Jacob Berman Community Center

מרכז קהילתי ע"ש יעקב ברמן    

Weekly Bulletin: ‫Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech 5771

פרשת נצבים־וילך תשע"א‬‬

• Pennina and Hershel Safer are sponsoring this week's kiddush in order to share the celebration of their 30th wedding anniversary with their friends at Berman's shul.
   
• High Holidays 5772  ימים נוראים תשע"ב 
  If you didn't order seats yet, this is your last chance. Even if you don't need seats this year, please don't neglect to renew your membership. The letter and form for seat orders and membership renewal have placed on the shul website as a single PDF document (PDF link here). The form is also available as an Excel document (XLS link here) Links to both of these files appear on the Bermanshul website until Rosh Hashana. As last year, the printed documents will not be mailed out and you are requested to please print out your own copy. Please consider printing an extra copy for somebody you know who may not be able to print their own.
   
  
• If you know someone who will be unable to be in shul on Rosh Hashana and would like to hear the shofar, please contact one of the people below:
  • North side of Rehovot
    • Dan Feigelson 947-4131, djfeigel@yahoo.com
    • Adam Strauss 946-0043, syhks13@yahoo.com
    • Shimon Krausz, 057-7760708
  • South side of Rehovot
    • Sidney Cohen 939-0602, sidney.cohen@weizmann.ac.il 
    • Jeff Lowengrub 939-0704, jalow@netvision.net.il 
    •  David Freedman 949-4246, hsdf@inter.net.il 
   If you can blow shofar and would like to volunteer to blow for people who can't be in shul, please contact Dan Feigelson.
   
• Voice messages for bereavements and other important noticess
  We are no longer sending out voice messages (they were significantly harder to send - both technically and emotionally). E-mail and text messages (SMS) will continue as before. If you wish to start receiving SMS (up to 2 recipients per family), please send e-mail to sms@bermanshul.org. Also, if you know a shul member who will have difficulty adapting, please consider making it your personal mission to call them whenever you get a text message from the system.
   
• Psefas - new Sefer Torah marking 120 years of Rehovot
  •  Hachnasat Sefer Torah Friday, Sept. 23, 10:00-11:30 at Beit Knesset Hagadol (Binyamin and Menuha v’Nahala). The hachnasat sefer Torah ceremony for the Torah that is being donated to Berman’s in honor of Psifas. This will be a major happening, with the chief rabbi, the mayor and thousands of schoolchildren participating. Those interested in participating in the seudat mitzvah following the ceremony should RSVP to events@psefas.org.il or to David Tannor (08-9342094).
   

• A leather baseball glove was found several years ago in the Berman shul. If you are the owner of the glove, please contact rodnymullen@gmail.comm or 054-9988150 (pls call between 9-10pm).
   

• Looking for families to host young people who are undergoing conversion (or finished) for Rosh Hashana meals and/or sleeping. Contact Ilana Friedlander, at: stevenf@netvision.net.il or 057-5706592.

• Please send in names (3 maximum) to gabbai@bermanshul.org, (preferably by Thursday) or write them out and to give to the Gabbaim before kria. Names must be resubmitted anew every week. 
   
• If you are convalescing at home and would like visitors, please write in to bermanshul@gmail.com.
   

• A PDF calendar of davening times and shiurim is available for download (http://bermanshul.org/calendar.pdf  now updated till end of October 2011).
• The "live" calendar below gives a full schedule of official Berman events and other happenings. You can avoid missing events by taking a minute to scroll through the listing. Click on any event to display the details.
  Colour codes: Berman Events  / Outreach-קהילה /  Other events* /  Localised Hebrew Calendar
  *The Berman Community is not responsible for the propriety of the "Other events". 

  Click on any event to display the details.

• A number of other Rehovot events are published at www.pirsuma.com 
• Chugim and activities for all ages at Havayot Schweitz: Including 50+ coffee evenings, מועדון חצ"ב, Bridge for beginners, Tiyulim, etc.. For details and schedules see the Havayot Website (http://havayot.org.il) .
• Members organizing private events (e.g. wedding, bar/bat mitzva celebrations etc.) are advised to use the shul calendar as follows:
  1. You can check for a date that does not clash with another event in the community.
  2. 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.

• We are selling Lulav and Etrog (4 minim) to benefit families in need through Hod Yisrael. Guaranteed excellent quality, decent prices -- TOTAL profit goes to families in need.
  To order, please use the form (Hebrew only) at www.hodisrael.org.il/4minim.php, call Amos 0506911760 or Moria 0505962634, or send an email to:  4minimrehovot@gmail.com.
  Personal selection also available at Beit Zeltzer shul, Habesht 22 - Rehovot, from Mozei Yom Kippur until Erev Succot.
  Opening hours are as follows
  • mozei shabbat (8.10) - 19:45-23:00
  • Sunday - Tuesday (9.10 - 11.10) - 17:00-22:00
  •  Wednesday (12.10) - 08:00-13:00
   This year our goal is to increase our profits by 30%. We need your help to reach this goal, so that more money can go to those who really need it.
  Shana tova and t'zku l'mizvot, Amos. 
   
• Dear friends:
      We are asking you once again to help a very fine family who lives here in Rehovot. Many of you have already helped them. Unfortunately, some of the regular donors for this family are no longer able to help, and so it is important that those of us who can contribute should do so.
      The father of the family had a serious work accident about six years ago and since then has remained institutionalized, totally incapacitated. The mother of the family is a most brave woman who, with dignity and emunah, is raising her large family alone, while also spending many hours at her husband's bedside. Some of the children in this family also have special needs which give rise to additional financial hardships.
      Please give generously now so that this family can celebrate the upcoming chagim in a fitting manner, and can also cope with the myriad ongoing expenses involved in raising a large family.
     Please give your contributions to Gittie Mateh at 5 HaAdmor, Kiriat David, Rehovot, Tel: 08 9416733 or to the Rabinowitz family 43 Ezra St, Rehovot.
     Tizku le'mitzvot!!!
     Gittie Mateh and Judith Abrahams
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  If checks are made payable to Vaad Harabbanim Keren No. 2752 (Keren Lema'an Achai), then they are tax deductable. Otherwise just make checks out to Keren Lema'an Achai. Tizku le'mitzvot!!!
   
• Join the Anglo Hebrew Readers. We meet for an hour every second Monday morning to help each other to read and discuss Hebrew-language literature. The group plans to start a new novel within the next few weeks--a good time to join. For more information, call Rosalie Brosilow, 08 949 4851.
   
• Start the year with the sweetness of 100% pure, natural Black Bear Honey. Last year, we sold out of our special honey and maintained a waiting list. Do not wait, place your orders now for Black Bear Honey. We also have Milk and Honey soap, a great gift for Rosh Hashanah.
  Alison & Stephen 08 946 1472
  Black Bear Honey "Made in Israel with love from above"
  www.blackbear.co.il