Hanukkah Happenings 2023 – Photos!
Families
2021 Senior Recognition Night!
The Temple will be honoring all of our graduating High School Seniors on May 7th during our Family Shabbat Service at 6:00 p.m.
Families with Seniors, please email a picture of your senior with a short bio including future plans for the next Temple Bulletin. Please email office@templebnaijeshurun.com if you have any questions.
Chag Sameach! Happy Passover, Everyone!
This year, we recorded a Passover Seder for you to watch as you conduct your Seder at home.
Laura Sparks, Sam Miller, Chuck Kuba and Rabbi Kaufman send you Passover greetings.
We hope you will enjoy our Seder!
You can find it by clicking on this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YviIXu64Lug
Family Friendly Megillah Reading Celebration Online this Thursday!
Join us this Thursday at 6 pm for our Family Friendly Megillah Reading celebration online led by Rabbi Kaufman. Wear your costumes, physical or virtual, and join us for our joyful annual reading! Contact the Temple office or make sure you are subscribed to our emails for the Zoom link.
Next week! 2020 Des Moines Area VIRTUAL Hunger Hike
http://dsmhungerhike.weebly.com/
Get active next week!
Then join us October 11th for the Hike on Facebook Live.
Participate in this year’s hike by getting active – walk, bike, or hike sometime next week. We will hike distant but together in the fight against food insecurity!
Then, join the Des Moines Area Hunger Hike on Sunday, October 11, 2020, at 1:30pm on Facebook Live as we hear from guest speakers about their missions to alleviate hunger both locally and globally.
The Temple Youth Group is accepting donations for the hike! You can send a check directly to the Hunger Hike, make a donation online or send a check to the Temple and we can forward your donation on. Remember to put Des Moines Area Jewish Community on the memo line.
Sukkot!
We plan to hold an outdoor in-person Erev Sukkot Shabbat service at the Temple this Friday, October 2 at 6:00pm. We will open both sides of the Sukkah to allow people to walk through the Sukkah, one family at a time, so that they can say the blessings and wave the Lulav and Etrog in celebration of the holiday.
For the service, please bring your own chairs and / or blankets.
Masks will be required.
If weather is bad, we will be online, but so far it is looking good. Please note we will also be streaming this service via Zoom.
Open to View the Rosh Hashanah Morning Service!
Guide for Rosh Hashanah Morning
Welcome to our 2020 – 5781 Rosh Hashanah Morning Service.
We are happy to provide this viewing guide for your use as you watch our service. It will inform you of page numbers and the names of participants.
Our Service uses the Mishkan Tefilah Prayerbook for Rosh Hashanah.
Copies of the prayerbook may be obtained from Temple B’nai Jeshurun or purchased online. An online version may be found here:
The TBJ Rosh Hashanah Morning 2020 Service can be watched on YouTube or Vimeo anytime!
Welcome
p. 110 Mah Tovu
p. 141 Reader’s Kaddish
p. 142 Barchu
P. 148
p. 150-151 Shema
P. 152-153 V’ahavtah Chant –Wendy Beckerman
p. 163 “The voice that redeems” -Samantha Love Kemp
p. 164 Mi Khamokha
P. 165 “They went forth” -Sally Frank
p. 166 Adonai Sephatai
p. 168 Avot v’Imahot
P. 168 Zochreinu
P. 170 Atah Gibor
P. 172-173 Silent Meditation on Unetaneh Tokef
p. 174, 176 Unetaneh Tokef
p. 178 B’Rosh Hashanah
p. 180 U’teshuvah
An Alternate Unetaneh Tokef by Rabbi Joseph Meszler
p. 184-185 N’kadeish
p. 194, 196
P. 208-209
P. 211 “To Our Sages” -Gwenn Copple
p. 214 Priestly Benediction
Mi Shebeirach p 245
SILENT PRAYER
p. 223 Avinu Malkeinu
p. 230 Torah blessings
p. 240 Text of Genesis 22
Reader 1: Katie Sinkewjz
Reader 2: Steve Newman
D’var Torah
p. 232-233 Birkat HaGomeil -Ross Daniels and Amy Ward
Abbreviated Shofar Service
Introduction by Rabbi Kaufman
Shofar – Emily Kruse
p. 270 Prayer for the Congregation -Judy and Larry Deutch
Congregational President’s Speech – Bill Grund
p. 271 Prayer for the Teachers of Torah -Avi Kaufman
p. 272 Prayer for Our Country -David and Denise Swartz
p. 287 Great Aleinu
p. 289 “May the Time” and V’ne’emar
p. 290 “If Some Messenger” then bottom of p. 291
p. 292 Mourners Kaddish
p. 292 Oseh Shalom
p. 294 New Year’s Blessing
p. 299 Ein Kheloheinu
Shofar- Tekiah Gedolah- Emily Kruse
P. 301 L’shanah Tovah!!!
Yahrzeit Observances for the week of September 13 through September 19, 2020
24 Elul, 5780 through 1 Tishrei, 5781
May Their Memory Always Be For A Blessing
Aaron Blair
Ernie Brody
Donald J. Brown
Sheryle Cohen
Jean Cook
Sophia Frankel
Harry R. Frankle
Martin Greller
Fred Katzmann
Anne Kessel
Rose Seidler Lesser
Robert Livenstein
Kive Noun
Beulah Pierce
Dorothy Pomerantz
Margaret Pomerantz
Maury Rapaport
Thomas Robinson
Sylvia Rosenthal
Helen Brown Ross
Helen Pomerantz Sandler
Alan Scherer
Alan Lee Seidler
Ronni Sherman
Jack Silverstein
Florence Silverstein Strauss
Lee Taran
Larry Toraason
Cecile Landsman Tosky
Mi Shebeirach
By Debbie Friedman
Mi she-bei-rach a-vo-tei-nu
M’kor ha-bra-cha l’i-mo-tei-nu
May the source of strength
Who blessed the ones before us
Help us find the courage
To make our lives a blessing
And let us say, Amen
Mi she-bei-rach i-mo-tei-nu
M’kor ha-bra-cha l’a-vo-tei-nu
Bless those in need of healing
With r’fu’a sh’lei-ma
The renewal of body
The renewal of spirit
And let us say, Amen
Thank you to all of our service participants and musicians :
Laura Sparks, Cantorial Soloist
Sam Miller, Guitar
Chuck Kuba, Bass
Francine Griffith, Piano
Bruce Brown, Singer
Tara Star, Singer
Maggie Schmitt, Singer
Join us for Family Shabbat with the Family Megillah Reading on Friday, March 6!
Friday, March 6 is Family Shabbat with the Family Megillah Reading at 6:00pm! We will also have Classic Shabbat in the Chapel downstairs. Following services is a Shabbat Dinner in the social hall. We will also have hamentashen of course!
Following services is the Youth Group First Friday Gathering. We hope you will join us!
