Weekly Newsletter

Stanton Street Shul Weekly Newsletter Week of Mar. 2, 2018 / Adar 15, 5778

Parashat Ki Tisa

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This Week's Schedule: Erev Shabbat, March 2: Shushan Purim (Adar 15) 5:30p Candle Lighting 6:00p Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv Kiddush is sponsored by Paul and Phyllis Ruffer. To sponsor a kiddush, please email kiddush@stantonstshul.com. Shabbat, March 3: Ki Tisa (Adar 16) 9:30a Shacharit 10:30a StantonKids Shabbat (Ends at 12:00p) 12:00p Kiddush   Kiddush this week is in memory of Gedalya Getzler z"l's shloshim, a longtime member of the Stanton Street Shul who recently passed away. The Kiddush is generously sponsored by: Miriam and Shimon Ghatan, Elissa Sampson and Jonathan Boyarin, Jeff Katz, Jessica and Stu Loeser and Erik Leung and Peretz Berk.   To sponsor a kiddush, please email kiddush@stantonstshul.com.   6:39p Havdalah   Sunday, March 4 (Adar 17) 1:30p Women's Discussion Group Monday, March 5 (Adar 18)- Rabbi Aviad Bodner's Weekly Classes 7:00p The Book of Shmuel - Chapter 25 8:00p Advanced Gemara Class - Sanhedrin 27B Tuesday, March 6 (Adar 19) 7:30p Introduction to Jewish Observance Class - Kashrut (Part I) - With Rabbi Aviad Bodner For more info, registration and a complete schedule, please click here.   Announcements & Upcoming Events

Community News and Purim Thank Yous  We had an amazing Purim at Stanton this year, thanks to so many of you who coordinated events and food, layned megillah, donated charity, shook groggers, wore crazy costumes, sent mishloach manot, did comedy, and added a festive air to the whole weekend.   We not only had great attendance and energy at our megillah readings on Purim night and day, our Open-Mic Comedy Purim Party on Wednesday night, and a very successful Mishloach Manot project which raised money for the shul and built community among members but we also were able to donate nearly $3,000 for matanot la'evyonim (gifts for the poor) to individuals in our community, as well as to the NYU Student drive for the homeless and needy on the Lower East Side (thank you Rabbi Joe Wolfson), Masbia kosher soup kitchens, the needy in the Lower East Side through Rabbi Zvi Romm of the Bialystoker Synagogue and more. Thank you to all who donated! Thank you to Rabbi Bodner for coordinating these charitable efforts and so much of the Purim experience at Stanton.   We started off the week on Sunday with an amazing StantonKIDS Purim party with Morah Aliza and Morah Iana. Thank you Paul and April Klausner for sponsoring.   Thank you to David Waxman for layning megillah for our traditional readings Purim night and morning.   Thank you to all of the layners for the Women's Megillah reading on Purim night: Ray Katz, Aliza Deutsch, Zipporah Nagel, Adina Noble and Rivky Friedman.   Thank you to Dana Friedman for hosting and putting together our open mic comedy night, to David Deutsch and Leslie Levinson for their performances, and to our special guests Dan Abraham, Chani Lisbon, and Chaim Samuels.   Thank you to Risa Gerstein, Jeff Katz, Malka Percal, Sam and Laura Weisblatt for packing up our communal mishloach manot packages (and to the StantonKIDS Sunday morning program participants for decorating the boxes). Thank you Mayer Sinensky with all your help behind the scenes. If you didn't pick up your box, please do so by Tuesday this week!   Thank you to Peretz Berk and Erik Leung for sponsoring the Purim Seudah and to Risa Gerstein for setting up.   Finally, thank you to all of you who showed up and helped to make Purim so much fun. Next up: Pesach!

Women's Megillah Reading Purim Morning Megillah Reading

StantonKIDS Purim Party Purim Seudah

THIS WEEK - StantonKIDS Shabbat - March 3rd Join us for our StantonKIDS class with Morah Leslie! The class will be Saturday, March 3rd from 10:30am-12pm. For a complete schedule of our StantonKids program, please click here.

THIS SUNDAY - Women's Discussion Group - March 4 @ 1:30 pm  Join us for a discussion group engaged in Jewish learning and explore topics that matter to us in a female-powered, supportive, encouraging space where you can talk about all things women-related in the Jewish community. The first meeting will be on the topic: Gender Roles In Our Jewish Lives and the discussion will be facilitated by Brina Chu. Contact brinachu3@gmail.com to get involved and for more details.

Only 5 Seats Left! Young Professionals Shabbat Dinner - Next Shabbat, March 9 If you are in your 20s or 30s and want to meet more friends in downtown Manhattan, join us for this Shabbat dinner at the cutest little shul in the LES, we'd love to have you. For more details and to register, click here.

NEXT WEEK - Teen Shabbat - March 10th Join us Shabbat morning tefillah followed by a new and exciting teen youth program that will run till 1:30pm at the Stanton Street Shul.  If you’d like to be contacted directly about this upcoming Tefillah & Teen Shabbat Program, please click here.  For details, questions, updates, or to recommend a teen who might be interested, email lesteenshabbat@gmail.com.

Women's Tefillah for Parashat Vayikra: Shabbat Morning, March 17 All women are invited to participate in our next Women's Tefilah and Torah reading for Parashat Vayikra, on Shabbat morning, March 17. Services will begin at 9:30 am 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 women@stantonstshul.com.

Scholar in Residence: Eve Jochnowitz: Seasoned with Song: Sacred Music of the Ashkenazic Sabbath Meals - Shabbat, March 17, 12:15pm On Saturday, Mar. 17, following Kiddish the Stanton Street Shul, welcomes Yiddishist and cultural scholar Eve Jochnowitz, for a talk entitled “Seasoned with Song: Sacred Music of the Ashkenazic Sabbath Meals.” All are invited to attend regular services or a special women’s tefillah, beginning at 9:30 am, Kiddush, and the talk, at around 12:15 pm. This lecture is sponsored by Julie Wolfe and Michael Gordon in memory of Michael's Mother Miriam bat Shmuel Z"l a lover of knowledge and life-long learner. This talk coincides with her Yahrzeit.

Shabbat HaGadol Community Shabbat Dinner - March 23 Do you really want to cook for the weekend before Pesach? We didn't think so.  Join us for this dairy/pescatarian dinner with all the chametz foods you can imagine. Please register for the dinner ($30 members, $38 non-members, $100 very appreciated sponsors, includes dinner for two) on our website.

Yahrtzeit Kiddush for Victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, Shabbat, March 24 The Stanton Street Shul invites the public to remember with us all those who perished in the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. Please join us to honor their memory with a traditional Lower East Side Yahrtzeit kiddush sponsored by Dr. Elissa Sampson and Prof. Jonathan Boyarin. Most of those who perished were young women and girls who lived in the Lower East Side and Little Italy in close proximity to our historic Lower East Side immigrant Shul built in 1913. Their ongoing struggle to earn a living as poor immigrants reminds us of the necessity of defending immigrant rights, and the rights of poor people today. May their memory be a blessing for all of us.

Second Night Communal Seder with Rabbi Aviad Bodner - Saturday Night, March 31 Join us for a meaningful and uplifting Passover seder in the Lower East side with the Stanton Street Shul community, where we will experience the exodus together and regard ourselves "as if we had come out of Egypt." All are welcome and all will feel welcome. The cost is $45/person for Stanton members, $60/person for non-members, and sponsorships ($150 includes two seats at the seder) are available. Registration will close on Friday, March 16th. Financial assistance is available. Register here.

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Get in Touch! The Stanton Street Shul is located at 180 Stanton St., New York, NY 10002   Our mailing address is: P.O. Box 1008, New York, NY 10002   Visit our website: www.stantonstshul.com Send us an email: info@stantonstshul.com   To submit an announcement for our newsletter email announcements@stantonstshul.com