Laurie & Joe Brofsky - Hewlett E. Rockaway Jewish Center
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Laurie & Joe Brofsky - Hewlett E. Rockaway Jewish Center
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HERJC 516-599-2634<br />
Rabbi<br />
ANDREW WARMFLASH<br />
Ext. 214<br />
rabbiw@herjc.org<br />
Rabbi Emeritus<br />
DR. STANLEY PLATEK<br />
Hazzan<br />
DAVID SISLEN<br />
Ext. 215<br />
cantorsislen@herjc.org<br />
Ritual Director<br />
NACHUM PLOTKIN<br />
Ext. 222<br />
nachum@herjc.org<br />
Religious School Director<br />
DAVID WOOLFE<br />
599-0424 or Ext. 219<br />
rsdir@herjc.org<br />
Nursery School Director<br />
CHERYL KARP<br />
599-1169 or Ext. 237<br />
nurserydir@herjc.org<br />
Youth Director<br />
TODD HAUSMAN<br />
599-1148 or Ext. 223<br />
youthdir@herjc.org<br />
www.herjc.org<br />
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Amazingly simple<br />
and wonderful.<br />
This month we offer you some do and don’t to get into the Shabbat spirit.<br />
DO:<br />
Stay near home. Spend quality time with family and real friends.<br />
Celebrate with others: at your table, in synagogue, with your family and friends or<br />
with those with whom you can best share in appreciating God’s world.<br />
Study or read something that will edify, challenge or make you grow.<br />
Spend some time alone. Take some time for yourself. Check in with yourself. Review<br />
your week.<br />
Mark the beginning and end of this sacred day: lighting candles and Kiddush on<br />
Friday night and Havdalah on Saturday night.<br />
DON’T:<br />
Do anything you have to do for your work life. This includes obligatory reading,<br />
homework for kids (even without writing), unwanted social obligations and preparing<br />
for work as well as doing the job itself.<br />
Spend any money. Separate completely from the commercial culture that so much<br />
surrounds us.<br />
Do any business. No calls to the broker; no following up on ads. No paying of bills.<br />
It can all wait.<br />
Travel. Avoid especially commercial places like airports, hotel check-ins and similar<br />
depersonalizing commercial encounters. Stay free of situations in which people are<br />
likely to tell you to “have a nice day!”<br />
Use TV, canned video entertainment or electronic communications including<br />
TV, computers, cell phones, ipads and the like. Stay in situations where you can be<br />
face-to-face with those around you, rather than facing the all-powerful screen.<br />
Yom HaShoah Commemoration<br />
We Remember the Six Million at HERJC<br />
Monday, May 2 at 7:30 PM<br />
Guest Speaker: Marion Lazan<br />
Don’t forget to light your Yellow<br />
candle, Sunday night, May 1<br />
page 2 MAY/JUNE 2011<br />
www.herjc.org<br />
HAKOL