APRIL 2011 PAGE 1 Ha Kesher The Communication Newsletter of Congregation Dor H adash PASSOVER In just a few weeks it will be Rosh Hodesh Nisan, the beginning of the month of Nisan, and it feels that no sooner are the groggers from Purim put away, we are taking out the seder plate. I look towards Pesah because the world news continues to reverberate with liberation movements across the Arab world, with the tragic necessity for the people of Japan to recover and rebuild from the devastating earthquake and tsunami, the terrible murder of almost an entire Israeli Jewish family while they slept, and with the ongoing struggles many of us still face with the economic situation being what it is. One of the names for Passover is chag haherut – the holiday of freedom – and this year I am cognizant of the need so many in our global and local community freed from the challenges of oppression, natural disasters, terrorism, economic uncertainty, loss of hope and the darkness that remains despite the change of our clocks a few weeks ago. In Parashat Bo, from the book of Exodus that contains the telling of the ten plagues and the liberation from Egypt, we find the following passage: “God said to Moses, ‘Hold out your arm toward the sky that there may be darkness upon the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be touched… People could not see one another, and for three days no one could move about; but all the Israelites enjoyed light in their dwellings.’” (Exod. 21-23) In Exodus Rabbah, the Sages comment that “the darkness was as thick as a dinar (an ancient coin), as is it written, vayamesh hoshech, the darkness was really there. It was a darkness so thick it could be felt with one’s hands, so heavy no light would penetrate, and yet, the Israelites were surrounded by light. What do we learn from this teaching? We learn that despite our personal, communal, and global darkness, our community can be surrounded by light when we are together – in mission and in vision for the future. What would it take to experience light as thick as a dinar? By remembering our synagogue community is a place to celebrate, study, pray, play, and wrestle with what it means to be a Jew in America today, what it means to be a human being in the 21st century, and what it means to be a member of a kehillah kedosha – a holy congregation. May each of us find our way from avdut to herut – from slavery to freedom – and may we all enjoy the light of our Dor H adash dwelling. I hope all of you will join us for our community seder on April 19 beginning at 5:30 pm. Have a sweet and liberating Pesah! - Rabbi Yael Ridberg APRIL 2011 • 26 ADAR II - 26 NISAN 5771 VOLUME 27, NO. 8 FROM THE RABBI CONGREGATIONAL POTLUCK SEDER Tuesday, April 19 Arrive 5:30 pm Potluck Seder 6:00 pm See Page 7
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Ha KesherThe Communication
Newsletter of Congregation Dor Hadash
PASSOVERIn just a few weeks it will be Rosh Hodesh Nisan,
the beginning of the month of Nisan, and it feels that no sooner are the groggers from Purim put away, we are taking out the seder plate. I look towards Pesah because the world news continues to r eve r b e r a t e w i t h l i b e r a t i o n movements across the Arab world, with the tragic necessity for the people of Japan to recover and
rebuild from the devastating earthquake and tsunami, the terrible murder of almost an entire Israeli Jewish family while they slept, and with the ongoing struggles many of us still face with the economic situation being what it is. One of the names for Passover is chag haherut – the holiday of freedom – and this year I am cognizant of the need so many in our global and local community freed from the challenges of oppression, natural disasters, terrorism, economic uncertainty, loss of hope and the darkness that remains despite the change of our clocks a few weeks ago.
In Parashat Bo, from the book of Exodus that contains the telling of the ten plagues and the liberation from Egypt, we find the following passage: “God said to Moses, ‘Hold out your arm toward the sky that there may be darkness upon the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be touched…People could not see one another, and for three days no one could move about; but all the Israelites enjoyed light in their dwellings.’” (Exod. 21-23)
In Exodus Rabbah, the Sages comment that “the darkness was as thick as a dinar (an ancient coin), as is it written, vayamesh hoshech, the darkness was really there. It was a darkness so thick it could be felt with
one’s hands, so heavy no light would penetrate, and yet, the Israelites were surrounded by light.
What do we learn from this teaching? We learn that despite our personal, communal, and global darkness, our community can be surrounded by light when we are together – in mission and in vision for the future. What would it take to experience light as thick as a dinar? By remembering our synagogue community is a place to celebrate, study, pray, play, and wrestle with what it means to be a Jew in America today, what it means to be a human being in the 21st century, and what it means to be a member of a kehillah kedosha – a holy congregation.
May each of us find our way from avdut to herut – from slavery to freedom – and may we all enjoy the light of our Dor Hadash dwelling. I hope all of you will join us for our community seder on April 19 beginning at 5:30 pm. Have a sweet and liberating Pesah!
- Rabbi Yael Ridberg
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FROM THE RABBI
CONGREGATIONAL
POTLUCK SEDER
Tuesday, April 19Arrive 5:30 pm
Potluck Seder 6:00 pm
See Page 7
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RABBI INSTALLATION and SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE WEEKENDThe Programming Committee is delighted to announce two new features of our Scholar-in-Residence weekend this year: a community dinner on Shabbat, and a family-friendly celebration at Mission Bay Park late afternoon on Saturday, concluding with Havdallah. The weekend will be held in honor of the installation of Rabbi Ridberg, and will feature Dr. Tamar Kamionkowski as our guest scholar. A wonderful lineup of presentations is planned. Count on marking this milestone occasion with the
Dor Hadash community on May 13 and 14. Watch your mailbox and the shmeer for more information.
If you'd like to help during the weekend, please leave a message for Leah Ollman at the office or at [email protected], subject line SCHOLAR.
APRIL SCHEDULE - MAH JONGGWe're back to meeting regularly on the second and
fourth Thursday of every month. Join us on April 14 and April 28 at 7pm. Beginners are welcome. Bring a friend, a nosh, and your set if you have one.
For more information, please leave a message for Leah Ollman at the office or [email protected], subject line MAHJ.
Do you have a life cycle event happening this month? If so, please honor it by sponsoring an oneg following a Shabbat service.
C o n t a c t L e a h R o s e n t h a l [email protected], Subject: ONEG
Rabbi’s Column 1
Dor Hadash Activities 2
Ed Director and Gesher 3
Big Bake Pictures 4
Articles of Interest 5-6
JRF 8
Big Ask 9
Donations/Thanks 10
Life Cycle 11
Yahrzeits 12
Calendar 13
ONE BOOK, ONE CONGREGATION Hurry and finish Good for the Jews by Debra Spark, in t ime for our discussion, Sunday, April 3 at 1pm. Mark Stover will lead the discussion, and we'll make book selections for the coming months. For more information, or to suggest a title, leave a message for Leah Ollman at the office or at info1@
dorhadash.org, subject line ONE BOOK.
CRAFT GROUPLearn, teach, work on any number of crafts and
handiwork with friends. Bring any craft supplies from your "stash" that you would like to trade with someone. The group meets the third Wednesday of the month at 7:00 PM (April 20).
Donate your used vehicle through the CARS program, benefit Dor Hadash, and claim any applicable tax deduction. Call 877-537-5277 <http://donatingiseasy.org/car-donation-california.htm
Gesher School students were honored to welcome ten Holocaust
survivors from JFS’s Copley Café and four of their own grandparents to our first Grandparents Day at Gesher School on Sunday, March 13th. The students mingled with the visitors, made Purim masks and cards, heard the story of Purim from Rabbi Yael, and sang Purim songs. We were delighted with the violin talents of third grader, Brianna Ingber. Many thanks to Teri Wilner for bringing the Copley Café folks for this fun morning of Purim festivities. We hope to make this an annual event at Gesher School.
AJE’s Yachad Program for 5th and 6th Graders
Fifth and sixth grade students from Sunday Schools across San Diego gathered together at Ohr Shalom on Sunday, March 6th for an annual program called Yachad, which means together. The students participated in hands-on activities based on the theme o f I s rae l inc lud ing ; making humus f rom scratch, Israeli dancing, Israel Jeopardy, singing, and painting butterflies for the Zikaron V'Tikvah program (students in Shaar haNegev, San Diego's sister city in Israel painted them, too). Many thanks to Marcia Tatz Wollner and the Agency for Jewish Education for hosting this program each year (along with so many others).
Purim was a Blast at Dor Hadash
From our youngest kiddos to teens, parents, and older adults, there was so much fun, laughter, food, and mingling. There were new faces and familiar ones, Gesher School havuarh gatherings with teachers, games and crafts organized by the madrichim, face painting by our own Aunt Tilly the Clown (Helene Goodman), and a visit from Lady SynaGAGA herself.
Thank you to everyone who came and those who pitched in behind the scenes. It was truly a FUN evening!
- Betsy Schneider
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April Gesher Shekel opportunities
✦Attend Dor Hadash, Gesher and Family activities
✦Attend Parent-Child Class✦Celebrate Shabbat with your family✦Participate in the April Tikkun Olam
activity✦Come to the Community Potluck Seder
Mazal tov to Jonah, Maya, and Audrey on becoming B’nai Mitzvah last month.
No Gesher School on Sundays April 3rd or 10th for spring break.
GESHER SCHOOL YEARBOOKLET
Anyone interested in printing a tribute to a student, teacher, madricha, etc. and/or ad in this year s Gesher School Yearbooklet please e - m a i l a n y a r t w o r k a n d t e x t t o [email protected] by April 1. Specify size (1/3 page $1.00, 1/2 page $2.50, or full page $4.00).
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THE BIG BAKE - MARCH 9Many thanks to the early bids who arrived at 6:00 a.m. to set up and get it all rolling: Mark and Patti Nussbaum,
Betsy Chessler, Steve Florman and Charles Bisom-Rapp. Many thanks to Philip Haness, Parrish Nnambi and Susan Levine for taking photos. And to all who helped make, bake, package and sell the hamentashen --
Todah Rabah!
More pictures on the website. Look for
Purim pics in May’s newsletter.
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GESHER SCHOOL APRIL MITZVAH PROJECT
Dijana F lorman will be c o o r d i n a t i n g M a r c h ’ s Mitzvah Project which begins March 7 and runs through April 6 collecting books for
The Bookman, “providing books to anyone who wants to read and learn.”
The Bookman, based in San Diego, was founded in 1990 by San Marcos resident, Irwin Herman, is a global charitable organization. The Bookman has been supplying books free to teachers, institutions, and groups that ask. Operated with all volunteer labor, the organization now gives away almost one million new and used books per year, primarily to groups and agencies serving the underprivileged, to teachers, to our military veterans, families, and active-duty troops, and to other charitable groups.
The Bookman has given away more than 8 million books to people in San Diego County and through local charities, to every state and 70 other countries.
For more information on Mr. Irwin and The Bookman, please see h t t p : / /thebookman.org/Book%20Donations.htm
Passover (Pesach in Hebrew) celebrates the biblical exodus from Egypt, but its focus on freedom in general has earned it a special place on the Jewish calendar. More Jews participate in a Passover seder than any other Jewish ritual and is one of the most beloved of all Jewish holidays.
The origins of Passover lie in pre-Israelite spring celebrations of the first grain harvest and the births of the first lambs of the season. Within a Jewish context, however, it celebrates God's great redemptive act at the time of the Exodus, leading the Israelites out from slavery in Egypt to freedom. Together with Shavuot (the Festival of Weeks later in the spring) and Sukkot (the Festival of Booths in the fall), Pesach is one of the ancient Israelite pilgrimage festivals, during which adult males journeyed to the Temple in Jerusalem to offer sacrifices and bask in the divine presence. Since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, the focus of Pesach celebration shifted to the seder that takes place either in the home or in the community.
In anticipation of Pesach, it is traditional to engage in a thorough spring cleaning. Because the Israelites had no time to let their bread rise, Jewish law forbids eating (or even possessing) any food that can contain leaven. Therefore, a major part of the preparations for Pesach consists of removing all traces of leavened foods from the home and replacing them with unleavened foods (though there is also a tradition among some Jews to "sell" their unused leaven products to a non-Jew for the d u r a t i o n o f t h e h o l i d a y ) . W h i l e m a n y Reconstructionist Jews don't follow every tradition, many do. (con’t on page 6)
PASSOVER
Building Bridges among Jewish, Christian and Muslim Leaders in East Africa
Our friend, Rabbi Jon Cutler, who is now serving as the Director of Religious Affairs/Force Chaplain for Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) is helping to build bridges and relationships between key religious leaders -- Coptic priests, Imams and even Jews, especially in Ethiopia. Rabbi Cutler says, "The idea is that if we can support these religious leaders with things that they need for their people we can help stem or even stop violent extremism which has potential to develop in east Africa." (See article in March Ha Kesher)
To help Rabbi Cutler in his peace efforts, Dor Hadash is launching a "Passover children's clothes and sheet drive" for an orphanage for HIV+ children in Tanga. We will be collecting new and "gently used" infant, toddler and early adolescent clothes and twin-sized flat sheets and pillow cases. Please bring all items to Dor Hadash, beginning April 15 and ending May 12.
Make this your Passover Mitzvah — to pass over to needy children in Africa the hope of stability, peace and hope, knowing that others are thinking of them. – Ros Goldstein, Tikkun Olam Chairperson
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PASSOVER (con’t from page 5)
The central ritual of Pesach is the seder, a carefully choreographed ritual meal that takes place either in the home or in the community. A number of symbolic foods are laid out on the table, of which the most important are the matzah, the unleavened "bread of affliction," and the shankbone, which commemorates the Pesach (lamb) sacrifice in the Temple. The seder follows a script laid out in the haggadah (literally, "the telling"), a book that tells the story of the redemption from Egypt and thanks God for it. Although the haggadah is a traditional text, many people — particularly in the modern world — add to it and revise it in accord with their theology and understanding of God's redemptive actions in the world.
On the first and last days of Passover, traditional Judaism prohibits working. There are special synagogue services, including special biblical readings, among which one finds Shir ha-Shirim, "The Song of Songs" and Hallel, Psalms of praise and thanksgiving for God's saving acts in history. The last day of Passover is one of the four times a year that the Yizkor service of remembrance is recited.
The overarching theme of Passover is redemption; this is the holiday that celebrates the leading of the Israelites from slavery to freedom. It is a time to celebrate liberation not only for the Jews. but for all humanity. The divine redemption of the Israelites becomes the blueprint for the Jewish understanding of God and divine morality and ethics, which can be seen in Jewish participation at the forefront of movements for social justice.
From myjewishlearning.com; edited by Holly Baumann
APRIL COMMUNITY ROUNDTABLE
The 2nd Friday Community Roundtable speaker for April 8th at 7:30pm will be Congregation Dor Hadash member Kenneth Gudel. Kenneth is a senior and part of the first graduating class at Pacific Ridge School in Carlsbad. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees at Dor Hadash.
Last year, inspired by communication with Israeli and Palestinian youth through a class he took in Middle Eastern History and Diplomacy, Kenneth and two of his peers travelled to Israel and Palestine to explore the conflict there through stories and human interaction. Guided by a celebrated Israeli peacemaker, Kenneth and his friends met with the people of Israel and Palestine: peacemakers and extremists, soldiers and religious leaders, settlers and refugees. Talking to this diverse group of individuals, they were struck by the power of simple communication and citizen diplomacy. The connections between Israelis and Palestinians they witnessed marked human — if not political — peace.
The three young people from California learned that friendship and dialogue surpass conflict. When they returned home, Kenneth and his classmates founded an organization to share their experiences in Israel and Palestine with the greater San Diegan community. Their presentation on April 8th at Dor Hadash will speak to the power of communication and tolerance through any number of means. They will share personal experiences, anecdotes, photographs, and stories that they experienced in their travels.
- Mark Stover
Save the Date
Yom HaShoah Commemoration on Sunday May 1 • 1:30 p.m.
Rabbi Yael Ridberg will lead the Prayer Service at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center.
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Tuesday, April 19 -‐ 5:30 pm shmooze & noshSeder begins promptly at 6:00 pm
Congregation Dor Hadash4858 Ronson Court • San Diego, CA 92111
858-‐268-‐3674 • fax 858-‐268-‐3633
To our Dor Hadash Community,Please join in the celebration of our freedom from slavery with
Rabbi Yael Ridberg who will lead the seder. Enjoy the friendly people, the inspiring story, the Reconstructionist haggadah,
and a delicious, potluck, kosher style-‐for-‐Passover, traditional meal.
Community Potluck SederSecond Night
Potluck Menu:
Roast chicken, kugel (matzah or other Kosher-‐for-‐Passover kugel), vegetables, salad, and dessert.
Cost:$5 single / $10 household prepaid to cover the cost of paper products, beverages and miscellaneous
items. Please mail your check made payable to Congregation Dor Hadash.
You can also help by offering to provide a prepared seder plate for a dinner table; setting up; cleaning up.
Seating is limited so make your reservations early.
or call the office 858-‐268-‐3674 if you don’t have email
Please make your reservations as soon as possible and no later than April 9, 2011 (firm deadline)with your name, email, phone number, and the number of people in your group.
You will be contacted to confirm what menu item to bring to the potluck.
Bring your favorite haroset recipe (and story) to share with your table!
Kosher style for Passover means: We are serving meat; therefore, no dairy (butter, milk, cream, cheese, etc.); no products containing wheat flour, corn or rice; gefilte fish YES, shellfish NO.
Please use products that are labeled Kosher for Passover.
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The board of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federa t ion ( JRF ) and the board o f the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) have voted overwhelmingly to approve a proposal to create a unified organization that will guide all facets of the Reconstructionist movement. The board of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association (RRA) unanimously endorsed the proposal.
The agreement is subject to the approval of the JRF-affiliated communities who will vote on it at a special meeting of JRF member congregations on April 10, 2011, in Philadelphia. (Affiliated communities will also have the opportunity to vote by proxy.)
The agreement envisions a united board made up of lay leaders and rabbis, a united professional staff and a single chief executive. The organization will be designed to include additional broad participation by lay leaders and rabbis.
Under the agreement, leaders of the RRA and other movement rabbis will serve on the board of the united organization and are expected to be active in all aspects of the new organization. The RRA will remain a separate professional organization, providing job search and placement services, professional counseling and mutual support for the 310 rabbis of the Reconstructionist movement.
The goal of the united organization will be to cultivate, enhance and promote Jewish leadership, learning and living:
Cultivating Reconstructionist leadership includes educating and training rabbis and other Jewish community leaders; fostering effective lay leadership within congregations and among youth; and providing public leadership on issues of importance to the Jewish community, Israel and North American society.
• Enhancing Jewish learning involves developing and disseminating liturgical and educational materials; providing resources and training for teachers in congregational schools; developing outstanding adult education programs; and supporting the growth of Camp JRF and No’ar Hadash, the Reconstructionist program for teens. • Fostering Jewish living means providing
support, consultation and resources to affiliated congregat ions and havurot . The united organization also will join with members of the RRA to develop and sustain Jewish engagement outside of the congregational setting, seeking to reach college-age Jews as well as Jewish seniors and individuals and families who are served by Jewish chaplains. In addition, the Reconstructionist movement will continue to provide opportunities for unaffiliated individuals to connect with Judaism through new online media.
It is expected that by consolidating financial resources the new organization will generate significant savings.
Joining together the resources of RRC and JRF will enable fully-focused planning to address the challenges and opportunities of contemporary Jewish life. The new organization will be unique; its strengths will be greater than the sum of its parts. No other Jewish denomination has this type of united structure envisioned; the Reconstructionist movement is creating a new category of organization designed to respond to the changing Jewish landscape of the 21st century.
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JEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST MOVEMENT TO CREATE ONE GOVERNING ORGANIZATION
Congregation Dor Hadash gratefully acknowledges your generous donations. Dor Hadash has many opportunities for you to put your money where your heart is. These funds supplement items in the annual budget. Donating is easy. Mail us a check made out to Congregation Dor Hadash and tell us what fund to apply it to. Or you can call the office during business hours with your credit card (Visa or Mastercard).
Bikkur Holim: For support of people in crisis.Children’s Education Fund: For support of Gesher School.Endowment Fund: Financial investment for the future of Dor Hadash.General Fund: For miscellaneous items approved by the Board. Gesher School Supplemental Fund (Lily Goldstein Memorial Educator Fund): To provide additional funds to support Gesher School expenditures not covered by the Budget. Library Fund: For purchasing books and DVDs and to promote Jewish knowledge and reading.Mishkan Fund: For capital improvements to the synagogue. Madrihim Fund: To support the teen team assisting the Gesher School.Music Fund: To benefit the musical enrichment of Dor Hadash. Prayer Book Fund: To repair and replace siddurim (prayer books).Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund: For expenditures the Rabbi deems necessary and appropriate.Scholar-In-Residence Fund: To cover the costs associated with hosting a scholar-in-residence each year. Scholarship Funds: Gesher School scholarships for those in need (Vicki Seltzer Memorial Education Fund and the Joshua Adam Flores-Wolfert Fund)Tikkun Olam Fund: To support social justice activities approved and recommended by the Tikkun Olam Committee. Torah/Ritual Fund: For maintenance of and accessories for the Torah scrolls and ritual objects.
DONATIONS
Scholar-in-Residence:Marilyn Scheininger in memory of her grandmothers,
Sadie Scheininger and Amelia GasterEvan and Michell AdelsonRhonda Schwartz
Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund:Nussbaum Family in memory of Anna Gross, Mark’s
grandmother
General Fund:Miriam and Bernard Abrams in memory of Manny
Tuchin
Tikkun Olam Fund:Ros Goldstein and Bob Siegel in memory of Phillip
Goldstein
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Todah Rabah for your generous donations:
Mike Moder and other Gesher parents for helping to move furniture out of the Sanctuary so the carpets could be cleaned.
And thanks to Mike for also replacing ballasts and U-Tubes so we can read siddurim in there. I believe Steve Florman was holding the ladder intoning, “Let there be light.”
Brenda Haness for repair of bindings on siddurim.
Everyone who participated in the Big Bake 2011- young and “old” alike - for your hard work at setting up, cleaning up, baking, bagging and selling over 3000 hamentashen
Rabbi Yael Betsy, Gesher teachers, madrihim, Evan Adelson and the Jewish Storytellers for everything you did to make this year’s Purim Celebration so much fun! Let’s do it again next year!
Thank you to all who brought food to share at the dessert reception during and following the Purim Celebration.
PRAYER BOOK FUNDOur siddurim need replenishing. Please consider donating to
the Prayer Book Fund.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAYApril 9 • 39th Anniversary
Lee and Julian Lichter
April 14 • 9th AnniversaryDavid and Anita Petereson
April 16 • 28th AnniversaryHarvey Remepl and Linda Robinson
March 26 • 25th AnniversaryEvan Enowitz and Susan Berstein Enowitz
April 18 • 19th AnniversaryCheryl and Michael Moder
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
David Schneider 4/2/11
Robert Siegel 4/2/11
Carolyn Weber-Harris 4/3/11
Heidi Feldman 4/4/11
Malka Stover 4/4/11 22nd birthday
Kiote Coles 4/6/11 16th birthday
Gary Rotto 4/6/11
Deborah Lindner 4/7/11
Evan Adelson 4/10/11
James Feinberg 4/11/11
Marsha Goldberg 4/12/11
Ivy Stein 4/13/11
Steven Youel 4/13/11
Karina Evans-Schreiber 4/14/11 8th birthday
Ellen Margolis 4/14/11
Nancy Deutsch 4/15/11
Ingrid Greenberg 4/15/11
Katrina Mautner 4/15/11 24th birthday
Aviv Laska 4/17/11 2nd birthday
Shira Laska 4/17/11 2nd birthday
Rebecca Scherman 4/17/11 13th birthday
DeDe Herst 4/19/11
Christine Kam 4/23/11
Michael Markson 4/27/11 19th birthday
Alex Dasteel 4/29/11 24th birthday
Fran Meronoff 4/29/11
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MISHEBERAH
Arny BernsteinBarbara BoothTamar BoothRichard BurkeBarbara CarrSydney ChehabSy GreenbergSarah Fenner (Sarah bat Chana)Jeffrey George Hana bat ShaynaDean KarpRaisa Hannah Karp
Rick KingRobin KohnBenjamin LeeDaniel LeeRabbi Sheryl LewartBarbara LouiseRobin Pitler (Razel Sivah bat David v’Bryna)Jill SchwartzGloria Felicia TopperYael Zorochov
If you would like your name removed from the Misheberah list, e-mail Rabbi Ridberg.
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YAHRZEIT LISTfor April 2011/26 Adar II - 26 Nisan 5771
May their memory be for a blessing.
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Stanley Winard 4/3/11 Adar-II 28 Crespin, Audrey & Robert Audrey's uncle
17:00 PM Kabbalat Shabbat with Rabbi Ridberg; Bar Mitzvah of Jonah Propp
210:00 AM Torah Study with Rabbi Ridberg
3No Gesher School
1:00 PM One Book, One Congregation Discussion
4Office Closed
57:45 AM Shacharit Minyan
6 7 87:30 PM Kabbalat Shabbat with Rabbi Ridberg’ Community RoundtableGuest Speaker CDH member Kenneth Gudel
910:00 AM Torah Study with Rabbi Ridberg
10No Gesher School
11Office Closed
124:00 PM B’nai Mitzvah Class
13 144:00 PM B’nai Mitzvah Class
7:00 PM Mah Jongg
155:45 PM PJ Tot Shabbat6:30 PM Family Kabbalah Shabbat with Rabbi Ridberg
169:00 AM Torah Study with Rabbi
10:00 AM Shabbat morning service with Rabbi
17 Gesher School
18Office Closed
Passover - First Seder
195:30 PM Passover - Second Seder - Community PotluckSeder begins promptly at 6:00 PM Reservations required
Office Closed
20 214:00 PM B’nai Mitzvah Class
7:00 PM Jewish Storytellers
227:30 PM Kabbalat Shabbat - lay led with Shir Hadash
2310:00 AM Torah Study - lay led
24Gesher School
25Office Closed
26Office Closed
4:00 PM B’nai Mitzvah Class
27 284:00 PM B’nai Mitzvah Class
296:30 PM Potluck Shabbat dinner at the Dor Hadash Shabbat table with Adam King
3010:00 AM Torah Study - lay led
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Morning Minyan
Come daven with us from 7:45 to 8:45 a.m. on the first Tuesday of the month
(April 4. Enjoy the morning light among a gathering of friends. Consider starting your day in quiet
contemplation in community.
Congregation Dor Hadash4858 Ronson Court #ASan Diego, CA 92111
The mission of Dor Hadash is to create a caring Jewish community in accordance with the values of Reconstructionism and
to inspire exploration of Jewish spirituality.
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