ECLC Weekly Update 04/05/24

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ECLC Weekly Update 04/05/24

04/05/2024 09:15:36 AM

Apr5

Shalom Parents

We hope you enjoyed your time off with your children and are eager to see all of your families this coming Sunday!

Many of you have reached out about our programs with Gil Troy this weekend. If you have a teen in grades 9th-12th, I encourage you to sign them up for the workshop on Sunday at 1 pm at VBS.

Gil Troy will speak about the history of Israel. With Passover fast approaching, this is a great opportunity to expand upon what their siblings in the ECLC have started learning in class.

Click Here for More Information and Registration

VBS SHIRU SHABBAT SERVICE & EDUCATING OUR YOUTH ABOUT ISRAEL WITH GIL TROY, APRIL 5TH-7TH

This week, we welcome one of our fellow congregants, award-winning American presidential historian and leading Zionist activist Gil Troy, for a weekend of informative programming on our VBS campus.

Dinner is sold out but please join us for service at 6:00pm or questions and conversation at

8:30pm

Friday, April 5

6:00pm Shiru Shabbat Service with Gil Troy (Open to the community)

7:30pm: Community Shabbat Dinner, - SOLD OUT

8:30pm: Rabbis Lebovitz & Feinstein in conversation with Gil Troy.

Sunday, April 7

1:00pm: Learning Israel's Story for High School Students (grades 9-12) with Gil Troy

Scholar, Historian, activist and zionst! The discussion will take place at VBS, please RSVP now.

Cookies included!

Click Here to Register Your Teen

ORDER YOUR PASSOVER MEAL FROM LA KOSHER

Let LA Kosher cater your seder!

Choose from complete Passover Meals or items A-La Carte!

Order Deadline: Friday, April 12th

Order Pickup: Sunday, April 21st

CLICK HERE to order online, or call 818-789-7588

Stay tuned in the coming days leading up to Passover for a special release of eight signature songs from an unforgettable night of music.

ECLC VERY BEST SHABBAT DINNERS AT HOME FRIDAY, APRIL 12TH

RSVP closes on Monday!

A special message from Rabbi Leibovitz: “making Shabbat dinner a sacred time in your life as a priority will become the most impactful Jewish experience of your life. Shabbat dinner establishes profound connections that cannot be untangled... My intention is to once again prioritize those exact values of community, of tradition, of Shabbat. My intention is that we, inside this community, once again take pride in Friday Night, just adapted to our new reality today... Shabbat dinners will build for us a sense of community, they will build for us a sense of tradition, and they will build for us a sense of priority... As Ahad Ha’am famously said, 'More than the Jewish People have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jewish People.' It’s time for us to keep Shabbat again."

– Rabbi Nolan Lebovitz, Yom Kippur Sermon 5783/2022

We invite you to participate in a Shabbat Dinner throughout our VBS community as a fun, interactive, and sacred way to get to know your fellow members. Enjoy conversation, prayer, and, of course, a delicious Shabbat meal!

We still need at least two more hosts; please let us know if you can!

Interested in being a host or guest?

ISRAEL AT WAR

Today marks 181 days.

There are still 134 Israeli men, women, and children being held captive.

#BringThemHomeNow

The Click HERE for the official The Hostage and Missing Families Forum website

Help bring them home.

CLICK HERE TO DONATE TO THE VBS ISRAEL EMERGENCY FUND

ECLC PARENTS SOCIAL - COFFEE AND SCHMOOZE WITH OUR RABBIS ON, APRIL 9TH

HAVE A DRINK OR PASTRY ON US!

VBS BOOKCLUB EVENT, APRIL 18TH

The book we are looking at for this upcoming program is The Strength Switch by Lea Waters which is all about parenting using Positive Psychology. Hope to see you all there! Please RSVP to Jaclyn Schiavo.

MAZEL TOV TO OUR ECLC STUDENTS & ALUMNI!

Annalisa Haimoff

April 6

Parents:

Dalila & Yair Haimoff

Arielle Amato

April 27

Parents:

Channie & David Amato

STUDENT HIGHLIGHT: ELLIOT’S MITZVAH PROJECT

For my Bar Mitzvah project, I will be donating books to a new Stuart House library. Stuart House is a child advocacy center in Santa Monica that helps kids who are suspected of having been sexually abused. Therapists, District Attorneys, City Attorneys, Children’s Protective Service workers, LAPD Detectives, child advocates, and forensic interviewers - work together to help find justice and healing for these children and their families.

The books are for families to check out and read together at home, for therapists and advocates to learn about new interventions, and books for kids when they have an interview or are finishing with therapy.

If you would like to donate to the library, here is a link to the Amazon Wish List I created with Stuart House Staff: Elliot’s Mitzvah Project

Thank you very much! Please email me at elliotig226@gmail.com if you have any questions.

ALL ECLC MOMS ARE INVITED TO NURTURE YOUR SPIRITUALITY!

Binah is a newly formed, modern women’s spirituality group that believes in the power of meaningful connection and deep listening. A small "beta" group has been meeting over the past several months to workshop this initiative.

Our inaugural gathering open to all mothers in our VBS schools will be on Tuesday, April 9 at 7 pm. We’ll have food, drinks, Jewish learning with Cantor Rafii and the opportunity to work on our spiritual practice through a modern Jewish lens. We’ve spent months tinkering with the best format for this event, and we really hope you’ll come support our new initiative - Click HERE for more info or to RSVP.

More about Binah: our spiritual gatherings are a sacred space where women unite to support, inspire, and uplift one another. Rooted in Jewish wisdom and adapted for the modern Jewish woman, our group provides space for exploring spirituality in a way that feels authentic and relevant today.

Binah is open to mothers of children in all VBS schools - including, of course, ECLC!

For more info and to register, please visit:

https://www.vbs.org/binah

For questions, contact Cantor Rafii: jrafii@vbs.org

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