Rabbi Jacob Berman Community Center

Weekly Bulletin: Parashat Shoftim 5772

מרכז קהילתי ע"ש הרב יעקב ברמן

 פרשת שופטים תשע"ב‬‬

• Kiddush this week is sponsored by the Schwarzbaum family in honor of the births of Shachar and Talya.
   

• The next Board meeting will be on Wednesday 29th August at 20:15, agenda to be posted at http://bermanshul.org/content/view/184/58/. Draft minutes of the previous meeting are at http://bermanshul.org/content/view/181/58/  (both links require member login). Members with questions or issues to raise should contact any Board member.
   
• Membership Renewal and High Holidays 5773  חידוש חברות וימים נוראים תשע"ג
  The time has come to renew annual membership and arrange seating for the yamim nora’im. The letter and form have been placed on the shul website as a single  PDF document, which also includes a second form for you to use to provide personal information for our database (PDF link here). Both forms are also available as Excel documents (seatingform.xls and personal-info-form.xls ). 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 extra copies for members you know who may not be able to print their own.
  Forms are due by 26th August. After that date we may not be able to accommodate your seating preference.
  

• Welcome to the Flickers who just made aliyah from Riverdale, NY! Leora and Omri with their children Yardena (8), Tzur (4.5) and Carmel (18 mos). Leora is a stay-at-home mom and Omri is a lawyer. Contact info: 054.625.9519 or omriflicker@gmail.com and lgorsetman@gmail.com 
   
• Welcome to the Reiss'! Devorah and Netanel moved to Rehovot a few weeks ago from Ramat Gan with their daughter Liat (21 mos). Devorah made aliyah six years ago from Chicago, Netanel is Israeli. Devorah is a work-from-home mother. She works on transcription and editing, Netanel is a student of Middle Eastern Studies. Contact info: dyreiss@gmail.com 

• 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 2012).
• 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 ← Click on a link to subscribe
  *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.

• Apartment in excellent location for sale: 4 rooms on Meltzer Street, Rehovot 4 rooms on [Harav] Meltzer Street - first floor + elevator, with parking space, small open outside balcony and storeroom. Near the Weizmann Institute, the Faculty of Agriculture, the Rehovot railway station, the Science Park, the town centre, schools, amenities, close to 4 shuls ( the Berman's Shul on the Yeshivat HaDarom campus, Ohel Shai [both 2 mins away], Beit Eliezer and the Prinz Shul), and the Chavayot Community Centre.
  • excellent access to all intercity roads. Jerusalem is only 30 mins away. The airport only 20 mins away.
  • 3 external frontages for maximum cross-ventilation
  • full privacy in all rooms even with the windows open
  • 2 WC's - parents' bedroom with shower/WC away from the children's rooms
  • recently replumbed
  • partially rewired including recessed wiring for wall speakers
  • central air-conditioning
  • new kitchen
  Vacant possession and price: to be discussed. For further details call Stephen on: 0505-827115   
   
• Want to improve your Hebrew-reading skills and to break into contemporary Hebrew literature? Join the Rehovot Anglo Hebrew-readers group! We meet Monday mornings every two weeks for an hour of reading and discussion. At our September 3 meeting we will begin a new book, בין חברים (Bayn Haverim), by Amos Oz. This is a good time to join the group. For details, contact Rosalie Brosilow, 08 949 4851 or coleros@netvision.net.il 
   
• Two-year old baby boy in Israel on dialysis need a kidney donation! If you are blood type O - please consider donating a kidney (adult kidney acceptable). To become a potential kidney donor, you should be between 25-70, generally healthy, ie.. no cancer, kidney stones, diabetes, high blood-pressure, & not too overweight. All expenses paid. Matnat Chaim and HaRav Heber, and other volunteer donors, will help you through the process. For more information contact me at judithabrahams1@gmail.com or 0547 612 103 or HaRav Heber (Hebrew only) 02-5000755 or heber65@015.net.il or see webite of Matnat Chaim www.kilya.org.il