Shabbat Ekev August 16, 2014 / 20 Av, 5774 Weekly Announcements

Shabbat Ekev

August 16, 2014 / 20 Av, 5774

This week's kiddush is sponsored by Hillel and Mitzi Becker and Barry & Donnie Frank, in memory of their mother and mother-in-law Augusta Becker z"l.

Torah: Deuteronomy 10:12 - 11:21 (Etz P.1048)
Maftir: Deuteronomy 11:22 - 25 (Etz P.1053)
Haftarah: Isaiah 49:14 - 21; 51:1 - 3 (Etz Pp. 1056, 1060)

Ba'alat Tefillah: Rabbi Julia Appel
D'var Torah: Rabbi Julia Appel
Torah Readers: Ayal Mor, Doreen Saibil, Chava Dienar
Haftarah Reader: Lois Lieff

Parnassim: Georgette Bensimon, Pearlann Goldenberg

SYNAGOGUE NEWS

MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL

As a reminder, please mail in your membership renewal form or contact the office to make your arrangements.

Please note that Guest Passes are available for family members, out of town guests and those who are looking for a place to celebrate the holidays.

HIGH HOLIDAY PREP CLASSES

Do you want to learn more about Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, so you can feel more comfortable participating in the holiday and explaining them to your children?

Please join us for 2 FREE High Holiday Prep Classes Sept 16 & Sept 30 at 7:30-9:00pm.

Classes will be led by Carmela Aigen and are open to participants of the Mothers Circle, congregation members, non-members, and anyone seeking to learn more about the High Holidays.

To register, please contact the office at (514)486-9400 or info@dorshei-emet.org

by September 9.

High Holiday Choir seeks a few good tenors...actually, all voices warmly welcomed! Soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. Some musical experience appreciated. Five weekly rehearsals, starting Tuesday Sept. 2nd, 7:30 pm, at the synagogue. Please contact Beverly at beverly.akerman@sympatico.ca or 514-482-6625. Choir director Helen Binik thanks you in advance

MEMBER NEWS

MAZAL TOV

Mazel Tov to Edith and Joe Kornacki on the birth of their grandson, Jonah Cooper McLeod, son of Tamara Kornacki and Nils McLeod.

REFUAH SHLAIMA

Zvi ben Taibel v'Yosef (Harry Fainsilber)

Yehudit bat Shalom v'Frieda (Odette Chonchol)

Eliahu ben Leah v'Yacov (Charley Levy)

Daniel ben Kalman v'Tziporah (Daniel Roth)

Miriam bat Tilka v'Schoel

Avraham ben Eliyahu v'Enna

Ariella bat Meir v'Pesseh

Miriam Bat Rachmiel v'Chava (Maureen Holt)

Sheine Leah bat Shmuel v'Esther (Lila Pascal)

*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

August 16 - 22, 2014/ 20 - 26 Av, 5774

* Leonie Finzi Chonchol, mother of Ernest Chonchol

Brewster D. Martin, father of Deborah Kraus

Reuben Saginur, father of Vivian Saginur

Rose Mitchell, mother of Herschel Mitchell

Joseph Asch, father of David Asch

Leonard Druckman, second husband of Lila Wolfe-Druckman, step-father of Audrey Berner

Susan Goldman-Feinglos, daughter of Beryl Goldman

Moshe Cohen, father of Robi Cohen

Rachel Cohen, mother of Pnina Gagnon

Celia Gilmour Nathanson, mother of Suzanne Herscovitch

Albert Randolph, father of Brenda Flanz

Zelda Schertzer, mother of Nathan Schertzer

Carol Schnaiberg, wife of Laddie Schnaiberg, mother of Romy Schnaiberg

Pamela Goldman Wexler, daughter of Beryl Goldman

Hans Aaron Abileah, father of Ilania Abileah

Mike Bacal, brother of Ethel Horowitz, husband of Monette Simonne Malewski

Rae Frankman, mother of Myron Frankman

Dorothy Sigler, mother of David Sigler

Neil Backman, son of Stanley Backman

Louis Cohen, brother of Ben Cohen, father of Deborah Cohen

Archie Fallis, father of Rita Singer

Harold Frank, husband of Esther Frank

Samuel Roland, husband of Miriam Roland

Eddy Sandler, father of Paula Wiviott

* Mendel Avraison, grandfather Heather Prout

Moe Etcovitch, brother of Betty Spiegel

Myer Knobovitch, brother of Shirley Wagner

Aaron Jaan Saber, first husband of Sara Saber-Freedman, father of David and Noah Saber-Freedman

Rose Shapiro, mother of Florence Shapiro Weigens

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.

COMMUNITY NEWS

DER GROYSER CONCERT INTERNACIONALE

August 24, 2014 7:30PM

Presented by KlezKanada in collaboration with the Montreal Jewish Music Festival

Oscar Peterson Hall

7141 Sherbrooke St. West

Montreal, QC

$36 (adults), $18 (students)

Tickets may be purchased at the venue box office

Monday-Thursday, 10am to 4pm and Friday 10am - 1pm Room SC 01-10

or through Admissions 1-855-790-1245 service charges may apply

Der Groyser Concert Internacionale is the not-to-be missed klezmer event of the year. Featuring 17 of the world's leading Jewish music instrumentalists and Yiddish song interpreters, this is authentic Eastern-European soul music straight out of old Bukhovina.