Weekly announcements for February 16, 2013

Terumah

February 16, 2013 / 6 Adar, 5773

Family Shabbat / PBM Shabbat / Mini-Series

Parnassim: Eyal Faitelis and Pearlann Goldenberg

Torah:Exodus 26:1-30 (Etz P.491)

Maftir: Exodus 27:17-19 (Etz P.497)

Haftarah: I Kings 6:1-13 (Etz P.500)

Torah Reading: Chayim Lowen, Janice Goldfarb, Doreen Saibil, Paul Horowitz

Haftarah Reading: Steve Winkleman

Candle Lighting: 5:04 PM

Havdalah: 6:13 PM

SYNAGOGUE NEWS

RECAP FROM LAST SATURDAY'S KEHILLAH CONVERSTION

To read the recap please go to:  http://dorsheiemet.blogspot.ca/2013/02/kehillah-conversation-3-israel.html

SHABBAT MINI-SERIES: speaker: Dr. Marc Silverman

February 15 and 16, 2013  

"When Judaism Met Israel: Israeli Jewish Culture's Uniqueness, Strengths and Challenges." Dr. Marc Silverman is a senior lecturer at Hebrew University's School of Education and Melton Centre for Jewish Education.

Friday Night Talk: "'The New Jew'/the 'Hebrew-man': The Cultural Ideal of the Zionist Movement's Founding Parents and its Destiny"

Friday Night

6:00pm Kabbalat Shabbat

6:45pm Potluck Dinner

8:15pm Lecture

Please contact Yolande Martel to reserve your place for dinner and to coordinate your contribution to the dinner: yomar@videotron.ca . Please bring a vegetarian or dairy dish to share (no meat), cut and ready to serve, to feed at least 10 people. Also, please bring hallah, candlesticks and kiddush wine for your family. 

Shabbat Morning Talk: "New or Renewed 'New Jews': Faces of the Jewish Renaissance Movement in Israel Today and of its Opponents".  

Saturday

10:00am Services

*NO SHABBAT MORNING STUDY GROUP

The Shabbat Morning Study group with Carmela Aigen will resume on February 23. 

PURIM PARTY 2013

Dorshei Emet presents The Queen of Persia   

Saturday, February 23, 2013

6:30pm Children's Carnival

7:00pm Purim Shpiel

7:15pm Megillah Reading / Costume Contest

8:45pm Party!

Everyone is welcome.

  

  

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 39% 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) 

  

YAHRTZEITEN FOR THIS WEEK

February 16-22, 2013 / 6-12 Adar 

Carl Breitner , mother of Miriam Roland

Sadie Lieblein , mother of Leanore Lieblein

Claire Lipsky-Benjamin , mother of David Benjamin

Henry Plotnick , father of Larry Plotnick

Alida Roochvarg , cousin of Hedy Edelstein

Fay Rotstein , mother of Morris Rotstein

Lawrence Abraham Sklar , father of Ronald Sklar

Alma Verbits , mother of Janet Dwoskin

* Erika Tauber Barber , mother of Anna Barber

David Edelberg , brother of Edna Becker

Manny Fineman , brother of Lila Wolfe-Druckman

Maxwell Levitt , father of Harvey Levitt

Gilles Martel , father of Yolande Martel

Libby Merowitz , sister of Ruth Block

Debra Eibel , aunt of Peter Gomberg

Rose Gans , mother of Freda Rashkovan

Albert Harold Krolik , father of Dorothy Stern

Lucie Kronberger , sister of Odette Chonchol

* Sarah Brandis Spector , cousin of Freda Rashkovan

Hyman Carpman , brother of Florence Kalin

Gisele Gagnon , mother of Yolande Martel

Tooker Gomberg , brother of Avi Gomberg

Sarah Stark , mother of Rozie Pekar

Rose Klaiman Katz , mother of Abe Katz

Harry M. Lazar , brother of Lawrence Lazar

Bobby Wax , brother of Sandra Goldstein

Morton M. Cohen , husband of Ernestine Simon-Cohen

Meyer Mark Schor , father of Ruth Flicker

* Herschel Takefman , father of Charles and Marilyn Takefman

*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.

  

ABOUT TOWN

MONTREAL JEWISH MUSICAL FESTIVAL

Thursday February 14, 2013 8:30PM doors 9 PM show

Jump Babylon (Original Roots & Rock) with Magical Crimea (Russian Pop Insanity)

with Jason Rosenblatt, Adam Stotland, Rachel Lemisch, Thierry Arsenault, Andrew Skowronski and James Rhodes.

Casa Del Popolo, 4873 Saint Laurent Boulevard,  Montreal, QC, $7 admission.  

  

YIDDISH CAFE PRESENTS: LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDERED THING

Thursday, February 14, 2013 7:30pm

Jewish Public Library, 5151 Cote Ste-Catherine Road

for more information call 514-345-2627 ext 3006

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

Website http://amisandsbrodoff.com        Blogsite http://chez-ami.blogspot.com/

  

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". 

  

CANADIAN ASSOCIATES of BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY SPEAKER SERIES

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 7:30pm-Victoria Hall, Congregation Shaar Hashamayim-425 Metcalfe Avenue, Westmount.

Speaker: Professor Ilan Troen, Director, Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University.

Topic: Resettlers or Recent Settlers: Who Are The Israelies - To The World, To Palestinians And To Themselves? Free public lecture shaarhashomayim.org

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

Kehillah Conversation #3: Israel

Report on Kehillah Conversation #3: Israel

The third Kehillah Conversation took place on February 9 after Kiddush, and was attended by about 45 members. A perfectly appropriate D’var Torah by Rabbi Julia Appel during the service drew upon her experiences in Jerusalem and Bethlehem with people coming from widely diverse backgrounds; this was a perfect way to set the stage for us by emphasizing the value of respectful listening and dialogue with each other as we engage with Israel. She also invited us to not allow the mystique of “expertise” to intimidate us from freely expressing our personal feelings in grappling with the difficult issues that Israel faces.

Our conversation was launched by Eric Caplan, who provided an insightful opening statement pointing out that discourse on controversial Israeli policies often reveals underlying assumptions and fears that need to be addressed (rather than be left unspoken) in order to build meaningful understandings. Neil Caplan moderated the discussion which, he hoped, would provide the shul leadership not only with a sense of the range of opinions that exist in our community, but also, eventually, practical ideas to help guide them in decision-making on these often contentious issues.

Some of the opinions expressed emphasized the following:

·         The need to continue our shul’s longstanding tradition of welcoming a variety of opinions rather than promoting one “side” only – whether on the Israel-Palestine conflict, religious-secular tensions, or social justice issues.

·         Several participants spoke of not wanting to jeopardize the precious “safe space” the shul provided for people to expound on their different and sometimes sharply conflicting views.

·         The importance of keeping a long-range perspective on guests and topics, rather than expecting a one-to-one ratio of presentations from the right and left of the spectrum.

·         Members would benefit from more and continuous learning about historical, legal and political aspects of Israel’s position, as well as activities that deepen of our understanding of the Palestinian and Arab “other”.

·         The need to clarify which organizations and individuals can be endorsed or supported officially by our shul, and which can be invited for educational purposes without such official endorsement.

·         The question of setting “red-lines” under which our synagogue’s engagement with Israel should operate, including the question of whether “love of Israel” as a country needs to be a pre-requisite for participation.

·         The desirability, but also the drawbacks, of drawing up written guidelines for acceptable Israel-related activities, to orient the leadership and members.

·         The need for more discussion and sharing of views among our own members in the spirit of respectful conversation.

·         Possible outcomes of this discussion include: (a) a task force working on the formulation of guidelines, (b) intimate kumsitz-type gatherings to learn more about each other, (c) follow-up conversations about our programs that satisfy or displease various members (including ex-members), (d) engaging in one or more “compassionate listening” training sessions, and learning other skills for effective dialogue, (e) an effort to attract more members to Adult-Ed sessions to view and discuss the Hartman Institute’s excellent iEngage DVD series, “Engaging Israel: Towards a New Relationship”.

Our fourth Kehillah conversation will take place on Wednesday, May 1 on the topic of Simplicity and Money Issues. All shul members are warmly encouraged to participate. Your comments on this or any past or upcoming Kehillah conversation can also be emailed to the Rabbi at: rabbiron@dorshe-emet.org or to Rosana at: president@dorshei-emet.org