Jacob Berman Community
Center מרכז
קהילתי ע"ש
יעקב ברמן
Weekly Bulletin: Parashat Balak
5770
פרשת
בלק תש"ע
- Please use the e-mail address
bermanshul@gmail.com
for all bulletin-related communications, including:
- Items for inclusion in the bulletin or calendar
- Requests for new or changed e-mail subscriptions (for
bulletin notifications and other messages)
- For those of you who missed out:
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Kiddush this Shabbat is sponsored jointly by the Gamzu and
Epstein families:
- Neelie & Oz Gamzu celebrate their daughter Nava's
first birthday
- Alison & Stevy Epstein welcome their newlywed son and
daughter-in-law, David Zvi & Yael, who are visiting Israel
for the summer.
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מזל טוב
לשרה
וישראל
עזריאלי
להולדת נין,
בן לניר
ומיטל, נכד
לברק
ועדנה.
Mazal tov to Sara & Israel Azrieli on the birth of a
great-grandson, son of Nir & Meital, grandson of Barak &
Edna.
- Mazal Tov to Ellen & Mel Lax on the birth of a
granddaughter, and to the parents, Noam & Ofra Lax of Lod.
- Mazal Tov to Risa & David Tzohar on the birth of a grandson, and to the parents Aharon Yisrael & Amana
Tzohar of Yated.
- Mazal Tov to Shoshana & Moshe Hazvi on the birth of their grandson David Mordechai.
Mazal Tov to the parents Yafit & Meir Hazvi of Haifa.
- Mazal tov to Pearl & Marty Herskovitz on the engagement
of their son Netanel to Michal Ben-Adi of Moshav Barak.
- Mazal tov to Shelley & Henry Schwarzbaum and to Flo &
Sylvain Sternberg, on the engagement of their
daughter/granddaughter Batya to Ariel Mayerfeld, son of Dorit and
Doni Mayerfeld of Ra'anana.
- Mazal tov to the children's mishna chug on their completion of
Masechet Bava Metzia. There will a siyum at Berman's following kiddush
this Shabbat. Yasher kochachem to group organizers Dan Feigelson,
Menashe Kaplan, Shlomo Sklarz, and special yasher koach to Eyal Ainie
who will be stepping down after four and a half years as the main organizer of the
chug. Any adults wishing to replace him should speak to Eyal, Dan or
Menashe.
- BermaNoar
There will be a night tiyul to Jerusalem for 7th to 12th
graders, on the eve of the 17th of Tamuz (Monday night June
28th). We will leave late, walk around Jerusalem with a guide,
eat an early breakfast, daven shacharit at the kotel and head
home early Tuesday morning. Those interested should contact
Adam Strauss (home phone number 08-946-0043 and cellphone number
052-354-0887). Further details will appear on the calendar.
- High Holidays 5771
ימים נוראים
תשע"א
The time has come to arrange seating for the yamim nora’im. Links to the
Rosh-Hashana Letter
and the Seating Form (.pdf
or .xls) have been placed at the top
of the
Bermanshul homepage.
- Scheduling issues:
As obvious from recent bulletins, our community is blessed
with an abundance of upcoming smachot. In order to avoid
scheduling conflicts, those of you who are organising events are
invited to claim your dates on the community calendar (see the
notes at the bottom of the CALENDAR section below).
HOSPITALITY, COMINGS & GOINGS
The community wishes to know about new arrivals or people
planning to come to Rehovot so that we can welcome them. You may
send in their details for the weekly bulletin, to
hospitality@bermanshul.org
or to Chaya Tannor.
- A very nice Modern Orthodox family from Silver Spring, MD, Ido
and Diana Dubrawsky (3 kids: almost 13 y.o. boy, 11 y.o. girl, 7 y.o.
girl) will be visiting Israel for their son's upcoming bar mitzvah
(first time for the kids!) and staying in Rehovot for 2 weeks this
summer. They'll be davening at Berman's, would be a great addition to
your Shabbat table, and would be very grateful to be recipients of the
incredible Berman's hospitality! They will be here Shabbat Parashat
Vaetchanan (July 24th) and Shabbat Parashat Ekev (July 31st). If you are
willing to host them for a meal (Fri. night dinner or Shabbat lunch),
please e-mail Sara at
sara.feigelson@weizmann.ac.il. Tizku LeMitzvot!
CALENDAR
- Davening times are given in the printed calendar posted in
the shul, PDF version available at
http://bermanshul.org/calendar.pdf
(now updated through till the end of
August). This calendar lists regular shiurim held in the
shul but does not list one-off events or non-Bermans events.
The "live" calendar below (also accessible at
http://calendar.bermanshul.org)
gives a full schedule of official Berman events and other
happenings of interest to the community.
You can avoid missing events by taking a
minute to scroll through the listing. Click on any event to
diplay the details.
Colour codes:
Berman Events /
Outreach-קהילה /
Other events /
Localised Hebrew Calendar
Please note that the Berman Community is not responsible for the
propriety of the non-shul events.
- A number of other Rehovot events are published at
www.pirsuma.com
- Chugim at Havayot Schweitz: For details and schedules see
the Havayot Webpage (
www.havayot.co.il).
Moadon Hatzav (Variety of morning lecturers and activities)
for people 50+), Bridge (beginners), Art lessons (Miriam Drat),
Tai Chi (Glilya Levi), Computers (beginners, Internet, Power
point - David Drory), Tiyulim. More info from Ellen Lax,
9310710
- Members organizing private events (e.g. wedding, bar/bat
mitzva celebrations etc.) are advised to use the shul calendar as
follows:
- You can check for a date that does not clash with another
event in the community.
- You may have your event listed as an anonymous
"private event" so that others can avoid scheduling
another event at the same time. Please let any board member
know or send your request by e-mail to
bermanshul@gmail.com.
PERSONAL & BASEMENT
Please note that the Berman Community is not responsible for
the Halachic propriety or kashrut of items listed.
- Pending final confirmation, it looks like we'll be coming
home soon, leaving the States on August 31st. We have decided to
"land softly" in Rehovot. looking for a suitable house
to rent, or put us in contact with people who can? Ideally, we
would like 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, lots of light and a back
yard. Please contact Andy Lipson,
lipsonfamilyaliyah@gmail.com.
- "Summer" House for rent on Sapir St., Rehovot
- Four bedrooms + playroom
- Air conditioning
- Backyard garden + frontyard
- Cable TV + computer
Available anytime between the dates July 1 to August 31. In
other words, flexible dates.
For details, please call: Sigal, 0524828097; Josh:
0524369896
- Buffet for sale, excellent condition, with storage space and
glass shelves for display. Can be viewed on Yad2, in the used
furniture section, under "miznon". Call Bea Kriger at
052-454-6417.
- Looking for: A student/nanny,
responsible, kind and warm, to take care of an adorable
seven year old, between 13:00-16:30, five days a week. Starting:
September 1st (throughout the year).
Includes: walking from "Tachkemony" elementary
school, towards home, (on Hannasi Harison St.), monitoring
homework, playing, feeding etc.
Please contact Sari Colb, Cell: 052-5542050
- Camp at tachkemoni??: Apparently 2 sports-oriented dati madrichim
affiliated with Elitzur Rehovot Dati Sports association are considering
doing a day-camp at Tachkemoni from 25 July to 12 August. If you might be
interested (Grades 1 - 6), you might call Shachar 0528881876 or Miko
0542323275 so they will see that there is parental interest and pursue this
option which is currently "in the air". Good luck to all the working moms, Susie
Dym sddym@bezeqint.net
- Tzimer in the north
"Bayit Bamoshav" is a beautiful modern guest house in Moshav Hazoreim
(near Tiberias). The Moshav is religious and closed to traffic on
Shabbat. The house contains:
- a main bedroom (en-suite bathroom with bath)
- a second bedroom (with a pull-out bed)
- an extra bathroom with shower
- a spacious salon (with a 3+2 sofa, chairs and table)
- a newly renovated kitchen (with all the facilities for a religious family).
- air-conditioning in all the rooms.
For more details please contact Bonita Podlashuk bonita@ulpanit.ort.org.il
- English speaking Metapelet seeking P/T work. Call Vera 945-7861