Weekly Newsletter

The next StantonKIDS program will be this coming Shabbat morning, November 19, at 10:30am. All children are invited for songs, prayers, games and snacks.

This month's program is sponsored by Zipporah and Jason Nagel in honor of the recent birth of their daughter Maya, and to show appreciation for their children Jonah and Gabriella's remarkable StantonKIDS teachers.

For more information, questions or to RSVP, email kids@stantonstshul.com.

Join us for a post-Thanksgiving community Shabbat dinner on Friday, November 25. Click here to sign up!

Decompress after Turkey Day with your friends at Stanton over good food and wine in a relaxing atmosphere. Dinner will begin at around 6:00 pm, after Kabbalat Shabbat services. And unlike at your family's Thanksgiving dinner, we promise not to ask you when you're getting married, when you're going to have kids, why you don't have a better job, why you never call...

Register now!

All women are invited to participate in our next Women's Tefilah and Torah reading for Parashat Chayei Sarah, on Shabbat morning, November 26.

Services will begin at 9:30am and will take place downstairs in the beit midrash.

If you would like to layn, lead services, or give a d'var Torah, or if you have questions, send an email to stantonstreetwomen@gmail.com.

Our Evening to Benefit the Historic Stanton Street Shul was a fantastic success. We had over 170 people in attendance at the amazing Angel Orensanz Center, and raised a significant sum for the Stanton Street Shul Building Fund (final net tally still pending as additional donations come in).

The evening featured fantastic klezmer music by world-renowned musician Alicia Svigals; a program honoring Tikkun Olam Award recipients April Stewart Klausner and Paul Klausner and Nachshon Young Leadership Award recipients Wendy Chin and David Tuchman; Lower East Side themed refreshments, including old-time sodas and pareve egg creams from The Seltzer Guys and a buffet inspired by classic L.E.S. restaurants like Schmulka Bernstein's and Ratner's; and an after-party with a champagne toast, tour of the Shul, and more music.

It was an incredible event, and we thank everyone who attended and contributed to the Building Fund. Thank you also to our honorees for working so hard to ensure the benefit was a success and to everyone who volunteered their time and talents to bring it all together: our benefit co-chairs, Sonia Gardner and Julia Wolfe; our benefit committee, Billy Bergman, Dory Bergman, Aliza Deutsch, Rivky Friedman, Risa Gerstein, Michael Gordon, Judy Josephs, Jeff Katz, Malka Percal, Elana Reich, Mayer Sinensky, and Sam Weisblatt; and a huge thanks to Elissa Sampson for leading the tour, contributing to the slideshow, and helping in many other ways. Thank you also to David Deutsch, Sam Deutsch, David Friedman, Yael Gordon, Eric Reich, and Laura Weisblatt, who helped variously with coat check, clean-up, and general/moral support; and to Rabbi Bodner for all of his help and for speaking so beautifully.

We also thank Angel Orensanz and everyone at the Angel Orensanz Center for hosting us so graciously and generously; our incredible caterers, Bruce and Ava Soffer of Chef's Table, who went above and beyond the call of duty; Kaufman Bros. Printing who did such a great job printing our invitations (designed by April Stewart Klausner) and benefit journal (designed by Rivky Friedman); our event photographer Andrew Einhorn; and Ami and Larissa Nahari of The River who provided the wine.

All proceeds from the event will benefit the Stanton Street Shul Building Fund to help repair and restore our historic building. (You can still click here to make a contribution.)

If you have questions, email benefit@stantonstshul.com.

By now you're probably back into your weekly routine after the extended High Holidays season. Perhaps you've banished apples and honey from your repertoire of snacks, silenced the phantom shofar blasts that you kept thinking you heard for a while, and finally resisted the urge to beat your chest every time you cop to wrong-doing.

But if there's one thing that's still nagging at you, something you're supposed to do lurking on the edge of your consciousness and slipping away when you try to grasp it in your memory, could it be that you haven't yet fulfilled your High Holidays pledge to give charity?  If so, it's not too late! Please click here to make your High Holidays contribution. (Choose "High Holidays Donation" from the drop-down menu.)

Feel good about striking one more thing off your to do list, freeing yourself from another unfulfilled vow you'd have to cancel and atone for next Yom Kippur, and supporting the warm and welcoming Stanton Street Shul, which greatly appreciates your generosity.

One of the many strengths of our shul is the variety and multiple talents and abilities of our congregants. It takes a lot to run our shul and our programming, and we can probably use your help. Are you a tech guru, web design aficionado, or social media wiz? A master event planner, fundraiser, or program coordinator? An accountant, lawyer, or investment professional? A trained carpenter, electrician, or contractor? If you have any of these or other skills, professional or amateur, that you'd like to contribute to Stanton, speak to Rabbi Bodner, Rivky Friedman, or another member of the board and let's think about how we can help make Stanton flourish together.

Looking for a way to give back to Stanton, not right now, but maybe at some point in the future? Consider planning a long-term gift to the shul. We encourage anyone interested in discussing various ways to plan a gift now that will be given in the future to contact Board members Michael Gordon or Rivky Friedman, or Rabbi Bodner. There are many ways to go about planned giving and we are happy to discuss the various options that might work for you.