December 13th Beth Shalom Havdalah at the Beach Provides a Moonrise Bonus!

Havdalah is a brief ceremony that marks the end of the Sabbath, the Jewish day of rest.
The Jewish Community of Flagler County will meet for the traditional Havdallah service on Saturday evening, December 13th at 6:30 p.m. 100 feet north of the Flagler Beach Pier in Flagler Beach. All are welcome to attend. All who wish to remain for a few minutes following the service will be treated to an unusual full moonrise over the Atlantic.

The name havdalah comes from the Hebrew word l'havdeel, which means to distinguish or separate. Havdalah is a ceremony that distinguishes between the holy Sabbath day and the secular work week.
Anyone looking to practice more Jewish rituals should consider havdalah. The ceremony is short, simple, sweet and spiritual. Havdalah is definitely one of my children's favorite ceremonies.
What is Needed?
Three things are needed for the havdalah ceremony:
glass of kosher wine or grape juice
some fragrant spices (cloves, cinnamon or bay leaves are commonly used)
a special Havdalah candle
The wine is used to symbolize the joy of the Sabbath.
The spices are smelled so that the sweetness of the Sabbath will be carried over into the work week.
The candle is braided and has at least two wicks. The braiding symbolizes the unity found at the end of the Sabbath. Since the blessing refers to "lights of the fire" in the plural, two wicks are used in one candle to enable one to extinguish them at the same time. If a havdalah candle is not available, one can hold two candles together so that their wicks burn together one flame.

Making home-made spice boxes and havdalah candles can be a fun, family craft project.

How To Do Havdalah?
The Havdalah service marks the end of the Sabbath, and therefore should be performed only after nightfall on Saturday night. Nightfall is the time when three stars can be seen in the sky.
The most pleasant way to perform the ceremony is to have all the participants stand close together in a circle and to dim the lights so candle light becomes the focus.

The Havdalah Service

The service begins with Biblical verses that praise God as our savior. Then blessings are recited over the wine, the spices and the candle. The service concludes with the Havdalah blessing.
Biblical Verses

The braided candle is lit and held by a child if one is present.
The leader raises a cup of wine and says:
Hinei eil y'shu'ati, evtach v'lo efchad, ki ozi v'zimrat Yah Adonai va'y'hi li lishua.
Behold, God is my savior, I will trust in God and will not be afraid, because my strong faith and song of praise for God will be my salvation.
(Isaiah 12:2)

Ush'avtem mayim b'sason mima'ay'nei ha-y'shua.
You shall joyfully draw water out of the wells of salvation.
(Isaiah 12:3)
La'Adonai ha-y'shua, al amcha virkhatecha, sela.
God is our savior, may God bless God's people.
(Psalms 3:9)

Adonai tzva'ot imanu, misgav lanu Elohei Ya'akov, sela.
God of the universe is with us, the God of Jacob is a fortress protecting us.
(Psalms 46:12)

Adonai tz'va'ot ashrei adam botei'ach bach.
God of the universe, happy is the person who trusts You.
(Psalms 84:13)
Adonai hoshiya ha-melech ya'aneinu v'yom koreinu.
God, redeem us. The King will answer on the day we call.
(Psalms 20:10)
All participants say together the joyous words that were spoken by the Jews when they were saved from the plot of Haman:
La'y'hudim hayta ora v'simcha v'sasonvikar, kein t'hiyeh lanu.
The Jewish People had light and joy and gladness and dignity, So may we be blessed.
(Esther 8:16)
The leader raises a cup of wine and says:
Kos y'shu'ot eisa u'v'sheim Adonai ekra.
I will lift the cup of salvation and call upon God's name.
(Psalms 116:13)
The Blessing over the Wine
The leader says:
Barukh ata Adonai, Eloheinu Melekh ha-olam, borei peri ha-gafen.
Blessed are You, Adonai our God, Ruler of the Universe, Creator of the fruit of the vine.
The wine is put down without anyone drinking from it.
The Blessing over the Spices

The leader says:
Barukh ata Adonai, Eloheinu Melekh ha-olam, bo oerei minei v'samim.
Blessed are You, Adonai our God, Ruler of the Universe, Creator of many kinds of spices.
The spices are passed around so that all participants can sniff them.

The Blessing over the Candle

The candle that was kindled at the beginning of the ceremony is raised high, and the leader says:
Baruch ata Adonai Eloheynu Melekh Ha'olam boray me'oray ha'esh.
Blessed are you, Oh L-rd our G-d, King of the Universe who has created the light of the fire.
All participants hold their hands, with half-clenched fingers, up to the light of the candle so that their fingernails catch the reflection of the light. Why? Some believe this creates shadows which, as the blessing says, makes a distinction between light and darkness. Others believe that we should make use of the light after blessing it.

The Havdalah Blessing

The leader says:
Baruch ata Adonai Eloheynu Melekh Ha'olam, ha'mavdil, bayn kodesh le'chol, bayn or le'choshech, bayn Yisra'el la'amim, bayn yom ha'shevi'i le'sheshet yemay ha ma'aseh.
Blessed are you, Oh L-rd our G-d, King of the Universe who created a distinction between the holy and the profane, between the light and darkness, between Isra'el and the nations, between the seventh day and the rest of the week.
Baruch ata Adonai, ha'mavdil bayn kodesh le'chol.
Blessed are You, Oh L-rd our G-d who made a distinction between the sacred and the profane.
All participants can now taste the wine. It is customary to spill some of the wine into a saucer, and then to extinguish the candle by dipping it into the wine in the saucer. This symbolizes the Sabbath influence spilling over into the work week
Songs

The Havdalah ceremony may be concluded by singing songs. Two traditional songs are Shavua Tov and Eliahu HaNavi.
Shavua Tov (A Good Week):
Shavua tov, Shavua tov, Shavua tov, Shavua tov, Shavua tov, Shavua tov, Shavua tov, Shavua tov.
A good week, a week of peace, may gladness reign and joy increase.
Eliahu Ha'Navi:
Eliahu Ha'Navi, Eliahu Ha'Tishbi, Eliahu Ha'Giladi.
Bimheira, yavo aleinu, im mashiach ben David, im mashiach ben David.
Elijah the Prophet, Elijah the Tishbite, Elijah the Gileadite.
With speed, Come to us, With the Messiah, The son of David.
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Learners Service Meets at Beth Shalom on 4th Friday of the Month

I had been going to shul since I was a child, but that didn't mean I understood what was going on -- the Learners' Service made the Friday evening worship much more understandable and approachable. (from a congregant)

Do you feel lost during the Friday evening service?
Do you wish you could participate more?
If you answered yes, then the Learners Service is for you!

Deepen your personal connection to the Friday evening Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma’ariv Services!
Increase your ability to participate
Learn to develop spiritual mindfulness (kavanah)
Discover the liturgical, spiritual, and emotional structure of the service


The Learners Service Approach to Jewish Spiritual Practice

Many Jews describe the traditional service as a train roaring through the station, leaving them alone on the platform unable to board. There we stand with a ticket in our hand, suitcase at our feet, and wonder why the train didn't stop to let us on.
The traditional service is our heritage and expresses the values of our culture. It developed over hundreds of years and offers a deep and intricate path of spirituality. But the ancient origins and depth of its meanings can also make the service seem inaccessible and forbidding.
The goal of the Learners Service, meeting each 4th Friday of the month, is to help each worshipper find personal meaning and connection to the words of this ancient prayer text. While the spirit is innate in everyone, the ability to focus our attention, and to act with intention, is a learned process. As we learn to increase kavanah, and open ourselves to the experience of standing in the stream of Judaism's history and values, we move from being alienated audience to active participant in the community of prayer.
Each act of participation that we learn, the words that we say, the standing and bowing, the kissing of the Siddur, becomes part of the method for engaging our own spirituality.
To delve deeply into the traditional Jewish liturgy requires us to learn the methods of kavanah, the practice of movement and speech, and to struggle with the meaning of the words. Jewish spiritual practice is built incrementally as we apply each of these techniques to the service. The Learners Service offers worshippers the opportunity to learn and practice each of these steps of the path to Jewish spirituality.
Do you feel lost during the Friday evening service?
Do you wish you could participate more?
If you answered yes, then the Learners Service is for you!

Deepen your personal connection to the Friday evening Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma’ariv Services!
Increase your ability to participate
Learn to develop spiritual mindfulness (kavanah)
Discover the liturgical, spiritual, and emotional structure of the service

Rabbi Hayim Donin’s To Be a Jew, Becomes Adult Education Course at Beth Shalom

Rabbi Hayim Donin’s fundamental work in his classic guide To Be a Jew will become an adult education course at Temple Beth Shalom beginning November 12th. The class will meet regularly on Wednesdays from 1:45 until 2:30 p.m. and will be moderated by Merrill Shapiro, Rabbi of Temple Beth Shalom. All are welcome, there is no charge, no advance arrangements need be made. Because of the nature of the course, no meeting is dependent on previous or future meetings. Thus, each session is stand-alone, participants need make no commitment to regular attendance.  


To Be a Jew is Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin's classic guide to Jewish life, philosophy, and law has guided generations of Americans, Europeans, and Israelis to discover the treasures of their own religious traditions. First published in 1972, the book still stands as a reliable, practical and versatile resource for everyone from young girls preparing for bat mitzvah to old men returning to their spiritual roots. The book begins with an overview of Judaism's basic credo (including chapters on Israel's people, land, God, and Torah), moves on to describe the laws governing Jews' daily lives, the Jewish calendar, and "The Special Occasions of Life" from birth to death and mourning. One great strength of To Be a Jew is its blending of folk wisdom and scholarly learning. Rabbi Donin not only describes what right belief and righteous action look like but provides a rationale for these observances that engages and embraces the basic conditions of modern life.  

The initial course calendar and subjects to be discussed include:
 
 
November 12 Israel –The People
 
November 19 Israel –Its Land
 
November 26 Israel-Its God
 
December 3 Israel- Its Torah
 
December 10 Halakha: The Jewish Way
 
December 17 The Reasons for the Commandments
 
January 7th Kindness: A Means to an End
 
January 14 acts of Kindness
 
January 21 Laws of Charity
 
January 28 Laws Relating to Slander, Revenge and Deceit

Hebrew Reading Course Offered at Beth Shalom

Jews with littleor no background in the Hebrew language can learn basic Hebrew reading skills, allowing them to connect with their Jewish heritage, follow along in a prayer book at services, and help their children with Hebrew school homework with enrollment in a course offered at Palm Coast’s Temple Beth Shalom. The class meets Wednesday afternoons from 2:30 until 3:00 p.m. and the initial schedule calls for meetings on November 12th, 19th and 26th, December 3rd, 10th and 17th and January 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th. There is a $10 charge for materials, the text “Kriah u’Tefillah L’Matchilim” A Reading and Prayer Primer recently updated by the New York publisher Ktav and author Zvi Scharfstein. Details and further information are available from instructor Merrill Shapiro, Rabbi of Temple Beth Shalom.  

The results of the recent National Jewish Population Survey show a decline in the American Jewish population, making clear the need to offer American Jews access to engaging educational programming that will inspire them to integrate Judaism into their lives. Experience has demonstrated that they beginning Hebrew Reading courses are a fantastic way to get people to take their first steps into Jewish life and to generate interest in Jewish traditions and culture.

Beth Shalom and Hadassah Offer Modern Spoken Hebrew Classes

Temple Beth Shalom and Palm Coast Hadassah have partnered to offer classes in modern spoken Hebrew through a course called Ivrit L'Hadassah, Hebrew of Hadassah. The classes meet Wednesday afternoons at Temple Beth Shalom  The beginngers course is offered from 3:00 until 3:45 p.m. while a course for intermediate level students is is offered from 1:00 untill 1:45 p.m.  The courses are open to all and there is no charge. Further details are available from the course instructor Merrill Shapiro, the Rabbi of Temple Beth Shalom who can be reached in the synagogue office at 386-445-3006.

The initial course calendar plans meetings on Wednesdays November 12th, 19th and 26th, December 3rd, 10th and 17th and January 7th, 14th 21st and 28th.   

Learning Hebrew is not as hard as one might think. Anyone can learn to read, speak, and understand the language of the Bible, prayers, and of daily life in Israel. Even for those who can't read a single Hebrew letter, or those who already have a background in the language, Ivrit la Hadassah – Hadassah's National Hebrew Studies program – can provide anyone and everyone with the basic building blocks of Hebrew to help build or increase Hebrew Language proficiency. 

Ivrit la Hadassah offers a four-level program that teaches the Hebrew alphabet in segments, integrates grammar sequentially, and introduces conversational Hebrew. Peer-led classes use an exciting, low-pressure, results-oriented approach that emphasizes basic skills and conversational fluency.Participants have fun learning, and make friends who share a  Jewish consciousness and love of Israel.

The gift of Jewish and Hebrew literacy is now available to Flagler County residents.  

Flagler County Jews to Mark 91st Balfour Day with Picnic at Herschel King Park

Flagler County’s Jews will gather at Palm Coast’s Herschel King, Sr. Park at 12 noon, Sunday, November 2nd to picnic and to celebrate the 91st anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, proclaiming the British Government’s support for the founding of a Jewish State in what was, on November 2, 1917, called Palestine. The event is open to the public and tickets are $12 and include a full picnic lunch, children under age 13 are free. All are welcome. For further information contact Temple Beth Shalom at 386-445-3006.

The picnic is a program of the Palm Coast synagogue’s Men’s Club and Sisterhood and will include a brief program honoring the The Balfour Declaration dated November 2, 1917 a classified formal statement of policy by the British government stating that the British government "view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the understanding that "nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

The declaration was made in a letter from Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild (Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation, a private Zionist organization. The letter reflected the position of the British Cabinet, as agreed upon in a meeting on October 31, 1917. It further stated that the declaration is a sign of "sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations."

The statement was issued through the efforts of Chaim Weizmann and Nahum Sokolow, the principal Zionist leaders based in London but, as they had asked for the reconstitution of Palestine as “the” Jewish national home, the Declaration fell short of Zionist expectations. The "Balfour Declaration" was later incorporated into the Sèvres peace treaty with Turkey and the Mandate for Palestine. The original document is kept at the British Library.

Palm Coast Hadassah to mark Veteran’s Day with UF Dean Emeritus Lowenstein

The little-known but indispensable role of American Jews in the creation of Israel will be described at 1 p.m. Tuesday, November 11, by a University of Florida professor speaking to the Palm Coast Chapter of Hadassah at Temple Beth Shalom in Palm Coast. 
Ralph Lowenstein, dean emeritus of the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida in Gainesville, will speak on the topic “Anonymous Ally: The American Jewish role in Israel’s War of Independence.” The public is welcome to attend. There is no charge and no advance arrangements for the hour-long program are necessary. For directions to the synagogue at 40 Wellington Drive in Palm Coast, call 386-445-3006. Additional information is available through Palm Coast Hadassah at 386-446-9353. 

Veteran’s Day speaker Lowenstein is a native of Danville, Virginia and fought in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence after he volunteered for the Israeli Army at the age of 18, while a summer exchange student in Europe at the end of his freshman year at Columbia University. He lived in a Displaced Persons camp in Marseilles under an assumed name, then saw combat as a half-track driver with the 79th Armored Battalion, 7th Brigade, 10 days after being smuggled into Israel. He later served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. Lowenstein holds two degrees from Columbia and the Ph.D. from the University of Missouri where he served as chairman of the News-Editorial Department of the University’s School of Journalism. An award-winning reporter, he was visiting professor and head of journalistic studies at Tel Aviv University from 1967 to 1968. He is author or co-author of five books, including "Bring my Sons from Far," (World, 1966), a novel about Israel's War of Independence
  
In 2005, Professor Lowenstein built the Museum of American and Canadian Volunteers in Israel’s War of Independence in the University of Florida’s new Hillel Jewish Student’s Organization building. Since 1982, he has been collecting extensive archives, including questionnaires, memoirs and photos, for the University of Florida Libraries on the 1,250 American and Canadian men and women who worked on American ships rescuing Holocaust survivors from Europe or who served in the Israeli armed forces during the War of Independence.

County Commissioner Holland to Explain Environmentally Sensitive Lands Issue on November Ballot at Temple Beth Shalom, 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 15th

Flagler County Commissioner Milissa Holland will explain the Issue 10 “Clean Water and Environmentally Sensitive Land Preservation to be found on the county’s November 4th ballot at a public meeting to begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 15th in the sanctuary of Temple Beth Shalom, 40 Wellington Drive in Palm Coast. All are welcome to attend, there is no charge, no advance arrangements need be made. For further information and directions contact the Temple Beth Shalom office at 386-445-3006. Milissa Holland was elected to the Flagler County Board of County Commissioners in November, 2006. 

Prior to her election to the county commission, she served the community on a broad range of boards, councils, and committees. She founded the James F. Holland Foundation, named after her father who was one of the first Palm Coast City Council members. The focus of the Holland Foundation is to raise funds and initiate programs which benefit the children and youth of Flagler County through the formation of partnerships with local, state and national agencies and organizations. The Flagler County Sexual Assault Task Force, an inter-disciplinary team that is focused on promoting awareness, education, and prevention of sexual abuse, and the Holland Foundation Working Group for Special Needs Children are both umbrella entities working to accomplish the mission of their parent organization. 

In addition, Ms. Holland originated the ordinance establishing the City of Palm Coast Environmental and Beautification Committee. This group is charged with making recommendations to the Planning and Land Development Regulation Board, evaluating and recommending projects to City officials and helping to formulate environmental policies. This reflects Holland’s lifelong interest in Flagler County’s rich and varied natural resources.

She also played an active role on the Palm Coast Leisure Services Advisory Committee. One of the Committee’s major projects was to help direct the design of Linear Park in Palm Coast, a network of hiking and biking trails beneath old growth canopy.

Commissioner Holland recently received appointment to the prestigious organization 1000 Friends of Florida. This organization promotes healthy urban and natural places by wise management of growth change. It educates, advocates, negotiates and, when necessary, litigates to protect our high quality of life. It has the technical knowledge and access needed to ensure that public and private decisions lead to livable communities.

As County Commissioner, her current committee and board appointments include:
Cornerstone Regional Development Partnership
Enterprise Flagler Executive Board of Directors
Scenic A1A PRIDE Committee Liaison
University of Florida Partnership for Water, Agriculture, and Community Sustainability at Hastings Advisory Committee
Flagler County Future Committee
St. Johns River to Sea Loop
Management Advisory Group for the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve (GTMNERR)

Milissa Holland was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1971 and moved with her family to Flagler County in 1987. She is the mother of three children and is proud to be the first woman elected County Commissioner in Flagler County.

In 1988, Flagler County initiated an Environmentally Sensitive Lands (ESL) program to use funding from voter approved ad valorem taxes to acquire environmentally sensitive lands, recreation areas and water recharge areas. 

The Land Acquisition Selection Advisory Committee was formed in 1989 to help the county implement the program. Since that time, the committee has determined potential land acquisitions based on their natural and cultural significance. In 2002, Flagler County voters reaffirmed the issuance of Environmentally Sensitive Lands bonds. Over 3,400 acres have been preserved as Environmentally Sensitive Lands. The Land Acquisition Selection Advisory Committee is continually researching potential purchases.

The Daytona News Journal, in its September 28th editorial said:

The size of Flagler County will stay the same in the next 10 to 20 years. The size of its green spaces and the water available for consumption won't. The county's population is verging on 100,000. Palm Coast alone, once its original boundaries are built out, will have 250,000 inhabitants. That doesn't include Palm Coast's growth northwest of the city and across U.S. Route 1. A county of 300,000 is in most Flagler County residents' not-so distant future.

Development is inevitable, preserving sensitive land and water isn't without an act of will by voters. Flagler in 1988 and 2002, voters approved and renewed, by wide margins, a small-property tax to raise money for land and clean water preservation. The two levies raised a combined $14.5 million. The money raised by the tax bought bonds that enable the county to borrow money immediately and make large land acquisitions.

As the money is repaid, however, the property tax falls, reducing the amount of money the county takes in every year. The 2002 levy, for example -- 33 cents per $1,000 of assessed value -- is almost half that amount now. On Nov. 4, voters will be asked to approve a new levy of 25 cents per $1,000 in assessed value to continue the land-preservation program. For a house valued at $175,000, with a $50,000 homestead exemption, the land-preservation bill in the first year would be $31. The new money would allow the county to raise up to issue bonds for up to $40 million over the next 20 years. Voters should approve the levy, on the ballot as County Referendum No. 10.

This time, the amount of money raised by the tax won't diminish, as with the 1988 and 2002 levies. The county is structuring this levy the way Volusia County set up its voter-approved ECHO and Forever funds, which are designed to protect the environment and promote culture. Those two funds established a set levy of 20 cents per $1,000 of assessed value regardless, ensuring that, as Volusia County grows, so do its environmental protection and cultural funds.

Real estate's price collapse offers an added advantage for land-preservation possibly over the next few years: The county will be in a stronger position to buy land at lower prices before the next boom (should one materialize). "Vision" is often an empty word thrown about by politicians who don't have one. In this case, the land-preservation referendum enables voters to enact their own vision for Flagler's future. It'll be a built-up one. The question is whether voters will also want it to be one balanced with green spaces and protected watersheds.

Flagler League of Women Voters Candidate Forum, October 6th at Temple Beth Shalom

The Flagler Chapter of the League of Women Voters, in its continuing efforts to create an informed and educated electorate, invites all of the county’s voters to a Candidate Forum on Monday evening, October 6th from 6:30 until 8:00 p.m. at Temple Beth Shalom, 40 Wellington Drive, one-fourth mile north of Pine Lakes Parkway in Palm Coast. All are welcome, there is no charge and no advance reservations are necessary. A variety of local and regional candidates for office, whose names will appear on the Flagler County’s November 4th ballots, have agreed to appear.  

The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, has fought since 1920 to improve our systems of government and impact public policies through citizen education and advocacy. The League’s enduring vitality and resonance comes from its unique decentralized structure. The League is a grassroots organization, working at the national, state and local levels.
 
There are Leagues in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Hong Kong, in addition to the hundreds of local Leagues nationwide. The League of Women Voters of the United States and the League of Women Voters Education Fund operate at the national level with grassroots support from state and local Leagues.
 
The League of Women Voters is strictly nonpartisan; it neither supports nor opposes candidates for office at any level of government. At the same time, the League is wholeheartedly political and works to influence policy through advocacy. It is the original grassroots citizen network, directed by the consensus of its members nationwide. 

Weary of negative, partisan politics that widen gaps between Americans, rather than bridge them, the League notes that people are looking to engage in conversations that foster consensus and unity. With a respected and trusted reputation for being unbiased and nonpartisan, the League is uniquely able to address specific community concerns and bridge political and ideological divides to find common ground. In doing so, the League of Women Voters is giving citizens a stronger voice on the most important issues of the day. 

Common wisdom says that candidate forums are a great way for constituents to hear how candidates running for a particular office feel about issues they, the constituents, care about. For the candidate, they are an opportunity to address the concerns of a particular interest group in a fair and open setting.  

Many people do not vote because they don’t feel connected to the candidates or issues at stake in an election. The planned October 6th forums will help open up the communication between candidates and their constituents and get people interested in the November 4th election. This forum hopes to improve and redirect the public and the political dialogue that has become increasingly shallow and mean-spirited. The citizens of Flagler County are all invited to help set the tone of the debate and demand a higher standard of discourse.

Bunnell Church and Palm Coast Synagogue team to assure Israel’s Environment

When Reverend Gerald Campetella of Bunnell’s Apostolic Church of God called Rabbi Merrill Shapiro of Palm Coast to arrange a meeting, the synagogue leader was a bit unsure of the Pastor’s intent. When Campetella handed Shapiro a Jewish National Fund “Blue Box” full of coins, donations from members of the church and asked for seven more boxes, the Rabbi was a bit startled.

“Back in the 1980’s, my wife and I visited Israel expecting to find a desert, barren and arid, what the Bible calls a ‘wasteland.’” How surprised and delighted we were to find the hand of God and the People Israel, together, had created a garden, lush, green, beautiful and inviting. We so much wanted to be part of the effort.”

Campetella met Shapiro through the Flagler Area Ministerial Association and joined with Temple Beth Shalom to read the names of Holocaust Victims at a special commemoration in the synagogue sanctuary. It was there that the Pastor took a “Blue Box” and the members of The Apostolic Church of God, A United Pentecostal Church began to do their part in maintaining the garden Israel.

The donations of synagogue members and church members in Jewish National Fund contribution containers, known for more than a century as “Blue Boxes,” are being combined and sent to support the efforts of the Fund. JNF has planted more than 240 million trees since 1901 to protect the land, green the landscape and preserve vital ecosystems. Through the generosity of donors like those The Apostolic Church of God and Temple Beth Shalom, JNF continues this effort, planting seedlings, maintaining forest health, combating desertification, protecting watersheds and managing water flow.

Thanks to the dedication of leaders like Campatella, Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century with a net gain in numbers of trees. JNF has planted over 240 million saplings, providing luscious belts of green covering more than 250,000 acres. JNF national forest development work balances population needs with limited forest 'supply.' While the forests of Israel belong to the people, JNF ensures their environmental soundness while promoting optimal use.

Many more such “Blue Boxes” are available through Temple Beth Shalom of Palm Coast free of charge. The synagogue is proud to be part of a community that values trees to the point that tree removal requires a city permit. “As trees are so important to us in Palm Coast, so they are equally important in Israel, a land neglected for more than 2000 years!”

“Blue Boxes” are available at no charge to anyone wishing to donate pocket change to the cause of the Jewish National Fund through Temple Beth Shalom and can be obtained by calling the synagogue office at 386-445-3006.

Hamas Hostage Gilad Shalit's 22nd Birthday to be Marked at Temple Beth Shalom

Staff Sergeant Gilad Shalit the Israeli soldier who was captured in a cross border raid on the crossing Kerem Shalom from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants on June 25, 2006 has been held hostage by Hamas since will turn 22 years old on August 28th. All are welcome to mark his birthday at Temple Beth Shalom, 40 Wellington Drive in Palm Coast on Friday evening, August 22nd at 8 p.m. There is no charge. No advance reservations are necessary. Oneg Shabbat refreshments follow services. Beth Shalom has recently received a great deal of attention as many of its members have been wearing dog tags imprinted with the name of Gilad Shalit as well as the names Udi Goldwasser and Eldad Regev. The bodies of Goldwasser and Regev, abducted by Hezbollah and held in southern Lebanon, were returned to Israel for proper burial in a prisoner exchange a month ago. Members of Temple Beth Shalom of Palm Coast continue to call upon Hamas for a “sign of life” from Shalit and some modicum of compliance with the Geneva Conventions that permit such contact, usually through the International Red Cross.

Shalit was born on August 28, 1986 in Nahariya Israel and was raised from the age of two in Mitzpe Hila in the western Galilee. He graduated with distinction from Manor Kabri High School. Shalit began military service in the Israel Defense Forces in July 2005, and “despite a low medical profile, he preferred to serve in a combat unit, following his elder brother Yoel into the armored corps.” He holds dual Israeli and French citizenship.

Early on Sunday morning, June 25, 2006, Shalit was captured by Palestinians who attacked an Israeli army post on the Israeli side of the southern Gaza Strip border after having crossed through an underground tunnel near the Kerem Shalom border crossing. During the morning attack, two Palestinian militants as well as two IDF soldiers were killed and three others wounded, aside from Shalit, who himself suffered a broken left hand and a light shoulder wound after his tank was hit with an RPG.
Shalit’s captors issued a statement on Monday, June 26, 2006, offering information on Shalit if Israel agreed to release all female Palestinian prisoners and all Palestinian prisoners under the age of 18. The statement came from the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committees (which includes members of Fatah, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas), and a previously unknown group calling itself the Army of Islam.
After Shalit’s capture, the Papal Nuncio to Israel, Archbishop Antonio Franco, made an unsuccessful attempt to secure the release of Shalit via the Catholic Church’s Gaza-based parish.

In September 2006, Egyptian mediators received a letter written by Gilad in which he stated that he was alive and well. The handwriting was confirmed to be that of Cpl. Shalit. In October, Egypt was also reported to be negotiating with Hamas on behalf of Israel for Shalit’s release.

On October 28, 2006 the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) said in a statement that all three parties had agreed to a proposal by Egyptian mediators regarding the release of corporal Gilad Shalit. The PRC did not provide details, but said that the Egyptian proposal would include the release of Palestinians held by Israel. It was the first time since Shalit’s capture that any of the factions indicated that his release might be imminent.

In November 2006, Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal indicated that Shalit was alive and in good health.

On January 4, 2006, Hamas offered to give Israel a videotape proving that Shalit is still alive if Israel released all Palestinian women and children from Israeli prisons. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejected Hamas’s proposal. Shalit’s father, Noam Shalit, seemed to agree with the government’s response, stating on 7 January, “I want my son back, not a video or a letter.”

Five days later, on January 9, 2007 Abu Mujahed, a spokesman for the captors, asserted that Shalit “has not been harmed at all,” going on to say, “He is being treated in accordance with Islamic values regulating the treatment of prisoners of war.” However, he threatened, “We have managed to keep the soldier in captivity for six months and we have no problem keeping him for years.”

On January 17, 2007, one of the captor groups, the Army of Islam headed by Mumtaz Dormush, claimed that Shalit is held exclusively by Hamas.

On March 8, 2007, The Jerusalem Post reported that an agreement has been reached with Hamas over the number of prisoners Israel will release in return for Shalit. Israel and Hamas are still negotiating specific prisoners that Hamas wants freed in return for Shalit.

On April 7, 2007, It was reported that the captors of Gilad Shalit have transferred to Israel, via Egyptian mediators, a list of Palestinian prisoners they want freed. The list includes approximately 1300 names some of which are high ranking Fatah members.

On February 4, 2008, it was reported that Hamas had sent Gilad's family a second letter written by him. The handwriting was confirmed to be that of Shalit.

Gilad's father Noam Shalit met with former U.S. president Jimmy Carter during the latter's April 2008 visit to Israel. Carter plans to later visit Khaled Meshal of Hamas in Damascus. Noam Shalit said that the fact that Carter is not considered pro-Israel could be beneficial in securing his son's release.

On June 9, 2008, it was reported that Hamas sent Gilad's family a third letter. The group had promised to send them a third letter after mediation from former U.S. president Jimmy Carter. The handwriting was confirmed to be that of Shalit.

On August 12th, Hamas noted that they are suspending talks on Shalit's release demanding a complete lifting of the Israeli siege. The decision has angered Egypt, a mediator for the release of Shalit. Hamas has criticized the Egyptians for linking the opening of the Rafah border crossing with Shalit's release, a condition to which Hamas refuses to agree.

On the human rights front, June 25, 2007 was the date the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem issued a statement that "international humanitarian law absolutely prohibits taking and holding a person by force in order to compel the enemy to meet certain demands, while threatening to harm or kill the person if the demands are not met," and thus Hamas holding Gilad Shalit as a hostage to their demands is a war crime. Shalit's denied rights to Red Cross(ICRC) visitation was noted as a blatant violation of international law as well.

Temple Beth Shalom members hope to keep Shalit’s captivity in the public eye. According to Rabbi Merrill Shapiro, “ The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and now the Republic of Georgia, the Olympics, even the weather, keep our attention elsewhere. This is a fundamental human question and, were any of us in Palm Coast, held hostage in violation of International Law, we would certainly want the rest of us to shout out long and loud on behalf of that which is just and right!”



The Fourth of Four Pages

Palm Coast Hadassah Announces 5769 Calendar

Phyllis Meinsen, President of Palm Coast Hadassah, has released the chapter's calendar for the year 5768.  "We've a busy and active year ahead and need the support of each and every member of the Jewish Community of Flagler County," said Meinsen.  

The Palm Coast Chapter is part of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, a volunteer women's organization, whose members are motivated and inspired to strengthen their partnership with Israel, ensure Jewish continuity, and realize their potential as a dynamic force in American society.

Founded in 1912, Hadassah retains the passion and timeless values of its founder, Henrietta Szold, Jewish scholar and activist, who was dedicated to Judaism, Zionism, and the American ideal.

Committed to the centrality of Israel based on the renaissance of the Jewish people in its historic homeland, Hadassah promotes the unity of the Jewish people. In Israel, Hadassah initiates and supports pace-setting health care, education and youth institutions, and land development to meet the country's changing needs.

In the United States, Hadassah enhances the quality of American and Jewish life through its education and Zionist youth programs, promotes health awareness, and provides personal enrichment and growth for its members.

The schedule the Hadassah calendar for the coming year includes:

August 12, 2008 Hadassah Board Meeting 10:00am at Temple

Sept. 9, 2008 Hadassah General Meeting 12:30pm at Temple

Oct. 6, 2008 Hadassah Board Meeting 10:00am at Temple

Oct. 29, 2008 Mah Jongg/Card Party Pine Lakes

Nov. 6, 2008 New member orientation.

Nov. 11, 2008 Hadassah General Meeting 12:30pm at Temple. Program will be in honor of WWII veterans and will feature Dr. Ralph Lowenstein who joined the Israeli army in 1948 when Israel became a nation.

Dec. 9, 2008 Hadassah Board Meeting 10:00am at Temple

Jan. 13, 2009 Hadassah General Meeting 12:30pm Paid up membership luncheon at Temple.

Feb. 10, 2009 Hadassah Board Meeting 10:00am at Temple

Mar. 10, 2009 Purim, Hadassah General Meeting 12:30pm Hamantashen
included.

Mar. 12, 2009 Fashion show and luncheon at Pine Lakes

April ? Donor luncheon date to be determined


May ? Installation date to be determined

Local Jewish War Veterans Install Don Song as Commander, June 22nd

PalmCoast’s Donald S. Song will become the next commander of the Penny Whitman Volusia/Flagler Post 300 at a formal installation ceremony at the Palm Coast Yacht Club on June 22nd. Song replaces retiring Commander Seymour Karns. The installation will see Jack Resnick of Daytona Beach and George Gold of Palm Coast become Senior Vice-Commanders, while Irving Hoffman and Stan Kates become Judge Advocate and Quartermaster, respectively.

Jewish War Veterans are citizens of the United States of America, of the Jewish faith, who served in the Wars of the United States of America, who associate themselves together to be of greater service to country and to each other. Fundamental to the work of JWV is to have its members maintain true allegiance to the United States of America and to foster and perpetuate true Americanism. Also important are efforts to combat whatever tends to impair the efficiency and permanency of America’s free institutions; to uphold the fair name of the Jew; to encourage the doctrine of universal liberty, equal rights, and full justice to all.

Jewish War Veterans around the United States combine their energies to combat the powers of bigotry and darkness wherever originating and whatever the target and to preserve the spirit of comradeship by mutual helpfulness to comrades and families. Members also agree to cooperate with and support existing educational institutions and establish educational institutions, and to foster the education of ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen, and members in the ideals and principles of Americanism. Around the country, JWV Posts join hands to instill love of country and flag, and to promote sound minds and bodies in members and in the youth of America, to preserve the memories and records of patriotic service performed by Jewish men and women and to honor their memory and shield from neglect the graves of our heroic dead.

Jewish War Veterans locally are especially mindful of returning veterans from current conflicts wounded in both mind and body. JWV stands ready, as it has since 1896, to ensure that those who have fought our nation’s battles receive the treatment and the respect that they deserve from a grateful nation through JWV’s access to VA and government officials.

As anti-Semitism rises around the globe, the JWV also stands ready, as it has since 1896, to support the state of Israel, the bastion of democracy in the Middle East, and to fight bigotry and prejudice wherever it is found.

Flagler Jewish Community To Gather for Shavuot Celebrations, June 8th through 10th

The Jewish Community of Flagler County will gather at the area’s largest synagogue to mark Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks beginning at sundown on Sunday, June 8th. The two day festival, continuing through dark on Tuesday, June 10th fulfills the obligations placed upon the Jewish people by the twenty-first chapter of the Biblical Book of Leviticus:

You shall count for yourselves -- from the day after the Shabbat, from the day when you bring the Omer of the waving -- seven Shabbats, they shall be complete. Until the day after the seventh sabbath you shall count, fifty days... You shall convoke on this very day -- there shall be a holy convocation for yourselves -- you shall do no laborious work; it is an eternal decree in your dwelling places for your generations. -Leviticus 21:15-16, 21

Shavu'ot, the Festival of Weeks, is the second of the three major festivals with both historical and agricultural significance (the other two are Passover and Sukkot). Agriculturally, it commemorates the time when the first fruits were harvested and brought to the Temple, and is known as Hag ha-Bikkurim (the Festival of the First Fruits). Historically, it celebrates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, and is also known as Hag Matan Torateinu (the Festival of the Giving of Our Torah).

The period from Passover to Shavu'ot is a time of great anticipation. Jewish communities around the world count each of the days from the second day of Passover to the day before Shavu'ot, 49 days or 7 full weeks, hence the name of the festival. The counting reminds us of the important connection between Passover and Shavu'ot: Passover freed the ancestors of today’s Jews physically from bondage, but the giving of the Torah on Shavu'ot redeemed the ancient Hebrews spiritually from our bondage to idolatry and immorality. Shavu'ot is also known as Pentecost, because it falls on the 50th day; however, Shavu'ot has no particular similarity to the Christian holiday of Pentecost, which occurs 50 days after their spring holiday.

It is noteworthy that the holiday is called the time of the giving of the Torah, rather than the time of the receiving of the Torah. The sages point out that Jews are constantly in the process of receiving the Torah, that it is received every day, but it was first given at this time. Thus it is the giving, not the receiving, that makes this holiday significant.

Shavu'ot is not tied to a particular calendar date, but to a counting from Passover. Because the length of the months used to be variable, determined by observation, and there are two new moons between Passover and Shavu'ot, Shavu'ot could occur on the 5th or 6th of Sivan. However, now that we have a mathematically determined calendar, and the months between Passover and Shavu'ot do not change length on the mathematical calendar, Shavu'ot is always on the 6th of Sivan.

Work is not permitted during Shavu'ot. It is customary to stay up the entire first night of Shavu'ot and study Torah, then pray as early as possible in the morning.

It is customary to eat a dairy meal at least once during Shavu'ot. There are varying opinions as to why this is done. Some say it is a reminder of the promise regarding the land of Israel, a land flowing with "milk and honey." According to another view, it is because our ancestors had just received the Torah (and the dietary laws therein), and did not have both meat and dairy dishes available.

Worship at Temple Beth Shalom includes gatherings on Sunday evening, June 8th at 8 p.m. and Monday and Tuesday mornings, June 9th and 10th at 9:15 a.m. During the 9:15 a.m. worship service on Tuesday, Yizkor Memorial prayers will be recited. All are welcome to attend. There is no charge and no advance arrangements need be made. Kiddush refreshments follow each service.
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Temple Beth Shalom Celebrates Confirmation on Eve of Shavuot Sunday, June 8th at 8 p.m.

The Jewish Confirmation ritual is one whose popularity has waxed and waned since its inception in the 19th century. Though it is today overshadowed for most Jews by the bar or bat mitzvah ceremony at age 13, many liberal communities value and emphasize confirmation, which is most often associated with Shavuot celebrations.

Temple Beth Shalom will mark the Confirmation of Boris Berliand and Emily Feinberg at its regular Shavuot eve services, 8 p.m. at Temple Beth Shalom on Sunday, June 8th. All are welcome to celebrate these fine young people who are dedicated to the principle that Jewish learning is a lifelong endeavor, not something to complete by age 13.

The custom most commonly associated with Shavuot is the ceremony of Confirmation. The festival of Shavuot, because of its association with giving of Torah, has been linked with the study Torah. The ceremony of Confirmation was introduced by Reform Judaism in the early part of 19th century in Europe and was brought the United States about mid-century.

In the Confirmation ceremony, the now-maturing student "confirms" a commitment to Judaism and to Jewish life. While boys and girls are considered to be spiritual adults by age 13, they are better prepared at age 16 or 17 to make the kind of emotional and intellectual commitment to Judaism that Confirmation implies. Earliest Confirmations.

Some regard the ceremony as a solemn form of initiation of the Jewish youth into their ancestral faith. The rite is mentioned officially for the first time in an ordinance issued by the Jewish consistory of the kingdom of Westphalia at Cassel in 1810. There it was made the duty of the rabbi "to prepare the young for confirmation, and personally to conduct the ceremony." At first only boys were confirmed, on the Sabbath of their Bar Mitzvah, and the ceremony was performed at the home or in the schoolroom. In Berlin girls were confirmed for the first time in 1817, in Hamburg in 1818. The rite was at first rigidly excluded from the synagogue, because, like every innovation, it met with violent opposition. Gradually, however, it found more favor; classes were confirmed together, and confirmation became a solemn and impressive celebration at the synagogue. In 1822 the first class of boys and girls was confirmed by Dr. Kley at the Hamburg Temple, and in 1831 Rabbi Samuel Egers, one of the most prominent rabbis of his timeand a man of unquestioned orthodoxy, began to confirm boys and girls regularly at the synagogue of Brunswick.

While in the beginning some Sabbath, frequently Sabbath Ḥanukkah or Passover, was selected for confirmation, it became more and more customary, following the example of Egers, to perform the ceremony at the synagogue on Shebu'ot, because this festival is peculiarly adapted for the rite. As it celebrated the occasion when the Israelites on Sinai, of their own free will, declared their intention to accept the obligation of God's Law, so those of every new generation should follow the ancient example and declare their willingness to be faithful to the religion transmitted by the Fathers.

Confirmation was introduced in Denmark as early as 1817, in Hamburg 1818, and in Hessen and Saxony in 1835. The Prussian government, which showed itself hostile to the Reform movement, prohibited it as late as 1836, as did Bavaria as late as 1838. It soon made its way, however, into all progressive congregations of Germany. In 1841 it was introduced in France, first in Bordeaux and Marseilles, then in Strasburg and Paris, under the name "initiation religieuse." The first Israelitish synod in 1869 at Leipsic adopted a report by Dr. Herxheimer on religious education, the thirteenth section of which contains an elaborate opinion on confirmation, recommending the same to all Jewish congregations.

In America the annual confirmation of boys and girls was first resolved upon by the congregation of Temple Emanu-El of New York on Oct. 11, 1847; and the first confirmation at that temple took place on Shebu'ot, 1848. A confirmation had been held two years before at the Anshe Chesed Synagogue of New York. The ceremony has since gained so firm a foothold in America that there is now no progressive Jewish congregation in which the annual confirmation on Shebu'ot is not a regular feature of congregational life and one of the most inspiring ceremonies of the whole year.

Objections to the Rite.

Grätz ("Gesch." xi. 374) blames Israel Jacobsohn for having introduced, among many other synagogue reforms, the confirmation of boys and girls, which, he says, "has no root in Judaism." In the opinion of reform Jews confirmation, like the organ and other innovations traceable to non-Jewish associations, lends an impressiveness to the initiation of the young into their ancestral religion which the bar miẓwah institution had lost, owing to the unfamiliarity of the children with Hebrew. Besides, there was no provision for a solemn consecration of the Jewish maiden to her religious duties. Confirmation was the first step toward the official recognition of woman as a member of the Synagogue.

In Harmony with Judaism.

While many Orthodox leaders object to confirmation on the ground that it has been borrowed from the Protestant Church, where also it is but a recent development and not at all characteristically or typically Christian (see "Confirmation," in Herzog-Hauck, "Real-Encyc."), or because it contradicts the principle that the Israelite is pledged by the covenant of Sinai by his birth Shebu, 22b), there is nothing in the rite which is not thoroughly in harmony with the spirit of Judaism. It does not mean initiation into the faith, or admission into the Jewish community, but is a solemn declaration of the candidates, after having been sufficiently instructed in their duties as Jews, and being imbued with enthusiasm for their religion, to be resolved to live as Jews and Jewesses. For this purpose, after their religious sentiment has been awakened and strengthened, and their minds have been prepared for their becoming faithful members of the Jewish congregation, of society, and of the state, confirmation comes as the solemn graduation from the school of religious and ethical instruction, and is intended to consecrate the young to their duties as Jews. It appeals not only to those confirmed, but to the entire congregation, and thereby becomes for all a renewal of the Sinai covenant. In order to produce this lasting effect it is becoming customary to delay the rite until the sixteenth or seventeenth year.

Essential Features.

With the freedom and self-government universally prevailing in Jewish congregations, it is natural that the confirmation services should differ according to the subjective views and to the tastes of the rabbis. Thus some introduce a formal confession of faith, while others prefer a statement of principles. But the essential features are everywhere about the same, and may be stated as follows: The act is preceded by a public examination in the history, doctrines, and duties of the Jewish religion, held either in connection with the celebration or on some day during the preceding week. The sermon preached at the exercises refers to the importance of the epoch which the young people have reached, and closes with an impressive address to them. Thereupon follows a prayer, either a profession of faith or a statement of principles by members of the class, and in conclusion is invoked the blessing of the candidates by the rabbi.

A Rabbi Reads the Gospels Meets June 4th, 11th and 18th

Adolf Hitler was a fan of the Passion Play at Oberammergau, which he praised for its convincing portrayal of the "menace of Jewry," although it is interesting that the character Hitler finds most admirable in the Passion Play is not Jesus, but Pilate. In 2004 in the wake of Mel Gibson’s movie, a Jew offered the world an apology on behalf of all Jews, living and dead, expressing "profound remorse" for killing “the Savior of Man.”

Why is the story of the Passion or Death of Jesus so important today? We all arrive in the first decade of the 21st century carrying a good deal of baggage, full of articles that we recognize and some articles we do not recognize and of which we are, perhaps, not very proud.

Understanding the nature of that “baggage” is the purpose of a course being taught at Temple Beth Shalom by Rabbi Merrill Shapiro on Wednesday morning June 4th, 11th and 18th from 11 a.m. until 12 noon. All are welcome to attend, participate and react to the material, the stories of the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ last hours from the Gospel accounts themselves. The course, entitlted “A Rabbi Reads the Gospels: The Accounts of the Death of Jesus of Nazareth” is aimed at fostering the beginning of understanding of the two thousand year history of often troubled relations between Christians and Jews.

Deicide is the killing of a god. In the context of Christianity, deicide refers to theresponsibility for the death of Jesus. The accusation of Jews in deicide has been the most powerful warrant for antisemitism by Christians. Though not part of Roman Catholic dogma, many Christians, including members of the clergy, held the Jewish people under aantisemitic cannard to be collectively responsibile for killing Jesus. According to this interpretation, both the Jews present at Jesus’ death and the Jewish people collectively and for all time had committed the sin of deicide, or God-killing. This charge of deicide and all direct and indirect antisemitism was ruled wrong by the Second Vatican Council in 1962 and most Christians have followed suit since.

According to Ohio State University Profesor Jeremy Cohen, "[e]ven before the Gospels appeared, the apostle Paul (or, more probably, one of his disciples) portrayed the Jews as Christ's killers. But though the Christian Scripture clearly looks to the Jews as responsible for the death of Jesus, Paul and the evangelists did not yet condemn all Jews, by the very fact of their Jewishness, as murderers of God and his messiah. That condemnation, however, was soon to come."

Recall the words of the "golden-tongued" St. John Chrysostom (344-407 A.D.), which were uttered not among a small gathering of learned clerics, but were flung from the pulpit in Antioch for all Christians to hear, both there in that heavily Jewish city, and also reverberating through all the subsequent centuries of Christian antisemitic preaching. He thundered that Jews are the "most miserable of all men . . . . lustful, rapacious, greedy, perfidious bandits. . . . inveterate murderers, destroyers, men possessed by the devil. . . .whom debauchery and drunkenness have given them the manners of the pig and the lusty goat. They know only one thing, to satisfy their gullets, get drunk, to kill and maim one another. . . . they have surpassed the ferocity of wild beasts, for they murder their offspring and immolate them to the devil." As to Judaism, symbolized by the synagogue, it is "an assembly of criminals . . . a den of thieves . . . a cavern of devils, an abyss of perdition . . . . far from venerating the synagogue because of the books it contains, hold it in hatred and aversion for the same reason. . . . hate the synagogue precisely because it has the law and prophets. I hate the Jews also because they outrage the law" (Migne, PG, 38, 843-942).

Dozens Gather at Beth Shalom to Break World Record

As voices around the world gathered in central locations, precisely at 10:50 p.m. Tel Aviv time on the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the modern State of Israel, fifty four individuals gathered at Temple Beth Shalom in Palm Coast to sing the Jewish State’s national anthem, Hatikva, The Hope! The event was photographed, the participants signing in and pictures, sign-in sheets and an affidavit sworn out by Rabbi Merrill Shapiro attesting to the local event were sent to Israel as part of an attempt to establish the Guinness Book of World Records effort for the greatest number of people singing a national anthem all at one time. The Flagler County Jewish Community mustered 54 people to join the effort as Israel celebrates the passage of 60 years since the State was declared in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948.
Hatikva (The hope) is the ultimate expression of Jewish longing for freedom in Zion and Jerusalem, the land of our forefathers.Throughout history, Jews everywhere have sung Hatikva in times of both joy and hardship. Judaism is not just a religion; it is a comradeship of a people. There is no other religion in the world with a unifying song like Hatikva. The Live Hatikva project, as the effort was called, aimed to introduced Israel's national anthem to Jews all over the world, to convey its contents and significance, and to encourage people to sing.

On the eve of Israel's 60th Independence Day, Jewish communities around the world world united in a "first of its kind" event. A Jewish solidarity act to strengthen a sense of belonging.
Hatikvah (Hebrew: הַתִּקְוָה‎, The Hope; Arabic: هاتكفا‎), sometimes styled HaTikva(h), is the Israeli national anthem. The anthem was written by Naftali Herz Imber, a secular Galician Jew, who moved to Palestine in the early 1880s. The anthem's underlying message is about "hope," the wish of the Zionists that they would someday attain national independence in the Land of Israel. It is one of the very few national anthems set in a minor key.
It is the Song of the Jewish People and everyone that is of the religion when singing should have their head high at sing with their hearts. In rememberance of all the people that have fought to fight for the Israeli nation and that have lost their lives
The text of Hatikvah was written by the Galician-Jewish poet Naftali Herz Imber in Zolochiv (Ukraine) in 1878 as a nine-stanza poem named Tikvatenu (“Our Hope”). It was supposed to be an expression of his thoughts and feelings following the construction of one of the first Jewish settlements in Israel, Petah Tikva. Published in Imber's first book, Barkai (Hebrew: ברקאי‎, English: "morning star") the poem was subsequently adopted as the anthem of Hovevei Zion and later of the Zionist Movement at the First Zionist Congress in 1897. The melody (of folk origin) was arranged by Samuel Cohen, an immigrant from Moldavia. The text was later revised by the settlers of Rishon LeZion, subsequently undergoing a number of other changes.
When the State of Israel was declared in 1948, HaTikvah was unofficially proclaimed the national anthem. It did not become the official anthem until November 2004, when it was sanctioned by the Knesset in an amendment to the “Flag and Coat-of-Arms Law” (now called “The Flag, Coat-of-Arms, and National Anthem Law”).
In its modern rendering, the text of the anthem includes only the first stanza and refrain of the original poem. The most significant element in the additional stanzas (in addition to the hope of returning to Zion, a hope being seen as fulfilled) is the establishment of a sovereign and free nation in Eretz Yisrael. The melody for Hatikvah is based on “La Mantovana”, a 16th century Italian song. Its earliest known appearance in print was in early 17th-century Italy as “Ballo di Mantova.” This melody gained wide currency in Renaissance Europe, being recorded variously as the Spanish hymn “Virgen de la Cueva” (“Virgin of the Cave”); the Sephardi melody for the Hallel prayer; the Yiddish folk song “ the Prayer for the Dew,” the Polish folk song “Pod Krakowem,” a Swedish folksong Ack, Värmeland; and as the Ukrainian “Kateryna Kucheryava.”. This melody had been famously used by Czech Bedřich Smetana in his symphonic poem celebrating Bohemia, "Má vlast", as "Vltava" (Die Moldau)
The modern adaptation of the music for Hatikvah is assumed to be composed by Samuel Cohen in 1888. He himself recalled many years later that he had adapted the melody from a Romanian folk-song, possibly “Carul cu boi” (“Carriage with Oxen”) which shares many structural elements with Hatikvah.
Hatikvah is written in a minor key, which is often perceived as mournful in tone and thus rarely used in national anthems. However, as the title (“The Hope”) and the words suggest, the import of the song is uplifting and optimistic in spirit. Below is the current text (first stanza and the amended refrain of the original nine-stanza poem) in Hebrew, along with a transliteration and translation.
Kol od baleivav p'nimah
Nefesh y'hudi homiyah
Ulfa'atei mizrach kadimah
Ayin l'tziyon tzofiyah
As long as in the heart, within,
A soul of a Jew is yearning,
And to the edges of the East, forward,
An eye gazes towards Zion,
Od lo avdah tikvateinu
Hatikvah bat sh'not alpayim
Lihyot am chofshi b'artzeinu
Eretz tziyon viyrushalayim Our hope is not yet lost,
The hope of two thousand years,
To be a free nation in our land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.


Some people compare the first line of the refrain, “Our hope is not yet lost” to the opening of the Polish national anthem, Poland is not yet Lost (Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła) or to the Ukrainian national anthem Ukraine has not yet Perished (Ще не вмерла Україна, Šče ne vmerla Ukraïna). However, this line is considered to be a Biblical allusion to Ezekiel’s “Vision of the Dried Bones” (Ezekiel 37: “...Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost”), describing the despair of the Jewish people in exile, and God’s promise to redeem them and lead them back to the Land of Israel.There is however no proof for this connection, and the Polish allusion is obviously much more convincing given Imber's background.
Hatikvah is relatively short; indeed it is a single complex sentence, consisting of two clauses. The subordinate clause posits the condition (“As long as...A soul still yearns...And...An eye still watches...”), while the independent clause specifies the outcome (“Our hope has not yet been lost...To be a free nation in our own homeland”).

Calendar

Thu 18-Jun-2009 26th of Sivan, 5769

Fri 19-Jun-2009 27th of Sivan, 5769

Fri 19-Jun-2009 Candle lighting: 8:09pm

8 p.m. Friday Evening Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Sat 20-Jun-2009 28th of Sivan, 5769

Sat 20-Jun-2009 Parashat Sh'lach

9:15 a.m. Shabbat Morning Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Sat 20-Jun-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 9:39pm

Sun 21-Jun-2009 29th of Sivan, 5769

Mon 22-Jun-2009 30th of Sivan, 5769

Mon 22-Jun-2009 Rosh Chodesh Tamuz

Tue 23-Jun-2009 1st of Tamuz, 5769

Tue 23-Jun-2009 Rosh Chodesh Tamuz

Wed 24-Jun-2009 2nd of Tamuz, 5769

Thu 25-Jun-2009 3rd of Tamuz, 5769

Fri 26-Jun-2009 4th of Tamuz, 5769

Fri 26-Jun-2009 Candle lighting: 8:10pm

8 p.m. Friday Evening Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Sat 27-Jun-2009 5th of Tamuz, 5769

Sat 27-Jun-2009 Parashat Korach

9:15 a.m. Shabbat Morning Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Sat 27-Jun-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 9:41pm

Sun 28-Jun-2009 6th of Tamuz, 5769

Mon 29-Jun-2009 7th of Tamuz, 5769

Tue 30-Jun-2009 8th of Tamuz, 5769

Wed 01-Jul-2009 9th of Tamuz, 5769

Thu 02-Jul-2009 10th of Tamuz, 5769

Fri 03-Jul-2009 11th of Tamuz, 5769

Fri 03-Jul-2009 Candle lighting: 8:11pm

8 p.m. Friday Evening Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Sat 04-Jul-2009 12th of Tamuz, 5769

Sat 04-Jul-2009 Parashat Chukat-Balak

9:15 a.m. Shabbat Morning Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Sat 04-Jul-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 9:41pm

Sun 05-Jul-2009 13th of Tamuz, 5769

Mon 06-Jul-2009 14th of Tamuz, 5769

Tue 07-Jul-2009 15th of Tamuz, 5769

Wed 08-Jul-2009 16th of Tamuz, 5769

Thu 09-Jul-2009 17th of Tamuz, 5769

Thu 09-Jul-2009 Tzom Tammuz

Fri 10-Jul-2009 18th of Tamuz, 5769

Fri 10-Jul-2009 Candle lighting: 8:10pm

8 p.m. Friday Evening Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Sat 11-Jul-2009 19th of Tamuz, 5769

Sat 11-Jul-2009 Parashat Pinchas

9:15 a.m. Shabbat Morning Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Sat 11-Jul-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 9:40pm

Sun 12-Jul-2009 20th of Tamuz, 5769

Mon 13-Jul-2009 21st of Tamuz, 5769

Tue 14-Jul-2009 22nd of Tamuz, 5769

Wed 15-Jul-2009 23rd of Tamuz, 5769

Thu 16-Jul-2009 24th of Tamuz, 5769

Fri 17-Jul-2009 25th of Tamuz, 5769

Fri 17-Jul-2009 Candle lighting: 8:08pm

8 p.m. Friday Evening Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Sat 18-Jul-2009 26th of Tamuz, 5769

Sat 18-Jul-2009 Parashat Matot-Masei

9:15 a.m. Shabbat Morning Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Sat 18-Jul-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 9:38pm

Sun 19-Jul-2009 27th of Tamuz, 5769

Mon 20-Jul-2009 28th of Tamuz, 5769

Tue 21-Jul-2009 29th of Tamuz, 5769

Wed 22-Jul-2009 1st of Av, 5769

Wed 22-Jul-2009 Rosh Chodesh Av

Thu 23-Jul-2009 2nd of Av, 5769

Fri 24-Jul-2009 3rd of Av, 5769

Fri 24-Jul-2009 Candle lighting: 8:05pm

8 p.m. Friday Evening Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Sat 25-Jul-2009 4th of Av, 5769

Sat 25-Jul-2009 Parashat Devarim

Sat 25-Jul-2009 Shabbat Hazon

9:15 a.m. Shabbat Morning Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Sat 25-Jul-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 9:34pm

Sun 26-Jul-2009 5th of Av, 5769

Mon 27-Jul-2009 6th of Av, 5769

Tue 28-Jul-2009 7th of Av, 5769

Wed 29-Jul-2009 8th of Av, 5769

9:00 p.m. Tisha B’Av Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Thu 30-Jul-2009 9th of Av, 5769

Thu 30-Jul-2009 Tish'a B'Av

Fri 31-Jul-2009 10th of Av, 5769

Fri 31-Jul-2009 Candle lighting: 8:00pm

8 p.m. Friday Evening Services at Temple Beth Shalom
Cheyenne the daughter of Michael and Doreen Gindin, Bat Mitzvah

Sat 01-Aug-2009 11th of Av, 5769

Sat 01-Aug-2009 Parashat Vaetchanan

Sat 01-Aug-2009 Shabbat Nachamu

9:15 a.m. Shabbat Morning Services at Temple Beth Shalom
Cheyenne the daughter of Michael and Doreen Gindin, Bat Mitzvah

Sat 01-Aug-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 9:30pm

Sun 02-Aug-2009 12th of Av, 5769

Mon 03-Aug-2009 13th of Av, 5769

Tue 04-Aug-2009 14th of Av, 5769

Wed 05-Aug-2009 15th of Av, 5769

Thu 06-Aug-2009 16th of Av, 5769

Fri 07-Aug-2009 17th of Av, 5769

Fri 07-Aug-2009 Candle lighting: 7:55pm

Sat 08-Aug-2009 18th of Av, 5769

Sat 08-Aug-2009 Parashat Eikev

9:15 a.m. Shabbat Morning Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Sat 08-Aug-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 9:24pm

Sun 09-Aug-2009 19th of Av, 5769

Mon 10-Aug-2009 20th of Av, 5769

Tue 11-Aug-2009 21st of Av, 5769

Wed 12-Aug-2009 22nd of Av, 5769

Thu 13-Aug-2009 23rd of Av, 5769

Fri 14-Aug-2009 24th of Av, 5769

Fri 14-Aug-2009 Candle lighting: 7:49pm

8 p.m. Friday Evening Services at Temple Beth Shalom
"Ask the Rabbi" Shabbat

Sat 15-Aug-2009 25th of Av, 5769

Sat 15-Aug-2009 Parashat Re'eh

9:15 a.m. Shabbat Morning Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Sat 15-Aug-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 9:18pm
9:15 p.m. Havdallah at the Beach

Sun 16-Aug-2009 26th of Av, 5769

Mon 17-Aug-2009 27th of Av, 5769

Tue 18-Aug-2009 28th of Av, 5769

Wed 19-Aug-2009 29th of Av, 5769

Thu 20-Aug-2009 30th of Av, 5769

Thu 20-Aug-2009 Rosh Chodesh Elul
7 p.m. Temple Beth Shalom Board of Directors Meeting

Fri 21-Aug-2009 1st of Elul, 5769

Fri 21-Aug-2009 Rosh Chodesh Elul

Fri 21-Aug-2009 Candle lighting: 7:42pm

8 p.m. Friday Evening Services at Temple Beth Shalom
Choir Shabbat

Sat 22-Aug-2009 2nd of Elul, 5769

Sat 22-Aug-2009 Parashat Shoftim

9:15 a.m. Shabbat Morning Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Sat 22-Aug-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 9:11pm

Sun 23-Aug-2009 3rd of Elul, 5769

Mon 24-Aug-2009 4th of Elul, 5769

Tue 25-Aug-2009 5th of Elul, 5769

Wed 26-Aug-2009 6th of Elul, 5769

Thu 27-Aug-2009 7th of Elul, 5769

Fri 28-Aug-2009 8th of Elul, 5769

Fri 28-Aug-2009 Candle lighting: 7:34pm

8 p.m. Friday Evening Services at Temple Beth Shalom
Learner's Service Shabbat

Sat 29-Aug-2009 9th of Elul, 5769

Sat 29-Aug-2009 Parashat Ki Teitzei

9:15 a.m. Shabbat Morning Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Sat 29-Aug-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 9:03pm

Sun 30-Aug-2009 10th of Elul, 5769

Mon 31-Aug-2009 11th of Elul, 5769

Tue 01-Sep-2009 12th of Elul, 5769

Wed 02-Sep-2009 13th of Elul, 5769

Thu 03-Sep-2009 14th of Elul, 5769

Fri 04-Sep-2009 15th of Elul, 5769

Fri 04-Sep-2009 Candle lighting: 7:26pm

8 p.m. Friday Evening Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Sat 05-Sep-2009 16th of Elul, 5769

Sat 05-Sep-2009 Parashat Ki Tavo

9:15 a.m. Shabbat Morning Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Sat 05-Sep-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 8:55pm

Sun 06-Sep-2009 17th of Elul, 5769

Mon 07-Sep-2009 18th of Elul, 5769

Tue 08-Sep-2009 19th of Elul, 5769

Wed 09-Sep-2009 20th of Elul, 5769
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 10-Sep-2009 21st of Elul, 5769

Fri 11-Sep-2009 22nd of Elul, 5769

Fri 11-Sep-2009 Candle lighting: 7:18pm

8 p.m. Friday Evening Services at Temple Beth Shalom
"Ask the Rabbi" Shabbat

Sat 12-Sep-2009 23rd of Elul, 5769

Sat 12-Sep-2009 Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech

9:15 a.m. Shabbat Morning Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Sat 12-Sep-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 8:47pm

9:00 p.m. Temple Beth Shalom third annual Selichot Concert Featuring Paul Stenzler, Terri Fine and the Temple Beth Shalom Choir under the direction of Marina Lapina

Sun 13-Sep-2009 24th of Elul, 5769

Mon 14-Sep-2009 25th of Elul, 5769

Tue 15-Sep-2009 26th of Elul, 5769

Wed 16-Sep-2009 27th of Elul, 5769
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 17-Sep-2009 28th of Elul, 5769
7 p.m. Temple Beth Shalom Board of Directors Meeting

Fri 18-Sep-2009 29th of Elul, 5769

Fri 18-Sep-2009 Erev Rosh Hashana

Fri 18-Sep-2009 Candle lighting: 7:09pm

8 p.m. Friday Evening Services at Temple Beth Shalom
Choir Shabbat

Sat 19-Sep-2009 1st of Tishrei, 5770

Sat 19-Sep-2009 Rosh Hashana 5770

9:15 a.m. Shabbat Rosh Hashanna Morning Services at Temple Beth Shalom

8 p.m. Ma’ariv Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Sat 19-Sep-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 8:38pm

Sun 20-Sep-2009 2nd of Tishrei, 5770

Sun 20-Sep-2009 Rosh Hashana II

9:15 a.m. Rosh Hashanna Morning Services at Temple Beth Shalom

1 p.m. Tashlich at corner of Belle Terre and Pine Lakes Parkway

Sun 20-Sep-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 8:37pm

Mon 21-Sep-2009 3rd of Tishrei, 5770

Mon 21-Sep-2009 Tzom Gedaliah

Tue 22-Sep-2009 4th of Tishrei, 5770

Wed 23-Sep-2009 5th of Tishrei, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 24-Sep-2009 6th of Tishrei, 5770

Fri 25-Sep-2009 7th of Tishrei, 5770

Fri 25-Sep-2009 Candle lighting: 7:01pm

8 p.m. Friday Evening Services at Temple Beth Shalom
Learner's Service Shabbat

Sat 26-Sep-2009 8th of Tishrei, 5770

Sat 26-Sep-2009 Parashat Ha'Azinu

Sat 26-Sep-2009 Shabbat Shuva

9:15 a.m. Shabbat Morning Services at Temple Beth Shalom

Sat 26-Sep-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 8:29pm

Sun 27-Sep-2009 9th of Tishrei, 5770

Sun 27-Sep-2009 Erev Yom Kippur

6:30 p.m. Kol Nidre at Temple Beth Shalom

Sun 27-Sep-2009 Candle lighting: 6:58pm

Mon 28-Sep-2009 10th of Tishrei, 5770

Mon 28-Sep-2009 Yom Kippur

9:15 a.m. Services at Temple Beth Shalom

5:30 p.m. Mincha

6:30 p.m. Family Neilah

Mon 28-Sep-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 8:27pm

Tue 29-Sep-2009 11th of Tishrei, 5770

Wed 30-Sep-2009 12th of Tishrei, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)


Thu 01-Oct-2009 13th of Tishrei, 5770

Fri 02-Oct-2009 14th of Tishrei, 5770

Fri 02-Oct-2009 Erev Sukkot

Fri 02-Oct-2009 Candle lighting: 6:52pm

Sat 03-Oct-2009 15th of Tishrei, 5770

Sat 03-Oct-2009 Sukkot I

Sat 03-Oct-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 8:21pm

Sun 04-Oct-2009 16th of Tishrei, 5770

Sun 04-Oct-2009 Sukkot II

Sun 04-Oct-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 8:20pm

Mon 05-Oct-2009 17th of Tishrei, 5770

Mon 05-Oct-2009 Sukkot III (CH''M)

Tue 06-Oct-2009 18th of Tishrei, 5770

Tue 06-Oct-2009 Sukkot IV (CH''M)

Wed 07-Oct-2009 19th of Tishrei, 5770

Wed 07-Oct-2009 Sukkot V (CH''M)
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 08-Oct-2009 20th of Tishrei, 5770

Thu 08-Oct-2009 Sukkot VI (CH''M)
7 p.m. Temple Beth Shalom Board of Directors Meeting

Fri 09-Oct-2009 21st of Tishrei, 5770

Fri 09-Oct-2009 Sukkot VII (Hoshana Raba)

Fri 09-Oct-2009 Candle lighting: 6:44pm
"Ask the Rabbi" Shabbat

Sat 10-Oct-2009 22nd of Tishrei, 5770

Sat 10-Oct-2009 Shmini Atzeret

Sat 10-Oct-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 8:13pm

Sun 11-Oct-2009 23rd of Tishrei, 5770

Sun 11-Oct-2009 Simchat Torah

Sun 11-Oct-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 8:12pm

Mon 12-Oct-2009 24th of Tishrei, 5770

Tue 13-Oct-2009 25th of Tishrei, 5770

Wed 14-Oct-2009 26th of Tishrei, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 15-Oct-2009 27th of Tishrei, 5770
7 p.m. Temple Beth Shalom Congregational Meeting

Fri 16-Oct-2009 28th of Tishrei, 5770

Fri 16-Oct-2009 Candle lighting: 6:36pm
Choir Shabbat

Sat 17-Oct-2009 29th of Tishrei, 5770

Sat 17-Oct-2009 Parashat Bereshit

Sat 17-Oct-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 8:05pm

Sun 18-Oct-2009 30th of Tishrei, 5770

Sun 18-Oct-2009 Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan

Mon 19-Oct-2009 1st of Cheshvan, 5770

Mon 19-Oct-2009 Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan

Tue 20-Oct-2009 2nd of Cheshvan, 5770

Wed 21-Oct-2009 3rd of Cheshvan, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 22-Oct-2009 4th of Cheshvan, 5770

Fri 23-Oct-2009 5th of Cheshvan, 5770

Fri 23-Oct-2009 Candle lighting: 6:29pm
Learner's Service Shabbat

Sat 24-Oct-2009 6th of Cheshvan, 5770

Sat 24-Oct-2009 Parashat Noach

Sat 24-Oct-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 7:58pm

Sun 25-Oct-2009 7th of Cheshvan, 5770

Mon 26-Oct-2009 8th of Cheshvan, 5770

Tue 27-Oct-2009 9th of Cheshvan, 5770

Wed 28-Oct-2009 10th of Cheshvan, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 29-Oct-2009 11th of Cheshvan, 5770

Fri 30-Oct-2009 12th of Cheshvan, 5770

Fri 30-Oct-2009 Candle lighting: 6:23pm

Sat 31-Oct-2009 13th of Cheshvan, 5770

Sat 31-Oct-2009 Parashat Lech-Lecha

Sat 31-Oct-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 7:52pm

Sun 01-Nov-2009 14th of Cheshvan, 5770

Mon 02-Nov-2009 15th of Cheshvan, 5770

Tue 03-Nov-2009 16th of Cheshvan, 5770

Wed 04-Nov-2009 17th of Cheshvan, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 05-Nov-2009 18th of Cheshvan, 5770

Fri 06-Nov-2009 19th of Cheshvan, 5770

Fri 06-Nov-2009 Candle lighting: 5:17pm

Sat 07-Nov-2009 20th of Cheshvan, 5770

Sat 07-Nov-2009 Parashat Vayera

Sat 07-Nov-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 6:47pm

Sun 08-Nov-2009 21st of Cheshvan, 5770

Mon 09-Nov-2009 22nd of Cheshvan, 5770

Tue 10-Nov-2009 23rd of Cheshvan, 5770

Wed 11-Nov-2009 24th of Cheshvan, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 12-Nov-2009 25th of Cheshvan, 5770

Fri 13-Nov-2009 26th of Cheshvan, 5770

Fri 13-Nov-2009 Candle lighting: 5:13pm
"Ask the Rabbi" Shabbat

Sat 14-Nov-2009 27th of Cheshvan, 5770

Sat 14-Nov-2009 Parashat Chayei Sara

Sat 14-Nov-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 6:42pm
6:45 p.m. Havdallah at the Beach

Sun 15-Nov-2009 28th of Cheshvan, 5770

Mon 16-Nov-2009 29th of Cheshvan, 5770

Tue 17-Nov-2009 30th of Cheshvan, 5770

Tue 17-Nov-2009 Rosh Chodesh Kislev

Wed 18-Nov-2009 1st of Kislev, 5770

Wed 18-Nov-2009 Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 19-Nov-2009 2nd of Kislev, 5770
7 p.m. Temple Beth Shalom Board of Directors Meeting


Fri 20-Nov-2009 3rd of Kislev, 5770

Fri 20-Nov-2009 Candle lighting: 5:10pm
Choir Shabbat

Sat 21-Nov-2009 4th of Kislev, 5770

Sat 21-Nov-2009 Parashat Toldot

Sat 21-Nov-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 6:40pm

Sun 22-Nov-2009 5th of Kislev, 5770

Mon 23-Nov-2009 6th of Kislev, 5770

Tue 24-Nov-2009 7th of Kislev, 5770

Wed 25-Nov-2009 8th of Kislev, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 26-Nov-2009 9th of Kislev, 5770

Fri 27-Nov-2009 10th of Kislev, 5770

Fri 27-Nov-2009 Candle lighting: 5:08pm
Learner's Service Shabbat

Sat 28-Nov-2009 11th of Kislev, 5770

Sat 28-Nov-2009 Parashat Vayetzei

Sat 28-Nov-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 6:38pm

Sun 29-Nov-2009 12th of Kislev, 5770

Mon 30-Nov-2009 13th of Kislev, 5770

Tue 01-Dec-2009 14th of Kislev, 5770

Wed 02-Dec-2009 15th of Kislev, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 03-Dec-2009 16th of Kislev, 5770

Fri 04-Dec-2009 17th of Kislev, 5770

Fri 04-Dec-2009 Candle lighting: 5:08pm

Sat 05-Dec-2009 18th of Kislev, 5770

Sat 05-Dec-2009 Parashat Vayishlach

Sat 05-Dec-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 6:38pm

Sun 06-Dec-2009 19th of Kislev, 5770

Mon 07-Dec-2009 20th of Kislev, 5770

Tue 08-Dec-2009 21st of Kislev, 5770

Wed 09-Dec-2009 22nd of Kislev, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 10-Dec-2009 23rd of Kislev, 5770

Fri 11-Dec-2009 24th of Kislev, 5770

Fri 11-Dec-2009 Chanukah: 1 Candle

Fri 11-Dec-2009 Candle lighting: 5:09pm
"Ask the Rabbi" Shabbat

Sat 12-Dec-2009 25th of Kislev, 5770

Sat 12-Dec-2009 Parashat Vayeshev

Sat 12-Dec-2009 Chanukah: 2 Candles

Sat 12-Dec-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 6:39pm
6:45 p.m. Havdallah at the Beach

Sun 13-Dec-2009 26th of Kislev, 5770

Sun 13-Dec-2009 Chanukah: 3 Candles

Mon 14-Dec-2009 27th of Kislev, 5770

Mon 14-Dec-2009 Chanukah: 4 Candles

Tue 15-Dec-2009 28th of Kislev, 5770

Tue 15-Dec-2009 Chanukah: 5 Candles

Wed 16-Dec-2009 29th of Kislev, 5770

Wed 16-Dec-2009 Chanukah: 6 Candles
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 17-Dec-2009 30th of Kislev, 5770

Thu 17-Dec-2009 Rosh Chodesh Tevet

Thu 17-Dec-2009 Chanukah: 7 Candles
7 p.m. Temple Beth Shalom Board of Directors Meeting

Fri 18-Dec-2009 1st of Tevet, 5770

Fri 18-Dec-2009 Rosh Chodesh Tevet

Fri 18-Dec-2009 Chanukah: 8 Candles

Fri 18-Dec-2009 Candle lighting: 5:11pm
Choir Shabbat

Sat 19-Dec-2009 2nd of Tevet, 5770

Sat 19-Dec-2009 Parashat Miketz

Sat 19-Dec-2009 Chanukah: 8th Day

Sat 19-Dec-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 6:41pm

Sun 20-Dec-2009 3rd of Tevet, 5770

Mon 21-Dec-2009 4th of Tevet, 5770

Tue 22-Dec-2009 5th of Tevet, 5770

Wed 23-Dec-2009 6th of Tevet, 5770

Thu 24-Dec-2009 7th of Tevet, 5770

Fri 25-Dec-2009 8th of Tevet, 5770

Fri 25-Dec-2009 Candle lighting: 5:14pm
Learner's Service Shabbat

Sat 26-Dec-2009 9th of Tevet, 5770

Sat 26-Dec-2009 Parashat Vayigash

Sat 26-Dec-2009 Havdallah (72 min): 6:45pm

Sun 27-Dec-2009 10th of Tevet, 5770

Sun 27-Dec-2009 Asara B'Tevet

Mon 28-Dec-2009 11th of Tevet, 5770

Tue 29-Dec-2009 12th of Tevet, 5770

Wed 30-Dec-2009 13th of Tevet, 5770

Thu 31-Dec-2009 14th of Tevet, 5770

Fri 01-Jan-2010 15th of Tevet, 5770

Fri 01-Jan-2010 Candle lighting: 5:19pm

Sat 02-Jan-2010 16th of Tevet, 5770

Sat 02-Jan-2010 Parashat Vayechi

Sat 02-Jan-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 6:50pm

Sun 03-Jan-2010 17th of Tevet, 5770

Mon 04-Jan-2010 18th of Tevet, 5770

Tue 05-Jan-2010 19th of Tevet, 5770

Wed 06-Jan-2010 20th of Tevet, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 07-Jan-2010 21st of Tevet, 5770

Fri 08-Jan-2010 22nd of Tevet, 5770

Fri 08-Jan-2010 Candle lighting: 5:24pm
"Ask the Rabbi" Shabbat

Sat 09-Jan-2010 23rd of Tevet, 5770

Sat 09-Jan-2010 Parashat Shemot

Sat 09-Jan-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 6:55pm
7:00 p.m. Havdallah at the Beach

Sun 10-Jan-2010 24th of Tevet, 5770

Mon 11-Jan-2010 25th of Tevet, 5770

Tue 12-Jan-2010 26th of Tevet, 5770

Wed 13-Jan-2010 27th of Tevet, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 14-Jan-2010 28th of Tevet, 5770

Fri 15-Jan-2010 29th of Tevet, 5770

Fri 15-Jan-2010 Candle lighting: 5:30pm
Choir Shabbat

Sat 16-Jan-2010 1st of Sh'vat, 5770

Sat 16-Jan-2010 Parashat Vaera

Sat 16-Jan-2010 Rosh Chodesh Sh'vat

Sat 16-Jan-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 7:01pm

Sun 17-Jan-2010 2nd of Sh'vat, 5770

Mon 18-Jan-2010 3rd of Sh'vat, 5770

Tue 19-Jan-2010 4th of Sh'vat, 5770

Wed 20-Jan-2010 5th of Sh'vat, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 21-Jan-2010 6th of Sh'vat, 5770
7 p.m. Temple Beth Shalom Board of Directors Meeting

Fri 22-Jan-2010 7th of Sh'vat, 5770

Fri 22-Jan-2010 Candle lighting: 5:36pm
Learner's Service Shabbat

Sat 23-Jan-2010 8th of Sh'vat, 5770

Sat 23-Jan-2010 Parashat Bo

Sat 23-Jan-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 7:07pm

Sun 24-Jan-2010 9th of Sh'vat, 5770

Mon 25-Jan-2010 10th of Sh'vat, 5770

Tue 26-Jan-2010 11th of Sh'vat, 5770

Wed 27-Jan-2010 12th of Sh'vat, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 28-Jan-2010 13th of Sh'vat, 5770

Fri 29-Jan-2010 14th of Sh'vat, 5770

Fri 29-Jan-2010 Candle lighting: 5:42pm
Four Chaplains Shabbat

Sat 30-Jan-2010 15th of Sh'vat, 5770

Sat 30-Jan-2010 Parashat Beshalach

Sat 30-Jan-2010 Tu B'Shvat

Sat 30-Jan-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 7:13pm

Sun 31-Jan-2010 16th of Sh'vat, 5770

Tue 29-Dec-2009 12th of Tevet, 5770

Wed 30-Dec-2009 13th of Tevet, 5770

Thu 31-Dec-2009 14th of Tevet, 5770

Mon 01-Feb-2010 17th of Sh'vat, 5770

Tue 02-Feb-2010 18th of Sh'vat, 5770

Wed 03-Feb-2010 19th of Sh'vat, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 04-Feb-2010 20th of Sh'vat, 5770

Fri 05-Feb-2010 21st of Sh'vat, 5770

Fri 05-Feb-2010 Candle lighting: 5:48pm
Evolution Shabbat

Sat 06-Feb-2010 22nd of Sh'vat, 5770

Sat 06-Feb-2010 Parashat Yitro

Sat 06-Feb-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 7:19pm

Sun 07-Feb-2010 23rd of Sh'vat, 5770

Mon 08-Feb-2010 24th of Sh'vat, 5770

Tue 09-Feb-2010 25th of Sh'vat, 5770

Wed 10-Feb-2010 26th of Sh'vat, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 11-Feb-2010 27th of Sh'vat, 5770
7 p.m. Temple Beth Shalom Board of Directors Meeting

Fri 12-Feb-2010 28th of Sh'vat, 5770

Fri 12-Feb-2010 Candle lighting: 5:53pm
"Ask the Rabbi" Shabbat

Sat 13-Feb-2010 29th of Sh'vat, 5770

Sat 13-Feb-2010 Parashat Mishpatim

Sat 13-Feb-2010 Shabbat Shekalim

Sat 13-Feb-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 7:24pm
7:30 p.m. Havdallah at the Beach

Sun 14-Feb-2010 30th of Sh'vat, 5770

Sun 14-Feb-2010 Rosh Chodesh Adar

Mon 15-Feb-2010 1st of Adar, 5770

Mon 15-Feb-2010 Rosh Chodesh Adar

Tue 16-Feb-2010 2nd of Adar, 5770

Wed 17-Feb-2010 3rd of Adar, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 18-Feb-2010 4th of Adar, 5770
7 p.m. Temple Beth Shalom Congregational Meeting

Fri 19-Feb-2010 5th of Adar, 5770

Fri 19-Feb-2010 Candle lighting: 5:59pm
Choir Shabbat

Sat 20-Feb-2010 6th of Adar, 5770

Sat 20-Feb-2010 Parashat Terumah

Sat 20-Feb-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 7:30pm

Sun 21-Feb-2010 7th of Adar, 5770

Mon 22-Feb-2010 8th of Adar, 5770

Tue 23-Feb-2010 9th of Adar, 5770

Wed 24-Feb-2010 10th of Adar, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 25-Feb-2010 11th of Adar, 5770

Thu 25-Feb-2010 Ta'anit Esther

Fri 26-Feb-2010 12th of Adar, 5770

Fri 26-Feb-2010 Candle lighting: 6:04pm
Learner's Service Shabbat

Sat 27-Feb-2010 13th of Adar, 5770

Sat 27-Feb-2010 Parashat Tetzaveh

Sat 27-Feb-2010 Shabbat Zachor

Sat 27-Feb-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 7:35pm

Sun 28-Feb-2010 14th of Adar, 5770

Sun 28-Feb-2010 Purim

Mon 01-Mar-2010 15th of Adar, 5770

Mon 01-Mar-2010 Shushan Purim

Tue 02-Mar-2010 16th of Adar, 5770

Wed 03-Mar-2010 17th of Adar, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 04-Mar-2010 18th of Adar, 5770

Fri 05-Mar-2010 19th of Adar, 5770

Fri 05-Mar-2010 Candle lighting: 6:09pm

Sat 06-Mar-2010 20th of Adar, 5770

Sat 06-Mar-2010 Parashat Ki Tisa

Sat 06-Mar-2010 Shabbat Parah

Sat 06-Mar-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 7:39pm

Sun 07-Mar-2010 21st of Adar, 5770

Mon 08-Mar-2010 22nd of Adar, 5770

Tue 09-Mar-2010 23rd of Adar, 5770

Wed 10-Mar-2010 24th of Adar, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 11-Mar-2010 25th of Adar, 5770

Fri 12-Mar-2010 26th of Adar, 5770

Fri 12-Mar-2010 Candle lighting: 6:13pm
"Ask the Rabbi" Shabbat

Sat 13-Mar-2010 27th of Adar, 5770

Sat 13-Mar-2010 Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei

Sat 13-Mar-2010 Shabbat HaChodesh

Sat 13-Mar-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 7:44pm
7:45 p.m. Havdallah at the Beach

Sun 14-Mar-2010 28th of Adar, 5770

Mon 15-Mar-2010 29th of Adar, 5770

Tue 16-Mar-2010 1st of Nisan, 5770

Tue 16-Mar-2010 Rosh Chodesh Nisan

Wed 17-Mar-2010 2nd of Nisan, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 18-Mar-2010 3rd of Nisan, 5770
7 p.m. Temple Beth Shalom Board of Directors Meeting

Fri 19-Mar-2010 4th of Nisan, 5770

Fri 19-Mar-2010 Candle lighting: 7:17pm
Choir Shabbat

Sat 20-Mar-2010 5th of Nisan, 5770

Sat 20-Mar-2010 Parashat Vayikra

Sat 20-Mar-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 8:48pm

Sun 21-Mar-2010 6th of Nisan, 5770

Mon 22-Mar-2010 7th of Nisan, 5770

Tue 23-Mar-2010 8th of Nisan, 5770

Wed 24-Mar-2010 9th of Nisan, 5770
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 25-Mar-2010 10th of Nisan, 5770

Fri 26-Mar-2010 11th of Nisan, 5770

Fri 26-Mar-2010 Candle lighting: 7:21pm
Learner's Service Shabbat

Sat 27-Mar-2010 12th of Nisan, 5770

Sat 27-Mar-2010 Parashat Tzav

Sat 27-Mar-2010 Shabbat HaGadol

Sat 27-Mar-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 8:52pm

Sun 28-Mar-2010 13th of Nisan, 5770

Mon 29-Mar-2010 14th of Nisan, 5770

Mon 29-Mar-2010 Ta'anit Bechorot

Mon 29-Mar-2010 Erev Pesach

Mon 29-Mar-2010 Candle lighting: 7:23pm

Tue 30-Mar-2010 15th of Nisan, 5770

Tue 30-Mar-2010 Pesach I

Wed 31-Mar-2010 16th of Nisan, 5770

Wed 31-Mar-2010 Pesach II

Wed 31-Mar-2010 1st day of the Omer

Wed 31-Mar-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 8:54pm

Thu 01-Apr-2010 17th of Nisan, 5770

Thu 01-Apr-2010 Pesach III (CH''M)

Thu 01-Apr-2010 2nd day of the Omer

Fri 02-Apr-2010 18th of Nisan, 5770

Fri 02-Apr-2010 Pesach IV (CH''M)

Fri 02-Apr-2010 3rd day of the Omer

Fri 02-Apr-2010 Candle lighting: 7:26pm

Sat 03-Apr-2010 19th of Nisan, 5770

Sat 03-Apr-2010 Pesach V (CH''M)

Sat 03-Apr-2010 4th day of the Omer

Sat 03-Apr-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 8:56pm

Sun 04-Apr-2010 20th of Nisan, 5770

Sun 04-Apr-2010 Pesach VI (CH''M)

Sun 04-Apr-2010 5th day of the Omer

Sun 04-Apr-2010 Candle lighting: 7:27pm

Mon 05-Apr-2010 21st of Nisan, 5770

Mon 05-Apr-2010 Pesach VII

Mon 05-Apr-2010 6th day of the Omer

Tue 06-Apr-2010 22nd of Nisan, 5770

Tue 06-Apr-2010 Pesach VIII

Tue 06-Apr-2010 7th day of the Omer

Tue 06-Apr-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 8:58pm

Wed 07-Apr-2010 23rd of Nisan, 5770

Wed 07-Apr-2010 8th day of the Omer
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 08-Apr-2010 24th of Nisan, 5770

Thu 08-Apr-2010 9th day of the Omer

Fri 09-Apr-2010 25th of Nisan, 5770

Fri 09-Apr-2010 10th day of the Omer

Fri 09-Apr-2010 Candle lighting: 7:30pm
"Ask the Rabbi" Shabbat

Sat 10-Apr-2010 26th of Nisan, 5770

Sat 10-Apr-2010 Parashat Shmini

Sat 10-Apr-2010 11th day of the Omer

Sat 10-Apr-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 9:00pm
9:00 p.m. Havdallah at the Beach

Sun 11-Apr-2010 27th of Nisan, 5770

Sun 11-Apr-2010 Yom HaShoah

Sun 11-Apr-2010 12th day of the Omer

Mon 12-Apr-2010 28th of Nisan, 5770

Mon 12-Apr-2010 13th day of the Omer

Tue 13-Apr-2010 29th of Nisan, 5770

Tue 13-Apr-2010 14th day of the Omer

Wed 14-Apr-2010 30th of Nisan, 5770

Wed 14-Apr-2010 Rosh Chodesh Iyyar

Wed 14-Apr-2010 15th day of the Omer
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 15-Apr-2010 1st of Iyyar, 5770

Thu 15-Apr-2010 Rosh Chodesh Iyyar

Thu 15-Apr-2010 16th day of the Omer
7 p.m. Temple Beth Shalom Board of Directors Meeting

Fri 16-Apr-2010 2nd of Iyyar, 5770

Fri 16-Apr-2010 17th day of the Omer

Fri 16-Apr-2010 Candle lighting: 7:34pm
Choir Shabbat

Sat 17-Apr-2010 3rd of Iyyar, 5770

Sat 17-Apr-2010 Parashat Tazria-Metzora

Sat 17-Apr-2010 18th day of the Omer

Sat 17-Apr-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 9:04pm

Sun 18-Apr-2010 4th of Iyyar, 5770

Sun 18-Apr-2010 19th day of the Omer

Mon 19-Apr-2010 5th of Iyyar, 5770

Mon 19-Apr-2010 Yom HaZikaron

Mon 19-Apr-2010 20th day of the Omer

Tue 20-Apr-2010 6th of Iyyar, 5770

Tue 20-Apr-2010 Yom HaAtzma'ut

Tue 20-Apr-2010 21st day of the Omer

Wed 21-Apr-2010 7th of Iyyar, 5770

Wed 21-Apr-2010 22nd day of the Omer
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 22-Apr-2010 8th of Iyyar, 5770

Thu 22-Apr-2010 23rd day of the Omer

Fri 23-Apr-2010 9th of Iyyar, 5770

Fri 23-Apr-2010 24th day of the Omer

Fri 23-Apr-2010 Candle lighting: 7:38pm
Learner's Service Shabbat

Sat 24-Apr-2010 10th of Iyyar, 5770

Sat 24-Apr-2010 Parashat Achrei Mot-Kedoshim

Sat 24-Apr-2010 25th day of the Omer

Sat 24-Apr-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 9:09pm

Sun 25-Apr-2010 11th of Iyyar, 5770

Sun 25-Apr-2010 26th day of the Omer

Mon 26-Apr-2010 12th of Iyyar, 5770

Mon 26-Apr-2010 27th day of the Omer

Tue 27-Apr-2010 13th of Iyyar, 5770

Tue 27-Apr-2010 28th day of the Omer

Wed 28-Apr-2010 14th of Iyyar, 5770

Wed 28-Apr-2010 29th day of the Omer
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)


Thu 29-Apr-2010 15th of Iyyar, 5770

Thu 29-Apr-2010 30th day of the Omer

Fri 30-Apr-2010 16th of Iyyar, 5770

Fri 30-Apr-2010 31st day of the Omer

Fri 30-Apr-2010 Candle lighting: 7:42pm

Sat 01-May-2010 17th of Iyyar, 5770

Sat 01-May-2010 Parashat Emor

Sat 01-May-2010 32nd day of the Omer

Sat 01-May-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 9:13pm

Sun 02-May-2010 18th of Iyyar, 5770

Sun 02-May-2010 Lag B'Omer

Sun 02-May-2010 33rd day of the Omer

Mon 03-May-2010 19th of Iyyar, 5770

Mon 03-May-2010 34th day of the Omer

Tue 04-May-2010 20th of Iyyar, 5770

Tue 04-May-2010 35th day of the Omer

Wed 05-May-2010 21st of Iyyar, 5770

Wed 05-May-2010 36th day of the Omer
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)

Thu 06-May-2010 22nd of Iyyar, 5770

Thu 06-May-2010 37th day of the Omer
7 p.m. Temple Beth Shalom Board of Directors Meeting

Fri 07-May-2010 23rd of Iyyar, 5770

Fri 07-May-2010 38th day of the Omer

Fri 07-May-2010 Candle lighting: 7:47pm

Sat 08-May-2010 24th of Iyyar, 5770

Sat 08-May-2010 Parashat Behar-Bechukotai

Sat 08-May-2010 39th day of the Omer

Sat 08-May-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 9:17pm

Sun 09-May-2010 25th of Iyyar, 5770

Sun 09-May-2010 40th day of the Omer

Mon 10-May-2010 26th of Iyyar, 5770

Mon 10-May-2010 41st day of the Omer
7 p.m. Erev Yom HaShoah--Unto Every Person there is a Name

Tue 11-May-2010 27th of Iyyar, 5770

Tue 11-May-2010 42nd day of the Omer

Wed 12-May-2010 28th of Iyyar, 5770

Wed 12-May-2010 Yom Yerushalayim

Wed 12-May-2010 43rd day of the Omer
1 p.m. Ivrit L' Hadassah (Intermediate)
1:45 " To Be A Jew"
2:15 p.m. Intro to Hebrew Reading
3 p.m. Ivrit L'Hadassah(Beginners)


Thu 13-May-2010 29th of Iyyar, 5770

Thu 13-May-2010 44th day of the Omer
7 p.m. Temple Beth Shalom Congregational Meeting

Fri 14-May-2010 1st of Sivan, 5770

Fri 14-May-2010 Rosh Chodesh Sivan

Fri 14-May-2010 45th day of the Omer

Fri 14-May-2010 Candle lighting: 7:51pm
"Ask the Rabbi" Shabbat


Sat 15-May-2010 2nd of Sivan, 5770

Sat 15-May-2010 Parashat Bamidbar

Sat 15-May-2010 46th day of the Omer

Sat 15-May-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 9:22pm
9:30 p.m. Havdallah at the Beach

Sun 16-May-2010 3rd of Sivan, 5770

Sun 16-May-2010 47th day of the Omer

Mon 17-May-2010 4th of Sivan, 5770

Mon 17-May-2010 48th day of the Omer

Tue 18-May-2010 5th of Sivan, 5770

Tue 18-May-2010 Erev Shavuot

Tue 18-May-2010 49th day of the Omer

Tue 18-May-2010 Candle lighting: 7:54pm

Wed 19-May-2010 6th of Sivan, 5770

Wed 19-May-2010 Shavuot I

Thu 20-May-2010 7th of Sivan, 5770

Thu 20-May-2010 Shavuot II

Thu 20-May-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 9:25pm

Fri 21-May-2010 8th of Sivan, 5770

Fri 21-May-2010 Candle lighting: 7:56pm
Choir Shabbat

Sat 22-May-2010 9th of Sivan, 5770

Sat 22-May-2010 Parashat Nasso

Sat 22-May-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 9:26pm

Sun 23-May-2010 10th of Sivan, 5770

Mon 24-May-2010 11th of Sivan, 5770

Tue 25-May-2010 12th of Sivan, 5770

Wed 26-May-2010 13th of Sivan, 5770

Thu 27-May-2010 14th of Sivan, 5770

Fri 28-May-2010 15th of Sivan, 5770

Fri 28-May-2010 Candle lighting: 8:00pm
Learner's Service Shabbat
Honoring the Memory of those who died in Service to the United States of America

Sat 29-May-2010 16th of Sivan, 5770

Sat 29-May-2010 Parashat Beha'alotcha

Sat 29-May-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 9:30pm

Sun 30-May-2010 17th of Sivan, 5770

Mon 31-May-2010 18th of Sivan, 5770

Tue 01-Jun-2010 19th of Sivan, 5770

Wed 02-Jun-2010 20th of Sivan, 5770

Thu 03-Jun-2010 21st of Sivan, 5770


Fri 04-Jun-2010 22nd of Sivan, 5770

Fri 04-Jun-2010 Candle lighting: 8:03pm

Sat 05-Jun-2010 23rd of Sivan, 5770

Sat 05-Jun-2010 Parashat Sh'lach

Sat 05-Jun-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 9:34pm

Sun 06-Jun-2010 24th of Sivan, 5770

Mon 07-Jun-2010 25th of Sivan, 5770

Tue 08-Jun-2010 26th of Sivan, 5770

Wed 09-Jun-2010 27th of Sivan, 5770

Thu 10-Jun-2010 28th of Sivan, 5770

Fri 11-Jun-2010 29th of Sivan, 5770

Fri 11-Jun-2010 Candle lighting: 8:06pm
"Ask the Rabbi" Shabbat

Sat 12-Jun-2010 30th of Sivan, 5770

Sat 12-Jun-2010 Parashat Korach

Sat 12-Jun-2010 Rosh Chodesh Tamuz

Sat 12-Jun-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 9:37pm
9:45 p.m. Havdallah at the Beach

Sun 13-Jun-2010 1st of Tamuz, 5770

Sun 13-Jun-2010 Rosh Chodesh Tamuz

Mon 14-Jun-2010 2nd of Tamuz, 5770

Tue 15-Jun-2010 3rd of Tamuz, 5770

Wed 16-Jun-2010 4th of Tamuz, 5770

Thu 17-Jun-2010 5th of Tamuz, 5770

Fri 18-Jun-2010 6th of Tamuz, 5770

Fri 18-Jun-2010 Candle lighting: 8:09pm
Choir Shabbat

Sat 19-Jun-2010 7th of Tamuz, 5770

Sat 19-Jun-2010 Parashat Chukat

Sat 19-Jun-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 9:39pm

Sun 20-Jun-2010 8th of Tamuz, 5770

Mon 21-Jun-2010 9th of Tamuz, 5770

Tue 22-Jun-2010 10th of Tamuz, 5770

Wed 23-Jun-2010 11th of Tamuz, 5770

Thu 24-Jun-2010 12th of Tamuz, 5770

Fri 25-Jun-2010 13th of Tamuz, 5770

Fri 25-Jun-2010 Candle lighting: 8:10pm

Sat 26-Jun-2010 14th of Tamuz, 5770

Sat 26-Jun-2010 Parashat Balak

Sat 26-Jun-2010 Havdallah (72 min): 9:40pm

Sun 27-Jun-2010 15th of Tamuz, 5770

Mon 28-Jun-2010 16th of Tamuz, 5770

Tue 29-Jun-2010 17th of Tamuz, 5770

Tue 29-Jun-2010 Tzom Tammuz

Wed 30-Jun-2010 18th of Tamuz, 5770