 Religious School Celebrates Yom Ha’atzmaut with Giant Israel Monopoly Game
Now this is what we call making a BIG impression! Last Sunday, our Religious School students and families celebrated Israel’s 70th birthday with fun and games indoors and outdoors, including a giant Monopoly board featuring Israel’s most famous landmarks, streets, and natural wonders. Check out these amazing photos from the game, custom-designed and printed especially for Wise’s Center for Youth Engagement. Our WTY Teens played a round of “Israelopoly” Sunday evening. Families also participated in rounds of Jewpardy! (hosted by Rabbi Sari Laufer), and Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback hosted an Israel-themed “Family Feud” competition, in addition to a cooking competition hosted by Culinary Kids Academy, Bingo and other Israeli-themed games for the whole family.
Interested in becoming part of Wise Religious School? Contact Religious School Director Ashley Marx.
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 Athletes from Israel Sport Center for the Disabled to Visit Wise
Wise will welcome athletes Asael Shabo, Shay Barbibay, and Boaz Kramer from the Israel Sport Center for the Disabled on at a special Friday night service on May 4 at 6:15 p.m. Asael Shabo is one of Israel’s leading wheelchair basketball players and a childhood victim of a terrorist attack. Boaz Kramer, Executive Director of ISCD, was born with his disabilities and began participating in the Center’s activities at 3 years old. He holds an M.D. from Tel Aviv University and has participated in the Beijing and London Paralympics, earning a silver medal in doubles tennis. 21 year old Shay Barbibay, one of the ISCD’s rising young wheelchair basketball stars, lives with a form of Cerebral Palsy which effects his lower limbs. Shay started playing wheelchair basketball when he was 12, served as a volunteer in the IDF for two years, and is currently a student of physical education at the Wingate institute. Join us as we welcome Asael, Shay, and Boaz and hear their incredible, inspiring stories.
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This Week’s Torah Portion: Tazria-Metzora
FRIDAY, APRIL 20
6:15 p.m. Yom Ha’Atzmaut Soulful Shabbat Services | Sanctuary
Led by Rabbi Ron Stern, Rabbi Sari Laufer, Cantor Nathan Lam, and Cantor Emma Lutz
SATURDAY, APRIL 21
Shabbat Morning Services | Plotkin Chapel
Led by Rabbi David Woznica and Cantor Emma Lutz
9 a.m. Torah Study
10 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service |
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FRIDAY, APRIL 27
6:15 p.m. Shabbat Services | Sanctuary
Led by Rabbi Ron Stern and Raymond Zachary
SATURDAY, APRIL 28
Shabbat Morning Services | Plotkin Chapel
Led by Rabbi Ron Stern and Raymond Zachary
9 a.m. Torah Study
10 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service |
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Learning Opportunities with Clergy
Talmud Study with Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback: Wednesday, April 25 at 12 p.m. | Taub Annex
Bible Study with Rabbi Ron Stern: Monday, April 30 at 9 a.m. | Temple Conference Room |
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Yom Hamoreh Celebration: Former Wise School Teachers Invited!
Friday, May 4 at 1 p.m.
Wise School will celebrate Yom Hamoreh on Friday, May 4th, by inviting past teachers back to Wise School to honor them for all of their hard work and dedication. Our students will begin the day with an assembly, followed by a luncheon for the past and current educators. If you are a former Wise School teacher, please call our office at 310.889.2300 to learn more! |
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Alumni Family Day
Sunday, May 6
11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Alumni students, parents, and their families are invited to celebrate a family friendly afternoon at Wise School as we celebrate 40 year of Wise and Coach Starr’s 40 years of teaching. Event is free.
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| Upcoming Events |
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 Yom Ha’Atzmaut Soulful Shabbat Services and Dinner
Friday, April 20
Services: 6:15 p.m.
Dinner: 7:30 p.m.
Our Soulful musicians and singers will join our clergy for a celebration of Israel’s 70th birthday.
NOTE: Special service time of 6:15 p.m.
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 Jewish World Watch Walk to End Genocide
Sunday, April 22, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Pan Pacific Park
Join Rabbi Ron Stern and your Wise community for this annual event that brings thousands of people together to speak out and raise awareness and funds to end worldwide genocide. March with our students, parents, friends, teachers, and clergy as we stand up for the millions of people around the world who cannot stand up for themselves.
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 Cantors’ Concert Celebrating 70 Years of University Synagogue
featuring Cantor Emma Lutz
Sunday, April 22 at 4 p.m. | 11960 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles
Cantor Emma Lutz will sing alongside colleagues from all around Los Angeles to help our friends at University Synagogue celebrate their 70th anniversary.
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 Lunch Bunch: Caring for the Stranger
Tuesday, April 24 at 5 p.m. | Sanctuary Building
Help our Lunch Bunch care for the stranger by assembling lunches for residents at LA Family Housing’s valley shelter on Tuesday, April 24. Delivery of the lunches will take place on Wednesday, April 25. To RSVP for Tuesday’s food preparation or if you have questions, contact Diane Kabat at 818.981.5485 or email [email protected]. |
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Center for Jewish Life presents
Jewish Spirituality & Mindfulness: Accessing Deeper Consciousness, Meaning and Joy through the Lessons of Our Tradition
Starts Next Week
with Cantor Emma Lutz
April 24 & May 8 | 7-8:30 p.m.
“Spirituality” has been a buzzword in the American lexicon for a number of years, but the Jewish spiritual tradition runs thousands of years deep. Though the texts of our tradition, we will gain a deeper understanding of what the Jewish sages about attaining a deeper sense of spirituality and mindfulness in our everyday lives.
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 Annual Library Luncheon
with guest speaker Rabbi Naomi Levi
Friday, April 27 at 12 p.m.
A few years ago, Rabbi Naomi Levy came across a writing by Albert Einstein that took her on a mysterious journey which she chronicled in her popular book Einstein and the Rabbi. At this special luncheon we will discuss her search into the depths of the soul, all while uncovering a mystery about the world’s most renowned scientist. In addition to Einstein and the Rabbi, Rabbi Naomi Levy is author of the national bestseller To Begin Again and founder of Nashuva, a Jewish Spiritual outreach movement. Proceeds from this event provide essential support of our beloved Wise School library.
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 Center for Jewish Life presents
Reform Judaism: An Exploration of our Role and our Future
Thursday, May 10 at 7:30 p.m.
Many of the greatest contributions of Reform Judaism also present its greatest challenges. It seeks to be innovative while at the same time embracing tradition. It casts a wide tent while at the same time seeking to have core beliefs. It allows for personal autonomy while at the same time desiring a community based on shared values. It holds the Torah as sacred while concurrently not holding all its teachings to be binding.
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Soulful Shabbat and Confirmation: Celebrating Our Graduating Seniors
Friday, May 18
Services: 6:15 p.m.
Dinner: 7:30 p.m.
Celebrate the graduating seniors in our Wise family with a Soulful Shabbat service, presentations by our Confirmands, and special blessings for any of our departing seniors. Our entire community is invited to dinner after services to help congratulate our Confirmands and graduating class. NOTE: Special service time of 6:15 p.m.
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 Kol HaKavod to Faramarz Yousefzadeh, Chairman of the Board of the new Global Coalition for Adaptive Research which launched this week with a mission to speed the discovery and development of cures for patients with rare and deadly diseases. This nonprofit charitable organization is comprised of some of the world’s foremost clinical, translational, and basic science investigators working collectively.
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 Kol HaKavod to Adam Entous, nephew of Karen and Allen Entous, who was announced as a winner of the Pulitzer Prize earlier this week. Adam (now with The New Yorker) was part of the Washington Post‘s team covering Russian interference in the 2016 election. |
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 The BFOR Study: Genetic Research to Save Lives
Wise is partnering with the BFOR (BRCA Founder Outreach) Study to help get the word out about some important genetic research happening in Los Angeles and other major cities around the U.S. Women and men with a BRCA gene mutation have a greater risk of developing several types of cancer, including breast, ovary, prostate and other cancers. Individuals of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry are ten times as likely to carry a BRCA mutation as the general population. Most carriers do not even know they are at risk. Genetic testing is performed using a simple blood sample.
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Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health and Cedars-Sinai present
Jewish Wisdom and Wellness: A Festival of Learning
April 15 — April 29
Learn about health and wellness at this annual community-wide series of events, lectures, workshops, and experiential classes hosted by community organizations and synagogues throughout Los Angeles and Southern California. Jewish Wisdom & Wellness is intentionally multidenominational and interdisciplinary, and programs will be offered across the streams of Jewish life.
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JUNITY Jewish Music and Arts Festival
Sunday, June 3, 11 a.m. – 10:30 p.m. | Pershing Square Park, Downtown L.A.
Be a part of an all-day music and arts festival celebrating music, arts, and Jewish unity. Featuring over 20 major and up-and-coming musicians, painters, visual artists, and exciting speakers from the Jewish world: Zusha, Meilech Kohn, Moshav, Levi Robin, Diwon, Simple Man, EREZ, Lev King D, and many more artists to be announced!
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| Lifecycle • Yahrzeits |
We remember with love those who died in recent days and weeks:
Joan Blum-Feldman, Alice Handelman, Touran Hekmat, Irving B. Kahn, Ezra Schon
We observe the yahrzeits of:
Claire Barton, Rosa Belmont*, Melvyn Irving Bemel*, Maxine M. Berkman*, Jerry Berman*, Bob Bilkiss*, Bertha Chamie Bloom*, Max Blumin*, Rose Bornstein*, Beverly Brody, Shirley Chasin, Louis Clark*, Frances R. Cohen*, Sylvia Drubo*, Ronald Gainor*, Abe L. Garfinkel*, David Glatt, Samuel S. Goldman*, Bessie Goodman*, Pearl Holtz, Israel Joelson, Myron Kurtzman*, Harry A. Lavine*, Donald Leff*, Arthur Levine, Roslyn Levy, Esther Lipen*, Simpson Marcus, William Marenus, Philip Marylander*, Myrtle May, Sidney H. Medof, M.D.*, Lawrence I. Niemerow*, Sarah Rebecca Orbuch*, Helma Platt, Anna Plitt*, Leon Preisler*, Sara Hoffman Ross*, Frieda Fogel Schwartz*, Paul Shames*, Eva Sheinhaus*, Benjamin Max Shapell, Herman Sloan*, Shirley Kramer Surlow*, Nancy Ladinsky Traber*, Sam Tractman*, Naomi Weiss*
*Designated on our memorial walls
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| Lifecycle • Condolences |
| We reach out as a community and offer our support and deepest sympathy to those among us who are mourning the loss of a loved one.
Goldie and Anthony Friedman on the loss of Goldie’s father Ezra Schon |
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| Shehechianu Moment
Do you have a milestone birthday or anniversary approaching? We’d like to celebrate your special day on the bima during Friday evening Shabbat Services! Invite your family, join your Wise community, make it a “shehechianu moment” – a time to give thanks for life, health, and the blessings that enable you to reach this great moment in your life. Let us know by emailing Arlene Spiegelman or calling 310.889.2272 and she’ll make sure to schedule a date that works for you. We’d love to share your celebration!
To our B’nai Mitzvah — may the Torah guide and inspire you every day of your adult life.
Mazal tov to:
Cheryl and Bill Cohen on their daughter Cayla becoming Bat Mitzvah.
Wishing you a future filled with joy and blessings.
Mazal tov to:
Mark and Penny Berns on the marriage of their daughter Allison Berns to Michael Cohen in New York last week. |
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| We honor people through charitable giving.
RABBIS’ DISCRETIONARY FUND
IN HONOR OF:
the Bat Mitzvah of their granddaughter Alyssa Stutman, daughter of Lisa and Brent Stutman, by Claudia and Jerry Nussbaum
IN MEMORY OF:
Ernest A. Goldenfeld, by Marcia and Barry Maiten
CANTORS’ DISCRETIONARY FUND
IN MEMORY OF:
Beverly Brody, by Laurie Ackerman
WISE SCHOOL GENERATIONS ENDOWMENT
IN HONOR OF:
Lynn Bider for being honored by JQ International, by Joyce and Kevin Anderson
IN MEMORY OF:
Joan Blum–Feldman, by Laurel Alweil
Joan Blum–Feldman and Carrie Lutin–Scott, by Judy Fischer
Alice Handelman, by Sonia and Martin Bordo
RABBI ZELDIN RABBINIC CHAIR FUND
IN MEMORY OF:
Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin, by Gayle and Lee Rodgers
MITCHELL SHAMES SCHOLARSHIP FUND
IN MEMORY OF:
Sondra Shames Cohen, by Julie, Brad, Samantha, and Greg Shames, and Rachel, Gabe, and Emma Waterman
DOUGLAS NUSBAUM MEMORIAL FUND
IN HONOR OF:
Irv Ginsburg on his 90th birthday, by Janice and Robert Kahlenberg
SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND
IN MEMORY OF:
Nat Sherman, by Susan and Jon Berger
YAHRZEIT FUND
IN MEMORY OF:
Ronald Spencer, by Marilyn Spencer and family
Firouz Yasharal, by Ben, Sharona, Yasmin, Camille, and Nathan Shenassa
Benjamin Max Shapell, by Vera and Paul Guerin
Pearl Winard, by Bobbi and Joel Scherr
William Marenus, by Margie Marenus
Kenneth Morrison, by The Morrison and Furie Families
Israel Joelson, by Yasmina and Alan Joelson |
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| We appreciate our wonderful volunteers:
Nosh Volunteer:
Susan Firestone
Gift Shop Volunteers:
Terrie Baumann
Rochelle Fox
Lori Rubin
Carol Sookman |
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