The Stanton Street Weekly Newsletter: Shabbat Mevarchim Shemot
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Week of January 8th, 2021 24 Tevet 5781 Shabbat Mevarchim Shemot
WEEKLY SCHEDULE
Tonight! January 7th (23 Tevet) 7p - 8:30p SSS Book Club discusses A.B. Yehoshua's The Tunnel via ZOOM
Erev Shabbat January 8th (24 Tevet) 4:28p Candle Lighting
Shabbat Vayechi, January 9th (25 Tevet) 9:30a Shabbat Services IN SHUL Register Here 5:32p Shabbat Ends. Gut Vuch and Shavua Tov! 5:50p Havdalah FROM YOUR HOME TO OURS via ZOOM Monday, January 11th (27 Tevet) Yahrzeit for Renee Segal, Mother of Margie Segal Tuesday, January 12th (28 Tevet) 7p - 8p Parshat haShavuah with Rabbi Leead Staller via ZOOM Wednesday, January 13th (29 Tevet) 7p - 8:15p Rabbi Leead Staller's Tefillah shiur via ZOOM Yahrzeit for Reuben Aaron Katz, father of Jeffrey Katz
Thursday, January 14th (1 Shevat) 8a Women’s Tefillah GroupRosh Chodesh Shevat Services via ZOOM
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Thank you to this week's DONORS We are grateful to have such a committed community
Richard McBee renewed his Membership The following congreagants contributed to the End-of-the-Year Fund: Jeremy Newberger & Rebecca Betensky • Ellen Cherrick • Zachary Spiess Martin Wilner • David Zucker Tracy Fogel contributed to the Eruv Fund Dana Friedman contributed to the Rabbi's Salary Fund Alta Indelman contributed to the Building Fund
End-of-Year Fundraiser The end of the year is upon us, and we hope you will consider Stanton when making your tax deductible charitable donations.
While devastating in so many ways, this year has also brought unexpected blessings. After a year-long search, we were fortunate to hire Rabbi Leead Staller as our full-time rabbi. The Rabbi and Shoshana have brought to our community a new warmth, an abundance of Zoom learning, and a renewed optimism to build a future together. And our shul renovation is complete, yielding a beautiful spiritual home!! Your contribution will foster expanded programming for adults and children, and make our house of prayer an ever more dynamic and welcoming home for all who wish to worship with us.
COVID Protocols As cases rise nationally, and New York City tightens restrictions, we reemphasize the need to abide by the CDC guidelines. If you feel sick, please stay at home. If you attend in-person services, please wear a mask and register for services in advance. Thank you everyone for your cooperation as we all work together to ensure a safe service.
From Your Home to Ours Stanton's ZOOMing Havdallah
Let's celebrate the end of Shabbat and the beginning of the work week together! ZOOM INat 5:30pm on Saturday night Please invite your friends and neighbors, and volunteer to lead us next week!
THE RABBI'S DRASHAH
Because many of us are not able to attend shul in person, the Rabbi has agreed to share his shabbat morning drashah in advance. Here is the first half of it. To read the full drashah, click here and it will take you to what will become a rich archive of all of Rabbi Staller's drashot.
Thirty minutes into Captain America: The First Avenger, the audience has seen Steve Rogers’ super soldier inoculation, and is about to finally be introduced to Captain America– kicking off a franchise, and preparing the onslaught of Avengers and Marvel movies that followed. The drama of the moment is met with horns and music, as the scene cuts to a USO performance for deployed soldiers. A chorus of singers belt out over the band, “Who’s strong and brave, here to save the American way?” before finally singing the name “Captain America” for the first time of the film, and cutting to Steve Rogers in full costume.
This scene is a classic example of what Marvel does right that the many failed comic book movie franchises before them failed to do. Marvel realized that character introductions are key. If comic book movies need to spend time building the world, explaining characters’ origins, and setting up the franchise, then mere live action recreations of comic book panel exposition was not going to cut it. Flashy, dramatic, and engaging characters would get the audience hooked, and the franchise’s inertia would carry itself.
If they could acquire the rights to the bible, Disney could map this blueprint onto any of the biblical partiarch’s stories. BeReishit loves dramatic flashy introductions perhaps as much as Avi Arad and Bob Iger. Arguably all of the beginning of Genesis is a build up to the drama of God’s promise to Avraham of “Lech Lecha.” Yitzchak’s birth is heralded by an angel and ultimately culminates in the drama of the Akeidah. Rivkah struggles with pain as Yaakov and Eisav’s birth is foretold by a prophet and Yaakov is born clutching Eisav’s foot– a precursor for the sibling struggle that would plague his young life. One would expect that Sefer Shemot– a book that the Behag referred to as Genesis’s “sequel”– would follow this pattern and introduce us to our hero Moshe with a flashy and/or miraculous scene...continued
Misheberach: We pray that all who are sick may have a full recovery. To add a name to our communal misheberach prayer list, email us.
Mazel Tov to Malka Chu, upon her graduation from Binghamton University's School of Management! Her family - sister, Brina; mom, Leslie Levinson; and dad, David Chu, express love and nachas for Malka upon this incredible accomplishment.
VIRTUAL LEARNING
SPONSOR A CLASS Please sponsor a virtual class in honor of oneself, the Shul, a yahrzeit, an anniversary, a birthday, or in the name of a friend or someone who sustains the Shul with their hard work. Sponsorships begin at $36, but there is no maximum. All sponsorships benefit the Shul and are very much appreciated.
TheStanton Street Shul (SSS) Book Club TONIGHT! January 7th. at 7:00 - 8:30pm We will discuss The Tunnel by A. B. Yehoshua. Join the conversation via ZOOM with Pswd: 017067 To participate by phone, dial 1 929 205 6099 and enter Meeting ID: 841 8752 3539 To join the bookclub, and be part of an ongoing conversation, click here.
Rabbi Leead Staller hosts weekly Parshat haShavuah Vayechi Tuesday, January 12th, 7:00 - 8:00pm via ZOOM with pswd: 614725 To join by phone, dial 1-(929) 205 6099 and enter Member ID: 847 9509 7605 This week's class is sponsored by Jeff Katz, dedicated in memory of Jeff's next-door neighbor, Rebecca Waldman, on the occasion of her Shloshim. May her memory be for a blessing.
AND Tefillah Shiur Wednesday, January 13th, 7:00-8:15pm via ZOOM with pswd: 785886 To join by phone, dial 1-(929) 205 6099 and enter Member ID: 894 9535 0094
Women’s Tefillah Group Rosh Chodesh Shevat Services Thursday, January 14th at 8am via ZOOM
By women for women. Please write us if you would like to lead any part of the service. Sponsored by Margie Segal for the yartzeit of her mother, Renee Segal, Rivka bat Bayla V Yitzchok
To participate by phone: Dial 1 929 205 6099 and enter Meeting ID: 852 1655 6353
David Deutsch Leads a Three-Part Lecture Series: From Antisemitism to Extermination - the Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy
Although it is believed by many that the Final Solution was the culmination of a decades-long plan on the part of the Nazi leadership, the consensus of modern historians is that it arose out of wartime circumstances.
January 25th Germany and Hitler's Antisemitism: The Place of Jews in Weimar Germany and the Nazi Consciousness
February 1st Judenfrei: Nazi Jewish Policy in the 1930's
February 8th German Military Ambitions, Failures, and the Adoption of the Final Solution
To participate by phone, dial 1 929 205 6099 and enter Meeting ID: 845 3085 7476
Richard McBee Pre-Purim Art Lecture
February 22: Artemisia: Esther and Women Artemisia Gentileschi's Esther Before Ahasuerus in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a paradigmatic example this 17th century woman artist’s oeuvre. More than a quarter of her paintings aggressively depict Jewish heroines in a Baroque era rock-star career. We shall explore her feminist Jewish treasures.
The Weekly Chesed Roundup Looking for a local or remote chesed opportunity this week? Here are some ways you can help individuals in need:
Create handmade cards for homebound seniors with DOROT Sign up for volunteer opportunities with Repair The World Participatein a volunteer project with New York Cares Donate food or clothes to The Bowery Mission Feed the hungrywith City Harvest (for folks under 65) Volunteer at a food bank with Food Bank for NYC Take care of the earth by volunteering with GrowNYC Take actionfor NYC refugees and asylum seekers with HIAS Knit and send a winter hatto an IDF soldier --brought to you by our Chesed/Social Action Committee
ONLINE ARCHIVES Click HERE for an archive of shiurim by Rabbi Staller ClickHERE for an archive of drashot by Rabbi Staller Click HERE to go to our YouTube Channel for an archive of our ZOOM classes
Rabbi Staller Encourages and Welcomes Your Feedback and can be reached by email or by phone/text at (917) 282-7643. Alternatively, you may reach out, confiedentially, to our Rabbinic Advisory Committee. Contact committee chair Jeff Katzor committee members Paul Ruffer, Margie Segal, Marc Schwartzberg, and Ellen Silverstein. We welcome your input.
We at The Stanton Street Shul and beyond have the incredible opportunity to learn Torah from the comfort of our own homes every week! Hear Rabbi Staller's fresh perspective on the weekly parshaon Tuesday evening at 7:00 PM and his innovative approach to understanding Tefillah (prayer) on Wednesdays at the same time. All Stanton classes are free and recorded for your review, but it is the live interchange between rabbi and participants that energizes these classes and makes them special.
RESOURCE HUB
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