UPCOMING SHABBAT SERVICES November 18-19, 2016 | 18 Heshvan, 5777

Candle Lighting4:29 p.m.

Havdalah5:26 p.m.

11-17 HESHVAN, 5777

W e recall in reverence those who have been gathered unto their people

YAHRZEITS

Comfort and strength to those who mourn

Joe Ackert

Lou Angel

Ursula Baer

Roz Barer

Millie Barron

Joseph Binder

Ruth Brunner

Rose Cohen

Minette Cohn

Eva Davidson

David M. Davis

Ricky Deutsch

Tilly Dobkin

Lilian Drew

Ruth Fernbach

Fay Finkelstein

Sally Eleanor Franke

Philip Freedman

Evelyn Fromer

Jack Fromm

Judith Glasner

Dorothy Gorman

Samuel Greenberg

Carl Greenblatt

Hans Morris

Greenblatt

Judge Leslie

Greenfield

Mary Grijalva

Pearl Hirshon

Stephen Horowitz

Fred Katzburg

Ruth Kirsch

Melvyn Kohn

Stan Kramer

Jack Kunin

Meyer Lavin

Lena Lavin

Muriel Lehrman

Edith Lesser

Alicia Lewis

Marie Lopaty

Marie Lopaty

Rose Jean Lowy

Sally Mann

Morton Manning

Howard Mark

Celia Matanky

Arnold Milner

Mary Moidel

Ida Neiter

Martha Nevens

Jacob Newman

Helen L. Nissen

Florence Novak

Nathan T. Peleg

Bessie Perlsweig

Elihu Ray

Myer Roseman

Martin Rosenbaum

Nancy Rosenthal

Arnold Ross

George Gerald

Rudikoff

David Samuels

Herta Sanders

Manya Schaff

Marilyn Schwartz

Sarah Shapiro

Nagi Shini

Judy Silber

Annette Simon

Leonard Sloan, MD

Leonard Smith

Murray Smolkin

Nettie Spiegelman

Julius Stern

Anna Straus

Alvin Werner

Helen Woods

Jerold Yaker

Bernard Zangwill

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S H A B B A T O NS H A B B AT O N

November 11-12, 2016 11 HESHVAN, 5777

Candle Lighting4:33 p.m.

Havdalah5:30 p.m.

D A I LY M I N YA NI N W I N E R C H A P E L

Monday - Friday7:30 a.m.

Sunday8:30 a.m.

Daily5:00 p.m.

Interested in becoming a member of VBS?Contact our Membership CoordinatorNatasha Benzaken at (818) 530-4008

or email nbenzaken@vbs.org

VBS LEADERSHIP

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18EREV SHABBAT MINYAN 5:00 p.m. in Winer Chapel

SHABBAT FARBRENGEN 8:00 p.m. in Sher-Lopaty Chapel “The World of Jewish Comedy”

See page 2 for details.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19Torah Portion: Va-era | Genesis 18:1-22:24 | Page: 351

TORAH STUDY 9:00 a.m. in Winer Chapel with Rabbi Ed Feinstein

OPENING PRAYERS 9:30 a.m. in Niznick Sanctuary

SHABBAT MORNING 9:45 a.m. in Niznick Sanctuary

Rabbi Joshua Hoffman

officiates at the B’nai Mitzvah of Ryan and Sydney Koeppel

N’SHAMA MINYAN 9:30 a.m. in Sher-Lopaty Chapel “Women and Power in the Torah” See page 3 for details.

PARSHA DISCUSSION 12:15 p.m. in Bernstein Balcony Seminar Room

MINCHA SERVICE 4:00 p.m. in Sher-Lopaty Chapel

Rabbi Ed Feinstein

officiates at the Bar Mitzvah of Kaz Kaufman

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11EREV SHABBAT MINYAN 5:00 p.m. in Winer ChapelRIMONIM SHABBAT 6:00 p.m. Snack & Shmooze 6:30 p.m. Shabbat Service in Sher-Lopaty Chapel

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12Torah Portion: Lekh L’kha | Genesis 12:1-17:27 | Page: 69

TORAH STUDY 9:00 a.m. in Winer Chapel with Rabbi Ed Feinstein

TEEN TORAH STUDY 9:00 a.m. in Bride’s Room with Rabbi Avi Taff

OPENING PRAYERS 9:30 a.m. in Niznick SanctuarySHABBAT MORNING 9:45 a.m. in Niznick Sanctuary Rabbi Ed Feinstein officiates at the

B’not Mitzvah of Gabrielle Mostow and Shoshana Bender Bernstein We celebrate the Aufruf of Elysa Kahan & Daniel SpiegelLIBRARY MINYAN 9:30 a.m. in Bernstein Balcony Seminar Room D'var Torah Rabbi Sheldon KirschTOT SHABBAT 10:00 a.m. in Burdorf HallPARSHA DISCUSSION 12:15 p.m. in ECC Classroom 109

FRIDAY EVENING SHABBAT SERVICE

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VBS SISTERHOOD

A PLACE FOR WOMEN OF ALL AGES AND STAGES

N’SHAMA MINYAN

“Women and Power in the Torah”

Led by Rabbi Nina Bieber Feinstein. With Cindy

Paley Aboody, Cantorial Soloist. For more info

contact Susan North Gilboa at (818) 343-3078.

Saturday, November 19 at 9:30 a.m.

The Questfor

Happiness

SAVETHEDATE!

n’shamaminyan

RETREAT

JAN. 27-28, 2017

SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE SERIES Begins Sunday, November 13 at 4:00 p.m.Visions for a Shared Society: The “Tribes” of Israel. Los Angeles Synagogue Collaborative Lecture Series. “Living in a Tribal Family” with Yehuda Kurtzer at Leo Baeck Temple. Free to VBS members; $20 for non-members. Post-lecture dinner and discussion by RSVP only. For more info, visit shalomhartman.org/LAcollaborative.

VBS HAZAK Monday, November 14 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

10:00 a.m. Choice of Steve Kohn's Opera “politics” series: Mozart’s La Clemenza De Tito; or VBS member Michael Waterman‘s first of two mini-series classes exploring Judaism today and in the future: Do we belong in the West Bank? -- and Other Provocative Questions.

11:15 a.m. Lecture by VBS member Burt Sigal on The Rise of the Drones (from your back yard to the deserts of Mars, and everything in between).

12:45 p.m. Choice of Afternoon Classes: Torah Portion of the Week with Rabbi Noah Farkas; Mah Jongg learning and supervised play with Carol Gray; or VBS ORACLE supervised by Marv Leon (active participants only; must pre-register).

For more information visit vbs.org/hazak or call (818) 788-6000.

ADULT ISRAELI DANCE CLASSES Monday, November 14 in Glaser Hall beginning at 7:15 p.m.More information online at vbs.org/dance or contact Susan North Gilboa at sngilboa@vbs.org.

KNITTING NEEDLES Tuesday, November 15 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.In Sher-Lopaty II. Yarn donations appreciated; open skeins accepted.

4 O’CLOCK SCHOLARS Ongoing Tuesdays from 4:00-5:30 p.m. through December 13“No Religion is an Island” with Rabbi Mark Diamond. Contact Alice Greenfield for more info: (818) 788-7642 or alles610@gmail.com.

TROPE CLASSES Beginning Tuesday, November 15 at 6:00 p.m.Learn to read Torah with Cantor Phil Baron. An 8-week session. RSVP to Janet Djalilmand at jdjalilmand@vbs.org or (818) 530-4009.

LUNCH AND LEARN Wednesday, November 16 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.Lecture and discussion with Rabbi Ed Feinstein. Bring your own dairy lunch. Coffee and tea provided.

YIDDISH SPEAKERS’ CLUB Tuesday, November 29 at 7:30 p.m. Come to speak and listen to Yiddish. Last Tuesday of the month. For info, call Menashe Bernstein at (818) 784-2100.

ADULT B'NAI MITZVAH PREP CLASS Tuesdays 6:30-8:30 p.m. or Thursdays 9:00-11:00 a.m. Prepare for becoming an adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah with VBS Ritual Director Yossi Dresner. Call (818) 530-4012 for more information.

FAMILY & FIRST-TIMERS TRIP TO ISRAEL June 26 - July 9, 2017 with Rabbi Joshua Hoffman. Contact Elana Zimmerman for info at (818) 530-4011 or ezimmerman@vbs.org.

f a r • b r e n • g e n/fahr’br(i)n-GIN/

To spend time with friends, family, and friends-to-be.

verb

Led by Cantor Herschel Fox

The WORLD of JEWISH COMEDY

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Kabbalat Shabbat & Festive Oneg

Friday, November 18 • 8:00 p.m. at VBS

VBS celebrates Erev Shabbat with

song, smiles, scintillating study and

sweets. Kabbalat Shabbat starts at

8:00 p.m., followed by limudim

(studying) with our rabbis, rousing

z’meerot (singing), capped off by

tantalizing nasherai (eating). Come

to shul and experience Friday night

“live” as VBS ushers in Shabbat with

warmth, conversation and simcha!

With Special Guests

Sunday,November 20, 2016

3:00 - 4:30 p.m.

withCindy Paley Aboody

Renowned Yiddish Folksinger

Join renowned Yiddish folk singer Cindy Paley, accompanied by

Isaac Sadigursky on accordion, for an afternoon of

Yiddish songs about “Dos Goldene Land - The Golden Land.”

Learn songs of longing, love, labor and struggle in “Amerike”

by poets Morris Rosenfeld and David Edelstadt

as well as favorites from the Second Avenue Yiddish Theatre.

Fee: $10 at the door includes refreshments and song sheets.

Please RSVP to Cindy at cindypaleymusic@gmail.com.

ShabbattF r i e n d sF r i e n d s

FRIDAY, November 18, 2016

Intimate small-group Shabbat dinners held in members’ homes.

To host or attend, please visit vbs.org/shabbat-with-friends

or email shabbatwithfriends@vbs.org.

Committee Chair: Gaby Donitz.

FOR FAMILIES WITH

sCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN

See the full schedule at vbs.org/college

Israel Since the 6-Day War

Hosted by Rabbi Ed Feinstein

VBS COLLEGE OF JEWISH STUDIES

Wednesday, November 16 at 7:00 p.m.

“Making David Into Goliath:How the World Turned Against Israel"

with Guest Speaker Professor Joshua Muravchik

World Affairs Institute and Foreign Policy Institute

of Johns Hopkins University

Monday, November 21 at 7:00 p.m.

with Guest Speaker Khalid Abu Toameh

Journalist, Fellow of the Gatestone Institute and

Producer for NBC News (in partnership with AIPAC)

Proceeds will go to support the VBS ECC Parent Association

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EAT. DRINK. PLAY. Join us for beer, billiards and bar food. Dinner catered by Starlite. Open to the whole VBS community. Cost: $40/pp. House of Billiards in Sherman Oaks. RSVP by November 25 at vbs.org/fusion or call (818) 530-4000.

FUSIONVBS SATURDAY

DECEMBER 3

7:00 PM

Chairs: Jessica Jablon and Tammy Temkin

AccessAwe: Pathways to Creativity

Thursday, November 17 at 7:00 p.m.

Join Anita Getzler, arts educator, on fun path to creative expression.

Limit 30. Sisterhood members only. $5 supplies fee paid in advance

to be considered registered. Register online at vbs.org/accessawe.

Latka-Vodka Is Back

For Hanukkah!

Thursday, December 1 at 7:00 p.m.

RSVP at vbs.org/latka-vodka.

Sisterhood Partners with

Federation's Festival of Lights

Book & Toy Drive - Donation box

across from main office.

Interested in a daytime bridge group?

Call (818) 530-4087 or email sisterhood@vbs.org.

Nighttime Book Club

Monday, November 21 at 7:30 p.m.

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Phillip Sendker. Contact Ruthy

Ginsberg ruthyanthony@sbcglobal.net or call (310) 801-5035.

Daytime Book/Movie Club

December - The Bridge Ladies by Betsy Lerner. Contact Arlene Zicklin

azippygal@aol.com or call (818) 225-9048.

RETURNSLATKA-

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