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Friday, June 30 - Shabbat Service
in Person and via Facebook Live
& the Or Ami YouTube Channel
Challah of the Week
Saturday, July 1 - Torah Study
Intermediate Hebrew Class Next Week!
Welcome Our Rabbinic Intern, Jules Ilian!
Saturday, July 8 - Amelie Reiner's Bet Mitzvah
Community Events (various dates)
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Shabbat Service (In Person and Virtual) | |
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Links for our Shabbat services are sent out via email on Friday. If you would like to be added to the list, please email communications.
If you have been added and don't see the email in your inbox, please look in your spam/junk folder.
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The challah-of-the-week is raspberry jam and chocolate chips with sesame seed topping.
To be served during Oneg
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Live and Virtual Torah Study | |
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Links for our Torah Study are sent out via email on Friday. If you would like to be added to the list, please email communications.
If you have been added and don't see the email in your inbox, please look in your spam/junk folder.
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Intermediate Hebrew Next Week! | |
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After a long hiatus due to COVID, our Intermediate Hebrew class is back this summer!
Would you like to be able to understand the prayers we say at Shabbat services or translate the Torah into English? As long as you already know how to read the Hebrew alphabet (both vowels and consonants), then you are ready for our Intermediate Hebrew class.
The class will be every Tuesday evening from 7 pm to 8:30 pm (Eastern Time) between July 11 and August 29. This year it will be taught both in person at Or Ami and over Zoom (for those traveling or living in other locations).
The cost is only $50 for non-members and further discounted to just $36 for Or Ami members, including your textbook.
Register HERE by July 4. You can also see this page for more details.
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Hope to see you in the class this year! | |
Welcome Our Rabbinic Intern, Jules Ilian! | |
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Or Ami is excited to welcome our rabbinic intern, Jules Ilian, this summer. Jules Ilian (she/they) is a rising second year rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR). A native New Yorker, she just finished her first year in Jerusalem and will be studying at the New York campus of HUC-JIR in the fall. While in Israel, Jules served as a Social Change Fellow with the New Israel Fund. Jules is passionate about social justice, education, and making Jewish rituals meaningful.
Jules grew up going to Jewish summer camps and later worked at Kutz, the Union of Reform Judaism’s teen leadership camp, as a counselor for campers on the Autism Spectrum and later as a program coordinator. Jules graduated from the University of Delaware with a Bachelor of Arts in Women and Gender Studies. At the University of Delaware (UD), Jules was very active with UD Hillel, where they served as president and treasurer of the Reform Jewish club Kesher, president of the social justice club Project Change, and a Birthright Israel intern. She also met her husband, Alex Zissman, through Hillel at the University of Delaware.
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Between college and rabbinical school, Jules moved to Pittsburgh and worked as a Jewish educator for the Joint Jewish Education Program. In their free time, Jules enjoys travel, meeting new people, and reading. Jules looks forward to getting to know the community at Or Ami and working together with Rabbi Ahuva this summer. | |
Amelie Riener's Bet Mitzvah | |
Amelie Riener's Bet Mitzvah will take place on Saturday, July 8th, at 10:30 am. A kiddush luncheon will be served afterwards. All congregants are welcome. | |
Art Exhibition Featuring Joel Moses | |
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Or Ami's Joel Moses will be featured in an exhibition located at Boyd Realty in Stratford Hills Shopping Center.
The exhibit will be up from June 23-July 26 at 6784 Forest Hill Avenue.
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The "Connected Kids" playgroup for neurodivergent kids started Saturday, June 17, from 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. It will continue weekly through Saturday, July 22.
“Neurodivergent” describes individuals whose neurological development and functioning differs from what is considered typical. It encompasses a range of neurological conditions, including autism, ADHD, and other developmental differences.
The group will be led by an occupational therapist, a speech therapist, and a licensed clinical social worker, all of whom will use a mix of structured and unstructured play activities to help children develop and practice social, communication, and emotional regulation skills. Two therapists will guide the children's activities while the third will gather with parents in a separate space. Parent education topics include: understanding neurodivergence, promoting positive parent-child relationships, parenting strategies for neurodivergent children, stress management and self-care, and just about anything else that comes up!
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The curriculum is aimed at children ages 5-7, but slightly younger or older children are welcome as well. Leaders prefer that families attend all six sessions but understand that summer vacation plans have already been made, so it is okay to miss a week or two. There is room for 8 children total. To see if spaces are still available and to reserve a spot now, click HERE. | |
Do you have event information that you would like
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Yahrzeits
June 2
Jean Lenke
Carlyn Samuels
Rebecca Ringel
Katherine Elise Cohen
Max Dzerowitz
Celia Rheingold
Rhoda Kurz Bloom
Adele Auslander
Jacob Furman
Patricia Suraci
Ed Levine
Lita Diamond
Ben Epstein
June 9
Martha L. Seller
Max Fischer
Victor Rheingold
Philip Berz
Cindy Atlas Blacker
Selma Goldsmith
June 16
Stella Freeman Berz
Anna Mockrik
Sharon Siegel
Sandra Santer
Leonard Lewis
Susan Barnes
Suzanne Tarmey
Adele Goldfarb
Simon Sochat
Milton Jacobowitz
Leonid Tulchinsky
June 23
Leona Kessler
Harry Feinmel
Wolf Arkava
Samuel Amos
Dr. Lyubov Rivkin
Sidney Kerman
George Messenger Foote
Abe Mockrik
June 30
Nathan Gross
Helen Jones Stanphill
Miriam Blumberg
Marion Weisberg
Ida Simon
John Cyrus Tomko
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Anniversaries
June 1
Adam S. & Hillary Goldsmith – 9
June 4
Jane Kaatz & Linda Woods – 19
June 5
Oren & Shauna Ely – 7
June 7
Jeff Lacker & Lisa Halberstadt – 42
June 8
Evelyn Lampert & Martin Cohen – 10
June 9
Bob & Shira Ledman – 50
June 18
Maxine & Doug Hadley – 51
June 21
Justin DeLeo & Hope Kelly – 22
June 23
Evan & Michele Nelson – 33
James & Erika Napolitano – 8
June 24
Renee & Steve Gould – 51
Scott & Barbara Levine - 42
June 26
Mira Signer & Abbie Kinnebrew – 15
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Birthdays
June 1
Dylan Luebker
June 6
Karen Cohen
June 8
Brad Crosby
June 9
Shauna Ely
Monika Markowitz
Holly Matz
Laurie Weinberg
June 10
Oren Ely
June 12
Andrew Goldsmith
Jake Hirsch
Cedar Riener
June 13
Adam Klausner
Kathleen McClory
June 16
Max Ranneklev
June 17
Miranda Freedman
June 18
Rebecca Goldsmith
June 19
Micah Rossi
June 20
Courtney Rubin
June 21
Amy Auslander
Ari Guider
June 22
Sunny Signer
June 25
Zoey Nowakowski
June 27
Michele Holt
Erika Napolitano
June 28
Linda Kerman
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April 2023 Donations (updated) | |
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Building Fund
Adam Klausner and Laura Carucci
General Fund
Pat Doniger – in honor of the birth of Amelia Moorehead
L’dor V’dor Fund
Courtney and Jared Rubin
Passover Seder
Stan Feuer and Eileen May
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Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund
David and Sarah Lutzky
JoAnn and Charles Myers
Rita and Jeffrey Peyton
Religious School Scholarship Fund
Beth Meixner – in memory of my grandmother, Jean Lenke
Courtney and Jared Rubin
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