Vayak'hel / Pikudei /Ha-Hodesh
March 9, 2013 / 27 Adar, 5773
Bentsh Rosh Hodesh Nisan
(Tuesday 12th)
Zachary Wolofsky Bar Mitzvah
Parnassim:
Maurice Krystal and Eyal Faitelis
Torah:
Exodus 36:8-37:9;39:22-43 (Etz Pp. 557;567)
Maftir:Exodus
12:1-11 (Etz P.380)
Haftarah:
Ezekiel 45:16-46:18 (Etz P.1291)
Torah
Reading: Zachary Wolofsky, Bryan Wolofsky, Chayim Lowen,
Ben
Chernin, Atara Laor, Leonora Fenyeves, Cantor Heather Batchelor
Haftarah
Reading: Zachary Wolofsky
This week's Kiddush is sponsored by Robin
Slutsken and Bryan Wolofsky
in honour of Zachary becoming a
Bar Mitzvah.
Candle
Lighting: 5:33 PM
Havdalah:
6:43 PM
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SYNAGOGUE NEWS
SHABBAT MORNING STUDY
GROUP
Join us for the Shabbat
Morning Study group "The David Story: From Shepherd to Messiah"
with Carmela Aigen.
WELLSPRINGS
OF FREEDOM HAGGADAH - Book Signing
Sunday, March 10, 2013,
12:00 pm-1:00 pm, Bibliophile,
5519 Queen Mary Rd, Montreal
Sunday, March 17, 2013,
1:00 pm-2:30 pm,
The Jewish Store, Cavendish Mall,C.S.L.
Rabbi Ron will be
personalizing copies of his beautiful Haggadah. Come out and have him sign
your copy and browse the stores.
For West Islanders- The
Haggadah is also available at Chapters Pointe Claire!
MATZAH TO MITZVAH-A
Passover Experience
Sunday, March
10, 2:00 pm-4:30 pm :
Workshops at Temple Emanu-El 4100 Sherbrooke W.
The topics
are: Passover and Easter: Celebrations of Freedom, with Rabbi Lisa
Gruschow and Father John Walsh; A New Haggadah for a New Age, with
Rabbi Ron Aigen; Keeping Everyone at the Table: Making Your
Seder Interactive, Creative, Meaningful & Fun, with Rabbi Andrea Myers
and Dr. Catherine Masden; Singing Your Way Through the Seder, with
Rachelle Schubert; Passover Cooking.
There will be crafts,
movies, and mitzvah projects for children.
Cost: $5/person,
$15/ family with a donation of a non-perishable food item $7/$20
without. Open to all. valerie@templemontreal.ca
PASSOVER GUESTS
If you have place at your
Seder table or are in need of a place to celebrate with others, please
contact Nadene Solomon through the office (514-486-9400) or at nadene.s@gmail.comand she would be happy to help you make
arrangements. To avoid disappointment, please be in touch by March 11, 2013 so we have sufficient time to help
facilitate these plans.
In addition, MADA is
hosting community Seders at various locations throughout the city. For more
information, please call (514) 342-4969 or email mada@madacenter.com.
MARCH OF THE LIVING 2013
Please let us know if
your child will be participating in this year's March of the Living. Contact
the office at 514-486-9400 or info@dorshei-emet.org
MEMBER NEWS
PLEASE JOIN US IN
WELCOMING OUR NEW MEMBERS:
Stephen Spiegel and
Judith Solomon.
KOL HAKAVOD
Member Atara
Stolovitsky, daughter of Erika Tencer and Jonathan Silver, has been
chosen from amongst many, to be the next lucky participant in an amazing
intensive 2 week dolphin assisted therapy program at the Curacao Dolphin
Assisted Therapy Center in the beautiful Antilles!! This is an opportunity of
a lifetime and the family is grateful that Atara will have the chance to
experience this wonderful therapy. Dolphin Aid Canada has generously donated
some money for Atara's dolphin therapy. However, additional funds are needed
in order to make this happen. To find out more or to make a
contribution, please contact Erika at etencer2@sympatico.ca. or visit www.curacaodolphintherapy.com/ .
Member Beverly
Akerman was one of several people featured on CBC Radio's
"C'est la vie" this week. The show was about Anglos living in
Quebec.http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/ID/2339690459/
Member Ariel
Ifergan, mise en scène: SEGAL CENTRE STUDIO
March 7 to March 23
.
"L'augmentation"
de Georges Perec.
MAZEL TOV
to Rosanne
Moss and Bill Brender on the birth of their
grandson Saul Avery son of Noah and Marianne.
to Rosy Atkin (grade 10) who placed third in Bialik's Public Speaking Contest for Grades 10 and 11 for her speech on the complexities of faith and of prayer.
REFUAH SHLAIMA
Zvi ben Taibel v'Yosef
(Harry Fainsilber);
Rachmiel ben Miriam
v'Isacc (Ralph Schwartz);
Yehudit bat Shalom
v'Frieda (Odette Chonchol)
Zlate bat Fishel v'Miriam
(Charlotte Wertheimer)
Yasmin bat Galila (Jasmin
Peleg)
Moshe ben Pia v'Shlomo
(Murray Perelman)
Eliahu ben Leah v'Yacov
(Charley Levy)
Faivel ben Esther
v'Shmuel (Paul Ostroff)
Chaim Zvi ben Gitel
v'Avraham (David Pinto)
Avraham ben Rea v'Berel
(Larry Lazar)
*if someone needs and
extra blessing for someone who is sick, please emailbarbi@dorshei-emet.org with their hebrew name, parents
hebrew name, their english name. Please give me their hospital and room
number if they are a member.
YAHRTZEITEN FOR THIS WEEK
March 9-15, 2013 / 27
Adar-4 Nisan 5773
Helen Caplan, mother of Esti Jedeikin Lewis Gelfand, father of Brahm Gelfand * Sam Goldstein, father of Yoine Goldstein Harry Liberman, father of Fran Avni Rose Winston, mother of Milton Winston Jacques Chonchol, father of Ernest Chonchol * Peter Fineberg, father of Archie Fineberg Seymour Gottlieb, father of Linda August Catalina Lirisman Lecman, mother of Miguel Lecman Nechemia Stock, father of Susan Stock Hyman Edelstein, husband of Hedy Edelstein Eva Mintz Gold, mother of Sheila Greenberg Berta Trodler, mother of Liliana Trodler Georges Wegliszewski, father of Sylviane Borenstein * Joseph Blumstein, father of Sharon Bond * Jack Brasloff, father of Reuben Brasloff Lily Felberg, mother of Margaret Felberg-Levitt Lydia Lilienheim, mother of Irene Lilienheim Angelico Rosa Sabach de Mizrahi, mother of Alegre Mizrahi Patricia Frankman, 1st wife of Myron Frankman Esther Elman Browman, mother of Marla Goldin Irving Fichman, father of Stephen Fichman Solomon Gerszonowicz , father of Carole Flikier Jenny Goldsmith, mother of Felice Heller Sam Litman, father of Pamela Litman, husband of Angela Litman Edgar Miller, stepfather of Mark Medicoff Matthew Suchar, father of Ronald Heller
*Names with an asterisk (*) indicate a memorial plaque in our sanctuary.
We encourage you to consider adding to our memorial board. To do so, please
call Barbi at 514-486-9400
If you would like an
Aliyah for a yahrtzeit on a Shabbat morning, please identify yourself to a
Parnass when you come into the sanctuary.
ETERNAL GARDENS CEMETERY
PLOT RESERVATIONS
Members in good standing
who wish to reserve cemetery plots in Congregation Dorshei Emet's section of
Eternal Gardens Memorial Park should contact Robyn Bennett, Executive
Director at 514-486-9400.
FOR YOUR INFORMATION
Minister Kenney issues statement regarding
'Israel Apartheid Week'
Ottawa, March 4, 2013 -
The Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and
Multiculturalism, issued the following statement regarding so-called 'Israel
Apartheid Week' activities:
"Everyone in this
country has the right to freely and publicly express their views. That being
said, I share the concerns of other Canadians about the reckless and
overheated rhetoric associated with anti-Israel activities on many Canadian
university campuses, and the toxic manner in which these activities are often
carried out.
ABOUT TOWN
WEXNER LECTURE SERIES
2013-Where Have All The Leaders Gone?
with Dr. Erica
Brown-educator and author of books including "spiritual
boredom"
Tuesday, April 30 at
8:00pm- Congregation Tifereth
Beth David Jerusalem, 6519 Baily Road. genj@genj.ca or 514-345-2645 ext. 3375
MONTREAL B'NAI BRITH FOOD
BASKETS-PASSOVER FOOD PROJECT
Passover Food Baskets
must be packed and delivered; to help families that are in need, to
celebrate the Passover Holidays. We need Drivers & Packers!
Packing only....March 6th 2013. (5 -8 PM)
Packing &
Deliveries....March 7th to March 20th, 2013-Monday to Thursday 5-8 PM and
SEMINAR SERIES AT
MCGILL
ISGAP | The
Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy
presents: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective.
McGill
University , Tuesdays 5:30 to 8:00 PM, Leacock Building, Rm.
738
Mar. 12 -Yigal Carmon
Founder and Director,
MEMRI.
Apr. 9 - Nora Gold
Associate Scholar at the
Centre for Women's Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education,
University of Toronto "'I Don't Know Why They Hate Us - I Don't
Think We Did Anything Bad To Hurt Them': Jewish Girls (Aged 10-12) Reflect on
Their Experiences of Antisemitism".
MORNING MINYAN
Minyan takes place every
Monday and Wednesday morning at 7:30 am, followed by breakfast. Monday is a
traditional davening and Torah reading. Wednesday is a Mindfulness Meditation
minyan.
If you are saying
Kaddish, observing a yahrtzeit, or marking a
special occasion, please join us. It is a wonderful way to
start the week or the day in a warm and
inspiring ambiance among friends.
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Weekly announcements for March 9, 2013
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Israel Apartheid Week
Minister Kenney issues statement regarding 'Israel Apartheid Week'
Ottawa, March 4, 2013 - The Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, issued the following statement regarding so-called 'Israel Apartheid Week' activities:
"Everyone in this country has the right to freely and publicly express their views. That being said, I share the concerns of other Canadians about the reckless and overheated rhetoric associated with anti-Israel activities on many Canadian university campuses, and the toxic manner in which these activities are often carried out.
"There is no better example than the so-called 'Israel Apartheid Week' (IAW). Its organizers and participants have a regrettable history of promoting and holding events in ways that disregard the security and rights of Jewish faculty and students, censor other points of view, and limit academic discourse.
"The disproportionate vitriol directed against the democratic State of Israel during 'Israel Apartheid Week' stands in stark and ironic contrast to the silence of IAW organizers on the ongoing atrocities committed by the Syrian regime against its own citizens, and on the rampant brutalities and denial of rights in non-democratic countries in the Middle East, and elsewhere in the world.
"In free societies such as Canada's and Israel's, it is absolutely legitimate to debate and criticize government policies and practices. Indeed, Israel supports the right of free expression more than any other country in its part of the world. But with the freedom to criticize comes the responsibility to guard against hateful and intolerant rhetoric.
"Operating under the guise of academic freedom, Israel Apartheid Week is a misleading attempt to delegitimize and demonize the only true liberal democracy in the Middle East. IAW's organizers choose to promote inflammatory propaganda over civil and enlightening debate. Their approach is at odds with the Canadian values of tolerance and mutual respect, and prevents meaningful dialogue from taking place.
"As Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, I encourage Canadians to speak out against all forms of discrimination, intolerance and anti-Semitism."
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Weekly announcements for March 2, 2013
Ki Tissa /
Parah
March 2, 2013
/20 Adar, 5773
Mini-Series:
Guest Speaker Professor Mark Webber
Family Shabbat
Parnassim:
Menahem Barsheshat and Deborah Kraus
Torah:Exodus 31:18-33-11 (Etz P.529)
Maftir: Numbers 19:1-22 (Etz
P.880)
Haftarah: Ezekiel 36:22-36 (Etz
P.1288)
Torah Reading: Hedy Edelstein,Yochanan
Lowen,Beth Blackmore
Haftarah Reading: Beth Blackmore
Candle Lighting: 5:24 PM
Havdalah: 6:33PM
SHABBAT MINI-SERIES 5773
Saturday, March 2, 10am - German Jewry Speaker: Professor Mark Webber, York University, Toronto. Dr. Webber is the founder of the Canadian Center for German and European Studies at York University. His contributions to Canadian-German and Christian -Jewish understanding earned him the German equivalent of the Order of Canada, the Bundesverdienstkreuz Erster Klasse.
Saturday, March 2, 10am - German Jewry Speaker: Professor Mark Webber, York University, Toronto. Dr. Webber is the founder of the Canadian Center for German and European Studies at York University. His contributions to Canadian-German and Christian -Jewish understanding earned him the German equivalent of the Order of Canada, the Bundesverdienstkreuz Erster Klasse.
SYNAGOGUE NEWS
ANNUAL
GIVING - THANK YOU!
This past
weekend we celebrated the close of our Annual Giving Campaign, during our
festive Purim celebration. We had a participation rate of 50%, our
highest ever, and close to $70,000 was raised.
New this year,
all contributors were entered into a draw for a chance to win one of two sets
of Montreal Canadians hockey tickets. The tickets were graciously donated
by one of our Board members.
Thank you to all, and may we continue to go from
strength to strength!
SHABBAT
MORNING STUDY GROUP
Join us for the
Shabbat Morning Study group "The David Story: From Shepherd to
Messiah" with Carmela Aigen.
THE
CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM
Has
invited our congregation to attend the 2013 National Holocaust Remembrance Day
Ceremony and to nominate a Holocaust Survivor to receive national recognition
at the ceremony, on Tuesday, April 23, 3:30 p.m. at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.
The
theme for the 2013 national Ceremony is "From Tragedy to Triumph."
During the ceremony, the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem will pay tribute to
Holocaust Survivors, presenting their stories before an expected 500 guests,
which will include Holocaust Survivors and their families, students, and the
highest echelons of Canada's political, legislative, and communal sectors.
The
Society is providing complimentary bus service from Toronto and Montreal to the
ceremony in Ottawa. To reserve your place, email barbi@dorshei-emet.org.Deadline Friday,March 1, 2013.
WELLSPRINGS
OF FREEDOM HAGGADAH - Book Signing Event
Sunday, March
10, 2013 from 12:00-1:00 pm, Bibliophile, 5519 Queen Mary Rd, Montreal
Sunday,
March 17, 2013 from 1:00 pm-2:30 pm, The Jewish Store, Cavendish Mall,C.S.L.
Rabbi
Ron will be personalizing copies of his beautiful Haggadah. Come out and have
him sign your copy and browse the stores.
For West
Islanders- The
Haggadah is also available at Chapters Pointe Claire!
MEMBER NEWS
MARCH
OF THE LIVING 2013
Please
let us know if your child will be participating in this year's March of the
Living. Contact the office at 514-486-9400 or info@dorshei-emet.org
KOL
HAKAVOD
to
Beverly Akerman for her appearances on CBC Radio's Daybreak last week and CBC
TV News, discussing how Anglos feel in Quebec. It was part of their
ongoing"Living English" series, covering results of an EKOS poll on
Anglophones in Quebec.
Click
here to learn more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2013/02/20/quebec-montreal-anglophones-belonging.html
CONDOLENCES
to Peggi
Cohen and Mark Rabinovitch and family on the death of their beloved father and
father-in-law, Alex Cohen z"l.
REFUAH
SHLAIMA
Zvi ben
Taibel v'Yosef (Harry Fainsilber);
Rachmiel
ben Miriam v'Isacc (Ralph Schwartz);
Yehudit
bat Shalom v'Frieda (Odette Chonchol)
Zlate
bat Fishel v'Miriam (Charlotte Wertheimer)
Yasmin
bat Galila (Jasmin Peleg)
Moshe
ben Pia v'Shlomo (Murray Perelman)
Eliahu
ben Leah v'Yacov (Charley Levy)
Faivel
ben Esther v'Shmuel (Paul Ostroff)
Chaim
Zvi ben Gitel v'Avraham (David Pinto)
Avraham
ben Rea v'Berel (Larry Lazar)
*if
someone needs and extra blessing for someone who is sick, please email
barbi@dorshei-emet.org with their hebrew name, parents hebrew name, their
english name and the hospital and room number if ithey ar a member.
YAHRTZEITEN
FOR THIS WEEK
March 2-8, 2013 / 20-26 Adar 5773
James Blackmore, father of Elizabeth Blackmore
Frances Boudin, mother of Rosalyn Cohen
Bertha Engel, mother of Frema Engel
Eunice Fogel, mother of Martin Fogel
* Goldie Zehava Glaser, mother of Stuart Glaser
Maurice Schouela, father of Diane Sasson
Michael Yarosky, father of Ronit Yarosky, husband of Jackie Yarofsky
* Isadore Bobrove, father of Eunice Mayers
Sophie Burg, sister of Clara Schwartz
* Clara Fish, mother of Aaron Fish
Saul Geller, father of Estelle Fainsilber
Mitchell Olfman, husband of Bess Olfman
Jeffrey Brian Shiroky, son of Jenny and Isaac Shiroky
* Wolfe Silversmith, father of Bluma Stolow
Jack Weber, brother of Judith Farovitch
Ralph Abugov, father of Ian Abugov
Lillian Berlin, Mother of Larry Berlin
Izak Czuzoj, father of Ronni Czuzoj
Louis Mayers, father of Alexander Mayers
Fay Miller, mother of Shirley-Ann Lewis
Bertha Rosen, mother of Neysa Sigler
* Frieda Wagner, mother of Nate Wagner
Max Kenigsberg, Father of Judith Ellen Kenigsberg
James Blackmore, father of Elizabeth Blackmore
Frances Boudin, mother of Rosalyn Cohen
Bertha Engel, mother of Frema Engel
Eunice Fogel, mother of Martin Fogel
* Goldie Zehava Glaser, mother of Stuart Glaser
Maurice Schouela, father of Diane Sasson
Michael Yarosky, father of Ronit Yarosky, husband of Jackie Yarofsky
* Isadore Bobrove, father of Eunice Mayers
Sophie Burg, sister of Clara Schwartz
* Clara Fish, mother of Aaron Fish
Saul Geller, father of Estelle Fainsilber
Mitchell Olfman, husband of Bess Olfman
Jeffrey Brian Shiroky, son of Jenny and Isaac Shiroky
* Wolfe Silversmith, father of Bluma Stolow
Jack Weber, brother of Judith Farovitch
Ralph Abugov, father of Ian Abugov
Lillian Berlin, Mother of Larry Berlin
Izak Czuzoj, father of Ronni Czuzoj
Louis Mayers, father of Alexander Mayers
Fay Miller, mother of Shirley-Ann Lewis
Bertha Rosen, mother of Neysa Sigler
* Frieda Wagner, mother of Nate Wagner
Max Kenigsberg, Father of Judith Ellen Kenigsberg
Lewis Socolow, father of Barbara Rosenthal
Sigmund Zelkowitz, father of Phyllis Zelkowitz
Harry Edelberg, father of Edna Becker
Bernard Sheber, father of Laurie Usheroff
Marion Karpfen, mother of Micha Karpfen
Moshe Ron, brother of Elana Tzipori-Levy
Lev Wladek Bayless, father of Shelly Bayless Fabian
Marcus Bloom, father of David Bloom
Howard Cooper, father of Lorne Cooper
Bebe Salmon, mother of Deborah Salmon
Berek Szynkarski, father of Esther Szynkarsky
*Names with an asterisk (*) indicate a memorial plaque in our
sanctuary. We encourage you to consider adding to our memorial board. To do so,
please call Barbi at 514-486-9400
If you
would like an Aliyah for a yahrtzeit on a Shabbat morning, please identify
yourself to a Parnass when you come into the sanctuary.
ETERNAL
GARDENS CEMETERY PLOT RESERVATIONS
Members
in good standing who wish to reserve cemetery plots in Congregation Dorshei
Emet's section of Eternal Gardens Memorial Park should contact Robyn Bennett,
Executive Director at 514-486-9400.
ABOUT TOWN
1913
ABERDEEN SCHOOL STRIKE COMMEMORATION
Thursday,
February 28, 2013 at the
Atrium of the former Congress building, 1590 Dr. Penfield, from 5pm to 7pm. The
graphic novel about the school strike will be launched, featuring the role of
Hirsch Wolofsky. RSVP to Janice
Rosen at archives@cjccc.ca.
KOLBO-TO
SET A BEAUTIFUL SEDER TABLE
Fine
Judaica Gallery: www.kolbo.com
NEFESH
B'NEFESH ALIYAH FAIR
March
4th, 2013 6:30pm-9:45pm at Hotel
Ruby Foos
Please
check out the NBN website at www.nbn.org.il/mega for more information about the
Fair.
MCGILL UNIVERSITY-LOOKING FOR TEST SUBJECTS
I am studying the operation of the Canadian Shift among Montreal
Jewish English speakers of varying ages. I'm looking for as many participants
as possible who are over 18, have at least one Jewish parent, and grew up
speaking English in Montreal. Each interview consists of three parts: a
60-second exchange just to record the participant's age, gender, and a couple
of other pieces of demographic information; a 2-3 minute recorded reading
passage; and a 4-6 minute task at a laptop that involves listening to vowel
sounds and matching them with the words they most likely belong in. Each full
interview takes around 10 minutes. If interested, please respond to Thomas
Kettig, Linguistic Professor, McGill University, thomas.kettig@mail.mcgill.ca
SEGAL
CENTRE STUDIO PRESENTS du 7 au 23 mars
L'AUGMENTATION
de Georges Perec. Mise en scène ARIEL IFERGAN.
MATZAH
TO MITZVAH-A Passover Experience.
Sunday,
March 10, from 2:00-4:30: Workshops at Temple Emanu-El 4100 Sherbrooke St.
West. The topics are: Passover and Easter: Celebrations of Freedom,
with Rabbi Lisa Gruschow and Father John Walsh; A New Haggadah for a New Age, with
Rabbi Ron Aigen; Keeping Everyone at the Table:
Making Your Seder Interactive, Creative, Meaningful & Fun, with Rabbi
Andrea Myers and Dr. Catherine Masden; Singing Your Way Through the Seder,
with Rachelle Schubert; Passover Cooking.
There
will be crafts, movies, and mitzvah projects for children.
Cost:
$5/person, $15/ family with a donation of a non-perishable food item $7/$20
without. Open to all. valerie@templemontreal.ca
JEWISH
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Thursday,
March 7 at 2:00 p.m.
Ami
Sands Brodoff, Montreal novelist, will kick off the Jewish Public Library's
Afternoon Book Review Series with a talk and discussion of the compelling new
novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, by Ayana Mathis.
Jewish
Public Library, 5151 Cote Ste-Catherine. Advance tickets: (514)-345-6416
SEMINAR
SERIES AT MCGILL
ISGAP |
The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy
presents: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective.
McGill
University , Tuesdays 5:30 to 8:00 PM, Leacock Building, Rm.
738
Mar. 12 - Yigal Carmon
Founder and
Director, MEMRI.
Apr. 9 - Nora Gold
Associate
Scholar at the Centre for Women's Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education, University of Toronto "'I Don't Know Why They Hate Us - I
Don't Think We Did Anything Bad To Hurt Them': Jewish Girls (Aged 10-12)
Reflect on Their Experiences of Antisemitism".
MORNING MINYAN
Minyan
takes place every Monday and Wednesday morning at 7:30 am, followed by
breakfast. Monday is a traditional davening and Torah reading. Wednesday is a
Mindfulness Meditation minyan.
If you
are saying Kaddish, observing a yahrtzeit, or marking a
special occasion, please join us. It is a wonderful way to
start the week or the day in a warm and inspiring ambiance among
friends. Contact Irv Perlman at 514 -733 -1874 or irv.perlman@gmail.com
Friday, February 22, 2013
Weekly announcements for February 23, 2013
Tetzaveh / Zakhor-Purim
February 23, 2013 / 13 Adar, 5773
Megillah reading
Baby Naming for Ava Grace,
daughter of Jennifer Sidel and Lloyd Lottner
daughter of Jennifer Sidel and Lloyd Lottner
Parnassim: Warren Litwin and Doreen
Saibil
Torah:Exodus 28:31-29:18 (Etz P.508)
Maftir: Deuteronomy 25:17-19 (Etz P. 1135)
Haftarah: I Samuel 15:24-34 (Etz P.1284)
Torah Reading: Jodi Lackman
Haftarah Reading: Chayim Lowen
This week's Kiddush is sponsored
by Jennifer Sidel and Lloyd Lottner
in honour of their daughter Ava
Grace's baby naming.
Candle Lighting:
5:14 PM
Havdalah: 6:23
PM
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PURIM, This Saturday Night.
Children's Carnival...games galore!
Megillah
Reading...stomp the floor!
Purim
Shpiel...sing and hum!
Costume
Contest...lots of fun!
Bellydancing...persian
delight!
Party and
Music...joy all night!
Everyone is
welcome! Bring a friend!
Free for all!
Come attend!
Details:
Saturday, February 23
6:30pm Children's
Carnival
7:00pm Purim
Shpiel/Costume Contest
7:15pm Megillah
Reading
8:45pm Party
FROM THE RABBI'S DESK
REFLECTIONS
ON MY TRIP TO KIEV & ISRAEL
Reliving a revelatory
moment is always a challenge. How do we hold on to, or convey to others,
those extraordinary moments of insight, emotionally laden experiences when we
are transported to an elevated state of mind, or sense that we have
encountered a deeper, abiding truth? Our sages tell us that the purpose of
building theMishkan, the portable ark that the Israelites carried with
them through their wilderness wanderings, was to create a space in which they
could re-experience the Sinai moment. "Let them build me a Sanctuary
that I might dwell among them."
How did building
the Mishkan accomplish this task of holding on to the
ineffable experience? One of the key verbs used in describing this
construction effort is hibarta, "You shall connect." By
making connections with others, relating to them as friends,haverim,
we can come to experience something of the Divine. One of the most basic
objects employed in the construction of the Mishkan, the planks
of acacia wood,kerashim (K-R-SH) also hints at this transcendent
act of making connections. TheDegel Mahaneh Ephraim teaches that
the plank signifies a human being, (adam) the one who make connections, kesher,(K-SH-R)-"the
one who connects all the worlds, unifying one with the other." Were we
to connect with mindlessness, things that are finite and time-bound, this
would be to connect with falsehood, sheker (SH-K-R). Our
goal ought to be to connect with eternal truths, with spiritual goals that
are timeless.
That challenge of retaining
and transmitting an ineffable experience is what I have been grappling with
since I returned from a truly extraordinary journey to Kiev, Ukraine
and Israel. Together with 31 other rabbis from across North America, we
visited under the auspices of the Jewish Federations of North America the
projects that the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the Jewish Agency
for Israel (JAFI) are carrying out to support the welfare, social and
educational needs of Jews in Kiev and Israel.
There are so many stories:
the rediscovery of Jewish identities by this generation whose grandparents
hid it from them due to their experiences under the Nazis and the Communists;
the life-saving work of the JDC and JAFI who translate our Federation dollars
into the caring work of the Hesed House or the promotion of Jewish cultural
rebirth through the Beiteinu center; the moving memorial ceremony held at
Babi Yar, where over 100,000 Jews were murdered in 1941, or the equally
moving Shabbat dinner in Jerusalem with Yosef Begun, one of the heroes
of the Soviet Jewry Movement.
The main message that came through in these and the many other experiences of this powerful mission can be summed up in one word: peoplehood. Again and again I felt a vital connection with my people. It came with a sense of pride and optimism when we spontaneously sang Am Yisrael Hai, "the People of Israel lives" as a tribute to the Jews who died at Babi Yar, that their deaths have been redeemed by the new life that flourishes in Kiev today. And once again when we sang those same words in a more joyous, triumphant affirmation together with Yosef Begun, I felt the powerful truth of Am Yisrael Hai.
In those deep connections
that we shared with the Jews of Kiev and Israel, and with the work of JDC and
JAFI, I experienced the Mishkan being rebuilt in our own day. It is that
sense of connection to the life of Am Israel, the eternal
people, that gives me a renewed hope and inspiration that will fuel all my
future efforts on behalf of Klal Yisrael, the people of
Israel.
SYNAGOGUE NEWS
SHABBAT MORNING STUDY
GROUP
Join us once again for
the Shabbat Morning Study group with Carmela Aigen.
ANNUAL
GIVING CAMPAIGN
Thank you to everyone who
has contributed so far to this year's Annual Giving Campaign. We are two
weeks away from the close of our campaign and we are up to 44%participation. Having
100% participation is our mark of success. Please join us at the close if
this year's campaign which will coincide with our annual Purim celebration on
Saturday, February 23. New for this year, everyone who makes a
contribution towards the Annual Campaign, will be entered into a special door
prize draw and will have the chance to win one of two sets of Canadian Hockey
tickets. The hottest tickets in town! We look forward to celebrating with
you! Please contact the office at 514-486-9400 to make your contribution.
MEMBER NEWS
REFUAH SHLAIMA
Zvi ben Taibel v'Yosef
(Harry Fainsilber);
Rachmiel ben Miriam
v'Isacc (Ralph Schwartz);
Yehudit bat Shalom
v'Frieda (Odette Chonchol)
Zlate bat Fishel v'Miriam
(Charlotte Wertheimer)
Yasmin bat Galila (Jasmin
Peleg)
Moshe ben Pia v'Shlomo
(Murray Perelman)
Eliahu ben Leah v'Yacov
(Charley Levy)
Faivel ben Esther
v'Shmuel (Paul Ostroff)
Yehudit bat Zipporah
v'David
Chaim Zvi ben Gitel
v'Avraham (David Pinto)
Avraham ben Rea v’Berel (Larry Lazar)
YAHRTZEITEN FOR THIS WEEK
February 23-March1, 2013
/ 13-19 Adar 5773
Markus Buksbaum , father of Jack Buksbaum David Krelenbaum , father of Marilyn Krelenbaum Etta Riva Lazar , mother of Lawrence Lazar Archie (Arthur) Rosenthal , father of Jack Rosenthal Minnie Shapiro , mother of Micki Keesal Norman Epelbaum , father of Suzie Epelbaum Nathan Gesser , husband of Dora Gesser Maryka Franke Kupitsky , mother of Ronald Kay Celia Cohen , sister of Ben Cohen Abe Croll , father of Reuben Croll Irwin Moss , father of Beverly Shapiro Joseph Bercovitch , father of Mildred Kolodny Nettie Lazar , sister of Lawrence Lazar Bernice Getz Lurie , mother of Lewis Lurie Rosa Trafimowski , mother of Sima Brockstein Dorothy Gottlieb , mother of Linda August Tillie Schneider Lackman , stepmother of Phillip Lackman Alice Shenkier , mother of Maurice Shenkier Bella Dan , mother of Fanny Silviu-Dan Melvin Mike" Salmon" , father of Deborah Salmon Mae Wax , mother of Sandra Goldstein
*Names with an asterisk
(*) indicate a memorial plaque in our sanctuary. We encourage you to consider
adding to our memorial board. To do so, please call Barbi at 514-486-9400
If you would like an
Aliyah for a yahrtzeit on a Shabbat morning, please identify yourself to a
Parnass when you come into the sanctuary.
ETERNAL GARDENS CEMETERY
PLOT RESERVATIONS
Members in good standing
who wish to reserve cemetery plots in Congregation Dorshei Emet's section of
Eternal Gardens Memorial Park should contact Robyn Bennett, Executive
Director at 514-486-9400.
ABOUT TOWN
SEGAL CENTRE STUDIO
PRESENTS du 7 au 23 mars
L'AUGMENTATION de Georges
Perec . Mise en scène ARIEL IFERGAN.
MATZAH TO MITZVAH-A
Passover Experience.
Sunday, March 10, from
2:00-4:30 :
Workshops at Temple Emanu-el
The topics
are: Passover and Easter: Celebrations of Freedom, with me and Father
John Walsh, A New Haggadah for a New Age, with Rabbi Ron Aigen, Keeping
Everyone at the Table: Making Your Seder Interactive, Creative, Meaningful
& Fun, with Rabbi Andrea Myers and Dr. Catherine Masden, Singing
Your Way Through the Seder, with Rachelle Schubert, Passover Cooking.
There will be crafts,
movies, and mitzvah projects for children.
Cost: $5/person,
$15/ family with a donation of a non-perishable food item $7/$20
without. Open to all. valerie@templemontreal.ca
JEWISH PUBLIC
LIBRARY
Thursday, March 7 at 2:00
p.m.
Ami Sands Brodoff,
Montreal novelist, will kick off the Jewish Public Library's Afternoon Book
Review Series with a talk and discussion of the compelling new novel,
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, by Ayana Mathis.
Jewish Public Library,
5151 Cote Ste-Catherine. Advance tickets: (514)-345-6416
SEMINAR SERIES AT
MCGILL
ISGAP | The
Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy
presents: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective.
McGill
University , Tuesdays 5:30 to 8:00 PM, Leacock Building, Rm.
738
Feb. 26 - Shalem
Coulibaly
Professor of Philosophy
and Secretary General, Université de Ouagadougou (Burkina
Faso) "Sub-Saharan Africa, Globalization and
Antisemitism".
Mar. 12 - Yigal
Carmon
Founder and Director,
MEMRI.
Apr. 9 - Nora
Gold
Associate Scholar at the
Centre for Women's Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education,
University of Toronto "'I Don't Know Why They Hate Us - I Don't
Think We Did Anything Bad To Hurt Them': Jewish Girls (Aged 10-12) Reflect on
Their Experiences of Antisemitism".
MORNING MINYAN
Minyan takes place every
Monday and Wednesday morning at 7:30 am, followed by breakfast. Monday is a
traditional davening and Torah reading. Wednesday is a Mindfulness Meditation
minyan.
If you are saying
Kaddish, observing a yahrtzeit, or marking a
special occasion, please join us. It is a wonderful way to
start the week or the day in a warm and
inspiring ambiance among friends.
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