Beth Shalom Synagogue
Your Jewish Home in South Carolina
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January 21, 2021 * Parashat Yitro |
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Shabbat Services & Torah Study |
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Due to the potential for hazardous winter weather conditions services for January 21-22 will be online via zoom.
Friday evening services - 6 pm
Shabbat morning services - 10 am to be followed by Talmud study
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KN95 masks are required for entry into the synagogue and worn the entire time you are in the synagogue. Please bring one, if you have. If you do not have a KN95 they will be provided to you. |
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Adena Weinkle
will become a Bat Mitzvah
Saturday January 29th
10 a.m.
Adena Weinkle is the daughter of Ella & Tristan Weinkle. She is a seventh grader at Heathwood Hall where she is on the equestrian and lacrosse teams. She is a wonderful younger sister to Naja Weinkle. Adena is happiest when she is with horses, in a barn, or spending time with friends. For her mitzvah project, she chose to volunteer at Free Rein, a therapeutic riding program that helps children and adults heal through interactions with horses. Adena assisted with barn chores, grooming horses, observed lessons, and sponsored a horse.
The Weinkle family invites you to join us on this special day when Adena is called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah. The Kiddush luncheon will be served off-site, not at the synagogue.
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Minyan: We have resumed our daily in-person Maariv service at Beth Shalom Synagogue at 6 PM. We will continue to stream our service, but hope that if you are able, you will join us for daily davenning.
If you have a yahrzeit, please contact the synagogue to let us know you are coming to service so that we can make every effort to ensure there is a minyan.
Friday Evening Services: We have reopened our synagogue for Friday evening services. Please note the change of time: 6 PM.
Saturday Morning Services: Shabbat, services are open for in-person and virtual services. Please note that we have shortened the service time. It is now 10am-12pm.
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Meditation is offered on
Shabbat mornings 9:30 - 10 am
on the
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A Bisselle Torah
A Bisselle Torah: Yitro
"I"
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Torah Study following Shabbat Morning Services
Rabbi Jonathan Case will be teaching a class in Talmud Torah in-person at the synagogue following services at approximately 12:30 p.m. The class will continue to be broadcast on Zoom, but for those who would like to personally attend the class, it will take place in the sanctuary. Join us for conversations with the ancient rabbis, like Akiva and Rashi and learning that will enhance our lives and make each day more meaningful.
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Virtual Lunch & Learn
Featuring Author,
BERNICE LERNER
at Beth Shalom Synagogue
Tuesday, January 25
12 p.m.
Meeting ID: 457 007 8249
Password: 206561
Bernice Lerner is the author of All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, and other writings on the Holocaust and on virtue ethics.
She is the former Dean of Adult Learning at Hebrew College and a Senior Scholar at Boston University’s Center for Character and Social Responsibility.
This event is sponsored by Beth Shalom Synagogue and made possible by the Sidney Krauss Charitable Trust Fund and the Columbia Jewish Federation
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New Year - New Adult Education Programs at Beth Shalom!
Series 4: The Other Within - Diversity, Inclusion
and Equity in a Pluralistic Movement
Wednesday evenings:
January 26 and February 2, 9
8 pm
January 19: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in a Pluralistic Movement -
Removing the Stumbling Blocks.
January 26: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in a Pluralistic Movement -
Status of the Deaf and Sign Language.
Join us at Beth Shalom to view and engage in person, socially
distanced and masked or from your own home on ZOOM.
If you have any questions, please contact Risa at 803-476-7487
Watch for the Zoom link in an upcoming email from Beth Shalom.
This event is sponsored by Beth Shalom Synagogue and made possible by the
Sidney Krauss Charitable Trust Fund and the Columbia Jewish Federation.
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Update to Arcadia Lakes Cemetery
A lock has been installed on the entrance gate at Arcadia Lakes Cemetery. To receive the code please contact the office staff via phone, email or Facebook messenger.
Thank you
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Beth Shalom Religious School sells your favorite gift cards
at NO extra charge
to you!
The company that we purchase them from gives us a percentage back! YOU can sign up online or Sara Moncada/Troy Sexton can sign you up. EASY! OR, you can buy from the stock of gift cards that we have in the office!
We have: Target, Walmart, Starbucks, Bruegger’s Bagels, Chili’s, Kohl's, Bath & Body Works, Amazon and many more!
Perfect for teacher & family gifts, weddings, birthdays, anniversaries or JUST BECAUSE! The SCRIP program proceeds
benefits our RELIGIOUS SCHOOL.
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Sunday Conversations
with Judge Richard Gergel and Robert Rosen
Lawyers and Plaintiffs
Supreme Court
Tikkun Olam: Jewish Lawyers and the War against Jim Crow
Sunday, January 23 5:30 PM via ZOOM
Special Guests
Armand Derfner, is a nationally renowned civil rights attorney. He has argued and won five cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, and is frequently asked to testify before congressional committees about voting rights legislation, including the 2006 debate to renew the Voting Rights Act.
In the late 1960s, Derfner began his career in Mississippi and at the frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement. Since coming to South Carolina in the early 1970s, Derfner has been at the forefront of major state and local civil and voting rights struggles, and has advocated numerous equal rights cases throughout the country. Derfner has been honored for the successful suit to outlaw at-large elections for Charleston County Council. He was named Trial Lawyer of the Year by Trial Lawyers for Public Justice for a suit to equalize Mississippi’s treatment of its historically black public colleges.
Derfner was born in Paris, France, June 12, 1938; admitted to bar, 1965, District of Columbia; 1968, U.S. Supreme Court; 1974, South Carolina; U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Fourth Circuit, Fifth Circuit, Sixth Circuit, and Eleventh Circuit. He is the author of many publications including, Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court, co-authored with Orville Vernon Burton.
Leon Friedman, The Joseph Kushner Distinguished Professor in Civil Liberties Law and Professor of Law, Hofstra University
Author of more than 100 law journal articles and newspaper columns in such publications as The New York Times, The Nation, The New Republic, and The American Scholar. His book, The Justices of the United States Supreme Court, 1789-1969 , won the annual Scribes Award for the best book on a legal subject. Among his other books are The Supreme Court Confronts Abortion, Unquestioning Obedience to the President, The Wise Minority and Southern Justice.
Patricia Sullivan, University of South Carolina, College of Arts and Science
Dr. Sullivan specializes in modern United States history, with an emphasis on African American history, race relations, and the history of the Civil Rights Movement. Professor Sullivan teaches courses in twentieth century U.S. history. Areas of interest include African American history; the South since the Civil War; race, reform and politics in the United States; and the history of the Civil Rights Movement. She teaches graduate courses on modern American history, African American history and on civil rights struggles in the twentieth century. Her most recent book is, Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White.
Other books: Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement, the first history of the formative decades of the nation's oldest civil rights organization, Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era; Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years; New Directions in Civil Rights Studies, co-edited with Armstead L. Robinson, and Civil Rights in the United States, a 2-volume encyclopedia, coedited with Waldo E. Martin Jr.
Stephen Whitfield, Max Richter Professor of American Civilization, Emeritus, Brandeis University
Dr. Whitfield is the author of eight books, including A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till and In Search of American Jewish Culture. He has taught abroad as a Fulbright senior lecturer at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Catholic University of Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium, and has taught American Studies twice at the Sorbonne, as well as serving as the first professor of American Jewish history at the University of Munich. Professor Whitfield also serves as book review editor and on the editorial board of "Southern Jewish History," to which he has contributed articles and reviews.
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M’kom Shalom: A Place of Peace
A mutual support group via Zoom
for those who have lost a close one to Suicide
Established December 1999
Co-Sponsored by Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, New York City
Co-Facilitators:
Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub, LCSW and Dr. Adena Greenberg, PhD
Second Wednesday of each month
7:00-8:30 pm EST
Fee: $180 for six months - Scholarships available*
Confidentiality protected
Advance Registration required
*Please note:
Participants need not pay in advance of their first meeting.
If they intend to continue thereafter, we ask that they pay the $180 before the ensuing five meetings. For scholarship assistance, please contact Rabbi Weintraub. Finances will not preclude participation.
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Jewish Family Service (JFS) helps the
entire Columbia Jewish community in
many different ways.
JFS is always looking for volunteers who are willing and able to volunteer and help accomplish this mission. Some of the needs are driving, cooking, and even spending a couple of hours with a senior who may be living alone. Please consider helping! For more information or to volunteer, please fill out this Google Form.
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration
Thursday, January 27
7:30 p.m. ET on Zoom
The community is invited to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This year’s commemoration is dedicated to the memory of the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust. The featured speaker will be Michael Gruenbaum, survivor of Terezin and author of Somewhere There is Still a Sun. The guest moderator will be Josh Kraft, President of Kraft Family Philanthropies.
The program is free and everyone is welcome.
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Interest Free Loans for Jewish Students In Need
Higher ed....without higher interest!
JELF’s application is open January 3 - April 30
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Donate or Make a Payment on Your Account |
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As we want to protect our synagogue staff from any unnecessary exposure, anything that you can do online, by email or over the phone would be appreciated.
Donations/payments can be made by clicking on the PayPal link below or scanning the QR code on the right with your cell phone camera.
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In the case of an emergency over a Jewish holiday or Shabbat, please call our President on the Board of Directors, Randy Stark at 803-318-3719, or our VP, Jeff Silverberg at 843-270-7574. |
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Hospitals are no longer informing us of Jewish patients. If you or a loved one is in the hospital, please call the Synagogue or Rabbi directly to let us know so that we can call or visit, as appropriate. |
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How to Watch Services Online
Contact the office to have an
invite sent to you to join the
private Facebook group.
Beth Shalom Links:
Meeting ID: 457 007 8249
Password: 206561
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Beth Shalom Synagogue
5827 N. Trenholm Road
Columbia, SC 29206
(803) 782-2500
If you have an urgent need and the office is closed, you are welcome to leave a voicemail message or send an email. Messages go directly to the office staff's cell phones so they can monitor and pass along important messages.
Office Emails:
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