Congregation Agudath Sholom Shabbat Bulletin

Congregation Agudath Sholom Shabbat Bulletin Shmini Shabbat Mevarchim Omer: 9 April 15, 2023 24 Nisan 5783 send your submission to bulletin@cas-stamford.org ‌ ‌ Friday Mincha 7:00 PM Candle Lighting 7:14 PM Shabbat Shacharit 7:00/8:00/9:00 AM Sephardic Minyan 8:45 AM Latest Shema 8:52 AM Shmuel Class 9:00 AM Bob's Basics 10:00 AM Latest Shacharit 10:13 AM Shiur 10:30 AM Code Of Jewish Law 6:15 PM Mincha 7:05 PM Havdalah 8:16 PM Shabbat Shalom I hope you and your families enjoyed a wonderful Pesach. Take a moment to reflect on one inspiring seder insight to carry forward beyond Pesach. God willing, we forged meaningful memories as well. More than any other holiday, the counting of the omer which bridges Pesach and Shavuot affirms our aspiration to harness the days ahead for personal growth and a deeper commitment to making God and Torah the center of our lives. In this spirit, sign up for my Living the Torah Moment or Rabbi Kurtz's Daily Halacha for daily Torah inspiration and learning. Join My Omer to make the days count. This coming week is Yom Hashoah. Join the community Yom HaShoah program on April 16th at Temple Beth El at 4pm, featuring Voices of the Generations. For more info, contact Sharon Lewis, JCRC Director, at slewis@ujf.org. We will be hosting a very important lecture this coming Monday night at the shul at 8 PM with Rabbi Yoni Rosensweig Modern Jewish Approaches to Mental Health Challenges. Rabbi Rosensweig is the founder of Maaglei Nefesh, an institute addressing mental health issues in Jewish law. RSVP here. Finally, everyone is invited to join me at the Stamford JCC this Thursday evening at 7:30 PM for the book launch of my recent book, The Secret of the Light. RSVP here. Wishing and your families a Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Daniel Cohen Shabbat Information  Day 9 of the Omer. To learn more about Sefiras HaOmer, see here. Learn about the Shabbat Torah Reading Shemini with the insights of of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks z"l - click here Read Rabbi Kurtz's weekly halachic essays on the parsha here. The Haftorah is read from Samuel II 6:1-7:17 Haftarah summary by Chabad.org - click here Haftarah summary by Haftarah Helper - click here Shabbat Mevarchim: We bless the month of Iyar; Rosh Chodesh is observed from Thursday evening through next Shabbat. Molad Iyar: Thursday, April 20, 2:08 PM and 13 Chalokim Halachic Note: Tachanun and prayers correlated with it e.g. , Kel Malei and Tidkasecha are not recited until after Rosh Chodesh Iyar. We DO, however, recite Av HaRachamim since the crusades occurred during this time of year. Would you like to read the Torah or Haftara for your bar mitzvah parsha? Let us know by clicking here. Parsha Icebreakers (Courtesy of Elisheva and Yaakov Moshe Shmidman) Recall a time when you erroneously got upset or frustrated (Moshe gets upset at Elazar and Itamar mistakenly) What is your favorite traditional Jewish food (the parsha of kashrus)? Praying and Supporting Our Soldiers and Troops  We were recently blessed to host Rabbi Irving Elson, a vice president of JCC Association of North America and director of JWB Jewish Chaplains Council who spoke movingly about supporting Jews in the US Armed Forces. As a shul, we will be mobilizing to explore ways to support our Jewish troops and also the IDF. If you would like to be part of the planning of this effort and mission, please contact Rabbi Cohen. Further, we would like to include the names of family members and friends currently serving America or Israel, please fill out this form. May God watch over them every step of the way and may He bring peace soon and speedily in our days. Building our Faye and Ben Manger Beit Midrash Sponsor a Sefer or Sefarim - We anticipate, God willing, opening our Beit Midrash in the coming weeks. In anticipation, we will be purchasing sefarim, Hebrew and English, for new bookshelves and adding tables for learning. God willing the sounds of Torah study will join the sounds of Tefillah heard in this sacred space. To sponsor some new Judaic books and seforim, click here. Thank you to Rachel & Nimrod Dayan and Rhonda Schaffer-Maron & Jeff Maron for being our first donors! Shabbat Topics & Participants Shmuel Class Mark Wagshul Bob's Basics Bob Abrams Shiur David Held: Who was the final rabbinical authority in France? The medieval founding of modern semicha Code of Jewish Law Rabbi Yossi Kamman Seudat Shlishit Rabbi Daniel Cohen: Pirkei Avot, Chapter 1 - In memory of Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee Mazal Tov to Cecile Minkoff on the arrival of a grandson in Israel! Mazal Tov to Aunt and Uncle Mihal & David Ariyeh! Celebrate with the family! Make a donation in their honor and we will send an acknowledgement to the family. Just click here Thanks To Our Sponsors Chapel Kiddush (Wednesday): The Klein Family in memory of Sandor Klein's second yahrzeit Chapel Kiddush (Thursday): Marjory & Bob Abrams in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Harold Abrams/Chaim Ben Yitzchak Senior Challah Deliveries: Kathy & Gary Sosnovich in commemoration of Kathy's father, Morton (Mayer) Kinzelberg's yahrzeit Sanctuary Kiddush (Shabbat): Diane & Rabbi Daniel Cohen in gratitude to Hashem for the wedding of Tamar and Feivel and the births of our grandchildren Ruthie Zwiren (daughter of Michel and Yishai), Naftali Averick (son of Adina and Moshe) and Aliza Petrushka (daughter of Sara Malka and Avi) Paid Advertisement Sign Up for these Events sign up Rabbi Yoni Rosensweig on Mental Health and Jewish Law Monday, April 17 - 8:00 PM Sign up Israel @ 75 Free Teen Event Thursday, April 20 - 5:30 PM Learn more Book & Author Conversation with Rabbi Cohen at the Stamford JCC Thursday, April 20 - 7:30 PM sign up Shabbat Backyard Shmooze! Shabbat, April 22 - 4:00 PM sign up CAS Movie Club Sunday, April 23 - 8:00 PM Learn more Mishna & Munchies sign up Cooking Demo by Busy in Brooklyns Chanie Sunday, April 30 - 8:00 PM Upcoming Events New Spring Learning Program with Rabbi Oran Zweiter at Agudath Sholom Zionists Before Zionism - In Honor of Israel's 75th - Tuesdays at 8 PM.Explore movements of aliyah in the centuries prior to the advent of modern Zionism. (April 18th) The Aliyah of the 300 Rabbis in the Middle Ages, (May 2nd) Hasidim and their Opponents Make Aliyah, (May 16th) Hovevei Zion- Lovers of Zion in the Nineteenth Century Literature at Lunch Roundtable led by Dr. Richard Schwartz Wednesday, April 26 - 12:00 PM The session will be led by Dr. Richard Schwartz in person at CAS and by zoom. We recently celebrated Women's History Month with a lively discussion of Elizabeth Bishop's One Art. Please join us later in April as we celebrate National Poetry Month. Keep in mind that our Torah has been called God's gift of "Song" and "Poetry" to the Hebrew Nation. 613 will again be catering our Roundtable with sandwiches and sides. If you plan to attend in person please let us know by Monday, April 24 so we caninclude you in the lunch. For further information, please contact rj@richardjschwartz.com Zoom Meeting ID 878 4408 7429 Passcode 868450 CAS Announcements Making Mitzvah Moments - Challah Deliveries  For over 3 years, we have been delivering Challot on Fridays to Seniors in our community. Thank you to all of the volunteers! It is about not only the Challah but the friendship. If you would like to sponsor the effort weekly, click here and/or for a month or more please email Rabbi Cohen. Chaya Sima Koenigsberg to Speak at CAS Spring Scholar Series  Chaya Sima Koenigsberg, an up and coming, highly respected Judaic Studies scholar, will be this year's featured speaker at Congregation Agudath Sholom's four-part spring scholar series. She will be giving a class on four consecutive Wednesday evenings in May – May 3, 10, 17, and 24. Each class will begin at 8PM, and will be held at Congregation Agudath Sholom. The theme will be Illuminating Medieval Ashkenaz: Studies in Text and Imagery Save the Date: The Journey of Surrogacy  On Wednesday evening, May 10th, we will have the opportunity to hear Aliza Abrams Konig, Director of Student Leadership, at Yeshiva University, speak about her journey to parenthood using a surrogate. She will be joined by CAS Yoetzet Halacha Rivka Alter. This event will be at a private home in Stamford. Further event details TBA. For more info, contact Dena Block at blockdena@gmail.com or Nicole Makovsky at Nicolemakovsky@gmail.com. CAS Classes Join one of our CAS classes. Click for up to date schedule We Wish A Speedy Recovery To Rina Yael bat Sara Sara Shlomit bat Liba Leib Kovit ben Blanche Moshe ben Hannah Carmiya Chaya Hadas bat Tziporah Miriam Nechama Miriam bat Devorah Dov ben Pnina חיים מאנס ben קרייסל מרי Add a name to this list → We Honor Our Military Jeremy Slen Meni Nehmad Add a name to this list → Community Announcements JCRC Yom Ha'Shoah Commemoration  Come commemorate Yom Ha'Shoah as UJF's JCRC hosts an evening with Julie Kohner on Sunday, April 16 (4:00 pm) at Temple Beth El in Stamford, where the founder and CEO of Voices of the Generations, Inc. recounts her memories as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and a trained educator. To sign-up today or for more details, contact JCRC Director, Sharon Lewis. Celebrating Israel at 75 Together with UJF!  We are very excited to host a week of exciting activities to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Israel, between April 19th-26th. With a theme of "Beyond the Dream: Finding Yourself in the Israeli Mosaic" the festivities across Stamford promise something for everyone. For a full schedule of festivities and to register for daily events, visit www.ujf.org/israel75 An Evening with Schoke JFS  Sunday, May 21st, 5:30 PM. Schoke Jewish Family Service invites you to its annual gala, An Evening with Schoke JFS – Feeding the Community at the Italian Center of Stamford, 1620 Newfield Avenue, in an outdoor tented pavilion. Mimi Cohen and Rhoda & Avram Freedberg are the recipients of the 43rd Annual Mitzvah Award, United Jewish Federation of Stamford, New Canaan, and Darien and Jewish Federation of Greater Fairfield County are recipients of the Community Service Award, and the Mitzvah Match Families including the Bradley, Fischel, Gradman, Katz, Sperber, Speter, Tobin, Yasgur, and Zizmor families are recipients of the Volunteer of the Year Award. The evening's events will be hosted by the weather anchor for NBC 4 New York, David Price. The event is co-chaired by Connie Freeman and Jillian Klaff with Jeri Appel as auction chair and Meryl Japha, Liz Kitay, and Ronnie Sichel serving as advisors. General tickets include dinner and dessert for $250, purchase your ticket at www.ctjfs.org. Contact Lisa Rich at 203-921-4161 or lrich@ctjfs.org to place a journal. Schoke JFS is Here to Support You - Learn more about Our Ongoing Support Groups  Bereavement Support Group available at Schoke Jewish Family Service, for more information please contact, Rebekah Kanefsky, Interim Director of Clinical and Family Life Services at rkanefsky@ctjfs.org or 203-921-4161.

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Congregation Agudath Sholom Shabbat Bulletin

Congregation Agudath Sholom Shabbat Bulletin Shmini Shabbat Mevarchim Omer: 9 April 15, 2023 24 Nisan 5783 send your submission to bulletin@cas-stamford.org ‌ ‌ Friday Mincha 7:00 PM Candle Lighting 7:14 PM Shabbat Shacharit 7:00/8:00/9:00 AM Sephardic Minyan 8:45 AM Latest Shema 8:52 AM Shmuel Class 9:00 AM Bob's Basics 10:00 AM Latest Shacharit 10:13 AM Shiur 10:30 AM Code Of Jewish Law 6:15 PM Mincha 7:05 PM Havdalah 8:16 PM Shabbat Shalom I hope you and your families enjoyed a wonderful Pesach. Take a moment to reflect on one inspiring seder insight to carry forward beyond Pesach. God willing, we forged meaningful memories as well. More than any other holiday, the counting of the omer which bridges Pesach and Shavuot affirms our aspiration to harness the days ahead for personal growth and a deeper commitment to making God and Torah the center of our lives. In this spirit, sign up for my Living the Torah Moment or Rabbi Kurtz's Daily Halacha for daily Torah inspiration and learning. Join My Omer to make the days count. This coming week is Yom Hashoah. Join the community Yom HaShoah program on April 16th at Temple Beth El at 4pm, featuring Voices of the Generations. For more info, contact Sharon Lewis, JCRC Director, at slewis@ujf.org. We will be hosting a very important lecture this coming Monday night at the shul at 8 PM with Rabbi Yoni Rosensweig Modern Jewish Approaches to Mental Health Challenges. Rabbi Rosensweig is the founder of Maaglei Nefesh, an institute addressing mental health issues in Jewish law. RSVP here. Finally, everyone is invited to join me at the Stamford JCC this Thursday evening at 7:30 PM for the book launch of my recent book, The Secret of the Light. RSVP here. Wishing and your families a Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Daniel Cohen Shabbat Information  Day 9 of the Omer. To learn more about Sefiras HaOmer, see here. Learn about the Shabbat Torah Reading Shemini with the insights of of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks z"l - click here Read Rabbi Kurtz's weekly halachic essays on the parsha here. The Haftorah is read from Samuel II 6:1-7:17 Haftarah summary by Chabad.org - click here Haftarah summary by Haftarah Helper - click here Shabbat Mevarchim: We bless the month of Iyar; Rosh Chodesh is observed from Thursday evening through next Shabbat. Molad Iyar: Thursday, April 20, 2:08 PM and 13 Chalokim Halachic Note: Tachanun and prayers correlated with it e.g. , Kel Malei and Tidkasecha are not recited until after Rosh Chodesh Iyar. We DO, however, recite Av HaRachamim since the crusades occurred during this time of year. Would you like to read the Torah or Haftara for your bar mitzvah parsha? Let us know by clicking here. Parsha Icebreakers (Courtesy of Elisheva and Yaakov Moshe Shmidman) Recall a time when you erroneously got upset or frustrated (Moshe gets upset at Elazar and Itamar mistakenly) What is your favorite traditional Jewish food (the parsha of kashrus)? Praying and Supporting Our Soldiers and Troops  We were recently blessed to host Rabbi Irving Elson, a vice president of JCC Association of North America and director of JWB Jewish Chaplains Council who spoke movingly about supporting Jews in the US Armed Forces. As a shul, we will be mobilizing to explore ways to support our Jewish troops and also the IDF. If you would like to be part of the planning of this effort and mission, please contact Rabbi Cohen. Further, we would like to include the names of family members and friends currently serving America or Israel, please fill out this form. May God watch over them every step of the way and may He bring peace soon and speedily in our days. Building our Faye and Ben Manger Beit Midrash Sponsor a Sefer or Sefarim - We anticipate, God willing, opening our Beit Midrash in the coming weeks. In anticipation, we will be purchasing sefarim, Hebrew and English, for new bookshelves and adding tables for learning. God willing the sounds of Torah study will join the sounds of Tefillah heard in this sacred space. To sponsor some new Judaic books and seforim, click here. Thank you to Rachel & Nimrod Dayan and Rhonda Schaffer-Maron & Jeff Maron for being our first donors! Shabbat Topics & Participants Shmuel Class Mark Wagshul Bob's Basics Bob Abrams Shiur David Held: Who was the final rabbinical authority in France? The medieval founding of modern semicha Code of Jewish Law Rabbi Yossi Kamman Seudat Shlishit Rabbi Daniel Cohen: Pirkei Avot, Chapter 1 - In memory of Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee Mazal Tov to Cecile Minkoff on the arrival of a grandson in Israel! Mazal Tov to Aunt and Uncle Mihal & David Ariyeh! Celebrate with the family! Make a donation in their honor and we will send an acknowledgement to the family. Just click here Thanks To Our Sponsors Chapel Kiddush (Wednesday): The Klein Family in memory of Sandor Klein's second yahrzeit Chapel Kiddush (Thursday): Marjory & Bob Abrams in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Harold Abrams/Chaim Ben Yitzchak Senior Challah Deliveries: Kathy & Gary Sosnovich in commemoration of Kathy's father, Morton (Mayer) Kinzelberg's yahrzeit Sanctuary Kiddush (Shabbat): Diane & Rabbi Daniel Cohen in gratitude to Hashem for the wedding of Tamar and Feivel and the births of our grandchildren Ruthie Zwiren (daughter of Michel and Yishai), Naftali Averick (son of Adina and Moshe) and Aliza Petrushka (daughter of Sara Malka and Avi) Paid Advertisement Sign Up for these Events sign up Rabbi Yoni Rosensweig on Mental Health and Jewish Law Monday, April 17 - 8:00 PM Sign up Israel @ 75 Free Teen Event Thursday, April 20 - 5:30 PM Learn more Book & Author Conversation with Rabbi Cohen at the Stamford JCC Thursday, April 20 - 7:30 PM sign up Shabbat Backyard Shmooze! Shabbat, April 22 - 4:00 PM sign up CAS Movie Club Sunday, April 23 - 8:00 PM Learn more Mishna & Munchies sign up Cooking Demo by Busy in Brooklyns Chanie Sunday, April 30 - 8:00 PM Upcoming Events New Spring Learning Program with Rabbi Oran Zweiter at Agudath Sholom Zionists Before Zionism - In Honor of Israel's 75th - Tuesdays at 8 PM.Explore movements of aliyah in the centuries prior to the advent of modern Zionism. (April 18th) The Aliyah of the 300 Rabbis in the Middle Ages, (May 2nd) Hasidim and their Opponents Make Aliyah, (May 16th) Hovevei Zion- Lovers of Zion in the Nineteenth Century Literature at Lunch Roundtable led by Dr. Richard Schwartz Wednesday, April 26 - 12:00 PM The session will be led by Dr. Richard Schwartz in person at CAS and by zoom. We recently celebrated Women's History Month with a lively discussion of Elizabeth Bishop's One Art. Please join us later in April as we celebrate National Poetry Month. Keep in mind that our Torah has been called God's gift of "Song" and "Poetry" to the Hebrew Nation. 613 will again be catering our Roundtable with sandwiches and sides. If you plan to attend in person please let us know by Monday, April 24 so we caninclude you in the lunch. For further information, please contact rj@richardjschwartz.com Zoom Meeting ID 878 4408 7429 Passcode 868450 CAS Announcements Making Mitzvah Moments - Challah Deliveries  For over 3 years, we have been delivering Challot on Fridays to Seniors in our community. Thank you to all of the volunteers! It is about not only the Challah but the friendship. If you would like to sponsor the effort weekly, click here and/or for a month or more please email Rabbi Cohen. Chaya Sima Koenigsberg to Speak at CAS Spring Scholar Series  Chaya Sima Koenigsberg, an up and coming, highly respected Judaic Studies scholar, will be this year's featured speaker at Congregation Agudath Sholom's four-part spring scholar series. She will be giving a class on four consecutive Wednesday evenings in May – May 3, 10, 17, and 24. Each class will begin at 8PM, and will be held at Congregation Agudath Sholom. The theme will be Illuminating Medieval Ashkenaz: Studies in Text and Imagery Save the Date: The Journey of Surrogacy  On Wednesday evening, May 10th, we will have the opportunity to hear Aliza Abrams Konig, Director of Student Leadership, at Yeshiva University, speak about her journey to parenthood using a surrogate. She will be joined by CAS Yoetzet Halacha Rivka Alter. This event will be at a private home in Stamford. Further event details TBA. For more info, contact Dena Block at blockdena@gmail.com or Nicole Makovsky at Nicolemakovsky@gmail.com. CAS Classes Join one of our CAS classes. Click for up to date schedule We Wish A Speedy Recovery To Rina Yael bat Sara Sara Shlomit bat Liba Leib Kovit ben Blanche Moshe ben Hannah Carmiya Chaya Hadas bat Tziporah Miriam Nechama Miriam bat Devorah Dov ben Pnina חיים מאנס ben קרייסל מרי Add a name to this list → We Honor Our Military Jeremy Slen Meni Nehmad Add a name to this list → Community Announcements JCRC Yom Ha'Shoah Commemoration  Come commemorate Yom Ha'Shoah as UJF's JCRC hosts an evening with Julie Kohner on Sunday, April 16 (4:00 pm) at Temple Beth El in Stamford, where the founder and CEO of Voices of the Generations, Inc. recounts her memories as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and a trained educator. To sign-up today or for more details, contact JCRC Director, Sharon Lewis. Celebrating Israel at 75 Together with UJF!  We are very excited to host a week of exciting activities to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Israel, between April 19th-26th. With a theme of "Beyond the Dream: Finding Yourself in the Israeli Mosaic" the festivities across Stamford promise something for everyone. For a full schedule of festivities and to register for daily events, visit www.ujf.org/israel75 An Evening with Schoke JFS  Sunday, May 21st, 5:30 PM. Schoke Jewish Family Service invites you to its annual gala, An Evening with Schoke JFS – Feeding the Community at the Italian Center of Stamford, 1620 Newfield Avenue, in an outdoor tented pavilion. Mimi Cohen and Rhoda & Avram Freedberg are the recipients of the 43rd Annual Mitzvah Award, United Jewish Federation of Stamford, New Canaan, and Darien and Jewish Federation of Greater Fairfield County are recipients of the Community Service Award, and the Mitzvah Match Families including the Bradley, Fischel, Gradman, Katz, Sperber, Speter, Tobin, Yasgur, and Zizmor families are recipients of the Volunteer of the Year Award. The evening's events will be hosted by the weather anchor for NBC 4 New York, David Price. The event is co-chaired by Connie Freeman and Jillian Klaff with Jeri Appel as auction chair and Meryl Japha, Liz Kitay, and Ronnie Sichel serving as advisors. General tickets include dinner and dessert for $250, purchase your ticket at www.ctjfs.org. Contact Lisa Rich at 203-921-4161 or lrich@ctjfs.org to place a journal. Schoke JFS is Here to Support You - Learn more about Our Ongoing Support Groups  Bereavement Support Group available at Schoke Jewish Family Service, for more information please contact, Rebekah Kanefsky, Interim Director of Clinical and Family Life Services at rkanefsky@ctjfs.org or 203-921-4161.

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