Webmaster on January 25th, 2008

Rabbi Dreyfus won’t be here, but Shabbat Services carry on nonetheless. Carole Fefferman will lead the Erev Shabbat Service, beginning at 6:15 pm.
Tomorrow’s Shabbat morning service will be conducted byRabbi Wolkow, beginning at 10L00 am. Jerry Levine will be the Cantorial Soloist.
The Parasha is Yitro, Exodus 18:1–20:23. Moses’s machitanim, Yitro comes [...]

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Webmaster on January 23rd, 2008

Help support the JUF in January phonothon by volunteering.  Funds raised help support programming in
the South Suburbs.
Come help us kickoff the 2008 Jewish United Fund - Israel Emergency Fund
What better way to start a new year and to begin celebrating Israel’s 60th
birthday, than by helping hundreds of thousands of [...]

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Webmaster on January 20th, 2008

The Sisterhood will present Dinner and a Movie - Saturday, February 16, 6:30 p.m. – Sisterhood’s Italian dinner and a film about a failing Italian Restaurant The Big Night. The cost is $22 for adults (seniors 60+ $18), and no charge for children under 13. RSVP by January 30 to sisterhood@bybs.org

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Webmaster on January 20th, 2008

Community Shabbat at BYBS – Friday, February 29. Shabbat service at 6:30 p.m. featuring The Klezmedics and local clergy, followed by a delicious Shabbat dinner at 7:15 p.m. Dinner will be fish and vegetarian. Adults $13; Children 4-12 $7; Children under 4 – no charge. Reservations forms are in the [...]

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Webmaster on January 20th, 2008

Everyone likes a Salami, and here’s an opportunity to eat well and do some goode for the schools at the same time.
Orders are due for salamis from Romanian Kosher Sausage Co. by Wed., January 23. One pound: $9, Two pound: $15. Pick-up is Wed. Jan. 30 at BYBS, 3:00 to 6:15 pm, or [...]

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Webmaster on January 20th, 2008

A young member of our congregation, Trevor Brown, age 6 months, will undergo major heart surgery in February at Advocate Hope Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn. If you or someone you know is Type O negative or B negative, please contact the hospital: 4440 West 95th Street, Oak Lawn, Illinois 60453, 708.684.8000 to [...]

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Webmaster on January 20th, 2008

A Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev will be the Cooperative Jewish Council’s Book of the Winter, the subject for and come to the dinner and discussion on Sunday, February 24 at the JCC. This prize-winning novel has just been translated into English, and is available at the Flossmoor [...]

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Webmaster on January 18th, 2008

This evening’s Erev Shabbat Service, conducted by Rabbi Dreyfus, will begin at 8:00 pm. Music will be provded by members of the Adult Choir. Rabbi Dreyfus will bless those congregants with wedding anniversaries in the month of January.
Tomorrow morning’s Shabbat Service, conducted by Rabbi Dreyfus, will begin at 10:00 am. Fawn Gottlieb [...]

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Rabbi Douglas Kohn, of Congregation Emanu El in San Bernardino, California, will speak at Temple Beth-El in unster, IN at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, January 14. 
Rabbi Kohn has been active locally and nationally in programs of social justice, community relations, and Israel, and has published many articles on American Jewish [...]

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Webmaster on January 11th, 2008

 The Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra concert on Saturday evening, January 19, 8:00 p.m., will feature music of Mozart, Stravinsky, and Beethoven.  Our Sisterhood is having a delicious pre-concert reception at the home of Marilynn & Sol Tannebaum at 5:30 p.m.  RSVP by January 11 to Eila Koltun. Or as soon as you [...]

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