 IN-SCHOOL
REGISTRATION for 2009-2010 SUNDAY SCHOOL AND
HEBREW SCHOOL
Sundays, March 15 &
March 29
10am - noon
Bring the registration
packet you received in the mail; stop in the
GRJC on either of these two Sunday mornings
with your completed forms and $50 registration
fee (check or credit card).
RELIGIOUS SCHOOL
OPEN HOUSE
SUNDAY, MARCH 15
1Oam-noon
Stop in whether or not
you have children in our Hebrew School.
Register your children for next year (bring
your friends and your children's friends!);
peek into our classrooms;
see our hallway
displays; and visit the
Daled Class Shtetl Fair in the Social
Hall.
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AN EVENING OF GADNA BOOT CAMP FOR BOGRIM AND
MADRICHIM YOUTHS
MARCH 16,
2009
6:30pm
On Monday, March 16, a
representative from Gadna, the Israeli Youth
Battalions, will involve our middle school
and high school students in an evening of
boot camp activities, similar to the ones
actually used with Israeli youths before
their army training.
Any Bogrim or
Madrichim teens who have not RSVP'd to
Laurie Herman should contact her at
Lauriebh@optonline.net.
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GRJC 2009
Scholar in Residence:
Dr. Elisheva Baumgarten
March 27th & 28th
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Baumgarten to
the GRJC in March as Scholar-in-residence.
She is a Professor at Bar Ilan University in
Israel and is now at the Institute for
Advanced Study in Princeton. Her
book, Mothers and Children Jewish Family
Life in Medieval Europe, received the
Koret Foundation prize for best book in Jewish
history in 2005.
Dr. Baumgarten will offer three
sessions over the course of Shabbat that will
focus on the history and development of the
Jewish family, gender roles and relationships
in Jewish society, and the place of women in
Jewish society throughout the ages. She will
take the wisdom of the past and help us apply
it to the present and future.
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KOSHER MEALS ON WHEELS
(KMOW)
NEEDS DRIVERS!
Jewish Family Service
(JFS) of Bergen County is looking for
volunteers to deliver meals to homebound,
elderly individuals.
Drivers must be 17
years of age or older and have a valid NJ
state driver's license.
This is a great
opportunity to fulfill your community
service requirements!
For further
information, please contact:
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Shabbat, February
March 13-14, 2009
17-18 Adar, 5769
SHABBAT
PARAH
The
Torah portion for this week is Ki Tissa.
We light our Shabbat candles at 6:43 pm.
Bria Schottland will come to the Torah as
a Bat Mitzvah this Shabbat. We extend a
Mazel Tov to Bria and her entire family.
Friday night services will begin at 8 pm.
Saturday morning services will begin at 9
am
Shabbat ends at 7:44 pm Saturday.
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Shabbat Shalom to the GRJC family
This Shabbat is known as "Shabbat Parah",
referring to the ritual of the red heifer
that we read about in the special maftir
portion on Saturday morning. It is the
third of four special Shabbat observances
that we have before Passover.
On the surface, the portion teaches us about
an ancient purification ritual. The ashes
of the red heifer were used to purify
individuals who came into contact with a
corpse. As a result of that contact, these
individuals were impure. We will find out
later on in the Torah story that there was a
group of individuals among the Israelites
wandering in the desert who were impure
around the time of the Passover holiday.
They could not, then, offer the Pesach
(Passover) sacrifice, and instead they had
to wait until a month later.(Another reason
for postponing the sacrifice was that the
individual may have been too far from
Jerusalem to come back in time for the
holiday). This portion comes to teach us
not just about the purification ritual but
also serves as a reminder to us that we have
to purify ourselves before the holiday so
that we can be ready to celebrate it.
We no longer have a Temple, though, and
therefore there is nothing that we can do
regarding ritual impurity. We cannot offer
the red heifer even if we were to find one
that qualified, that is, a heifer that is
completely red. However, we can address our
"emotional purity", our emotional readiness
for Passover. Before we even sweep up the
first crumbs of bread and other chametz, we
can take some time to explore what is on our
minds at this moment. If it is the sad
state of the economy, then perhaps we can
think about what messages in the Passover/Haggadah
story can help us to learn and grow from
these difficult times in which we are
living. If we are thinking about our
families and relationships, then perhaps we
can focus on how to celebrate the people we
love and seek to mend fences with those
family members with whom our relationships
may have soured. The Rabbis of our
tradition recommend that we prepare for
Passover by studying its laws, traditions,
and meaning. We can try to find out where
we fit into this story that we tell and
retell l'dor va'dor, from one generation to
the next.
What does the Exodus story mean to you in
your life? How would you like to prepare
for Passover in an emotional and spiritual
way? What might the Exodus story be able to
teach us about negotiating these difficult
economic times?
With these questions in mind, I want to wish
everyone a restful Shabbat, as we enjoy the
rich tasty challah for a few more weeks,
Rabbi Tow |
Upcoming Week's Calendar
Sunday, March 15
9:45 - 11:15
Daled Class Shtetl Fair
10:00am - noon
Religious School Open House and
2009-10
School Registration
10:00-11:00am
Rabbi Tow's Haftorah Chanting Class
11:00am - noon
Adult B'nai Mitzvah Class
1:15pm
Newark Museum Tour
2:00 pm
Constitution Committee Meeting (Library)
3:00 - 5:00pm
50+ Club Social and Movie (Social Hall)
Monday, March 16
6:30
- 8:30pm
Bogrim and Madrichim teens
at Gadna
Boot Camp (Social Hall)
7:30 - 9:45pm
Melton II Adult Ed Class
(Youth Lounge)
Tuesday, March 17
NO NURSERY
SCHOOL
9:30 - 10:45am
Mommy & Me
6:30 - 9:30pm
Women's Seder at the YJCC
7:30-9:30
Interfaith Bible Study at
Good Shepherd
Lutheran Church in Glen Rock
Friday,
March 20
6:00-7:30pm
Girl Scout Shabbat Service
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Glen Rock Jewish Center
682 Harristown Road
Glen Rock, New Jersey 07452
(201) 652-6624 fax
(201)652-6628
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