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April
27, 2009
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PARDES LEVAVOT
Events
This Week
Yom
HaZikaron, Yom Ha'atzmaut
Tuesday, April
28, 6:30pm at Bonai Shalom
Yom HaZikaron
(Israel Memorial Day) service followed by Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israel
Independence Day) celebration will be held at Congregation Bonai
Shalom, Tuesday, April 28th, at 6:30 p.m. The whole community is
welcome.
All Ages
Shabbat Service
Saturday, May 2,
10am-noon
B'nai Mitzvah
Program
Saturday, May 2,
12:15-1:45pm
Coming Up
What It Means
to be Pro-Israel: Opening up The Forbidden Conversation
A Dialogue with
Jeremy Ben Ami of J Street and Shaul Gabbay of the University of Denver
Moderated by William Ury
Conversations about Israel can be difficult and often divisive. We all
acknowledge that we care deeply, yet our emotions are charged, and
open, respectful dialogue is rare. With the situation in the Middle
East escalating, we need to talk with one another, and listen. Join us
for this rare opportunity to dialogue openly and honestly about Israel,
Palestine and a secure path to peace.
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Boulder Public Library’s Canyon Theatre - 1000 Canyon Boulevard,
Boulder, Colorado
Tickets $5.00 at the door
Jeremy Ben-Ami, Executive Director, J Street. Jeremy comes to J Street
from a 25-year career in government, politics and communications, in
the U.S. and in Israel. Jeremy has served in a number of senior
government positions including as President Bill Clinton’s Deputy
Domestic Policy Adviser and Policy Director on Howard Dean’s
Presidential Campaign. Jeremy was most recently Senior Vice President
at Fenton Communications. He also has served as the Communications
Director for the New Israel Fund and started the Israeli firm,
Ben-Or Communications, while living in Israel in the late 1990s.
Jeremy’s father was born in Tel Aviv, and much of his family lives in
Israel.
Shaul Gabbay, Director of the Institute for the Study of Israel in the
Middle East at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the
University of Denver. After his military service as Commander in the
Israeli Defense Forces, Shaul Gabbay completed a BA at Bar Ilan
University and an MA at Tel-Aviv University. In 1991 he received a
Presidential Fellowship from the U.S. to continue his studies. In 1995
he completed the Ph.D. program at Columbia University, followed by post
doctoral work at the University of Chicago. In 1998, Professor Gabbay
returned to Israel to join the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
Professor Gabbay joined the University of Denver as the Director of the
Institute for the Study of Israel in the Middle East at in 2001. He is
a frequent commentator in national media such as CBS, NBC, FOX and
MSNBC, analyzing Middle East news stories.
Moderated by William Ury. Over the past three decades, William Ury has
mediated in conflicts around the world. Ury is the co-founder of the
Program on Negotiation at Harvard University. His newest book is The
Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes. He is
co-author of Getting to YES, a five-million-copy bestseller in thirty
languages. Currently, he leads the Abraham Path Initiative, which seeks
to create a permanent path of tourism and pilgrimage in the Middle
East. Ury received a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. from Harvard.
We Thank Our Sponsors: Congregation Nevei Kodesh, The Abrahamic
Initiative, and Brit Tzedek V'Shalom. For additional information please
call 303-271-3543. Event parking at 11th & Arapahoe entrance.
Limited parking at Canyon entrance.
Tikkun Leil
Shavuot
Thursday, May
28th, at 7:30 p.m. at Congregation Har HaShem. A Tikkun Leil Shavuot
(all night learning) is an extraordinary
opportunity for all members of the community to study with a
multi-denominational group of rabbis and educators, and a chance to
hear diverse interpretations of Torah on this night of revelation and
celebration of the giving of Torah. The program will end with a dawn
prayer service.
Getting
Involved
From the
Shepherd of the Hills Bulletin
Items needed for the
Boulder Homeless Shelter: Blankets, Vitamins, Cough
Drops, Jelly, Maple Syrup, and Ground Coffee. You may bring donations
to Shepherd.
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April
2009
28,
Tuesday, 6:30pm
Yom HaZikaron, Yom Ha'atzmaut at Bonai Shalom
May
2009
2,
Saturday, 10am-noon
All Ages Shabbat Service
2, Saturday, 12:15-1:45pm
B'nai Mitzvah Program
16, Saturday, 10am-noon
Contemplative Shabbat Service
16, Saturday, 12:15-1:45pm
Rebbes' Tisch
30, Saturday, 10am-noon
Eli Sher's Bar Mitzvah
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AROUND
TOWN
AND BEYOND
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PRAYERS
Each
newsletter
contains
names of people in our community, or friends of our community, who need
prayers for healing, support, et cetera. Names will cycle off the list after
one month - please let us know if you wish for it to remain longer. Please send names in
Hebrew
and/or English, with other details as desired, to info@pardesleavavot.org.
-
Grace
Kohler
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Karyn
Schad
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Jackie
Lewis
- HaRav
Devorah Rut bat Tamar (Rabbi Deborah Ruth Bronstein)
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For information
about Pardes Levavot or our events please visit our
website at www.pardeslevavot.org
or write info@pardeslevavot.org.
To contact Rabbis Nadya and Victor Gross write rabbis@pardeslevavot.org.
If you would like to post something on our Pardes Levavot mailing
lists, or if you have questions about our mailings, lists,
communications, etc., contact info@pardeslevavot.org.
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Manny approached the Rabbi of his Synagogue and said "Rabbi, please
make me a Cohen."
The Rabbi, taken aback, tells Manny that it is impossible.
Manny offers the Rabbi $10,000, but the Rabbi won’t budge. He offers
$50,000… then $75,000. Finally, the Rabbi reluctantly gives in. He
teaches Manny Torah. He teaches him Talmud. After 6 months of classes,
the Rabbi tells Manny, "OK, now you can be a Cohen."
The next Shabbat, Manny is called up for the first aliya in the Torah
reading. He goes up, with a big smile on his face, says the brachot and
afterwards returns to his seat.
But the Rabbi is still troubled and a little curious. He approaches
Manny the next day and asks him why it was so important to him to be a
Cohen.
Manny answers, "Rabbi, my father was a Cohen; my grandfather was a
Cohen. I wanted to be a Cohen too!"
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