house at the JCC Stamford, Monday Dec. 17at 8:00 pm with Jed Margolis, Executive Director of Maccabi USA/Sports for Israel. For more information go to www.maccabiusa.com or call 215-561-6900 ADL AWARD RECEPTION Moved to Thursday Jan. 17, 2013 The Anti-Defamation League will hold its annual Daniel R. Ginsberg Humanitarian Award Reception in Stamford. Rabbi David Israel will be honored at this event. For more information, please contact Janet Magid, Associate Development Director at (203) 288-6500 x313 or jmagid@adl.org JFS HURRICANE SANDY RELIEF FUND-JFS is ready to assist those in our community in need. Every dollar donated toward the JFS Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund will be matched up to $5000. For more info contact JFS 203-921-4161 ISRAEL CHANUKAH BONDS-bonds starting now at $36, and easily purchased online, this is a perfect gift for the holidays. For more info, contact Cynthia Blustein at 914-713-9003 or make a purchase online at www.israelbonds.com DOWNLOAD CHANUKA TO-GO 5773 from Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future-http://www.yutorah.org/togo/Chanuka |
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| Happy Chanukah from Sisterhood Marjorie Abrams, Janet Bein, and Anne Peskin co-presidents, thank you all for your generous support in our first year SYLVIA'S Gift Shop Hours: Sun 10:00 am-1:00 pm Tues , Wed, Thurs 12:00 -3:00 pm ------------------------ Next Sisterhood Event : Estate Planning February 12 at 7:30 at CAS |
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