SHAAREY TPHILOH

Shabbat Shalom
שבת שלום
March 24-25, 2017
26-27 Adar 5777

Please join us in our new location
Saturday morning services – 9:30 am

400 Deering Avenue
Portland, Maine
Room 4A

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Shabbat HaChodesh
Parashat Vayakhel & Pekudei
Annual: Exodus 35:1-40:38
Maftir:Exod. 12:1-20
Haftarah: Ezek. 45:16-46:18

Candle lighting 6:41 pm
Havdalah 7:42 pm
Click here to read Josh Pernick’s D’var Torah

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SPRING CLEANING AT SHAAREY TPHILOH

It may not seem like it right now but Spring is right around the corner and that means it’s time to start clearing the dust off and clean our homes.

Shaarey Tphiloh is taking that to heart and will be spending this Sunday clearing out our new office at 202 Warren Ave. From 10 am – 2 pm we will be cleaning and organizing and we invite you to join us! If you cannot join us this weekend there will be more opportunities in the coming months.

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The Lockman Place Sugar House is open for Maine Maple Sunday!
This Sunday, March 26, – 10am to 4pm.

274 North Gorham Rd, Gorham, Maine
207-892-9342

We make kosher syrup! Maine Maple Sunday is the day when the Maple Sugar houses in Maine open their doors to the public. Come see how we make syrup, chat with the family, and taste this year’s bounty!

 

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Rabbinic Intern
Josh Pernick

We are so excited that Josh Pernick will be joining us for Shabbat the weekend of March 31-April 1. We are thrilled to have his energy and insight on his monthly visits.

We encourage you to join us for our weekly morning minyan on Saturday at 9:30 am. Josh will be speaking about the coming holiday of Pesach.

Click here to read Josh Pernick’s D’var Torah

 

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Dear Shaarey Tphiloh Community,

We need your help!

Every Saturday morning we say a prayer for Refuah Shleimah for members of our congregation and their loved ones who are in need of healing. We would like to include the names of all those in our community who would benefit from our thoughts and prayers so we encourage you to communicate with us. Please, let us know if there is anyone whose name you would like included in our service and announcements and keep us updated through their recovery.

Shabbat Shalom,
Daniel Heinrich
Administrative Assistant

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TBE’s Pop-Up Challah Shop

Benefiting the Kiddush Fund

Large: $5.00
Small: $3.00
6 Rolls: $5.00

Here’s how it works:

Option 1: Ready-to-bake Frozen Dough
Pre-braided frozen Kosher challah dough will be available for immediate purchase during regular office hours and during KBE on Sunday’s 9a-12p.
Option 2: Made-to-order Fresh Baked Challah
To buy our fresh baked challah, simply email (0ffice@nulltbemaine.org) or call Daniel Heinrich at 774-2649 by noon on Thursday to place your order for the coming Shabbat. Orders will be ready for pick-up between 1pm and 3pm on Friday’s, or during weekend services if pre-paid by check or credit card.

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Sponsor a Kiddush!

Temple Beth El and Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh are partnering to offer Kiddush refreshments on Shabbat and holidays. Sharing a Friday night or Shabbat service and Kiddush is a wonderful opportunity to support our congregations, build community, share in the simcha of a birthday, anniversary or graduation, and offer comfort to those observing a yahrzeit.

Click here for more info

 

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Community Calendar

Tickets Now on Sale for the 2017 Maine Jewish Film Festival
Tickets are now on sale for the 20th anniversary season of the Maine Jewish Film Festival, to be held from March 18 through March 25. Featuring engaging comedies, gripping dramas, and insightful documentaries, this year’s festival provides an engrossing window into the global Jewish experience. Post-films discussion programs feature both international and local filmmakers, protagonists, and commentators. Films will be shown in Portland, Brunswick, Lewiston, and Waterville.  For further information and to purchase tickets go to www.mjff.org.

 

Words to Action – Sunday, April 30
Hillel of Southern Maine will be hosting a program leader from the ADL in Boston who will be a running a program for us called Words to Actions. This program focuses on ways for students to combat anti-semitism on campus. We would like to extend an invite to all 11th and 12th grade high school students to join us. This is an opportunity for them to gain some skills before heading off to college, gain some insight into choosing a school with Jewish quality of life in mind and get to know Hillel and what Hillel can offer them when its time to go off to school. Pizza will be served for dinner! RSVPs are requested by April 23rd. (Location is still TDB).

 

MAINE STATE MUSEUM presents: Maine + Jewish: Two Centuries of Jewish Life in Maine
This will be the largest public exhibit of it’s kind addressing the distinct qualities and circumstances of Jewish life in Maine. The Maine State Museum needs your help. If you have any ideas, suggestions, treasures or memories that you would like to see part of the exhibit, contact Guest Curator Amy E. Waterman.
From Sinai to Seinfeld The History of Jewish Humor
Wednesdays
March 15-May 24, 7:00-8:30PM
Treating Jewish jokes as text, this course invites students to analyze and interpret the evolving concerns, styles, rhythms, preoccupations, and values of the Jewish people that lie buried deep in words that make us laugh as Jews, and that bond us as a people. No experience necessary, open to all. Taught by Rabbi Carolyn Braun. Register by March 1. Click HERE. The cost of the course is $250. Late registration fees apply.

The Maine Conference for Jewish Life brings Jews from around the state together to experience the best of Jewish learning, culture, and life. We will spend June 9-11, 2017 together celebrating the gift of Torah while sharing our stories, struggles, and best practices with one another.

 

 

 

 

 
Mid-Maine Jewish Funtensive Day Camp!

June 26-30 and July 10-14

Reserve your spot with

Rabbi Erica Asch (rabbiasch@gmail.com)

 

 

 

 

 

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Tributes

Todah Rabah to all our friends and donors:

• Allan Labos in honor of his Aliyah on Purim
• Ner Lamaor from Larry & Donna Geller in memory of our father, Robert Geller
• Ner Lamaor from Larry & Donna Geller in memory of our aunt, Jennie Peretz
• Louis & Shula Bornstein in memory of Blanche Seigal Glovsky
• Michael Glick annual donation to the general fund

Todah Rabah to our Chodesh Adar Kiddush Sponsors

• Teri Berenson in memory of her mother Frances Lerman Waxler
• Addie Glovsky Hale in memory of her mother Bluma Seigal Glovsky (Bluma bat Avraham HaLevi)
• Addie Glovsky Hale in memory of her great grandmother, Feige Seigal (Feigie bat Dov)
• Joshua Bach in memory of his father, Daryl Bach (David ben Avraham)
• Hilde Jaffe in memory of her mother Esther Rossman

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Yahrzeits
27 Adar
Jennie Peretz

27 Adar II
Oskar Markuse

28 Adar
Marian Mandoff
Faith Romanow
Frances Lerman Waxler
Isadore Russman

29 Adar
Beatrice Hartglass
Carl Sneider
Carol Vecchio
Julia Goodkowsky

29 Adar II
Josiah Grossman

1 Nisan
Frances Chawes
Mitchell Cope
Ralph Druker
Robert Geller
Minna Shear

2 Nisan
Charlotte Berenson
Esther Fineberg

3 Nisan
Carl Miller
Alan Seavey

4 Nisan
Lillian Goldberg
Ruth Slotsky
Jeanette Urdang