In preparation for Tu Bishevat, Shaina Sugar and Leah Rubin will be leading all of the children’s groups in a Tu Bishevat Seder. The seder will begin at 10 am promptly. Please plan to bring your children upstairs at that time. We look forward to the children learning more about this holiday and trying new fruits/veggies!
Please mark your calendars! On Shabbat, February 3rd and 4th, we will be welcoming Rabbi Sam Feinsmith to Kol Sasson as part of our series bringing in individuals with unique and provocative perspectives on emerging movements and contemporary issues facing observant Jews.
**Learning & Kiddush for this Shabbat is sponsored by Roz and Oren Conway and family to commemorate the ending of Shloshim in memory of their beloved mother & grandmother, Dorothy Weinberg z”l. They would like to thank the Kol Sasson Community for the outpouring of care during the Shiva period by helping to make the minyanim and providing much of the food. May the memory of Dorothy Weinberg z”l serve as a blessing.**
Schedule:
To welcome Shabbat, please join us for a beautiful, spiritual davening Friday night, beginning with Mincha at 4:50 p.m. at the Katz house, 9315 Central Park. Please come on time! Immediately following Mincha, Rabbi Feinsmith will be leading Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv.
On Shabbat morning, Rabbi Feinsmith will be leading musaf and giving a d’var torah in connection with Shabbat Shira entitled, “Four Songs: Four Divine Spheres of Responsibility,” exploring Rav Kook’s Fourfold Song as a map for charting a path towards our personal spiritual evolution along a spectrum from self, to community, to humanity, to all of Creation. Each realm of experience will serve as a locus for revealing the Divine. These widening spheres of spiritual awareness frame an exposition of ever-expanding spheres of human responsibility.
Sam Feinsmith teaches Judaic Studies and coordinates Jewish life at Chicagoland Jewish High School. He holds degrees from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Passionate about prayer and contemplative Jewish practice, he served as a consultant on a number of innovative prayer and minyan-related projects, and has conducted Jewish meditation workshops for teens and adults. As a tikkun olam ambassador, he served as an AJWS Kol Tzedek Fellow and volunteered in Asia and Central America. He lives in Evanston with his wife, Sarah-Bess Dworin.
Shabbat December 31st, Kiddush is being sponsored by Arthur and Lynda Rosenson in commemoration of Arthur’s father’s Yartzeit.
Mazal Tov to Ravit Greenberg & Gabe Axler on the birth of their daughter this past Wednesday. Ravit & Gabe are leaders of a partnership minyan in Be’er Sheva www.kehilatbeerot.org and happened to be in Chicago when their baby was born. Prior to making aliyah, they visited Kol Sasson and could think of no better place to now name their daughter.
Please join Kol Sasson Monday morning, December 5th at 7 am for davening followed by breakfast to help them celebrate the naming of their daughter. We will be meeting at Temple Beth Israel.
This coming Shabbat, December 3rd, Kiddush is being sponsored by the Steve and Rochelle Katz in memory of Steve’s father, Ernest Katz, on the occasion of his yartzeit.
Shabbat December 18th, we will be honoring our December Birthday/Anniversary celebrants. If you would like to sponsor Kiddush please send an email kiddush@kolsasson.org. Sponsorship is $25.
Want to get involved with Uri L’Tzedek and the Tav HaYosher (Ethical Seal for kosher restaurants)? Don’t have a lot of time? Become a Compliance Officer today and help ensure that workers are being treated fairly! Time commitment is 2 hours a month, maximum. Training can be arranged over Skype at a time that is convenient for you. For more information, contact Ari at ahart@utzedek.org. Be sure to read this article about the Tav HaYosher in the Chicago Tribune as well.
Please mark your calendars and save the date for our next Kol Sasson Kabbalat Shabbat davening!
Thanksgiving Weekend: Friday, November 25th
Mincha will begin at 4:00 pm followed by Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv
The home of Jane and David Shapiro
As usual, please let us know if you are planning to attend so that we can ensure we have a minyan. We are trying something new, simply click on the link below and enter your name to RSVP. http://www.doodle.com/
We hope you will join us.
We are excited to introduce a series of speakers we are going to host over the coming year. We’ll be inviting individuals who offer unique and provocative perspectives on emerging movements and contemporary issues facing observant Jews.
Our first speaker will be Ari hart who will be joining us on Shabbat morning November 19th. Ari will be davening with us and will be giving a d’var torah relating to the future of Modern Orthodoxy and social justice.
Ari, an Evanston native, is the co-founder of Uri L’Tzedek (Awaken to Justice): The Orthodox Social Justice Movement and a leader of multiple initiatives that bring the Jewish community and the world together to make positive social change. A contributor to the Jerusalem Post, Haaretz magazine, and Jewschool.com, he was recently selected by the Jewish Week as one of the 36 “forward-thinking young people who are helping to remake the Jewish community.” He is currently studying to be a rabbi at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York City.
We look forward to learning together with Ari during his visit.
This coming Shabbat, November 12th, Kiddush is being sponsored by the Rubin family in honor of our new members. Thank you and welcome!
Shabbat November 19 we will be honoring our October and November Birthday/Anniversary celebrants. If you would like to sponsor Kiddush please send an email kiddush@kolsasson.org. Sponsorship is $25.
Kiddush this week is sponsored by the Minkus-Lieberman and Weinberg families to thank our outgoing and incoming leadership teams for all their hard work and commitment to Kol Sasson:
Sarah Friedman Outgoing Secretary & Incoming Children’s Programming Coordinator
Chaya Gordon-Burstyn Friday Night Services Coordinator
David Lieberman Incoming Financial Secretary
Avi Janssen Webmaster
Sippi Janssen Kiddush Coordinator
Rochelle Katz Outgoing Ritual VP
Steve Katz Outgoing Financial Secretary
Debri Klein Outgoing Children’s Programming Coordinator & Incoming Ritual VP
Carolyn Reinglass Bar & Bat Mitzvah Coordinator
Arthur Rosenson Gabbai
Lynda Rosenson Treasurer
Bob Rubin Membership VP
Jane Shapiro Education VP & Gabbai
Shaina Sugar Incoming Secretary
Elise Swatez Kiddush Team
Sarah Weinberg Gabbai
Kol Sasson would also like to thank our outgoing president Rebecca Minkus-Lieberman and our incoming president Daniel Weinberg for their guidance and dedication.