July 8 - 15, 2016
3 Tammuz – 9 Tammuz 5776
Shabbat Korach
Check out the new "Getting to Know You"
section on the last page.
Shabbat Times
Shabbat Candle Lighting: 8:18 pm (Plag 7:04 pm)
Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat: 6:45 pm (Sanctuary), 7:10 pm Youth-Led Ruach Minyan (Beit Midrash), 7:45 pm (Sanctuary)
Shacharit: 7:00 am, 8:00 am, 8:45 am, 9:15 am (Youth-led)
Early Mincha: 6:00 pm (Sanctuary)**
Mincha: 8:15 pm (Sanctuary)
Maariv/Shabbat Ends: 9:23 pm
Candle Lighting Next Shabbat: 8:15 pm (Plag 7:01 pm)
**Note that we are piloting an early mincha at 6pm on Shabbat for the next few weeks**
Shabbat Speakers and Shiurim
7:00 am:
8:00 am: Evan Albert
8:45 am: Rav Benny Lau: “Every Generation Needs Different Leadership: Between Moshe and Miriam”
Youth: Zach Goldberg
Mechy Frankel's Gemara Shiur: 9:00 am
Review of this week's Daf Yomi: 10:30 am
12:00 pm, after Kiddush: Rav Benny Lau: “The Vision of 929, a Community Tanach Learning Project”
7:15: Rabbanit Noa Lau: “The Limits of the Mitzvah to Honor One’s Parents (Masechet Kiddushin),” in Hebrew
Between 8:15pm Mincha and Maariv:
~ Rav Benny Lau: “Sages – An Introduction to the Concept of the Series: The Connection between Text and Context
~David Eisenman's Gemara Shiur
Mazal Tov
~ Mazal Tov to Sarah and Buddy Stern on the birth of a grandson to Deborah Hamer and Bezalel Stern of Washington, DC. Mazal Tov
to Deborah’s parents Michelle and David Hamer from Sharon, Massachusetts, and to Great-Grandmother June Stern from Beverly
Hills, California. Mazal Tov to all aunts, uncles, cousins and extended family sharing Shabbat with us at KMS.
Rabbi Weinberg Away
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Rabbi Weinberg is away on vacation until July 18 . In case of emergency, you can reach him on his cell phone. Please leave a
message indicating the urgency of the call and he will get back to you as soon as he can. For halachic questions, please contact Rabbi
Avi Weinstein ([email protected]). For shul-related matters, please contact Menucha Wolfe ([email protected]) or
Benny Berkowitz ([email protected]).
Rav Benny and Rabbanit Noa Lau at KMS this Shabbat
~KMS welcomes Rabbi Benny and Rabbanit Noa Lau as a Scholar-in-Residence couple. Rav Benny is the Rabbi of the Ramban
Synagogue in Jerusalem, the former Rosh Beit Midrash at Beit Morasha, and the head of the Israel Democracy Institute’s Human
Rights and Judaism in Action project, among many other positions. Noa Lau, Vice Dean of Nishmat and a Yoetzet Halacha, is the
Shoelet U’Meishiva of Nishmat’s Keren Ariel Yoetzet Halacha Training Program and holds the Moshe and Charlotte Green Chair in
Jewish Law at Nishmat. Both are widely acclaimed lecturers and teachers, and this promises to be a very special Shabbat. Generously
sponsored by David & Barbara Goldschlag, Mark Kahan, and David & Varda Makovsky.
~Rav Benny will speak at the following times:
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Immediately following the 8:45 am minyan
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After Kiddush
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Between Mincha and Maariv
~Rabbanit Noa will speak (in Hebrew) before Mincha
~Shabbat Afternoon Community Oneg: Join Rav Benny and Rabbanit Noa for a community oneg at 5:00 pm on Shabbat afternoon,
at the home of David and Varda Makovsky, 701 Hermleigh Road. They will speak on “The Challenges of Modern Orthodoxy in Israel
Today.”
~ Sunday Breakfast and Book Signing: On Sunday morning, enjoy a light breakfast at 9:00 am and hear Rav Benny Lau and Dr. Dov
Zakheim speak about their books in the Maggid Series in Tanakh: "Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet" (Lau) and "Nehemiah: Statesman
and Sage" (Zakheim). The books will be available for sale at a 30% discount off the list price. Checks or cash only. Generously
sponsored by Neil & Fran Kritz.
Shabbat Kiddush
Hashkama Minyan Kiddush is sponsored by Lily and Saadia Greenberg in commemoration of the forthcoming yahrzeits of Saadia's
mother, Evelyn L. Greenberg, z”l, (7 Tammuz) and Lily's father, Salomon Z. Nadel, z”l, (2 Av), and by Buddy and Sarah Stern in honor of
the birth of their grandson.
8:00 am Minyan Kiddush is sponsored by Michael Serlin and Atara Margolies in memory of Michael's mother, Nancy Serlin, z”l, on the
occasion of her yahrtzeit, and in celebration of Nava's 3rd birthday, and by Vic Jacobson in commemoration of the yahrzeit of his mother,
Esther Jacobson, z”l.
8:45 am Minyan Kiddush is sponsored by Isi and Sandi Teitelbaum in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Sandi's mother, Gertrude
Badner, z”l, and by Buddy and Sarah Stern in honor of the birth of their grandson.
Youth Minyan Kiddush is sponsored by KMS
Kiddush Duty: Licht
Kiddush DutyNext Week: Trombka/Dalin
Security Duty: Schreiber
Security Duty Next Week: Schloss
This Weekend
~Join us for the first women’s Shabbat shiur of the summer in memory of Cheryl Stern, z”l. Dr. Erica Brown will speak at 6:30pm on
Shabbat afternoon at the home of Miriam and Achi Guggenheim, 511 Stonington Road, on "Are We All Holy? Korah's Defiance." Women
only please.
~Join the Porat family at 11:45 am on Shabbat morning at their home, 921 Grays Lane, in honor of the birth of their daughter.
Weekday Youth Minyan
As we do every year, KMS is hosting “summer vacation” Youth Shacharit at 9:00am on weekdays,
(until school starts again). Please come to support this minyan.
Monthly Seudah Shlishit
Join us at KMS for a monthly Seudah Shlishit! Celebrate a simcha or commemorate a yahrzeit with the congregation. Tentative dates for
upcoming seudot shlishit are July 23 and August 27. Sponsorships for upcoming months are available for $350 (subject to change based
on attendance). For more information or to sponsor, contact the shul office. Volunteers are needed to help with set up and clean up; if you
would like to help, contact Beth Lichy at [email protected].
Weekday Tefilla Times July 10 – 15 - Halachic times for this week
Earliest tallit and tefillin: 4:38 am Latest Kriat Shema: 9:26 am; Earliest Mincha: 1:48 pm A full listing of zmanim is available at kmsynagogue.org
Sunday: Shacharit: 8:00 am (Sanctuary), 9:00 am (Youth-Led, Sanctuary) Mincha/Maariv: 8:15 pm
Monday: Shacharit: 6:45 am, 9:00 am (Youth), Mincha/Maariv: 8:15 pm
Tuesday: Shacharit: 7:00 am, 9:00 am (Youth), Mincha/Maariv: 8:15 pm
Wednesday: Shacharit: 7:00 am, 9:00 am (Youth), Mincha/Maariv: 8:15 pm
Thursday: Shacharit: 6:45 am, 9:00 am (Youth), Mincha/Maariv: 8:15 pm
Friday: Shacharit: 7:00 am, 9:00 am (Youth)
Educational Programming July 8 - 15
To hear Rabbi Weinberg's daily Divrei Mitzva and Divrei Halacha from the daily minyanim, go to http://www.spreaker.com/show/kms-dailydivrei-halacha-and-mitzva and http://www.spreaker.com/show/daily-divrei-halacha.
The classes taught by Erica Brown, Laura Goldman, Rabbi Haramati and Rabbi Weinberg are on hiatus until the fall.
Sunday:
~7:30 pm: Rabbi Yitzhak Grossman: Parashas Hukas: The Copper Serpent and the Evolution of Judaism
~8:30 pm: Nechama Porat: "Building a G-D fearing, moral society," based on the text of Baba Batra, Chapter 1, at KMS
Monday:
~8:00 pm: Dina Haramati, Stories of Agnon, at the Haramati’s home
Wednesday:
~9:40 - 10:40 am: Mrs. Esther Dziadek, Siddur reading with TGN at KMS (Classroom C)
Coming Soon
~August 28, 2016, Grand Slam Sunday: Jewish Community Day at Nationals Park will be hosted by the Jewish Federation of Greater
Washington. The Washington Nationals will be taking on the Colorado Rockies at 1:35 p.m. Join us two hours before the game for activities
and fun for all ages! Don't miss out - purchase your tickets today for Kemp Mill Synagogue's ticket block. We'll see you at the
Ballpark! https://doinggood.wufoo.com/forms/kemp-mill-synagogue-2016-grand-slam-sunday/
Opportunities to Get Involved
~The KMS Tzedaka Fund helps people in need in the greater Kemp Mill Community. Donations to the Tzedaka Fund would help us meet
these requests. Please give generously to the KMS Tzedaka Fund by sending your tax-deductible donation to the KMS office. Checks
should be made payable to the KMS Tzedaka Fund. If you are in need of financial assistance, please contact Rabbi Weinberg [email protected]
~KMS has joined the Adopt A Road program by adopting Kemp Mill Road. Check out the recognition sign near Kemp Mill/Glenallen and
Glenallen/Randolph Roads. KMS members will have the opportunity to do some cleanup on Kemp Mill Road. Please use this url to sign up
on the Google doc - http://bit.ly/1UQPIOu.
Refua Shleima
Nechama Yenta bat Raizal, Yehoshua Dan ben Naomi, Bayla Tova bat Rivka, Rachel Blimah bat Freydel, Levi Yizchok HaCohen ben
Rochel, Menucha bat Aharon, Chaim ben Rachel, Tova Necha bas Rifka Sipa, Yehoshua Gavriel ben Bracha, Mordechai Ozer Yoseph ben
Chaia Rochel, Sarah bat Chana, Chana Kayla bas Shoshana Ruchel, Tzvia Hinda bat Chaya Gittel, Belah Tova bat Rivka, Miriam Rachel
bat Aiga Sarah, David Ze'ev ben Pearl, Michal Meira bat Fayge Ita, Akiva Yosef ben Fayge Ita, Kalman ben Shayna, Yaakov ben Jody,
Tzipporah Gittel bas Chaya Leah
.
Please keep these names in mind during recitation of the misheberach for cholim. Please email the office at [email protected] if
you would like to add names to this list.
Community Connections
Community Connection announcements can be found at www.kmsynagogue.org/community#
Getting To Know You
In an effort to promote the warm community feeling we strive for here at KMS, we have begun to introduce you to two KMS
members per week. We hope you enjoy meeting your fellow members and will use these brief bios as a catalyst to introduce
yourself to others at KMS.
Eliyana Adler and Steve Bickel
Eliyana Adler and Stephen Bickel migrated from
the west coast to the east and have been members
of KMS for the past 14 years. Eliyana is a professor
of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State
University and Steve is an energy efficiency
consultant for D+R International. They have three
daughters Rana, Maya, and Selah, each of whom
attended a different school this past year. Next year
Rana and Maya will be learning in Israel and Selah
will enter the tenth grade.
Over the years Eliyana has served on the Education Committee at KMS, including as VP of Education. She has also held
leadership roles in the Women’s Tefillah Group. Steve has been involved in several environmental initiatives and currently
serves as co-chair of a Kiddush Committee. The family’s favorite part of KMS is the warm and open community of friends
who don’t mind when they spontaneously drop by their houses on Shabbos and the vegetarian chulent at Kiddush.
Ellen and Paul Singer
Ellen and Saul Singer have been living in Kemp Mill
since 1993, when they moved here from Baltimore. They
have 3 grown children: son Zev and daughter Danielle,
who live in New York City, and Yonah and wife Michelle,
who also live in Kemp Mill with their 2 sons, Judah and
Joshie. Saul is a litigator who now works for the D.C. Bar
as an Ethics counsel. Ellen works for Mathematica Policy
Research in health services research. All three kids
attended Hebrew Academy, where Zev and Yonah were
basketball stars and Danielle excelled in the arts as a
piano player. Currently Zev is an attorney with a firm in
New York City, and Danielle is a genetics counselor at a
large New York hospital. Yonah is a special education
teacher, who also coaches basketball, and will be
coaching the Hebrew Academy varsity basketball team
in their upcoming season – welcome back Kotter!!
Michelle is the director of the Beth Shalom nursery
school.
Saul is an enthusiastic collector of signatures and Judaica and writes a weekly column in the Jewish Press called “Collecting
Jewish History”. Ellen likes working, entertaining, attending fitness classes, reading, and attending shiurim at KMS. They love
the friendly and diverse community at KMS, where they see multiple generations interacting and growing together.