Weekly Newsletter

Parshat Balak
Week of July 19, 2024
Tammuz 5784

Erev Shabbat, Friday July 19, 2024 (13 Tammuz)
Candle Lighting at 8:05pm

Shabbat, July 20, 2024 (14 Tammuz)
Services will begin promptly at 9:30 and will be followed by a Kiddush open to all at 12pm.

Havdalah at 9:10pm  

Kiddush this week is sponsored by the house. If you'd like to sponsor Kiddush in the future, please reach out to info@stantonstshul.com.

Holiday Alert:
The Fast of 17th of Tammuz falls out on 7/23.
4:05am Fast Begins
9:07pm Fast Ends

Our Annual Membership Drive Has Begun!

** Membership Invoices have been sent out to all who held Memberships last year (2023-2024) and have not yet paid for the 2024-2025 year. Please reach out with any questions about renewing your membership or beginning a new membership.**

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Anniversaries
Happy Anniversary, Rivky & David Friedman! (July 17)

Birthdays
Happy Birthday, Leslie Levinson! (July 19)

Yahrtzeit
We remember: Donald Stein, Father of Mona Klaber & Grandfather of Andrew Klaber (July 17)

Misheberach 
Rachel Devorah bat Elke
Cecile Cohen זיאסל מלכה בת אסתר 
Manny Kaplan מאיר ראובן בן לאה        
Chana Mera bat Fruma Henna
Gitche bat Honcha
Ella bat Leah
Chaya Malka bat Esther Leia
Nolan Rhodes נתן צבי בן פרידה
Ashlynn Elizabeth Helen Coffman
 Moshe Asher Ben Esther Sarah
Chaim Yechezkel Ben Leah
Reuven ben Rochel
Rivka bat Miriam Sara
Eliyahu Natan ben Shayndel
Shayna bat Chana Kayla 
Yitzhak Calev ben Leetza Tzvia
Ashira bat Yosef
Malka Devora bat Chaya
Chaim Yonah ben Dubrah
​​​​​​​Efraim Ben Sore
Shimon Sumer HaLevi Ben Malka
Jim Lee
Leah Zahava Bat Elka

We pray that all who are sick may have a full recovery. We are especially sending prayers to those who are wounded and in need of healing in Israel and Gaza, and daven for the safe return of those who are still unaccounted for.
To add a name to our communal misheberach prayer list, email us.

If you have a Yahrtzeit, birthday, anniversary or other milestone coming up, please reach out!
We'd like to update our Yahrtzeit database. Please send us your yahrzeit details. If you don't know the exact hebrew date, just let us know the date of passing and we will figure it out and add it to the shul cloud calendar.

Dear Friends,

​​​​​​​Warmest greetings to the whole Stanton Community. Something that jumps out to me from this week’s parshah, parshat Balak, is the connection drawn between place and encounter with the Divine. We see that Balak brings Balaam to three separate locations with the hope that these different settings would bring about different instructions from God. On the one hand, “God’s glory fills the entire Earth” (Yesh. 6:3), not just specific locations. Furthermore, we see that no matter where Balak and Balaam go, God persists in making Balaam bless the people instead of cursing them. But on the other hand, whether it be Mount Sinai and the burning bush, or the Makom HaMikdash in Jerusalem, we see that location can, in fact, play an important role in our accessing God and so perhaps Balak and Balaam were onto something, even though their location changes ultimately proved ineffective.

Stanton is a special place and is a place in which I continue to feel emboldened to connect to my Creator as well as my fellow. I am humbled and very excited to be taking on the rabbinic role here and I want to thank you all for your support and confidence as well as the warm welcome you have continued to extend to me since moving to the Lower East Side last fall. I hope that our Jewish lives extend far beyond the walls of our shul but that we will, nevertheless, continue to make Stanton our spiritual and communal home base; our “garden beside a river” where anyone who walks in can’t help but exclaim “How goodly are your tents, oh Jacob, your dwelling places, Israel.”    

Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Birkeland 

Dear Stanton Community, 
 
We are shaking from the war breaking out in Israel. Hamas has fired thousands of rockets, over 136 citizens are hostages, and over 1,200 Israelis are dead with thousands more wounded. There are also thousands dead in Gaza -- innocent civilians caught in the line of fire. 
 
This is unprecedented and the most deadly attack on Israel in a generation. We must take action.
In addition to our prayers, we ask you to consider making a generous donation to one of the listed causes.
 
The One who makes peace on high, may He bring peace down below to us, 
Dvir and Shalhevet Cahana

StantonKIDS
Shabbat Programming for 5784

Our schedule for 5785 will be released in the coming weeks.

Women's Tefillah Group

Thank you to all who have joined us for services this year. Our schedule for 5785 will be released in the coming weeks.
If you would like to layn, lead services, or give a d'var Torah with us, or if you have questions, please be in touch!

ONLINE ARCHIVES

If you missed services this past shabbes, or arrived too late to hear the drasha, you can go to our archives and read a copy! This week, find Lina Morales' drasha on Lech Lecha. 

Click here for an archive of shiurim
Click here for an archive of drashot
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