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Minyan Schedule
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Friday, January 29, 8:00 PM
Shabbat Services
Sunday, February 7, 9:30 AM
Board of Directors meeting
Friday, February 12, 8:00 PM
Shabbat Services with Rabbi Sokoll
Sunday, February 14, 9:00 AM
Breakfast - Guest Speaker
Rabbi Talya Weisbard Shalem
Sunday, February 28, 9:00 AM
Purim Breakfast - Read the Magillah with Julian Lander.
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Special Events
Friday February
12, 8 PM Shabbat Services with Rabbi Sokoll |
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Sunday February 14, 9 AM
Lox and Learn with
guest speaker Rabbi Talya Weisbard Shalem
Rabbi Talya will take up a theme of Purim
and hats:
Queen Esther, Mordechai, and Bella Abzug |
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Sunday, February 28, 9 AM Purim Breakfast
Read the Magillah with Julian |
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 Jewish
Ethical Wills with Rabbi Talya
At our Sunday, January 24, Lox and
Learning Breakfast,
Guest speaker, Rabbi Talya Weisbard Shalem taught us about Jewish ethical wills.
What many of us thought might be a dry subject turned out to be not only
interesting, but enlightening and even amusing.
Ethical wills are writings of one's
life wisdom and advice for one's children and others. There is a
proud Jewish tradition of ethical wills from the Torah to today.
In this program, we studied and discussed wills from the Bible, Talmud, medieval and
contemporary time periods, and began writing our own ethical wills
with a writing prompt or two.
This
was a special
opportunity to consider our own life values in relation to those of
Jews who have lived throughout history. |
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The Power of the Invisible Sun
October 27, 2009 - Temple member
and photographer Bobby Sager who has spent the last decade photographing
kids in some of the world's war-torn countries and Sting, who has used
his images on tour, talk to Ann Curry on the Today Show about the power of the pictures.
Check out Bobby's
website:
http://www.poweroftheinvisiblesun.com/ |
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"Thank You Brenda Berkeley"
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August 2009 - We just completed a terrific Hebrew
Class at the Temple taught by Brenda Berkeley. Several of us who
thought it was beyond our capabilities learned to read Hebrew thanks to
Brenda. - Reisa Bunick
Brenda Berkeley Teaching
Hebrew Class at TBI
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Back in May,
Temple B'nai Israel offered a free 5-week
beginner’s Hebrew Reading Crash Course sponsored by the *National Jewish
Outreach Program and taught by our own Temple member, Brenda Nyman
Berkeley. It was a tremendous success. 10 of our Temple members
successfully completed the Level 1 course which focused on the Hebrew
Aleph-Bet and Hebrew reading. These members now are fully equipped with
the skills needed to participate completely and joyfully in all of our
Temple services.
For those who wish to advance
their Hebrew reading and comprehension skills, the Level 2 program
begins with a Level 1 review on Monday, October 12 th, then
moves into the first class on Monday, October 19th. The classes will be
held in the vestry on Mondays from 1:00-2:00pm. Everyone is welcome to
join us, learn and have fun. For more information and to register,
please contact Brenda at 781-485-1374.
Thanks Brenda
A special thank you to Brenda from
her students: "Thank you Brenda Berkeley from all your students in the
Hebrew Reading Crash Course Brenda has been a wonderful and patient
teacher to all of us. We finished the course August 31 and celebrated
with a luncheon at The Wharf".
*These programs are being
sponsored by the National Jewish Outreach Program. They are the NJOP's
most popular programs, designed for Jews with little or no background in
Hebrew and have already taught thousands of North American Jews to read
and comprehend Hebrew. To learn more about the NJOP visit their website
at www.njop.org.
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An lively night of music and dance was
enjoyed by those attending our
Annual TBI Musical
Shabbat
This year's musical Shabbat on Friday
evening, May 22 was
sponsored by the Chebot family in memory of their father and
grandfather, Paul Chebot, who was the Cantor of
Temple B'Nai Israel for over forty years,
a cherished member
of our Temple community and a music lover. Joining
Rabbi Sokoll and Cantor Welber on the bima again this year were the
highly talented ensemble of Beth Bahia Cohen on fiddle,
Glenn Dickson on clarinet and
David Sparr on
keyboard.
From the opening with the heavenly sounds of L'Cha Dodi to their jazzed
up version of Yigdal, ending the service, with dancing around the
sanctuary in between led by Rabbi Sokoll the large congregation
attending, was energized and enlivened.
The evening
concluded with a delicious Oneg in the vestry. |
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After anti-Semitic graffiti, a
quiet lesson on love |
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(Re-Printed from the
Boston Globe)
By Anne Baker and Jeannie M. Nuss,
Globe Correspondents |
August 19, 2008
The congregation of Temple B'Nai Israel in Revere has
a hero, although no one knows his name.
On Sunday, members arrived at the temple for a
morning service and breakfast to discover two of the
building's walls covered in anti-Semitic graffiti.
"To me, this is not vandalism," said Rabbi Mark
Sokol. "When you take a can of spray paint and put a
swastika on a temple, that's a hate crime."
After police received a call at 5:45 a.m., they found
a vulgar, anti-Semitic expression written in red spray
paint at the front of the temple and a side area marked
with two swastikas, said Revere Police Lieutenant John
Goodwin.
"It's a very sensitive subject, so we will most
certainly take a look into it," Goodwin said.
Nearby on Wave Avenue, three cars were vandalized,
with windows broken and what appeared to be the same
paint, but there were no anti-Semitic slurs, Goodwin
said, adding that local youths were probably
responsible.
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2008 The New York Times Company |
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Marilyn Dorfman, a temple vice president and one of the first to see the
graffiti, said she was filled with "shock and horror and pain and
disgust."
Police had already arrived at the temple when Dorfman got there at 7.
"The police could not have been nicer," she said. "One of the cops
said he would paint it over at 4:30 when he got off work."
But there was no need.
While the congregation went inside to have the meeting, a man pulled
up to the building and began painting over the graffiti, Dorfman said.
Her husband, Ira, was outside the temple when the man started painting.
Dorfman said her husband asked the man's name, but he wouldn't give
it and would not let her husband photograph him.
"The guy said, 'I just live in the neighborhood,' " Dorfman said.
Sokoll said the group was studying texts on honesty when the stranger
painted over the graffiti. The man took some care with his paint job,
Sokoll said. "The guy tried very hard to mix paint and match it to the
color of the temple," Sokoll said. "To me, that feels like a very loving
act." 
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Temple Sanctuary
Rededicated
Chanukat Beit
Haknesset
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Our sanctuary at Temple
B'Nai Israel was rededicated on June 6, 2008.
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A storm on February 14,
2007 caused extensive water damage to the Temple and a complete
restoration project began soon after. A talented crew of
contractors and artisans led by our President, Jane Wiseman and
Treasurer, Harvey Maibor and many other temple members created an outstanding
result.
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The Ceremony |
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The
rededication ceremony began in our downstairs vestry with Margie
Apfelbaum in a rousing shofar blowing initiating the candle lighting
ceremony and processional to replace our Torahs to the newly restored
Oren Kodesh.
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Julian Lander, Dorothy
Aronson, Margie Apfelbaum, Rabbi Mark Sokoll, Cantor Lois Welber,
President Jane Wiseman |
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Processional at
the Oren Kodesh
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The children
present dressed the Torahs with their silver ornaments before being
returned to the Ark.
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Lights Out
The Eternal Lamp was then re-lit
and new lighting turned on to dramatically display the newly discovered
vaulted ceiling above the ark now restored as originally designed.
See photo at the top. |
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Oneg Shabbat |
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