Jewish Community Center of Long Beach Island E-Letter May 6, 2016 28 Nisan 5776
INTERFAITH SERVICE
ANNUAL INTERFAITH SERVICE
Friday, May 6th at 7:30 PM
Guest Clergy: Fr. John Frambes, OFM
St. Francis of Assisi Parish, Brant Beach
The Island Singers will perform.
Contents
A Message from the Rabbi
Kol Hakavod
The Week That Was...
THIS WEEK'S EVENTS
5/6 - 5/13
Wednesday
Mah jongg at 12:30 PM
SHABBAT SHALOM
Upcoming JCC Activities
Community Events
Giving Opportunities
TD Affinity Program
Acme & Shoprite Scrip
This Week's Events
Service Schedule
Yahrzeits for Next Week
Minyanim
Yom Hazikaron & Yom Ha'atzma'ut
Congregation News
Directory Ads
Sisterhood Stuff
Gift Shop
Text Blast Sign Up
Name Badges
Documents & Links
A MESSAGE FROM THE RABBI
Candle Lighting Time
Friday
May 6, 2016
7:38 PM
(So. Ocean County NJ)
JOIN US FOR
SERVICES
SHABBAT MACHAR CHODESH
(When Shabbat falls the day
before Rosh Chodesh)
Friday, May 6, 2016
7:30 PM
Interfaith Service
Sermon: Fr. John Frambes, OFM
St. Francis of Assisi Parish
Saturday, May 7, 2016
9:00 AM
Rabbi's Torah Study
10:00 AM
Services
Torah Portion
Achrei Mot
During Passover I visited a young woman who was beginning a course of chemotherapy to treat her cancer. Our tradition provides many ways to be with, and present to, someone as she faces the challenges following a life-changing diagnosis. The ability to provide support at such times is part of what makes being a Rabbi rewarding.
While I was at the hospital something unexpected happened. As I was
walking around the cancer treatment floor, a woman, who appeared to be in her 70's, beckoned for me to come over.
Remarkably, this woman, whose husband was receiving a chemotherapy infusion, saw me with my yarmulke and was calling out "Moadim L'Simcha", "Times of Joy", (The customary greeting during Passover). As if referring to "Times of Joy" on a cancer treatment floor wasn't enough, the reason she asked me to come over was to ask if I (a person obviously not there for treatment) wanted some of the Kosher for Passover snacks that she had brought.
Her husband was a patient and she was offering me food. The injunction at the beginning for the Seder, "Let all who are hungry come and eat...", was obviously one that was not taken lightly by this angel. I told her that she was the sweetest, gentlest person I had met in a long time.
Her unsolicited kindness caused me to think. Opportunities are always presented to do good and to make the world a better place. Being a hero does not require one to leap tall buildings, or to climb walls like a spider. This person could have sat there with her husband and ignored the rest of the world around her. And she would have been justified in doing so. However, she chose instead to go out of her way to care for a stranger. She was not just a hero. She was a mensch.
Leviticus 16:1 - 18:30
Here is the portion
PARSHAH
Haftorah
l Samuel 20:18 - 20:42
Here is the Haftorah
HAFTORAH
HERE IS AN EASY WAY TO LET US KNOW IF YOU WILL BE AT
SERVICES ON SHABBAT MORNING
To help us to provide a minyan on Saturday morning in the fall, winter and spring months, please sign up on our
SCHEDULING LINK HERE: SCHEDULE.
Please help us create a special atmosphere by not using
electronic devices (phones, cameras, games etc) in or around the synagogue on
Shabbat
and Holidays. No food or drink is permitted in the sanctuary.
YAHRZEITS FOR NEXT
WEEK
These names will be read at services on May 6, 2016
Each night, from the second Seder until Shavuot, for 49 nights, we count the Omer. In the Rabbinic tradition we count in anticipation of receiving the Torah on Shavuot. Some believe that we do this in order to receive little pieces of the Torah at a time because, if we receive it all at once, it would be overwhelming.
I would like to suggest that we use each of the 49 nights as an opportunity to think of a little something we might be able to do on the next day to make the world a better place.
Make a promise to Smile at someone, to hold a door, to buy someone a coffee, or, like the angel at the hospital, to offer a stranger a bite to eat. Keep it small, but do it every day from now until Shavuot which, this year, begins on the evening of Saturday, June 11th. Perhaps our daily mini-tzedaka projects will have an impact on the larger world around us. Whatever the result, I guarantee that each of us will feel better for the effort.
Shabbat Shalom - Rabbi Michael S. Jay
KOL HAKAVOD CAMPAIGN
Please consider being a part of this campaign to supplement the clergy needs of our congregation. This is a separate, voluntary commitment and is additional to our low annual dues obligation. HERE IS THE LINK TO BRING UP THE DONATION FORM KOL HAKAVOD
THE WEEK THAT WAS..
JCC SISTERHOOD COMMUNITY SEDER
CORRECTION
Your editor left off Marcie Deutsch from the list of gals who helped with the setting up of the Seder. Among the things
George Foosaner
Ruth Goldman*
Matilda Tubis
Izzy Ungar
Marvin Einhorn
Audrey Konwiser
Jennie Shapiro
William Frank
Ann Hirsh Mednikoff
Evelyn Miller*
Anna Blumenthal*
Aaron Powitz
Fred Gottesman
Ada Heller
Fanny Kelsen
Lazar Lebovitz
Phil Pepperman
George Rosner
Tessie Weisel
Pearl Elefant
Jack Halpern
Batia Shatz
Ann Bernstein
Libby Flumenbaum
Burton Greenblatt
Harold Kugel
Leon Schachter
Marcie did for this event was to create the place mats and centerpieces pictured below. So sorry Marcie. I hope you know how much you are appreciated.
UPCOMING JCC ACTIVITIES
MAH JONGG
Wednesdays 12:30 - 4:00 PM
Please contact the office if you are planning on coming to the JCC on Wednesday to play mah jongg so we can let people know there will be a table.
COMMUNITY EVENTS
* Yahrzeit Plaque - These names are lovely enshrined on our synagogue memorial boards.
MINYANIM
Harris Weisel, will be coordinating minyanim for those who are sitting shiva or observing a yahrzeit. Please contact the office if you would be interested in being notified if a minyan is needed and will attend when possible. 609-492-4090 or click on this link for EMAIL
YOM HAZIKARON &
YOM HA'ATZMA'UT
JEWISH HERITAGE
DAY AT THE BLUE
CLAWS STADIUM IN
LAKEWOOD
Celebrate Israel's 68th Birthday at the Blue Claws game on Sunday May 15th Game starts at 1:05.
Kids will run with Players onto the field! Make Havdalah Candles. Arts & Crafts, Sand Art & other activities for the kids of
all ages! Please visit our Judaica Vendors.
ENJOY KOSHER FOOD & FAMILY FUN!!
Tickets are available for $10.00 each at the JCC office.
COMMUNITY-WIDE JERUSALEM DAY
CONCERT
Featuring
Safam Sunday, June 5th at 2:00 PM Temple Beth Or, 200 Van Zile Road, Brick NJ Tickets are $25 for Adults, $10 for Children/Students Tickets are available at the JCC of LBI Office SAFAM is the Boston based six-man band, has dominated Jewish music in America with their "Jewish-American Sound"
Yom Hazikaron
Israel's Memorial Day
May 11, 2016
3 Iyar 5776
Yom Hazikaron, the Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israel's Wars and for Terror Victims is marked every year, one week after the Holocaust Remembrance Day and two weeks after Pesach. The day is dedicated to commemorating the country's soldiers and members of security forces, the memory of the fallen from the pre-state undergrounds, and to victims of terrorism.
YOM HA'ATZMA'UT Israel's Independence Day
May 12, 2016
since 1974. Their music covers the wide breadth of American musical styles while maintaining a decidedly Jewish flavor. They use many settings -- whether it be Rock & Roll, Pop, Folk, Latin, Chassidic or Cantorial -- to create their tapestry of music.
GIVING OPPORTUNITIES
AUDIO-VISUAL FUND
We are very excited about the decision of the Board of Directors to pursue the purchase of audio-visual equipment for the JCC of LBI. This will allow us to show films as well as other educational materials in our building and opens many wonderful opportunities for future programming.
Your gift large or small is much appreciated. Please send your contribution to the JCC office: 2411 Long Beach Blvd., Spray Beach, NJ 08008 and mark it Film Fund.
YAHRZEIT PLAQUES
Space is available for memorial plaques on the yahrzeit boards in the Sanctuary. Here is the order form:
PLAQUES
TREE OF LIFE (located in the Social Hall)
You can purchase a leaf in honor of an occasion or in memory of a loved one.
Here is the Tree of Life Form: TREE
PAVERS (in front of the Front Entrance)
4 Iyar 5776
Independence Day, Israel's national holiday, marks Israel's Declaration of Independence with the end of the British Mandate. It is the only full holiday in the calendar decreed by law without a tradition of hundreds or thousands of years. It marks the day in which David Ben-Gurion, the state's first prime minister, declared the country's independence in 1948.
CONGREGATION
NEWS
SHARE YOUR NEWS
CONTACT: [email protected]
Only 4 x 8 and 12 x 12 size pavers are available
Here is the Paver Form:
PAVER
TD AFFINITY PROGRAM
Easy money!
Do you have an account with TD Bank?
You can contribute to the JCC without it costing you a cent. TD Bank will pay us on the number of accounts in our TD Affinity Club. There is no minimum number of members. We automatically receive $10 for every checking account and .01% of the balance on Savings Accounts. In addition we receive $50 for any new accounts. This is strictly confidential and the JCC does not know the amount in any of the accounts.
We just received a check for $456.00 from TD Bank. So think about joining this program and helping the JCC to reap the benefits.
ACME & SHOPRITE SCRIP
CARING COMMITTEE
This committee acts as a support system for
congregation members facing illness and other personal situations that need to be
addressed.
Please contact Chairperson, Joy Kern, if you are in need of
assistance or if you know of a JCC member that needs our
help.
609- 978-3669
MEMBERSHIP
DIRECTORY ADS
If you would like to place an ad in the 2016/2017 Membership Directory, send you ad with payment to the JCC office. The deadline is June 1, 2016
Full Page $60
Half Page $30
Business Card $15
SISTERHOOD
STUFF
Scrip is available from Acme as well as ShopRite. You can help the JCC of LBI earn free money by using these $25 gift cards when you shop at these stores.
Scrip is now available at the JCC office and on the Mainland from Jeri Riffle (609-290-9135).
JCC INFORMATION
THE OFFICE IS LOCATED AT
2411 Long Beach Boulevard (24th Street)
Spray Beach, NJ 08008
ENTER THE BUILDING DURING OFFICE HOURS
THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR.
PRESS THE ENTRY BUTTON ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE ENTRANCE FOR ADMITTANCE.
Mailing Address:
2411 Long Beach Blvd.
Spray Beach, NJ 08008
Telephone: 609-492-4090
FAX: 609-492-7550
email: [email protected]
BOOK CLUB &
REVIEW
Get a head start this winter by reading the first book of the summer season. "A Remarkable Kindness" by Diana Bletter will be reviewed at our kick-off club get-together on June 14th at 10:30 AM.
Set in Israel, four women forge a friendship that sustains them as they come to terms with love and loss, and the
outbreak of war. Their intimate bond is strengthened by their participation in a traditional ritual that closes the circle of life. As their lives are slowly transformed, each finds unexpected strength and resilience.
Helen Benjamin is chairing this project.
SHOE BOX
RECYCLING
We are again collecting gently worn, paired men's, women's and kids shoes that are still
web site: www.jccoflbi.org
OFFICE HOURS:
MONDAY 9:00 AM - 1:30 PM
TUESDAY 9:00 AM - 1:30 PM
WEDNESDAY 9:00 AM - 1:30 PM
THURSDAY 9:00 AM - 1:30 PM
FRIDAY - 9:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Office Staff:
Leslie Dinkfelt
Jeri Riffle
Marcie Deutsch
Leslie, Marcie and Jeri
CONTACT INFORMATION:
reusable and re-wearable (no ski boots, ice skates, roller blades, flip flops, crocs or bedroom slippers). Please bring them to the JCC during office hours.
"Let's clean up our closets and the environment by recycling our shoes."
SISTERHOOD GIFT
SHOP
Come visit the JCC Sisterhood Gift shop or go to GIFT SHOP and then call the JCC office 609-492-4090 for help in placing you order.
TEXT BLAST SIGN
UP
If you would like to receive JCC of LBI reminders and alerts via text
message on your cell phone, please contact the office by email ([email protected]) or phone (609-492-4090) We would be alerting you for example that "Services are cancelled" or "Last opportunity to sign up for Community Seder".
This information will not be shared and will only be used for JCC purposes.
Rabbi Michael S. Jay
Don Pripstein, JCC President
Jeri Riffle, JCC VP
VIEW THE MAY/JUNE BULLETIN
with this link
BULLETIN
E-mail Editor: Rose Valentine rvalen
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The Place to Be icon shown above shows up or click on this link FACEBOOK
or cut and paste: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jewish-Community-Center-of-Long-Beach-Island/345647489300?ref=br_tf
NAME BADGES
If you did not order a name tag, we will be putting in another order. Here is the link for the form to order your name tag: BADGES
DOCUMENTS AND
LINKS
JUST CLICK AND YOU'RE THERE!!! MAY/JUNE BULLETIN: BULLETIN WEB SITE: JCC WEB SITE MEMBERSHIP FORMS MEMBERSHIP PAVERS: PAVERS TREE OF LIFE TREE SISTERHOOD GIFT SHOP CATALOG GIFT JEWISH JOURNAL: JOURNAL YAHRZEIT PLAQUE FORM: PLAQUE KOL HAKAVOD DONATION
FORM KOL HAKAVOD SISTERHOOD: SISTERHOOD
