December 2014 Bulletin
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IM Issue 86 – December 2014 With 1 More Page Than In The Bulletin
Jerusalem or Israel? Supreme Court Appears Split on Passport Case A splintered US Supreme Court grappled recently with the thorny question of whether Congress exceeded its authority when it passed a law permitting the passport of an American citizen born in Jerusalem to reflect that the child had been born in Israel. Long-standing US foreign policy has been to maintain strict neutrality over the disputed status of Jerusalem. Under this policy, the passport of a citizen born in the city shows the place of birth simply as “Jerusalem,” with no mention of Israel or Palestine.click Israel Matters! 86 to read the complete issue. Will open with the free Adobe Reader or equal.
December 2014:
Dear members:
As I write this article, I was looking over the calendar for the month of November and it struck me that all the days and nights show some sort of activity, from USY and Kadima, K’tanim, movie series, adult ed classes, men’s club, sisterhood meetings and programs, lunch and learn, L’chaim Havdeli, social action, Sunday morning Rabbi’s programs, a book discussion later in the month, board of ed, board of directors meetings, Hebrew school program, and yes, daily morning and evening Minyans and Friday night services and of course, Shabbat. (more…)
How to Pay a Proper Shiva Call
The opinions expressed on this webpage represent those of the individual authors and, unless clearly labeled as such, do not represent the opinions or policies of TBS How to Pay a Proper Shiva Call Proper etiquette and practical advice. by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven…a time to keep silent and a time to speak.”The wisdom in this song is not for the Byrds, it comes from the wisest of all men, King Solomon. While the picture of many shiva homes today filled with people, food, and conversation is anything but silent, the Midrash interprets “the time for silence” as proscribing our behavior when comforting the bereaved. When Job, the very symbol of human suffering, experienced devastating loss, three of his friends came to comfort and console him: “They sat with him on the ground for a period…
Nov 15 – Chayei Sarah: Rebecca meets Isaac
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Nov 8 – Vayeira: Hagar and Ishmael
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Nov 1 – Lech Lecha: Sarah’s Song
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Love Is Its Own Reward
Love Is Its Own Reward – October 3, 2014
I’m walking into Walmart, and I hear a man shout, “You’re welcome!” I don’t know what’s going on. Then I realize a man had held the door open for me, and I had not thanked him. A little embarrassed, blaming myself for having my head in the clouds as usual, I thanked him, and he said, triumphantly and smugly, “You’re welcome!”
Patience and Impatience
Patience and Impatience – October 3, 2014
He’s a Jewish kid who has grown up to be a world-famous singer and poet. For all of the countries he has played concerts in, somehow he has never been to Israel, the land of his ancestors. He‘s 37, and he’s here in Israel, and a reporter asks him if he is a practicing Jewish person. He says, “I’m always practicing. Sometimes, I feel the fear of G-d. I do feel that fear sometimes. I got to get myself together.” And now he’s on the stage at Binyanei Ha’Uma convention center in Jerusalem. And he sings a few songs, and the crowd loves him, adores him; showers him with wild applause. But for him, it’s just not happening. Maybe it’s the fear of G-d that he was talking about; maybe it’s about performing in Jerusalem. Or maybe it’s that he knows what his songs should sound like, and he is not doing anything justice, not the words or the music or himself or the people who have come to see him. So he says to the audience: “If it doesn’t get any better, we’ll just end the concert and I’ll refund your money. Some nights one is raised off the ground and some nights you just can’t get off the ground. There’s no point lying about it. And tonight we just haven’t been getting off the ground. It says in the Kabbalah that if you can’t get off the ground, you should stay on the ground. And this is a terrible thing to happen to Jerusalem. So listen, we’re going to leave the stage now, and try to profoundly meditate in the dressing room, to get ourselves back into shape. And if we can manage, we’ll be back.”
Smile At The Crocodile
Smile At The Crocodile – September 28, 2014
You remember Peter Pan. One of the most famous fairy tales of all time, the story written by J. M. Barrie, made popular in the last century by Walt Disney and Mary Martin, appeals to children in a poignant way. The ambivalence that children have about growing up (they want to grow up but they want to stay children) is a basic human conflict. The story occurs on the night before Wendy is going to have to leave the children’s bedroom, and so she goes to Never Neverland where people never have to grow up.
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