YOUNG ISRAEL OF MERRICK

NEWSLETTER

September 14, 2000

ROSH HASHANA GREETINGS:
When Rosh Hashana begins this year on Friday evening, September 29, you again will be able to bring holiday greetings to your friends, and support the Young Israel of Merrick, while saving yourself time, effort, and money.
You can have your family name printed on a New Year's greeting card that will be sent to every Young Israel of Merrick family -- members and associate members. Your parents, other relatives, or friends may also wish to send greetings to Y.I. friends this easy way.
The cost is $36 for each family unit listing. A family unit includes you and all unmarried
members of your household.
You can e-mail your listing to Janet Bienenfeld at bienenfeldj@ujafedny.org, or print out the form below, and mail it with the check. Mail checks and forms to to Janet at 1954 Kirkwood Ave. Merrick, NY 11566
Please list our family as follows for the 5761 new Year's Greetings:
(Please list in the following form: The Lieberman Family: Joe, Hadassah & Hani)
The deadline is Friday, September 22.
Please make checks payable to The Young Israel of Merrick

SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM: October 6 – 7: Shabbat Shuva

The Theme of the Shabbat program is: "As We Soar Higher: The Jew in Continuous Motion".

Rabbi Lowenbraun will speak on the following topics at these times:

Friday, October 6: "Passing the Torch to the New Generation" Time: 8:45 p.m. Oneg Shabbat to follow.

Shabbat, October 7: Sermon: "Listen to the Child Within Me". Time: 10:45 a.m. Kiddush to follow services.

Shabbat Shuva Drasha: "The Quest for Excellence and Personal Growth" .Time 5:20 p.m.

1) A Book Review on "The Red Tent" written by Anita Diamant will be given by Rebbitzen Jeryl Volk on Monday, Sept. 25, at 8:30 p.m. at the Young Israel of Merrick. All are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served. For further information please contact Liza Rosenthal at 623-6242.

2) The YIM Sisterhood will be holding it’s First Annual Food Drive. All food is to be brought the home of Debby and Steven Gage and duly placed in their garage at 97 Byron Road, during the week of October 23, 2000. On October 29^th, volunteers will be needed to bring the food over to Cong. Beth-El in Massapequa at 10:00 a.m. for further information please contact: Risa Zimilover at 868-7399.

3) A great big Yasher Koach is due to Sherri Bell and Liza Rosenthal for running the Hat Show and Boutique. Needless to say, some of us spent way too much money, but it was all for a good cause – or at least that is what we all told our respective spouses. Thanks to Marilyn Grossman for once again opening her home to another YIM function.

The Young Israel Garage Sale will take place on Sunday, October 29,( that’s right, you get to do a double mitzvah) at the Stamler Home. The sale will be held from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.. Volunteers are needed for all shifts. We need people for set-up on Motzei Shabbat, on Sunday from 7:00 a.m. on, and for clean-up and consolidation from 2:00 p.m. on. I’m told that you get a bigger s’char for earlier and later shifts. Everything is needed for sale. We’ll take anything and everything in excellent condition. Please call Gail , 623-3930 for more information and please call before you drop anything off at the Stamler home.

This Shabbat, September 16, Kiddush will be sponsored by Hedy and Steve Katz in memory of Hedy’s father Joseph Hoffman Z"L yarzeit.
Hedy and Steve Katz and family will also have the pleasure of hosting an Afternoon Tea at their home, 2250 Arthur Street, on the same day in honor of Nikki's Bat Mitzvah celebration that they are celebrating one year late due to the passing of Hedy’s father last year. The tea will be held at 4:00 p.m.

BIKUR CHOLIM
GOLDEN QUOTE: "Only that day dawns to which we are awake" - .Henry Thoreau

Pick a Mitzvah project - the Merrick Bellmore Bikur Cholim has plenty to select from:
* Hospital visits to Jewish patients at Mercy Hospital prior to the high holidays. Call Belle Hecht (868-8659) to participate.
* Entertainment program for residents of the Meadowbrook Care Center in Freeport on Sunday, September 24. If you can play a musical instrument, sing, dance, or simply bring cheer and good will, call Jack Bouganem (868-5888) to join in the program. Children are welcome!
* Visit a woman recuperating from a serious injury at a nearby rehabilitaion center - Call Bea Hoffman (868-8256) for more information.
* Sew cloth "surgi-dolls" for hospitalized children. We have the fabric and patterns and they're easy to sew. Doctors use the soft dolls as models for explaining surgical procedures to children awaiting surgery and the children keep the dolls for comfort. Ideal project for youngsters and
adults. Call Marlene Solomon for instructions and material (623-1180).

Plan to participate in a community-wide blood drive on Sunday December 17 - - give the most meaningful gift for the Chanukah season.
Bikur Cholim needs volunteers both as donors and also for coordinating the
planning of this important mitzvah project. Call Marilyn Grossman
(223-2949).
The group meets the first Wednesday evening of each month. The next meeting is Wednesday, October 4, at 8 p.m. at Ohav Sholom. E-mail bikurcholim@ohav.org or call Bea Hoffman (868-8256).

Two Weeks in Jewish History - Jeff Maynard

18 Elul - Yahrzeit of Maharal - Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel of Prague, who died in 5369. We remember the Maharal (c. 1525-1609) who was chief Rabbi of Prague, talmudist, moralist and mathematician. (See p. 374, vol. X of Encyclopedia Judaica.) Maharal is an acronym for Moraynu HaRav (Judah) Loew (ben B'zalel) (Our teacher Judah Loew son of B'zalel). Rabbi Shaya Karlinkski (of Shappells) has written an excellent series of classes in clear English on the Maharal's commentary on Pirkei Avos which can be found at http://www.torah.org/learning/maharal/.

24 Elul - Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Gordon, who died in 5652. We remember Yehuda Leib Gordon (1831-1892), Russian Jewish scholar, journalist, poet and spokesman of the Haskalah (enlightenment).

13 September 1892 - Railway from Jerusalem to Jaffa opened. At the time, Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the man instrumental in the modern revival of the Hebrew language, coined a new word – "rakevet" – for train.

15 September 1935 - Sixty-five years ago, the Nuremburg Racial Laws in Nazi Germany deprived German Jews of their rights of citizenship, giving them the status of "subjects" in Hitler's Reich. The laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have sexual relations with Aryans or to employ young Aryan women as household help.

18 September 1860 - Simon Dubnow born in Byelorussia. The famous Jewish historian and ideologist. In 1922 he moved to Berlin. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Dubnow went to Riga, Latvia, where he remained at work until killed by the Nazis in December 1941. One of the great histories of the Jews of Eastern Europe is Simon Dubnow's History of the Jews in Poland and Russia, published in 1918. (If anyone would like to read it, I have a copy of the first edition).

Mincha: 6:50 p.m.

Candlelighting: 6:45 p.m.

Shacharit: 9:00 p.m.

Kiddush: sponsored by Dr. Steven and Hedy Katz and family in memory of Hedy’s late father, Joseph Hoffman, z"l.

Rabbi’s Shiur: 6:10 p.m.

Mincha: 6:40 p.m.

Seudat Shlishit: sponsored by Renee and Jeffrey Maynard in honor of their anniversary celebrating 19 glorious, fun-filled years. Ken yirbu!

Motzei Shabbat: 7:39 p.m.

Shacharit: 8:30 a.m.

Mincha: 6:45 p.m.

Wishing everyone a Shabbat Shalom, a Shavua Tov, and a K’tima V’Chatima Tovah.

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Edited by: R. Maynard