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Dear Friends,
At our recent dinner we celebrated our 19th anniversary in Port Washington. In honor of our entering Year 20 (how time flies) we are publishing a directory for the Chabad Membership family, complete with family information and photos. The close to 200 member families plus more joining each year create a beautiful community – the Chabad of Port Washington community.
I take this opportunity to invite you to consider joining our Membership (if you aren’t already a member...). Membership at Chabad is relatively inexpensive. As always, CHABAD welcomes all to its' membership rolls. Please give what you are comfortable with. If you can’t easily afford the membership fee (or if you are already a member in another congregation) please send me a confidential email and we will come up with a discounted amount that you are completely comfortable with. We will work with you because having you on board is more important than how much you can afford at the moment. Our Board of Directors has encouraged me to make the membership welcoming to everyone, and that no one should be turned away for lack of funds.
We’d like YOU and YOUR FAMILY to be a part of our CHABAD FAMILY. Please click here for online membership information and to sign up.
If you are already a member, please click here to update our records for the directory if you haven’t already done so.
See you at shul on Shabbos.
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel
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Click to view latest camp photos.
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Donated by Karen & Alan Salzbank in memory of Alan’s mother Claire ob"m and to honor the memory of Gaby & Rivky Holzberg, the Chabad emissaries to Mumbai.
Thank you Karen & Alan for donating this new memorial board, which hangs alongside our original memorial board, also donated by the Salzbanks (back in the Maple Street location) in memory of Karen's father.
If you'd like to have a memorial plaque inscribed for a loved one please click here to fill out an easy online form.
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Chabad Board Member Felix Sater delivered a speech at our recent Chabad dinner that made waves in Jewish communities all over the world, and was watched by over 6000 people on VIMEO. It’s well worth the 12 minutes... Click to watch.
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NEW! Daily Torah class at Chabad: Coffee & Parsha
Mon - Fri | 7:45 - 8:00 AM (services at 7:00 AM)
Sunday | 9:45 - 10:00 AM (services at 9:00 AM)
A 15 minute class on the weekly Torah portion.
For men & women. All are welcome.
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National Jewish Retreat
Tuesday, August 11 - Sunday, August 22
At the Hyatt Regency, Reston, Virginia
Click here for more info and to RSVP.
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Upcoming JLI Course: Medicine and Morals Your Jewish guide through life's tough decisions
6 Sundays, Oct 24 - Nov 28 | 10 - 11:30 AM
At Chabad of Port Washington
Click here for more info and to register.
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Are Your Hands Clean?
By: Rabbi Aron Moss
Sydney, Australia
What is the meaning behind the ritual washing of hands before meals? Was this some ancient Jewish version of hygiene?
To read the full article click here.
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Board of Directors
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Adam Katz, Esq., President
Frank Arnold
Bert Brodsky
Martin H. Brownstein, M.D.
Howard Fensterman, Esq.
M. Allan Hyman, Esq.
Sara E. Paltiel
Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel
Alan Rosenzweig
Alan Salzbank
Michael Samuel
Felix Sater
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Daily Thought
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On Computers
What is new about the computer? You walk into a room and you see familiar machines: a typewriter, a tape recorder, a television, a telephone, audio speakers, of course a calculator —but none of these are new.
Unseen, however, beneath the floors and behind the walls, are cables connecting all these machines to work together as one. There is digital technology that allows them to all speak the same language -thereby transforming them from many ordinary machines into a single powerful computer.
Now, let’s take your own life. You do business, you study, you eat, you talk —each activity seemingly irrelevant to the next. A mess of fragments.
And such, too, is the native psyche of the human being: We have minds that understand one way, hearts that feels another —and what we do has often nothing to do with either of those.
Take the technology of the computer and apply it in terms of your everyday life: Find a common meaning at which all these fragments converge, and thereby unleash their power.
(Told in the days of the Big Computer to my father-in-law, Avraham Polichenco, professor of computer science)
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Candle Lighting Times for
Port Washington, NY
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Shabbat Candle Lighting:
Friday, Jul. 23 |
8:02 pm |
Shabbat Ends:
Shabbat, Jul. 24 |
9:07 pm |
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Schedule of Classes
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Coffee & Parsha Class
Monday - Friday | 7:45 - 8:00 AM
Sunday | 9:45 - 10:00 AM
Tanya Class
With Rabbi Weinberg
Thursday Evenings
At a private home in the community. Email [email protected] for time & location.
Tanya Class
With Rabbi Paltiel
Saturdays | 8:45-9:30 AM
Women's Study Group
with Devorah Weinberg
every Shabbat after Kiddush lunch
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the parshah in a nutshell |
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ParshatVa'etchanan
Moses tells the people of Israel how he implored G‑d to allow him to enter the land of Israel, but G‑d refused, instructing him instead to ascend a mountain and see the Promised Land.
Continuing his "review of the Torah," Moses describes the Exodus from Egypt and the Giving of the Torah, declaring them unprecedented events in human history. "Has there ever occurred this great thing, or has the likes of it ever been heard? Did ever a people hear the voice of G‑d speaking out of the midst of the fire... and live? ... You were shown, to know, that the L-rd is G‑d... there is none else beside Him."
Moses predicts that, in future generations, the people will turn away from G‑d, worship idols, and be exiled from their land and scattered amongst the nations; but from there they will seek G‑d, and return to obey His commandments.
Our Parshah also includes a repetition of the Ten Commandments, and the verses of the Shema which declare the fundamentals of the Jewish faith: the unity of G‑d ("Hear O Israel: the L-rd our G‑d, the L-rd is one"); the mitzvot to love G‑d, study His Torah, and bind "these words" as tefillin on our arms and heads, and inscribe them in the mezuzot affixed on the doorposts of our homes.
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