SHABBAT THIS WEEK

Friday, May 17

 UPCOMING WEEK @ BETH EMETH

OTHER NEWS @ BETH EMETH

May & June are chock-full of CBE events! Read all about it in the May Shofar, available online at http://www.bethemeth.org/shofar.

Lost Cameras. A black nylon camera bag with an orange interior went missing from CBE on Sunday, April 7. The bag contained three cameras: A Sony DSLR, a video camera, and a digital pocket camera. If you’ve seen the bag or have it in your possession, please contact the CBE office at 703-860-4515 x101 or office@bethemeth.org.

Gift Shop Under Construction – Watch for reopening!

REGISTRATION for the 2013-14 BEECC school year and for 2013 Camp Kaitana IS NOW OPEN! Brochures and registration forms are available online for  BEECC and for Camp Kaitana. For more information, please contact the BEECC Office at 703-860-4515 x114 or x115.

Registration for Religious School/Youth/Chai School for 2013-2014 is now up on the web! Please visit the School Resources page for Religious School/Youth/Chai School registration - all one document this year!

Vacation Torah School is taking a trip to Israel! From the Golan Heights to the lowest place on earth - the Dead Sea, and everywhere in between! Open to all children who will be in 1st-5th grade in the 2013-2014 school year. Dates are July 29-August 3, 2013. Please contact Abby Kerbel (abby@bethemeth.org, 703-860-4515 ex. 128) for more information. The registration form is available at http://bethemeth.org/vacationtorahschool.htm.

What's Happening in the NoVa/DC Jewish community? Find out by subscribing to the Washington Jewish Week for a discounted price of $47 per year (of which CBE will receive $5). Just go to http://tinyurl.com/cbejewishweek and enter promo code: bethemeth on the payment screen. NoVa coverage has greatly increased! Want to check it out? Copies are available in the lobby or school wing entrance. Already a subscriber? Use the promo code bethemeth when renewing. Open to all CBE members and BEECC families.

Volunteer opportunity at The Closet in Herndon. As one of several area congregations committed to staff this non-profit thrift shop for low-income families, CBE is slated to fulfill volunteer hours this spring on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM. The experience is low-key fun and the CBE group tries to have lunch afterwards. Please visit www.bethemeth.org/socialaction.htm#closet for a list of available dates. Ready to volunteer? E-mail Betsy Rock.

COMMUNITY NEWS 

The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington is Proud to Announce That PJ Library (PJ as in “Pajamas”) is expanding to Greater Washington! FREE Jewish Children’s books will be delivered every month to children who sign up. All families in the Greater Washington area with at least one Jewish parent and children under the age of 8 are eligible to enroll. We are mailing a sample book and invitation, but you don’t have to wait to sign up! Visit www.shalomdc.org/pjlibrary and register today. Please note that this program is only for children in the Greater Washington area. If you know children who live in other cities, please visit www.pjlibrary.org to see if their community is one of the 185 communities participating in PJ Library. Questions? Please contact PJ Library Outreach Associate Sara Rubin Spira at 301-230-7243 or pjlibrary@shalomdc.org.

The Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs Seaboard Region is Planning a Trip to Israel for Empty Nesters in the Fall of 2013. The dates are October 30 to November 11, 2013 and the expected cost covering everything including airfare is $4000.00 (based on 30 people participating). Note that this cost only includes airfare from New York to Israel. The itinerary is posted on the Seaboard Region website at www.seaboardfjmc.com and also on ITC Travel's website at www.israeltour.com/fjmc-Israel-Adventure.asp. For more info please contact Jim Sloan at 703-561-0775 or Hal Freed at 301-987-2478, or send email to seaboardisrael2013@gmail.com. There are a limited number of slots on this trip and some are already filled.

Check http://www.jconnect.org/ for more community events.

LIFE-CYCLE EVENTS

The following have made MAY CONTRIBUTIONS to supplement weekly ONEG AND KIDDUSH SPONSORSHIPS and to mark the designated lifecycle events:

• The Beekman family in honor of Sara’s birthday

• Judy & Stephen Berman in honor of their granddaughter Peters’ birthday

• The Biderman family in honor of David’s birthday

• The Calderon family in honor of Ilisa’s birthday

• Claire & Steve Fine in honor of their grandson Benjamin’s birthday

• The Fink family in honor of Gavin’s birthday

• The Lisa & Steven Gordon family in honor of Lisa’s birthday

• Ellyn & Bill Hirsch in honor of their wedding anniversary

• Ellyn & Bill Hirsch in honor of their grandson Ilan Rein’s birthday

• Louise & Jay Howell in honor of their wedding anniversary

• The Monica & Steve Isakowitz family in honor of Rachel’s birthday

• The Debbie & Jon Katz family in honor of Zachary’s birthday

• The Klaff family in honor of Harry’s birthday

• Denise & Dan Moldover in honor of their wedding anniversary

• The Moldover family in honor of Sarah’s birthday

• Susan & Paul Moskowitz in honor of their wedding anniversary

• The Norman family in honor of Andrew’s birthday

• The Diane & Mark Novick family in honor of Ariel’s birthday

• The Noyovitz/Baker family in honor of Valerie’s birthday

• The Reilly family in honor of Aaron’s birthday

• The Silberstein family in honor of Sara’s birthday

• The Jodi & Gregory Smith family in honor of Gregory’s birthday

• The Steinberg family in honor of Emery’s birthday

• Stacey & Ray Thal in honor of their wedding anniversary

• The Zelman family in honor of Marty’s birthday

If you have a lifecycle event that you would like to acknowledge above, please use the form at http://www.bethemeth.org/oneg.htm or contact the office.

MAZEL TOV TO:

• Contact the office to share your simcha here.

TODAH RABAH TO:

• Michelle Nicotera for decorating the bimah for Shavuot

• The following people for the Shavuot luncheon: Sponsors Claire & Steve Fine and Lois & Barry Jacobs; Chefs Shirley Gross and Janet Klayton; and Susan Berger, Robyn Feuerberg, Shirley Gross, Ellyn Hirsch, Susan Lewis, Ita Mandel and Gwen Sloan for Set-Up and Clean-Up.  

REFUAH SHLEMA TO 

Barbara Bernstein

Julie Marmorstein

Jeanette Segal

Andrea Glazer

Diana Bier

Bob Wieder

Mindy Sosne

Rhoda Berger

Steve Weinstein

Trudy Bergman               

Stephanie Friedin

Lionel Cohen

Rita Citrenbaum
Paul Stern

Mimi Krop

Alexander Goldenberg

CONDOLENCES:

• To Cindy Richards and her family on the death of her mother Pauline Cotten

• The Congregation sadly mourns the loss of Amir Rafii, husband of Polly Rafii. Our sincere condolences to the entire Rafii family.

Contact the office to share your sad news here.

YAHRZEIT OBSERVANCES FOR THIS WEEK

• * Fay Goldlust, Grandmother of Suzanne Stluka

•    Yolande Kaswell, Mother of Jeanne Sager

•    Edward Kohnstam, Faher of Charles Kohnstam

•    Norma Weiss, Mother of Kenneth Weiss

• * Louis Zoberman, Father of Ita Mandel

• * Lillian Gamm, Mother of Paula Yass

•    Margo White, Grandmother of Mark Isakowitz, Steve Isakowitz, and Cheryl
     Horowitz

•    Yevsei Zingerman, Father of Anna Rodina

• * Peter Goldin, Father of Richard Goldin

•    Shemuel Vinarsky, Father of Sonya Kirzhner

•    Anna Bielous, Mother of Trudy Burger

• * Bessie Brownman, Mother-in-Law of Edie Brownman

• * Eileen Tobenkin, Sister of Ellen Greene

•    Asna Konopko, Grandmother of Susan McCallister and Evelyn Hickman

•    James Siegel, Father of Debbie Immerman

•    Pearl Tritter, Mother of Donna Biderman

• * Lawrence Meisel

* Denotes a plaque on the MEMORIAL BOARD