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May is Exciting at Bnai Keshet - June Starts with Rock & Roll

05/12/2015 02:22:12 PM

May12

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Tomorrow Night - Don't Miss it!

BK Co-Prez Marty Fellner Presents: "A Life Apart: Hasidism in America," movie and discussion. Join Marty for this 90-minute film, the first in-depth documentary about a distinctive, traditional Eastern European religious community.

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Wednesday, May 13 (Iyyar 24)
8:00a Meditation Minyan
4:15p Bet Midrash (3rd,4th,5th Grades)
8:00p Israel Through the Eyes of Israeli Literature
“Yellow Wind.”  by David Grossman (May 6,13, 2015)

Erev Shabbat, May 15 (Iyyar 26)
7:30a Morning Minyan
7:00p Kabbalat Shabbat
8:00p Marty Fellner Presents: "A Life Apart: Hasidism in America," movie and discussion

Shabbat, May 16: Behar-Bechukotai (Iyyar 27)
NO PARKING IN THE BK PARKING LOT THIS SATURDAY
9:00a Chanting with Melissa Schaffer
9:00a Introduction to Judaism
9:00a Parshat Hashavua: Diving Deeper taught by Rabbi Ariann
9:00a Bet Midrash
9:00a Torah Study with Jessica Siegel
10:00a Shacharit
10:00a Charley Polaner's Bat Mitzvah
4:00p Jewish Meditation Center

Monday, May 18 (Iyyar 29)
6:00p MESH
7:30p Tikkun Olam Committee

Tuesday, May 19 (Sivan 1)
7:30p Women's Rosh Hodesh Group

Wednesday, May 20 (Sivan 2)
8:00a Meditation Minyan
8:00p Israel Through the Eyes of Israeli Literature
On May 20th, we will conclude the series with a look at three early Zionists: Theodor Herzl; Ehad Ha'am; and Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. For this class, you will need to get your hands on "An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thinkers: from Spinoza to Soloveitchik," by Alan T. Levenson; these thinkers are the subjects of chapters 7,8 & 11. It is a great book and is being considered for an adult-ed class next year. 

Thursday, May 21 (Sivan 3)
8:00p Board Meeting

Erev Shabbat, May 22 (Sivan 4)
7:30a Morning Minyan

Shabbat, May 23: Erev Shavuot, Bamidbar (Sivan 5)
9:00a Introduction to Judaism
10:00a Shacharit
12:30p Conversational Hebrew
4:00p Jewish Meditation Center
7:30p Shavuot Tikkun

 

Yom Huledet                             Happy Birthday                               יום הולדת

Tuesday, May 12, 2015 Todd Schenk
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 Joshua max Weiss (17)
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 Charley Polaner (13)
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 Joshua Samual Jablons
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 Derek Walker
Thursday, May 14, 2015 Barbara Reisman
Thursday, May 14, 2015 Adam Grace
Thursday, May 14, 2015 Steve Rich
Thursday, May 14, 2015 Susan Herman
Thursday, May 14, 2015 Leslie Anne Weber
Friday, May 15, 2015 Samuel Seamus O'Leary Tepperman (11)
Friday, May 15, 2015 Nadav Lipkin
Friday, May 15, 2015 Brian Ellmann
Friday, May 15, 2015 Sarah Moffat Srebro
Saturday, May 16, 2015 Ariel Sebastian Treitler (8)
Saturday, May 16, 2015 Aaron Felix Brown (13)
Sunday, May 17, 2015 Miriam Jacobs
Monday, May 18, 2015 Jay Opperman
Monday, May 18, 2015 Shelley Rappaport
Monday, May 18, 2015 Ilan Fouks
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 Jennifer Bernstein
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 India Shandler (8)
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 Mikaela Itkin-Weinstein (18)
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 Melanie Lerner

This week's Torah portion

B'har / B'chukotai
Leviticus 25:1-26:2 / 26:3-27:34

Saturday, May 16, 2015 /27 Iyyar, 5775

 

The Eternal One spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai: "Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: When you enter the land that I assign to you, the land shall observe a sabbath of the Eternal." - Leviticus 25:1-2

 

​If you follow My laws and faithfully observe My commandments, I will grant your rains in their season, so that the earth shall yield its produce and the trees of the field their fruit. - Leviticus 26:3-4

Next Week

Tikkun Leil Shavuot

The Community Tikkun Leil Shavuot will be on Saturday, May 23rd at Temple Shalom of West Essex in Cedar Grove, beginning at 7:30PM. Click for details.

Your Junk Could Be Another Person's Treasure

Collection at BK will take place at the following dates and times at the BK Garage (at the back of the property when you enter off of S. Fullerton Avenue.

 

Monday, 5/11 - 4:30p -5:30p
Wednesday, 5/13 - 4:45p -6:15p
Tuesday, 5/19 - 2-4 pm
Wednesday, 5/20 - 7-8 pm
Wednesday. 5/27 - 12-2pm
Thursday,5/28 - 7-8 pm
Friday, 5/29 - 5-7 pm
Thu, May 1 2025 3 Iyar 5785