Mt. Zion Congregation - December 2016SATURDAYSUNDAY FRIDAYTHURSDAYWEDNESDAYTUESDAYMONDAY

9 (Kislev 10)

7:30 pm Shabbat ServiceStudent Rabbi Rosen

Va-yeitzei, Gen. 28:10-32:3Haftarah: Hosea 12:13-14:10Food Giveaway: 3:30 - 5 pm

23 (Kislev 24)

7:30 pm Shabbat Service

Va’yeishev, Gen. 37:1-40:23Haftarah: Amos 2:6-3:8

NO Food Giveaway

16 (Kislev 17)

7:30 pm Shabbat Service

Va-yishlach, Gen. 32:4-36:43Haftarah: Hosea 11:7-12:12

Food Giveaway: 3:30 - 5 pm (meet at 2:30 at Temple to carpool)

3

Torah Study CANCELED

11 am - Linda Gutnik Service at Miller Funeral Home

Adult Ed CANCELEDJoel & Miriam Greene Anniv

10

10 am Torah StudyThe Book of Judges

Adult Ed 6:30 pmGideon & the Kingship

TIDINGS deadline

17

10 am Torah Study

2410 am Torah Study

1st Night Chanukah

7

Miriam Greene Bday

65

Carolyn Margulies Bday

4

Gift Shop Open House10:30 am - 12 noon

Religious School 10 am

15

Deidra Greene Bday

1413

Freda Hosen Bday

1211

Temple Board Mtg 9 amReligious School 10 amGift Shop Open House10:30 am - 12 noon

Chris Dreiske Bday

27

4th NightChanukah

26

3rd NightChanukah

Margo Olson,Cindy Jacobs Bdays

25

2nd Night Chanukah

212018

29

6th NightChanukah

Rosh Chodesh Tevet

19

28

5th NightChanukahMemorah LightingWashingtonPavilion 5 pm

4:32 pm

4:33 pm

4:37 pm

8

22

A reminder that proper attire should be worn when participating in

services at Mt. Zion Temple. Your cooperation with this matter is

greatly appreciated.

1

Rosh Chodesh Kislev

Anita Bierman, Carin Rosinsky Bdays

30 (Tevet 2)

6:00 pm CHANUKAH DINNER(NO 7:30 service)

7th Night Chanukah

Mikeitz, Gen. 41:1-44:17Haftarah: Zechariah 4:1-7NO Food Giveaway

31

10 am Torah Study

8th Night Chanukah

Raleigh Hansman Bday

4:42 pm

2 (Kislev 3)

6:00 Shabbat Potluck Dinner7:30 pm Shabbat ServiceStudent Rabbi RosenTol’dot, Gen. 25:19-28:9Haftarah: Malachi 1:1-2:7Food Giveaway: 3:30 - 5 pmMarty Gallanter, Tom Woodworth Bdays

4:33 pm

GIFT SHOP OPEN:Sunday, December 4th (10:30 AM-12noon);

Sunday, December 11th (10:30AM – 12 noon); Other times available by appointment

Drawing for Menorah: Friday, December 30th during Community Chanukah Dinner

YAHRZEITSAll Yahrzeits that are observed Sunday through Saturday are read the Friday of that same week. If a Yahrzeit is not listed or you need information concerning Yahrzeits, please call Jan Forstein at

332-3354. A Yahrzeit card and envelope will be sent to you to notify you of upcoming Yahrzeits. (If you do

not receive your notifi cation, please contact Jan.) Also included with the notifi cation card is a donor envelope

if you wish to make a donation to the Templein memory of your loved one.

December 2ndMitizi Russick Anne Eirinberg Joel Oppenheimer Estelle SteinbergEsther Silverberg Betty Margulies Jacob Weinstein

December 9thHans Nauen Charles F BiermanBernice Shapiro-Weiner Julius Kuh Lillian Gellman David G Fusfi eld Sima Weintroub RothenbergRabbi Howard FinebergMorris Gellman

December 16thAlice Jones Sam Levinson Martin I. Axelbaum Annie Adler Beatrice KaminskyEdward Gerald EzrailsonLuella Melton Lillian Koplow Samuel Marglies

December 23rdHarold F Klein Benjamin Davis Joseph Sickel Leah Hymes Charles Snyder Felix Livingston Ida Caplan Samuel Greenberg

December 30thHortense Schneeberg Julia Hibshman Janet Bailin Don Margulies R. Lee Ofstein June Greene Joseph Deutsch Arthur Breslow Benjamin Shafton Sherman W. Lewin Benjamin EirinbergSara Hirshfi eld Sam Fusfeld

2015 National Jewish Book Award Winners and Finalists

Fiction: The Last Flight of Poxl West: A Novel by Daniel TordayFinalists: The Ambassador by Yehuda Avner and Matt Rees, The Book of Aron: A Novel by Jim Shepard, A Reunion of Ghosts: A Novel by Judith Claire Mitchell, The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

History: Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award: Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama by Dennis RossFinalist: Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel by Dan Ephron

Holocaust; The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne by Anna Bikont; Alissa Valles, trans.Finalists: KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann, Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust by Laura Jockusch and Gabriel N. Finder, eds.

Modern Jewish Thought and Experience: Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson: Not In God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence by Rabbi Jonathan SacksSchocken BooksFinalists: The Secret of Chabad: Inside the World's Most Successful Jewish Movement by David Eliezrie, The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible by Aviya Kushner, Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversation and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History by Todd M. Endelman

Poetry: Gabriel: A Poem by Edward HirschFinalists: The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards: Poems by Rachel Mennies, The Invention of Influence by Peter Cole, In the Illuminated Dark: Selected Poems of Tuvia RuebnerTuvia Ruebner; Rachel Tzvia Back, trans.

Scholarship: Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award: What's Divine About Divine Law? Early Perspectives by Christine HayesFinalists: Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests: The Culture of the Talmud in Ancient Iran by Jason Sion Mokhtarian, Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition by Benjamin S. Sommer, Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts by Marc Michael Epstein, ed.

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