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YOUNG ISRAEL OF WEST HARTFORD

2240 ALBANY AVENUE

WEST HARTFORD, CT 06117

860-233-3084

Web Site: www.youngisraelwh.org

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Rabbi Brahm Weinberg 860-233-3084 or [email protected] Debra Luger 860-233-0300 or [email protected]

Affiliate of the National Council of Young Israel Synagogues, Member of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, Sponsor of West Hartford NCSY, National Conference of Synagogue Youth, Kashrut Commission of Greater Hartford,

Mikveh Bess Israel of Greater Hartford, Eruv of West Hartford

UPCOMING COMMUNITY EVENTS

12/19 Shabbat Chanukah Lecture Series with Stu Miller

12/22 Kid's Chanuka Fun Night

1/3/15 “NOAH” - YIWH Film Night 1/16 - 17 YIWH - AIPAC Shabbaton

1/22 Joint YIWH - Chabad Havdallah SEE BULLETIN FOR MORE DETAILS

SPECIAL SHABBAT CHANNUKA LECTURE SERIES

Friday night December 19th & Saturday night December 20th

With Professor Stuart Miller "From the Maccabim to Miqvaot:"

A two part presentation devoted to the history, preservation. & endurance of

Jewish ritual life. Part I - Friday Night Shiur

“The Real Miracle of Hanukkah" At YIWH at 8:00 PM

Refreshments will be served!

Part II - Saturday Night Multimedia Presentation

"Ritual Bathing Practices and Jewish Communal Life from Ancient Sepphoris

(Tsippori) to Nineteenth Century Chesterfield, CT”

At the home of Shayne & Stu Kesler, 57 Pilgrim Road at 8:00 PM

Stuart S. Miller is Professor of Hebrew, History, and

Judaic Studies at UConn at Storrs. He also is the Aca-

demic Director of UConn’s Center for Judaic Studies

and Contemporary Jewish Life and is the Chair of the

Hebrew and Judaic Studies section in the Department

of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. Professor

Miller earned his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies and

History at New York University in 1980, “with dis-

tinction.” Before coming to UConn in 1982, he was a

Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies in the

Department of Theology at the University of Notre

Dame. He has since been a visiting professor at New

York University, the Hebrew University, and Brown

University. Professor Miller’s publications include

numerous articles and three books, the most recent,

which is devoted to ritual purity rites in ancient Gali-

lee in the time of the rabbis, will appear in February,

2015.

Shabbat Mevorchim Parashat Miketz

December 20th, 2014 28 Kislev 5775

Kiddush this Shabbat

Is Sponsored by

Barbara and Norman Spector

in honor of Our Chanukah birthdays.

Asher Nasanel Mintzes on his upsherin

birthday. Malka Faiga Mintzes and

Shoshana Spector on their birthdays.

מזל טוב

to Rachel (Luger) & David Levi on the מזל טוב

birth of a baby boy! מזל טוב to grandparents Debbie & Steven Luger, and Manashe & Florence Levi, and to Rena, ELi & Aiden

Aroesty, and Judith Luger!

to Asaf Glahn on his recent Bar מזל טוב

Mitzvah! מזל טוב to proud parents Esther

and David and brothers Josh & Natan. מזל

to proud grandparents Rabbi Harold טובand Judy Liebowitz and Dan Yahiel, and all

Asaf’s aunts, uncles & cousins!

to Daniella & Scott Wittenberg on the מזל טובbirth of Yehudah Gavriel, & to big brother

Benjy! טוב מזל to grandparents Fran &

Gene, and Barbara & Joe Rotenberg; מזל טוב to great grandmothers Bea Scharaga & Bessie

Wittenberg, and to Orit, Eric & Avraham

Tzvi! מזל טוב to the entire Wittenberg & Rotenberg families!

to Shari & Sam Raymond on the birth מזל טוב

of Aaron Isaac! מזל טוב to grandparents Audrey & Arlen Lichter, great-grandmother

Sylvia Ross, and to Jenny, Eliad, Doni & Maya

Shmuel, and Simon! מזל טוב to the entire Lichter and Raymond families!

ברוך דין האמתWe regret to inform you of the passing

of Evelyn Weinstein, beloved mother of our member Morton Weinstein. May Hashem comfort Morty and the entire Weinstein family among the mourners of Zion and

Yerushalayim.

Editor: Judie Patel [email protected]

SEUDAH SHLISHIT

Is sponsored this week by David & Sharon Goldfarb on the occasion of the yahrzeit of

David’s mother Bluma bat Shimon.

WOMEN’S TEHILLIM GROUP

Our next gathering will take place this Monday evening, December 22nd

at 7:30 PM At the home of Sally Gelb

50 Middlebrook Road

DOR L’DOR

Parent Child Learning at HHNE Saturday Nights Between 7:00 -8:00 PM January 10th Januray 24th February 7th February 21st

JOINT YIWH - CHABAD HAVDALLAH

Program for children and parents January 24th.

More details to follow.

MIKVEH BESS ISRAEL

A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES

Saturday, January 17th at 8:00PM At the home of Deena Rubin, 2 Old Field Road

LUZ

A short documentary about the relationship between a mother and her adopted daughter, Luz.

It addresses the crucial question: What is motherhood?

WOMEN ONLY

BOOK CLUB

Next book is Isaac Bashevis Singer’s third posthumous book MESHUGAH

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Judie & Lal Patel Mazal Tov to Evelyn & Stan Rutstein on their latest grandson!

Jason Wolfe & Vera Schwarcz In honor of the birth of new grandson to Stan & Evelyn Rutstein In honor of the birth of new grandson to Arlen & Audrey Lichter

David & Sharon Goldfarb In memory of David Glahn's Mother In memory of Arlen Lichter's Mother In honor of birth of new grandson to Stan & Evelyn Rutstein

NEW GUIDELINES FOR DONATIONS

& ACKNOWLEDGEMENT CARDS

The YIWH has beautiful, new printed cards to be used for acknowledgements and to thank

individuals for donations. Please send your check with the detailed acknowledgement information (including ad-dresses as needed) DIRECTLY TO THE SHUL OFFICE OR DONATE ON THE WEB SITE. Cards will be sent out and

a posting will go in the Bulletin unless you direct us otherwise.

WINTER CLASSES AT YIWH

MISHNA BRURAH CLASS

With Rabbi Sheinkopf Shabbat Mornings at 8:15AM

RABBI WEINBERG’S SUNDAY MORNING

GEMARA CLASS - Masechet Beitzah

WEEKLY AUDIO CLASS

“10 Minutes on Tefilla” This class will be emailed every week

We will be studying Shearim B’Tefilla” of Rabbi Shimshon Dovid Pincus z”l.

NEW WOMEN’S LEARNING GROUP

Wednesday morning at 11:15 AM At Café J at the JCC

Lunch & Learn on break until 1/7/15

New Tuesday Night Class

to begin again in January

NEW SHABBAT PROGRAM

called Shabbat Tot Circle It will be a parent led Shabbat group for

children ages five and under. The program will be the first Shabbat of every month.

Parents are invited to stay with their children during this program to partake in davening,

songs and games. A special Shabbat treat will be served.

YIWH YEAR-LONG TORAH LEARNING PROJECT 5775

The Concise Book of Mitzvot by The Chafetz Chaim

MOVIE NIGHT

Saturday, January 3rd at 7:30 PM

NOAH

A man is chosen by his world's creator to undertake a momentous mission before an apocalyptic flood cleanses the world.

YIWH - AIPAC SHABBATON

January 17th at YIWH. Featuring special speakers and programs

about AIPAC and Israel Advocacy. More details to follow.

SHABBAT MITZVOT TO STUDY

12/20 Positive 61 - 66

Rabbi Weinberg will be away from Thursday 12/25 until Thursday 1/1. Please contact him only in cases of

emergency. For halachic questions while he is gone please contact Rabbi Chagie

Rubin (203-278-3632). For shul related matters contact Stu Kesler or

Debbie Luger.

tel:%28203-278-3632

Dvar Torah of the Week By Rav Shames, Midreshet Harova (www.harova.org) As this week is Chanukah I would like to focus our attention on the holiday in-stead of the parsha. We will all gather to light the candles this coming week and immediately follow-ing the lighting Ashkenazim have the custom of singing the Maoz Tzur. The song is a review of Jewish history with its ups and downs, and tracks the different enemies that we have had and the salvation that Hashem has provided for us from each and every one of them. (It can easily be summed up by the "famous" summary: "they wanted to kill us, God saved us, let's eat…”). It is interesting to me that we do not sing this song on any other holiday other than Chanuka, despite the fact that there is only one stanza dealing with the miracle of Chanukah, and there are ones about Pesach and Purim as well. The answer to this is related to the understanding of the nature of the holiday itself. The Gemara in Shabbat tells us that after the finding of the oil the Rabbis estab-lished an eight day "holiday of praise and thanking". Chanukah is different than Pe-sach and Purim in this respect. The other holidays have some sort of independent identity which may include thanking God for the seasonal miracle, however when it comes to Chanukah the very essence of the day is thanking and praising God. It is a true week of Thanksgiving. Everything we do on Chanukah is focused on this one pur-pose.

This is the only Rabbinic holiday on which we say Hallel, and as a matter of fact out of the eighteen days a year that a full Hallel is said (in Israel), eight are on Chanu-kah, outranking even some of Pesach itself! It is also significant to note that if you are looking for the halachot of the saying of the Hallel in the Rambam you will, surprisingly, find them in Hilchot Chanukah and not in Hilchot Teffila or in the sections dealing with any other of the holidays on which we say Hallel. The Rambam was revolutionary in his division and classification of the halachot. His placement of the halachot is clearly to be seen as intentional and with the purpose of teaching us something. The Rambam chose to place them here to let us know something about the nature of Chanukah as a time dedicated to Hallel. The organizational system of the Rambam is even more striking when we see that he starts off hilchot Chanukah with the history, moves on to describe the estab-lishment of the holiday and then talks about how many brachot to make while lighting the candles. At this point he "takes a break" and dedicates nine full halachot to the de-tails of saying hallel and only at the start of the next chapter does he pick up with the details of the candles (how many to light, where to light etc..). The halachot of the hal-lel seem to be very much out of place, unless we understand that the message to be that the entire week manifests itself in hallel and even the lighting of the candles is to be seen as an expression of hallel. Chanukah Sameach and Shabbat Shalom Rav Shames

SCRIP PROGRAM

Thank you to our shul members who have either recently started to participate in the Scrip program or who have continued their involvement. I am happy to report that from July 1st our shul has raised

$3152. Twelve new families have started to buy supermarket gift cards since July, and two new families enrolled to make purchases from their favorite retailers. I am happy to announce that we just bought a

limited number of $100 gift cards from Whole Foods to sell to the shul members directly. Daniella (Cell) 516-286-0815

NEW BOOKKEEPER

We have a new bookkeeper, Kim Danek. She will be working part time at the Shul office in the same capacity as Martha. In general, her hours will be Mondays & Thursdays from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM. (These hours may vary slightly this month)

You can call during those hours, or email her at [email protected] and she will get back to you when she is in the office.

http://www.harova.org/

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Check out the weekly Schedule on the YIWH Website youngisraelwh.org/times ~ Times from: ou.org/holidays/calendar

For Eruv Information: twitter.com/WHartfordEruv or youngisraelwh.org/eruv or (Hotline - 860-232-6417)

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YIWH Schedule of Services

December 19th - 26th, 2014 It is easy to sponsor a Kiddush

Shabbat Chanukah Parashat Miketz Or Seudah Shlishit!

Friday, December 19th - Erev Shabbat Chanukah Shul handles set up & Clean up!

Shacharit 6:30 a.m. Contact Judie Patel at 860-761-3818, or

Mincha/Maariv EARLY TO LEAVE TIME IN SHUL 4:00 p.m. [email protected]

FOR CHANUKAH CADLELIGHTING to check the availability of the date

Candle Lighting 4:03 p.m. you need & call Fran Wittenberg

Shabbat, December 20th - Chanukah at 860-983-4837

Rabbi Sheinkopf’s Mishna Brurah Class 8:00 a.m. to make the arrangements for the

Shacharit 8:45 a.m. type of Kiddush you want.

Sof Zman Kriat Shma 9:32 a.m. Checks need to be received the

Shabbat Morning Youth Groups 10:00 a.m. Sunday prior to your Kiddush date.

Mincha followed by Seudah Shlishit & Maariv 3:50 p.m. There are three types

Shabbat Ends 5:05 p.m. of Kiddushim:

Standard for $150,

Sunday, December 21st - Thursday, December 25th Semi-Deluxe for $250

Earliest Tallit & Tefillin 6:09 a.m. & Deluxe for $350

Shacharit...Sunday - Chanukah 8:00 a.m. With supplements available.

No Gemara Shiur

Shacharit…Monday - Tuesday - Chanukah/Rosh Chodesh 6:30 a.m. For Seudah Shlishit contact

Shacharit…Wednesday - Chanukah 6:30 a.m. Jason Dulberg at 860-523-1568

Shacharit…Thursday 8:15 a.m.

Mincha/Maariv...Sunday at YIWH 4:10 p.m. KIDDUSH SCHEDULE

Mincha/Maariv...Monday - Tuesday at HHNE 4:10 p.m. 12/20 Spector

Mincha/Maariv...Wednesday - Thursday at YIWH 4:10 p.m.

Friday, November 26th - Erev Shabbat

Shacharit 6:45 a.m.

Candle Lighting 4:08 p.m.

Mincha/Maariv 4:13 p.m.

Ner La’Maor - Lights Daniella & Avi Robinson

Yayin l’ Kiddush Ve'Havdalah

Judy & Lauren Daman

Pat La’Orchim Challah rolls for Seudah Shlishit

Juanita & Yitz Moss

In memory of Yitz’s grandfather Albert Sheiner אברהם בן עמנואל

Kiddush Supplement

Rachel & David Cohen

Seudah Shlishit Supplement Ilana & Steve Bernstein In honor of their parents

Victor & Lieba Bernstein Rabbi Richard & Lisa Plavin

5775 Candy Man You-Dah-Man

Elisheva & Zev Davidovics Ann & Jeremy Pava

Handy Man Good Humor Man

Patty & Lou Kornreich In honor of Tsion Cohen Debbie & Steve Luger

In memory of their daughter Michelle Daman Wasserman טובה רנה גיטל פרידה בת אברהם

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December 26th, 2014 - January 2nd, 2015 It is easy to sponsor a Kiddush

Shabbat Parashat Vayigash Or Seudah Shlishit!

Friday, December 26th - Erev Shabbat Shul handles set up & Clean up!


Candle Lighting 4:07 p.m. [email protected]

Mincha/Maariv 4:13 p.m. to check the availability of the date

Shabbat, December 27th you need & call Fran Wittenberg

Rabbi Sheinkopf’s Mishna Brurah Class 8:00 a.m. at 860-983-4837

Shacharit 8:45 a.m. to make the arrangements for the

Sof Zman Kriat Shma 9:35 a.m. type of Kiddush you want.

Shabbat Morning Youth Groups 10:00 a.m. Checks need to be received the

Mincha followed by Seudah Shlishit & Maariv 3:55 p.m. Sunday prior to your Kiddush date.

Shabbat Ends 5:09 p.m. There are three types

Sunday, December 28th - Wednesday, January 1st of Kiddushim:

Earliest Tallit & Tefillin 6:21 a.m. Standard for $150,

Shacharit...Sunday - 8:00 a.m. Semi-Deluxe for $250

No Gemara Shiur & Deluxe for $350

Shacharit…Monday 6:40 a.m. With supplements available.

Shacharit…Tuesday - Wednesday - 6:45 a.m.

Mincha/Maariv...Sunday - Thursday at YIWH 4:15 p.m. For Seudah Shlishit contact

Thursday, January 1st - Asara B’Tevet

Alot Hashachar - Fast Begins 5:49 a.m. KIDDUSH SCHEDULE

Shacharit…Thursday 8:00 a.m.

Chatzot - Midday 11:55 a.m.

Mincha/Maariv...Thursday @ YIWH 4:15 p.m.

Fast Ends 5:13 p.m.

Friday, January 2nd - Erev Shabbat

Shacharit 6:45 a.m.




Yayin l’ Kiddush Ve'Havdalah Judy & Lauren Daman


Juanita & Yitz Moss


Kiddush Supplement Rachel & David Cohen





















January 2nd - 9th, 2015 It is easy to sponsor a Kiddush

Shabbat Parashat Vayechi Or Seudah Shlishit!

Friday, January 2nd - Erev Shabbat Shul handles set up & Clean up!




you need & call Fran Wittenberg

Shabbat, January 3rd at 860-983-4837







Standard for $150,

Sunday, January 4th - Thursday, January 8th Semi-Deluxe for $250


Shacharit...Sunday - Followed by Breakfast 8:00 a.m. With supplements available.

and Rabbi Weinberg’s Gemara Shiur

Shacharit…Monday 6:40 a.m. For Seudah Shlishit contact


Mincha/Maariv...Sunday - Wednesday at YIWH 4:20 p.m. KIDDUSH SCHEDULE

Friday, January 9th - Erev Shabbat

Shacharit 6:45 a.m.






Juanita & Yitz Moss























January 9th - 16th, 2015 It is easy to sponsor a Kiddush

Shabbat Parashat Shemot Or Seudah Shlishit!

Friday, January 9th - Erev Shabbat Shul handles set up & Clean up!




you need & call Fran Wittenberg

Shabbat, January 10th at 860-983-4837







Standard for $150,

Sunday, January 11th - Thursday, January 15th Semi-Deluxe for $250


Shacharit...Sunday - Followed by Breakfast 8:00 a.m. With supplements available.

and Rabbi Weinberg’s Gemara Shiur

Shacharit…Monday 6:40 a.m. For Seudah Shlishit contact


Mincha/Maariv...Sunday - Wednesday at YIWH 4:25 p.m. KIDDUSH SCHEDULE

Friday, January 16th - Erev Shabbat

Shacharit 6:45 a.m.






Juanita & Yitz Moss















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