Weekly Update - Parashat Vayechi / Shabbaton with Dr. Michelle Friedman
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Week of January 10, 2020 / 13 Tevet 5780 Parashat Vayechi / Shabbaton with Dr. Michelle Friedman
WEEKLY SCHEDULE
Erev Shabbat, January 10 (Tevet 13) 4:30p Candle Lighting 5:15p Kabbalat Shabbat / Ma'ariv 6:00p Community Shabbat Dinner (registration and payment required) 7:00p Talk by Dr. Michelle Friedman: Creating a Community of Kindness (free - all are welcome)
Shabbat, January 11: Vayechi (Tevet 14) 9:30a Shacharit 10:30a StantonKids Shabbat (Ends at 12:00p) 10:45a - Talk by Dr. Michelle Friedman - VaYechi - It All Comes Around to the Beginning: Final Crisis in the Family - Dvar Torah and Bibliodrama 12:00p Kiddush is sponsored by the house 12:30p Mincha immediately following kiddush 5:33p Havdala
Upcoming Events & Programs Now through 1/21: Utopia: Visions and Traditions art exhibition, on view in the balcony 1/17-18 - Shabbat with Rabbinic Intern Jason Goldstein 1/19 - Women's Discussion Group: "You're Such A Bibliodrama Queen!" 1/24-25 - Shabbat with Rabbinic Candidate, Rabbi Levi Welton 1/25 - StantonKids Shabbat 2/7-2/8 - Shabbat with Guest Scholar, Emily Goldberg Winer 2/8 - Women's Tefillah - Parashat Beshalach
On Monday, January 6, after Shacharit, in the presence of dozens of well-wishers, Calvin Steven Berk-Leung (Yekusiel Tzvi) entered the covenant of Abraham Avinu. Mazal Tov to the fathers, Peretz Berk and Erik Leung, to Mrs. Bertha Berkowitz, the proud grandmother, and to the Berk and Leung families! If you would like to make or send a meal for the new parents, please email chesed@stantonstshul.com.
Volunteers needed: If you can be in the Shul on Sundays January 12, 19, from 12-6pm (or part of the day) to welcome visitors viewing the YiddishNY UTOPIA: Visions and Traditions exhibit, please let Jeff, Risa, or Jill know.
Join us for a special Shabbaton with Dr. Michelle Friedman, a highly respected psychiatrist who focuses on the Jewish community and has a special interest in the rabbinate and pastoral counseling.
Dr. Friedman will be speaking on Friday night at 7:00pm on Creating a Community of Kindness, and on Shabbat morning at 10:45am on VaYechi - It All Comes Around to the Beginning: Final Crisis in the Family - Dvar Torah and Bibliodrama.
All are invited. See above for the complete Shabbat schedule.
Dr. Michelle Friedman Dr. Friedman received an MD from the NYU School of Medicine and has completed advanced training at the Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research. In addition to her private practice and her role at YCT Rabbinical School, where she holds the Steven and Marilyn Lieberman Chair in Pastoral Counseling, Dr. Friedman is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. She, together with Dr. Rachel Yehuda, are the authors of The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling: A Guide for All Faiths, published by Routledge in 2016. She also co-hosts the weekly podcast "Pastoral Parsha" with YCT 3rd year student Hody Nemes.
Shabbat with Rabbinic Candidate Rabbi Levi Welton January 24-25, 2020
Save the date: schedule and dinner registration link coming soon!
The Rabbinic Search Committee is delighted to welcome a new rabbinic candidate, Rabbi Levi Welton, to our community for Shabbat on January 24-25. Please make an effort to attend services and other opportunities to meet him throughout Shabbat (details to follow).
Rabbi Welton is an educator-turned-writer, passionate about sharing the values of Torah with a global audience. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, he was raised in a Chabad household, taught English & Gemorah in Chassidic Yeshivot in Brooklyn, and worked on a documentary film, "Crime after Crime," that won the Sundance Film Festival award. He was the spiritual leader of The Hampton Synagogue and the first Assistant Rabbi to be promoted to Senior Rabbi in that synagogue's history. Currently, he works as the spiritual leader of Lincoln Park Jewish Center and a Physician Assistant visiting low-income patients in the Bronx. Additionally, he serves as a Chaplain in the United States Air Force. When he isn't working, you'll find Rabbi Welton promoting pro-Israel activism, cultivating cultural relationships for the Charadei community, and interviewing extraordinary people for his monthly newsletter.
Season by season, we have been completing a comprehensive renovation of our 107-year-old Shul. This week, two of the Mazalot wall murals were restored by our talented resident artists, David Wander, Dory Bergman and Billy Bergman. The love birds in the Chodesh Sivan Mazal were restored to their colorful brilliance, and the handful of wheat has been masterfully restored in the Chodesh Elul Mazal.
We have an abundance of gratitude for David, Dory and Billy who have donated their time and talent to the restoration of the Stanton Street Shul. Thank you to Margie Segal for sponsoring the Chodesh Sivan Mazal and to Malka Percal for sponsoring the Chodesh Elul Mazal.
Three Mazalot remain available for your sponsorship. To sponsor a Mazal, please contact Jeff Katz.
Kiddushes are a joyous way to celebrate Shabbat and bring together our members and friends-- with good food and drink. Celebrate a birthday, anniversary or other event, commemorate a yahrzeit, or show appreciation for the extraordinary work being done in this Shul. We would love to share your special occasions.
A Note from the Ritual Committee: Can We Count on You for Minyanim?
At its core, the Stanton Street Shul is a place for prayer. Please help ensure a minyan by attending services on Friday night at 5:15 pm and Shabbat morning at 9:30 am, so that our community members saying kaddish can say kaddish with the kehillah. While being a small, intimate community is our strength, it is also our challenge when it comes to things like making a minyan. You matter and we need you, so please come daven and bring friends!
Security Committee Chair(s) Needed!
Responding to the insecure environment we live in, the rise in anti-Semitic incidents, and the concerns of our congregants, the Board recently undertook the installation of a security system including security cameras and monitors. We need a committee chair(s) to oversee monitoring the cameras, developing an evacuation plan, and planning a fire drill. You will have the full support of the Board. Please speak with Jeff Katz or any Board member or email board@stantonstshul.com
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