Rabbi Jacob Berman Community Center

Weekly Bulletin: Parashat Nitzavim 5772

מרכז קהילתי ע"ש הרב יעקב ברמן

 פרשת נצבים תשע"ב‬‬

• הקידוש השבת בחסות משפחת נודלמן לכבוד יום הנישואין ה-50 של חסיה ואברהם. מזל טוב!
  Kiddush this Shabbat is sponsored by the Nudelman family in honor of the 50th wedding anniversary of Chasya and Avraham. Mazal Tov.
   
•  High Holidays 5773  ימים נוראים תשע"ג
  • This coming Friday (14th September) we will be setting up the minyanim that daven on Rosh Hashana away from the main shul.
    • The Hashkama minyan will be setting up in the Yeshiva library at 13:00
    • The Beit Midrash (aka “Parallel”) minyan will be setting up at 14:00 the floor above.
    All volunteers are very welcome, wherever you daven – no prior experience needed, new members especially welcome.
  • Selichot - Motzei Shabbat 22:30. Please bring your own selichot books as the shul dose not have enough to supply everyone.
  • Please bring machzorim for yourself and your children on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. The shul has a limited number of machzorim, and we would like to make them available to those who are in the process of giyur or otherwise do not have machzorim of them own.
• Pre-Succot activity for children: Sign up your children/grandchildren ages 4 thru 7 for a two hour activity making succah decorations on Thursday morning, September 27th, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. The activity will be held under the Pergola outside of shul and we will serve Tropiot and cookies. We will have some teenagers from Bermanoar helping the young ones make Succah decorations (probably chains and lanterns etc). At least one grown up will be present, and we would be happy if one or two other parents could volunteer their time for these two hours. Please contact Rachel Schecter (Rache50@gmail.com) if you want to volunteer. 
  The activity will be held if at least 15 children are signed up by Friday 21st September.  
  Please use the linked google sign-up form to register your children.
  
• Simhat Torah is approaching and we are looking for women to give divrei torah (English or Hebrew) while the men are doing Torah reading repetitions. RSVP to Chaya, ctannor@hotmail.com
• Membership renewal. All members who have not yet renewed their membership are requested to do so now, whether or not they require seats for the chagim. Thecombined membership and seat-order form is 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 ).
  Please note: Receipts for postdated checks will be issued when the checks are deposited.

SHANA TOVA! Our community is so lucky that we get to start the new year with the wonderful mitzvah of Hachnasat Orchim (הכנסת אורחים)! As we learn from Avraham Avenu, please open your homes (or tents on Succot :) ) to our newest arrivals and share the excitement of the Chagim with them. גדולה הכנסת אורחים יותר מקבלת פני השכינה, שבת קכ"ז

• List of new arrivals:
  This year Berman’s has had a large influx of new families joining the community. Berman members have opened their homes and arms to them with great warmth. We would like to continue that wonderful Berman’s hospitality and invite them to our Shabbat and Chag meals. Please follow this link which will take you to the current list of all the new families and their contact information.
   

• 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.

• I am interested in joining a carpool to Jerusalem - mornings and/or afternoons, I would like to give rides and get rides and/or chip in with others who work in Jerusalem on a daily basis.
  If you are interested please contact Chaim Martin at  chaim.m.martin@gmail.com or cell: 0506356112 .
   
• The Rehovot chapter of the Israel Association of Baseball is looking for motivated boys and girls for the 2012-13 season. Currently, we have set up two teams. One team for ages 7-9, and a more advanced team for ages 12-14. We are hoping to set up a third "middle" team for the 10-11 age category. The program, which runs from September to June, includes weekly Friday practices and league games against teams from other cities such as Ra'anana, Modi'in and Jerusalem.
  For more information, please contact Josh Kalman, 0524369896. Josh-k@orbotech.com