innovative JewisH Learning for Teens
While retaining the name of our beloved Rabbi Emeritus, Jack M. Rosoff, we have created a new identity for our Hebrew High School.
ALEINU
Like the name of our lower school, SHMA, ALEINU is a well known prayer and also a call to action. At the end of every Service, we rise to proclaim:
Aleinu l'shabeyach ...
2020 -21 Aleinu Classes
In keeping with our Aleinu model, we will offer a different class each week rotating throughout the month. This slate and schedule is subject to change. If you have any comments, please make them known.
Jewish GOAT. No, not a class on Chad Gadya. GOAT as in 'Greatest Of All Time.' In this class, Rabbi Sagal will explore the greatest Jewish ideas in all of our history. Ideas that challenge the mind, raise your spirits, and uncover the Jewish spin on just about everything that makes us who we are.
Cooking 201. Chef Margo's "cooking show" will be 2 hours and the course will parallel our SHMA curriculum: Food of the Jewish Immigrants and Foods of Israel. Ingredients will be sent in advance and student will prepare the dishes while Margo demonstrates.
A Narrow Bridge: Jewish in the Pandemic 201. Moreh Mike will lead the class that continues what we began last year: exploring Jewish perspectives on life's challenges like the pandemic. Most important, this hour provides an opportunity for each student to express how they are coping with this challenging time.
Social Action 101. A class based on the T'ruah action webinars in which a presenter highlights a social justice issue and offers an action plan to do something, e.g., call your congressman, send letters to the newspaper, etc. Students will take action!
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO: 2020-2021 Calendar Coming Soon!
For further information: Please contact Michael Wikes, Director of Education, at 732-842‐1800, ext. 213, or michael.wikes@cbirumson.org or ENROLL NOW.
Fri, January 21 2022
19 Shevat 5782
LIVESTREAMING
Morning minyan and Shabbat Services will be live streamed from our chapel. Please click here for recent services and to view live stream: https://vimeo.com/event/1331069
There are no in-person services due to the high increase of Covid Cases, for your safety all services will be on Zoom or Live Streamed.
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E-Torah
E-Torah from Congregation B’nai Israel
January 21 2022
19 Shevat 5782
Of Commandments and Courage
By now, all of us have heard of the horrific events of last Shabbat in Colleyville, Texas, and the extraordinary courage shown by the rabbi of that small congregation. Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker kept the mentally unstable gunman calm until he could not, and then he threw a chair at the terrorist and ushered his congregants to safety.
Rabbi Cytron-Walker is being properly lauded as a hero. But then, the Jewish Forward decided to print a story two days after the event detailing how the rabbi’s contract was not renewed a few months ago after 16 years of service, and even printed some allegations, leveled without proof, made against the rabbi by a disgruntled congregant who had left the congregation.
The Ten Commandments, which we read this week, are echoed in the book of Leviticus in chapter 19, where one of the verses reads “Do not go about as a talebearer amongst the people”. This is a prohibition of Lashon Hara, gossip and slander-because gossip and slander in our tradition are as deadly as murder. Every time a rabbi leaves a congregation, rumor and innuendo abound, and I assure you such attacks are devastating. That the Jewish Forward would engage in such an act days after this man saved the lives of his parishioners is beyond the pale.
It is tragic that Rabbi Cytron-Walker could survive a deadly attack by a terrorist, only to confront the slanderous gossip of a once great Jewish newspaper.
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Doug Sagal
UpcominG Events
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A Multi - Headed Dragon: Sex Trafficking in the US presented by Talia Carner
Thursday, Jan 27th 7:30p to 8:30p
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Join us for
Friday, Feb 4th 6:30p to 7:00p
