Friday, July 25, 2014

Shabbat Mas'ei - July 26, 2014


Congregation Dorshei Emet
Shabbat Mas'ei
Bentsch Rosh Hodesh Av – Monday-Tuesday
 
July 26, 2014 / 28 Tammuz, 5774   

 Torah: Numbers 35:9 - 36:9 (Etz P.962)
Maftir: Numbers 36:10-13 (Etz P.967)
Haftarah: Jeremiah 2:4 - 9; 3:4; 4:1 - 2(Etz Pp. 973, 976, 977)

Ba'al Tefillah: Rabbi Julia 
D'var Torah: Rabbi Julia  
Torah Reader: Barry Frank
Haftarah Reader: Jodi Lackman 
Parnassim: Audrey Berner, Deborah Kraus

SYNAGOGUE NEWS 
MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL
The membership renewal packages have been seen out and should be arriving in mailboxes shortly.  Please send back the renewals or contact the office to make your arrangements.   
Please note that Erev Rosh Hashanah is Wednesday, September 24, 2014.

LOCAL NEWS FROM ISRAEL: 
Many of us are following the emerging events in Israel with grave concern. For those who seek additional information, consider the following local news sources:
Times of Israel www.timesofisrael.com 
Ha'Aretz www.haaretz.com 
Jerusalem Post www.jpost.com 

PRAYING for PEACE
A message from The Jewish Reconstructionist Communities and Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.  

THANK YOU TO OUR LE CAFE VOLUNTEERS FOR THIS MONTH:
Hillel Becker
Marvin Orbach
Gaby Orbach
Andrea Strom Rancourt
Mark Medicoff
Gloria Doskie
Terry Perlman
Anna Gonshor

Every month, members from Dorshei Emet volunteer to serve meals at Le CafĂ©, a local initiative offering free Kosher meals to the community.  Every Tuesday and Thursday from 4:30pm-6:30pm, volunteers gather at the Cummings Centre for Seniors on Westbury to serve hot meals to those in need.  Each evening, over 250 meals are served.   If you would like to volunteer to help, please contact Gloria Doskie gloria.doskie@videotron.ca, or contact the office (514) 486-9400. 
MEMBER NEWS
MAZAL TOV  
To Sima Brockstein on the birth of a beautiful granddaughter Rosa, daughter of Timothy and Melika. 

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)
Liebe bat Reizel v'Yaakov
Miriam bat Tilka v'Schoel
Avraham ben Eliyahu v'Enna
Ariella bat Meir v'Pesseh
Yisroel ben Chaya v'Shlomo (Irv Perlman)
Miriam Bat Rachmiel v'Chava (Maureen Holt)  
*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
July 26-August 1, 2014/ 28 Tammuz - 5 Av, 5774   

Helene Rothschild Asch, mother of David Asch
Ruth Bayless, mother of Shelly Bayless Fabian
Isidore Berman, father of Laura Schertzer
David Boodman, brother of Martin Boodman
* Joseph Lazarus Brasloff, brother of Reuben Brasloff
Gerald Copeman, father of Russell Copeman
Elias Dabby, father of Victor Dabby
Bernard Davidow, father of Fran Schaffer
* Leon Echenberg, father of Myron Echenberg
Isidore Finkelstein, father of Sandra Mitchell
* Lonia Furstenberg, mother of Nicole Allio
Eva (Kozma) Kery, mother of Marion Kery
Stanley Kornacki (Kuper), father of Joe Kornacki
Abraham Kornbluth, father of Mrs. JoJo Gelfand
Blanche Levine, mother of Sylvia Levine Silver
David Litwin, father of Warren Litwin
Sarah Mayoff, wife of Moe Mayoff
Albert Schanfield, father of Frances Schanfield
Alice Singermann, mother of Gabriella Orbach
* Veda Tinkoff, mother of Heather Prout
Lillian Voronoff, wife of Donald Voronoff, mother of Barry Voronoff
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

AN EVENING OF FICTION & MEMOIR
Thursday, August 7 at 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
With Ami Sands Brodoff & Angie Chuang
Please join us as Ami reads from In Many Waters, her newly completed novel, and The White Space Between, Winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Fiction  Angie, a journalism professor in from American University, Washington, D.C. shares an excerpt from her debut memoir, The Four Words For Home, about her experiences living with an Afghani family.  The two authors were both early readers and critics of each other's projects, in addition to being great friends.  Both authors will be available to sign copies of their books.
Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore
2220 McGill College Avenue
Attendance is free!
MORNING MINYAN

Due to so many regulars being away, the Wednesday minyan will be "on holiday" until September.
 Congregation Dorshei Emet
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