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the best congregation west of the Mississippi & east of West Locust Street in Dubuque, Iowa.
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 475 West Locust St            Dubuque, Iowa 52001
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-------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Life, Study, and Worship at Temple Beth El. Congregants, Family Members & Visitors always welcome. Rabbi Jennifer Flatté ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tentative Times... All services noted. Temple Clean-Up Temple Picnic August 27 August 28 Rosh Hashanah Erev Rosh Hashanah Day Kever Avot Yom Kippur Erev Yom Kippur Day October 22 October 23 November 19 November 20 December 3 December 17 December 18 January 21 January 22 February 18 February 19 March 18 March 19 April 9 April 10 April 19 May 13 May 14 June 3 June 4 begin at 7:00pm, unless otherwise Saurday adult study at 7pm. Sunday, August 1, 2-3pm Sunday, August 15 - Flora Park - Dubuque, 1pm. Our start-of-the-year Temple Beth El picnic Friday Shabbat Service 6:30 pmGroup Dinner (House of China) September 8 September 9 September 17 September 18 Friday Shabbat Service Adult Study (the Garfield's) Friday Shabbat Service Adult Study (the Landau's) 6pm Hanukkah Dinner/Lay Service Friday Shabbat Service Adult Study (the Kruse's) Friday Shabbat Service Adult Study (tba) Friday Shabbat Service Adult Study (tba) 6pm Purim Service & Dinner Adult Study (the Yauches') Visitor's Service None scheduled at present Passover Congregational Seder Friday Shabbat Service Adult Study (the Goldstein's) Friday Shabbat Service End of Year Adult Study (tba) ------------------------------------------------------ Oneg Schedule. Dinners for the Rabbi. Shabbat Candle Lighting times for Dubuque. -----------------------------------------------------------------------      ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sisterhood Challah Making with Phyllis Garfield, 2-7-2010 >> Click on the video above (the "ah-haah" moment is at 6:15). >> Click here to view the single pics. >> Great Moments in Challah << ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rosh Hashanah and Tashlich: 9/19/09 Aidenbaum Baby Shower (at Kate's house): 8/8/09 ------------------------------------------------------------------- First Annual Kugel Cookoff 12-6-08 Fascinating article by Rabbi Jack Wertheimer, "What Does Reform Judaism Stand For" View pictures from our Dubuque Jewish Family Reunion, August 23-24, 2008. More pictures from the Dubuque Jewish Family Reunion from our new friend - Larry Burrows, Chicago. Rabbi Stephanie Alexander's 3-3-09 sermon quoted Natan Sharansky's 3D "Test of Anti-Semitism". Here is the reference Rabbi Stephanie made. From the Jewish Political Studies Review 16:3-4 (Fall 2004). "...the so-called "new anti-Semitism" poses a unique challenge. Whereas classical anti-Semitism is aimed at the Jewish people or the Jewish religion, "new anti-Semitism" is aimed at the Jewish state. Since this anti-Semitism can hide behind the veneer of legitimate criticism of Israel, it is more difficult to expose. Making the task even harder is that this hatred is advanced in the name of values most of us would consider unimpeachable, such as human rights. Nevertheless, we must be clear and outspoken in exposing the new anti-Semitism. I believe that we can apply a simple test - I call it the "3D" test - to help us distinguish legitimate criticism of Israel from anti-Semitism. The first "D" is the test of demonization. When the Jewish state is being demonized; when Israel's actions are blown out of all sensible proportion; when comparisons are made between Israelis and Nazis and between Palestinian refugee camps and Auschwitz - this is anti- Semitism, not legitimate criticism of Israel. The second "D" is the test of double standards. When criticism of Israel is applied selectively; when Israel is singled out by the United Nations for human rights abuses while the behavior of known and major abusers, such as China, Iran, Cuba, and Syria, is ignored; when Israel's Magen David Adom, alone among the world's ambulance services, is denied admission to the International Red Cross - this is anti-Semitism. The third "D" is the test of delegitimization: when Israel's fundamental right to exist is denied - alone among all peoples in the world - this too is anti-Semitism." Recent Past Rabbis at Temple Beth El: If you want to write: Rabbi Beth Bandyk (2005-6) EEBandyk@aol.com Rabbi Ilan Emanuel (2003-5),Lincoln, NE:  ilanemanuel@hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------- Committees (Notice the openings? Come on, volunteer already.) Adult Study Organizer: Oneg Organizer: Fern Reinstein Rabbi Dinner Organizer: Cemetery: Challah Preparation: Chanukah Dinner: Cleaning Person (organizer): DACU Representatives: Jaclyn Aidenbaum, Phyllis Garfield, Cindy Mikel End of Year Social: Gift Shop: Kitchen Supplies: Phyllis Garfield, Cindy Mikel Maintenance: Membership: New Year Bulletin: Ellie Landau Newsletter: Kate Scheinman Phone Messages and Mail: Purim Dinner: Rabbi Car Arrangement: Rosh Hashanah Luncheon: Fern Reinstein Sisterhood: Emily Kruse Social Action: Rebecca Gottlieb Summer Family Picnic: Webeditor: Alan Garfield Worship Committee: Rebecca Gottlieb Yahrzeits: Yom Kippur Break-the-Fast: Rebecca Gottlieb Your Temple Beth El Board President Cindy Mikel Vice President Karin Pritikin Secretary Phyllis Garfield Treasurer Ellie Landau At Large Alan Garfield At Large Louis Landau At Large Randy Sirk

Meet Rabbi Jennifer Flatté President Cindy Mikel mikelcinkc@aol.com Alexander Levi Project - levi175@templebe.org Visit it here: www.levicelebration.com Michael joins me in inviting our new Beth El family to celebrate with us as our daughter Naftalia Hadar is called to the Torah as Bat Mitzvah Saturday the 4th of September at 9:30 am Agudas Achim Congregation 602 E Washington Street Iowa City, Iowa Kiddush luncheon to follow The celebration continues at 5:30 pm with a backyard barbecue 1165 Oakes Drive, Iowa City. Rabbi Jennifer Flatté A Note from our New Rabbi: Rabbi Jennifer B. Flatté Dear Temple Beth El, I am looking forward to joining your community in August when we shall all have a chance to learn and to grow together. Since most of us have not yet had a chance to meet, I can understand that you are probably a little curious about me. You could read my resume and find out where I've been. You could read my personal statement and find out how I think about being a rabbi. So what else should I tell you? I am, heart and soul, a teacher and I will study Torah with anyone who will hold still. Well, holding still is optional. I believe that Judaism is timeless and relevant and can be a natural part of one's daily, modern, ordinary life. I believe that community is essential - and that community comes in all shapes and sizes. And I operate on the basic principle that every good question deserves another good question. For those who really want to know where I've been - I was ordained as a Reform Rabbi in 1995 from the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, first receiving a Master's in Hebrew Letters. In addition to my student days in Arizona, I've been a Congregational Rabbi in Colorado and a College Chaplain at Grinnell College, Iowa. I've been a "Visiting Rabbi" in congregations in and around Iowa and I also work with those whose needs are not met within the congregational system. I have yet to live in the same community in which I have served as Rabbi. Three years earlier, I received my Master's in Religious Studies from UC Santa Barbara where I studied language, symbolism and communication in the Hebrew Bible. I currently teach Biblical Hebrew at the University of Iowa. I also teach in a community setting on topics relating to both Judaism and the Hebrew Bible. I received my B.A., with honors, in Folklore & Mythology from Harvard University and have since made the transition from studying tales to recounting them. I am also a website developer and a perpetual student of languages both ancient and technical. I am always the very proud mother of 4. (Devra, my eldest daughter, will head to college in the fall; my only son, Shecharya, is 15, my middle daughter Naftalia will become Bat Mitzvah in September, and my youngest daughter, Meirav, is 8). L'shalom, Rabbi Jennifer B. Flatté Iowa City, Iowa rabbiflatte@gmail.com Latest headlines from ynetnews.com ... click to view New: New Israel 21st C Website Special Events at Temple Beth El: Cool Temple Picnic, August 15, 2010 Temple Beit Knesset at UD due to flooding Social Justice Passover Seder, April 9, 2009 Jacqui Dyrke's Bat Mitzvah Crop Walk   Rabbi Stephanie Alexander stephalex75@gmail.com Rosh Hashanah and Tashlich, 9-19-09. Jacqui Dyrke's Bat Mitzvah, 11-1-08. View pictures from DBQ Jewish Family Reunion, 8/23-24/2008. Passover Shabbat Saturday Service & Seder 4-26-08. Tashlich 9-13-2007. Fall Family Picnic at Barrington Lake 8-26-07. Purim 2007. Rosh Hashanah Pictures. 9-23-06. Fall Family Picnic at Barrington Lake 8-27-06. View the B'not Mitzvot (May 6, 2006) of Faye     Wrubel and Karin Pritikin online. Rabbi Beth Bandyk's 05 RH Sermon   Rosh Hashanah 05 & Tashlich Photos Crop Walk Oct 3, 04 Pics Tashlich on Mississippi Sept 16 04 Rosh Hashanah 5765 (Sept 04) Pics Yom Kippur Break-the-Fast Sept 25 04 Chanukkah Dec 19, 03 Pics Temple Beth El Pictures Fall 2003 Fall Family Picnic 8.24.03 Cantor Gail Karp & friends... Shabbat Services 2002 - 2003 Religious School: Pictures 2002 - 2003 March Meeting Naked Dish 3.16.03 Adult Study: Genealogy. 3.15.03 Mitzvah: Rescue Mission 10.27.02 Simchat Torah Service 9.27.02 Fall Family Picnic 8.11.02 End of Year Adult Social 6.1.02 Tidy Neighborhood Day 6.1.02 Erik Sirk's Bar Mitzvah 5.18.02 Spring Meeting 4.21.02 Congregation Mtg & Grant 4.14.02 Cantor Gail Karp 3.22.02 Women's Seder 3.17.02 Hanukkah 2001 Our New Sisterhood 11.4.01 Rescue Mission 10.21.01 Tashlich 2001 - 5762 Crop Walk 2000  Congregants 2000

Newsletters are now Online (in pdf format). Thanks to our Techie Newsletter Editor, Kate Scheinman: August 2010 July 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April-2 2009 April-1 2009 March, 2009 February-1 2009 January-2 2009 January-1 2009 December-2 2008 December-1 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September-2 2008 September-1 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February-March 2008 January-February 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007