YOUNG ISRAEL OF WEST HARTFORD 2240 ALBANY AVENUE WEST HARTFORD, CT 06117 860-233-3084

SHABBAT PARSHAT SHMINI

April 21st, 2012 Nisan 5772 Kiddush is Sponsored by Esther & David Glahn

to Natan Glahn on his Bar Mitzvah! to proud parents Esther & David, & brothers

Web Site: www.youngisraelwh.org

YOUNG ISRAEL OF WEST HARTFORD

Rabbis Corner I hope everyone enjoyed their Pesach holiday. The time goes by so quickly. It was nice to see so many guests who came through our shul over the entire week of Pesach. We missed many of you who went away but trust that you enjoyed your time with friends and family. Now that Pesach is over we are returning to a more normal schedule of classes that will take place on a weekly basis. Please refer to the bulletin for details and try to attend if you can. Most of the classes given are not connected to one another week to week so even if you have not been coming up until now or even if you dont think you can make it every week it is still worthwhile to try and attend. If you have other suggestions of classes you would enjoy please let me know and I would be happy to try to accommodate peoples interests. This past Thursday was the actual date of Yom Hashoah. Something strange happened to me that I would like to share with you. After Torah reading on Thursday morning in shul I said a few words about Yom Hashoah and then recited the K-el Maleh Rachamim prayer in memory of the 6 million beloved Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis and their sympathizers. As I began the recitation the area of the room where I was standing got darker. When I was done with the recitation I looked up and noticed that the center light on the candelabra at the front of the shul had gone out. I got chills up my spine. I generally dont go about my day looking for signs from G-d but there are times when the things that happen around us can give expression and insight to the feelings we have inside. If I was unsure of how I was feeling during the K-el Maleh, the burnt light bulb helped me get there. It reinforced to me just how significant the loss of any one individual can be. Even that loss of a small amount of light affected the brightness of the room. Furthermore, when that light burnt out it was so final. It really made me realize in a very graphic way how final death can be, how final the death of 6 million really was, and how we can never go back and change
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Editor: Judie Patel E-mail: bulletin @youngisraelwh.org Editors Emeritus: Sam Leichtberg & Moish Trencher

Joshua & Asaf; and proud grandparents Harold & Judy Leibowitz, and Beverly Scarborough & Dan Yahiel!
to Rachel & Raffi Berkovic on the birth of their daughter, on April 4th. to proud grandparents, Sarah & Zvi Elbaum; to siblings Zev, Chaim Yehuda & Avi; and Aunts & Uncles, Rivkie & Joshua Schickman, Estie and Pinney Elbaum! to Arie & Carole Rothschild on the engagement

of their daughter, Lorne to Jason Becker! to siblings Victoria, Graldine, & Amschel; Howard & Sharon Becker; and extended families!
to Helen Weisel on the birth of her greatgranddaughter Naama Esther Eichler, born to Hemdat Eichler wife of her grandson Maor Eichler of Kiryat Ono, Granddaughter of Aviva & David Eichler of Beer Sheva!

ANNUAL YOM HASHOAH COMMEMORATION Sunday, April 22nd at 7:00 PM At Beth El Temple Guest Speaker: Judith Altmann, Vice President, Holocaust Child Survivors of Connecticut. There will be an Orthodox Mincha @ Beth El @ 6:30 PM YOM HAZIKARON MEMORIAL CEREMONY FOR ISRAELS FALLEN Tuesday, April 24th at 7:30 PM At the Mandell JCC

Special Screening for YOM HAATZMAUT of the movie ISRAEL INSIDE: How a Small Nation Makes a Big Difference Sunday, April 29th at 7:00 PM At the Home of Ofer & Elana Doron 6 Oakland Terrace in Simsbury Refreshments from Yosi Catering will be served!
Please RSVP to: Beth David Synagogue 860-236-1241 RSVP is necessary for this event by April 26th
Rabbi Brahm Weinberg 860-233-3084 or rabbi@youngisraelwh.org Judith Hessing, Coordinator 860-233-6042 or judith.hessing@gmail.com

Affiliate of the National Council of Young Israel Synagogues, Member of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, Sponsor of West Hartford NCSY, National Conference of Synagogue Youth, Kashrut Commission of Greater Hartford, Mikveh Bess Israel of Greater Hartford, Eruv of West Hartford

Rabbi Weinbergs classes are now resuming: Shabbat Afternoon Class starts this week.
They will begin each week 45 minutes before Mincha

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This Shabbat will be about The Use of Grape Juice for Kiddush; The following weeks will be about the Parsha Sunday Morning Gemara begins this Sunday Melachim resumes May 1st, Stay tuned for few more special Pre-Shavuot classes to come ROSH CHODESH TEHILLIM MEETING At the home of Dvorah Weiss, 40 Miamis Road Monday, April 23rd at 7:30 PM Next Meeting: Tuesday, May 22nd at 7:30 PM At the home of Judie Patel, 100 Lawler Road BOOK CLUB JERUSALEM MAIDEN Next meeting on
DESSERT RECEPTION FOR WOMEN

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Acknowledgment donations should be sent to Debbie Luger at 37 Miamis Road, West Hartford, CT 06117

Tsion & Anita Cohen In appreciation of Yitz Moss Sid & Phyllis Ulreich In honor of Sophie Claire In memory of Patti Kornreichs mother Bumi & Sally Gelb In memory of Dina Wizenfeld Lauren & Judy Daman Condolences to Patti Kornreich on the death of her mother Mazal Tov to Aviva & Matt Braunshweiger on the birth of a daughter Mazal Tov to Sandy & Mark Trencher on Leora's Bat Mitzvah Jason Wolfe & Vera Schwarcz Mazal Tov to the Sarah & Tzvi Elbaum on the birth of a new granddaughter Judie & Lal Patel In honor of the birth of a granddaughter to Sarah & Tzvi Elbaum In honor of the birth of Sophie Claire to Aviva & Matt Braunshweiger In honor of Rena Luger & Eli Aroesty Cohen To Eliza Katz in honor of Jesses Bar Mitzvah
to Rabbi Mordechai Weiss and all

In honor of Judy Levy & Mikveh Bess Israel Monday, May 21st at 7:30 PM At Agudas Achim Synagogue For further information contact Vera Schwarcz
REGISTER FOR HAGH SUMMER PROGRAM! GROWING KIDS, GROWING MINDS

Summer Program for ages 2,3 & 4 At the Bess & Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy The unique program provides exciting hands-on experience and develops a sense of pride in Judaism For information contact Preschool Director Miriam Ostrozynski ~ Miriamo@sigelacademy.org
Or Katy Owens at (860)243-8333 x104 BUY SCRIP! BUY SCRIP! SHOP RITE, BIG Y, CROWN & STOP & SHOP

the 8th Graders going on their Trip to Israel!! YOM HA'ATZMAUT EVENING PROGRAM Wednesday, April 25th 8:00 PM Short Program 8:15 PM Tefilla Chagigit (festive special Maariv for the holiday) At Agudas Achim MANY THANKS TO... Batsheva Goldfischer for the Cheese Sale! Steve Luger & Jason Dulberg for the Matzah Sale! Lenny Margulis & the Pava Family for the Wine Tasting & Sale! To all who leyned: Pinney Elbaum, Yonatan Greenberg, Sam Leichtberg, Rabbi Daniel Loew, Jeremy Pava, and Elie Wolfe! And to all who davened and enhanced our davening!

Every dollar counts! Let's support our Shul by buying scrip! When you shop at any of these supermarkets, you can use their scrip to buy many other stores scrip! For Pick-up or delivery! Contact: Judith Hessing at 860-233-6042; 18 Grenhart Street; Or Fran Wittenberg at 860-983-4837
SODA BOTTLE COLLECTION

Eliza Katz is collecting bottles, cans, and glass to raise money for the Rabbis Fund. Please bring empties to: 24 Miamis Road;

Page 3 On behalf of the Board of the Young Israel of West Hartford wed like to briefly clarify the intended use of the yiwhevents listserv. APPROPRIATE for posting to yiwhevents : Local Community Events These include happenings at the Young Israel of West Hartford as well as elsewhere in the local community, of either Jewish or general interest. Lifecycle announcements Births to deaths and everything in between. / Relocation to or from West Hartford. / General news about members of our community. (All responses should be directed to the one who made the announcement and not to the listserv in its entirety.) Job Postings If you are aware of a job opening please consider positing it to the yiwhevents listserv. Emergencies Such as hazardous weather warnings, or police matters, e.g. an All-Points Bulletin. Services/items offered/wanted Posts pertaining to the offering/seeking of local goods and services are appropriate. Examples included asking for a recommendation for a plumber, seeking a ride to New York, or offering items (ideally in exchange for a donation to our shul). INAPPROPRIATE for posting to yiwhevents : Political Content Nothing political at all please. It does not matter what the subject is, be it Jewish, Israeli, or American politics, satire or serious, such post are not suitable for the yiwhevents listserv. Opinion The yiwhevents listserv is not a forum for personal opinion or editorial commentary. The exception would be speech about local issues, pertaining specifically to our particular community here. National/International Information We all react to significant news with an instinct to share and disseminate. Nonetheless please keep in mind that the yiwhevents listserv is reserved for local matters only; this may seem counterintuitive at times, such as upon learning of a tragedy in Israel, G-d forbid. While passing on such critical information of vital interest is commendable an important and laudable task yiwhevents is nonetheless not the appropriate forum. (National or international events that indicate a need for local heightened alert would fall into the Emergencies category.) Chain Letters Regardless of content, including financial opportunities, health concerns, or religious matters. Even if the matter is indeed of general interest, yiwhevents is still not the place to share it. Divrei Torah All Torah learning is a beautiful thing, and more strength to you for engaging in the study that binds us as a people, but the yiwhevents listserv is designed for exclusively local content. As a general rule of thumb consider if the content is particularly locally relevant: A matter of general interest to the larger American/Jewish communities should be reserved for less specialized discussion forums, such as the JDWH Yahoo Group. Note also that the Young Israel of West Hartford will soon transition to a private email system for all official announcements, allowing those who wish to unsubscribe to yiwhevents to do so without contraindication. Rabbis Corner, continued from Page 1. what happened. We are, instead, simply charged to remember it with reverence and pray and work so that it shall never happen again. It is critically important that each of us attend the Yom Hashoah communal commemoration this Sunday at Beth El. It is important that we remember and it is important that we give a voice to survivors and give honor to their lives. Lastly, it is important to be together as a community to feel the pain and devastation of the Holocaust. May our world be a better one devoid of such horrors and pain. Shabbat Shalom Rabbi Weinberg

 YIWH Schedule of Services

It is easy to sponsor a Kiddush Or Seudah Shlishit! 6:45 a.m. 7:00 p.m. 7:19 p.m. 8:15 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 9:26 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 6:20 p.m. 7:05 p.m. 8:20 p.m. 5:30 a.m. 8:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 6:30 a.m. 6:45 a.m. 6:30 a.m. 7:25 p.m. 6:45 a.m. 7:00 p.m. 7:27 p.m.
Shul handles set up & Clean up! Contact Judie Patel at 236-4178 or judiep@gmail.com to check the availability of the date you need & call Fran Wittenberg 860-232-2320 to make the arrangements for the type of Kiddush you want to sponsor. Checks need to be received the Sunday prior to your Kiddush date. There are three types of Kiddushim: Standard for $150, Semi-Deluxe for $250 & Deluxe for $350 With supplements available. For Seudah Shlishit contact Stan Rutstein at 232-3369

April 20th - 27th, 2012 Shabbat Parashat Shmini Friday, April 20th Shacharit Mincha/Maariv Candle Lighting Shabbat, April 21st Rabbi Sheinkopfs Mishna Brurah Class Shacharit Sof Zman Kriat Shma Shabbat Morning Youth Groups Rabbis Shabbat Afternoon Class Mincha followed by Seudah Shlishit & Maariv Shabbat Ends Sunday, April 22nd - Thursday, April 26th Earliest Tallit & Tefillin Shacharit... Sunday - Rosh Chodesh Iyar Followed by Rabbi Weinbergs Gemara Shiur on Masechet Makot ShacharitMonday - Rosh Chodesh Iyar ShacharitTuesday - Wednesday ShacharitThursday - YOM HAATZMAUT Mincha/Maariv...Sunday - Thursday Friday, April 27th Shacharit Mincha/Maariv Candle Lighting

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KIDDUSH SCHEDULE Glahn

Check out the weekly Schedule on the YIWH Website http://go.youngisraelwh.org/timesTimes from: www.ou.org/holidays/calendar For Eruv Information: http://twitter.com/WHartfordEruv or http://youngisraelwh.org/index.php/en/home/the-eruv
(Hotline - 860-232-6417)

Ner LaMaor Lights Judy & Sam Leichtberg and Batsheva Goldfischer in memory of their parents and grandparents, Israel Weiss Frida Weiss Abraham Leichtberg Yayin l Kiddush Ve'Havdalah Wine for Kiddush & Havdallah Betty & Irving Wizenfeld in memory of Bettys Parents, Tobias & Esther Spira
Irv s father, Sam Wizenfeld

Pat LaOrchim Challah rolls for Seudah Shlishit Fran & Gene Wittenberg in memory of Frans father, Tzvi ben Yitzchak Meir HaCohen

& Genes father, Binyamin ben Moshe

Seudah Shlishit Supplement 3.1 ; -, . To honour our family and friends. Donna and Barry Gordon 5772 Candy Man Rabbi Mordechai Weiss Handy Man Steve Bernstein You-Dah-Man Judy & Sam Leichtberg Good Humor Man Debbie & Steven Luger

WANT TO JOIN THE LISTSERVE? If you are interested in subscribing to the yiwhevents listserve, send an e-mail to webmaster@youngisraelwh.org and he will add your name. If you are a member of the group, you can send an e-mail to the entire group by addressing your e-mail to yiwhevents@yahoogroups.com .

 YIWH Schedule of Services

It is easy to sponsor a Kiddush Or Seudah Shlishit! 6:45 a.m. 7:00 p.m. 7:27 p.m. 8:15 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 9:20 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 6:30 p.m. 7:15 p.m. 8:28 p.m. 4:55 a.m. 8:15 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 6:45 a.m. 7:30 p.m. 6:45 a.m. 7:00 p.m. 7:34 p.m.
Shul handles set up & Clean up! Contact Judie Patel at 236-4178 or judiep@gmail.com to check the availability of the date you need & call Fran Wittenberg 860-232-2320 to make the arrangements for the type of Kiddush you want to sponsor. Checks need to be received the Sunday prior to your Kiddush date. There are three types of Kiddushim: Standard for $150, Semi-Deluxe for $250 & Deluxe for $350 With supplements available. For Seudah Shlishit contact Stan Rutstein at 232-3369

April 27th - May 4th, 2012 Shabbat Parashat Tazria-Metzpra Friday, April 27th Shacharit Mincha/Maariv Candle Lighting Shabbat, April 28th Rabbi Sheinkopfs Mishna Brurah Class Shacharit Sof Zman Kriat Shma Shabbat Morning Youth Groups Rabbis Shabbat Afternoon Class Mincha followed by Seudah Shlishit & Maariv Shabbat Ends Sunday, April 29th - Thursday, May 3rd Earliest Tallit & Tefillin Shacharit... Sunday Followed by Rabbi Weinbergs Gemara Shiur on Masechet Makot ShacharitMonday - Thursday Mincha/Maariv...Sunday - Thursday Friday, May 4th Shacharit Mincha/Maariv Candle Lighting

KIDDUSH SCHEDULE

Check out the weekly Schedule on the YIWH Website http://go.youngisraelwh.org/timesTimes from: www.ou.org/holidays/calendar For Eruv Information: http://twitter.com/WHartfordEruv or http://youngisraelwh.org/index.php/en/home/the-eruv
(Hotline - 860-232-6417)

Ner LaMaor Lights Judy & Sam Leichtberg and Batsheva Goldfischer in memory of their parents and grandparents, Israel Weiss Frida Weiss Abraham Leichtberg Yayin l Kiddush Ve'Havdalah Wine for Kiddush & Havdallah Betty & Irving Wizenfeld in memory of Bettys Parents, Tobias & Esther Spira
Irv s father, Sam Wizenfeld

Pat LaOrchim Challah rolls for Seudah Shlishit Fran & Gene Wittenberg in memory of Frans father, Tzvi ben Yitzchak Meir HaCohen

& Genes father, Binyamin ben Moshe

Seudah Shlishit Supplement 3.1 ; -, . To honour our family and friends. Donna and Barry Gordon 5772 Candy Man Rabbi Mordechai Weiss Handy Man Steve Bernstein You-Dah-Man Judy & Sam Leichtberg Good Humor Man Debbie & Steven Luger

WANT TO JOIN THE LISTSERVE? If you are interested in subscribing to the yiwhevents listserve, send an e-mail to webmaster@youngisraelwh.org and he will add your name. If you are a member of the group, you can send an e-mail to the entire group by addressing your e-mail to yiwhevents@yahoogroups.com .