Nov. 2, 2023 - Weekly News From The Chatham Synagogue / Netivot Torah

11/2/23 TCS/NT Update Table of Contents

1. Shabbat Services

2. Zoom Sit/Stand/Breathe/Balance Exercise

3. Zoom Yoga

4. Recent Donations

5. NEW SECTION: TCS/NT Kid's Programs

6. "United in Love" pre-Thanksgiving Interfaith Service

7. Out & About

8. ETC: Emergency Support for Israel Organizations

9. Visit our Website

10. Become a Member

1. Shabbat Services - November 4, 2023

Message regarding security: Although NY State officials have not currently identified any specific threats, we are working with the Columbia County Sheriff's Dept. and the NY State Police to continue to try to provide security at our services and events.

Friday, November 3, 2023

Cheshvan 19, 5784

Shabbat Candle Lighting - 5:27pm

Saturday, November 4, 2023

Cheshvan 20, 5784

Shabbat Service - 10:00am

Shabbat Ends - 6:28pm

Torah Reading

Parshah: Vayeira

Genesis 18:1 - 22:24

Click here to read commentary on Parshah Vayeira



ZOOM LOG-IN LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82536384257?pwd=dDFkSUJOUXRoV2pHNGFRR2hyeXJnQT09

2. Zoom Sit/Stand/Breathe/Balance Exercise

Every Monday - 10am - 11am

TCS/NT member, and dancer, choreographer, physician-assistant Jamie Stiller is teaching a sit/stand exercise group. The group will meet every Monday, via Zoom, from 11am - 12pm. The focus of these classes will be on building strength in your core and extremities, learning to breathe mindfully to fuel your entire body, and having fun! 

There is a $10 donation per class. Click here email Jamie and arrange payment (Venmo, checks, etc.).

ZOOM LOG-IN LINK & INFO:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89863170484?pwd=V2VuYm80T1g3L3RBTTRDcnF4bisrUT09

Meeting ID: 898 6317 0484

Password: 953995

3. Zoom Yoga

Every Friday at 9:30am

Our weekly Yoga classes are on Zoom. TCS/NT member, and dancer, choreographer, physician-assistant, Jamie Stiller, will be leading the classes. There is a $10 donation per class. Click here email Jamie and arrange payment (Venmo, checks, etc.).

ZOOM LOG-IN LINK & INFO:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82558600433?pwd=RE55b1NzSFV2QUhsWUVJa2hYb2JyQT09

Meeting ID: 825 5860 0433

Password: 953995

4. Donations

(Note: Donations can be made online on our website. Click here to donate.)

Marc Freed & Aileen Leventon - HH donation with prayers for Shalom

Jim Farrell & Jamie Stiller - HH donation

IMO Morton Abraham Stiller, IMO Karl Rheins, IMO Allan Nahman

Laura Etlinger - HH donation - Thank you for the beautiful and moving Yom Kippur services. So nice to reconnect.

Noah Gelb & Wayni Chow - HH donation with special thanks to Steve Eidman

Michele & Adam Ritholz - HH donation & Cemetery Fund

John Feldman & Sheila Silver - HH donation - in appreciation of the remarkable Chatham Synagogue community

Bruce Altman & Darcy McGraw Altman - IMO Anna Altman, Zelda and Herb Altman, Peter Altman, and the victims of the Oct. 7 attack.

Munya & Joseph Tovares - HH donation

Bernie & Lydia Kukoff - HH donation

Joan & Phil Gellert - HH donation

Tobby Cassuto - HH donation

Robert Zukerman & Jan Moseman - HH donation

Marilyn Cohen & Gail Chamberlain - HH donation

Linda & David Ziskind - HH donation

Avi & Natasha Dresner - HH donation

Bruce Shenker - HH donation

Roberta Bernstein & Viki Sand - HH donation

Alan Gelb & Karen Levine - HH donation

Brenda Gevertz - HH donation

Sally Rappeport - HH donation

Charles & Joyce Sarner - HH donation

Nancy Kleppel - HH donation

Jeffrey Zimmerman & Sharon Weinberg - HH donation

Joyce & James Lapenn - HH donation

Susan Puder - IHO Diane & Steve Eidman

Gloria Kaufman - HH donation

Leonard & Barbara Sugin - HH donation

Joel & Sarah Steinhaus - HH donation

Janet Carey - IMO George Carey, IMO Judith & Harry Lipschultz

Cathy Zises - HH donation

Gerry Staffin - HH donation

Laura Margolis & Phil Elman - HH donation

Leon Sokol & Maggie Kaplan - HH donation

Fran Snyder & David Voremberg - HH donation

Javier Ryzowy - HH donation

5. TCS/NT Kid's Programs

All programs will be held at the Synagogue

We are pleased to announce a wonderful addition to our TCS/NT program offerings - Arielle Derby has joined us as a Family Educator resource. Some of you may have met her on the first day of Rosh Hashanah when she, assisted by Ma'ayan Rosenbaum, led the holiday kids program. Arielle has 20 years of experience as a Jewish day school director, Judaic studies director, and a Jewish Day School principal. She currently teaches second grade in Maryland's Montgomery County Public School system.

Arielle has created a schedule of programming for 2023/24, the first of which is listed below. Stay tuned for more information on upcoming programs: including a children's Chanukah program, a Tu B’Shvat Seder celebrating the coming springtime and planting seeds for parsely that will be ready for dipping at Passover, The Great Hamantaschen Bake Show, and much more. Programs are recommended for ages 3 and up but, in case younger kids want to come, we're not checking ID at the door.

Havdalah Jammie Jam

Saturday, November 18th

6-7pm

Suggested attire (for kids): comfy jammies

Who doesn't like hanging out in their jammies? And when it's time to say "goodnight" to Shabbat with a Havdalah ceremony, jammies seem like the perfect attire.

Our new family educator, Arielle, will lead the group in making their own special Havdalah candles and b'samim (spice) boxes. There will also be story-telling, hot chocolate drinking, and a special Havdalah ceremony.

6. "United in Love": 2023 pre-Thanksgiving Interfaith Service

Tuesday, November 21st at 7PM

St. James Church

117 Hudson Ave., Chatham

On Tuesday, Nov. 21 at 7pm the Chatham Area Interfaith Council will present a simple, universal theme for this year's Thanksgiving interfaith service: "United In Love." Given the surge of heartbreaking violence in our world, bringing people of good will together in an evening of inspirational readings and music can help fortify our sense of agency and community. Please spread the word about this community event. We hope to see you there.

7. Out & About

Entertainment / Education / Social Action

"Yiddish: A Global Culture" at the Yiddish Book Center

Yiddish Book Center

1021 West Street / Amherst, MA

Open Sun-Fri from 10am to 4pm

Earlier this month the Yiddish Book Center opened this groundbreaking permanent exhibit: Yiddish: A Global Culture. The immersive experience tells the diasporic story of modern Yiddish literature, theater, music, press, and politics through hundreds of objects, including rare books, artwork, photos, sheet music, Yiddish typewriters, and memorabilia.

The exhibition displays artifacts from the Center’s collections or on special loan, all shown in public for the first time. Highlights include a 60-foot color mural of global “Yiddishland” by illustrator Martin Haake; an enormous hand-drawn 1945 micrographic portrait of Yiddish activist Chaim Zhitlowsky, composed of thousands of miniature letters from his selected texts, created in Buenos Aires by immigrant textile worker Guedale Tenenbaum; a well-worn leather medicine ball, used by the popular Yiddish novelist Sholem Asch when he relocated to the United States in the 1940s; and vintage clothes and a leather steamer trunk from the 1920s that were used by the celebrated Yiddish literary couple Peretz Hirshbein and Esther Shumiatcher on their decade-long travels around the world.



Visitors can also explore a re-creation of the turn-of-the-century Warsaw apartment of writer I. L. Peretz, whose legendary salon stood at the forefront of Yiddish modernism in the 1900s and 1910s. The period reproduction features books, profiles of writers and artists in Peretz’s circle, a soundscape of voices from the salon, a re-creation of Peretz’s desk, and wallpaper based on original photographs.

▶︎ Click here for more information

"Like Swimming in Air" - The Art of Tai Chi for Beginners

Taught by TCS/NT Member Fran Snyder, NY School of Tai Chi Chuan

Thursdays, Oct. 19 - January 18 / 12:30pm - 1:30pm

No class on Thanksgiving Day and Dec. 28

Fee: $240 / $220 for Academy Members

Spencertown Academy

790 Route 203, Spencertown

Tai chi is an ancient Chinese martial art now recognized for its benefits to physical and mental health. With regular practice, tai chi’s fluid and controlled movements improve balance, build physical strength and endurance, and encourage relaxation of the body and calmness of the mind.

Students will learn Prof. Chen Man-Ch’ing’s tai chi Yang style short form at a slow and tranquil pace. Demonstrations are clear and easy to follow. Anyone can participate. Class is capped at twelve persons, allowing individual attention for each student.

Fran Snyder is on the faculty and is president of the board of directors of the New York School of Tai Chi Chuan. She is a Tai Chi Foundation certified tai chi instructor teaching in New York City and in Chatham.

To register, please contact Fran at: uws.upstate.taichi@gmail.com

8. ETC: Emergency Support For Israel

The unimaginable massacre of innocent lives in Israel has been difficult to process and has left most of us grieving and eager to help in some way.

Here is a list of non-profits and humanitarian aid organizations, vetted by several TCS members. Below the list is a link to a pdf with descriptions of the work of each of the organizations.

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SUPPORT

American Friends of Magen David Adom

https://afmda.org/

Haverim Le-Rufuah

https://eng.haverim.org.il/fund?fundid=57

United Hatzalah

https://israelrescue.org/

SUPPORT FOR VICTIMS/SUPPLIES & SUPPORT NETWORKS

Israel Trauma Coalition

https://israeltraumacoalition.org/en/

Jewish Agency Victims of Terror Fund

https://www.jewishagency.org/fund-for-victims-of-terror/

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

https://www.jdc.org/press-releases/crisis-in-israel-jdc-responds/

Brothers and Sisters in Arms

https://www.brothersandsistersforisrael.org/

Leket Israel

https://www.leket.org/en/

NATAL - The Israel Trauma and Resiliency Center

https://www.natal.org.il/en/about-us/

HOSPITALS

American Friends of Soroka Medical Center

https://www.soroka.org/

Barzilai

https://www.bmc.gov.il/eng

▶︎ Click here to read detailed descriptions of each organization.

9. Visit Our Website

Have you checked out our website at: www.thechathamsynagogue.org? On it you can find a current listing of events, links to services, information about who we are, and a growing library of photos.

For members there is also a member portal. You should have received an email with a link inviting you to access the portal, instructions on how to log-in, and an explanation of some of the information that you will find there. Check it out and let us know what you think. If you have any questions or need help accessing the member portal, please email: tcsntmembers@gmail.com.

10. Become a Member

We welcome members from diverse Jewish backgrounds and perspectives. Our members are people who were born into Judaism as well as those who chose Judaism. We recognize patrilineal as well as matrilineal descent, and we welcome interfaith families and LGBTQ Members.

You can download a membership application here.