Mazal Tov Donna Abramson and Steve Abramson on the Bar Mitzvah of their son, Avidan. Sigal & Yair & Coral Yeudai on the Britot of Ari & Itay

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1 S H A B B AT B U L L E T I N Rabbi Barry Gelman Rabbi Emeritus Joseph Radinsky z l Cantor Emeritus Irving Dean President Mr. Rick Guttman The Eruv is up. LOUIS AND LEAH YAFFEE BNEI AKIVA PROGRAM: Shabbat Serving the Orthodox Community of Houston for over 100 years November 4, Cheshvan 5778 Torah Sefer: Bereishit Parasha: Vayeira Haftarah: II Kings 4:1-37 Shabbat Enhanced Kiddush in Freedman Hall. The community is invited to an enhanced Kiddush sponsored by Donna Abramson and Steve Abramson in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of their son, Avidan. Shabbat Kiddush next week: Sponsorsored by April and Kobi Amsalem in gratitude to the community and in honor of a positive reconstruction spirit. Seudah Shlishit in Freedman Hall. Seudah Shlishit next week: Sponsonsored by Doreen and Marshall Lerner in memory of Alma Lerner. No Teen Minyan 10:30 am: Tot Shabbat 5:10 pm Snif Groups: 1st 3rd in the tot trailer 4th 5th in the Sukkah 6th in the teen minyan trailer Parents are asked to tell their kids that card playing is not permitted in the lobby The presence of card playing does not promote the type of atmosphere we are trying to create in the shul. Additionally, all youth should either be in groups or sitting with their parents. Daylight Savings Time Ends Please remember to turn your clocks backwards 1 hour at 2:00 am on Sunday, November 5, 2017 Seudah Shlishit 3 Part Mini Series Join us on Shabbat afternoon as members of our community share their expertise with us on issues related to Torah, Israel, Community and more. First Series: 3 Conversations with Consul General To The Southwest Gilad Katz: Topic: The State of Israel: A Jewish State or A State For The Jews? Dates: Nov. 4,11,18 Seudah Shlishit take place right after Mincha on Shabbat afternoon. Mincha Nov. 4-6:05PM Mazal Tov Donna Abramson and Steve Abramson on the Bar Mitzvah of their son, Avidan Sigal & Yair & Coral Yeudai on the Britot of Ari & Itay United Orthodox Synagogues The David & Ruth Mitzner Building 9001 Greenwillow Houston, TX The Daf Yomi who will finish Sanhedrin on Monday The greatest chessed (kindness) you can do for someone in shul is to let them pray undisturbed. Please refrain from talking during services. 1

2 Friday November 3rd 6:00 am Early Shacharit 7:00 am Shacharit 6:15 pm Candle Lighting 6:20 pm Mincha/Maariv Saturday November 4th 9:00 am Shacharit 4:50 Gideon Miller 5:05 pm Class by Rabbi Gelman 6:05 pm Mincha 6:35 pm Class by David Silberman 7:15 pm Havdallah Sunday November 5th 8:00 am Shacharit 5:15 pm Mincha/Maariv Monday November 6th 6:00 am Early Shacharit 6:45 am Shacharit 5:15 pm Mincha/Maariv Tuesday Vovember 7th 6:00 Early Shacharit 7:00 am Shacharit 5:15 pm Mincha/Maariv Wednesday November 8th 6:00 am Early Shacharit 7:00 am Shacharit 5:15 pm Mincha/Maariv Thursday November 9th 6:00 am Early Shacharit 6:45 am Shacharit 5:15 pm Mincha/Maariv Friday November 10th 6:00 am Early Shacharit 7:00 am Shacharit 5:11 pm Candle Lighting 5:15 pm Mincha/Maariv Saturday November 11th 9:00 am Shacharit 4:00 Gideon Miller 4:00 pm Class by Rabbi Gelman 5:00 pm Mincha 5:30 pm Class by David Silberman 6:10 pm Havdallah UNITED ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUES OF HOUSTON Shabbat: Morning Services: followed by Kiddush in Freedman Hall. The community is invited to an enhanced Kiddush sponsored by Donna Abramson and Steve Abramson in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of their son, Avidan. Sermon by Rabbi Gelman Massechet Shabbat: with Gideon Miller, 1 hour 15 minutes before Mincha at the home of Barbara & Robert Levy. Shabbat Class: with Rabbi Gelman, Topic: Communal Discussion: What s The Biggest Threat To The Jewish People? This week, The Forward published the responses of seventeen Rabbis to this question. Let's get together this shabbat to consider their answers, offer our own answers and discuss another question: What makes you optimistic about the Jewish future of our community? 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 Mondays 8:00 pm: 3 Mini Courses On Classic Torah Topics with Rabbi Barry Gelman. Current Topic Amazing Aggadah: A in depth study of some of the non legal sections of the Talmud. 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 Wednesday 8:00 pm at the home of Vivian and Henry Blum. Rabbi Moshe Traxler teaching the Ramban's Mishneh Torah. Rabbi Gelman is sending out a weekly inspirational message or link thru a WhatsApp group. Please text Rabbi Gelman at indicating that you would like to join the UOSInspiration WhatsApp group. Make sure you have a WhatsApp account. 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. or text your cell # to Rabbi Gelman if you wish to join and download the WhatsApp app. 2

3 UOS Torah Classes at a Glance Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 1 hour 15 minutes before Mincha: Massechet Shabbat with Gideon Miller at the home of Barbara & Robert Levy. Shabbat Class: with Rabbi Gelman 1 hour before Mincha. Topic: Communal Discussion: What s The Biggest Threat To The Jewish People? This week, The Forward published the responses of seventeen Rabbis to this question. Let's get together this shabbat to consider their answers, offer our own answers and discuss another question: What makes you optimistic about the Jewish future of our community? After Mincha: Massechet Bava Metziah with David Silberman. 45 minutes after Mincha: Daf Yomi: with Rabbi Nagel. 11:15 pm 1:15 pm: Israeli dance for Women. 45 minutes after Mincha: Daf Yomi: with Rabbi Nagel. Mondays 8:00 pm: 3 Mini Courses On Classic Torah Topics with Rabbi Barry Gelman. Current Topic Amazing Aggadah: A in depth study of some of the non legal sections of the Talmud. 45 minutes after Mincha: Daf Yomi: with Rabbi Nagel. CARE CALENDARS We are pleased to share with you the CareCalendar for our new Bnot Sheriut, Shira & Osi We hope that the entire community will take the opportunity to get to know these wonderful people. 11:45 am (lunch) 12-12:30 pm (class) Lunch & Learn with Rabbi Gelman: Parshat Hashavua: A textual analysis of the weekly Torah portion. Wednesday 8:00 pm at the home of Vivian and Henry Blum. Rabbi Moshe Traxler teaching the Ramban's Mishneh Torah. 45 minutes after Mincha: Daf Yomi: with Rabbi Nagel. 45 minutes after Mincha: Daf Yomi: with Rabbi Nagel. Please go to and enter the following information in the appropriate spaces: Calendar ID: Security code: 4900 Welcome members, friends and guests to UOS. On behalf of the Board of Directors, I invite you to engage in our community and in our Shul. Please reach out to our Rabbi, me, or any of our committee leaders as we work together to enrich each other and our community. Best regards Rick S Guttman UOS Committee Chairpersons Committee Contact 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 3

Mazal Tov Avidan David Abramson is a 7th grade student at Robert M Beren Academy. He is an active member of Boy Scouts troop 806, an avid reader, skier and is a black belt candidate in kook sul won.

Chessed 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.

4 Mazal Tov Avidan David Abramson is a 7th grade student at Robert M Beren Academy. He is an active member of Boy Scouts troop 806, an avid reader, skier and is a black belt candidate in kook sul won. Avidan is looking forward to celebrating this occasion with family and friends from near and far. The community is invited to an enhanced Kiddush following services. Chessed 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 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 Ron Arad Guy Chever Yehuda Katz Zecharia Baumal Zvi Feldman and those connected to our congregational family in active IDF & US Military Zvi Boruch Altman Elad Imany Akiva Gilad Brody Azriel Oz Brody Roni Buchine David Chertoff Yonaton Cytrin Samuel Gorme Yehuda Lajcher Albert Katz Reuben Morris Gavriel Saitowitz Jake Saitowitz please contact Doreen Lerner at Chesed@uosh.org 4

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7 Mazal Tov Donna Abramson and Steve Abramson on the Bar Mitzvah of their son, Avidan Sigal and Yair Yeudai on the birth on their twin boys, Ari & Itay Annette and Ian Kavin on the engagement of their grandson, Micah Spielman and Eliana Kahan Romana Davies and David and Holly Davies on the marriage of Daniela Davies to Brett Ordiway 7

8 Breakfast-Kiddush- Seudah Shlishit Donations October 2017 General Synagogue Fund Rabbi Gelman's Discretionary Fund Doreen & Basil Joffe Ray Alexander Steve Abramson Erika & Mannie Magid Alejandra & John Beneke Sari & Scott Garfinkle Bella & Jeff Morgan Sari & Scott Garfinkle Carol-Anne & Brian Schulman Torah Fund Gillian & Michael Davis Sharon & Gary Endelman Sari & Scott Garfinkle Rose & Jose Gomez Sharon & Eddie Grosman Carol & Dov Liberman Mirit & Andrew Schneider Joy & Joseph Kaplan Jocelyn & Mark Roth Karen & Bill Rubinsky Carol-Anne & Brian Schulman Harry Elliott Simon Dena & Elan Vorzman Stanley Weinstein Bnei Akiva Cemetery Prayer Books 8

9 Yahrzeits November 3,2017 December 10, /3/ Cheshvan Abraham Lurie 11/3/ Cheshvan Milton Freedman 11/3/ Cheshvan Napoleon Aguiluz 11/3/ Cheshvan David L. Vilensky 11/4/ Cheshvan Joseph Lubart 11/5/ Cheshvan Robert Rubin Gordon 11/6/ Cheshvan Malka Rivka Schiff 11/6/ Cheshvan Melvin J. Auster 11/6/ Cheshvan Shirley Stein 11/6/ Cheshvan Vaughan Joss 11/7/ Cheshvan Hannah Caplan 11/7/ Cheshvan David Shapiro 11/8/ Cheshvan Alma Lerner 11/8/ Cheshvan Herman Charski 11/8/ Cheshvan Marvin R. Guttman 11/10/ Cheshvan Carolyn Davis 11/11/ Cheshvan Frieda Tiras 11/14/ Cheshvan Louis Secan 11/14/ Cheshvan Rosario Forero 11/16/ Cheshvan William Garfinkle 11/16/ Cheshvan Ethel Train 11/16/ Cheshvan Marvin Liberman 11/18/ Cheshvan Fred Fallas 11/18/ Cheshvan Henry Train 11/18/ Cheshvan Eva Krystal De Tugender 11/19/ Kislev Frieda Farkas-Pollack 11/19/ Kislev Bertha Zuckerman Levy 11/19/ Kislev Salomon de Leef 11/19/ Kislev Benjamin Hartman 11/20/ Kislev Norma Ella Grenville 11/20/ Kislev Meir A. Passy 11/20/ Kislev Edna Shulman 11/21/ Kislev Montie Simon 11/21/ Kislev Joseph Rosenthal 11/21/ Kislev Ann Chandler 11/22/ Kislev Anne Rosenbloom 11/22/ Kislev George Balshan 11/22/ Kislev Richard Kronman 11/24/ Kislev Joseph Hyman 11/24/ Kislev Morris Kipner 11/25/ Kislev Rose Raizes 11/26/ Kislev Howard Leslie Kammerman 11/26/ Kislev Oscar Mueller 11/27/ Kislev Nathan Levy 11/27/ Kislev Alan Mark Borger 11/29/ Kislev Isy Redman 11/29/ Kislev Aaron Shocket 11/30/ Kislev Carl Waldman 11/30/ Kislev Fred Katz 11/30/ Kislev Max Kaplan 12/1/ Kislev Esther Lewitte 12/2/ Kislev Herman Shapiro 12/3/ Kislev Zlotka Fayner 12/4/ Kislev Florence Redman Davis 12/4/ Kislev Arlene Waldman Stock 12/4/ Kislev Sarah Stein 12/4/ Kislev Alma Kerner Gottlieb 12/5/ Kislev Meyer Maltz 12/5/ Kislev Anna Amalia Pancirer 12/6/ Kislev Betty Lubart 12/6/ Kislev Sima Singer 12/6/ Kislev Joseph Yoshor 12/6/ Kislev Morris Bootin 12/6/ Kislev Elizabeth Bager Wolk 12/7/ Kislev Rubin Kamiel 12/8/ Kislev Mary Chazen 12/8/ Kislev Emil Gold 12/8/ Kislev Abraham Moglinsky 12/8/ Kislev Louis Oskowitz 12/8/ Kislev Herzl Gorodzinsky 12/9/ Kislev Lillian Kramer 12/9/ Kislev Gussie Gelman 12/10/ Kislev Hershel Steinman 12/10/ Kislev Paul Kerner 12/10/ Kislev Annie Brown 9

10 Yahrzeits December 11,2017 January 13, /11/ Kislev Isidore Irv Friedman 12/11/ Kislev Cecelia Morris 12/11/ Kislev Janet Rose Baron 12/11/ Kislev Harry Blumberg 12/12/ Kislev Sam Glantzberg 12/12/ Kislev Abraham Tugender 12/12/ Kislev Eberto Forero 12/13/ Kislev Min Bilton 12/13/ Kislev Judith Melamed 12/13/ Kislev Harry Friedman 12/14/ Kislev Arie Kowenski 12/15/ Kislev Rachel Hinda Smith Pickar 12/15/ Kislev Abraham Reichenthal 12/15/ Kislev Rebecca Freeman 12/15/ Kislev Sayde Maye Garsek 12/16/ Kislev Sylvia Eichel Nevins 12/16/ Kislev Gerald Epstein 12/17/ Kislev Tzvi Schiff 12/17/ Kislev Sarah Molly Levin 12/18/ Kislev Sarah Smith 12/19/ Tevet Pamela Spain Singer 12/19/ Tevet Lorell Saffir 12/19/ Tevet Daniel Mandel Garner 12/20/ Tevet Myron B. Kurtzman 12/20/ Tevet Max Moore 12/21/ Tevet Morton Kuperman 12/21/ Tevet Oscar Goldberg 12/22/ Tevet Ted Braude 12/22/ Tevet Deena Ann Jaffe 12/22/ Tevet Rene Margo 12/22/ Tevet Anna Berkowitz 12/26/ Tevet Emil Dornbaum 12/26/ Tevet Fred Schwartz 12/27/ Tevet Louis B. Cohen 12/28/ Tevet Devorah Brickman 12/28/ Tevet Aharon Wolf 12/29/ Tevet Michael Dziengel 12/29/ Tevet Sheila Spitz 12/29/ Tevet Sylvia Lipsky 12/30/ Tevet Max Rosh 12/31/ Tevet Phyliss Mendlowitz 12/31/ Tevet Lauren Lolly Kugler 1/1/ Tevet Heather Miriam Endelman 1/1/ Tevet Alan Huvard 1/2/ Tevet Ellen Gover 1/3/ Tevet Gladys Garfinkl 1/3/ Tevet Martin Chimes 1/3/ Tevet Martin Cimes 1/3/ Tevet Klara Dlugopiat 1/3/ Tevet Mendel Shapiro 1/3/ Tevet Lillian Friedman 1/3/ Tevet Bernard Miretzky 1/4/ Tevet Oscar Blumberg 1/4/ Tevet Jack Halperin 1/4/ Tevet Sol Goodman 1/6/ Tevet Harvey S. Klein 1/6/ Tevet Sarah Simon 1/8/ Tevet Joseph Ellman 1/8/ Tevet Francisco Forero 1/9/ Tevet Sidney Reichenthal 1/9/ Tevet Nathan Winer 1/9/ Tevet Louis Brookman 1/10/ Tevet Joseph Shocket 12/23/ Tevet Marjorie Elizabeth Dolina 12/24/ Tevet 1/10/ Tevet Robert Berman Simcha David ben Moshe Ber 12/24/ Tevet Rebecca Dienstag 1/10/ Tevet Esther Nachshen 12/25/ Tevet Sarah (Sally) Sussman 1/11/ Tevet Leonard Huntley Freeman 12/25/ Tevet Douglas E. Schulman 1/12/ Tevet Adele Mccarble 12/26/ Tevet Saul Nestadt 1/13/ Tevet Morris Halpin 12/26/ Tevet Fred Schwartz 1/13/ Tevet Zonie Saitowitz 10

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Mazal Tov. The Eruv is up. November 28, Kislev Torah Sefer: Bereshit Parasha: Vayishlach Haftarah: Obadiah 1:1-21

Mazal Tov. The Eruv is up. November 28, Kislev Torah Sefer: Bereshit Parasha: Vayishlach Haftarah: Obadiah 1:1-21 S H A B B AT B U L L E T I N The Eruv is up. Rabbi Barry Gelman Rabbi Emeritus Joseph Radinsky Cantor Emeritus Irving Dean President Mr. Max Reichenthal Serving the Orthodox Community of Houston for over