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Remembrance Day: Honouring those that served
At 11am on November 11, 1918, when hostilities ceased on the Western Front, ending the “War to End All Wars”, the carnage and the scale of death had previously been inconceivable.
So it was only natural that a national day of communal commemoration would emerge for those lost in war. This day was Armistice Day, now called Remembrance Day. According to the Australian War Memorial, it was Edward Honey, an Australian journalist working in London, who suggested that at 11am on the first anniversary of the 1918 Armistice, a period of two minutes’ silence be observed. The impact of WWI was felt disproportionately by the Australian Jewish community. The prominent spiritual leaders of the day, Rabbi Jacob Danglow in Melbourne and Rabbi Francis Lyons Cohen in Sydney, had regularly exhorted the young men of their communities to enlist. Many of them had come from parts of Europe and Russia where antisemitism had been vicious and pervasive. Many of them had experienced the sneers that Jews were cowards and shirkers and they were determined to give the lie to these canards. So out of sheer gratitude for the haven that they had found in Australia, they enlisted in numbers proportionately as high, if not higher, than the general population and they died and were wounded accordingly. The well-known Weingott family lost two sons at Gallipoli.
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SAVE THE DATE: Tues 20th Dec
Elwood Shule's CHANUKAH IN ACLAND STREET :
Tuesday evening 20th December. Refreshments followed by Menorah lighting in Acland Street, music with Donuts and Latkes. More details to follow.
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Tuesday night weekly Shiur.
Rabbi Effy Block is conducting a weekly Shiur at his residence every Tuesday night at 8:30-9:30pm (during the daylight saving period). Refreshments served. Everyone welcome, all ages all genders. For address details please contact Rabbi Effy on 0412173315 or the office by email at office@elwoodshule.org, or call 95311547.
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Free to download the Minyan Mavin App
The App provides up-to-date Shacharis & Mincha/Maariv details of around 40 Shules around Melbourne including Elwood Shule. The App was developed by David Havin and is free to download from the App Store.
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Shabbat Starts / Ends Friday, 11 Nov: Light Candles by 7:47pm Shabbat 12 Nov: ends at 8:50pm This Shabbat is Parashat Vayeira
Services: Fri Night: 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Shabbat morning: Shacharit: 9:15am - 11:30am. Followed by a Kiddush sponsored by Simone Virgona, Ilona Fischer and David & Leon Friedman in memory of their parents Elizabeth Horsky, Roza Fischer and Hyam Friedman all ob'm. Aufruf - Mathew Hyams is being called up in honour of his forthcoming marriage to Shellie Cohen. Mazal Tov to their respective families.
Shabbat: Mincha/Maariv: 7:30pm (TBC)
Sunday - Morning: Shacharit: 8:00am - 8:30am Monday - Friday: Morning: Shacharit: 6:45am - 7:30am Sunday - Thursday: Mincha/Maariv: 7:30pm - 8:00pm
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Please keep us in the loop by notifying us of your lifecycle events. Happy - Jewish - Birthday! We wish a very Happy Jewish Birthday to Ronit Hoppe, Simi Posner, Gil Eidelson, Marli Michael, Michelle Bartlett, Alan Goldstone OAM, Gideon Tuszinski, Paula Hansky OAM, Max Haber, Helen Granek, Melanie Baranov, David Umansky, Zacharia Davidson, Abe Rubinfeld, Harley Goldman, Caroline Troski, Asher Engel, Michelle Walter, Sara Penny, Noah Tuszinski. We wish them good health till 120. Jewish birthday Calculator.
Condolences! We extend our heartfelt condolences on the passing of Sandra Mittelman ob'm to husband Henry, daughters Sharyn & Natalie and sons Mark & Toby. We wish all their families blessings of comfort, healing, good health and long life. Yahrtzeits! Shabbat Aaron Lerman - father of Ilana Vainberg
Sunday Boruch Weinstein - father of Rene Van Zuiden Berta Ison - mother of Boris Ison
Monday
Tuesday Lusia Ukrainski - mother of Freda Sable Rosa Fischer - mother of Ilona Fischer Semion Minkovich - father of Sophie Ellis Rachel Pianko - mother of Fay Landau
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Friday Zvi Herson - father of Milton Herson
We wish the respective families blessings of long life and good health.
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Parashat Vayera in a NutshellGenesis 18:1–22:24G‑d reveals Himself to Abraham three days after the first Jew’s circumcision at age ninety-nine; but Abraham rushes off to prepare a meal for three guests who appear in the desert heat. One of the three—who are angels disguised as men—announces that, in exactly one year, the barren Sarah will give birth to a son. Sarah laughs. Abraham pleads with G‑d to spare the wicked city of Sodom. Two of the three disguised angels arrive in the doomed city, where Abraham’s nephew Lot extends his hospitality to them and protects them from the evil intentions of a Sodomite mob. The two guests reveal that they have come to overturn the place, and to save Lot and his family. Lot’s wife turns into a pillar of salt when she disobeys the command not to look back at the burning city as they flee. While taking shelter in a cave, Lot’s two daughters (believing that they and their father are the only ones left alive in the world) get their father drunk, lie with him and become pregnant. The two sons born from this incident father the nations of Moab and Ammon. Abraham moves to Gerar, where the Philistine king Abimelech takes Sarah—who is presented as Abraham’s sister—to his palace. In a dream, G‑d warns Abimelech that he will die unless he returns the woman to her husband. Abraham explains that he feared he would be killed over the beautiful Sarah. G‑d remembers His promise to Sarah, and gives her and Abraham a son, who is named Isaac (Yitzchak, meaning “will laugh”). Isaac is circumcised at the age of eight days; Abraham is one hundred years old, and Sarah ninety, at their child’s birth. Hagar and Ishmael are banished from Abraham’s home and wander in the desert; G‑d hears the cry of the dying lad, and saves his life by showing his mother a well. Abimelech makes a treaty with Abraham at Beersheba, where Abraham gives him seven sheep as a sign of their truce. G‑d tests Abraham’s devotion by commanding him to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Moriah (the Temple Mount) in Jerusalem. Isaac is bound and placed on the altar, and Abraham raises the knife to slaughter his son. A voice from heaven calls to stop him; a ram, caught in the undergrowth by its horns, is offered in Isaac’s place. © Copyright, all rights reserved. If you enjoyed this article, we encourage you to distribute it further, provided that you comply with Chabad.org's copyright policy.
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