Chai Lights - Weekly Announcements

Returning Mahzorim

Now that the holidays have concluded, please be sure to return your borrowed mahzorim to the synagogye during regular office hours (see below). Please be sure to check them IN with the office, so we can "check your names off the list". Books go back into storage, so we appreciate your returns as soon as possible. Thank you!

This Week at B'nai Tikvah

Regular Office Hours

Monday (closed but feel free to leave mail in the dropbox outside the main entrance)
Tues-Thurs, 9am-3pm | Fri, 9am-12pm

For all upcoming events,
please see our calendar

This Week With B'nai Tikvah

Sun, Oct 30th, 9am: Canton Fall Classic Road Race

Mon, Oct 31st, 12pm: Lunch & Learn/Adult Bnei Mitzvah with Reb Lisa
Tues, Nov 1st, 12pm: Lunch & Learn with Rabbi Gordon
Tues, Nov 1st, 6pm: B'nai Tikvah Sings!
Thurs, Nov 3rd, 8pm: Grief Support Group; contact Lorraine Simon
Sat, Nov 5th, 10am: Simcha Shabbat: Share your simcha here

Upcoming Special Shabbatot:
Fri, Nov 18th: Friday Night Live! with Shabbat Dinner 

(registration required, here, by Nov 16th)
Sat, Nov 19th: LGBTQ Shabbat, presented by Social Action Committee
Sat, Dec 10th: Jewish Life in Rural Australia, featuring B'nai Tikvah member & Australian resident Vivienne Aarons, presented by Adult Ed Committee

Daily Minyan (online) and Shabbat (in person and online)

Please join us in person for Shabbat services in our newly-carpeted sanctuary (vaccines required; masking optional but recommended);
or on LiveControl or YouTube.
When services also are on Zoom, we will announce that in the Shabbat section below
For services links, click the icons/logos below

Additional Shabbat morning offerings

Canton Fall Classic Road Race, Benefiting B'nai Tikvah: Oct. 30th

Canton Fall Classic, TODAY October 30
Sponsored by B’nai Tikvah, the race will feature both a 10K and a 5K, starting at 10 am, a one-mile kids' Fun Run at 9:45 am, and a one-mile Senior Walk beginning at 9:00 am. More than 400 runners have participated in past years.
 
There will be a DJ, local sponsors, and fun pre-run warmup activities.
 
We will be seeking temple volunteers to help out on race day and will reach out with more information on how you can be a part of the temple’s largest fund raising effort this year.
  Please click here for more information.

For the B'nai Tikvah Community

Sisterhood

Time to order your 2023 Mah Jongg cards!

Note new prices: Standard $14 | Large $15
The Sisterhood makes $5 per card and the prices are the same everywhere so please order from us!

Please make your check out to B’nai Tikvah Sisterhood and send to Carol Bernstein:
18 Newland Street | Norton MA 02766
 
Questions: 617-699-4852 | Cbernstein1110@gmail.com 
Note: Deadline January 13, 2023

Brotherhood

Sports Dinner, featuring Dr. Charles Steinberg
President, Worcester Red Sox
Sunday, Nov 13th, 6pm
Registration required (deadline Nov 10th)
Open to all members of our community
Enjoy a supper catered by the “Brotherhood Chefs”,

sit with friends and listen to our guest speaker

Registration form & more info→

Adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah & Other Classes with our Clergy:

Includes 2 classes beginning November 1st

Click the flyer for an enlarged view of Clergy-Led Adult Education Opportunities

Direct Links to More Info on Each Class

• Lunch & Learn with Reb Lisa (Mondays at 12pm)

• Me'ah Classic with Rabbi Gordon (Wednesdays @7-9pm, beginning Oct 26th) through Hebrew College

• B'nai Tikvah Sings! with Reb Josh (Tuesdays @6pm, beginning Nov 1st)

• Lunch & Learn with Rabbi Gordon (Tuesdays @1pm, beginning Nov 1st)

More Adult Education News

Boston Jewish Film Festival-- in Canton!
Tuesday, November 8th @7PM at Orchard Cove
special screening of ROSE watch the trailer HERE
When Rose, at age 78, loses her beloved husband, grief leads her to redefine her life and passions, upsetting the balance of her close-knit Sephardic family.

For discounted tickets, use code 22SOUTH

(the code also works for virtual screening, Nov 10-13)

Click the flyer for more info

or email Nancy Swartz with any questions
more information about BJFF here

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Presenting: A Millennium of Jewish Women's Voices
Exhibit & two online events
To celebrate its groundbreaking online exhibit, "A Millennium of Jewish Women's Voices," the HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project proudly presents two fall events highlighting women’s literature, songs, prayers, and letters across the Jewish Diaspora. The archival materials span the 10th to the 21st centuries and are drawn from 15 languages, including Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Berber (Morocco), Judeo-Italian, Juhuri (Mountain Jews), Judeo-Malayalam (India), and Ladino. Featuring scholars, curators, and performers, the events will honor the ways that Jewish women have contributed to textual and musical innovation. Join us to see and hear some of these astonishing cultural treasures.
Sunday, Oct 30th, 1-2:30pm:
Women's Voices: Introducing an Online Exhibit of Jewish Languages
Sunday, Nov 13th, 1-2:30pm:
Living Traditions: Women's Songs in Endangered Languages
more info & registration links here

Social Action/Social Justice News

Thanks to all who attended the Social Action/SIsterhood  Sharsheret program on Oct 20.  The speaker, Eve Kleinerman presented a powerful program.
As a result of this program, the SA  committee has decided to hold a "busy box drive."  This will allow BT members to purchase toys for kids who have a parent  who is  suffering with  breast or ovarian cancer. Watch for details.

The plans for Transgender Remembrarnce Day, November 19th, are moving along.  We are in the process of narrowing down our guest speaker.  Several BT members have volunteered to participate in the service. However, if you would like to participate , there are still parts available.

Other news:
HIAS Shabbat Weekend is February 2,3, and 4th... More to follow.

AND IT'S NOT TOO EARLY TO THINK ABOUT OUR ANNUAL MITZVAH DAY, Sunday, April 30!!!! Several FUN projects have been discussed.  Do YOU have a project that you like to see incorporated??????

Phyl Hewson
Social Action Chairperson
socialaction@bnaitikvahma.org

HELP SAVE LIVES AND SUPPORT UKRAINE, by Enid Cherenson
 
As the continuing war in Ukraine becomes even more deadly with power and water shortages expected as winter sets in, direct contributions to the people of Ukraine can provide immediate assistance in fighting the Russian invaders.
 
My friend, Alex Dunai, a trained genealogist and well-known among Jewish genealogy organizations, has set up a GoFundMe page to purchase and deliver medicines, basic equipment like shovels, chain saws, clothing, and other essentials to combat areas. 
 
In addition, Alex has been purchasing used 4x4 vehicles and car parts to send to eastern Ukraine to assist in medical evacuations. Watch these YouTube videos with Alex describing how these desperately needed vehicles are being repaired and sent out to save lives:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUXTXBIrL_M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbUfDCfU7Bs&t=58s
 
Alex and his family could have left Ukraine at the beginning of this war.  They, like many Ukrainians, have decided to stay and fight.  Please help them to save lives and make a donation to: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-alex-get-suvs-for-ukraine

In the Community

Schechter Boston Open Houses
Schechter Boston warmly invites you to our fall Open Houses. Please join us for a window into Schechter’s engaging, dynamic, happy, inspiring, thoughtful and elevating Jewish day school experience. Thursday, November 3, 9:30 a.m. in person, 60 Stein Circle, Newton, or Thursday, December 15, 8:00 p.m. over Zoom (the link will be shared upon registration). To RSVP for either event, please visit ssdsboston.org/upcoming-events. If you have any questions, please email info@ssdsboston.org.

Donations to B'nai Tikvah

Thank you to those who have donated to B'nai Tikvah!
Donations may be made online or sent directly to the office.

Ways to Support B'nai Tikvah

B'Nai Tikvah Sisterhood is offering Torah Fund Greeting Cards. We have Mi Sherberach and Sympathy cards at $2.50 per card. Email Janet Silberberg

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Choose B'nai Tikvah for your Amazon shopping, and we'll receive a "kickback" from every dollar you spend doing your regular shopping!

Simply begin your shopping at smile.amazon.com and set B'nai Tikvah as your charity of choice

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The Scrip Box has the following cards available:
Amazon $25                                                   Shaw's $25, $50
American Express $25, $100                         Stop & Shop $25, $50
Dunkin Donuts $25                                         Visa $50                                 

Minyan

Congregants commemorating a yahrzeit may wish to honor that event by leading some portion of the evening’s service. It might be as small as leading a prayer or could be leading all of Mincha or Ma’ariv. If you are interested in taking this honor feel free to call Joe Doniger at 781-910-7601 or email us at MinyanRangers@bnaitikvahma.org at least two days in advance, and we’ll help make arrangements with that night’s minyan leader. Due to the pandemic, as many people are observing a virtual Shiva week, if you inform the leader, a third Mourners' Kaddish will be included as is done in a shiva house.

This Week's Minyan List

to view a larger image of the Minyan Calendar, click the pic

Upcoming Yahrzeit List

2022-11-02    Morris Matthews    Grandfather  of    Michelle    Langmead
2022-11-02    Morris Matthews    Father-in-Law of    Harriet    Burak
2022-11-02    Mary Silver    Grandmother of    Elise    Sandler
2022-11-03    Hyman Rosenberg    Father of    Judy    Kepnes
2022-11-04    Arlene Davis    Sister of    Barbara    Finkle
2022-11-04    Deborah Fradkoff    Friend of    Nancy    Lewis
2022-11-04    Sarah Goldman    Mother of    Phyllis    Lerner
2022-11-04    Frances Malin    Mother of    Harvey    Malin
2022-11-04    Erwin Teichner    Father of    Nili    Shoenig
2022-11-05    Janet Heyman    Mother in law of    Harriet    Heyman
2022-11-05    Lydia R. Jaynes    Mother of    Andrew    Jaynes
2022-11-05    Sheldon Tandler    Husband of    Barbara    Tandler
2022-11-05    Nathan Widrowitz    Grandfather of    Michael    Widrow
2022-11-07    Toby Dick    Sister of    Beatrice    Spiro
2022-11-08    George Edgers    Father of    Natalie    Weinberg
2022-11-08    Lena Korisky    Mother of    Simeon    Korisky