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SYNAGOGUE NEWS
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Thank you to Guess
Who's Coming to Shabbat Hosts!
Thank you to everyone who
hosted Shabbat dinner this past week as part of our second installment of
Guess Who's Coming to Shabbat! Over 60 Dorshei congregants took part in a
GWCTS dinner. Special thanks to Sara Ravel for her coordination this time
around. If you hosted, please send us your photos so that we can include
them on our Facebook page! dorsheishabbatdinners@gmail.com.
Stay tuned for our schedule for the coming year, and start thinking about
hosting next time!
PRAYING FROM THE
HEART: Toward a joyful, meaningful
Jewish prayer practice - with Rabbi Julia
Appel
Thursdays from 8 pm
-9 pm
If you've been looking for
a way to rethink, redefine and reenergize your interaction with prayer,
this class is for you. Gather with fellow seekers for an exploration of
prayer and what it could mean for your life.
May
15: "What Is the Purpose of Prayer?"
May
22: "The Tension Between Routine and Inspiration"
May
29: "Cultivating Gratitude and Joy".
KABBALAT SHABBAT MISHPAHA
Friday, May 23 at
6:30pm
Join us for a warm, casual,
and musical Kabbalat Shabbat experience designed especially for families
and welcoming of all. We'll join together for an upbeat, musical service
with Rabbi Julia and guest musicians, share a potluck Shabbat dinner, and
spend time with new friends and old. Supervised games for kids after
dinner! If you are interested in playing an instrument at the service, be
in touch with Rabbi Julia. For the Potluck: Please bring a vegetarian
dish to share, cut and ready to serve, to feed at least 10 people. Also
please bring hallah, candlesticks, and Kiddush wine for your family.
Please RSVP to Cynthia Weinstein at cynthiaweinstein@aol.com or
(514) 487-9030.
Youth Group Kick-Off
Event: Laser Tag and Pizza night!
Sunday, May 25, 6-8pm
By popular demand, it's our
first youth group outing! Enjoy a fun evening of pizza and laser tag with
your Dorshei Emet friends. Tweens and teens age 11-16 welcome! Please
RSVP to Yana in the office, 514-486-9400 by May 18 as we need to reserve
spots with Laser Quest. Cost: $20, includes two games of laser tag and
pizza dinner. Our pre-bnei mitzvah teacher's aide Jimmy Gutman will be
staffing the event; let us know if you might be able to parent chaperone!
For questions, contact Rabbi Julia, rabbijulia@dorshei-emet.org.
PBM PARENT
INFORMATION SESSION
May 27, at 7:30 pm
We are currently in the
process of recruiting and registering participants for the upcoming Pre
B'nei Mitzvah Group, and are asking for your help in spreading the word
about our unique program. As graduates of the program you and your
child are in best possible position to share your experiences with
friends, family, colleagues and neighbors. If you know the family
of a child who will be entering grade 6 in the fall and who is looking
for a program that:
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Provides a family learning experience
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Is welcoming of inter-faith families
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Encourages a modest congregational Kiddush
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Offers equal participation for men and women
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Focuses on Jewish values and becoming ethical people
then please ask them to
call us, or provide us with their contact information, so we can get in
touch with them.
We are hosting a Parent Information Session on
Tuesday, May 27 at 7:30pm. Both Rabbi Ron and Rabbi
Julia will be on hand to meet with parents and share with them the
exciting plans for this coming year's program.
Thank you all in advance
for your help.
EVERYONE LOVES A
PARADE!
On September 21, 2014
the city of Hampstead will be celebrating its Centennial with a parade
and Dorshei Emet has been invited to participate by creating a float. It
would be a great opportunity for us to show our appreciation for the city
and to re-introduce our synagogue to its people. If you would like to
help design, build, and/or present a float, if you have a vehicle that
could accommodate it, if you have ideas and enthusiasm to lend to this
project, please call the office TODAY (514) 486-9400 admin@dorshei-emet.org.
The deadline for registration in the parade is May 21.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2014 - SAVE THE DATE!
Please join us on
Wednesday, June 11 at 7:30pm for the Annual General Meeting
RECONSTRUCTIONIST
NEWS
Report of the Year
Sixth Annual "Friends and Family"
End-of-Year BBQ and Talent Show
Sunday, June 8
4:30pm, Rain or shine
Celebrate the beginning of summer with Dorshei Emet at our
End-of-Year BBQ. We'll provide delicious kosher BBQ hot dogs with
veggie options. Please bring a dairyfree
(pareve) side dish to share -- salads, hummus, baba ganoush,
crudité, fruit, cole slaw, potato salad, etc. Sign up to share your
musical and performing talents for the second annual Dorshei Emet
Talent Show. Contact Cynthia Weinstein (514) 487-9030 or at cynthiaweinstein@aol.com to
RSVP or to get on the performers list. Because of the
holiday of Shavuot, please RSVP before Monday, June 2
to help us ensure there are enough hot dogs and
supplies.
SHAVUOT SERVICES - Friends &
Family
Ruth Richler Memorial
Lectures June 3 & 4:
This Shavuot, explore Torah
and its many facets with Dorshei Emet and guest speaker Rabbi
Andrea Weiss, Ph.D.
June 3, Erev Shavuot
"Seventy Faces of
Torah: Who Wrote the Bible and Why it Matters"
Services: 8 pm
Cheesecake, coffee and tea
to follow at 10pm
Please contact the office
if you would like to bake or buy for the reception.
On Shavuot we celebrate the
giving of Torah on Mt. Sinai. But how did the Five Books of Moses as a
literary document come about? The Torah is filled with parallel and often
contradictory narratives and laws. How do we account for these
discrepancies? What do they tell us about the nature of Torah and who put
it together? More importantly, as contemporary Jews, what larger teaching
can we draw from this understanding of Torah?
June 4, Shavuot Morning
"Hearing the Voice
of Sinai Today: Women Wrestling with Torah"
Services: 10am
Using The Torah: A Women's
Commentary as a guide, we will explore the biblical account of the divine
revelation at Mt. Sinai. Our focus will be on Moses' command to "not
go near a woman" in advance of this dramatic moment (Exodus 19:15).
Holiday Services and
Blintzes/Tiramisu Making
Wednesday, June 4
10am-12:30pm
We begin our celebration of Shavuot at 10am with a musical Family
Shavuot Service led by Rabbi Julia - singing, movement, discussion,
and storytelling about the holiday of Shavuot. At 11am we head
downstairs to the kitchen to create delicious Shavuot delicacies with
Patrizia - blintzes and tiramisu! It is a tradition on Shavuot to
eat dairy foods because in the verse from Song of Songs (4:11), it
is written "Like honey and milk [the Torah] lies under your
tongue;" just as a baby is sustained by milk, we are spiritually
sustained by Torah. We'll say Kiddush together and taste our
efforts. We then join the main sanctuary for the end of the
Shavuot holiday service, followed by congregational Kiddush
lunch. The Toddlers' Room on our second floor balcony will
be open for small children accompanied by an adult. Toys
and games are available and the room is equipped with
audio feed from the sanctuary.
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MEMBER NEWS
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MAZAL TOV
To Cindy Sherwin and Jon
Gould on their son Cameron becoming a Bar Mitzvah, and to grandmother, Barbara
Sherwin.
To Sima Brockstein on the
recent marriage of her son Dr. Timothy David Lymberiou to Melika Demers
Drouin.
REFUAH SHLAIMA
Zvi ben Taibel v'Yosef
(Harry Fainsilber)
Yehudit bat Shalom v'Frieda
(Odette Chonchol)
Eliahu ben Leah v'Yacov
(Charley Levy)
Frayda Laya bat Devora ve
Yaacov (Linda Camlot)
Moshe ben Yaacov ve Gittel
(Morris Camlot)
Nehama bat David v'Teme
(Nadene Solomon)
*If someone needs
an extra blessing for someone who is sick, please email info@dorshei-emet.org
with their hebrew name, parents hebrew name, their english name. If a
member who is ill is in hospital, kindly give us the name of the hospital
and room number as well.
YAHRTZEITEN FOR THIS WEEK
May
17-23, 2014/ 17-23 Iyar, 5774
Henry Baron, father of
Murray Baron
Peter Etcovitch, brother of
Betty Spiegel
Larry Frank, brother of
Barry Frank
Hyman Gerchicoff, father of
Barry Gerchicoff
Annie Marks Goldman, mother
of Beryl Goldman and the late Ralph Goldman
* Josephine Gotfrit, sister
Sheila Greenberg
Joseph Benny Kastner,
brother Reva Bercovitch
Samuel Lecman, father of
Miguel Lecman
* Sadie Lieff, mother
of Lois Lieff
Morty Mayberger, brother of
Ruth Eliesen
Harry Michelin, father of
John Michelin
Libby Litwin Michelin,
mother of John Michelin
Alex Nemes, father of
Judith Nemes Black
Todd Prout, husband of
Heather Prout
Rae Rosen, mother of Shara
Rosen
Doris Schanfield, mother of
Frances Schanfield
Dov Sela, father of Carmela
Aigen
Shirley Sonberg, mother of
Melissa Sonberg
Zula Wigdor, mother of Ron
Wigdor
*Names with an
asterisk (*) indicate a memorial plaque in our sanctuary. We encourage
you to add your late loved one's name to our memorial board for an
everlasting tribute. To do so, please call the office 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.
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COMMUNITY NEWS
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INDUSTRIAL STILL
LIVES (May 17 to June 15)
John Lucas is having an
exhibition of his photos. Vernissage on Saturday, May 17th, from 2 to 5
p.m.
The exhibit runs until June
15 - please come have a look.
Where: Galerie Youn (5226, boul. St. Laurent).
Straight from Hot
Docs in Toronto, "COME WORRY WITH US!"
Helene Klodawsky's newest
documentary, will play at Cinema du Parc. May 16-18,
9:00 PM Friday and
Saturday, and 3:00 PM on Sunday.
The film profiles violinist Jessica Moss and singer/songwriter Efrim
Menuck of Thee Silver Mount Zion, as they try to tour across North
America with a toddler.
"LIKE MOTHER, LIKE
DAUGHTER."
Tickets are now on sale,
and we hope you'll come along and see what we've made. All info is
here:
Rabbi Lisa Grushcow
reviews
"A Guide for the
Perplexed" by Dara Horn
Thursday, May 15, 2014 at 2 p.m.
JPL Presents - Afternoon
Book Review Series:
Rabbi Lisa Grushcow
reviews A Guide for the Perplexed by Dara Horn
The documentary,
"Yiddish: a
tale of survival" will be screened on
PBS Mountain Lakes Thursday, May 22, at 9pm.
There will also be an
interview on Mountain Lakes PBS about the documentary which can be
accessed from their website: PBS Moutain Lakes Journal.
YIDDISH DANCE PARTY
KlezKanada in
co-operation with the Mile End Chavurah presents a
special Yiddish Dance Party on Sunday, June 15 at
7:00 pm at the Ukrainian National Federation, 405
Fairmount West, corner of Hutchison. Steve Weintraub, the
renowned Philadelphia-based Yiddish dance instructor, accompanied
by The Rachel Lemisch Tantzhoyz Spectacular, will lead and
teach Yiddish/international dance aficionados, both experienced and novices.
The evening is being
held free of charge with the support of CJA Generations
Fund and The Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal.
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MORNING MINYAN
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Minyan takes place most Monday and Wednesday mornings 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 yahrzeit, 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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