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Daily Minyan
& Events Schedule
Friday,
October 31
7:00 AM
Services
5:35 PM Candlelighting
7:00 PM Kabbalat Shabbat
Services
Saturday, November
1
Parsha Noach
9:30 AM
Services
11:00 AM Junior Congregation
11:00 AM Torah
Kids
5:30 PM Mincha followed by Maariv, Seudah Shlesheit &
Havdalah
Sunday,
November 2
9
AM - 12:30 PM Sisterhood Warm Clothing
Drive
9:00 AM
Services & Breakfast
10:20 AM
Learner's Minyan
8:00 PM Services
Monday, November
3
Please
note: No Genesis Class today
3:30 - 6:00 PM Sisterhood Warm
Clothing Drive
8:15 PM
Executive Committee Meeting
Tuesday, November
4
ELECTION DAY - PLEASE
VOTE!
7:00 AM
Services
No Nursery
School, Religious School or Youth Group
programs
8:00 PM
Services
8:15 PM Read Hebrew America
Wednesday, November 5
7:00
AM Services
6:00 PM Kadima
7:00 PM House Committee
Mtg.
8:00 PM
Services
8:15
PM Adult Education Program
8:15 PM
Board of Ed Meeting
Thursday, November
6
6:50 AM
Services
8:00 PM Services
8:15 PM Strategic Alliance
Meeting
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Love Your
Neighbor as Yourself.
Fulfilling
our obligations to the larger
community
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our new and improved website:
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enough for anyone to
navigate!
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The latest information on all HERJC activities
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Service and Holiday
Information
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Virtual Flyer Rack where you can view Hakol and
download forms
and you
will be connected to our updated donation page on our website - It's
a mitzvah!
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Please check back often as we continue to make improvements to
better communicate with our members
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Please
join us for our Family Service on Shabbat morning, November 15th at
9:30 am
Join us
as we create a meaningful Shabbat together! Services are in
the Youth Lounge followed by a Kiddush
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HERJC
proudly announces that we are the local center for the National
Jewish Outreach Program:
November 4,
11, 18 & 25 at 8:15 PM
Yes,
you can learn to read Hebrew!
Call
Nachum Plotkin to register at
599-8217
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Torah
Kids
is a
special program for children between the ages of 3 and 7. This fun,
age-appropriate Shabbat Service is led by Morah Rebecca Osder in the
upstairs Boardroom from 11 AM to 12 Noon every Saturday (when
there's Religious School the next
day).
For our
children ages 8 and up, Junior Congregation is held in the Small
Chapel from 11 AM to 12 Noon every Saturday (when there's Religious
School the next
day).
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Looking
for a Meaningful Way to Acknowledge Life Cycle
Events?
Commemorate
your happy events by purchasing a leaf, boulder or apple on our
Tree of Life.
It is
a meaningful and permanent dedication to the happy events that
touch our lives. Forms are available in our office or on our
website:
www.herjc.org
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Are you
a Torah Reader? Would you like to learn how to layn (chant
Torah)?
Every
first Shabbat of the month we are inviting congregants to have the
honor of reading from the Torah.
Please
contact Cantor Stacy Sokol 599-7432, and let her know you are
interested in reading or learning
how.
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A Request from
Rabbi Warmflash
Please
keep me informed of significant events in your family. It is
my desire to be of help and service to you in times of special
need.
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Do
you Amazon?
Donate to HERJC while you
shop!
Shop from
the comfort of your
own home and help your synagogue at the same time. Go to
the www.herjc.org
and
click on the Amazon link. Every purchase made from our website
brings a donation to HERJC!
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Give my
Regards to Broadway...
Stop by the office for two-fers for the
latest Broadway and Off-Broadway offerings! Check here often -
new supplies arrive weekly.
Young
Frankenstein ,Grease,
Avenue Q, The Lion
King, Legally Blonde, Phantom of the Opera, Chicago,
Hairspray, Mary Poppins, Stomp, New York Philharmonic, The 39 Steps,
Sports Museum of America, Pal
Joey
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Affiliated
with
United
Synagogue of Conservative
Judaism
http://www.uscj.org
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Thank
You
To
the HERJC Sisterhood
for sponsoring the Shabbat
Kiddush
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If
you have a special occasion coming up, why not sponsor the
Shabbat Kiddush? What a lovely way to share your
"nachas" with your friends, family and fellow congregants.
For
information, call Betsy at 599-2634 ext
210.
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Something
New..
Family
Friday Nights
Friday
Evening Services and a Light Dinner at
HERJC
Special
Family Kabbalat Shabbat Service at 6:30 PM
November
14, 2008
(Sponsored
by a generous anonymous
donor)
December
12, 2008
(Sponsored
by Shari & Brian
Silver)
These
family oriented services will feature story telling by Rabbi
Warmflash and special songs by Cantor Sokol.
Plan
on joining us!
Please
call 599-2634 to let us know you're coming so we can have enough food.
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It's
a Mitzvah. . .
Warm
Clothing
Drive
This
Sunday, November 2, 9 AM - 12:30 PM
and Monday, November 3,
3:30 - 6 PM
We
are collecting warm outer clothing, gloves, hats, scarfs,
mufflers, sweaters, etc. which we donate to help keep needy
people warm this winter. Please search your closets and
drop off at HERJC on those
dates.
Our
Synagogue takes pride in our involvement in social welfare,
educational, and environmental organizations in our community.
Below are some of the "Mitzvah Projects" we ask you to help us
support:
Please
bring us any toiletries you might have at home that were saved
from from a recent hotel visit. We will be donating them to a
homeless shelter later in the year.
Used
batteries are poisoning our landfills! Help save
the earth by dropping off your used batteries in the synagogue
office for proper
recycling.
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JEWS
ARE HUNGRY HERE, TOO!
Please take one moment to think about those
people right in our own area who have empty pantries and empty
stomachs!
We are
ALWAYS collecting kosher, non-perishable food items for
the local Kosher food pantry. Please leave your donations in the Lucite box in
the front lobby.
A
sincere THANK YOU for your
continuing support
Phyllis
Gilbert Nadler
Chairperson,
Community Service
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Genesis
Taught by Rabbi
Warmflash
Mondays,
11 AM -12 Noon
Come at
10:30 for bagels
November 10, 17, 24, December
1, 8, 15 & 22
This year we will focus on the
second half of the book of Genesis. Come and learn what the
trials and tribulations of Jacob, Rachel and Leah and Joseph
and his brothers have to teach us about our own lives and
families.
The Wisdom of
the Talmud
Taught by Rabbi
Warmflash
Sundays,
10 AM.
Come at 9 AM for
Minyan & breakfast
November 9, 16, 23,
December 7, 14 & 21
Join us as we consider selections
from
the Talmud which will help us be
better
people and better Jews
Sex, Lies and
Torah Ethics
Taught by Rabbi
Warmflash
8:15
PM, November 18, 25, December 4, 11 and 18
A five session
mini-course on aspects of
Jewish
ethics relevant to our family and business
lives.
Adult Education
at HERJC
Chaired by Marty
Abrams
Wednesday,
November 5 - 8:15 PM
The
Vatican and The
Holocaust
Monday, November 10 -
8:15 PM
2000 Years of
Italian Jewish History
Two fascinating
lectures given by
Hofstra
University
Professor Stanislao G.
Pugliese
Learner's
Minyan
Taught
by Cantor Stacy Sokol
One
Sunday a Month - 10:20 - 11 AM
November 2, December 14,
January 11, February 1, March 1
Did you ever want to
interrupt the service and ask the Cantor what she was singing,
what page we were on, or why certain prayers were recited?
Here's your opportunity to learn the 5 W's of the Shacharit
service. We will learn how to put on a tallit and tefillin,
how to recite the shema and all the fundamentals involved in a
morning service.
Fiddler
On the Roof
Coordinated
by Cantor Stacy Sokol & Nursery Director Cheryl
Karp
This
will be a wonderful production for our community.If you are
interested in participating, contact Cheryl at 599-1169 or
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Sisterhood
Torah Fund Dinner
Wednesday, November
12 - 7:00 PM
Honoring
Kathy
Feffer, Robin Mintz, Sharon
Nash
Invitations
are in the mail! Please RSVP promptly
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Nursery
School News
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Don't
forget to order your delicious Challah from Steinberg's for
Shabbat-
Place your order in the Nursery
Office each Wednesday and pickup Friday morning at
school.
The Nursery Book
Fair will be here on November 18 - 21. Come and buy children's
books, Judaica, posters and other educational items and all
your Hanukkah
presents!
Teddy's Night Out
is Tuesday, Nov 18. Come in your pajamas, bring your stuffed
animal and enjoy an evening of relaxing reading and fun!
Save your clean
coffee cans and empty baskets for the Nursery School.
GIVE THE GIFT OF
SIGHT!
Donate your old
eyeglasses. The collection box is outside the Nursery School
office.
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Youth
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Climb up the charts with HERJC Youth Group. Join our award
winning programs. Check out our display of "Jews That
Rock."
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HERJC is hosting the divisional Chazak Kinnus the weekend
of November 7 - 9. We are hosting more than 100
USY'ers plus staff and need housing for our
guests.
Please
call Todd at 599-1148 for
details.
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National
Council of Jewish Women
HOLIDAY
BOUTIQUE at HERJC
Save
the date and save $$$ on your holiday
shopping!
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
10 am - 1
pm; 2 - 3 pm and 7 - 9 pm
Some of the items
available will be
fine jewelry, handbags, Judaica, toys.
books, children's clothing, gifts for the home, housewares,
floral designs . . . and much more!
All proceeds
go to community services here and in Israel
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HERJC
Mission
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Hewlett-East
Rockaway Jewish Centre/Congregation Etz Chaim (HERJC) is a
warm, vibrant, traditional-egalitarian Conservative
congregation. Our diverse, forward-thinking community is
one in which learning, prayer and social action
flourish.
Since
its founding in 1949, HERJC has been recognized for creating a
welcoming environment in which each member-regardless of age,
stage of life or background-feels a connection to one another,
to the Jewish people, to the United States, to the land and
state of Israel, to Judaism
and to God.
We
are committed to continuing to provide innovative,
interesting, and thought-provoking programs
that:
- Foster
lifelong learning from pre-school through
adulthood
- Celebrate
our Jewish
heritage
- Deepen
the sense of community among our Congregational
family
- Promote
religious involvement of all members, and enhance their
spiritual
experience
- Encourage
intergenerational
cooperation
- Nurture
the state of Israel and our
relationship with
it
- Serve
the needs of our members, the local community, the
United
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