Zoom Torah Study (Sat, May 2)

We are switching to Zoom for Torah study. Join us in Zoom! (We'll use this link for Torah study until we meet face-to-face again.)

Times:  Saturdays at 9 Central
Zoom Link:  https://zoom.us/j/630741697

Password:  Zoom may ask you for a password;
    email Ed, Susan, or bethshalomauburn@gmail.com for the password
Meeting ID:  (to type into Zoom if the link isn’t working): 630 741 697

This week's parashat is Acharei Mot - K'doshim, Leviticus 16:1-20:27.
If you don't have a copy of the Torah where you are, use one of the many available digital resources:

• URJ text of Acharei Mot and of K'doshim (CCAR translation from The Torah: A Modern Commentary) 
• URJ commentary on Acharei Mot - K'doshim (this week's parashat is a combination of Acharei Mot and K'doshim; you can also find commentary on the separate pieces on the URJ site)
• ISJL’s Taste of Torah, updated weekly
• Chabad’s text of Acharei Mot - K'doshim (translation by Rabbi A.J. Rosenberg; you can use the button at the top of the translation to turn on Rashi’s commentary)
• Sefaria’s text of Acharei Mot - K'doshim (JPS translation from Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures)
• Sefaria's resources for Acharei Mot and K'doshim (go to Sheets for commentaries)
• Chabad’s list of resources for Acharei Mot - K'doshim (interpretations, etc.--updated weekly to current portion)

Streamed Streamed Friday Night Service, Zoom link (Fri, May 1)

Do NOT come to the synagogue for this service. This is a streamed only service because of the COVID-19 outbreak.

If you show up, we will turn you away (for your safety, ours, and the community's).

To join us,

• access the CCAR's Mishkan T'Filah free as a flip book* 
• service outline
  (esp. for page numbers)
• join by Zoom
  (same Zoom link as most recent Shabbats -- will allow 100 people) 

• get the password by emailing Susan, Ed, or bethshalomauburn@gmail.com
• join this way to count toward minyan
• join this way to participate (to take a turn reading, to speak to everyone)
• OR join by Facebook Live by visiting the linked Facebook page and scrolling to the live feed

Also, please let us know early in the service if you have names for mi shebeirach and yahrzeits or if you have announcements.

Book Discussion: Up from Orchard Street by Jennifer Weiner (Sun, May 17)

About Up from Orchard Street by Eleanor Widmer

(Available via paperback, kindle, Audible audiobook, MP3 CD)

From the Publisher:

Up from Orchard Street...

...where three generations of Roth's live together in a crowded tenement flat at number 12. Long-widowed Manya is the family's head and its heart: mother of dapper Jack, mother-in-law of frail and beautiful Lil, and adored bubby of Elka and Willy. She's renowned throughout the teeming neighborhood for her mouthwatering cooking, and every noontime the front room of the flat turns into Manya's private restaurant, where the local merchants come to savor her hearty stews and soups, succulent potato latkes and tzimmes, preserved fruits and glorious pastries.

She is just as renowned for her fierce sense of honor, her quick eye for charlatans, and her generosity to those in need. But Manya is no soft touch-except, perhaps, where her adored granddaughter Elka is concerned. It is skinny, precocious Elka who is her closest companion and confidante-and the narrator of this event-packed novel. Through Elka's eyes we come to know the fascinating characters who come in and out of the Roths' lives: relatives, eccentric locals, doctors, busybody neighbors-as well as the many men who try fruitlessly to win voluptuous Manya's favors. We live through the bittersweet world of these blunt, earthy, feisty people for whom poverty was endemic, illness common, crises frequent, and zest for living intense. Money may have been short but opinions were not, and their tart tongues and lively humor invest every page. In this riveting story lies the heart of the American immigrant experience: a novel at once wise, funny, poignant, anguishing, exultant-and bursting with love.

Discussion Details

Join us either in person or by Zoom (depending on our circumstances). We will have a lively discussion of Eleanor Widmer's Up from Orchard Street.

Time:  Sunday, May 17, at 3 Central
Zoom Link (if we are still meeting via Zoom): https://zoom.us/j/974051878

Password:  Zoom may ask you for a password;
    email Ed, Susan, or bethshalomauburn@gmail.com for the password
Meeting ID:  (to type into Zoom if the link isn’t working): 974 051 878

Upcoming Possible Selections

The Beth Shalom Book Group is considering the following selections for the future:

• Cut Me Loose by Lean Vincent
• Emerald Horizon by Jean Grainger
• Spies of No Country: Secret Lives of the Birth of Israel by Matti Friedman

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Book Discussion via Zoom: Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner (Thu, May 7)

This book discussion is sponsored by our Jewish Women and Friends discussion group.

About Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

(Available via paperback, hardback, kindle, Audible audiobook, MP3 CD)

From the Publisher:

Do we change or does the world change us?

Jo and Bethie Kaufman were born into a world full of promise.

Growing up in 1950s Detroit, they live in a perfect “Dick and Jane” house, where their roles in the family are clearly defined. Jo is the tomboy, the bookish rebel with a passion to make the world more fair; Bethie is the pretty, feminine good girl, a would-be star who enjoys the power her beauty confers and dreams of a traditional life.

But the truth ends up looking different from what the girls imagined. Jo and Bethie survive traumas and tragedies. As their lives unfold against the background of free love and Vietnam, Woodstock and women’s lib, Bethie becomes an adventure-loving wild child who dives headlong into the counterculture and is up for anything (except settling down). Meanwhile, Jo becomes a proper young mother in Connecticut, a witness to the changing world instead of a participant. Neither woman inhabits the world she dreams of, nor has a life that feels authentic or brings her joy. Is it too late for the women to finally stake a claim on happily ever after?

In her most ambitious novel yet, Jennifer Weiner tells a story of two sisters who, with their different dreams and different paths, offer answers to the question: How should a woman be in the world?

Discussion Details

Join us by Zoom for an engaging discussion of Jennifer Weiner's book Mrs. Everything.

Time:  Thursday, May 7, at 7:00 p.m. Central
Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/974051878

Password:  Zoom may ask you for a password;
    email Ed, Susan, or bethshalomauburn@gmail.com for the password
Meeting ID:  (to type into Zoom if the link isn’t working): 974 051 878

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Read about us and follow us on Facebook. Join us for regular events (Friday services, Torah study, men's breakfasts) and special events (High Holy Days, holiday celebrations, book discussions, special programs, and visiting rabbis, educators, and speakers). Parents, contact us to learn about our religious school.

Zoom Torah Study (Sat, Apr 25)

We are switching to Zoom for Torah study. Join us in Zoom! (We'll use this link for Torah study until we meet face-to-face again.)

Times:  Saturdays at 9 Central
Zoom Link:  https://zoom.us/j/630741697

Password:  Zoom may ask you for a password;
    email Ed, Susan, or bethshalomauburn@gmail.com for the password
Meeting ID:  (to type into Zoom if the link isn’t working): 630 741 697

This week's parashat is Tazria-M'tzora, Leviticus 12:1-15:33.
If you don't have a copy of the Torah where you are, use one of the many available digital resources:

• URJ text of Tazria and of M'tzora (CCAR translation from The Torah: A Modern Commentary) 
• URJ commentary on Tazria-M'tzora (this week's parashat is a combination of Tazria and M'Tzora; you can also find commentary on the separate pieces on the URJ site)
• ISJL’s Taste of Torah, updated weekly
• Chabad’s text of Tazria-M'tzora (translation by Rabbi A.J. Rosenberg; you can use the button at the top of the translation to turn on Rashi’s commentary)
• Sefaria’s text of Tazria-M'tzora (JPS translation from Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures)
• Chabad’s list of resources for Tazria-M'tzora (interpretations, etc.--updated weekly to current portion)

Streamed Friday Night Service, Zoom link (Fri, Apr 24)

Do NOT come to the synagogue for this service. This is a streamed only service because of the COVID-19 outbreak.

If you show up, we will turn you away (for your safety, ours, and the community's).

To join us,

• access the CCAR's Mishkan T'Filah free as a flip book* 
• service outline
  (esp. for page numbers)
• join by Zoom
  (same Zoom link as most recent Shabbats -- will allow 100 people) 

• get the password by emailing Susan, Ed, or bethshalomauburn@gmail.com
• join this way to count toward minyan
• join this way to participate (to take a turn reading, to speak to everyone)
• OR join by Facebook Live by visiting the linked Facebook page and scrolling to the live feed

Also, please let us know early in the service if you have names for mi shebeirach and yahrzeits or if you have announcements.

Zoom Torah Study (Sat, Apr 18)

We are switching to Zoom for Torah study. Join us in Zoom! (We'll use this link for Torah study until we meet face-to-face again.)

Times:  Saturdays at 9 Central
Zoom Link:  https://zoom.us/j/630741697

Password:  Zoom may ask you for a password;
    email Ed, Susan, or bethshalomauburn@gmail.com for the password
Meeting ID:  (to type into Zoom if the link isn’t working): 630 741 697

This week's parashat is Sh'mini, Leviticus 9:1-11:47.
If you don't have a copy of the Torah where you are, use one of the many available digital resources:

• URJ text of Sh'mini (CCAR translation from The Torah: A Modern Commentary)
• URJ commentary on Sh'mini
• ISJL’s Taste of Torah, updated weekly
• Chabad’s text of Sh'mini (you’ll have to move from daily portion to portion with the buttons at the top; you can use the button at the top of the translation to turn on Rashi’s commentary)
• Sefaria’s text of Sh'mini
• Chabad’s list of resources for Sh'mini (interpretations, etc.)

Streamed Friday Night Service, Zoom link (Fri, Apr 17)

Do NOT come to the synagogue for this service. This is a streamed only service because of the COVID-19 outbreak.

If you show up, we will turn you away (for your safety, ours, and the community's).

To join us,

• access the CCAR's Mishkan T'Filah free as a flip book* 
• see the service outline (esp. for page numbers)
• join by Zoom (same Zoom link as 3/27 and 4/3 -- will allow 100 people) 
• get the password by emailing Susan, Ed, or bethshalomauburn@gmail.com
• join this way to count toward minyan
• join this way to participate (to take a turn reading, to speak to everyone)
• OR join by Facebook Live by visiting the linked Facebook page and scrolling to the live feed

Also, please let us know early in the service if you have names for mi shebeirach and yahrzeits or if you have announcements.

Book Discussion via Zoom: Antisemitism: Here and Now by Deborah E. Lipstadt (Sun, Apr 12)

About Antisemitism: Here and Now by Deborah E. Lipstadt

2019 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER—Jew­ish Edu­ca­tion and Iden­ti­ty Award

From the publisher:
The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left: from white supremacist demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, to mainstream enablers of antisemitism such as Donald Trump and Jeremy Corbyn, to a gay pride march in Chicago that expelled a group of women for carrying a Star of David banner.

Over the last decade there has been a noticeable uptick in antisemitic rhetoric and incidents by left-wing groups targeting Jewish students and Jewish organizations on American college campuses. And the reemergence of the white nationalist movement in America, complete with Nazi slogans and imagery, has been reminiscent of the horrific fascist displays of the 1930s. Throughout Europe, Jews have been attacked by terrorists, and some have been murdered.

Where is all this hatred coming from? Is there any significant difference between left-wing and right-wing antisemitism? What role has the anti-Zionist movement played? And what can be done to combat the latest manifestations of an ancient hatred? In a series of letters to an imagined college student and imagined colleague, both of whom are perplexed by this resurgence, acclaimed historian Deborah Lipstadt gives us her own superbly reasoned, brilliantly argued, and certain to be controversial responses to these troubling questions.

Discussion Details

Join us by Zoom for an engaging discussion of Deborah E. Lipstadt's book Antisemitism: Here and Now.

Time:  Sunday, Apr 12, at 3 Central
Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/974051878

Password:  Zoom may ask you for a password;
    email Ed, Susan, or bethshalomauburn@gmail.com for the password
Meeting ID:  (to type into Zoom if the link isn’t working): 974 051 878

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Read about us and follow us on Facebook. Join us for regular events (Friday services, Torah study, men's breakfasts) and special events (High Holy Days, holiday celebrations, book discussions, special programs, and visiting rabbis, educators, and speakers). Parents, contact us to learn about our religious school.

Streamed Torah Study (Sat, Apr 11)

We are switching to Zoom for Torah study. Join us in Zoom! (We'll use this link for Torah study until we meet face-to-face again.)

Times:  Saturdays at 9 Central
Zoom Link:  https://zoom.us/j/630741697

Password:  Zoom may ask you for a password;
    email Ed, Susan, or bethshalomauburn@gmail.com for the password
Meeting ID:  (to type into Zoom if the link isn’t working): 630 741 697

This week's parashat is Chol HaMo-eid Pesach, Exodus 33:12-34:26.
If you don't have a copy of the Torah where you are, use one of the many available digital resources:

• URJ text of Chol HaMo-eid Pesach (CCAR translation) is not readily available in a consolidated form
• URJ commentary on Chol HaMo-eid Pesach
• ISJL’s Taste of Torah, updated weekly
• Chabad’s text of Chol HaMo-eid Pesach (you’ll have to move from daily portion to portion with the buttons at the top; you can use the button at the top of the translation to turn on Rashi’s commentary)
• Sefaria’s text of Chol HaMo-eid Pesach
• Chabad’s list of resources for Chol HaMo-eid Pesach (interpretations, etc.)

Streamed Friday Night Service, Zoom link (Fri, Apr 10)

Do NOT come to the synagogue for this service. This is a streamed only service because of the COVID-19 outbreak.

If you show up, we will turn you away (for your safety, ours, and the community's).

To join us,

• access the CCAR's Mishkan T'Filah free as a flip book* 
• see the service outline (especially for flip book's page numbers)
• join by Zoom (same Zoom link as 3/27 and 4/3 -- will allow 100 people) 
• get the password by emailing Susan, Ed, or bethshalomauburn@gmail.com
• join this way to count toward minyan
• join this way to participate (to take a turn reading, to speak to everyone)
• OR join by Facebook Live by visiting the linked Facebook page and scrolling to the live feed

Also, please fill out the short form for announcements from the bimah: 

• new names for mi shebeirach (we'll say last week's too) and yahrzeits 
• announcements to suggest or questions

Streamed Torah Study (Sat, Apr 4)

We are switching to Zoom for Torah study. Join us in Zoom! (We'll use this link for Torah study until we meet face-to-face again.)

Times: Saturdays at 9 Central
Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/630741697
Password: Zoom may ask you for a password;
    email Ed, Susan, or bethshalomauburn@gmail.com for the password
Meeting ID:  (to type into Zoom if the link isn’t working): 630 741 697

This week's parashat is Tzav, Leviticus 6:1-8:36.

If you don't have a copy of the Torah where you are, use one of the many available digital resources:

• URJ text of Tzav (CCAR translation from The Torah: A Modern Commentary)
• URJ commentary on Tzav
• ISJL’s Taste of Torah, updated weekly
• Chabad’s text of Tzav (you’ll have to move from daily portion to portion with the buttons at the top; you can use the button at the top of the translation to turn on Rashi’s commentary)
• Sefaria’s text of Tzav
• Chabad’s list of resources for Tzav (interpretations, etc.)

Streamed Friday Night Service, Zoom link (Fri, Apr 3)

Do NOT come to the synagogue for this service. This is a streamed only service because of the COVID-19 outbreak.

If you show up, we will turn you away (for your safety, ours, and the community's).

To join us,

• access the CCAR's Mishkan T'Filah free as a flip book* 
• see the service outline (especially for flip book's page numbers)
• join by Zoom (same Zoom link as 3/27 -- will allow 100 people) 
• get the password by emailing Susan, Ed, or bethshalomauburn@gmail.com
• join this way to count toward minyan
• join this way to participate (to take a turn reading, to speak to everyone)
• OR join by Facebook Live by visiting the linked Facebook page and scrolling to the live feed

Also, please fill out the short form for announcements from the bimah: 

• new names for mi shebeirach and yahrzeits (we'll say last week's too)
• announcements to suggest or questions