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 Thanksgiving: From the Pilgrims to Us
By Rabbi David Woznica
The Pilgrims, whom we acknowledge as the precursors to Thanksgiving, crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower in 1620. They came from Holland, having fled religious persecution in England in 1608. Holland, the most tolerant country on the continent at the time, afforded them great liberty. Why, then, did they risk a dangerous journey to the New World?
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 An Attitude of Gratitude
In celebration of Thanksgiving, we asked our clergy to let us know what they are thankful for this year:
Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback – I am thankful for the gift of community. It brings meaning and structure to my life.
Cantor Nathan Lam – I am thankful for my family and community. For the privilege of living in this great country and being able to witness the contributions of Israel in so many ways to the welfare of the world.
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A Celebration of Generations: Midor L’dor Brings Grandparents to Wise
This morning hundreds of Wise School students celebrated their love of learning with visiting grandparents and other extended family members during our annual Midor L’dor event! This beloved event is always a highlight of our year – thank you so much to the family and friends who joined us.
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 This Week’s Torah Portion: Vayetze
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24
6:15 p.m. Shabbat Services | Plotkin Chapel
Led by Rabbi Ron Stern and Cantor Emma Lutz
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Saturday Morning Services and Torah Study | Plotkin Chapel
9 a.m. Torah Study
10 a.m. Morning Service followed by potluck lunch
Led by Rabbi Josh Knobel and Cantor Emma Lutz
PLEASE NOTE: There will be no pre-service nosh this week.
NEXT WEEK:
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1
6:15 p.m. Shabbat Services | Sanctuary
Led by Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback and Cantor Nathan Lam
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2
Saturday Morning Services and Torah Study | Plotkin Chapel
9 a.m. Torah Study
10 a.m. Morning Service followed by potluck lunch
Led by Rabbi David Woznica and Cantor Paul Dorman
Shesh Besh (Backgammon) | Shalom Garden
1:30 p.m. Shabbat Backgammon
with Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback
RSVP HERE
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Learning Opportunities with Clergy
Talmud Study with Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback: Wednesday, November 29 at 12 p.m. | Taub Annex
Bible Study with Rabbi Ron Stern: Monday, December 4 at 9 a.m. | Temple Conference Room
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 50 Families Need Your Support This Holiday Season
LA Family Housing helps thousands of people transition into permanent housing. We are looking for our community to make this season bright for 50 families-in-need by providing Holiday Kits filled with household goods, holiday decorations, and Ralphs/Target gift cards by December 10. Our community involvement will enable these families to more fully experience this holiday season.
Here are the ways you can make an impact:
1. Donate funds towards Holiday Kits. Your contribution of $150 supplies a family with needed items, including household goods, holiday decorations and Ralphs/Target gift cards. Help us reach our goal of 50 kits.
2. Donate funds towards gift cards. Your contribution of $40 or $80 will go towards the purchase of Ralphs/Target gift cards needed for Holiday Kits.
3. Sponsor a meal. Your contribution of $500 pays for a meal served by LA Family Housing during the month of December.
4. Volunteer on Sunday, December 24 from 3pm – 6pm with Cantor Emma Lutz. Join her and other members of your Wise community in preparing dinner for families at LA Family Housing.
DONATE NOW
RSVP TO VOLUNTEER
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Now Accepting Nominations to the Temple Board for 2018-19!
Are you or someone you know very involved in our Temple community? Would you like to deepen your connection with the Temple by joining our leadership team? If so, we’re calling on all of our members to submit recommendations for the 2018-2019 Board of Directors, Congregational Fund Trustees, and Officer positions. The Nominating Committee requests that all Board nominee recommendations be submitted in writing to Glenn Sonnenberg, Nominating Committee Chairperson. Please include in the subject line of your email: 2018-2019 nominations to ensure proper delivery. |
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 Participate in Shoes that Fit 2017!
It’s that time of year! Become a “Shoe Buddy” for Shoes that Fit 2017 benefiting the 5th graders at 93rd St. Elementary School. Each year Stephen Wise Temple and Wise School gifts over 200 pair of shoes – one each for every 5th grader at 93rd St. Elementary. For many of these children, this is the first pair of NEW shoes they’ve ever worn as many have old, worn out hand me downs from older siblings and donations. Become a “Shoe Buddy” to 1, 2 or more kids and give the gift that keeps on giving. Contact Lori Tyberg at [email protected] to receive the name, gender and shoe size of a well deserving child. We will be collecting the shoes through Thanksgiving. |
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College Kids: Hanukkah Gifts, Parents Lunch 11/30 & Dinner with Clergy in Boston 12/7
We are sending college kids a gift for Hanukkah with a note from our clergy. If you haven’t already sent us their information and you would like your child to receive a gift, please email us: their name, email, cell phone, university/college (or alma mater if they’ve recently graduated), and year of graduation. Also, we’d love your help and company in packing the gifts over lunch with Rabbi Stern on 11/30 at 12:30-2 p.m. at member Susan Berger’s home in Encino. Address available on RSVP. Finally, if you have a child (or recent grad!) living in Boston, let us know. Rabbi Yoshi, Rabbi Stern, and other members of our team are headed there for the URJ Biennial and they’d love to connect.
Please email Lucy Harel, Director of Membership: [email protected] |
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 Tot Shabbat
Friday, December 8 at 5:30 p.m.
Join Rabbi Joshua Knobel, Ditza, and our Wise community for an uplifting Shabbat service and enjoy a concert/sing-along with The BeatBuds, specially designed for tots. Rejoice in the invigorating spirit of Shabbat with your little ones’ favorite Shabbat songs and an uplifting artistic activity. The bagels are on us! Designed specifically for children up to age 6 but all are welcome.
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 Shesh Besh (Backgammon) in Shalom Garden
Saturday, December 2 at 1:30 p.m.
Join Rabbi Zweiback, Remi Levy, and Tanel Harunzade for a leisurely Shabbat afternoon of backgammon in the newest, prettiest spot on our campus!
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 Shabbanukkah
Friday, December 15
Part Hanukkah. Part Shabbat. All awesome.
5 p.m. | Family-friendly latke nosh with music and dreidel games
6:15 p.m. | Hanukkiyot Lighting and Shabbat Services
7:30 p.m. | Dinner
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| Upcoming Events |
 Luncheon with Rabbi Meir Azari of Isarael’s Bet Daniel Center for Progressive Judaism
Tuesday, November 28 at 12 p.m.
Bet Daniel in Israel has grown to three spiritual centers and provides Jewish progressive curriculum and education experiences in public schools to thousands. Rabbi Meir Azari will give a special presentation about the excellent work done at Bet Daniel, including the Shonim Children’s Art Project for Tolerance and Pluralism. Learn about how Bet Daniel Centers embraced the “Shonim B’yahad” (Embracing Our Differences) Project in 2015 The center works in Arab and Jewish public schools to teach tolerance, diversity and shared existence using art as our medium.
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 Center for Jewish Life presents:
Hollywood’s Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles
Dr. Laura Rosenzweig
Monday, December 4 at 7:30 p.m.
Hollywood’s Spies tells the long-hidden story of American Jewish Resistance to Nazism during the 1930’s and the role that Jewish Hollywood played in combating this threat to democracy. Between 1934 and 1941, Louis B. Mayer, Jack Warner and the other Jewish executives of Hollywood secretly paid private investigators to infiltrate Nazi groups operating in Los Angeles. For seven years, Hollywood’s spies infiltrated the German-American Bund and its nativist, Naz—influenced allies, reporting on seditious plots and collusion with the German government. After eighty years, the story is told.
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 Wise Years
Thursday, December 14
Registration begins at 9:30 a.m.
Program begins at 10 a.m.
Stephen Wise Temple’s Artist-in-Resident Mario M. Muller will provide fascinating insight into the artistic process. UCLA Doctoral Student Max Daniel will discuss the rich history of the Sephardic Jewish community in Los Angeles. After a buffet lunch, enjoy a screening of the film Loving Leah (2009) or play games.
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 Wise Family Camp
Friday, January 26 – Sunday, January 28 | Camp Ramah
Unplug, recharge, and connect with us in Ojai. Take a break from the busy-ness of life, and spend quality family time with your own family and your Stephen Wise Temple family. Whether it’s a Friday night song session with Rabbi Yoshi, the ropes course, hiking with Rabbi Stern, a Havdalah dance party, or just the chance to relax with a glass of wine, a good book and good friends – Wise Family Camp is made for YOU. Parents and young children will stay in comfortable rooms and kids in grades 2 through 12 will bunk in cabins with trained and beloved Camp Wise staff.
REGISTER NOW – spots are filling up fast! |
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 Men’s Ski Trip
February 23-25, 2018
Hit the slopes with the guys of Wise! This is an incredible getaway for a limited group of Wise guys including Rabbi Yoshi and Rabbi Stern! We spend two days enjoying the mountains and snow of Mammoth Mountain, the services of our own personal chef, Shabbat, great camaraderie and some awesome skiing. Even if you’re not a skier, Mammoth offers great winter activities from snow-mobiling to snow-shoeing and we’ll have access to the spa and gym at the Snowcreek mountain center.
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| Community Calendar |
Valley Beth Shalom presents
American Conservatism and the Republican Party in the Trump Era
Monday, November 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Rabbi Ed Feinstein will moderate a panel that includes Stephen Wise Temple member Bruce Bialosky, Larry Greenfield, and Arnold Steinberg. This event is free and open to the public.
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Jewish Federation of Los Angeles presents
20th Anniversary of Twinning: A Celebration of Meaningful Connection
Sunday, December 10 at 4:30 p.m. | Katz Family Pavilion
The Federation’s Global Teen Twinning Program turns this year! Join hundreds of program alumni, families, and educators to celebrate Twinning’s meaningful impact on thousands of teens and their families over the past two decades — in Los Angeles, Tel Aviv, and Vilnius.
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West Coast Jewish Theatre presents
New York Water by Sam Bobrick and directed by Howard Teichman
Playing now through December 17 | Pico Playhouse
Linda and Albert are a New York couple who have just met and feel they have been held back by the city. Follow them as they try to make a go of it in Davenport, Iowa, Los Angeles and then, no longer together, wind up meeting back in New York. This madcap journey of love stars Ross Benjamin and Bridget Flanery.
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Hadag Nahash with Hanan Ben Ari
Saturday, December 2 at 8:30 p.m. | AJU Gindi Auditorium
Hadag Nahash combines funky hip-hop grooves with flavors of rock, reggae and Middle Eastern music. The best-selling hip-hop artists in Israel, they have shared a stage with superstars like The Black Eyed Peas, Cypress Hill, and Matisyahu. Hadag Nahash features a full electric band, along with turntables and samples backed by their notoriously bold frontman. Feverishly devoted to equality and civil rights, the group is the soundtrack for the Israeli struggle against corruption and racism.
Hadag Nahash will be joined by Israel’s “best new artist” for 2016 – Hanan Ben Ari!
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 Get Ready for Hanukkah Temple Gift Shop!
Hanukkah is closer than you think! The gift shop has a beautiful line of vintage Hanukkiahs. Stop by to see our new collection, there is something for everybody! Need a tallit? Receive 25% off of all tallit purchases. |
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We remember with love those who died in recent days and weeks:
Aaron Cohen, Gail Friedman, Gerald Gross, Dafna Presnell, Arthur Siegel
We observe the yahrzeits of:
Eric Adler*, Dorothy Balton*,Jacob Blattberg*, Marjorie Ruth Bilkiss*, Sandra D. Bloom*, Bloom Bovill*, Sam Burman*, Max Eisen, Bess Feldman, William Fenning, Bertha Fishel*, Eva Gelbaum*, Ruth Gerber*, Samuel Glassman*, Fred Ephraim Goldstein*, Matthew Goldstein, Louis Goodman*, Aleck C. Gordon*, Clara Gratz*, Goldie Hartman*, Rita Heeger*, Joray Hyman Hoffman*, Robert M. Kadner*, Alain Kalcheim*, Isadore H. Kossman*, Bernard Masket*, Claire T. Peha, Rosalee Pellar*, Sofe Rizzo*, Jack A. Rosenfeld*, Helen Ross*, Helen Shapiro*, Ruth Silverman*, Boris Stillerman*, Lona Stone*, Louis Taub*, Dr. Solomon Jerome Varon*
*Designated on our memorial walls
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| Lifecycle • Mazal Tov |
| 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!
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| Lifecycle • Tributes |
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We honor people through charitable giving.
EARLY CHILDHOOD ANNUAL GIVING
IN MEMORY OF:
Dafna Presnell, by Randy and Eric Gordon
SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND
IN MEMORY OF:
Irving B. Kroll, by Rabbi Leah Kroll
AFSANEH YOUSEFZADEH MEMORIAL FUND
IN MEMORY OF:
Claire Peha, by Susan and Jon Berger
DIENER AND KADNER FAMILIES LIBRARY FUND
IN MEMORY OF:
Elizabeth A. Sirmay and John Lyons, by Sid Lyons
MAX HESS LIBRARY FUND
IN MEMORY OF:
Bess Feldman, by Anida Sterman
YAHRZEIT FUND
IN MEMORY OF:
Isadore Kossman, by Annie and Ted Haas
William Fenning, by Lisa Cassel and family
To make a donation in someone’s honor or in memory of a loved one, please visit wisela.org/giving.
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| Thank You |
| We appreciate our wonderful volunteers:
Soulful Shabbat Volunteers:
Linda Silver
Jodi Kirkbride
Claudia Brown
Hilda Bergher
Joan Spiegel
Nosh Volunteer:
Susan Firestone
Gift Shop Volunteers:
Terrie Baumann
Emil Cobar
Rochelle Fox
Lori Rubin
Carol Sookman
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| A Welcoming Community |
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Shabbat Shalom
Stephen Wise Temple | 15500 Stephen S. Wise Drive | Los Angeles, CA 90077
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