Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Note: For the most up-to-date information, please visit: www.bjbe.org JUNE 2018 1 Last Day of Chava Center 7:30pm-Mizmor L Shabbat Service 2 9:30am-Kol Shabbat 11:00am-Plocker B/M 11:00am-Torah Study 3 4 12:00pm-Mah Jongg & Canasta 6:30pm-Pre-Annual Meeting Refreshments 7:00pm-Annual Meeting 5 6 6:45am-Morning Minyan 7:45am-Talmud Study 7 8 7:30pm-Shabbat Service Leadership Shabbat, followed by festive oneg 9 9:30am-Kol Shabbat 11:00am-Berke/ Spiegel B/M 11:00am-Torah Study 5:00pm-Davidson/ Solomon B/M 10 11:00am-Greater Chicago Jewish Festival @ Cook County Forest Preserve 11 Chava Center Camp Meet & Greet 12:00pm-Mah Jongg & Canasta 7:00pm-Chava Center Camp Parent Orientation 7:00pm-Sisterhood Exec 12 9:30am-First Day Chava Center Camp 13 6:45am-Morning Minyan 7:45am-Talmud Study 7:30pm-Sisterhood Board Meeting 14 7:15pm-PFLAG Meeting 15 5:15pm-Matzah Ball Oneg 6:00pm-Family Shabbat 16 9:30am-Kol Shabbat 11:00am-Spencer B/M 11:00am-Torah Study 5:00pm-Engel/Simon B/M 17 Father s Day 18 12:00pm-Mah Jongg & Canasta 19 7:00pm-Sisterhood Thank You Event 20 6:45am-Morning Minyan 7:45am-Talmud Study 7:30pm-Board Meeting 21 7:30pm-BJBE Stars for Business: Find Your Circle 22 5:15pm-Pre-Oneg 6:00pm-Shabbat Service with Soul Zimra (Summer Service Schedule Begins) 23 9:30am-Kol Shabbat 11:00am-Torah Study 24 9:00am-Project Nourish 10:30am-Post Carpool Brunch & a Movie 25 12:00pm-Mah Jongg & Canasta 4:00pm-Senior Health Insurance Counseling Appointments 26 27 6:45am-Morning Minyan 7:45am-Talmud Study 28 Time TBD: Sisterhood Screening of RBG @ Northbrook Court 29 5:15pm-Pre-Oneg 6:00pm-Shabbat Service 30 9:30am-Kol Shabbat 11:00am-Torah Study
2018 ANNUAL MEETING Monday, June 4, 2018 6:30pm refreshments; 7:00pm meeting begins We look forward to our Annual Meeting, where we have a full and compelling agenda focused on our annual BJBE budget, our slate of nominees to Board and Committee positions, and updates from key elements of our community. View the agenda and RSVP at www.bjbe.org/annual-meeting-2018 LEADERSHIP SHABBAT Friday, June 8, 2018 7:30pm Please join us for a special Shabbat Service honoring our BJBE lay leaders, including the installation of the 2018-19 Board of Trustees, Sisterhood Board, and Senior Youth Group Board. Help us thank and honor our lay leadership, who volunteer their time to enable BJBE to continuously ooer outstanding programming and support to our community. Questions about the Annual Meeting or Leadership Shabbat? Call the BJBE office at...
BJBE POST CARPOOL CLUB BRUNCH AND A MOVIE SUNDAY, JUNE 24 TH 10:30 AM AT BJBE Join our merry band of mature members and friends of BJBE for Brunch and a special showing of the Israeli film the Women s Balcony, with a lively discussion lead by Rabbi Jason Fenster. "The Women's Balcony" is an eccentric portrait of a devout community suddenly under pressure from a super Orthodox rabbi to observe their faith in a more rigid way. This movie is in Hebrew with subtitles. Come ENJOY THE FOOD, FELLOWSHIP, MOVIE, and DISCUSSION, and please invite your friends to join us! BJBE Post Carpool Club Movie and Brunch Reservation Form Name(s) Phone Reserve places at $20.00 per person for BJBE Members. Reserve places at $22.00 per person for NON BJBE Members. Total enclosed. I/We would like to help with shopping set up serving. Reservations DUE BY 6/15 with your check made out to Congregation BJBE. Please mail to Carol Berger. 4552 Lindenwood Lane, Northbrook, IL 60062 Stay tuned for more Post Carpool Club Events. We will once again meet at Botanic Gardens and Ravinia this summer. Watch This Week at BJBE and the Midmonth mailer for updates. Do you have an idea for future programming? Please contact Carol 847 205-9793 ponderer4552@sbcglobal.net CRITICS PICK: NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES Nominated for 5 Israeli Academy Awards, and the hit of the Chicago Jewish Film Festival 2017. An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gender rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in this rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power. When the women s balcony in an Orthodox synagogue collapses, leaving the rabbi in shock and his wife in a coma, the congregation falls into crisis. Charismatic young Rabbi David appears to be a savior after the accident, but slowly starts pushing his fundamentalist ways and tries to take control, testing the women s friendships and creating a rift between the community s women and men. SAVE THE DATE! RUTH BADER GINSBURG THURSDAY, June 28 th Join us at Northbrook Court for a late afternoon screening of the movie RBG followed by dinner & discussion At the age of 84, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. RBG is a revelatory documentary exploring Ginsburg s exceptional life and career. Details on this event to follow. Contact Susi Goldstein at sue@adglaw.com or 312.371.1224 to let her know you are interested. Can t attend the late afternoon screening? Let us know if you want to join us for dinner and discussion only. All are welcome to attend!
ENJOY A SUMMER EVENING UNDER THE STARS WITH GREAT MUSIC, FOOD, AND THE POSTCARPOOL CLUB Tuesday, July 3 rd RIO BAMBA Hot Summer Nights on the Esplanade program begins at 6PM. Come early and enjoy the Botanic Garden. Rio Bamba performs an exciting blend of Brazilian, Latin, and American jazz, featuring a blend of bosa nova, samba, American, and Latin jazz. If you do not have a Botanic Garden sticker for free entry, let me know and I will try to connect you with someone else attending who is a member. Bring your own dinner and beverage. We will provide dessert. Some chairs are available. You may want to bring your own Sunday, July 22 nd Chicago Symphony Orchestra Tchaikovsky Spectacular including the 1812 Overture with cannons. Meet us at Ravinia when the gates open at 3:00PM. The concert begins at 5:00PM. Bring your own main course, beverage, chairs, and table for your picnic, and either an appetizer, side dish, or dessert to share with others in attendance. When you arrive at the park, please take the path to the left of the theater (you will be facing it after you enter the gate) follow the path down to the corner where the paths cross just before the Pavilion. We will be on the corner to the left of the Pavilion, near the wine cart and restroom. If you came last summer, it is the same corner. Lawn admission tickets are $10.00 each or you may choose to picnic with us pre-concert and enjoy pavilion seats ($25) BJBE WILL NOT ARRANGE FOR RAVINIA TICKETS. YOU MUST PURCHASE YOUR OWN TICKETS, EITHER ON LINE http://www.ravinia.org OR AT THE GATE. ************************************************************************************* Please RSVP to Carol Berger, 847 205-9793, ponderer4552@sbcglobal.net, or mail to 4552 Lindenwood Lane, Northbrook, IL 60062, so that we know how many are coming. No payment to BJBE is required for Botanic Garden or Ravinia. You are responsible for your own Ravinia admission tickets! Name Email Phone Cell Phone BOTANIC GARDEN, Tuesday, July 3 rd I have a membership sticker on my car and would be willing to carpool. I do not and would like to carpool with someone who has a sticker. RAVINIA, Sunday July 22 nd I will bring appetizer side dish dessert Number of people in my party Post Carpool Club events are planned for mature BJBE members. For further information contact Carol Berger, 847 205-9793. ponderer4552@sbcglobal.net
125th Anniversary Quiz How much do you really know about our congregation? Test your knowledge with these fun quiz questions (47 questions in all) that include facts, cherished stories, and a few tricky questions, too. If you have stories not featured here, contact Shelley Waitsman Riskin (bookjoy1@gmail.com) so we can place them in our archives. 1. What was the original reason for forming B'nai Jehoshua? A. There was a need for a synagogue B. As a Burial Society C. As a social club D. Congregants demanded a big enough place for High Holy Day services 2. Who figured out how to artistically cover all of the crosses in the churches where Beth Elohim worshipped before the building of the 901 synagogue? A. Heinz Herz (he volunteered because he liked being creative.) B. Sonny Waitsman (he was Ritual Vice-President, so he was responsible for this.) C. Pastor Martin O'Malley. (it was his church) D. Irv Glick (he owned a business that created window displays, and agreed to gure out what to do about those crosses, as well as nding a way to cover one garish pink wall at the Sahara Motel.) 3. What protest march did Rabbi Shapiro participate in as the new BJBE rabbi in the 1960s? A. The "I Have a Dream" Washington gathering. B. The Selma civil rights march, with Dr. Martin Luther King and Rabbi Abraham Heschel. C. Martin Luther King's Chicago protest in Cicero. D. The Birmingham "lunch counter" civil rights campaign. 4. Name the holiday where a man was stuck in the wrong lane of traffic and directed into BJBE's 901 Milwaukee parking lot, only to discover that he was stuck there and couldn't get out all day! A.Chanukah B. Passover C. Yom Kippur D. Tisha B'Av 5. How did the BJBE community celebrate the building of our Deerfield synagogue? A. Went out for hot fudge sundaes. B. Announced the building opening with a tweet. C. Walked through the surrounding neighborhood while carrying the Torah. D. Had a sleepover in the sanctuary. 1-B 2-D 3-B 4-C 5-C
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