This Week: Rabbi Gail Diamond & an awesome Tu Bishvat Seder!

Upcoming This Week@ CNS! Se'udah Shlishit with Rabbi Gail Diamond & The CNS Tu Bishvat Seder! (and don't miss Anat Hoffman & Ari Dubnov next week!) CNS Tu B'Shevat Seder Tuesday night February 7th at 6:30pm!  $20/person   $90 for a group of five  RSVP Deadline: Friday February 3rd  education@netivotshalom.org    Celebrate Tu B'Shevat, the New Year of the Trees, with a Seder featuring  a fully catered meal by Janice McMillan & highlighting the seven species of the Land of Israel (Main Course: Talapia Fish or Tofu), Fine Wines and Fresh Fruits! Seder led by Rabbi Shalom Bochner, CNS Director of Life Long Learning!  Feb 12, 10:30am - "The Life & Music of Arik Einstein" with Professor Arie Dubnov!   Prof. Arie Dubnov combines serious socio-historical analysis with fun in his lecture on the work and career of Israeli composer and singer, Arik Einstein. Prof Dubnov will show how Einstiein's music reflects a periodof restless nostalgia among Israeli youth of the '70's, the generation, known as "dor habanim," the "generation of the sons." This generation came of age after the establishment of the state of Israel and struggled with identity issues in the wake of their parents' achievements and how Israeli society came to define itself -- and them. Join us for Professor Dubnov's FREE lecture, Arik Einstein's music, and of course, discussion. Lecture and discussion preceded by the Sunday Morning Minyan @ 9:30am and breakfast. Join us for both!!     Program brought to you by CNS's  V'Zot Yisrael Committee. For more information, email vezotyisrael@netivotshalom.org or visit www.netivotshalom.org/vezot_yisrael Shabbat, Feb 4th: A Special CNS Shabbat with Scholar in Residence Rabbi Gail Diamond!   In addition to delivering the Drasha and teaching the After-Kiddush program this Shabbat @CNS, Rabbi Gail Diamond  will share a teaching entitled "Women's Voices - From Torah to Contemporary Israel" during a special Se'udah Shlishit at 5pm (mincha 4:45, se'udah shlishit 5pm, followed my ma'ariv and havdalah). Rabbi Gail Diamond teaches Psalms at the Conservative Yeshiva and serves as the Yeshiva's Associate Director. This program is free and open to the public.  Sponsored by: CNS's Adult Education Committee & the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Feb 11, 7:30pm - "Women of the Wall, Social Justice and Human Rights in Israel" with Anat Hoffman, Chair of Women of the Wall!   Anat Hoffman is a pioneer of civil rights in Israel. She has promoted Jewish Pluralism, tolerance, and equality in Israeli society and is a leader in the struggle for the right of women to wear a pray shawl and read from the Torah scroll at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Anat Hoffman is a dynamic and passionate speaker. Please join us for this unique opportunity to hear this trail blazing advocate and to honor her work. This event is free and open to the public.    Sponsored by: Congregation Netivot Shalom of Berkeley, Temple Sinai of Oakland, Women of Temple Sinai, The Israel Center of the Jewish Federation of the East Bay, Congregation Beth El of Berkeley, Oakland Ruach Hadassah, Congregation Ner Tamid of San Francisco, Congregation Beth Israel Judea of San Francisco, JCC of San Francisco, The New Israel Fund, Rabbis for Women of the Wall

Menschen: World Wide Wrap Febraury 5th @ 9:30AM

Start Superbowl Sunday off wright by wreally wrevving up

with our menschen brothers around the globe at

 

WORLD WIDE WRAP!

 

A chance to lay tefillin and say Shacharit with menschen near and far.

 

Sunday February 5^th @ 9:30 am in Netivot Shalom's library

 

If you have or can borrow tefillin, please bring a pair

 

If you don't have tefillin, there will be extra pairs that you can use.

 

as well as…

 

Excellent instruction by Art Braufman on how to lay tefillin

So even if you've never done so or your bar mitzvah was a century ago, no matter!

 

 

 

 

Please RSVP to Michael Meltzer at (510) 339-6492 or

mpmeltzer@comcast.net

 

Upcoming Speakers @CNS! Rabbi Gail Diamond, Anat Hoffman, and Professor Arie Dubnov!

CNS Tu B'Shevat Seder - Tuesday night February 7th at 6:30pm!  Celebrate Tu B'Shevat, the New Year of the Trees, with a Tu B'Shevat Seder featuring a catered dinner highlighting the seven species of the Land of Israel. Our ritual seder will be led by Rabbi Shalom Bochner, Director of LifeLong Learning. Join us for a meaningful evening of spiritual celebration, intellectual exploration, a delicious feast, and enjoying this mystical holiday with your Netivot Shalom community!   Netivot Shalom Links... CNS Website CNS Blog CNS Calendar CNS Preschool Shorashim Hebrew School Amitim Midrasha CNS Adult Education Make a donation to Netivot Shalom!   Upcoming Speakers @ CNS! Rabbi Gail Diamond, Anat Hoffman, and Professor Arie Dubnov! Shabbat, Feb 4th: A Special CNS Shabbat with Scholar in Residence Rabbi Gail Diamond!   Rabbi Diamond will give the Shabbat Drasha "Prayer and Dissonance - Can I pray what I don't believe?", an the after Kiddush learning "By the Merit of Righteous Women We Were Redeemed from Egypt", and a teaching entitled "Women's Voices - From Torah to Contemporary Israel" during a Se'udah Shlishit at 5pm (mincha 4:45, se'udah shlishit 5pm, followed my ma'ariv and havdalah).   Rabbi Gail Diamond teaches Psalms at the Conservative Yeshiva and serves as the Yeshiva's Associate Director.  Rabbi Diamond served as spiritual leader of Congregation Agudas Achim in Attleboro, Massachusetts, before making aliyah in 2001.  She lives with her family in Tzur Hadassah, Israel. These programs are free and open to the public.  Sponsored by: CNS's Adult Education Committee Feb 11, 7:30pm - "Women of the Wall, Social Justice and Human Rights in Israel" with Anat Hoffman, Chair of Women of the Wall!   Anat Hoffman is a pioneer of civil rights in Israel. She has promoted Jewish Pluralism, tolerance, and equality in Israeli society and is a leader in the struggle for the right of women to wear a pray shawl and read from the Torah scroll at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Anat Hoffman is a dynamic and passionate speaker. Please join us for this unique opportunity to hear this trail blazing advocate and to honor her work. This event is free and open to the public.    Sponsored by: Congregation Netivot Shalom of Berkeley, Temple Sinai of Oakland, Women of Temple Sinai, The Israel Center of the Jewish Federation of the East Bay, Congregation Beth El of Berkeley, Oakland Ruach Hadassah, Congregation Ner Tamid of San Francisco, Congregation Beth Israel Judea of San Francisco, JCC of San Francisco, The New Israel Fund, Rabbis for Women of the Wall Feb 12, 10:30pm - "The Life & Music of Arik Einstein" with Professor Arie Dubnov!   Prof. Arie Dubnov combines serious socio-historical analysis with fun in his lecture on the work and career of Israeli composer and singer, Arik Einstein. Prof Dubnov will show how Einstiein's music reflects a periodof restless nostalgia among Israeli youth of the '70's, the generation, known as "dor habanim," the "generation of the sons." This generation came of age after the establishment of the state of Israel and struggled with identity issues in the wake of their parents' achievements and how Israeli society came to define itself -- and them. Join us for Professor Dubnov's FREE lecture, Arik Einstein's music, and of course, discussion. Lecture and discussion preceded by the Sunday Morning Minyan @ 9:30am and breakfast. Join us for both!!     Program brought to you by CNS's  V'Zot Yisrael Committee. For more information, email vezotyisrael@netivotshalom.org or visit www.netivotshalom.org/vezot_yisrael

News from Congregation Netivot Shalom

LISA January 21, 2012  Congregation Netivot Shalom Shabbat E-News This week's Parashat is Va'era Candlelighting: 5:01pm  -  Havdalah after: 6:02pm Click Here for the Shabbat Sheet!  Psukei D'Zimra                       Rabbi Menachem Creditor Shacharit                                 Rabbi Stuart Kelman Torah Service                          Judy Breakstone Calling Gabbai                                      Claire Sherman Pointing Gabbai                                    TBD Parashat Vaera, Exodus 7:8-8:15 (pg.357) Rishon 7:8-13 Barbara Wezelman Sheini 7:14-18 Barbara Wezelman Shlishi 7:19-25 Barbara Wezelman Revi'i 7:26-29 Barbara Wezelman Chamishi 8:1-6 Glenn Massarano Shishi 8:7-11 Glenn Massarano Shvi'i 8:12-15 Glenn Massarano Maftir  8:12-15 Glenn Massarano Haftarah  Ezekiel 28:25-29:21 (p.370) Judy Massarano Drasha Rabbi Menachem Creditor Musaf    Rabbi Pam Frydman Board Rep  Mel Sibony   Refuah Shleima and Yahrzeit       Refuah Shleima: A complete healing to Joe Becker, Ron Brown, Samuel Gold, Cristofer Lix, Herbert Maccoby, Pauline Quittel, Avi Rosenblum, Helene Rosov, Matt Ruppel, William Steinbaugh, Bernarda Strauss, Yehudah ben Rachel, Daniel ben Shoshanna, Yehudah Tsvi ben Tsipora, Yosef ben Mordechai v'Sossi, Miriam Simcha bat Chaya, Yehoshua ben Hadassah, Yehudit bat Chava Basha and Laybel Velvel ben Mireleh v'Reuven .   Yahrzeits include:  Harry Alter, Gertrude Aronstein, Yoseph Bruchiel, Lorelei Freda Cohen, May Darrow, Sarah Feinstein, Israel Dov Gerstel, Mary Jo Juster, Nancy Kennedy, Esther Landau, Celia Levin, Stevens Manning, Jr., Florence Marson, Edwin Posner, Molly Rock, Mary Rosenblatt, William Samelson, Gail Schwartz, and Judy Tobias Davis Netivot Shalom Calendar  |  Rabbi Creditor's Blog  |  Preschool Blog Shorashim Hebrew School  |  Adult Ed Blog  |  Rabbi Bochner's Torah Commentary Facebook  |  CNS Blog  |  Netivot Community Classifieds

From Rabbi Creditor: "Paths of Torah" has arrived!

Save the Date!  Feb 11th, 7:30pm, an Evening with Anat Hoffman, Chair of Women of the Wall @ Netivot Shalom! This event is free and open to the public. RSVP requested but not required to Valerie Sopher (510) 232-6244 or vsopher@sbcglobal.net.  A Note from Rabbi Creditor "Paths of Torah"   Dear Chevreh,   Thanks to incredible work for the past 3 years by over 60 members of the shul, Netivot Shalom's book "Paths of Torah" has arrived! Copies will available for purchase at Afikomen starting this Sunday, and in the shul office later this week! Tremendous gratitude for this amazing collection of over 20 years of Drashot at our shul is due Claudia Valas (project manager), Peter Strauss (editor), Judith McCullough (associate editor), Lee Bearson (book designer), and Ellen Gobler (layout editor). Paths of Torah reflects the diversity of our precious community's ongoing relationship with Torah over twenty years. It is an unfinished record of an ongoing, cross-generational dream. In the pages of our new treasure, you will find heirlooms, stories, struggles and dreams, and most important, an invitation to continue the dialogue with Torah.     May we be blessed to be part of this passionate dialogue with Torah for many, many years to come! Shavuah Tov,  Rabbi Creditor     Congregation Netivot Shalom Berkeley, CA netivotshalom.org

From Rabbi Creditor: Rebeginning Our Story

Join the Young Adults Chevreh at Netivot Shalom for Kabbalat Services and a delicious dinner - sponsored by the Netivot Shalom Young Adults - on the 2nd Friday of every month!  For more information, click here! Book group starting!  Tuesday, January   10 at 7:30, with  Nobel prize-winning author S.Y. Agnon's,  Two Tales as our first book.   Come join us for our first book discussion, and suggest titles for future meetings.  RSVP to vezotyisrael@netivotshalom.org! Netivot Shalom @ the Berkeley Men's Shelter!  We're cooking and serving, again, on Sunday,  February 5.  We could use some help from 6:30 - 8:00 PM.  We'd love to have you join us!  Go to tinyurl.com/CNSshelterdinnersignup  or e-mail Ednah Friedman at edmal@aol.com.  Save the Date!  Feb 11th, 7:30pm, an Evening with Anat Hoffman, Chair of Women of the Wall @ Netivot Shalom! This event is free and open to the public. RSVP requested but not required to Valerie Sopher (510) 232-6244 or vsopher@sbcglobal.net.  A Note from Rabbi Creditor Rebeginning Our Story   On the way into the Preschool's Pretend Shabbat this past Friday I stood for a moment in the lobby of our shul.  I listened to the children and parents sharing sweet moments before we began singing brachot and jumping around in our sanctuary, thanking our teachers for the Torah they shared during the past week. These spontaneous moments before the planned ones are just so delicious.   They stay with me as I engage in many other aspects of our communal life: the births, the deaths, the celebrations and sadnesses. We are blessed, in the deepest of ways, to not wait for these climactic moments to see each other. It is also the conversation in the shul parking lot or the comments on the shul's Facebook group, the pinochle game and the kitchen gatherings that give our sacred community its colorful texture.   I'm currently in Baltimore, participating my yearly professional retreat through the continuing rabbinic education program of the Jewish Theological Seminary. It is one of those combinations of spontaneity and prepared encounters that refreshes the soul, reminding me that, for all the  structured (ritual) moments I celebrate, it is also the informal friendships that inspire and fill life.    We are a special community, Chevreh, one that skillfully mixes the sacred ingredients of Keva (structure) and Kavannah (spontaneity) and passionately yearns for more of each.  Please think about stepping into a Keva or Kavannah moment at shul sometime soon!    For Keva, see some of the programs on the left or on our online calendar (netivotshalom.org). For Kavannah, just show up and schmooze whenever you find a moment!    We've already received a strong response to the Community Building Committee's Chavurot survey - if you haven't filled one out yet, hard copies are available in the shul office. These new groups will be yet another wonderful way to replenish, reconnect, and share our stories!   May our year find us closer together, experiencing all the vibrancy of the dynamic, thriving community we create every day at Netivot Shalom!   Kol Tuv, Rabbi Creditor     Congregation Netivot Shalom Berkeley, CA netivotshalom.org

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