THANKSGIVUKKAH & BEYOND!

Dear Haverim:

*Tonight, 6-7 p.m., Tuesday, November 26^th.  Did you want an out-of-the-box easy dinner option?  Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Dairy-Veggie Potluck at Peninsula McCabe United Methodist Church, 2200 Baynard Blvd. (park and enter through back).

*Tonight, 7-8 p.m., Tuesday, November 26^th. Interfaith Thanksgiving Musical Celebration, featuring CBS and other neighborhood choirs, plus opportunities to give to Family Promise and the Achievement Center, to address local homelessness and recidivism in Wilmington.

*Tomorrow, Wednesday, November 27^th. 

7:30 a.m. – Morning Minyan.

10:30 a.m. – Pauline LeBoritz graveside funeral and opportunity to make up a minyan for this congregant who left no immediate survivors.

Sundown – Light 1^st candle.

*Thursday, Thanksgivukkah, November 28^th

9 a.m. – Morning Minyan – note later time.

Sundown – Light 2^nd candle

*Friday, November 29^th

7:30 a.m. – Morning Minyan meets at CBS w/Torah reading.

Sundown – Light 3^rd candle and then Shabbat candles.

6:30 p.m. – Marv Cytron special darshan, featuring Krystallnacht Menorah 

*Shabbat, November 30^th

9:30 a.m. – Marv Cytron special darshan.

Sundown – Havdalah then light 4^th candle.

*Sunday, December 1^st

9 a.m. Morning Minyan (no Hebrew School)

Sundown – Light 5^th candle

*Monday, December 2^nd

7:30 a.m.  Morning Minyan

4:00 p.m. Join Cantor Elisa and CBS Hebrew School at Kutz Home for Chanukah Lighting and Sing-a-long with residents.

Happy Thanksivukkah and Chag Urim Sameach!

Rabbi Michael

From JFK to Playing Favorites

Dear Haverim:

     *Tomorrow night, Friday, November 22, 6:30 p.m. Kabbalat Shabbat services (note earlier 5:30 p.m. catered Happy Hour in celebration of Ethan Cooper’s bar mitzvah – all are invited!).  Drash topic: JFK and the Jews – Looking Back On the 50^th Anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination.

November 22, 1963

“America wept tonight, not alone for is dead young president, but for itself.”

James Reston, N.Y. Times

                         

*Saturday, November 23, 9:30 a.m., Shabbat Services.  We celebrate Ethan Cooper’s Bar Mitzvah.  Ethan’s sermon topic: Parshat Vayeishev: Playing Favorites.  We thank the Covin-Cooper Family for sponsoring the Kiddsh lunch, to which the entire congregation is invited, following services.

*Tuesday, November 26, 6 p.m. Interfaith Thanksgiving Celebration Veggie-Dairy Potluck Dinner, Peninsula McCabe United Methodist Church, 2200 Baynard Blvd., 7:30 p.m. Interfaith Thanksgiving Musical Celebration.  We will be raising funds for Family Promise and the new Achievement Center, addressing both Homelessness and Recidivism.

*Wednesday, November 27, sundown. Light first Chanukah candle.

*Thursday, November 28, note later 9 a.m. Thanksgivakkah Morning Minyan service start time.  Join us!

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PS  Tomorrow morning, Friday, November 22, tune in to WHYY’s Radio Times for an interview with Israeli scholar, Yossi Klein Halevi, author of Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation. (I heard Halevi speak earlier today at the Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia and give you a report at a future Friday night service.)