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In honor of Pat Bates, for her devotion and service to the LJCC
In honor of Goody Garfield's birthday - may he stay forever young! In memory of Bob Schulman
In memory of Morris Lester on his 23rd yahrzeit In memory of Adeline Zwirn Hellesvig
Anne Schulman
In loving memory of Bob In honor of Rabbi Mark Levin
With thanks to the LJCC community for all of the loving support received during Bob's illness and after his passing. Martin & Maureen Winkler In memory of Bob Schulman
Melvin & Randa Dubnick
Security Fund
Bruce Cutler
Cemetery Fund
Susan Levine
LINK Fund
Susan Levine
Remember that purchasing grocery certificates benefits the LJCC while costing nothing extra to the user! We all need to eat… We all need to buy gas…
Why not benefit the LJCC at the same time? It’s easy! Contact Marty in the office with any questions.
Many thanks to the following people who have chosen to benefit the LJCC by purchasing certificates this month:
Support the LJCC every time you make a purchase from Amazon. It’s easy!
Here’s how it works:
• Go to smile.amazon.com and sign up, choosing “Lawrence Jewish Community, Inc.”
• After you sign up, your future purchases (minus shipping, gift wrapping, etc.) automatically con-tribute .05 percent to the LJCC.
• Just start your purchases at smile.amazon.com. You don't have to do anything else special, and there’s no cost to you.
Contact the LJCC office with any questions.
Carrie Caine
Goody Garfield
Judy Roitman
Heather Frost Barry Shalinsky
Marty Stemmerman
Dillons Rewards Program
Sign up to benefit the LJCC!
TO ENROLL IN THE COMMUNITY REWARDS PROGRAM:
• Visit the Dillons website at
www.dillons.com/communityrewards
• Sign in OR Create an account
• Click on "Enroll Now”
• Enter 86813 to have your purchases from Dillons and Kwik Shop benefit the LJCC
• Select Lawrence Jewish Community and click ‘enroll’.
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Jonathan Paretsky
As we try to get through the Dog Days of summer (called that because Sirius, the "dog star," the hunter Orion's faithful companion, is prominent in the evening skies at this time), let us take some time to commune with our best friends in mummeloshn.
Historically, dogs were not a positive part of Eastern European Jewish life. Jews rarely could afford to keep them as pets and instead associated them with hostile landowners and aristocrats. In Yiddish proverbs and idioms, the dog is usually a negative character, e.g., the Yiddish phrase a karger hunt (miserly dog). In scripture, the dog was seen as unclean. For example, Deuteronomy 23:19 mandates that, if prostitution or a dog is used as payment for an animal, say, a goat, the purchased animal may not be brought to the temple as a sacrifice. In Jewish mystical tradition, dogs symbolize the demonic. The Zohar, for example, states that evil in the world is like "a vicious dog on a long leash." The Mishneh Torah states that dogs must be kept chained because these animals are known to cause "substantial and fre-quent" damage. And Rabbi Jacob Emden wrote that dogs may be kept for economic or security reasons, but to keep a dog merely for pleasure is "precisely the behavior of the uncircumcised."
These days, even the circumcised keep dogs as pets. Der Arbeter Ring (The Workmen's Circle) occasionally offers classes for communicating with our canine companions in Yiddish. Among its missions, Der Arbeter Ring seeks to preserve and teach Yiddish for humans as well as animals. (Der Arbeter Ring was established in 1900 to promote Jewish community and social justice. It brings to bear a definite leftist political slant, but that is not readily apparent in its choice of doggy vocabulary.) Try learning some of these commands together with your favorite dog (keep in mind that the u is pronounced longish):
Speaking of dog days, I was surprised to learn that a bark mitzvah is a thing. Some people apparently really do
celebrate their dogs' coming of age. According to Wikipedia, the rite has been around since at least 1958, much to the disdain of many in the rabbinical community, with one writing to The New York Times that the celebration is "nothing less than a desecration of a cherished Jewish tradition." Seemingly unaware that the
term is in fairly widespread use, the funnies page strip Mother Goose and Grimm ran a riff on it twice over the past 10 years.
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The LJCC grounds looks be#er than it has in
YEARS! Thanks to Pat Bates who not only arranged
for the phenomenal Rachel to come and clear out
trees, weeds, and excess detritus, but worked along-
side her to give the LJCC the special a#en$on it de-
serves. Thanks also to Jeff Ridgway, who hauled
away the huge amount of limbs and debris that
Rachel and Pat cleared.
LINK A HUGE thank you to the member and non-
member volunteers who help prepare, serve and
clean up at LINK, plus numerous members and non-
members who make delicious casseroles or bring
other food items. Your efforts are appreciated more
than you can know. A special thank you to Judy
Roitman, who makes sure it all happens each month.
By the way - we serve at LINK (Lawrence Interde-
nomina$onal Nutri$on Kitchen) again on September
26. We can always use more help! Please consider
joining in.
The LJCC Library is being skillfully reorganized with
the help of Brandon S$enke! Thanks, Brandon!
Grocery Cer ficates Did you ever wonder who does
all the work in making sure the grocery cer$ficate
program runs smoothly? A very big thank you goes
to Heather Frost. Like Heather reminds us, if every-
one in the community bought grocery cer$ficates,
we’d bring in more per year than we do at the Blintz
Brunch!
Commi"ees and Board — So many of you work $re-
lessly behind the scenes, making sure that the LJCC
con$nues to thrive. To all who serve on the various
commi#ees and board, your contribu$ons are
beyond measure. We hope you know how very much
you are appreciated.
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The LJCC cordially invites you, your family, and friends to join us for
our 2019/5780 High Holiday services. Your dona$ons are gratefully
accepted to ensure that these services con$nue. Childcare will be
available.
Rosh Hashanah
Sun. Sept. 29 7:00pm Erev Rosh Hashanah
Downstairs: Shiray Shabbat
Upstairs: Tradi$onal Service
Mon. Sept. 30 9:30am First Day of Rosh Hashanah
3:00pm Tashlich Services Burcham Park
Tues. Oct. 1 9:30am Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
Tues. Oct. 8 7:00pm Kol Nidre
Wed. Oct. 9 9:30am Yom Kippur Services
1:00pm Yiskor Memorial Service
5:00pm Yom Kippur Mincha
5:00pm Neilah
JOIN US!JOIN US!JOIN US!JOIN US!
We are thrilled to announce that
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The LJCC Board met on Sunday, August 18 at 9:30am. Items discussed included:
♦ Dues increases have come in from several members in response to request from board. Thank you!
♦ LJCC membership has decreased since 2016-18 by about 20 member families
♦ Request by member to remove firearms signs currently posted on doors. Decision delayed pending further research.
♦ Religious School tuition, fees and membership requirements approved by board. LJCC will work with families unable to pay full amount.
♦ Ritual Committee suggestion of sending yahrzeit reminder letters approved
♦ High Holidays planning almost complete. Discussion of ways to increase donations to help support High Holiday services.
♦ Hiring process for Religious School Director and Security Coordinator underway.
♦ Blintz Brunch planning delayed while search is on for volunteer coordinators
The next meeting of the LJCC board will take place on Sunday, September 15 at 9:30am. Questions concerning board activity may be directed to any board member.
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Permit No. 79
High Holy Days Greeting
Again this year, the LJCC High Holy Day celebrations will recognize the extent and interconnectedness of our community by publishing a holiday greetings edition of the newsletter. The Greetings newsletter will provide an oppor-tunity for you to express New Year's wishes to distant friends and the community as a whole, and to send more exten-sive messages if you wish (e.g., new contact information, family news, etc.). Please send no later than September 15.