Our next service is on June 10th (14 Sivan 5766) led by Rabbi August.
We will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the sanctuary.
PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE FROM OUR USUAL WEEK.
Following the service we will have an extended kiddush, hosted by Anita Dash in honor of her birthday.
The Torah Portion for the Sabbath is: "Parashat Nasso," Numbers 4:21-7:89.
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| June 2, 3 |
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Shavout |
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| June 8 |
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7:00 PM Lev Eisha General Meeting at Adat Shalom |
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| June 10 |
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9:30 AM Service (note change from usual date)
Extended Kiddush |
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| July 1 |
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9:30 a.m. Service |
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| August 5 |
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9:30 a.m. Service
Shabbat Songs and Torah Study |
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In June we celebrate Shavout with summer soon to follow. With this in mind I have chosen a dairy dessert to please a crowd. It is a low fat recipe rich in taste.
Cottage Cheesecake
5 eggs
2 pints low fat cottage cheese
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon grated lemon or orange peel
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup sugar
1 cup low fat yogurt
Spray a 9 X 13 pan with non-stick coating. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Place all ingredients in a food processor and process to blend.
Pour into pan and place in the middle of the oven.
Bake for about 40 minutes. The center will jiggle even though the surrounding batter is more set. The cake will finish setting as it cools.
Chill and cut into squares. If you cut into 16 squares each one will be 130 calories.
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Lev Eisha Members! Please come to the Lev Eisha General Meeting on
Thursday evening, June 8th at 7:00 p.m. in Newmark Hall at Adat Shalom.
Agenda
Election: Board of Directors
Discussion: Plans and programs for the coming year
Discussion: Topics of interest to participants.
Noshes will be provided.
The Nominating Committee of Lev Eisha is proud to present the following slate for our Board of Directors for the upcoming year:
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President |
Andrea Nitz |
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Vice President |
Judy Cohen |
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Treasurer |
Olivia Goodkin |
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Recording Secretary |
Robin Winston |
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Corresponding Secretary |
Marla Osband |
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Membership Chair |
Julie London |
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| Committee Chairs |
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Fundraising |
Janis Cohen |
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Catering |
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Marketing |
Barbara Haberman |
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Hospitality |
Susie Yuré (co-chair) |
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Education |
Vivian Feintech |
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Ritual* |
Mollie Wine * |
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| Members at Large |
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Elaine Craig Segal (past president) |
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Sarah Barash |
Shayna Lester |
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Ruth Grossman |
Joan Spiegel |
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Rhonda Kiff |
Bea Travis |
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*Mollie Wine ex-officio board member will continue to serve at Ritual Chair. |
Summer Program Plans Complete!
You asked for it! We've got it!
Our new Lev Eisha Summer schedule starts July 1, 2006.
Keep that Lev Eisha feeling going, and join us!
July 1, 9:30 a.m., Newmark Hall -- Shabbat Morning Service.
Cindy Paley and Mollie Wine will lead us in song and prayer.
August 5, 9:30 a.m. Newmark Hall -- A special Torah Study and Music Morning.
Cindy Paley will lead us in song and Robin Winston will guide us in exploring the layers of meaning in the Torah portion. Please join us for this opportunity to explore the text and our personal responses to it.
The holiday of Shavuot is celebrated the first week of June. The rabbis chose one book from the Jewish Bible to read on each holiday. We chant the Book of Ruth for Shavuot.
There are many reasons for reading this particular narrative on this holiday. One theme I want to share with you in this column is the concept of "Chesed" of compassion and kindness.
The heroine, Ruth, shows a quality of compassion and kindness that is unexpected when she "clings" to Naomi and returns with her to Israel. Ruth, a young woman, should have returned to her parents' home to find a new husband and continue with her life. Instead she demonstrates remarkable loyalty and courage to go with her penniless, widowed, depressed mother- in- law to a strange land.
With this in mind, her insight into "Chesed" is fascinating. She goes on her own to "glean" - gather sheaves of wheat and barley from the fields of a wealthy man named Boaz. He notices her and gives her extra grain. When she returns home to Naomi she says, " I worked with Boaz today. This is what I did for him!" Instead of seeing herself as the "receiver", Ruth, the outsider, understood that by reaping grain in the rich man's field she was helping him!
What does this mean? There is a teaching that says, "More than the rich man does for the poor man, the poor man does for the rich one!" When we give "tzedakah" - help to those who need it - we give more to ourselves than we realize. The people receiving our gifts of time and money are allowing us to give. When we open up our hearts to feel compassion we enter to realm of eternity and become one with the Divine.
Ruth realized that she helped Boaz when he gave to her. He became more caring and compassionate and this was her gift to him, so much more than the handful of grain that he gave to her.
My dear friends, let us all learn this lesson. There are times in our lives when we are the givers and there are times to be the receivers, the takers. This is the way of the world. Let us know that each of these actions bring us closer to our potential for holiness and acts of kindness.
Later in our story, Ruth goes at night during the harvest to the "threshing" floor and tells Boaz that he needs to "spread his robe over her" and protect her and redeem her. Ruth boldly told Boaz to do what is right! In clear, unabashed terms, Ruth asserts the need for a man to be a "mentch" a righteous person, when the opportunity presents itself.
May we all know how to find the courage within to give and to receive and to do what is right for ourselves, our families and friends, and bring kindness and comfort to our troubled world.
Chag Samaeach - a healthy and meaningful holiday of Shavuot to us all!
At our last service we were privileged to have Jan Segal as our Torah Reader.
This was her first time and she made us all proud. Mazel Tov Jan.
Our Fashion Show was a huge success, socially and financially.
Kudos to all the members and friends who helped achieve our goal.
The Rabbi's class was well attended. We found there are as many opinions on "Where God Is" as there were members in the class.
