B'NAI JACOB SYNAGOGUE ON VIRGINIA ST AT ELIZABETH ST IN CHARLESTON WV.
"A Traditional Synagogue"
L'DOR VA DOR......FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION

Congregation B'nai Jacob
1599 Virginia Street East
Charleston, WV. 25311


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January 25th - February 1st , 2010

THIS WEEK @ A GLANCE

Minyanim


Monday-Thursday- 7:30 AM- 5:45 PM
Friday – 7:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Late Friday Night Services- 6:00 PM
Saturday - 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

Torah Portion: Beshalach (Exodus 13:17-17:16)
Candlelighting Friday: 5:27 PM
Havdalah Saturday: 6:29 PM


Schedule of Classes

Hebrew school - Regular sessions
Hebrew Private Lessons - Regular schedule

Tuesday, January 26th
Torah Class -8 AM in the library

Thursday, January 28th
Talmud at Ten – 10 AM in our social hall

Sunday, January 31st
Sunday school -10 AM (Tu B’Shvat Seder)
Robin’s Hebrew Class -11 AM in the library

SPECIAL PROGRAMMING AND EVENTS

Friday, January 29th
Late Friday Night Services-6:00 PM

Saturday, January 30th
Men’s Club Annual Chili Cookoff -6:00 PM

Here is our detailed schedule for this coming week:

Tuesday, January 26th ( 8 AM in the library)-
Torah Class Topic: “How I ‘GET’ Your Mother”

The laws of divorce are not prescribed in the Torah and were undoubtedly the subject of customary law.
What little is known about them comes from indirect references in narratives like the one we are up to in our
Torah class(Deuteronomy Chapter 24). This week, we will see when divorce was permitted, the origins of the “GET”
(the Jewish divorce document), and how the “GET” is written and presented.
Hope you can join us this Tuesday at 8 AM for our Torah class!

Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Talmud at Ten... Topic: "Seer Suckers"


It’s Talmud at Ten and it is at the synagogue this week in our social hall!
We are still discussing dreams (it is amazing how popular certain topics are!) Join us this Thursday as we meet the Talmudic “interpreters” of dreams. Who were these “psychics” and what did the rabbis of the think of these “supernatural seers”?
Oracles or charlatans?
Find out this week at Talmud at Ten!


Friday, January 29th , 2009
Late Friday Night Services 6 PM
Sermon: “In the Service of G-d”


Last week, I was part of a great program on “being, believing, and belonging” with the students at Charleston Catholic. The idea of a rabbi helping Christian students better understand their faith is not as remarkable as what one of them taught me about how to understand a critical sentence in this week’s Torah portion. Join me Friday as we look at this week’s “Song of Miriam at the Red Sea" in a very unique way!


“You Compete Me”
Saturday Evening, January 30th, 2010
Men’s Club Annual Chili Cookoff 6:00 PM


Dr. Stewart Bloom! Nancy Morton! Terry Cooper! Rabbi Urecki and Marilyn Urecki!
Steve Max! Cary and Samuel Levenson! Dr. Art Rubin!

WHO will be our 2010 Chili Champion?
Join us for an evening of chili, music and fun! The cost is only $8.00 for adults ($4.00 for kids).
We will be serving hotdogs, beer, soda and snacks, along with great music to go along with some fabulous chili!
Please call the synagogue by Wednesday evening to make a reservation.


Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Sunday school celebrates Tu B’Shvat (the “Jewish New Year for the Trees”)!
The fun begins at 10 AM!

Robin’s Hebrew class at 11 AM in the library


Heaven Can Weightlift!
The Dr. Willard Pushkin Fitness Center (located downstairs at B’nai Jacob) will be adding a new "Elliptical Trainer" soon.
This will be a much needed addition to our wonderful facility. We have raised almost all the necessary funds to buy this expensive piece of equipment but still need a few more dollars. If you would like to contribute, please contact me at charlestonrabbi@yahoo.com .


IN OUR CORNER




Happy Birthday to Dr. Cyndi Persily who celebrated her birthday last week
and to Rita Nearman and Hannah Cohen who are celebrating their birthdays this week!

Haitian Relief Donations

The organized Jewish world is lining up support for the rescue and relief effort in Haiti.
Money can be donated to that effort through www.jdc.org
The Jewish Federations of North America is coordinating with the Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief
to assist victims of natural or man-made disasters on a nonsectarian basis.

The coalition is managed by the JDC, which is the Jewish Federations’ foreign aid agency and consists of organizations including the Union of Reform Judaism, United Synagogues of Conservative Judaism, World ORT, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, and American Jewish committee, among others. In the wake of the Southeast Asia tsunami, the federation raised more than 10 million dollars and nearly 30 million dollars for victims of Katrina.


"Keep out of Preach of Congregants"

My sermon entitled "No Good Deed Goes…." that was never delivered due to snow and illness (hmm, maybe that was a sign!)
will be coming your way this Wednesday in “Shabbat Shalom from B’nai Jacob.”


Yahrzeits for the Week of January 25th – February 1st ,2010

The following people will be remembered this week at minyan.
May their souls be bound up with the souls of all who are in Heaven.
(Note: Yartzheit lights are lit and Kaddish is recited on the preceding evening)

Tuesday, 1/26/10
Eva Bycel
Louis Goodman
Jacob Polen
Maurice Rubinstein
Benjamin Schwartz

Wednesday, 1/27/10
Ann Goldstein
Abe Gordon
Elizabeth Kornstein

Thursday, 1/28/10
Markiel Babayev
Judah Baron
Frances Halperin
Dr. David Silverman
Harry Simkin


Friday, 1/29/10
Elizabeth Kleeman Blade
Saul Cohen
Minnie Ellis
Carolyn Johnson
Rose Kaufman
Joseph Levine
Ceclia Riter

Saturday, 1/30/10
Frances Adams
Lena Baron
Louis Fellander
Abraham B. Frank


Sunday, 1/31/10
Alta Miriam Cooper
Lt. Sam Kanner


Monday, 2/1/10
Samuel Goldberg
Sylvia Goldman
Judah Benjamin Pushkin
Sarah Lee Roth





Have a peaceful week and a Joyous Tu B'Shevat!

 

                                       ShalomTropical Island

 

                                    Rabbi Victor Urecki



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