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S H A B B AT B U L L E T I N

Serving the Orthodox Community of Houston for over 100 years

July 8, 2017 14 Tammuz 5777

Torah Sefer: Bamidbar Parasha: Balak Haftarah: Micah 5:6-6:8

————————————— Shabbat Kiddush in Taubenhaus Hall. Shabbat Kiddush next week: Sponsorship is greatly appreciated. Seudah Shlishit in Taubenhaus Hall. Sponsored by Paul Oberman in memory of his father, Harvey Oberman, and to thank the UOS community for such a warm welcome to Houston. Seudah Shlishit next week: Sponsorship is greatly appreciated.

United Orthodox Synagogues

The David & Ruth Mitzner Building 9001 Greenwillow Houston, TX 77096

713-723-3850

Rabbi Barry Gelman Rabbi Emeritus Joseph Radinsky z’l

Cantor Emeritus Irving Dean President Mr. Rick Guttman

The Eruv is up.

The greatest chessed (kindness) you can do for someone in shul is to let them pray undisturbed. Please refrain from talking during services.

Stay Connected: UOS: www.uosh.org

Robert M. Beren Academy: www.berenacademy.org

UOS Goldberg Montessori: www.uosgms.org

LOUIS AND LEAH YAFFEE BNEI AKIVA PROGRAM:

Shabbat No Teen Minyan & No Groups 10:30 am: Tot Shabbat with Maya Wadler Snif and groups will resume August 26th, 2017

Mazal Tov

Chani & Mark Kolodny

On the birth of their son, sibling to Lilly

Baruch Dayan H’emet

We regret to inform you on the passing of Emanuel Sassen

Father of our member Donna Abramson

May the families be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem

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UNITED ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUES OF HOUSTON

Friday July 7th 7:00 pm Mincha/Maariv 8:07 pm Candle Lighting

Saturday July 8th 9:00 am Shacharit No Class Gideon Miller 7:00 pm Class by Rabbi Gelman 8:00 pm Mincha 8:30 pm Class by David Silberman 9:08 pm Havdallah Sunday July 9th 8:00 am Shacharit 8:10 pm Mincha/Maariv Monday July 10th 6:00 am Early Shacharit 6:45 am Shacharit 8:10 pm Mincha/Maariv Tuesday July 11th Fast of Tammuz 5:06 am Fast Begins 6:00 am Early Shacharit 6:45 am Shacharit 8:05 pm Mincha/Maariv 8:52 pm Fast Ends Wednesday July 12th 6:00 am Early Shacharit 7:00 am Shacharit 8:10 pm Mincha/Maariv Thursday July 13th 6:00 am Early Shacharit 6:45 am Shacharit 8:10 pm Mincha/Maariv

Friday July 14th 6:00 am Early Shacharit 7:00 am Shacharit 7:00 pm Mincha/Maariv 8:06 pm Candle Lighting

Saturday July 15th 9:00 am Shacharit 6:40 Gideon Miller 6:55 pm Class by Rabbi Gelman 7:55 pm Mincha 8:30 pm Class by David Silberman 9:06 pm Havdallah

Shabbat: Morning Services: followed by Kiddush in Taubenhaus Hall. Sermon by Gideon Miller Massechet Shabbat: with Gideon Miller, 1 hour 15 minutes before Mincha

at the home of Barbara & Robert Levy. There will be No Class this Shabbat. Shabbat Class: with Rabbi Gelman, 1 hour before Mincha, Topic “Can You

Hide Or Change Your Jewish Identity To Save Your Life?” Seudah Shlishit: Will take place in Taubenhaus Hall. Massechet Bava Metziah: with David Silberman, after Seudah Shlishit. ———————————————————————————————————————-

Ongoing Weekday Classes: Daf Yomi with Rabbi Yaakov Nagel. Daf Yomi is a daily regimen of Talmud

study. The entire Talmud is completed, one day at a time, in seven and a half years. Tens of thousands of Jews worldwide study in the Daf Yomi program. The class will take place in the Library 45 minutes before Mincha, Sunday through Thursday.

Mondays 11:15 am-1:15 pm: Women’s only Israeli Dancing—Beginner thru

advanced telling the story of the Jewish People and Israel today thru Dance. Cost $6/session. Contact Rachel Weissblatt for details 713-776-9739.

Tuesdays 8:00 pm-9:00 pm: Meditation class with Ann Friedman in the UOS Library. Please go to http://www.uosh.org/event/meditation.html for the class schedule.

Wednesdays 11:45 am (class 12:00 pm-12:30 pm): with Rabbi Gelman Lunch & Learn: Parshat Hashavua: A textual analysis of the weekly Torah portion. Class will be held in the UOS library, cost $6 (egg salad, tuna salad, fresh green salad and a drink) RSVP to Jeff@uosh.org or online at www.uosh.org.

Summer Schedule. Class resumes for July 12,19. No class on July 26, Aug. 2, 9.

Wednesday 8:00 pm at the home of Vivian and Henry Blum. Rabbi Moshe

Traxler teaching the Ramban's Mishneh Torah.

Daily minyan is a fundamental aspect of synagogue life. Help to assure that we have a minyan each time by joining the minyan WhatsApp group. Those in the group receive periodic reminders of minyan times as well as requests to come when we are short. Come when you can. Join the group to make sure those saying kaddish and others have a minyan. Email or text your cell # to Rabbi Gelman if you wish to join and download the WhatsApp app.

Rabbi Gelman is sending out a weekly inspirational message or link thru a WhatsApp group. Please text Rabbi Gelman at 713 922 2473 indicating that you would like to join the UOSInspiration WhatsApp group. Make sure you have a WhatsApp account.

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Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

1 hour 15 minutes before Mincha: Massechet Shabbat with Gideon Miller at the home of Barbara & Robert Levy. There will be No Class this Shabbat. —————————————— Shabbat Class: with Rabbi Gelman 1 hour before Mincha, Topic “Can You Hide Or Change Your Jewish Identity To Save Your Life?” —————————————— After Mincha: Massechet Bava Metziah with David Silberman. ——————————————

45 minutes Before Mincha: Daf Yomi: with Rabbi Nagel. ———————

11:15 pm—1:15 pm: Israeli dance for Women. ——————— 45 minutes Before Mincha: Daf Yomi: with Rabbi Nagel. . ———————.

45 minutes Before Mincha: Daf Yomi: with Rabbi Nagel. ——————

11:45 am(lunch) 12-12:30 pm(class) Lunch & Learn with Rabbi Gelman: Parshat Hashavua: A textual analysis of the weekly Torah portion. See page 2 for the summer schedule. —————— Wednesday 8:00 pm at the home of Vivian and Henry Blum.

Rabbi Moshe Traxler teach-ing the Ramban's Mishneh Torah. ——————— 45 minutes Before Mincha: Daf Yomi: with Rabbi Nagel.

45 minutes Before Mincha: Daf Yomi: with Rabbi Nagel. ——————

UOS Torah Classes at a Glance

UOS Committee Chairpersons

Committee Contact Email Address

Chesed Doreen Lerner Chesed@uosh.org

Education - UOSGMS Nada Chandler education@uosh.org

Hospitality Elise Passy hospitality@uosh.org

House and Grounds Neil Scheckter houseandgrounds@uosh.org

Membership Steven Abramson membership@uosh.org

Security Harry Brown/Yair Yeudai security@uosh.org

Tzedakah Committee Dov Liberman tzedakah@uosh.org

Youth Education Robert Levy youth@uosh.org

Welcome members, friends and guests to UOS. On behalf of the Board of Direc-tors, I invite you to engage in our com-munity and in our Shul. Please reach out to our Rabbi, me, or any of our com-mittee leaders as we work together to enrich each other and our community. Best regards Rick S Guttman

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The 17th of Tammuz and Tisha B'Av

17th of Tammuz The 17th day in the Jewish month of Tammuz, Jews the world over fast and lament to commemorate the many calamities that have befallen our people on this ominous day. The purpose of such fasts in the Jewish calendar is to awaken hearts towards repentance..." Seventeenth of Tammuz This year, the 17th of Tammuz falls out on Tuesday - July 11th Fast begins on Tuesday July 11th at 5:02AM - Shacharit Services at 6:45AM Evening services at services at 8:00PM The fast ends at 8:52PM A HISTORIC DAY OF CALAMITY Going all the way back to Biblical times, Moses descended Mount Sinai on this day and, upon seeing the Golden Calf broke the first set of Tablets carrying the Ten Commandments (Shemot 32:19, Mishna Taanit 28b). In the First Temple Era: The priests in the First Temple stopped offering the daily sacrifice on this day (Taanit 28b) due to the shortage of sheep during the siege and the next year 3184 (586 BCE), the walls of Jerusalem were breached after many months of siege by Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian forces. In Melachim II 21:7 we find that King Menashe, one of the worst of the Jewish kings, had an idol placed in the Holy Sanctuary of the Temple, according to tradition on this date. The Talmud, in Masechet Taanit 28b, says that in the time of the Roman persecution, Apostomos, captain of the occupation forces, did the same, and publicly burned the Torah - both acts considered open blasphemy and desecration. These were followed by Titus and Rome breaching the walls of Jerusalem in 3760 (70 CE) and Pope Gregory IX ordering the confiscation of all manuscripts of the Talmud in 4999 (1239). In later years this day continued to be a dark one for Jews. In 1391, more than 4,000 Jews were killed in Toledo and Jaen, Spain and in 4319 (1559) the Jewish Quarter of Prague was burned and looted. CUSTOMS The fast of the 17th of Tammuz is observed from the break of dawn until dusk. Unlike the two Jewish fast days Yom Kippur and Tisha B'Av, washing and wearing leather are permitted on this day. Special prayers (vayechal and anenu) are added to the morning and afternoon prayers. Ashkenazim add the latter only in the afternoon service (mincha). This day is the beginning of the Three Weeks, an annual period of mourning over the destruction of the first and second Temples in Jerusalem.

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Prayer For The IDF & US Military

As we recite the prayer for members of the

Israeli Defense Force on Shabbat and Yom Tov

we keep in mind those Israeli Soldiers held in

captivity and missing in action

and those connected to our congregational

family in active IDF & US Military

Ron Arad Guy Chever Yehuda Katz

Zecharia Baumal Zvi Feldman

Zvi Boruch Altman Elad Imany

Akiva Gilad Brody Yehuda Lajcher

Azriel Oz Brody Albert Katz

Roni Buchine Reuben Morris

David Chertoff Gavriel Saitowitz

Yonaton Cytrin Jake Saitowitz

Samuel Gorme

Chesed Committee

We are currently looking for volunteers, both male & female, to help serve as Shul greeters

on Shabbat. You will welcome people to UOS as they enter the Sanctuary.

We hope to grow and be able to offer more in time, but to start we are currently able to extend these acts of chesed: 1. Friendly check-in calls – to members we haven’t seen in shul for a while, just to make sure they’re okay. 2. Hospital Visits (bikur cholim) 3. Birthday calls or visits to seniors who’re living alone or don’t have family in the area. 4. Rides to weekday shul events – for members who’d like to come to an event, or perhaps to daven or say kaddish, but don’t have a way to get there.

If you are able to help or know of someone

that needs some assistance

please contact Doreen Lerner at Chesed@uosh.org

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You are cordially invited to attend a Memorial service in honor of

Mr. Julius H. Chapman Sunday, July 9th, 2017

at United Orthodox Synagogue, in the Freedman Hall at 9:45 am.

Davening at 8am, breakfast at 8:45 am, memorial service at 9:45 am.

Please RSVP if you will be joining us for the breakfast.

Thank you, The Chapman Family. —— RSVP to: Jeff@uosh.org

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Baruch Dayan H’Emet We regret to inform you on the passing of

Emanuel Sassen, Father of our member Donna Abramson

Roslyn Pokroy, Mother of our member Jerome (Kim) Pokroy

Golda Baker, Wife of our associate member Gilbert Baker

Ryan Maidenberg, Grandson of our member Tiby Unterhalter

Shirley Shaytin, Grandmother of our member Andrew (Mirit) Schneider

Great-Grandmother to Ariel, Daniella, and Jonah, Cousin to Beverly Feldman

Howard Glatter, Uncle of our member Adrianne (David) Berger

Samuel Kupfer, Father of our member Moshe (Debbie) Kupfer

Mazal Tov

Frieda Katz and Walter Katz

on the marriage of their daughter Marissa and Ayton Sanders

Rachel & Joseph Schiff on the birth of their granddaughter

Rachel & Ari Gladstein on the birth of their son,

Sibling: Izzy

Shana Berkowitz & Eric Czinn

On the occasion of their engagement

Parents: Sally & Lenard Berkowitz

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Donations

June 2017

Breakfast-Kiddush- Seudah

Shlishit

General Synagogue Fund Rabbi Gelman's Discretionary

Fund

Harriet & Stan Goldman Holly & David Davies Sari & Scott Garfinkle

Sharon & Eddie Grosman Sari & Scott Garfinkle Doreen & Marshall Lerner

Lester King Rachel & Aharon Gladstein Carol-Anne & Brian Schulman

Elena & Ron Levy Doreen & Basil Joffe Sandi Sperling

Carol & Dov Liberman Sara Lazar

Evelyn & Roger Medvin Leora & Les Nowitz

Linda Mosley Karen & Bill Rubinsky

Denise Weinberg Carol-Anne & Brian Schulman Bnei Akiva

Paula & Rabbi Mark Urkowitz Elena & Barry Diner

Denise Weinberg

Torah Fund

April & Kobi Amsalem

Sally & Lenard Berkowitz Cemetery

Linda & Nelson Block Wenda Kolodny

Lisa & Aaron Brown Danielle & Donniel Ogorek

Harriet & Stan Goldman

Sharon & Eddie Grosman

Gaye & Dennis Halpin

Nancy Beren & Larry Jefferson

Carol-Anne & Brian Schulman

Joel Spira Prayer Books

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Yahrzeits

July 1, 2017-August 8, 2017

7/1/2017 7 Tammuz Moshe Avraham Breit

7/1/2017 7 Tammuz Marcia Chandler

7/1/2017 7 Tammuz Richard Walsh

7/1/2017 7 Tammuz Anna Onikul

7/2/2017 8 Tammuz Rika Ashkenase

7/2/2017 8 Tammuz Benjamin Dienstag

7/3/2017 9 Tammuz Sarah Bootin

7/4/2017 10 Tammuz Theresa Reichman

7/4/2017 10 Tammuz Harry Davis

7/5/2017 11 Tammuz Arlene Abramowitz

7/5/2017 11 Tammuz Francisco Forero

7/6/2017 12 Tammuz Goldie Belinsky

7/7/2017 13 Tammuz Israel Katz

7/7/2017 13 Tammuz Dora Reichstein

7/7/2017 13 Tammuz Louis J. Brandt

7/8/2017 14 Tammuz Charna Steinberg

7/9/2017 15 Tammuz Mildred Plessner

7/9/2017 15 Tammuz Tilly Sacks

7/9/2017 15 Tammuz Carl Theodore Rotenberg

7/10/2017 16 Tammuz Malka Urman

7/11/2017 17 Tammuz Luba Gerszonovitz

7/11/2017 17 Tammuz Douglas Chandler

7/11/2017 17 Tammuz Moshe Leib Gerszonovitz

7/11/2017 17 Tammuz Yaacov Aaron Gerszonovitz

7/11/2017 17 Tammuz Shmuel Meir Gerszonovitz

7/11/2017 17 Tammuz Alicia Murciano

7/11/2017 17 Tammuz Warren Blumberg

7/12/2017 18 Tammuz Louis Feinman

7/12/2017 18 Tammuz Nachman Ferber

7/13/2017 19 Tammuz Malcom Gluckman

7/13/2017 19 Tammuz Felix Mucasey

7/13/2017 19 Tammuz Malcom Gluckman

7/14/2017 20 Tammuz Lillian Goldstein

7/14/2017 20 Tammuz Anne Endelman

7/15/2017 21 Tammuz Melvin Ira Berkowitz

7/15/2017 21 Tammuz Hilda Vivier

7/15/2017 21 Tammuz Bella Eichel

7/15/2017 21 Tammuz Jacob Moses Braude

7/15/2017 21 Tammuz Fannie Fisher Shapiro

7/16/2017 22 Tammuz Harold Raizes

7/17/2017 23 Tammuz David Brown

7/18/2017 24 Tammuz Rachmiel Postan

7/18/2017 24 Tammuz Jake Thompson

7/19/2017 25 Tammuz Beryl Simon

7/19/2017 25 Tammuz Lillian Harris

7/19/2017 25 Tammuz Enoch Simon

7/19/2017 25 Tammuz Beryl Simon

7/19/2017 25 Tammuz Bernard Hyman

7/20/2017 26 Tammuz Albert Bilmen

7/20/2017 26 Tammuz Herman Martin

7/21/2017 27 Tammuz Isaac Ozon

7/21/2017 27 Tammuz George H. Pickar

7/21/2017 27 Tammuz Lila Sternberg

7/21/2017 27 Tammuz Isaac Ozon

7/21/2017 27 Tammuz Taube Moore Efromowicz

7/22/2017 28 Tammuz Evelyn Shocket

7/22/2017 28 Tammuz Betty Schecter

7/22/2017 28 Tammuz Julius Fine

7/23/2017 29 Tammuz David Yaffee

7/23/2017 29 Tammuz Abraham Pekovar

7/23/2017 29 Tammuz Margaret Minzer

7/24/2017 1 Av Bernard Cohen

7/24/2017 1 Av Esther R. Moore

7/25/2017 2 Av Molly Fallas

7/26/2017 3 Av Hilda Carliner Goldman

7/27/2017 4 Av Ruth Mitzner

7/28/2017 5 Av Beatrice Shore Gover

7/28/2017 5 Av Nessim Knafo

7/28/2017 5 Av Shneier Zalman Jaffe

7/29/2017 6 Av Frieda Leba Gerringer

8/1/2017 9 Av Thomas W. Karonika

8/2/2017 10 Av Joseph "Buddy" Smith

8/3/2017 11 Av Norman Block

8/5/2017 13 Av Evelyn Vera Chimes

8/5/2017 13 Av Rudolph Isaac Goldreich

8/5/2017 13 Av Edward Sperling

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Yahrzeits

August 5, 2017-September 20, 2017

8/5/2017 13 Av Sam Nowitz

8/6/2017 14 Av Daniel Moshe Sacks

8/6/2017 14 Av Samuel Gluckman

8/7/2017 15 Av Mordechai Yaakov Mitzner

8/9/2017 17 Av Ruth Alpert

8/9/2017 17 Av Max Dall

8/10/2017 18 Av Judy Siegel

8/11/2017 19 Av Eric Freedman

8/11/2017 19 Av Melvin Diner

8/11/2017 19 Av Eric Freedman

8/14/2017 22 Av Barbara Bar-ilan

8/14/2017 22 Av Rebecca Goldsmith

8/14/2017 22 Av Milton Rosenfield

8/15/2017 23 Av David Mitzner

8/15/2017 23 Av Bessie Glantzberg

8/17/2017 25 Av Fishel Wolf

8/18/2017 26 Av Brian Nitsun

8/18/2017 26 Av Esther Lachs

8/18/2017 26 Av Brenda Loewenson

8/18/2017 26 Av Abe Kaplan

8/19/2017 27 Av Patricia Passy

8/19/2017 27 Av Naomi G. Altman

8/19/2017 27 Av Celia Simon

8/20/2017 28 Av Abe (JoJo) Moore

8/20/2017 28 Av Pauline Abrahamson

8/20/2017 28 Av Abe (JoJo) Moore

8/21/2017 29 Av Pearl Opwald

8/21/2017 29 Av Eleanor Hyman

8/22/2017 30 Av Zvi Friedman

8/24/2017 2 Elul Otto Israel Plessner

8/24/2017 2 Elul Samuel Schmeidler

8/25/2017 3 Elul Rose Esther Goldberg

8/25/2017 3 Elul Abraham Joseph Gelman

8/26/2017 4 Elul Sol Waldman

8/26/2017 4 Elul Sally Waldman

8/28/2017 6 Elul Yehudah Amsalem

8/28/2017 6 Elul Elliot Wainstein

8/29/2017 7 Elul Blanche Opolion

8/31/2017 9 Elul Benjamin Kramer

8/31/2017 9 Elul Louis Rosh

8/31/2017 9 Elul Max Landman

9/1/2017 10 Elul Sam Harris

9/1/2017 10 Elul Jack Simon

9/1/2017 10 Elul Goldie Fels Leff

9/2/2017 11 Elul Louis Feigon

9/2/2017 11 Elul Moses Schneider

9/2/2017 11 Elul Manya Kerner

9/4/2017 13 Elul Shana Saitowitz

9/4/2017 13 Elul Rose Moglinsky

9/4/2017 13 Elul Abeldro Garcia

9/5/2017 14 Elul Dina Melnick

9/5/2017 14 Elul Seymour Buchine

9/6/2017 15 Elul Louis Weiss

9/7/2017 16 Elul Maurice Howard Treiman

9/7/2017 16 Elul Bernard Blieden

9/7/2017 16 Elul Adelaide Pesses Friedman

9/9/2017 18 Elul Wallace Simson

9/9/2017 18 Elul Sylvia Silverman Goren

9/11/2017 20 Elul Abraham Kramer

9/11/2017 20 Elul Irving Shapiro

9/11/2017 20 Elul Michael Sankie

9/12/2017 21 Elul Feivel Topek

9/12/2017 21 Elul Edward Levy

9/12/2017 21 Elul Sheryl Collins

9/13/2017 22 Elul Neil Berman

9/14/2017 23 Elul Muriel Weinberg

9/15/2017 24 Elul Sylvia Rosenberg Berkowitz

9/15/2017 24 Elul Sam N. Sussman

9/16/2017 25 Elul Joseph "Joe" Wolk

9/17/2017 26 Elul D. Aaron Topek

9/17/2017 26 Elul Jacob Blog

9/18/2017 27 Elul Gilda Simon

9/18/2017 27 Elul Adolph Schimmel

9/19/2017 28 Elul Herman Bootin

9/19/2017 28 Elul Jean Edward Junker

9/20/2017 29 Elul Joseph Steiman

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In the interest of collegiality, we want to share these community announcements with you