Weekly Brief

High Holiday Seat Reservations 5782
Early bird registration for High Holiday seats is now open for full members.  It is our intent, based on current CDC and state guidelines, to offer our Pre-Pandemic, business as usual seating this year.  We will continue to monitor CDC and State guidance with the hope that the situation will only continue to improve. Seat prices for members are unchanged from our 2019 pricing. To reserve seats, click here. To access a printable version of the High Holiday seating letter, click here. To access the FAQs, click here.
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This week's learning is sponsored by 
Leah & Jonathan Adler in memory of Leah’s mother, Rachel Balsam, רחל בת דוד וחנה, z”l.

Rabbi Adler's shiurim are cancelled next week and will resume the week of Monday, June 28th.

Shabbat, June 19th, 9am until the conclusion of the 9am minyan. Groups are extended starting this Shabbat. Drop off and pick up in front of shul. Between 9:15am-10:15am, children will be escorted to Whittier park and supervised by our group leaders. Questions? E-mail youth@rinat.org. N/PK– 5th grade groups. Davening, Parsha, games, with prepackaged snacks to go! Each group will be limited to 15 children. All children will need to wear a mask. Sign up is mandatory. Click here to register.  

Shabbat, June 19th, 10:30am, Tot Shabbat outdoors, behind the Beit Midrash.

Shabbat, June 19th, 6pm, Backyard Lecture Series begins this week, hosted at the Friedlander home, 314 Ogden Avenue. Join your friends on Shabbat afternoons in neighborhood backyards throughout the summer months (weather permitting). Rabbi Wiener will take you on “A Journey Through the Siddur.” The structure and content of the siddur will be analyzed beginning with Shabbat davening. Please bring a siddur. To host a lecture, please contact Michelle at michelle.joey.london@gmail.com.
 
Shabbat, June 19th, 6:55pm. Pre-Mincha Shiur with Dr. Caroline Peyser, "Your Child's Gap Year in Israel: What You Should Know." To submit a question in advance, click here. Located in the Main Sanctuary.

Beginning Sunday, June 20th, 8:45am, new weekly Gemara shiur series with Rabbi Wiener. "Perek Chezkat Habatim Summer Gemara Shiur Series." To join, click here.

Sunday, June 20th, 9:30am, Parsha with Rabbi Wiener for 3rd through 6th grade boys and girls. To join,  click here.

Sunday, June 20th, 9:30am, Book Launch with Shayna Goldberg. "What Do You Really Want? Trusting Ourselves and Empowering Trust in Our Children." All attendees will receive an exclusive discount for the book. For more details, click here. To join, click here.

Sunday, June 20th, 6:45pm- Plag Mincha/Maariv. Please note that this has been added for the benefit of those attending Rabbi Strauchler's shiur at 8pm.

Sunday, June 20th, 8pm, Shev Shemateta 101:  "An Introduction to Rabbinic Decision-Making." Rabbi Chaim Strauchler. “Halachic Epistemology: Rabbi Aryeh Leib Heller's Explanation For How We Know What We Know.”  Each shiur in the 7-part series addresses a self-contained topic and each can be understood without attending the other shiurim. For more details, click here. For source materials, click here.   To join, click here.

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2pm, Leah Silver's "Siddur v'Sidra." is uploaded weekly in audio and source sheet form onto what's app so it may be listened to when convenient.  If interested, please join the whatsapp group by clicking here.

Tuesday, June 22nd, 7pm– Beginner/Intermediate Ulpan Class with Keren Ashram.  To register, click here. To join,  click here.  Password: RinatUlpan.

Tuesday, June 22nd, 8pm- Advanced Ulpan Class with Keren Ashram.  To register, click here. To join, click here.  Password: RinatUlpan.

Thursday, June 24th, 8:45pm, Parshat Hashavua Shiur. Rabbi Tully Harcsztark. To join, click here.