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.)