Rabbi Jacob Berman Community Center

Weekly Bulletin: Parashat Vayera 5773

מרכז קהילתי ע"ש הרב יעקב ברמן

 פרשת וירא תשע"ג

• Kiddush this week is sponsored by Lynn & David Sidransky in celebration of Yair's bar mitzvah. Mazal tov to the family and their guests.
   
• Mazal Tov to grandparents Shelley & Henry Schwarzbaum and great grandparents Florence & Sylvain Sternberg on the birth of a daughter to their (grand)children Yair & Rivki Schwarzbaum. Mazal Tov as well to grandparents Sara & Yaacov Meckler, and greatgrandmother Esther Sheinfeld.
   
• Mazal Tov to our members Bea & Jerry Kriger on the engagement of their son Boaz to Annabelle Pipet, daughter of Joelle & Marc Pipet, of Nokdim.
   
• Mazel Tov to Nettie & Leo Beer on the birth of a new grandson, born to their children Yardena and Zev Miller. A special mazel tov to the great grandfather, Sidney Beer.

• Shabbat youth activitiess
  • Rav Aryeh Frimer gives a shiur on Tfila to Teens (grades 10 – 12), every Shabbat at 11 am in the library.
  • Yossi Oren is organizing the Chug Bereshit for smaller children – every Shabbat at 11 am, in the ezrat nashim.

• My sunglasses (with white flowers on the ear pieces) disappeared at Kiddush last Shabbat. If anyone found them or knows of their whereabouts please contact Lisa 054-2274193 or return them to shul.

• 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 December 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.

• 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.

• Have you ever thought that you wanted to make a difference? Needed - kidney donors of all blood groups for patients on dialysis . Any blood type welcome!!! If you have blood group A, B, AB or O please consider donating a kidney. You will be guided throughout the whole process by the organization Matnat Chaim which has organized 80 altruistic transplants in the last 3 years Please contact me for further information: Judithabrahams1@gmail.com or 0547612103 Please note: Your expenses will be covered by the Min. of Health including lost wages, 7 days in hotel, and 2500nis for misc - and the sense of satisfaction is immeasurable!!!!!