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MAY 2013 EVENTS
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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Minyan 9:30 am
Minyan 9:30 am
Israel Day parade
Minyan 9:30 am
Komen Race for the
Cure
Minyan 7:00 am
Mens Club Board
Meeting 7:00 pm
Minyan 7:00 am
NO SERVICES
Minyan 7:00 am
Minyan 7:00 am
Mens Club Steak
Night 6:00 pm
P/S Lag BOmer
Picnic 10:30 am
Shabbat Syn*Ergy
6:15 pm
Services 9:30 am
Minha Services
5:00 pm
Bar Mitzvah of
Josh Stern
Services 9:30 am
Shabbat Spirit
Services 11:00 am
Honor Thy Mother
and Father
Services 6:15 pm
featuring our P/S
Senior classes
NO SERVICES
1001 Paper Mill Road Erdenheim, PA 19038 215-836-5677 215-836-0211 fax e-mail: office@btbj.org www.btbj.org
Minyan 7:00 am
Last Wednesday
Religious School &
Teens Together
Hay Move-Up Day
6:45 pm
BTBJ University
7:30 pm
Tikun Leil Shavuot
9:00 pm
Shavuot Services
10:00 am
Confirmation
Dinner 6:15 pm
Services 7:30 pm
Services 7:30 pm
Mens Club Trip
Services 6:15 pm
featuring our Freshmen
and Junior classes
Last Tuesday
Religious School
Minyan 7:00 am
Ladies Vendor and
Bingo Night 7:00 pm
Last Sunday
Religious School
Annual Meeting
10:30 am
Picnic 11:30 a.m.
Monday, June 3 Sisterhood End of Year Dinner
Thursday, June 6 Last Day of Preschool
Friday, June 7 Preschool Graduation 10:00 a.m.
Monday, June 10 BTBJ Executive Committee Meeting - 7:30 p.m.
Friday, June 27 BTBJ Board Meeting - 7:30 p.m.
Have a Great Summer!
SAVE THESE JUNE 2013 DATES
Minyan 7:00 am
Sisterhood Board
Meeting 7:00 pm
Shavuot Services with
Yizkor 9:30 am
MAY 2013
Volume 9
Issue 4
IYAR - SIVAN
The Ruach!
Services 9:30 am
Last Saturday
Religious School
Jr. Cong. 10:30 am
Erev Shavuot Shavuot Shavuot
Minyan 9:30 am
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On Tuesday evening May 14th, we will cele-
brate the festival of Shavuot, commemorating the
season of Zman Matan Torateinu, the Giving of the
Torah. Tuesday evening @ 9 10:30 PM, we will
gather to welcome Shavuot, study and discuss
Jewish texts and eat the traditional dairy foods. On
Wednesday morning, we will read the Aseret
HaDibrot, the 10 Commandments, in honor of
Revelation and the original giving of the Torah on Mt.
Sinai in the 13th century BCE. On Wednesday
evening, we will hold our annual Confirmation pro-
gram and service (7:30 PM) in recognition of those
Hebrew students who have continued their education
for 3 years past their Bnai Mitzvah. On Thursday
morning, the 2nd and final day of Shavuot, we will
gather (9:30 AM) for services including Yizkor
Memorial Services to memorialize our loved ones
who have passed on. Along with lighting Yom Tov
candles on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, we
light Yizkor candles on Wednesday night too.
We learn: The Torah is comprised of 600,000
letters. The Jewish People gathered at Mt. Sinai
numbered 600,000 strong. As the Torah cannot be
complete and holy if even one letter is missing, so too
every Jew is needed to strengthen and complete the
Jewish people. From this we learn that there is great
importance to the presence of each and every
Hebrew letter of Torah and each and every Jew.
Each one of us counts! Each one of us makes a dif-
ference! Each one of us brings something to our peo-
ple that no one else can bring! Therefore, I hope well
each recognize and feel our individual worth the next
time we conclude, I dont need to be there and con-
tribute because after all, I am only one person. Each
letter of Torah and each member of our congregation
and community truly makes all the difference
between us being lacking or complete!
Last month, we celebrated Pesach with our
family and friends around the Seder tables. We
recalled the ancient story of how our ancestors were
slaves in Egypt for 400 years, until God & Moshe lib-
erated and redeemed them with great signs and out
Shavuot: Celebrating
the Holiness of each
Torah Letter & Each
Jew in our People
In memory of Carmen
Weinstein
stretched arms. Every year at Pesach time, every
day in our prayers do we remember our Egyptian
ordeal and how we were blessed to gain our free-
dom, Torah and the Promised Land!
Carmen Weinstein, zl, was 82 years old
when she died last month in Egypt. Remembered as
the Iron Lady leader of Egypts tiny remaining
Jewish community, Carmen was buried in the
Bassatine cemetery in Cairo, the place she had
worked so hard to save since 1978.
Jews were once prominent in the Egyptian
Communist Party which was outlawed under
President Gamal Abdel Nassar in 1958. Once num-
bering more than 80,000, the exodus of Egypts Jews
began with the establishment of the State of Israel in
1948, which is currently marking its 65th year of mod-
ern existence. Many Jews fled Egypt to escape
attacks and persecution on the community around
the time of the 1956 Sinai Campaign War, when
Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula and regained con-
trol of the Suez Canal. Today, the Egyptian Jewish
community numbers less than 100, divided between
Cairo and Alexandria.
Barry Friedman, a US Jew living in Cairo,
eulogized Carmen by saying, She was a very digni-
fied woman who was very committed to the existing
Jewish community. She was a real asset. She
stayed here when many other people left over the
years.
Weinstein helped preserve the Egyptian
Jewish heritage by helping to keep over 100 Torah
scrolls in Egypt from being transferred to the
Brooklyn-based Historical Society of Jews from
Egypt in 1997.
Desire Sakaal, the director of the society said,
She (Weinstein) came back with a letter saying that
those items are like the pyramids and the Sphynx and
should not be moved. She later turned over the items
to the Egyptian Department of Antiquities.
Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi paid
tribute to Weinstein in a statement, calling her a ded-
icated Egyptian who worked tirelessly to preserve
Egyptian Jewish heritage and valued, above all else,
living and dying in her country, Egypt.
Weinstein diligently protected the Jewish
cemetery of Bassatine in Cairo, where she was laid
to rest before a crowd of 100 including US and Israeli
diplomats, against vandalism for many years.
Zichrona Livracha, may this Jewish heroine rest
in peace!
At Shavuot time, we are encouraged to re-
embrace and appreciate the many gifts of Torah. As
we gaze upon the sacred letters that comprise the
FROM THE DESK OF RABBI SAUL I. GRIFE
Rabbi Grife Rabbi Grife (continued) (continued) ShavuotShavuot Shabbat SShabbat Spiritpirit Annual MeetingAnnual Meeting
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words, verses, parshiyot (weekly portions) and
books, let us remember that each and every letter
has a critical and singular role to play in telling our
story and inspiring lives of kedusha, holiness! As
we gaze upon our fellow Jews at BTBJ and around
the world as well as at ourselves, let us remember
that each and every one of us is kadosh (holy),
worthwhile, needed and capable of making great con-
tributions to the Jewish people and humanity! May
the life and legacy of Carmen Weinstein be treasured
for all that she did for the Egyptian and worldwide
Jewish communities. So too, like Carmen, may we
become Iron men, women and children in our own
right to protect and enhance the Torah, our heritage
and all that is beautiful and true in the eternal fight
against hatred, violence and evil in our world in pur-
suit of liberty and peace for all.
AMEN!!
Our Annual Tikkun Leyl ShavuotStudy Session
Tuesday, May 14, 20136 Sivan 5773
9:00 PM---------------------
On this first night of Shavuot, whenwe join to celebrate Zman Matan
Torateinu, the season of the Givingof the Torah, join us to study &explore the wisdom of Torah!!
Dairy refreshments will be served
Get the Shabbat SpiritHappy Mothers and
Fathers Days
Honor Thy Mother and Father
Saturday, May 11, 201310:00 a.m. - 12:00 noonCelebrating May, June, July and
August Birthdays andAnniversaries
Bagel brunch and Extended Kiddush
BTBJ Annual Meeting
Sunday, May 5, 20139:30 a.m. Minyan
10:30 a.m. Annual Meeting11:30 a.m. Picnic
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NOTES FROM HAZZAN NOTES FROM HAZZAN ARLARLYNE UNGERYNE UNGER Social Social ActionAction
Hazzan Arlyne Unger,
Hazzan and
Educational Director
Recently the religious school children participated in
experiential programs to better understand the holi-
day of Pesach. The Mechina and Aleph students
enjoyed a round-robin program in which they went to
four different stations with various activities, each
based on a different name for the Passover holiday.
The four names are Pesach (passing over the
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