Laurie & Joe Brofsky - Hewlett E. Rockaway Jewish Center

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HERJC 516-599-2634 Rabbi ANDREW WARMFLASH Ext. 214 rabbiw@herjc.org Rabbi Emeritus DR. STANLEY PLATEK Hazzan DAVID SISLEN Ext. 215 cantorsislen@herjc.org Ritual Director NACHUM PLOTKIN Ext. 222 nachum@herjc.org Religious School Director DAVID WOOLFE 599-0424 or Ext. 219 rsdir@herjc.org Nursery School Director CHERYL KARP 599-1169 or Ext. 237 nurserydir@herjc.org Youth Director TODD HAUSMAN 599-1148 or Ext. 223 youthdir@herjc.org www.herjc.org and Amazon Click on the Amazon button found on the left hand side of the first page of our website, www.herjc.org, do your shopping as usual and HERJC gets a donation! Amazingly simple and wonderful. This month we offer you some do and don’t to get into the Shabbat spirit. DO: Stay near home. Spend quality time with family and real friends. Celebrate with others: at your table, in synagogue, with your family and friends or with those with whom you can best share in appreciating God’s world. Study or read something that will edify, challenge or make you grow. Spend some time alone. Take some time for yourself. Check in with yourself. Review your week. Mark the beginning and end of this sacred day: lighting candles and Kiddush on Friday night and Havdalah on Saturday night. DON’T: Do anything you have to do for your work life. This includes obligatory reading, homework for kids (even without writing), unwanted social obligations and preparing for work as well as doing the job itself. Spend any money. Separate completely from the commercial culture that so much surrounds us. Do any business. No calls to the broker; no following up on ads. No paying of bills. It can all wait. Travel. Avoid especially commercial places like airports, hotel check-ins and similar depersonalizing commercial encounters. Stay free of situations in which people are likely to tell you to “have a nice day!” Use TV, canned video entertainment or electronic communications including TV, computers, cell phones, ipads and the like. Stay in situations where you can be face-to-face with those around you, rather than facing the all-powerful screen. Yom HaShoah Commemoration We Remember the Six Million at HERJC Monday, May 2 at 7:30 PM Guest Speaker: Marion Lazan Don’t forget to light your Yellow candle, Sunday night, May 1 page 2 MAY/JUNE 2011 www.herjc.org HAKOL
From the Rabbi’s Study RABBI ANDREW WARMFLASH “If we can’t see God, how do we know that there is a God” I am often asked this question by children but I know it is one that many of us wonder about. For those who have been privileged to know God’s presence in their lives, faith may be easy and obvious. The rest of us find it difficult to believe with total certainty. One classic Jewish response to this situation is to seek God in the two realms where it is easiest to find traces of the Divine presence: in the experience of Jewish community and the beauty of nature. Outside of prayer, God’s presence is undoubtedly most accessible in the natural world. As the Psalmist wrote: “The heavens declare the glory of God and the earth manifests God’s loving care.” To those who approach it with open eyes, creation itself testifies to the presence of its Creator. In this regard, I would like to encourage you to bring your family and participate in two of HERJC’s new initiatives this spring: our Family Mitzvah Garden and Lag B’omer Hike and Picnic. Both of these new projects, which are described in this issue of Hakol offer opportunities for an enjoyable spiritual experience in the presence of community. The Family Mitzvah Garden (see below) is located adjacent the rear of the synagogue building and has already been planted with the first round of crops that will be donated to a local soup kitchen as they are harvested. You can participate in this project by helping us to keep the garden weeded, by harvesting and delivering the crops and by helping to replant the garden with the next round of vegetables. Our Lag B’omer Hike and Picnic (see page 10) will take us into the woods at the Massapequa Preserve to enjoy the beauty of God’s world on a day when it has been traditional for Jews to spend time outdoors. I hope you will join us and bring your friends for what promises to be a wonderful day. HAKOL is published by the Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Centre/ Congregation Etz Chaim 295 Main Street, East Rockaway, NY 11518 Telephone: 516-599-2634 Fax: 516-599-2851 E-mail: office@herjc.org Website: www.herjc.org President DAN GERSTMAN Vice Presidents MARILYN COHEN JEFFREY FEIGENBLATT DR. MARTIN LESSER AUDREY POLINSKY ROBERTA SUGARMAN Treasurer LARRY MILLER Financial Secretary JUDY HERBST Recording and Corresponding Secretary TERRI GOLD Sisterhood President NANCY LEVITT Men’s Club President ELLIOTT POLINSKY Editor Emeritus CHARLOTTE BERCH We’ve Broken Ground on the HERJC Family Mitzvah Garden! We built the wooden beds and put in the soil. Planting is on-going! All contributions, physical and monetary, will be gratefully accepted. Come help plant, weed and harvest! Call the Youth Office at 599-1148 if you’d like to help. Editorial Assistant HELAINE K. RONEN Periodical postage paid at the East Rockaway, NY Post Office (#233120). Postmaster: Send address changes to Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Centre, 295 Main St., East Rockaway, NY 11518. Affiliated with: United Synagogue, National Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs, National Women’s League. The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the policies of HERJC or the Conservative Movement. HAKOL www.herjc.org MAY/JUNE 2011 page 3
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