Shabbat Mas'ei - July 26, 2014

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  I24 http://www.i24news.tv/  Ha'Aretz www.haaretz.com  Jerusalem Post www.jpost.com  PRAYING for PEACE A message from The Jewish Reconstructionist Communities and Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.   Please click here. 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 Café, 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 514-486-9400 www.dorsheiemet.com info@dorshei-emet.org http://www.facebook.com/people/Dorshei-Emet/1536853845 follow us on twitter -twitter@dorsheiemet Our Bulletin: http://dorsheiemet.com/pdf/dorshei_emet_bulletin.pdf