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Instead Rabbi’s Adult Education Class this evening, we encourage everyone to register and attend this, honoring Debbie Friedman on her 10th Yahrzeit with a beautiful evening of her music led by some awesome musicians! Click on the link below and then click on the “Register” button.
Upcoming TBJ & Iowa Jewish Community Chanukah Events!
Contact the Temple office for Zoom links! office@templebnaijeshurun.com December 4, Friday at 6 pm – TBJ Chanukah Family Shabbat December 10, Thursday at 6 pm – Connecting to Chanukah – Rabbi Kaufman will teach about the meaning, history, and practices of Chanukah December 10, Thursday 1st night at 7pm: TBJ joins Tifereth Israel for The Amazing Naomi Less with her family-friendly Jewish rock show, “Any Way You Light It” December 11, Friday 2nd night at 6pm: TBJ Chanukah Kabbalat Shabbat Services December 12, Saturday 3rd night at 6pm: TBJ joins Tifereth Israel for Zoom, “Night at the Movies” – Screening of the HILARIOUS documentary, “The Land of Milk and Funny” with a Q&A with the director December 13, Sunday at 11am – TBJ joins the Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines for Shirlala (during Hebrew school) December 14, Monday 5th night at 7 pm: TBJ joins Tifereth Israel for The Bible Players! They will make you laugh like crazy with their LIVE Hanukkah Zoom show! December 15, Tuesday 6th night at 7 pm: Time Flies Circus will perform a Zoom Fire-Juggling Show with a juggling lesson/demo at the end! December 16, Wednesday 7th night at 6 pm: TBJ hosts the Across Iowa Candle Lighting as we light our Chanukkiot (menorahs) with Jewish communities across Iowa at the same time! December 17, Thursday 8th night at 5:30 pm: University of Iowa Hillel Trivia Night! Get three of your friends together for a team or they will assign you one as you compete with other teams of alumni, students and Iowa Jewish community members across the state! December 18, Friday 8th day at 11:30 am: Rabbi Kaufman will lead Chanukah Shabbat services for Gan Shalom |
Jewish Women’s Foundation Convening
What is a Social Entrepreneur?
Who Can be a Social Entrepreneur?
The JWFNY Convening provides our entire network – philanthropists, activists, social entrepreneurs, and leaders – an annual opportunity to learn from extraordinary social entrepreneurs and leaders from around the world and celebrate women’s leadership.
Join us ONLINE on Monday, October 26 and Tuesday, October 27, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern for the JWFNY Convening!
Our program is jam-packed with social entrepreneurs from around the world, including all of our Collective members!
A snippet of our program is below; visit our website to read more and to register!
- Social Justice and The Arts with Vanessa Hidary (The Hebrew Mamita)
- Intersectionality – Judaism, Feminism, & Race with Rain Pryor
- Entrepreneurship with Rebecca Minkoff
- Jewish Women’s Leadership & Philanthropy with Alisa Doctoroff, Sally Gottesman, and Paula Pretlow
Elections 2020 with Ruth Messinger and Anne Moses (IGNITE International)
We’re excited to announce lectures by Professor Amy-Jill Levine, Our Online Scholar in Residence for 2020
We’re excited to announce lectures by Professor Amy-Jill Levine, Our Online Scholar in Residence for 2020
Amy-Jill Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies and Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt (Divinity and A&S); she is also Affiliated Professor, Woolf Institute: Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge.
November 5, 2020
Thursday Evening at 7 pm Central
“Agreeing to Disagree: How and Why Jews and Christians Read the Same Scriptures Differently.”
November 6, 2020
Friday Morning at 9 am Central
“Understanding Jesus and Paul Means Understanding Judaism”
Programs will take place on Zoom with links posted on the Temple B’nai Jeshurun website and on Facebook as the event nears. www.TempleBnaiJeshurun.org
For the Friday morning program, it would be helpful to have a copy of Professor Levine’s book, the Jewish Annotated New Testament, which can be found at most online booksellers.
Presented as part of the Association for Jewish Studies Distinguished Lectureship Program.
Sponsored by Christian-Jewish Connection and Temple B’nai Jeshurun.
The Friday Morning Program is also sponsored by the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa.
Books by Amy-Jill Levine include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus; Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi; ; The Meaning of the Bible: What the Jewish Scriptures and the Christian Old Testament Can Teach Us (with Douglas Knight); The New Testament, Methods and Meanings (with Warren Carter); and The Gospel of Luke (with Ben Witherington III (the first full-length biblical commentary co-authored by a Jew and an Evangelical).
Her children’s books (with Sandy Sasso) include Who Counts? 100 Sheep, 10 Coins and 2 Sons; The Marvelous Mustard Seed; Who Is My Neighbor? and God’s Big Problem. With Marc Brettler she edited The Jewish Annotated New Testament. Her most recent volumes are The Sermon on the Mount: A Beginner’s Guide to the Kingdom of Heaven, and, co-authored with Marc Brettler, is The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently.
Click Here for Yom Kippur Morning Services!
Guide for Yom Kippur Morning 2020
Welcome to our 2020 – 5781 Yom Kippur 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.
The TBJ Yom Kippur Morning 2020 Service can be watched on YouTube or Vimeo anytime!
YouTube
Vimeo
(These will also be posted on www.tbjdsm.org)
Welcome – Rabbi Kaufman
p. 166 Tsadik Katamar Yifrach
p. 146 “One who says” – Ruth Robinson
p. 176 Reader’s Kaddish
p. 178 Barchu
p. 178, 180 English of Yotseir
p. 185 “Adonai Echad – We Proclaim You One” – Lindsey Pletcher
pp. 186-187 Shema
pp. 188, 191 V’ahavtah – Wendy Beckerman
p. 194
p. 196 Mi Kamokha
p. 198 Adonai Sephatai
p. 200 Avot v’Imahot
p. 202 Zochreinu
p. 204 Gevurot
pp. 206-207 Silent Meditation before Unataneh Tokef
p. 208 Unetaneh Tokef
p. 212 B’Rosh Hashanah
p. 214 U-t’shuva U-t’filah
An Unataneh Tokef Reading for 2020-5781 By Rabbi David Kaufman
P. 215 “When we walk” – Hanna Kaufman and Ben Stone
p. 218, 220 N’kadeish and Chatimah p. 228 bottom
p. 232 and 233
p. 237 At Bottom of Page English
P. 244 Priestly Benediction
p. 246 Sim Shalom
Introduction to Mishebeirach
Mi Shebeirach
Personal prayer and Silent meditation
p. 250 Y’hiyu L’ratson
pp. 252-253 Avinu Malkeinu
p. 258 Torah Blessings
p. 266 Deuteronomy 29 and 30
Sara Coleman
Laura Belin
Sermon – Rabbi Kaufman
p. 284 Prayer for Our Congregation – Gwen Copple
p. 286 Prayer for Our Country – Jeff Lipman
p. 292 English
p. 296 English at Top
p. 296 Ashamnu
pp. 300, 302, 304, and 306
p. 312 Bottom
p. 316 Shma Koleinu
p. 318 Hayom
Please join us live later this afternoon on Zoom and Facebook Live for Yizkor, Neilah, and Havdallah.
G’mar Chatimah Tovah!
Yahrzeit Observances for the week of
September 27 through October 3, 2020
9 Tishrei, 5781 through 15 Tishrei, 5781
May Their Memory Always Be For A Blessing
Allan Abrams
Irving Bernstein
Samuel H. Bloom
Tony LeRoy Clemens
Arthur Cohen
Ethel Miller Cohen
Lillian Epstein
Margot Faivush
Edna Frankel
Isidore Kaplan
Sally Klearman
Earl Koskovick
Ariel Parkinson
Hans Pintus
Lorraine Plaslur
Sol Shapiro
Norma Silver
Benjamin Strasburger
Jerry Ward
** Ruthanne Silverstein
** Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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
Bobby Stinnett, Organ
Patrick Riley, Cello
As in year’s past, we are collecting donations for DMARC’s Food pantry. Feel free to drop off non-perishables during office hours (9am-4pm) or you can donate through our virtual drive!